A 40-year-old Syrian man, who became a Swedish citizen earlier this summer, has been arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of rape in Kristinehamn in the Värmland region of Sweden.
Police say the rape occurred during the night from Saturday to Sunday last week. The arrest warrant was then issued on Sunday morning.
The suspect, who is also suspected of attempted rape in a separate case, denied committing the crime, reports Nyheter Idag.
Swedish Prosecutor Pia Hammar stated that the victim is a woman in her 20s, however, she did not want to provide further comments on the case.
The Syrian suspect will not be subject to a court hearing on his separate attempted rape charge until the courts deal with his latest crime, said PHammar.
According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s information, the suspect of Syrian origin was granted Swedish citizenship earlier this summer. With current legislation, he cannot be deported even if he is prosecuted and convicted of the rape charges.
MEP Charlie Weimers of the Sweden Democrats party believes that this is another example of poor laws on granting citizenship in Sweden.
Weimers also commented on the case on social media, arguing that any migrant granted citizenship should have a probationary period in which their citizenship can be revoked if they commit a serious offense.
“This shows why the legislation must be changed so that a significantly longer break is required before anyone can obtain citizenship. And also why there should be a trial period on citizenship for the first five years. Currently, we can only — in Reinfeldt’s words — ‘thank’ this person for ‘choosing Sweden,'” wrote Weimers.
Detta visar varför lagstiftningen måste ändras så att det krävs ett betydligt längre uppehåll innan någon kan få medborgarskap. Samt även varför ett beslut om medborgarskap bör vara på prov de första fem åren. https://t.co/jppj8tR6cB
“Thank you for choosing Sweden” was an expression used by former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in a speech before the 2014 election, which was a phrase designed to praise migrants who chose Sweden as their final destination.
German girls and women do not feel safe in major German cities and are often victims of sexual assault. This was the result of a survey with almost 1 000 participants.
“Every fourth woman has experienced sexual harassment and every fifth has been persecuted, insulted and threatened,” said Maike Röttger, the managing director of the Plan International (PI) children’s aid organisation, who is responsible for the survey.
From January to March, 970 women took part in the survey and provided information on their experiences in public spaces in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne and Munich. According to this, 54 percent of the survey participants felt the most unsafe when they were on the road. Waiting or using public transport also cause fear (19 percent) and staying in the park (18 percent). Such fears are more intense at night.
The main reason for this is said to be scary people, especially people who have used drugs or alcohol in public. This is reinforced by poorly lit places in cities. The negative experiences of the respondents included sexual advances in the park while jogging or direct immoral, intrusive contact.
As a solution, Plan International proposed not only urban development measures to reduce scary places but also a change in role models. “Because sexual harassment, discrimination and violence are social phenomena that are often the result of the outdated notion that girls and women are less worth and the ‘weaker sex’.”
This often suggests to men that they have the right to harass girls and women, to shout out after them or to insult them, the organisation concluded from the answers. But PI did not bother to name the perpetrators of this scourge.
In a similar survey at the beginning of 2017, a third of German women said they felt more insecure than two years earlier. At that time, 34 percent felt a decrease in the sense of security in public spaces.
Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old White boy from North Carolina who was brutally murdered by his Black male neighbor, was shot in the head point-blank while riding his bicycle in a case that has received almost zero national media attention. Despite the dramatic death of the boy, many are pointing out that the race of the victim and the perpetrator may be a big factor why major news outlets have ignored the story.
Mainstream news networks ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, along major national news outlets like the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time have not run a single story about the case, sparking outrage about the story’s omission {Update: CNN printed a news blurb on Aug. 14 about Hinnant after days of pressure for the outlet to cover the murder).
One tweet on the topic from Matt Walsh has received 41,000 likes.
The national media's blackout of the Cannon Hinnant story is breathtaking. It's possibly the most heinous murder in memory — a child executed at point blank range while riding his bike in his dad's yard — and the national media has said nothing. Seriously, nothing. Incredible.
Jason Howerton, an editor at the Blaze, shared search results on Twitter showing he was not able to find a single mention of the boy’s name on the websites of the biggest news outlets in the US.
