Asylum death increases

Increases. It happened in the Ytrebygda reception outside Bergen, at a place accidentally called New Paradise: A Christian convert from Afghanistan must have killed a Somali asylum seeker with a knife on Tuesday 22. May.

The murdered Afghan still lived at the reception in Paradise, despite his recent conflict with the Somali environment there, following a lost trial last month. But the example is far from unique in disputed deaths in reception centers.

Facsimile: New Time May 25th.

Last year, a record number of 20 asylum seekers died at Norwegian reception, a doubling from the previous year. This despite the fact that the number of residents at Norwegian reception facilities decreased from 20.000 in 2009 to 15.700 in 2011. Although the number of residents at Norwegian asylum centers has declined over the past three years, the number of deaths has gone up.

Last year's figure was a fivefold increase in the number of deaths in 2007, when four people died at Norwegian reception. So far, 2012 is set to set a new record asylum death: With Tuesday's killing, 10 asylum seekers at Norwegian reception have lost their lives, and five months have not yet passed.

A total of at least 83 asylum seekers in reception centers have died in Norway from 2006 to the present, during the period that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Labor Party) has held government power. This shows new figures that Ny Tid has received from the Ministry of Justice, after first being denied requests by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI). The 83 deaths are minimum numbers, as these are registered deaths with central authorities.

Ny Tid is informed that the UDI does not register the cause of death, for "privacy reasons". But when Ny Tid uses a similar method as used by NGOs in Afghanistan, by going through media-covered deaths – it turns out that both suicide, accidents and murder are repeated. There are several examples of children living in unsafe conditions. In January, a three-year-old boy from Sudan lost his life at a reception in Ski. He got a big stove over him in the kitchen:

"The stove was not secured in any particular way. There were several stoves on the floor, ”the receptionist told VG. And he continued: "It has become clear to us in hindsight that the stove should have been secured. We will look at our safety routines after this. "

On 24 January this year, a young mother (24) and her 1,5-year-old son lost their lives at the asylum reception center in Førde, following an arson attack. According to the police, the mother must have put on the fire to take her own life. In March, an Iraqi woman at the same reception was found in the sea outside the reception. In April, Kyrgyz Mamatai Altin was found dead at the Dale reception. The newspapers said: "According to the residents of the reception, he committed suicide after a long depression. Altin is said to have lived seven years in Norway, and many years as a paperless person in the Netherlands ».

Grande responds

A number of those who take their own lives must have had their asylum application rejected in advance. Liberal Party leader Trine Skei Grande is surprised when she hears from Ny Tid that as many as 83 human lives have been lost at Norwegian asylum reception centers since 2006. She reacts to that increase in deaths both this year and last year:
– I think this increase is related to the signals we get that people live in poor conditions in Norwegian asylum reception centers, says Skei Grande to Ny Tid ………… ..

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