Monday, February 1, 2016

EXCLUSIVE - The lawless asylum centre where migrants rule: Inside squalid Swedish shelter that police will not enter, where 10-year-old boy was raped and that has just TWO staff on duty for 600 refugees

EXCLUSIVE - The lawless asylum centre where migrants rule: Inside squalid Swedish shelter that police will not enter, where 10-year-old boy was raped and that has just TWO staff on duty for 600 refugees

  • MailOnline reveals rooms 'so overcrowded that youths were free to rape'
  • Migrants claim six people are crammed in on mattresses and bunk beds
  • Ten-year-old was sexually abused at Signalisten Asylum Centre in Sweden
  • Police were then chased from the corridors after being surrounded by mob 
  • Officers now refuse to enter and just two staff guard 600 migrants at night
  • Activists ten children have been raped because of overcrowding 
  • Sweden struggling to cope with 160,000 new arrivals
By Ulf Andersson In Västerås, Sweden, For Mailonline
Published: 11:08 GMT, 1 February 2016 | Updated: 15:37 GMT, 1 February 2016


The tiny room is crammed full of all the family's worldly possessions. Dirty dishes, baby bottles and an old kettle fight for space with a glowing tablet computer, in a room eight metres square that is now home to six people.

Amid the squalor, a sick child lies sleeping on an old mattress on the floor, inches from a filthy sink that doubles as bathroom and kitchen.

These are the conditions inside one of Sweden's most notorious asylum centres - where youths were free to rape a ten-year-old boy and where police now refuse to enter after being chased away in a riot.

Signalisten Asylum Centre  in Västerås, an hour west of Stockholm, was once a hotel welcoming people to the town of 133,000 people. 

Today, 600 men, women and children sleep in its grubby rooms, guarded by just two night-time staff who are too scared to leave their rooms. 

As MailOnline gained exclusive access to the centre, campaigners claimed that overcrowding in Sweden's asylum centres is so severe that as many as ten children have been raped. 
Squalid: Migrants and asylum seekers who arrive at Signalisten Asylum Centre, in Västerås, west of Stockholm, where a ten-year-old boy was raped, say they are packed six to a room. The Migration Board in Sweden has changed the rules about how much space every person must have at asylum centres, from 5 square meters to 3 square metres
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Squalid: Migrants and asylum seekers who arrive at Signalisten Asylum Centre, in Västerås, west of Stockholm, where a ten-year-old boy was raped, say they are packed six to a room. The Migration Board in Sweden has changed the rules about how much space every person must have at asylum centres, from 5 square meters to 3 square metres
Crowded: Police were overcome in a corridor at the Västerås asylum centre after being called to a disturbance when staff tried to remove a family. Now they refuse to enter the centre, pictured above
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Crowded: Police were overcome in a corridor at the Västerås asylum centre after being called to a disturbance when staff tried to remove a family. Now they refuse to enter the centre, pictured above
Bleak: Police were being called a couple of times a week to Västerås, to deal with drugs, fights, or just calm the staff who have called them because they are frightened, now they refuse to enter because it could provoke the refugees. This boy, Hassem, is being kept in his room because he is sick
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Bleak: Police were being called a couple of times a week to Västerås, to deal with drugs, fights, or just calm the staff who have called them because they are frightened, now they refuse to enter because it could provoke the refugees. This boy, Hassem, is being kept in his room because he is sick
Afghan Association chairman Hussein Asgari insists that children are at increasing risk because of Sweden's failure to get to grips with the influx of migrants each month. 

He blames overcrowding after the Migration Board in Sweden changed the rules about how much space every person must have at asylum centres, from 5 square meters to 3 square metres.

'I have gotten several phone calls - up to 10 - from children who say that they have been raped since they got to Sweden,' Hussein told MailOnline.

'This happens because the asylum centres are overcrowded. There is no supervision from the staff or the Migration Board. If you have one or two criminals or in this case rapists among 600 immigrants, they can run wild with no one noticing. 

'In some cases there are children staying at families where the father is molesting the boys. In other cases there are children who has been abused by older men at asylum centres.
Things like the rape are not suppose to happen anywhere, but it is a totally different world inside the centre: anything could happen.
Mahmeed, a refugee from Aleppo
'I have told every child who has reported these kind of abuses to contact the police. But they won´t do it because they are ashamed about what has happened to them.'

Instead, Hussein says it has been up to him to try to raise the alarm. 'Someone needs to react. We have to lift this problem. There are a very few very bad men coming to Sweden, but they destroy other migrants lives.'

Authorities admit that the centres are overcrowded and uncontrollable - leaving residents and Swedes living nearby in danger.

According to the Swedish Migration Agency, the number of threats and violent incidents at asylum facilities more than doubled from 2014 to 2015 as Sweden witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals.

In 2014, there were 148 incidents and in 2015 that number jumped to 322
Police were forced to visit the centre at Västerås 'at least a couple of times a week', one officer revealed to MailOnline, on condition of anonymity. 

'It can be drugs, people who are fighting or that the staff simply feels unsafe'.
This is repeated across Sweden: more than 5,000 incidents involving migrants were filed last year, and police say callouts to the centres doubled on the year before.  
Help: Ahmed Naktal, pictured, fled from Mosul when ISIS were on the march. Now he and his family, including son Hassem, four, live in one of the rooms in the centre where the ten-year-old was raped. Today they are inside, because Hassem is sick
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Help: Ahmed Naktal, pictured, fled from Mosul when ISIS were on the march. Now he and his family, including son Hassem, four, live in one of the rooms in the centre where the ten-year-old was raped. Today they are inside, because Hassem is sick
Cramped: A sick child lies sleeping on a mattress at Västerås where at least six people live in every room, according to migrants 
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Cramped: A sick child lies sleeping on a mattress at Västerås where at least six people live in every room, according to migrants 
Lawless: Migrant Mahmeed told MailOnline that 'things like [the rape] are not suppose to happen anywhere, but it is a totally different world inside the centre, anything could happen'
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Lawless: Migrant Mahmeed told MailOnline that 'things like [the rape] are not suppose to happen anywhere, but it is a totally different world inside the centre, anything could happen'

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