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Occasionally, police in twos and threes patrol through this scene of Nordic Noir as chimes ring from the nearby 16th century St Clare’s Lutheran church, with spires piercing the dark sky.
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The girls, who show no surprise, sidestep him neatly as he tries to pat their bottoms. ‘The Swedish women, they’re nice,’ says smiling Mahoud on his return, unabashed by the rebuff. ‘People here are kind to us, but it’s difficult without a job, nothing to do, and more migrants arriving all the time.’
Stockholm station is, remember, where a disturbing event happened a few weeks ago. According to Left wing Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, there was a violent, unprovoked rampage by a masked mob of neo Nazis and football hooligans who were targeting migrants, including north African street children. Aftonbladet’s reports, based on police information, made canada goose black friday sale newspaper and TV headlines around the world.
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The murder put ultra liberal Sweden’s controversial open door cheap Canada Goose policy under scrutiny. It boosted the popularity of both the Right wing Sweden Democrats party (SD), which wants to stop the flow of migrants, and also the middle of the road Moderates’ Party, which is campaigning for a temporary break on arrivals.
Last year, 163,000 from the war torn Middle East and poverty stricken Africa came to this country of 9.8million people. This is the highest per capita ratio in any EU nation easily topping even Angela Merkel’s Germany. Sweden has accepted about one in seven of all the migrants entering Europe.
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A huge number 33,000 last year were unaccompanied minors. The Somalian accused of the social worker’s murder claimed to be one. They are attracted by Sweden’s fast tracked asylum decisions and free housing canada goose clearance sale for under 18s, as well as a government promise that those permitted to stay (and the majority are) can later bring in their brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.
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A lone migrant witness called Christian, 16, was photographed afterwards by the paper, saying he had been slapped in the face by a man during the fracas, although he admitted he had not contacted the police about it.
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The Swedish police and a national newspaper were accused of hiding the truth deliberately because the perpetrators were migrants.
Astonishingly, Stockholm police chief Peter Agren in charge of the Canada Goose Jackets 2014 festival admitted later: ‘Sometimes we dare not tell how it is because we think it plays into the hands of the Sweden Democrats.’
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