Syrian "Migrant" Pushes Age 91 Swedish Widow Down Stairs, Then Mugs Her

An asylum seeker who pushed a 91-year-old widow down a flight of stairs was on parole for rape at the time and had avoided deportation by Swedish authorities due to 'lenient' rules, local media reports.

Karam Kanjo, 26, was caught on train station CCTV assaulting his elderly victim before ripping her gold necklaces from her neck as she made her way to her husband's grave on August 29.

The Syrian national has now been found guilty of aggravated robbery and will be deported after Sweden toughened up its rules on removing immigrants convicted of crimes.

Court documents seen by MailOnline show Kanjo has been booked 19 times by police and had a string of convictions since he arrived in Sweden in 2015, including for theft and rape, which he was found guilty of in May 2022. 

He was given a prison sentence of two years and six months for the sex attack, but prosecutors did not request deportation at the time, according to Swedish media, likely because he had been living in Sweden for six years.

Karam Kanjo, 26, was caught on train station CCTV assaulting his elderly victim on August 29. He had previously been convicted of rape and theft

The attack took place in Sollentuna station, around eight miles northwest of Stockholm, with CCTV footage (pictured) capturing the shocking incident

The pair were seen halfway up a set of stairs in the train station, before the man (top right) grabbed the elderly women (top left)

They tumbled down the stairs together as he tried to pull her necklaces from her neck. A commuter was seen running past as the man dragged the elderly women to the floor

The man and the elderly woman in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. He took her necklaces from her after pulling her to the ground 

After serving just half of his sentence, Kanjo was let out on parole in October last year. His attack on the elderly widow was carried out while he was still on parole. 

Horrifying video of Kanjo's attack has shocked Sweden and reignited the country's debate on migration and the efficacy of the criminal justice system.

It has raised questions as to why he was not deported following his rape conviction, with Expressen reporting that the prosecutor 'does not remember why she did not demand deportation but "guess[es]" that she had "a good reason"'.

The decision came after a 2019 Supreme Court ruling in a similar case that 'extraordinary reasons' would be required to deport a person who had lived longer than four years in Sweden.

Kanjo seemingly benefitted from this precedent in May 2019 - just months before the then-Justice Minister tightened the rules, according to Expressen.

Last Monday, Kanjo was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, and was ordered to be deported back to Syria after he was convicted of aggravated robbery, as well as a violation of Sweden's knife laws and a drug offence. 

The court assessed that Kanjo - who has lived in Sweden for nearly a decade after entering during Europe's migrant crisis in 2015 -  has a 'very weak' connection to the country.

His violent crime was caught on camera at Sollentuna station, eight miles northwest of Stockholm, in August, a clip which has served as a key piece of evidence in his conviction. 

Karam Kanjo (pictured) has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for the attack 

In it, he is seen grabbing his elderly victim as she walked up the stairs at the station.

The 91-year-old is seen struggling before the pair tumble down the stairs as he grips her necklaces, causing the woman a number of injuries. 

A witness to the attack is seen running for safety, leaving the elderly woman behind.

After the pair roll to the bottom of the stairs, Kanjo stands up and yanks her chains from her, before calmly walking away and leaving the elderly woman lying on the ground as two female commuters run down the stairs to assist her. 

According to court documents obtained by MailOnline, the necklaces were gifts she received more than 40 years ago. 

When the victim was questioned by police she said she was petrified by the episode and had never experienced violence like it in her life

As well as being deported, Kanjo has been ordered to pay his victim 93,100 Swedish Krona (£6,700) in damages. 

A judge said Kanjo's crime was 'life-threatening', given the age of his victim. The judge said the elderly woman 'suffered swelling over her left hip and left arm, bruises on the legs, bruises on the left arm and heavy skin scraped around the neck from the necklaces.'

'The swelling set in, and [caused] pain for several weeks.' 

The victim was brought to the floor and had her necklaces yanked from her neck 

'Even a fall to the ground could have caused fractures that were serious. Now the fall happened carelessly down a flight of stairs.

'It appears to be a lucky coincidence that [the victim] did not suffer very serious injuries in the fall. Although no legal certificate or the like has been presented in the matter, the court considers that, with regard to [the victim's] age, it is clear that the violence Karam Kanjo used against her was life-threatening.'

He will also be prohibited from returning to Sweden after he is deported, according to the court documents. 

Despite him fighting to overturn the deportation order, Swedish authorities told Attunda district court that his 'connection to Sweden is... very weak.' 

'According to the Norwegian Correctional Service's investigation, he lives in destructive social conditions without his own accommodation and is unemployed,' the court was told. 

He reportedly told the court that if he were to be sent home, he would be 'subjected to torture or inhumane treatment.'

Sweden has this year had a 'net outflow of immigrants for the first time in decades', according to Annika Sandlund, the UNHCR representative to the Nordic and Baltic countries. 

The country's government, lead by the Moderate party and supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats, has increasingly restricted laws regarding asylum seekers. 

