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U.S. NEWSTuesday 5 January 2016
Sweden, Denmark: UK’s Cameron
labels IS video
Border checks introduced to stem flow of migrants as propaganda
NICOLAS GARRIGA said. to seek asylum.” the Danish capital, Copen- GREGORY KATZ
KARL RITTER The moves were the latest To comply with the new hagen, and cities in south- Associated Press
Associated Press by European Union coun- rules, passengers on Mon- ern Sweden. LONDON (AP) — British
COPENHAGEN, Denmark tries to suspend an agree- day had to show passports “Whether you are in Den- Prime Minister David Cam-
(AP) — Denmark and ment to keep internal bor- or European national ID mark or Sweden, it doesn’t eron on Monday dismissed
Sweden tightened border ders open after 1 million mi- cards to board trains de- matter to the people here,” a new video in which five
checks on Monday to stem grants entered the 28-na- parting from Copenhagen said Richard Johansson, a purported British spies are
the flow of migrants com- tion bloc in 2015, most of Airport to Sweden across a 29-year-old Swede. “The shot dead by masked Is-
people in our capital in lamic State extremists as
Security staff check IDs at Kastrups train station outside Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Jan. 4, Stockholm, they don’t real- propaganda from a group
2016. Sweden requires train companies with service across a bridge-and-tunnel link from Den- ize that.” that is losing control of terri-
mark to refuse passengers without IDs. Danish officials have sug- tory in Syria and Iraq.
gested Sweden should pay “It’s desperate stuff from
(Bjorn Lindgren / TT News Agency via AP) for the cost of the ID checks, an organization that really
carried out by train opera- does do the most utterly
ing in from Germany, deal- them by crossing the Medi- bridge-and-tunnel link. The tors on the Danish side at despicable and ghastly
ing fresh blows to the vision terranean to Greece or move was meant to deter an estimated daily cost of acts and people can see
of a Europe without nation- Italy. migrants, many of whom 1 million kroner ($145,000). that again today,” he said.
al boundaries. Loekke Rasmussen said if don’t carry travel docu- “Some of the cost is due to “But this is an organization
As of midnight Sunday, the EU can’t protect its ex- ments. the ID control. Other costs that’s losing territory, it’s
Sweden demanded that ternal border “you will see The new rules appeared to are due to the loss of in- losing ground, it’s, I think,
all passengers traveling by more and more countries have an immediate effect. come, because we have increasingly losing any-
train from Denmark show forced to introduce tempo- Swedish police spokes- a decreasing amount of body’s sympathy.”
ID, something that hasn’t rary border controls.” woman Ewa-Gun West- passengers because of The 10-minute video con-
been required since the Refugee rights advocates ford said that by midday this,” said Tony Bispeskov, a cludes with footage of a
1950s. warned of a domino ef- Monday only one asylum- spokesman for Danish train young boy of about 4 or 5
Within hours, the Danish fect, with European coun- seeker had arrived by train operator DSB. wearing camouflage gear
government announced it tries tightening their borders across the bridge. At the Denmark beefed up its who makes a pointing ges-
was stepping up controls one by one and cutting off height of the migrant crisis border controls with Ger- ture and says, “Go kill the
of its border with Germany, the main migrant routes a few months ago, more many as of noon Monday kuffar (non-believer) over
to make sure that migrants through Europe. than 1,000 asylum-seekers (1100 GMT, 6 a.m. EST). there.”
headed for Sweden don’t When the new Swedish crossed the bridge daily. The Danish prime minister The extremists have fre-
get stuck in Denmark. rules were announced last Some commuters said the said the move was neces- quently used young chil-
“The government doesn’t month, the U.N. High Com- ID checks were a hassle sary because the Swed- dren in propaganda vid-
want Denmark to become missioner for Refugees said that would make their life ish ID checks “could lead eos, said Olivier Guitta,
a new big destination for they “could have the ef- more difficult and hinder to more refugees and mi- director of the consulting
refugees,” Prime Minister fect of preventing individu- efforts to deepen business grants being stopped on group GlobalStrat.
Lars Loekke Rasmussen als from exercising the right and cultural ties between their journey northward, “They are featured in vari-
and therefore ending up ous videos and interestingly
with us in Denmark.” are mostly sons of Western
He said the Danish mea- jihadists,” he said. “It shows
sures wouldn’t be as far- that the new generation is
reaching as the Swedish already part of the fight to
ones, entailing only “spot reclaim the Caliphate.”
checks” on passengers on British security officials are
trains crossing the mainland studying the video for
border on the Jutland pen- clues about the identity of
insula and on ferries arriving a masked man who speaks
in the Danish ports of Ged- with a British accent on the
ser and Roedby. He said video before shooting a
there would be no problem captive in the head. The
for “ordinary” Danes and man, occasionally point-
Germans to cross the bor- ing a gun at the camera
der. for emphasis, vows the
“We are not talking about extremists will soon invade
controlling everyone com- Britain and establish Sha-
ing in from Germany,” he riah law.
said.
