The Joys of Diversity & Cultural Enrichment (XXIII)

A look at which Western country is getting the most out of its immigration policy. Today's contenders are Denmark, Portugal and the U.S.


1) Denmark

A young woman was forced to perform oral sex under threat of death in Helsingør:

20-year old woman forced into oral sex

A tour of the town ended badly for a 20-year-old woman in Helsingør, who on her way home was accosted by a man who dragged her into a laundromat, where he forced her to complete oral sex, report the North Zealand police.

The woman was walking home alone at about 4am through Strandgade in Helsingør, where she was met by a 20- to 25-year-old foreign man.

He pulled her by the hair into the laundromat, where he threatened to kill her unless she performed oral sex on him.

The police treats the case as “forced sexual conduct other than intercourse”, which is not rape, but closely related.

The man is described as 20-25 years old, 185 cm tall, and slender of build. He wore a white shirt with stripes, and blue jeans.

2) Portugal

A young man was stabbed to death in Bairro Alto by a group of Africans, who may have been attempting to molest the young women he was with at the time:

The police authorities still haven’t revealed what led a group of Africans to run behind a group of three girls and a young man who ended up being killed after being stabbed. The local inhabitants speak of theft and drugs. They also say that the Africans “tried to get some from the girls”.

No one knows what started the crime of murder that victimized a nineteen-year-old male, stabbed in the chest and shoulder, at 03:30 last night, right in the middle of a public street [this implies that the street was crowded, although it is not clear about it. At that time most streets of Bairro Alto are indeed crowded but some contiguous streets are empty and only a few old men, drug addicts or recently-arrived illegals, live there. — translator] in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. The suspect was detained immediately by the PSP and preventively arrested. At the scene, local inhabitants pointed to various hypotheses: problems involved with drug trafficking, an attempt at theft, or because they were “messing with the girls” who accompanied the victim.

In the neighborhood, the DN [newspaper] spoke with a resident who witnessed the crime, at the corner of Atalaia street with the Plazza Água da Flor, close to the Bairro Alto Market. “I was in bed, trying to sleep, and heard someone screaming for someone to stop. I came to the window and saw a group of many blacks running for four whites, three girls and a guy,” she said.

“Right afterwards I heard a distressed screaming; it must have been when the guy was stabbed and stayed there lying on the sidewalk. The police were already on foot trying to get the blacks and managed to catch three of them. The others ran away,” she said, adding that “the knife stayed on the ground, covered in blood”.

The same woman remember that “then came an ambulance and a car with doctors that tried to save the guy for a long time, but he never responded. The policemen told the three girls to leave, and one of them was screaming that she was only going to leave with the guy. But he died there. Between 06.00 and 07.00 in the morning they took him away”.

She adds that “the boy and the girls were all very good-looking and very young. They looked like university students”.

Concerning the motives for the crime, one women who lives close by said, “maybe, the others messed with the girls, the boy did not like it and confronted them…”

Another man believes it was an “attempt at theft that ended up badly”.

José, who has lived for many years in Bairro Alto and says he knows the area well, emphasizes that that quarter of Atalaia Street “is problematic, because that’s where drugs are sold. They take cover close to the municipal market to do their transactions. It is normal for big discussions, confrontations, and fights to take place there when the drug dealers try to ‘wash away’ and sell phony drugs”.

Officially, the metropolitan commandant of the PSP (Security Public Police) of Lisbon admits that “it’s not possible yet to know the causes of what happened”, although “various witnesses were heard and identified”.

The PSP states that, after having received a call reporting a disorder in the Bairro Alto, it mobilized officers who found at Rosa Street two men involved in a physical confrontation, one of whom, 26 years old, had a knife covered with blood that was taken away by the police officers. Both men were injured.

Further down, at the Água da Flor Plazza, the officers saw a 19 years old man lying in the pavement, with severe injuries caused by a white weapon in the chest and shoulder, but still alive. He was medically assisted at the scene, but eventually died.

The 26-year-old man, who is suspect of having murdered the young man, was detained by the PSP and driven to the hospital to be treated, because he “was injured in the right arm”, says the same police source. The other individual, aged 20, who was struggling with the presumed murderer, also sustained injuries and was assisted at the scene.

