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Do you remember the Hungarian television photographer? It was she who on September 8, 2015 stretched her foot and hooked legs for a father who fled war-torn Syria with his son in his arms. The man and boy were lost, the images spread around the world, and the Hungarian television photographer became a symbol of the crude and inhumane action during the refugee crisis in Europe. She was fired from the right-wing nationalist television station she worked for and brought to justice.
Are we not all becoming the Hungarian television photographer today?
Just a week before He deployed his hook on the border between Serbia and Hungary, the image of the three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi, killed on a beach in Turkey, had awakened a wave of compassion for Europe. In Sweden, various newspapers are taking collective action to support refugees and against hatred, threats and racism. Dagens Nyheter dedicates a Sunday newspaper to an appeal to humanity and humanity, Expressen launches the “I want to help” campaign in collaboration with the Red Cross and the Schibstedt media company makes a large investment with The Yellow Boats project, where reporters from Renowned as Robert Aschberg and Carina Bergfeldt travel to the Mediterranean to report and save lives with two ships of the Sea Rescue Society.
“Right now, Swedish newspapers are making a difference day after day and helping people during the worst refugee catastrophe since World War II,” writes Magnus Alselind, editor-in-chief of Expressen, in an emotional column on December 12. September.
Among the politicians, the leader of the Christian Democrats Ebba Busch Thor appears with a particularly clear position: ‘Of course we will help the refugees’
On the appeal of Expressen brings together several famous Swedes speaking in support of those on the run. Here are author and blogger Katerina Janouch (“I absolutely think we should help refugees”), hockey coach Leif Boork (“It is clear that every country in Europe must help when so many people are fleeing”) and businessman Bert Karlsson (“By reducing the cost of unaccompanied children, you can help four times more”). Among politicians, the leader of the Christian Democrats, Ebba Busch, appears with a particularly clear position: “Of course we will help the refugees. We have a moral responsibility to help other human beings in need. We are all human beings with the same absolute and inviolable value ”.
After that, everyone knows what happened. At the end of November, the government decides to close the borders of Sweden. The rules of the asylum harden like a fast-curing glue. And all those words that were used in the Expressen survey, they become impossible to use more than as swear words. Solidarity becomes synonymous with “ego altruism” and “drugs of goodness”, those who remember the inviolability of the asylum law are discarded as “advertising princesses” and “knights of the pk”. Swedish public opinion sways like a cornfield in the wind. “Everyone” who recently “wanted to help” now extends a hook.
Swedish public opinion sways like a cornfield in the wind. “Everyone” who recently “wanted to help” becomes Hungarian television photographers.
It’s impossible to get away from the suspicion that this dramatic fall for many just offered the perfect excuse to unleash a long-held instinct. For them, it was obviously never about no be able to receive more refugees, but if not be do it.
Today is the question stone death. While 80 million people are fleeing in the world, the political consensus that many immigrants have already been allowed to come to Sweden is staggering. Sweden’s generous actions during the refugee fall, when 160,000 people sought asylum in our country, is generally described as a pathetic political failure.
However, a really burning question from 2015 remains unanswered. In this week’s DN, journalist Saeed Alnahhal wrote a moving account of her family’s escape from certain death in war-torn Syria. He is one of those who obtained a permanent residence permit in our country in 2015 and today he is a Swedish citizen.
The question that is being asked at its peak is, then, the following: Was your life, and that of everyone else, a mistake?
That is the question that shines with its absence in a public debate where strong forces try to make the concept of immigrant synonymous with gang violence and torture-type robbery, despite the fact that it is hardly the Syrian refugees of 2015 who establish illegal barricades in the suburbs.
You can be proud that Sweden has maintained decency longer and thus made it easier for thousands of people.
The point is this: you can see the matter from a different angle. You can be proud that Sweden has maintained decency longer and thus made it easier for thousands of people to get to safety and create new lives. It is worth noting that the millions of people fleeing the world today will multiply in the future as a result of climate change and conflict. The era of migration has only just begun. We will have to learn to live together in conditions much harsher than this. And we still have no idea how to do it.
The man I fight To the ground of the hook the Hungarian television photographer’s name was Osama Abdul Mohsen and he was a professional soccer coach from the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour. He and his son ended up in Spain where he was granted asylum and tried in vain to reunite with the rest of his family.
The Hungarian television photographer’s name was Petra Laszlo. She was acquitted in 2018 by the highest court in Hungary. The crime with which she was charged should, according to the court, be attributed to the fleeing migrants.
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