by Ingrid Carlqvist
• March 26, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Two
"unaccompanied refugee children," remanded in January on
suspicion of the aggravated rape of a younger boy at an asylum house in
Alvesta, were revealed to be much older than 15 years old -- the age
they claimed to be. One of them, an Afghan man, wrote on Facebook that
he was 44.
- On Sweden's most
popular TV show, host Gina Dirawi and a children's choir rewrote
Sweden's national anthem -- instead of "I want to live, I want to
die in the North", they sang, "I want to live, I want to die
on Earth." The producer stated that the show "is not for those
who get upset if the national anthem is changed. The focus should be on
the people of this country who have 'different roots.'"
- Adult migrants with
residence permits now have a right to bypass Swedes in waiting lists for
housing. There is a massive shortage of housing, which has led to young
Swedes, well into their 30s, being forced to live with their parents.
Left: A police van, riddled with shrapnel from a hand
grenade attack in Stockholm last year. The man accused of the attack was
recently acquitted, because the court doubted that his DNA, found on the
grenade's lever, had gotten there at the time of the attack. Right: Kim
Bodnia, star of the acclaimed Swedish-Danish TV show, The Bridge (Bron),
revealed last month that one of the reasons he left the show was the rampant
antisemitism in Malmö (the filming location).
No one seems to have given any thought as to where all the people who
are granted asylum in Sweden are supposed to live. There is a massive
shortage of housing, which has led to young Swedes, well into their 30s,
being forced to live with their parents. In 2014, a report from the Swedish
Union of Tenants (Hyresgästföreningen) disclosed that close to 300,000
young people between the ages of 20-27 do not have their own place to live.
The Immigration Service has the right to send "unaccompanied refugee
children," who are often, in fact, undocumented adults, to the local
municipalities -- and then it is their problem to procure accommodation. It
was also recently reported that adult migrants with residence permits have a
right to bypass Swedes in waiting lists for housing. The municipality of
Skellefteå now plans to inventory all the empty houses in the countryside,
looking for possible alternatives for migrants.
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