3) United States

An illegal immigrant from Jordan has been told he faces deportation after jail time after admitting setting up a series of EBay scams which netted him over $600,000:

For more than two years, Ahmad Jallad worked exclusively out of his home, buying stolen goods from known shoplifters and selling them for a profit on Internet auction sites, an assistant U.S. attorney said yesterday.

For the stolen goods, Jallad received about $664,000 over several years. Jallad, 34, of 5675 Swan Creek Dr. pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Toledo to one count of mail fraud.

Because he has had illegal status in the United States for 11 years, he faces deportation to Jordan after jail time. A sentencing date has not been set.

"He admitted he paid a substantial number of shoplifters to go into chain drug stores and steal high-dollar items and sold them on eBay," Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth Uram said.

The charge against Jallad was the result of a lengthy investigation that involved confidential informants and sting operations. According to an affidavit filed for a search warrant, undercover agents were sent into a convenience store where Jallad worked and sold him items he was told were stolen from chain drugstores.

The items were consistent with those sold on eBay from an account Jallad set up, authorities said.

"He established an eBay account to sell items he knew had been stolen from the chain pharmacies in the Toledo metropolitan area," Jallad's plea agreement said. "The defendant further admits he purchased the stolen items from individuals he knew to be shoplifters and that he sometimes gave these shoplifters lists of items he would buy from them, knowing the shoplifters would steal these items from pharmacies."

Specifically, court documents indicated items such as Crest Whitestrips, Rogaine foam, and Alli weight loss pills were sold through Jallad's eBay account.

According to court documents, as of Feb. 12, Jallad's eBay site showed he had sold 5,521 items online since 2004. PayPal records show about 2,000 more items were sold outside eBay using Jallad's Pay Pal account to transfer funds.

All the items sold were shipped through the U.S. Postal Service, leading to the charge of mail fraud.

Mr. Uram said Jallad came to the area on a student visa to attend the University of Toledo. He said that visa expired more than a decade ago. According to the government, Jallad faces a range of imprisonment of 27 to 33 months. He also agreed to pay $244, 477 in restitution.

Hat tip: Gates of Vienna.

Portugal to Accept Syrian Guantanamo Inmates

From France 24:

Portugal will accept two Syrian nationals for resettlement from the U.S. detention camp of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on a special visa, the foreign ministry said on Friday, lauding the forthcoming closure of the camp.

Their names were not revealed. The ministry said the prisoners are part of a group of several dozen detainees who had been cleared of terrorism charges, but cannot be returned to their countries due to the risk of persecution.

In December, Portugal became the first country to press publicly for a coordinated European Union resettlement plan for Guantanamo prisoners, which was followed by an EU decision in June to take in detainees on a case-by-case basis.

The foreign ministry said in a statement the government had weighed various aspects—“humanitarian, foreign relations, safeguarding security and the prospects of successful integration of the chosen ex-detainees” before taking the final decision to accept the two.The special temporary visas to be issued imply either state interests or humanitarian reasons, according to the law.

It praised the closure of the Gunatanamo detention centre as allowing “the revival of the Transatlantic relationship and a victory for all those who defend and promote the respect for human rights within the framework of the war on terror”.

The facility at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo, which opened after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, quickly became a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the previous administration of George W. Bush.

President Barack Obama has pledged to close the prison by the end of the year, and the inmates either have to face trial or be released. Washington faces opposition to transferring detainees to the United States, be it for trial or release.

The Joys of Diversity & Cultural Enrichment (XXII)

A look at which Western country is getting the most out of its immigration policy. Today's contenders are Portugal, Britain and France.


1) France

Youths have been rioting for three consecutive days in the town of St-Etienne after an Arab man of 21 died in police custody.

The police say the man committed suicide; the coroner has found no evidence that he was treated violently prior to his death. Although the man's family don't believe the official line, they have urged calm.

On the first night alone over 44 vehicles were burned, but as yet no one has been hurt, although last night shops in the town centre were attacked and some torched.


The Times has an English language report (with some factual inaccuracies):

Police are bracing for violence in the southeastern French town of Firminy tonight after the death in custody of a 21-year-old Arab man sparked two nights of arson and car-burning.

The family of Mohamed Benmouna joined the authorities in calling for calm as youths from immigrant housing estates vented their disbelief of the official report that he had committed suicide.

The scene at Firminy, near the city of St Etienne, was calmer today after a post-mortem examination found that Mr Benmouna, who had been arrested on extortion charges, had hanged himself from the plasterboard wall of the cell and that there was no trace of other violence.

