Posted on 07/20/2008 10:27:11 AM PDT by WesternCulture
Refugees from Somalia probably are the least welcome foreign "visitors" to Scandinavia.
Personally, I don't consider acts of violence like this as a solution to the various problems connected to mass non-European immigration to Europe, but without a doubt there will be more attacks resembling this one if European politicians don't change their minds concerning policies in the area of (non-European) immigration issues.
The article:
"A 16 year-old asylum seeker from Somalia, was shot and critically injured while sleeping in his bed at reception centre outside Oslo. He was hit in the stomach by a rifle round fired through the wall of his room. Police speculate that he may be a random victim.
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All available units from the Asker and Bærum police district have been mobilized and specialist teams and helicopters have been drafted in from neighbouring Oslo.
"This is an extremely serious event. We hope and pray that the 16 year-old will recover," says police inspector Einar Aas of the Asker and Bærum police.
The neighbourhood around the reception centre was cordoned off after the shooting and crime scene investigators have gone over the area.
No arrests had been made by Friday evening. In the mean time the youth was taken to Ullevål University Hospital where he underwent a series of operations to save his life.
Several witnesses remember hearing shots late Thursday evening and Friday morning. They were interviewed during the course of Friday afternoon.
The Hvalstad reception centre for asylum seekers aged 15 to 18, lies in a leafy low rise suburb south west of Oslo.
Police have discovered that several shots have been fired at two of the buildings at the centre. Police believe that 7.62 millimetre ammunition, common in hunting rifles and military weapons, was used.
Ballistics specialists are calculating where the shots were fired from.
Meanwhile the other residents of the centre are being attended to by a crisis team of counselors and translators.
"Our main concern is to make sure that we are doing as much as possible for the people living at the centre," says Åsmund Eide of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) to news bureau NTB.
Investigations will seek to discover whether the shooting was a random act, an accident or a hate crime."
If the shooting was a hate crime, is the 16 year old more hurt than they would have been in a random shooting?
There is nothing in the article to indicate who fired the shot. It could be anyone.
- Yes, it could have been anyone. However, if someone shoots a hunting rifle through the wall of a reception center for refugees in Oslo, it probably is some Norwegian who isn't too found of Somali refugees.
“If the shooting was a hate crime, is the 16 year old more hurt than they would have been in a random shooting?”
- Perhaps, he might be sensitive to hate.
True.
I guess as there are no cartoons involved at least the OUTRAGE will be minimal.
- Yes. Norway is, indeed, a strange country. Today, I encountered some of the inhabitants of this beautiful neighbor country of mine on the “E6” freeway (connecting Scandinavia to the European continent). Norwegian drivers seem utmost unaccustomed to decent roads.
“I guess as there are no cartoons involved at least the OUTRAGE will be minimal.”
- Furthermore, the Somali care very little about other Somali.
Somalia is very much a “nation” of competing clans.
Very true.
Sounds like a mooslim hunter missed.
It’s a bad situation. Anyone might have fired the shot, but the victim being a Somali means nothing since the shot was apparently fired through a wall.
Asylum seekers aren’t all angels, and a very significant portion are simply making up a typical fear for their life story to try and scam the system to be granted asylum. And resentment of massive immigration, illegal entries and phony asylum claims will cause violent reactions now and then.
The resistance begins. See Not [No Mosques] in My Backyard, Say an Increasing Number of Germans http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047253/posts
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