Roughly 20 percent of Syrians now live in Europe (Politico), about 4.5 million people plus their descendants. They were entitled to EU residence based on a fear of persecution by the Assad regime, which has now been replaced by the other side (“another side”?). Will there now be a refugee swap? Everyone who was targeted by Assad can now safely return to Syria. Everything who was on Assad’s side will need to seek asylum in the European welfare system. When does the swap happen?
BBC:
Ten men, mostly Syrian refugees, have been found guilty over the gang rape of a woman outside a German nightclub.
The 2018 attack in the city of Freiburg fuelled anti-foreigner sentiment, with protests by the far right.
The lead defendant was sentenced to five and a half years for the attack – which lasted for more than two hours – while seven others received sentences of up to four years.
The victim, who was 18 at the time, had her drink spiked before being attacked in bushes outside the venue.
Eight of the men on trial were refugees from Syria, while the other three came from Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany.
From The Critic, 2024:
The Germany-wide statistics on sexual violence were also sobering. An internal study by the German federal law enforcement agency, leaked to a Zurich newspaper, revealed that asylum-seekers have committed some 7,000 sexual assaults (ranging from groping to gang-rape ) between 2015 and 2023. Although they make up only 2.5 per cent of the population, asylum-seekers made up 13.1 per cent of all sexual-assault suspects in 2021.
Same question about the U.S., though on a smaller scale. We have at least 100,000 Syrians and their children who were granted the right to live in the U.S. because of a fear of persecution by the Assad regime. Do they now go back to Syria so that their places in the U.S. can be taken by Assad loyalists? We are informed that the U.S. does not have unlimited capacity for hosting refugees. If so, shouldn’t all of our refugees be those who are actually at risk in their home nations?
And why are refugees always non-white males from hostile religions? We’ve got a war between RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, but instead of getting thousands of refugees, they send all the Christian hot blonde girls to the front lines to maim and kill each other.
Why do you think European countries like the UK, France or Germany are falling over themselves to establish diplomatic relations with the new powers-that-be in Syria, even before any semblance of new government is in place?