You Will Anyway: Meanwhile in European Anti-Immigrant News

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Meanwhile in European Anti-Immigrant News

Dozens of masked man went on an anti-immigrant rampage in Stockholm in an apparent retaliation for the stabbing death of a young Swedish woman at a refugee center earlier this week, local media reported.

The crowd of some 40 to 50 people went on a violent spree on Friday night at around 9 p.m. local time in and around the Swedish capital’s main railroad station, according to the Aftonbladet daily. They were beating up anyone who didn’t look like ethnic Swede. The attackers were wearing black balaclavas and armbands.

RT

Is this terrorism? Oh, I forgot. It can't be. They are white.

Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the European Commission, doesn`t see any link between mass sex assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne [Germany] and the ongoing refugee crisis, internal minutes has revealed. He also lamented the reintroduction of internal border checks within the Schengen zone.

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Ralf Jager, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, confirmed the majority of the 52 suspects identified [in the Cologne assaults] were not German citizens. Twenty-five were from Morocco and Algeria, 15 arrived in Germany as asylum-seekers and 11 perpetrators were staying in the country illegally.

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The Commission's members call for “unconditional rejection of false association between certain criminal acts such as the attacks on women in Cologne on New Year`s Eve, and the mass influx of refugees”, as the minutes of the body`s meeting from January 13, suggest.

RT

Let's hope the commissioners don't live in Germany.

In a shift for the world body, [United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Anthony] Banbury said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will issue a report next month with details of all allegations [of child sexual abuse by UN peace-keeping troops] from 2015, including the names of countries whose troops are accused. The information, including the status of investigations, will be regularly updated online, he said.

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The U.N. human rights office says it has turned up six more cases of alleged sexual abuse against children by European troops in Central African Republic (CAR), including a 7-year-old girl who said she had to perform sexual acts on soldiers in exchange for water and cookies.

alJazeera

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