On Tuesday night, when Benmouna was in a coma, youths set fire to a community centre and a dozen cars. After he died on yesterday, they burnt another eight cars.

2) Britain

A top surgeon has been warned after violent incidents:

A TOP Tameside surgeon has been warned against using violent behaviour by health watchdogs.

Dr Kamran Haider Siddiqui, a lead clinician in Tameside General Hospital’s endoscopy department, received the ticking off from the General Medical Council.

A spokesman from the GMC confirmed that Mr Siddiqui had been warned but would not comment further.

Listed on the GMC’s official website, the warning states: "He must not use or threaten violence in his private or professional life. He must refrain from criminal activity which risks bringing the profession into disrepute. However, should he accept a caution or be charged with or found guilty of a criminal offence, he must inform the GMC without delay. "

It is not clear if Dr Siddiqui was charged with any offence or whether he appeared in court, but the warning will stay on his record from January 2008 until 7 January 2013.

It is understood to relate to an incident in his private life.

Susan McGahey, spokeswoman for the Tameside Hospital Action Group, (THAG) which represents patients and their families, said she was worried by the news.

She said: "I’m concerned that a member of the team has this complaint against him. Whether or not it affects his judgement or not is another thing. The hospital should be more open about staff misdemeanours."

In a statement, the Tameside NHS Foundation Trust defended Mr Siddiqui.

Dr Tariq Mahmood, medical director at the trust, said: "The Trust is aware that an incident occurred, but this was not related in any way to his work at Tameside Hospital.

"As such, we do not have any details about the incident and cannot offer any further comment, other than to say that Mr Siddiqui is a well-respected and extremely competent surgeon, who is, quite rightly, held in extremely high regard by his colleagues and his patients. Mr Siddiqui enjoys the full confidence of Tameside Hospital."

Mr Siddiqui, who qualified at the University of Punjab in Pakistan, is one of Greater Manchester’s leading surgeons. He recently performed a groundbreaking new surgical technique relating to keyhole surgery called laporoscopic large bowel resection.

3) Portugal

Two police officers were shot last weekend in a notorious neighbourhood of African immigrants which is apparently a no-go area for Portuguese.

With thanks to Afonso Henriques via Gates of Vienna:

The oldest police officer was 25 years old, the other 23 and one of them will most likely lose an eye — and thus, most likely, the job as well. It really, really seems to be an ambush.

This is the gravest of all the episodes, and happened last Sunday, the 5th of July. I really think this one deserves special attention. It was actually so severe that all the National TV channels opened their prime time news with it. There’s little to comment about it. All broadcasts indicated that the perpetrators were Africans, and Africans are the majority of the inhabitants in the area in question, a no-go zone.

lara de Souza:		Good evening. Two police officers were shot today in Amadora after being called to an incident in the neighborhood of Santa Filomena. The shooters are at large. Elements of the security forces make searches in the houses of the neighborhood, in an attempt to find the two shooters of the shotgun blasts that injured two police officers, one in the chest, another in the neck. A few minutes after 3 pm elements of the PSP (Public Security Police) were called to an incident in the neighborhood Casal das Brancas in Amadora. When they made contact with the assailants, the police officers were greeted with shots. Minutes later came reinforcements, minutes after that came the ambulances that drove the injured officers to the hospital. The neighborhood was immediately sealed off by the police. Then, police officers saw individuals with masks who fired shotguns yet again before running away. Both the neighborhoods of Casal das Brancas and the contiguous Santa Filomena are now being patrolled by the police. The frightened inhabitants came into the streets saying that in the last months it’s even harder to live here due to the rise of violence. But to the video cameras, only silence, because the fear of reprisals is real. The police patrols in the neighborhood, Carla, are still going at this time?
Carla, the reporter:		Patrolling is still going at this time and in force. Now the Judiciary Police (PJ) just arrived, Clara. We can see them up there close to the police car that was targeted during the afternoon by the shooters. Two police officers were injured, two police officers who were near here were then called by the PSP station of Amadora to come to this place. The police station received a call around the 3 pm reporting that a robbery was about to take place, an attempt at robbing a goldsmith in this area, and the two officers came to the place. Surprised by the shooters, they were confronted with shotguns. José Mendes from the Association of Police Unions (ASP), how are the injured officers? One of them is in a worse condition?
José Mendes from the ASP:		Yes, the indication I have at this moment is that one of the officers is worse than the other. I hope they can recover as fast as possible, and that situations like this one do not happen again, really. Because… please say…
Carla:		Just to end this reasoning, one of the officers is in danger of losing an eye.
José Mendes :		I also have that indication, unfortunately one of the officers may effectively lose one of his eyes. Possibly. It does not mean that this is effectively true. I hope it will not happen.
Carla:		I know you can’t give us much in the way of details because this is under judicial secrecy, but do you have any indication of how the robbery took place, how the police officers were surprised?
José Mendes :		No, my lady…
Carla:		How were they shot?
José Mendes :		I cannot give you those indications. First because I don’t have them and even if I had them I would not divulge them. It is a case that is under judicial secrecy and we respect it, me more than all the others…
Carla:		Is this a problematic neighborhood [no-go-zone]?
José Mendes:		It is one of the problematic neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the government is not listening to what the Association of Police Unions (ASP) has alerted them to, so that, in reality, the agents of authority or the crimes committed against the agents of authority are not punished, nor the criminals are not punished in reality as a consequence of what they’ve been doing.

