As you might have heard, the European Union is on the brink of collapse.
The bloc has been inundated with asylum seekers from the war-torn Mid-East and the influx of refugees now threatens to shatter the Schengen dream. Some European officials (most notably Angela Merkel) are fighting to preserve Europe’s open borders but others have reached their breaking point with what they see as a hostile foreign invasion.
Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders even went so far as to call Arab migrants “Islamic testosterone bombs” who need to be “locked” in asylum centers to prevent them from waging a “sexual jihad” on Dutch women.
Wilders was referencing widespread reports of sexual assaults allegedly perpetrated by men and male teenagers “of Arab origin.” These attacks began to make international headlines after eyewitnesses in Cologne, Germany went public with accounts of an apparent sexual melee that unfolded in the city center on New Year’s Eve. Women, the reports indicated, were assaulted by “gangs” of refugees who groped them and in some cases robbed them.
Once the Cologne attacks became big news, Nyheter Idag released an investigative report alleging prominent Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter sought to conceal from the public a wave of sexual assaults at a youth festival and concert in central Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården last August. Dagens Nyheter denied the allegations, saying it was in fact Swedish police that were responsible for the coverup.
Swedish politicians promised a thorough investigation into the matter and voiced their disgust for the alleged attacks.
“This is a very big problem for those affected and for the whole of our country,” Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said. “We will not budge an inch, and we should not look away.”
Well if Löfven thought roving gangs of teenage refugees groping girls at concerts was a “big problem,” he has an even bigger issue now because on Monday, 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old migrant at an asylum center.
“Mezher began working at an asylum center in the city of Molndal, helping unaccompanied minor migrants adapt to life in their adopted home,” The Washington Post writes. “She was killed by one of those young migrants.”
“It is so terrible. She was a person who wanted to do good,” Mezher’s cousin said “And then he murdered her when she was doing her job.”
She had only worked at the center for “a few months” according to Expressen, who adds that “the company that runs [the Molndal house] has many similar places throughout western Sweden.”
This is a “terrible crime” PM Löfven said, after visiting the scene. “It was messy, of course, a crime scene with blood,” police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg recalled.
“The symbolism of Mezher’s slaying was not lost on the country’s politicians,” WaPo continues, noting that Löfven took to the air waves following the young woman’s death to acknowledge the country’s growing disaffection with the refugee situation. “I believe that there are quite many people in Sweden who feel a lot of concern that there can be more cases of this kind,” he told Radio Sweden.
Yes Mr. Löfven, we “believe” that you are correct and make no mistake, if European politicans do not find an effective way to get the situation under control, the public will remove them – either with the ballot or with the torches and pitchforks.
On that note we close with one more quote from Mezher’s relatives:
“It is the Swedish politicians’ fault that she is dead.”
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1UqEpeF Tyler Durden