Hinnant was shot and killed by 25-year-old felon Darius Nathaniel Sessoms while he was riding his bicycle in Wilson, North Carolina. The boy was reportedly killed after he rode his bike on to Sessoms’ property located on Archers Road.
The execution of Hinnant was witnessed by his two 7-year-old and 8-year-old sisters, their mother told local news station WRAL.
Doris Labrant, a neighbor on the block who witnessed the boy’s death, said, “I saw him just run right up to him and [he] put the gun right up to his head and shot him.”
The British new outlet, Daily Mail, was one of the first major publications to report on it, but the story has received little coverage from any mainstream outlets in the US with the exception of Fox News. Only local affiliates like WRAL and ABC11 have picked up the story in the US.
There are many pointing to the fact that if the races had been reversed, the news would have most certainly made national headlines.
Darius Sessoms—a black man, went up to Cannon Hinnant, a 5 year old white boy and murdered him in cold blood in front of his 2 young sisters
If the races were reversed it would be national news
The activist media is ignoring this because it doesn’t fit their narrative
Police are still working to determine a motive for the killing, but neighbors say they are shocked that Sessoms would murder the boy.
“Sessoms lives next door to Cannon’s father, and a neighbor said that the two men had dinner together Saturday night and that Sessoms was at his neighbor’s home earlier Sunday,” according to WRAL.
Cannon Hinnant was only 5 when his life was cut short. Family photo
U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, and Goldsboro police apprehended Sessoms who has been charged with first-degree murder.
Sessoms is no stranger to the police, and his criminal record includes a range of felonies such as larceny of firearms, a misdemeanor for maintaining a place for a controlled substance and felony possession of marijuana. Sessoms also has two pending felony counts for maintaining a vehicle, dwelling or place for a controlled substance.
A fundraiser for Hinnant’s family has already raised over $100,000.
“Sunday, August 9, 2020 a sweet soul named Cannon Hinnant was taken from this world over a senseless act,” the GoFundMe for Hinnant reads.
“A beautiful 5 year old baby boy riding his bicycle was shot by his neighbor point blank in Wilson NC. One minute he is enjoying his life, the next it all ends because he rode into his neighbors yard.”
“He was just a loving kid,” his mother, Bonny Waddell, said to the local paper, the Wilson Times. “He had the biggest heart.”
Hinnant was set to begin attending Kindergarten the following week and had just learned how to write, according to the Daily Mail.
Despite the blackout in coverage on Hinnant’s case at many of the nation’s major news networks, the murder has received substantial coverage on social media.
Right now millions of people, maybe tens-of-millions, are asking why the national press refuses to report on Cannon Hinnant.
And the media wonders why their "debunks" and "fact checks" don't work anymore.
We see you fuckers in real time covering up huge stories.
Daniel Horowitz, of the Conservative Review, also pointed to race as being a factor in Hinnant’s case. Horowitz asks why race was such a central issue in the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, but the death of Hinnant has received virtually no coverage in the national media. Although there was no evidence that the police officer, Derek Chauvin, had any racial animus, race was portrayed as the motivating factor in Floyd’s death.
“In the new America that is driven by racial politics rather than justice, what do you think would happen if a white man killed a 5-year-old black boy on his bike execution-style, regardless of racial motivations?” asks Horowitz.
The everyday negotiation of coexistence in a totally borderless immigration society. Today from the tranquil Reken in the Münsterland region. The well-behaved German and the local Christian Democratic Union (CDU) voter is wondering…
Several police patrol crews, some of them from neighbouring departments, were deployed by the police of Rotenburg to settle disputes between two extended families, according to a report of the officers. After clashes between family members had already occurred early Thursday evening at the Rotenburg Diaconia Clinic, the conflict threatened to escalate somewhat later at an apartment building on Harburger Street.According to the police officers’ previous findings, members of one family had left an apartment when they were attacked by members of the other family armed with shovels and other tools. The police officers were faced with violent clashes when they arrived.
The police officers had to disperse up to fifty people and order them to leave the area, police spokesman Heiner van der Werp reported. The background of the dispute could not be conclusively clarified on site. According to van der Werp, however, the dispute is said to have been a civil law dispute.
The Rotenburg police succeeded in calming the tension on the spot. Several criminal proceedings for assault and threat have been initiated, it is finally reported. The two families involved in the dispute in Rotenburg are from Lebanon and Iraq.