Convicted Portuguese Thug Jailed for Sex Attacks in Brighton

A violent Portuguese national, convicted of attempted murder in his own country, was mistakenly allowed into Britain. Once here, he proceeded to carry out a series of violent sex attacks on courting couples who were becoming intimate on Brighton beach.

From The Argus:

A seafront sex attacker preyed on couples as they became intimate and violently assaulted them when they told him to leave them alone.

Ricardo Tavares carried out his reign of terror on Brighton beach for almost a year before he was captured by police.

Four couples were viciously attacked by the 25-year-old, of Montpelier Terrace, Brighton, between April 2008 and February this year.

Many were left needing hospital treatment.

At Lewes Crown Court yesterday, Tavares was jailed for ten years for two offences each of assault with intent to commit a sexual offence, sexual assault by penetration, wounding with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, sexual assault by touching and theft.

There is even a question mark as to whether Tavares, a Portuguese national, should have been allowed into the UK.

In October 2005, the pizza parlour worker was handed a sentence of two years and nine months, suspended for two years, for attempted murder.

A condition of his sentence meant he was not allowed to leave Portugal but in 2006 he travelled to the UK to find work.

He is wanted in Portugal for breaching the terms of his sentence.

The court was told Tavares targeted his victims as they came out of nightclubs on Brighton seafront and sat on the beach.

As they became intimate he would sexually assault the woman, becoming violent and viciously assaulting them and their partner when they objected.

One of the worst attacks came on April 10 last year at 2.30am when Tavares attacked a couple who he had seen becoming intimate on the beach.

Rossano Scamardella, prosecuting, said: “He told them they should not be having sex on the beach and then ran off. They began to resume their intimate activity.”

Tavares returned and carried out a violent sexual abuse.

On May 25, Tavares sexually assaulted another woman on the beach before punching and kicking her 'like a football' as she lay on the ground.

He sexually assaulted and kicked and punched two more couples on October 15 last year and February 26, this year, as well as stealing one victim's handbags.

He also stole another handbag from a woman on the beach on February 26 this year.

Tavares was arrested in Preston Street, Brighton, during the early hours of March 5, after police saw him watching couples on the beach and acting suspiciously.

When they searched his property they found a driving licence and passport belonging to two of his victims.

Tony Loader, defending, said Tavares told police his had not been sexually motivated and that the 25-year-old Catholic had found “public sexual behaviour offensive”.

Detective Chief Inspector Ian Pollard said: "These were very serious attacks on courting couples.

“The tenacity of the investigators and the thoroughness of their planning and research led to this individual being charged with a number of offences.

“The quality of the investigation and the evidence they gathered led to his guilty plea in court and his substantial prison sentence today."

A Home Office spokesman said rules that last year prevented 5,400 foreign nationals, including EU nationals, from entering the UK have been tightened.

He added that Tavares’ sentence meant that he could be considered for deportation.”

This is timely (not that it will make the national dailies), because there is more and more talk from the French government about the U.K. joining the Schengen Agreement, abolishing all internal national borders in the European Union - and single handedly solving most of their problems with new illegal immigrants, whilst exacerbating our own.

If we can't keep people like this out when we retain our border controls, what would it be like if we discarded them?