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[Updated] 21 year old charged with murder of 17 year old assylum seeker

A 21 year old man is to be brought before a special sitting of Limerick District Court in relation to the fatal stabbing of a 17 year old resident of the Sarsfield Bridge Assylum Hostel in the City Centre yesterday.

The teenager died in hospital after he was injured during an altercation at the former Sarsfield Bridge Hotel at approximately 1415 hrs yesterday.

More information as we get it…

Source RTE Online.

UPDATE: A 21 year old Moroccan national has been charged with murder after yesterday’s fatal stabbing at Sarsfield Bridge.

Farah Redouane, whose address was listed as the Sarsfield Inn Hotel, was charged with the murder of 17 year old Somali national, Ali Ibraham Lal.

The court was told that Redoane was an assylum applicant and was granted free legal aid.  He was remanded in custody to appear before the district court again on January 30, 2009.

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  • green
    really people, lets get real here for a second.... asylum seekers and refugees are only approx 7800 in Ireland.... Kenya (an african country ) has approx 3.2million refugees... gimme a break! behave like people and not promote racism. if an asylum seekers/ refugee has managed to leave thier home country and get to ireland its part of irelands international obligation.... p.s there are well over 20million refugees in the world and counting... ireland is part of this world and its the right thing to do.
  • john
    Apple. Give Hazel a break! Under the 1990 Dublin Convention, if Ireland is not the first European country an asylum-seeker enters, they can be deported back to their original arrival point to be processed. The fact is most refugee's destroy their documentation and altough we do not have direct flights or shipping to these countries they still remain in Ireland. If the Irish government had any interest they would process the "genuine" refugees and allow them and their families to get on with a normal life by allowing them to work and integrate into Irish society! Call me a racist if you wish...I'm a realist, and used to the taunts of the "bleeding hearts" mentality who have more interest in outsiders than their own people who have insufficent medical care, poor housing etc!!
  • Squid
    @william

    Your point might be valid if it were based on fact. for starters refugees are prohibited from working, so their presence would do little to nothing for the labour market.

    Secondly, the number of refugees we take in is aprtially based on our international obligations. If they were all to stay in one country then we would have a repeat of what we saw in the likes of Goma in the 1990s.
  • apple
    Touched a raw nerve have we, Hazel?
  • Monica
    @squid

    It wasn't a criticism of the site.
  • William Bell
    This is really sickening. The guy is staying in the lap of luxury when many Irish families are struggling. I stayed in the Sarsfield Bridge hotel before it was a refugee hostel. It cost me over 100 euro's per night. It must be costing the government a small fortune to lease the whole place from whoever owns it. Fianna Fail opened the floodgates to this with their open door policy to refugees. They wanted to boost the flagging Irish population / birthrate during the boom years, they were worried about the economy running out of workers so they left every tom, dick & harry in. I've no bones to pick with economic refugees, I was one of them myself in the 80's when I went to London to earn money as all there was in Ireland was dole queues (and that's all there will be again soon). The bottom line is if Ireland continues to be seen as a cushy number there will be people looking to take advantage of that. Free legal aid, free medical aid, free everything. Who pays? Joe Soap tax-payer that's who.
  • hazel
    THANKYOU SO MUCH JOHN its about time people like you and i expresed our views without being called racist ect good on you man
  • john
    Free hotel. Free food. Free legal aid.....shure why not give them the keys of the bank and tell them to clear us out altogether. I am so fed up of bleeding hearts in this country. We should look after our own first....then concentrate on refugees. Old age pensioners on trolleys in Regional hospital....where are the bleeding hearts? Irish people homeles.....where are the bleeding hearts? Give me a break....................!!!!!
  • hazel
    and by the way granny smith as in APPLE
    how do you know where i live
    do you think everybody tells the truth on blogger
    it would be a silly mistake to give your real name or your place of residence
  • hazel
    at this stage im basicily going to say no more about the whole situation as im fighting a losing battle
    we agree to differ
  • hazel
    apple i have paid my taxes too much at times and i still do in ireland
  • Squid
    @monica

    I think exposing people to racism and allowing them to pick holes in it is far more productive than sweeping it under the carpet and pretending it doesn't exist.
  • Monica
    A person can be granted asylum in circumstances other than when they feel they have to flee political unrest, religious persecution etc. There are some warped, racist views posted on this site.
  • apple
    Hazel, you truly are a dope. You're a great woman talking about Ireland, and you don't even live or indeed pay tax in the bloody place.
  • Squid
    @hazel

    he wasn't deported because he is entitled to a trial.
  • hazel
    yes i have
    isint it a great little country
    free legal aid
    why wasent he deported back immeditaly ryan air might have took him
  • Gerris
    Never heard of the Polisario or Western Sahara?
  • hazel
    didint think there were any problems in morocco as regards war or hunger or political un rest
    sur isint morocco a one the favourite holiday destinations of a lot of irish
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