Kanjo was caught on CCTV attacking the elderly widow, who was on her way to visit her husband's grave

For after years of horrific gangland violence blamed largely on Sweden's soaring migrant population, the centre-Right government has slammed the border shut, announcing a raft of harsh measures aimed at reducing the numbers of foreign-born residents, which currently stands at more than 20 per cent of the 10.6 million total.

Among the policy proposals is an offer of just under £26,000 for legal immigrants willing to return voluntarily to their country of origin; the tightening of family reunification and asylum regulations; and more than doubling the income threshold for those seeking work visas – up from £970 a month to £2,200.

Another such law being pursued by the government is a so-called 'snitch law' that would require public sector workers to report illegal immigrants. 

 As well as toughening up entry restrictions, the government is also hoping to encourage thousands of migrants who have settled here legally to leave voluntarily. 

New migration minister Johan Forssell recently boasted: 'We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in our migration policy.'   

Right-wing politician, Nima Gholam Ali Pour - an Iranian refugee himself - told the Mail 'Sweden has had very difficult problems with immigration in recent years'.

'We have areas that are 90 per cent immigrants who don't accept Swedish values and where ethnic Swedes have had to move out. 

'Most people don't want Sweden to become like the Middle East. And why should we receive more migrants when we can't integrate those who are already here?' 

Over the past decade in particular, Sweden's plans of creating a harmonious, pluralist society has not come to fruition.

The country that once boasted one of the lowest crime rates in Europe is now the gun-crime capital of the continent, fuelled by violent gangs disproportionately made up of first-generation migrants who control the nation's illicit drug and prostitution trades.  

According to a 2023 police report, there are believed to be 14,000 active gang members in Sweden along with a further 48,000 people with 'gang affiliation', many as young as just nine or ten.

Over the first six months of this year alone, Sweden suffered a shocking 148 shootings, resulting in 20 deaths. Last year, 55 people were shot dead across 363 incidents. 

In 2022, there were a record 62 fatal shootings while 73 people aged between just 15-20 were arrested for suspected or attempted murder with a firearm.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14071727/Asylum-seeker-parole-rape-avoided-deportation-convictions-pushing-Swedish-widow-stairs-robbing.html

Armistice Day, November 11, 1918

The original Armistice Day: Pictures show how Londoners took to the streets to celebrate when the First World War ended in 1918 - after the deaths of 900,000 British troops

They packed the streets around every London landmark, and filled lorries and buses with their Union Jacks aloft.

Londoners celebrating the end of the First World War in November 1918 had been through more than four years of hardship, loss and grief. 

The good news had filtered around Europe within hours of the Armistice between the Allied victors and the defeated Germany being agreed shortly after 5am on November 11. 

Pictures show the stunning celebrations in the capital, as hundreds of thousands of Britons marked the joyous moment. 

The Daily Mail reported at the time: 'On Armistice Day the middle-aged and the old walked silently, wrapped in silent joy, incommunicable reveries, in a transfiguration of thankfulness and relief.

Nurses, soldiers and other Londoners celebrating in Whitehall after hearing that the Armistice had been signed, November 11, 1918

A group of soldiers, including a Scot, an Australian and a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps running down the Strand on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918

'The soldiers and the munition girls made the carnival while London watched them.

'From a thousand factories the girls poured out; on thousands of lorries they swept to the Strand.

'They made caps for their heads with Union Jacks; they used flag pins for hat pins; they ribboned themselves with bunting. They piled their lorries with pyramids of living beings.'

King George V and his wife Queen Mary moved through the jubilant crowds with only two mounted policemen as escorts.

The King told the nation from the balcony of Buckingham Palace: 'With you I rejoice and thank God for the victory which the Allied Armies have won and brought hostilities to an end and peace within sight.'

An Army lorry carrying celebrating soldiers through a London street on November 11, 1918

Jubilant crowds seen celebrating in London after the signing of the Armistice in November 1918 

Servicemen and civilians celebrate together outside Buckingham Palace, London after the announcement of the Armistice

King George V and Queen Mary (left) in a carriage in front of St Paul's Cathedral, London, after attending the Armistice Day service

The crowd gathered outside the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England in London after the announcement of the Armistice

The massed crowd in Trafalgar Square after the signing of the Armistice

A group of delighted women seen with soldiers in an American car on the day the Armistice was signed

Crowds and buses in London when the armistice was signed

The first crowds gather at Buckingham Palace on November 11, 1918, after the signing of the Armistice

From Downing Street, prime minister David Lloyd George told crowds massed outside: 'You are well entitled to rejoice. The people of this Empire with their Allies have won a great victory. It is the sons and daughters of the people who have done it.

'It is a victory greater than has ever been known in history. Let us thank God.'

The Daily Mail's coverage added: 'Everywhere the lights went up. Unscreened arc-lights flared. 

'Theatres and hotels shone again as they shone before the war, casting a glittering radiance on the wet streets and shining faces below.

'Every girl carried a flag. Many wore the Union Jack like a turban bound across the forehead and falling upon the shoulders.

'They stood on the tops of cabs, screaming their way through the throng. 

'They clung to the arms of soldiers, frantically pleased at the lighting of the shadow of war from their young hearts.'

The signing of the armistice came after the deaths of more than 8million soldiers, nearly 900,000 of whom were British. 

