Right-wing members of the European Parliament have condemned the fatal assault on Swedish police officer Christian Zedig by an African migrant and urged the European Union to implement remigration policies.
During a debate in the Parliament on Monday, July 6th, Italian MEP Susanne Ceccardi of Lega said the Copenhagen killing and the recent stabbing of a 55-year-old man in Milan demonstrated a pattern of violent crime that European leaders have failed to confront.
She argued that the EU should go beyond tackling illegal migration and adopt a policy of remigration, saying governments had prioritised avoiding offending migrants over protecting their own citizens.
Charlie Weimers of the Sweden Democrats said that repeated violent crimes involving foreigners could no longer be ignored and called for tougher deportation policies. He also berated the Social Democrats, Greens, and the Left for opposing the parliamentary debate.
Alexander Sell of Germany’s AfD party said Europe has become accustomed to violent crime and likewise advocated for remigration.
Today we are talking about Denmark and Italy, but we are not talking about Germany any more because we have got used to violence. All over Germany innocent people are victims of senseless violence, not just knives, guns as well. … Syrians and Afghans are ten times more likely to be involved in violent crime than Germans.
The debate took place in response to the tragic death of Christian Zedig, a 32-year-old off-duty Swedish police officer and father of two. He died after attempting to intervene in a fight during a public screening of the Norway-Ivory Coast World Cup match in Copenhagen June 30.
As Swedish conservative outlet Samnytt reports, the case is all the more outrageous given the fact that Danish police refused to disclose details of the suspect’s background, while some media outlets reported that he has Congolese heritage and a previous conviction for attempted murder.
It is always the same. The police and the authorities protect the perpetrators and conceal information that is in the public interest, so long as it might reinforce what they consider the “wrong narrative.” The “wrong narrative,” in plain Swedish, is simply “the truth.”
