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Swedish Journalist Faces Trial for Helping a Syrian Boy Enter Sweden

27-12-2016 < Red Ice Creations 71 142 words
 
Swedish Journalist Faces Trial for Helping a Syrian Boy Enter Sweden A Swedish TV journalist is to face trial for people smuggling after helping a Syrian boy migrate from Greece to Sweden, an offence punishable by imprisonment. In the spring of 2014, Fredrik Önnevall was filming a documentary about European nationalist parties’ response to the migration crisis when he met 15-year-old Abed in Greece. Along with two colleagues, Önnevall helped the boy enter Sweden. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said on Wednesday that Önnevall and his colleagues had “during the period of May-June 2014 intentionally helped a foreigner pass through Greece … [to] Sweden despite the fact that the person was missing a passport or any other permission required to enter these countries.” The journalist, a presenter for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT, who along with his two colleagues…
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