The toll was so great that the 1921 Census recorded 109 women for every hundred men. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14067673/Armistice-Day-World-War-London.html

Trillions to "help" poor countries fight "Climate Change", Make UK a Clean Energy Superpower

British Taxpayers asked to pay into UN Sponsored £1 TRILLION fund for poor countries fighting climate change

The UK could be asked to pay into a staggering £1 trillion fund for poor countries fighting climate change at this year's COP29 summit.

Richer and more well-off countries around the globe are set to face mounting pressure to donate money to help poorer nations invest in renewable energy sources during the two-week summit which begins on Monday in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Leaders in developing nations across the planet are pushing for a mega fund of up to £1 trillion which would be funded from the pockets of wealthier countries and injections of investment from the private sector.

Evans Njewa, the chairman of the Less Developed Countries group at the United Nations negotiations, said: 'A failure to conclude COP29 without a bold new finance goal would be a tragic disservice to both the planet and vulnerable populations.' 

The UK has admitted that more money is required to help poorer countries in the fight against climate change, but has so far refused to spend more than its £11.6billion budget in foreign development aid, which ceases next year.

Evans Njewa, the chairman of the Less Developed Countries group at the United Nations negotiations, said: 'A failure to conclude COP29 without a bold new finance goal would be a tragic disservice to both the planet and vulnerable populations'

The UK will face calls to pay into a £1 trillion pot to help poor countries tackle climate change at the COP29 summit which will begin Monday in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan

As well as the question of who should be expected to cover the funding needed, the re-election of Donald Trump as US president has also cast doubts over the role America will play in tackling the climate crisis.

It comes as Trump promised to pull out of the Paris Agreement - leaving the US as one of the only countries not to be a party to the 2015 pact, in which nearly 200 governments have made pledges to reduce their pollution.

The Biden administration will be negotiating during the two-week summit, but many countries may be cautious about making commitments that may quickly be undone by Trump.

Governments are now scrambling to save crucial alliances that were headed by the outgoing US president, Joe Biden, who made climate change one of his top priorities during his term.

Though a team from the Biden White House will still attend the COP29 meetings, the highly-likely possibility that Trump will withdraw US support means other countries will have to set back their expectations due to the potential absence of the world's biggest economy. 

The UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, also shared his warnings that the UK must ramp up its efforts on renewable energy to foster national security.

He pledged that the UK would lead efforts at Cop29 to secure the global agreement needed to stave off the worst impacts of climate breakdown.

'The only way to keep the British people secure today is by making Britain a clean-energy superpower, and the only way we protect future generations is by working with other countries to deliver climate action,' Miliband told the Observer. 

The Biden administration Grifters will be negotiating during the two-week summit, but many countries may be cautious about making commitments that may quickly be undone by Trump

The climate change committee, the Government's advisers on net zero, recently recommended an 81 per cent drop on 1990 levels of emission within a decade 

Starmer is expected to relay his Government's commitments to net zero, including bringing forward the date to achieve 100 per cent green power by 2030

Trump promised to pull out of the Paris Agreement - leaving the US as one of the only countries smart enough not to be a party to the 2015 pact, in which nearly 200 governments have made pledges to reduce their pollution

'This government is committed to accelerating climate action precisely because it is by doing this that we protect our country, with energy security, lower bills, and good jobs.'

UK PM Keir Starmer, who will spend nearly two days at the summit, is one of the few remaining leaders of the world's biggest industrialised economies who will attend.

He is expected to announce strict new targets for the UK to cut greenhouse gases by 2035, and a commitment to fulfil a pledge of £11.6bn in climate finance to poor countries, made under the Conservatives.

The climate change committee, the Government's advisers on net zero, recently recommended an 81 per cent drop on 1990 levels of emission within a decade.

Starmer is expected to relay his Government's commitments to net zero, including bringing forward the date to achieve 100 per cent green power by 2030. 

A spokesman from the Foreign Office said: 'Tackling climate change is in the UK's national interest. By acting decisively and early, the UK has an opportunity to lead the world in the clean industries of the future.

'We're honouring the last government's commitment to £11.6 billion of climate finance from 2021/22 to 2025/26.'

The United States, among others, has called on China to contribute to the new global fund, but Beijing says widening the 'donor base' would violate the Paris agreement principle that only richer countries should be obligated to provide finance [China being the richest, but the ChiComs need to save their money to pay for an invasion of Taiwan. China is exempt from paying due to being classified as a "developing" nation.].

'Developed countries should earnestly meet their responsibilities to provide strong financial support for developing countries to cope with climate change,' Mao Ning, the spokeswoman and deputy director of information at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

China is also urging countries at COP29 to refrain from protectionist measures that make it more expensive to cut emissions, it said in a climate action plan this week. [Protectionist measures that cut China's income from cheating on trade agreements].

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14066797/Britain-asked-pay-1TRILLION-fund-poor-countries-fighting-climate-change.html

An oil well in Azerbaijani capital Baku.

The Prime Minister, who is in Paris this morning, will head to Azerbaijan later today for Cop 29, with the main focus being on agreeing a ten-fold increase in financial aid.