Homicide Alexandra Mezher

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Alexandra Mezher was a 22-year-old Swedish social worker who on January 25 was injured in 2016 in a refugee camp by a Somali asylum seekers in an attack with a knife and a few hours later died in a hospital. Mezher was the daughter of Christian refugees from Lebanon in the early 1990s. Mezher worked as a helper in a hotel in Mölndal , near Gothenburg, which was converted into refugee accommodation . Unaccompanied minor refugees are looked after in the accommodation .

Perpetrator and deed

The perpetrator was Kahliif N. from Somalia . Kahliif N. came to Sweden as a refugee in the summer of 2015. He wanted to attack another refugee with a knife on January 25th. Alexandra Mezher, at that time the only carer during the night shift, wanted to prevent this attack and was attacked herself. She was hit by the knife three times. Veins in the thigh were hit, which led to severe blood loss. Mezher fled to another room. Two other refugees were able to overpower Kahliif N. and hold him until the police arrived. Kahliif N. was taken to a psychiatric clinic in Gothenburg . According to his own statements, Kahliif N. was 15 years old. The Swedish authorities are checking his age as they assume an age of 16 to 20 years. A medical examination later revealed that the perpetrator was at least 18 years old.

In May 2016, the attacker was charged with the murder of Mezher and attempted murder of another resident at the asylum center. The trial against the perpetrator began on June 1, 2016. On August 8, 2016, the Gothenburg District Court sentenced the perpetrator, Kahliif N., to ten years' placement in a forensic psychiatric institution for serious bodily harm because he suffered from a serious mental illness. After 10 years he should be expelled. He is said to have paid almost SEK 300,000 in damages to the victim's family.

Reactions

The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven expressed the concern of many Swedes that such attacks could repeat themselves.

According to Jonas Hinnfors, a politics professor at the University of Gothenburg , Löfven's decision to rush to the scene of the crime in Mölndal shows the difficult situation the government is facing. The Prime Minister has been accused by the press of glossing over the challenges. At the scene of the crime, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said “There are no easy solutions”, which the liberal and most widely circulated newspaper in Sweden Dagens Nyheter commented with the words “Löfven has nothing to say”. A few days later, the government announced that it would deport rejected asylum seekers more strictly. For 2015 alone, 60,000 rejected asylum seekers were affected by this decision.

The police union leader said it had become clear that the situation had become "completely unsustainable".

Alexandra Mezher's family blamed Swedish politicians for their deaths.

Four days after the crime there was a hunt for refugees in Stockholm . Fifty to a hundred masked attackers chased refugees through the streets. The police quickly repelled the persecutors.

Various media noted growing tensions. The Washington Post saw Alexandra Mezher, who wants to do good, the face of an idyllic Swede whose death threatens to shatter the image of the Scandinavian country, which is already under the pressure of the influx of refugees. The world wrote that the death of Mezher 'heats up the emotions'. According to The Guardian, security in overcrowded refugee shelters became a focus after the fall.

Mezher's death is in the context of increasing problems with crime among refugees in Sweden. In Sweden, violence by refugees increased from 148 cases in 2014 to 322 cases in 2015. The stabbing of two people in an Ikea store near Stockholm on August 10, 2015 by a rejected asylum seeker from Eritrea attracted particular attention. The sexual harassment of women at music festivals in Stockholm and New Year's Eve in Malmö came into view. The police leadership had covered up sexual assaults at music festivals by refugees.

See also

Individual evidence

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