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Syrian Muslim asylum seekers decided to occupy a bus for two days and stage semi-nude protests after being transported from Malmö to a small Swedish village called Grytan outside of Östersund.
Swedish Surveyor
Upon arrival they refused to leave the bus and demanded that they be
returned to Sweden’s third largest city which now has a minority Swedish
population i.e. multicultural Malmö. The
reasons for refusing to stay in Grytan weren’t entirely clear and
ranged from being unable to compose music to being given faulty
information.
(The ‘cold weather photos below
are of where Syrian refugees were living in Lebanon for a year or more
before they came to Sweden)
“I am 75 years old and come from the
Middle East. Then I get sent to a place that looks like this,” a man
from Syria told Östersunds-Posten, pointing to the icy road. “It is
dangerous for me to be here.”
“Normally I play music and write songs. That’s not possible here, I become completely dead inside from living here”
“Yes, we don’t demand much. But now we
must live 8 in each room, people with different backgrounds and ages.
It is cold outside and cold in the rooms. I doubt that for example
Germany treats its refugees like this”
“Either they take us out of here to a better establishment, or we start a hunger strike” – laments a displeased Muhammed. (GOOD!)
One of the immigrants describes the
village as being isolated from the service he had been expecting to get.
This came as a surprise to one of Sweden’s Radios reporter who pointed
out that she comes from Östersund to which one of the asylum seekers
responded: “Yes, but we are Arabs. We cannot live here in this kind of weather.” (That’ funny, you were living in that kind of weather for a long time and in much worse conditions than you’ll have in Sweden)
Once the dialogue police were called
to the scene they refused to evict the protesters most likely due to
fears that Swedish journalists would start whining about inhumane
treatment of refugees.
“One has to be cautious. This
regards people seeking protection and removing them from the bus isn’t
suitable. We hope to be able to solve this with dialogue. When a
decision has been made by Swedish Enforcement Authority, we can assist” – said officer Bengt Stadin with the Jämtland Police.
The Migration Board was contacted by
the media and one of their spokesmen, Fredrik Bengtsson, said that
asylum seekers can live wherever they like in Sweden but that they would
then have to take care of their own accommodation which makes sense
considering the restrictions on building and uncontrolled mass
immigration has led to a housing shortage and in turn the housing bubble
i wrote about here.
“We have seen cases where asylum
seekers have certain ideas of what awaits them in Sweden and when that
doesn’t match reality, then problems arise. They don’t feel what they
see here meets their expectations. We’ve had a large amount of people
come to Sweden this year and so we can’t place them where they want,” Bengtsson said.
The standoff continued for two days
until Friday when the protesters finally agreed to vacate the bus after
Swedish officials apologized and caved in to their demands regarding
being moved within 3 months.
One would think that this dramatic
chain of events would end there but alas the asylum seekers have decided
to protest in the mess hall until they obtain a written contract
certifying that they will receive paid for apartments in Malmö or
Stockholm within 1-3 months courtesy of Swedish taxpayers. They have
threatened to leave and seek asylum in Norway or Finland. (Go ahead, you’re not wanted there either)
To make the situation more absurd the
bus driver in question was not only forced to celebrate New Years Eve
alone in a hotel room but he also claims he had his laptop stolen by one
of them.
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