Teenage Afghan migrant, 16, 'rapes worker at Belgian asylum centre two weeks after attending a course on how to treat Western women'
- Teenager followed catering worker down into basement at centre in Menen
- 16-year-old has been detained ahead of a future hearing, prosecutors said
- Red Cross confirmed he had attended a course on how to treat woman
- See more news on the migrant crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/migrantcrisis
A teenage Afghan immigrant has
been charged with raping a female worker at an asylum seekers'
centre in Belgium, authorities said, prompting outrage from
anti-immigrant politicians.
The 16-year-old Afghan asylum seeker followed a worker from
a catering firm into the basement and raped her at the centre in
Menen, near the French border, prosecutors said.
The judge
ordered him detained in youth custody until his next hearing.
Many right-wing
protesters took to the streets after the Cologne sex attacks, which they
blamed on the influx of migrants into Germany
A spokeswoman for the Red Cross said it was the first time
in 25 years such an alleged incident had occurred at one of the
organisation's asylum seeker centres in the country.
'Two weeks ago we gave a course about how to treat women in
Flanders and the boy was present there,' the spokeswoman said.
The allegation feeds into to a highly charged debate over
immigration in Europe, particularly since authorities in
neighbouring Germany accused gangs of migrants of sexually
assaulting women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
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'I repeat: people who need a course on how to treat women
should not be there in the first place,' Tom Van Grieken, leader
of anti-immigrant party Vlaams Belang said on Twitter.
Belgium received 35,476 asylum requests in 2015, more than
twice the level of 2014.
The
incident echoes that of Swedish social worker Alexandra Mezher, who it
is alleged was stabbed to death by Somalian migrant Youssaf Khaliif Nuur
at an adolescent migrant centre where she worked in Gothenberg, Sweden
last month.
It
also follows the Cologne sex attacks on New Year's Eve, in which
hundreds of women filed sexual assault complaints after wave of attacks
in the German city.
A
mob of men - believed to be of North African and Arab origin - were
said to have molested and robbed women after congregating at the city's
central station.
Meanwhile an Iraqi migrant raped a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna earlier this month.
Alexandra
Mezher, 22, was fatally stabbed in the back and thigh at the asylum
centre for young, unaccompanied migrants in Molndal, Sweden, in January
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