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Photograph taken from the rescue boat “Inge Steensland” that assisted in the recovery of asylum seekers found adrift on a sailboat in the middle of Skagerrak on May 1.
Photo: RS Inge Steensland / NTB scanpix
The asylum seeker picked up in the Skagerrak has explained that he was going to Canada. Now they send it to Sweden, where it must have been illegally.
On Friday May 1, a man was picked up from a sailboat in Skagerrak. The man explained that he had been floating around the sea for two days and wanted to seek asylum in Norway.
In a ruling by the Oslo District Court, he says the man wanted to sail to Canada, writes Fædrelandsvennen. The man has a Russian-sounding name and is 50 years old. But he was in possession of a false or borrowed passport when it was picked up.
After being questioned at the police station in Arendal, the man was sent to the Trandum immigration detention center in Gardermoen.
The Police Immigration Unit (PU), which is responsible for registering and identifying asylum seekers, has concluded that their asylum case will not be processed in Norway and that it should be sent back to Sweden.
This is evident in an order from the Oslo District Court on May 7.
The court has allowed the police to keep the man locked up in Trandum for up to four weeks until he is sent out of the country.
At the hearing, the man said he did not want to return to Sweden. According to the order, the man has remained illegally in the country for many years.
