Police investigating the murder of a Swedish social worker stabbed to death at a child migrant centre have today admitted they have no idea who her alleged killer really is.
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Alexandrea Mezher, 22, was working alone with ten youths aged between 14 and 17 when she was attacked at the home for unaccompanied young migrants in Molndal, near Gothenburg.
Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said the suspect was a young man who was living at the centre and confirmed the he has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Lebanese Swedish employee Alexandra Pierre Mezher has been killed at the hands of a migrant in Sweden, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported on Monday.
While most stay out of trouble and just want to start a new life in Europe, the Swedish police authority warned that its resources have been spread thin by stepped-up border controls, the deportations of migrants whose asylum claims are rejected and efforts to maintain order at refugee shelters.
In 2014, reported 148 incidents of threats and violence among asylum seekers and the staff and the Agency’s accommodation and facilities, past year the figure had risen to 322.
“I believe quite a lot of people are very concerned that there could be similar cases when Sweden receives so many children and young people”, he said. The 22-year-old woman was working there when she was attacked, and later died from her injuries in the hospital.
“I wouldn’t say that we’ve taken in too many migrants, but it may have been too many people over too short a period of time for the handful of localities where migrants are being resettled in Sweden”, said Victor Harju, a senior spokesman at the Ministry for Home Affairs.
He added that police would release more information Tuesday, but because the youths are from different countries, they need various translators to interpret their statements.
Mr. Lofven also promised more resources for police, saying that security forces were taxed by the recent influx of immigrants.
Arson attacks against asylum shelters have surged, with at least two dozen centers destroyed or damaged by fire in 2015.
“Many of the problems we are now facing help to prove the point that Swedish police have always been underfunded and understaffed”, police union director Lena Nitz, told TT.
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The killing will increase the pressure on Swedish authorities to do more to counter problems that some Swedes have blamed on the increased number of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers who have entered the country at the rate of nearly 10,000 a week over the a year ago. “It has become clear that the situation is completely unsustainable”. She was a good person who wanted to good.
