{"id":1410591,"date":"2022-03-30T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410591"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:45:53","slug":"african-migrant-gang-accused-of-robbing-ukrainian-refugees-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/african-migrant-gang-accused-of-robbing-ukrainian-refugees-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"African Migrant Gang Accused of Robbing Ukrainian Refugees in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafrican-migrant-gang-accused-of-robbing-ukrainian-refugees-in-spain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Spanish police have arrested one man and identified others who are believed to be part of a North African gang who preyed on Ukrainian refugees travelling along Spanish highways after escaping the Russian invasion of their country.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Civil Guard arrested a 47-year-old man \u2014 identified only by his initials RMJ \u2014 and identified another person as being behind at least eight thefts and three counts of damage to vehicles located in rest stops on Spanish highways. Both men are said to be part of a larger North African criminal gang.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The North African gang is said to target elderly travellers and foreigners in rest areas along the A-1, A-62 and AP7 highways and among their alleged victims was a family of Ukrainian refugees who were fleeing the conflict in their country, the newspaper<em> La Raz\u00f3n\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larazon.es\/espana\/20220327\/znz37huubjgjjkxkf3bris3opm.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shirin Tinnesand, refugee and migration coordinator at the NGO Wadi, said Ukrainian refugees \u201care at risk of being exposed to human trafficking, prostitution, organ donation. Only imagination sets the limits.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6irARlUcV\">https:\/\/t.co\/x6irARlUcV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1502237911017684992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The gang is said to have stolen the money and valuable items the Ukrainian refugees had managed to take with them to Spain after fleeing their country at a rest area on March 3rd along the AP-7 highway in\u00a0Castell\u00f3n after a group of five individuals offered to help them with a supposed flat tyre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>While one member of the group distracted the refugees, the other member of the gang stole\u00a0\u20ac7,000 (\u00a35,929\/$7,758) in cash, jewellery, plane tickets, the key to their apartment in Ukraine and other possessions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the gang purposely targetted foreigners who may be unfamiliar with the Spanish language and are less likely to pursue charges or attend criminal hearings.<\/p>\n<p>In Switzerland, Ukrainian refugee women have also complained of poor treatment from other migrants in an asylum centre in\u00a0Chevrilles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018We Are Afraid\u2019 \u2013 Ukrainian Refugee Women Fear for Safety in Multicultural Sweden<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tmgYDQPWgA\">https:\/\/t.co\/tmgYDQPWgA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1505895752605786113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t feel safe in this place. Impossible to leave your belongings in the room, thefts are commonplace. We have been here for a month, but we only got a translator yesterday. There is no school solution for children, left to their parents, who are themselves traumatized,\u201d a Ukrainian refugee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blick.ch\/fr\/news\/suisse\/des-ukrainiennes-logees-au-centre-dasile-de-giffers-fr-temoignent-nous-ne-nous-sentons-pas-en-securite-ici-id17357509.html\">told<\/a> Swiss newspaper <em>Blick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have sometimes been victims of racist violence by other refugees, in front of security agents who have remained like marble,\u201d the refugee added.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints echo similar concerns made by Ukrainian refugee women in Sweden, who claimed that men had attempted to break into their accommodation, including while one woman was sleeping with her two young children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e are afraid still,\u201d a Ukrainian refugee told Swedish media and added, \u201cIn Ukraine \u2014 I live in Ukraine \u2014 nobody knock to my door, never.\u00a0They say [to] me that Swedish is too safe country, but I didn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukrainian Teen Allegedly Raped by Nigerian and Iraqi Migrants in German Accommodation<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X6B5MnFTC7\">https:\/\/t.co\/X6B5MnFTC7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1504110237967659014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish police have arrested one man and identified others who are believed to be part of a North African gang who preyed on Ukrainian refugees travelling along Spanish highways after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}