It is one of those migrant stories worth going over in detail.
About a week ago....up in a Finland town (Turku)....an attack took place where a migrant (Moroccan) killed two women and wounded eight others.
Turku is not a city that comes up often, often its got roughly 180,000 residents. It's about an hour's drive west of Helsinki. Back in the 1300s, it was a junction of activity, and a major castle went up as part of the local establishment. The castle is still around today and draws some tourists.
The attacker? Well...about eighteen months ago, this young guy (he would be eighteen now, but probably was sixteen when he arrived in the country)....had arrived in the country and applied for the residency visa.
He came into court yesterday (Tuesday) and admitted that he'd done all of the assault and murder, but said that none of this had anything to do with terrorism or jihad. Without a lot of words.....he's more or less saying that stress triggered this situation.
So you go back and look at the asylum application. He failed. The authorities don't say why....just that after he failed the application process....the asked for an appeal, and that was underway. No one suggests that the appeal would have gone any better.
My guess is that he realized that this 'golden-ticket' scheme (getting to Finland and thinking they'd let him stay)....was crashing and he couldn't handle the plan-B....which was to go back to Morocco.
All of this brings me to this observation that all of these government authorities (not just Finland).....are suggesting that if you just arrive.....you will be granted asylum or immigration. If you notice in every single country of Europe, the minute you get settled in and relaxed.....they pull out the thirty-odd page application document and start asking questions.
They ask for your passport or ID. They ask about your past. They ask about criminal convictions. They ask about education. They ask about your father and mother. They ask about your job history. All of this is leading to the day where some guy will make a decision that you have something to offer, or nothing to offer.
It's a behavioral thing.....while on one hand, everyone wants to make the open door seem very wide....when in fact, it opens and closes on a routine basis. So far, no one says that the appeal process shows much of any chance of changing the outcome.
The court in Finland? They will ask for a mental exam of the guy and if proven mentally unstable....it'll just add to the fact that he should never have been allowed in the country. A conviction? With the two murders, he's probably set for the bulk of his life (at least 25 years) to rest in some Finn prison. Maybe they will make some deal to remove him to Morocco and let him rest there in a prison.
The last thing about this whole story which I am curious about. He arrives in Finland and claims to be sixteen years old. Was he actually sixteen? A number of cases in Sweden have been identified where guys arrived and they were claiming to be under eighteen.....when they weren't. It would be curious if the application failure was due to an age problem.
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