Sometimes cases come before the courts which encapsulate so much of what is wrong with our chaotic, dysfunctional, and frankly dangerous asylum system that they need to be highlighted. It is now clearly a case of total systems failure. One case reported yesterday, demonstrates this more than most. It involved a predatory rapist who gave the unlikely name of Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed and who claimed to have fled Somalia in Nobody actually knows where Mohamed is actually from, or if he is actually fleeing anything including the authorities of his country of origin, because like so many thousands of others landing in the country all the time, he has conveniently destroyed his passport.
He travelled to the Netherlands, where he got a false Swedish passport, which he destroyed while travelling to Ireland. So this predator waltzed around five EU countries, giving two fingers to the Dublin Regulations — which are meant to ensure that an asylum application will be processed by the first member country the asylum seeker comes to.
This is the definition of asylum shopping. Clearly, the regulations are regarded by asylum seekers — and in this they are likely egged on by NGOs — as some kind of a joke. Having made his way to the Netherlands, Mohamed then decided to travel to Ireland on a false passport in , which of course he destroyed before presenting himself at the Irish airport or port — again likely because he had been advised to do so by those who are making money from facilitating the free movement of migrants, or maybe by one of the many NGOs also filling their coffers by proclaiming the need for their services in supporting asylum applicants.
He should, of course, have been put straight back on the plane and sent back to where he came from. And if he had, a young woman who was attacked in a Dublin city bar would have been spared this horrifying ordeal.
The Central Criminal Court heard that the young woman had asked to use the toilets in a bar in Dublin city at closing time and was told where they were located. When she went into the toilet cubicle she found the door could not be locked, and she attempted to hold the door closed with her feet as she sat on the toilet. The woman continued to try to push him away and contemplated smashing the glass at him but feared she might be seen to be in the wrong if he was bleeding.
