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Sweden: Afghan Muslim migrant slits woman’s throat, has sentence reduced
FEB 23, 2023 4:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
The sentence was reduced by only one year, which is curious. Even after the reduction, the Court of Appeal referred to Seyed Alavi’s “relatively long prison sentence.” If they think the poor dear will languish in prison for too long, why not reduce it more? And why give him a prison sentence at all, when he is set to be deported after it? Why not deport him now, rather than force Swedish taxpayers to pay for his upkeep for fifteen years?
Seyed Alavi, 23, stabbed a woman in the throat – sentenced
translated from “Seyed Alavi, 23, högg kvinna i halsen – döms,”
by Alexander Vickhoff, Expressen, February 20, 2023:
Seyed Alavi, 23, attacked and stabbed a woman in a hotel room in Malmö.
She was left badly injured and it was only by chance that she was discovered on the roof of the hotel.
Now the Court of Appeal has lowered Seyed Alavi’s sentence to 15 years in prison.
According to the police investigation, Seyed Alavi had arranged to meet the woman at a hotel to buy sex. The woman, who is in her 30s and from Russia, has said that immediately when Seyed Alavi stepped into the room, a fight broke out that ended with Seyed Alavi cutting the woman several times with a knife in the neck and upper body.
The woman was able to get out of the room and onto a roof, where she was discovered by people in the house next door. She survived thanks to the emergency life-saving measures she received on the hotel roof.
“I remember how much it hurt. I remember that it was chilly outside and that my gushing blood warmed me. I wanted to die as soon as possible so I wouldn’t have to suffer. I was lying on the roof, the sun was shining and I thought that these were my last minutes in life,” the woman previously told Kvällsposten/expressen.
Seyed Alavi was filmed by the hotel’s surveillance cameras both when he was on his way to the hotel room and when he left it. He was able to be arrested by police a few weeks after the crime after being traced through his registration on the site for sex purchases, various phone contacts and purchases by debit card.
Chamber prosecutor Helena Lundström has called the police work that led to Alavi’s arrest “fantastic police work.”
In early December, Seyed Alavi was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The district court also decided that he should pay SEK 520,320 [$50,263] in damages to the woman and that he should be deported from Sweden.
The case has now been decided in the Court of Appeal. According to the judgment of this higher instance, Alavi’s prison sentence is reduced to 15 years.
“The relatively long prison sentence is due to the special recklessness shown by the convicted man by surprisingly and brutally attacking the woman with a knife. He then left her alone in a locked hotel room bleeding profusely from the neck and abdomen,” says Court of Appeal counsel Anna Tansjö in a press release.
The Court of Appeal also lowered the woman’s damages to SEK 370,320 [$35,772] as they consider that the amendment to the law that increases damages to victims of crime had not come into effect when the act was committed.
“We are, of course, not satisfied with the Court of Appeal’s decision; this applies both to the issue of damages and the length of the prison sentence,” says the woman’s counsel for the plaintiff, lawyer Jenny Fugleberg.
Swedish justice, like Canadian justice, is completely criminal-centric.
Nearly 70 troops killed in two jihadist attacks in troubled Burkina Faso
Issued on: 21/02/2023 - 19:14
Agence France Presse
Ouagadougou (AFP) – Suspected jihadists killed at least 15 soldiers in troubled northern Burkina Faso, just three days after an ambush that claimed the lives of 51 troops, security sources said Tuesday.
A unit in Tin-Akoff in Oudalan province near the border with Mali "came under violent attack" on Monday evening, a source said, giving a toll of "about 15 dead" with others still missing.
The army mounted a counter-attack with air support, "neutralising... dozens of terrorists," the source added.
A second source in the security forces confirmed the assault and put the toll at 19 soldiers dead and "dozens of missing."
The bloodshed came as the Sahel nation reeled from a deadly ambush last Friday near Deou, also in Oudalan province.
Fifty-one soldiers died and 160 jihadists were killed in that action and the aftermath, according to army figures.
Jihadist insurgents in Mali began launching cross-border incursions on the landlocked Sahel state more than seven years ago. Since then, more than 10,000 civilians, police and troops have died, according to NGO estimates, and more than two million people have fled their homes.
Around 40 percent of the nation's territory lies outside the government's control.
Anger within the military at failures to turn the tide sparked two coups last year.
Hours before news broke of the latest attack, political parties and civil groups displayed their support for the ruling junta.
"In these difficult times, I urge the Burkinabe people to cultivate a spirit of national unity and support the transitional authorities in their resolve to restore our territorial integrity," said Zephirin Diabre of the Union for Progress and Change (UPC).
Junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore acknowledged the fight against jihadism was "strewn with pitfalls" but said the authorities remained "determined" to triumph.
Friday's attack was the deadliest among the security forces since Traore, 34, took power in late September, vowing to recover territory captured by the jihadists.
But attacks have escalated sharply in recent weeks -- since the start of the year, more than 200 people have died, according to an AFP toll.
Political commentator Harouna Traore asked why the armed forces seemed to be so vulnerable. "Why are patrols being carried out without aerial surveillance? Today, we have drones, reconnaissance aircraft, which should mean we no longer run into ambushes," he said.
Burkina Faso's junta, like its counterpart in Mali, has fallen out with France, the country's traditional ally. France is pulling out its troops -- a special forces unit of around 400 men based near the capital Ouagadougou.
Ten Civilians Killed In Jihadist Attack In Mogadishu
By AFP - Agence France Presse
February 21, 2023
Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a house in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing ten civilians, the government said.
The raid took place around 1200 GMT in the northern district of Abdiaziz, the government said, adding that three civilians had been wounded.
"The security forces rescued and extracted many other civilians from that house and other nearby buildings during the attack," it said.
The attack was claimed by the Al-Shabaab, which is linked to Al-Qaeda.
The link? - One is as insane as the other.
A soldier named Mohamed Ali, who was present at the scene, said the attackers "stormed the building after blasting the main gate with explosives".
He said they "resorted to attacking the houses occupied by civilians after they are being defeated in the frontlines".
In recent months, the Somali army and local clan militias have retaken chunks of territory from the militants in an operation backed by US air strikes and an African Union force known as ATMIS.
But Al-Shabaab, which has been fighting the government since 2007, still control parts of the countryside from where they have carried out numerous retaliatory attacks both in Somalia and in neighbouring countries.
The jihadists, who were forced out of the capital by African Union troops in 2011, have frequently retaliated against the latest offensive with bloody strikes.
In the deadliest Al-Shabaab attack since the offensive was launched last year, 121 people were killed in two car bomb explosions at the education ministry in Mogadishu in October.
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