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Double murderer and imam apprentice gets an early pension in Denmark
Translated from “Dobbeltmorder og imamlærling får førtidspension,”
by Bertil B. Fruelund and James Kristoffer Miles,
Ekstra Bladet, April 5, 2023
A 62-year-old Iraqi citizen who in 2008 committed a violent double murder, despite his sentence, benefits from a full early pension of just under 20,000 kroner [$1900 USD] a month.
The rate for early retirement is DKK 19,360 ($2836.50 USD) per month.
Ekstra Bladet can tell you today that a judgment in the Supreme Court from 16 February 2023 finally decided that he cannot be deported from Denmark, and at the same time revealed a loophole in the law:
If (you) are imprisoned, public benefits are stopped. But psychiatric placement is medical treatment, and so the services continue as before. In the case of the Iraqi, he has been sentenced to psychiatric accommodation for an indefinite period.
‘Early pension cannot be paid while serving a sentence in prison or detention centre,’ writes the Ministry of Employment in a reply to the Folketing and continues:
‘The rules that the payment ceases, however, do not apply to citizens who are sent to serve a sentence in a place other than a prison or detention centre, for example when it is a sentence for treatment in a forensic psychiatric ward.’
Brutal double murder
It was back in 2008 that the Iraqi man committed the double murder of his ex-wife and his former father-in-law. He bumped into the two by chance in a hardware store in Hørsholm, while they were there with the couple’s two joint daughters.
Here he grabbed a knife from the shop and stabbed the two adults countless times in the stomach, neck and chest. The police quickly arrived at the scene, where the man was arrested.
In May 2009, he was sentenced to be placed in a psychiatric ward because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, and was (to be) permanently deported from Denmark.
However, the deportation was annulled by the high court and then the Supreme Court, because the treatment options in Iraq are so poor that it is considered that it would be contrary to the human rights convention.
Early retirement and imam studies
The Supreme Court judgment shows that the Iraqi man’s ‘current support basis’ is early retirement.
It also shows that he reads to an imam via the internet and has up to 12 hours of unaccompanied outings every day, where he goes to Roskilde to collect bottles.
And it is completely within the scope that the man is training to be an imam. According to the ministry, people on early retirement may ‘happen to participate in education, courses, university stays and the like.’
It appears that Islam has no problem accepting paranoid schizophrenics as imams. Perhaps they know that what Dr. Wafa Sultan says is true, “I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Mohammed and believe in it, and then emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.”
However, if you take an education that enables you to support yourself, it can go beyond early retirement.
While the Iraqi convicted of murder receives early retirement, he does not have many expenses at the same time. Contrary to a prison sentence, you do not pay for board or lodging when you are under psychiatric treatment – even if it is a judge who has demanded it.
Depending on when he is discharged, he can probably leave the system with a solid savings.
Far from the only one
According to Ekstra Bladet’s information, the Iraqi double murderer is by no means the only convict who receives early retirement.
Because it has its own internal logic that if you are assessed to be so mentally ill that you cannot serve normal time, then you also have such a reduced ability to work that you can receive early retirement.
RCMP arrest 3 Canadian women after repatriation from camps in Syria
14 women and children arrived in Canada on Thursday
Ashley Burke · CBC News ·
Posted: Apr 06, 2023 5:59 AM PDT |
which began in the early hours of the morning local time on Wednesday. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
The RCMP have arrested three Canadian women in Montreal after the government repatriated them from a northeastern Syria camp for ISIS suspects and their families.
The RCMP said it's seeking a terrorism peace bond against Ammara Amjad, Dure Ahmed and a 38-year-old third woman the police force hasn't named. Amjad and Ahmed appeared in an Ontario court by videoconference on Thursday for a bail hearing, but it was adjourned. The third woman appeared virtually at an Alberta court for a bail hearing.
An RCMP news release said the two Ontario women are in custody and are expected to appear in court again on April 11.
Their lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, said the peace bond would mean the women would have to live under certain conditions for up to a year.
"What it demonstrates is that Canada has the ability to repatriate these women and children and then deal with any concerns that they have through the Canadian justice system, which is the way it should be," said Greenspon.
I think the word 'demonstrates' is too strong here. It 'suggests' is more accurate. If these women abandon their jihadi beliefs and live in peace in Canada, that would 'demonstrate' the success of the program.
In an interview with CBC News Network on Friday, Greenspon said he's been advised that the bail hearing for the two women in Ontario did not take place and has been postponed until next Tuesday.
The RCMP said in a separate statement Friday that the third woman was released from custody and is now subject to bail conditions pending hearing of a peace bond application.
"As the RCMP criminal investigation remains ongoing, there will be no further comment on this matter at this time," the statement said.
Yoav Niv, a criminal defence lawyer representing the third woman, said her name is protected by a publication ban.
"These cases can be complex given the national security context," Niv said in an email statement.
"We secured a publication ban relative to judicial interim release, requested disclosure, and hope to receive it shortly after our next court date on May 12."
The women were part of a group of four Canadian women and 10 children the federal government repatriated to Canada on Thursday from al-Roj, the Kurdish-run camp where many of them were detained for years.
2 young women killed, mother in critical condition after West Bank shooting
By Clyde Hughes
at the Hamra junction in the Jordan Valley, on Friday. Photo by Alaa Badarneh/EPA-EFE
April 7 (UPI) -- The Israel Defense Forces are conducting a manhunt for those responsible for a West Bank shooting attack on a vehicle that killed two Israeli women while leaving their mother in critical condition on Friday.
The women, who have not been identified publicly, were on Route 57 Highway in the northern Jordan Valley near Hamra Junction when the attack happened. Both women killed are reported to be in their 20s.
"IDF soldiers are blocking routes adjacent to the scene of the shooting attack and are currently in pursuit of the terrorists," the Israel Defense Forces said in a Twitter post.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics initially responded to a vehicle collision but found the car full of bullet holes with the two women inside when they arrived at the scene.
"This is a murderous attack that reminds us how relevant the threat of terrorism is in its various forms," Israeli Police Chief Kobi Shabtai said. "Therefore, alongside our operations and that of the security forces in all sectors, I call on every citizen who has a licensed firearm and is skilled in operating it legally -- to carry it these days."
The shooting marked another sign of ongoing violence in the country. Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza and Lebanon early Friday.
Rockets had been fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday, a day after Israeli police stormed the history Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem with worshippers inside on Wednesday.
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