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Woman collapses after self-immolation threat

A woman threatened to set herself on fire outside the County Court in central Gothenburg on Friday after she had her asylum application rejected.

Published: 21 November 2008 18:02 CET

Judge Ingvar Paulsson watched from the window as the woman stood outside the court with a container filled with liquid.

“She had been here to collect the verdict in her asylum case. She had been turned down,” Paulsson told news agency TT.

The dramatic situation came to a sudden end when the woman collapsed and police were able to intervene to ensure she was taken to hospital.

Police had been unable to communicate with the woman and were awaiting an interpreter when she collapsed. No details have been released regarding the woman’s nationality.

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France ‘will not welcome migrants’ from Lampedusa: interior minister

France "will not welcome migrants" from the island, Gérald Darmanin has insisted

Published: 20 September 2023 09:06 CEST
France 'will not welcome migrants' from Lampedusa: interior minister

France will not welcome any migrants coming from Italy’s Lampedusa, interior minister Gérald Darmanin has said after the Mediterranean island saw record numbers of arrivals.

Some 8,500 people arrived on Lampedusa on 199 boats between Monday and Wednesday last week, according to the UN’s International Organisation for
Migration, prompting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to travel there Sunday to announce an emergency action plan.

According to Darmanin, Paris told Italy it was “ready to help them return people to countries with which we have good diplomatic relations”, giving the
example of Ivory Coast and Senegal.

But France “will not welcome migrants” from the island, he said, speaking on French television on Tuesday evening.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called on Italy’s EU partners to share more of the responsibility.

The recent arrivals on Lampedusa equal more than the whole population of the tiny Italian island.

The mass movement has stoked the immigration debate in France, where political parties in the country’s hung parliament are wrangling over a draft law governing new arrivals.

France is expected to face a call from Pope Francis for greater tolerance towards migrants later this week during a high-profile visit to Mediterranean city Marseille, where the pontiff will meet President Emmanuel Macron and celebrate mass before tens of thousands in a stadium.

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