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The case shook Finland. On December 17, 2017, just three weeks after he was rejected after his asylum application was rejected, the father of the family was shot dead on an open street in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Ali’s murder, as the media called it, received a lot of attention. The Court of Justice of the European Communities has convicted Finland of human rights violations. The country suspended all deportations to Iraq and the government promised a comprehensive review of asylum policy.
– It looks very bad. Sorry, something like this shouldn’t happen in a state governed by the rule of law, Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo told Hufvudstadsbladet.
To the Swede Yle showed the man His daughter, who remained in Finland but had a pending rejection decision on her, raised her death certificate and said she feared the same fate would befall her.
But the information about Ali’s death was falsified, says the prosecutor who on Friday accused the daughter and her ex-husband of flagrant fraud and flagrant falsification.
“The woman has partially admitted the suspicious facts in the preliminary investigation. The man has denied being guilty of a crime in the case,” the prosecutor writes in a press release.
Both the prosecutor and the Central Criminal Police, which investigated the case, are silent on the details. But according to the police, the Iraqi authorities have confirmed that the documents are forged at the same time as witness statements claim that Ali is alive.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that payment of the 20,000 euros in damages awarded by the Court of Justice of the European Union to the daughter will be suspended until the end of the trial.
The Finnish Refugee Council, which brings together Finnish Amnesty and Church Foreign Aid, among others, assisted with legal aid when the now-criminal daughter brought an action in the Court of Justice of the European Communities.
– If it turns out that the police suspicions are true, that is to say that we have received incorrect information from the complainant, then it is a great disappointment, says Operations Manager Pia Lindfors according to Svenska Yle.
