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The Stoltenberg government decided in 2013 that beggars caught snooping should be deported. Now SV and Kirkens Bymisjon are demanding that the instruction be removed.
SV leader Petter Eide calls the practice inhumane.
– This annoys me so much that I have trouble being a professional Storting politician, Eide tells Dagsavisen.
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Dagsavisen has had access to two cases from 2019 in which the Utlendingsnemnda (UNE) appeals body has confirmed the deportation and expulsion decisions made by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI). In one case, a Romanian beggar was expelled from Norway for two years for stealing a package of sausages. In another case, a beggar was expelled from Norway for stealing chocolate.
– It is not a proportionate reaction in relation to the so-called crime, says Eide, who is part of the Storting’s justice committee.
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Marit Nybø at Kirkens Bymisjon, says they believe the practice is discriminatory and that the organization is prepared to take legal action to stop the practice. In the first instance, the organization is considering raising the matter before the Civil Ombudsman or the Discrimination Court.
Secretary of State Hilde Barstad (H) of the Ministry of Justice defends the practice.
– I think it fits well with the legal opinion of the majority of the people that deportation of foreigners who are punished and who are believed to commit new criminal acts is considered, he writes in an email to Dagsavisen.
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