Migrant Tales wrote on Monday about an Iraqi family with two children aged 6 and 5 that were evicted from the Kemi asylum reception center and given five days room and board by the city. The family left Kemi and went to Tampere, where the city gave them room and board. The father was desperate…
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Iraqi asylum seeker family leave Kemi travel to Helsinki and end up in Tampere
Migrant Tales received a message from the Iraqi family in Kemi, which had only received 10 days of room an board after being forced to leave the asylum reception with his wife and two children aged 6 and 5. The family first went to Helsinki and then to Tampere. The message was sent Wednesday afternoon:…
Suapress News from Finland in Arabic: Two sound grenades hurled inside a mosque in Espoo
During Friday prayers during Ramadan, two Finns drove next to the Ikhals mosque in the Espoo neighborhood of Leppävaara and threw at 23.20 two sound grenades, according to Finnish-based online publication Suapress News from Finland in Arabic.
PART II: Migrant child custody in Finland aren’t always open-and-shut cases
The ongoing drama of the Muslim family continues: three of the girls, aged 9, 7 and 2, are in a foster home while another one, who is 14, is in another one. The mother, who is an Iraqi and who moved to the country in the early 2000s, is without her children but lives again with her husband.
A food distributor that hires asylum seekers, pays them under the table, to change the sell-by dates of their old products
An Espoo-Helsinki-based ethnic-food distributor, which allegedly hires asylum seekers and pays them near-starvation salaries under the table, uses such victims to repackage and change the sell-by dates of food products that should not be sold. Some of these products are allegedly five years old and their sell-by dates have changed twice, according to an asylum seeker, who spoke on condition of anonymity.