Category: Europe

European Court tells UK—you gotta keep your criminals, no returns to Somalia allowed

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About ten days ago I told you how they were sneaking across the UK borders in droves.  Now they know that once there, they can do whatever they want and won’t be deported thanks to the European Court of Human Rights.

From the UK Telegraph:

In a test case ahead of more than 200 similar actions pending against the UK, the Strasbourg judges decreed that the UK’s duty to protect people against torture or inhuman treatment is ”absolute”.

The case involved two Somalis facing enforced return to Mogadishu after receiving convictions in the UK for serious criminal offences.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded Abdisamad Adow Sufi and Abdiaziz Ibrahim Elmi, both currently in UK immigration detention centres, 14,500 euros and 7,500 euro respectively for costs and expenses in bringing the case.

Sufi, 24, claimed asylum in the UK in 2003 on the grounds that he belonged to a minority clan persecuted by Somali militia. His account was rejected as not credible and asylum refused.

Elmi, 42, arrived in the UK in 1988 and was granted leave to stay as a refugee in 1989, renewed indefinitely in 1993.

After convictions for a number of serious criminal offences – including burglary and threats to kill in Sufi’s case, and robbery and supplying class A drugs cocaine and heroine in Elmi’s case – they were issued with deportation orders.

Their UK appeals that they risked being ill-treated or killed if returned to Mogadishu were rejected.

The European Court of Human Rights blocked their deportation pending a hearing of their appeals to the Strasbourg court.

On Tuesday the seven-judge court ruled unanimously that deporting them would breach the Human Rights Convention Article 3 which bans ”inhuman or degrading treatment”.

The ruling said: ”The court reiterated that the prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is absolute, irrespective of the victims’ conduct.

”Consequently, the applicants’ behaviour, however undesirable or dangerous, could not be taken into account.”

Maybe the UK should re-think that little issue called sovereignty.  More on the way all the time, here.

Two Somalis arrested for human smuggling in Europe

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They were arrested in Austria for transporting a couple hundred Somalis from Greece into Austria.

From the Winnipeg Free Press:

VIENNA – Austrian police say they have arrested two Somalis suspected of smuggling as many as 200 of their countrymen from Greece into Austria and from there to other European countries.

They say that in one case, 18 of the illegal refugees were found crammed into a crawl space above the false ceiling of a bus. The unidentified suspects are believed to have used this method around 12 times since September, to carry illegals to Austria and then from there fly them Finland, Sweden or Denmark.

Both suspects were arrested earlier in the month.

Meanwhile, an EU court has said they can’t send them back to Somalia no matter what crimes they commit—too dangerous in Somalia!

In Sweden, evicted Somalis demand housing, money

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Just cleaning out my e-mails today and came across this old news (3 weeks ago) and a video clip of Somalis protesting in Sweden for more stuff.

A somali family in Sweden was evicted since they cant show any income. They mobilized other somalis in the small town of Katrineholm and marched to the welfare office. There they demand free housing, better playgrounds, more money, free immigration for all somalis, etc etc.

Don’t read about Angelina Jolie in Malta today (unless you are in the mood to barf)

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Malta, poor little Malta, being overrun by African economic migrants (thanks partly to Obama’s war on Libya and that wonderful Obama-supported Arab Spring) and now we have to stomach Jolie there pontificating about refugees.  Let them loose she says!

I was planning to do a few excerpts from this fawning story at the Times of Malta about Jolie—the UN’s traveling mouthpiece—but I simply can’t.  Go read it yourself.

She says the UN is careful to separate the economic (illegal alien) migrants from the truly persecuted (of course taking the migrants word for it!), but as far as I know I’ve never heard of the UN deporting anyone back to Africa after determining they are only looking for a job.

Use our search function for ‘Malta’ where we have dozens of posts about how the US State Department (and the Jesuits) magically turn Malta’s (Europe’s!) illegal aliens into refugees and then fly them off to your town.

Roanoke, VA: Bosnian “refugee” lied to get into US

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Two weeks ago we learned that Iraqis lied about their military “careers” in Iraq, here, and now it’s a Bosnian in Roanoke.

From WSLS-10:

ROANOKE, VA –A former guard at the Rabic camp in Derventa Municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who allegedly committed abuses against Serb civilians being detained at the camp, has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia on charges related to an unlawful Application for Naturalization.

In an indicted returned under seal on June 9, 2011 and unsealed this afternoon following his initial court appearance, the grand jury has charged Almaz Nezirovic, 52, of Roanoke, Va., with one count of submitting an unlawful application for naturalization and one count of making a false statement at a naturalization interview. If convicted, the maximum penalty faced by the defendant is ten years incarceration on count one and five years incarceration on count two.

According to the indictment, between June 1992 and December 1995 the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina was in a state of war. During that war, the defendant, Nezirovic, was a member of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) where he served as a guard at the Rabic camp, which detained Serb citizens. While serving as a guard, Nezirovic is alleged to have beat and inhumanely treated ZS, ZL, ML and other Serb citizens.

When making an application to seek admission into the United States as a refugee in 1997, Nezirovic failed to disclose that, while serving with the HVO, he assaulted and inhumanely treated Serb civilians, facts that would have likely prevented the defendant from being granted refugee status into the United States. On or about August 11, 1997, Nezirovic entered the United States as a refugee.

Read it all.

Heck, you can’t blame the State Department, they were really really busy that year bringing in 21,375 “refugees” (mostly Muslim) from Bill Clinton’s Bosnian War (see the stats from the 1997 Annual Report to Congress, here).  So you couldn’t have expected them to have weeded out every criminal, could you?

We’ve written a lot about refugee resettlement in Roanoke so just type ‘Roanoke’ into our search function, but here is one post about refugees convicted of attempting to kidnap wives of important people in the city that you shouldn’t miss.