Cultural enrichment season has arrived in full force in the Mediterranean. A boat carrying 54 Somali migrants, including women and children, was rescued off the island of Lampedusa. The refugees have been shipped to a holding camp in Porto Empedocle.In other news Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has volunteered to mediate between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande, to help them iron out their policy differences on the Eurozone crisis.
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Århus, Denmark
Somalis in systematic tax fraud
It has been discovered that Somalis have been caught in a systematic fraud asking tax deduction. Some of the persons in question have given money to associations, and high amounts have been transferred out of Denmark.
The system being based on your putting the correct data into the fiscal system.
This fraud is some kind of Oslo taxi fraud light. At the Oslo taxi fraud larger amounts were withdrawn from the Norwegian tax system in an extended and well organized fraud, with non reported incomes from taxi driving, social security hand outs, etcetc.
Clan mentality
Jobmarket and integration reseacher Shahamak Rezaei at the Roskilde University says on the subject
"This may be a sign that the Somalis in Denmark to some extent are living in a parallel society solidarizing with their family in their home country and not in the new country in which they have arrived.
If it was my decision, I'd shoot them out of the water; certainly not rescue them and take them to where they intend to be. If we can't drown them, then at least take them back to africa.
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