Title image: Fire in Balbriggan (Dublin Fire Brigade/Twitter)
On Sunday, Dublin Fire Services were called to a fire caused by an apparent arson attack at a house linked to a dispute between rival African gangs operating in Ireland’s capital city.
The fire broke out in Chapel Grove, Balbriggan, in Fingal County. As media reported, the arson attack happened following a series of altercations between African youth groups.
Although authorities have yet to examine the cause of the blaze, according to residents, the fire was started by an incendiary device thrown into the garden shed, according to The Burkean.
Footage posted online also shows groups of dark-skinned individuals being chased by police.
From the outside, the house appeared to be gutted and the neighboring property suffered serious damage as well.
The parish has dealt with violence among mainly African gangs for a long period of time. The epicenter of the disputes is the Castlemill Shopping Centre, which is close to where the fire occurred.
Fianna Fáil TD Darragh O’Brien said that “gang violence” is overwhelming the area and that they are participating in “stabbings and arson attacks” and that “a shopping centre was effectively taken over at the weekend”. On the Adrian Kennedy Show, he said that locals had had enough and that the levels of violence are concerning.
Local Gardaí, the Irish police service, have been unsuccessful in dealing with the African gangs, which regularly engage in street brawls.
Just a day before the fire, Gardaí received a call about fights outside Castlemill Shopping center involving about 30 youths of mainly African origin. Police had to even deploy its helicopter to help officers on the ground.
Many residents have also been exposed to harassment by the gangs while shopping at local stores.
Furthermore, according to locals, narcotic crimes related to the African gangs has been on the rise in the area.
Even though the mainstream media has tried to portray Balbriggan as the model for multicultural Ireland, the town had recorded rising crime. In December 2017, locals protested against the out of control crime.
According to data from 2016, 11 percent of the town is of African origin, most of them being under the age of 25.
An unnamed North African asylum seeker who stabbed 70-year-old priest Jos Vanderlee with a knife now risks three years in prison.
The attack occurred in the Saint Servaas Church in Lanaken, Belgium, and dates back to July 31, 2016, however, it was only last week that the asylum seeker began appearing in criminal court for the crime, reports Dutch news portal Het Laatste Nieuws.
The defendant, who only had his initials of A.D. released to the public, is well-known to the police for previous criminal acts. He is believed to be from Libya.
On the Sunday in 2016, the asylum seeker went to ask for help at the Saint Servaas Church where Vanderlee resides.
“He spoke both a mix of French and English and asked for ‘aid’,” said Vanderlee.
The priest also provided him with bread and a bottle of water, at which point the asylum seeker left.
A few hours later, however, he knocked at Vanderlee’s door again.
“He then asked if he could take a shower and then get a cup of coffee.”
Vanderlee had his doubts, but eventually decided to let the asylum seeker in. He allowed the man to take a shower inside his house.
Once out of the shower, the man asked Vanderlee for money, which Vanderlee denied him.
While the priest was making coffee for the asylum seeker, the man took out a knife and attacked the priest from behind.
“I heard him rummaging in his carrying case, but I was standing with my back to him. I was not quite trusting the situation anyway. I looked back and saw him with a gigantic knife right in front of me. Had I turned around two seconds later, he would definitely have gotten me,” the priest said.
The two began fighting one another, but the priest managed to defend himself successfully and the asylum seeker fled. The priest suffered wounds to his hands and tendons and was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Vanderlee is well-known in Lanaken and responsible for eight parishes in the region.
A few months later, the asylum seeker was arrested, at which point he denied that he took part in any crime.
However, last week at his first criminal court hearing, almost four years later, he admitted that he wanted to stab the priest. During his hearing, he said that he regretted what he did.
“This was not the intention. I’m sorry,” he said.
It is unclear why the case took so long to reach the trial stage. The asylum seeker now faces three years in prison.
The 2016 stabbing of Vanderlee occurred only a few days after French Catholic priest Jacques Hamel was stabbed to death by two men who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. The 85-year-old priest was killed at the altar inside his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, located in Normandy, France. His two attackers, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean, both 19, took five hostages before slashing the priest’s throat inside the church.
