Migrant Tales insight: The Facebook post sent to me today about a foreigner who allegedly saved a person’s life at the Kamppi metro station. But how is this possible? Aren’t all migrants criminals and cannon fodder used by political parties to attract votes? Thank you Nadia Hellsten for the heads-up.
Tag: suicide
UPDATE: Three suicide attempts allegedly took place within a month at the Joutseno immigration removal center
The Joutseno immigration removal center must be a horrible place to end up in. Migrant Tales has heard that there have been at least three suicide attempts, two allegedly “successful” with one person hospitalized.
CORRECTION: A Moroccan asylum seeker who was sentenced to a year in prison attempts suicide
Migrant Tales understands that a Moroccan asylum seeker attempted to take his life at the Joutseno immigration removal center. The man was doing a one-year sentence of which he had served eight months.
UPDATE: How Migri and Finland play down the plight and suffering of asylum seekers
I heard on Wednesday that a young Afghan resident who came as an asylum seeker to Finland committed suicide this week. A fellow Afghan who knew him said: “What happened is very sad. He wasn’t very social and liked to be by himself.”
Iraqi asylum seeker Majid*: The Finnish Immigration Service made me lose all hope, that’s why I wanted to take my life
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon of June when Migrant Tales met Majid, an Iraqi asylum seeker who attempted to take his life after he had lost all hope and everything changed for the young man.