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Lebanese-Swede killed by a refugee in Sweden

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Alexandra Pierre Mezher, a Lebanese Swede Migrant centre worker was killed at a centre for unaccompanied migrant children aged between 14 and 17 in Molndal, on Sweden's west coast.
Alexandra Pierre Mezher, a Lebanese Swede Migrant centre worker was killed at a centre for unaccompanied migrant children aged between 14 and 17 in Molndal, on Sweden’s west coast.

Lebanese Swedish employee Alexandra Pierre Mezher has been killed at the hands of a migrant in Sweden, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported on Monday.

It said the 22-year-old victim hailed from the town of Qlayaa in the southern Marjeyoun district.

Earlier on Monday, Agence France-Presse said a young asylum seeker stabbed and killed a female employee of the refugee center for unaccompanied minors where he was staying in western Sweden, quoting Swedish police.

The 22-year-old victim was rushed to a nearby hospital but died of her wounds, police said.

Police would not comment on the identity or nationality of the alleged attacker, except to say that he was a young man who was a resident of the center for 14- to 17-year-olds.

He was under arrest for murder.

“These kinds of calls are becoming more and more common. We’re dealing with more incidents like these since the arrival of so many more refugees from abroad,” police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said.

Sweden, like the rest of Europe, has been struggling with the continent’s biggest migration crisis since World War II.

A country of 9.8 million, Sweden took in more than 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015, which put it among the EU states with the highest proportion of refugees per capita.

It has since tightened its asylum rules to curb the migrant flow.

AFP

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2 responses to “Lebanese-Swede killed by a refugee in Sweden”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    You can take people out of their environments, but you can’t take the ‘training’ from their heads.
    She must have said ‘NO’.

  2. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    ‘Last Night in Sweden’? Trump’s Remark Baffles a Nation
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/last-night-in-sweden-trumps-remark-baffles-a-nation.amp.html
    https://youtu.be/ak3-YHxoKyc
    Bombs, shootings are a part of life in Swedish city Malmo
    Malmo residents are used to seeing almost daily reports about violent crime. On Tuesday, for example, public broadcaster SVT reported that gang members had forced a grocer to allow them to stash drugs in his city center store. Police have been struggling to contain the violence, which they attribute mainly to gangs that deal drugs

    The latest efforts have been prompted by a November 9 shooting in front of a pizzeria, which killed one 15-year-old boy and put another in hospital. Police declared a national “special event” and set up a task force to quell gang violence.

    “It’s time, and it’s good for the people in Malmo and the people outside Malmo,” says Federico Moreno, a reporter who has covered the city for over a decade. “Every time they shoot a kid, it should be something special, in that everyone should react. It’s important that the police send a signal, and also that the state is showing that we have to send a signal.”
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    Police inspect a burned out car near the scene where Karolin Hakim was killed in Malmo
    Though many of the victims and perpetrators have been connected to gangs, bystanders have also been hurt or killed, such as 31-year-old doctor Karolin Hakim, who was shot to death in August on a Malmo street as she held her baby in her arms.

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