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Failed asylum seeker stabs woman to death

A 30-year-old man has been charged with the fatal stabbing on Wednesday morning of a 38-year-old Eritrean woman in Kristiansand, southern Norway.

Failed asylum seeker stabs woman to death
Photo: Erik Schrøder/Scanpix

The victim was stabbed in the chest in an apartment in the city’s Grim district. She was taken to Sørlandet hospital where she died from the injuries sustained in the attack.

Police said they were unsure if the suspected attacker was Iraqi or Iranian since he operated with two separate identities.

Chief investigator Geir Hansen said the suspect had received permission to remain in the country while he appeals a deportation order issued last year by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration.

The Eritrean victim had received a permanent residency permit last year.

Police confirmed that the alleged attacker and his victim were both registered as living at the address where the stabbing took place.

“To the best of my knowledge there were no witnesses to the incident itself,” said investigator Hansen.

Police said they could not yet establish a motive for the attack.

A remand hearing has been scheduled for Thursday, newspaper Fædrelandsvennen reports.

Police could not say whether it was the attacker or somebody else who alerted them to the attack at 1.46am on Wednesday. The victim was pronounced dead at 2am.

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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

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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