An Albanian wanted for murder in his home country has won the right to remain in the U.K. under the European Convention on Human Rights, renewing calls for the U.K. to quit the treaty. The Telegraph has the story.
Fatmir Bleta, 64, left Albania two months after allegedly shooting a man in the head with a Kalashnikov rifle, for which he was convicted and sentenced in his absence to 13 years in prison [so why “allegedly”?]
He came to Britain with his family and sought asylum by falsely claiming to be Kosovan, a deception for which he was jailed for 33 months and two weeks in 2018.
Bleta, who has four children, successfully fought off an extradition attempt by Albania to serve the sentence by claiming he would not be entitled to a re-trial and was not told of the proceedings in advance.
In a new judgment – revealed in documents seen by the Telegraph – Bleta has succeeded in resisting an attempt by the Home Office to deport him on the grounds that it would breach his Article 6 rights to a fair trial under the ECHR.
He also appealed under Article 8 of the convention that deportation would breach his right to a family life as it would be “unduly harsh” on his loved ones.
The case comes after the Telegraph disclosed earlier this week that an Albanian criminal who sneaked back into Britain after being deported won the right to stay because deporting him would be “unduly harsh” on his family and breach the ECHR’s article 8.
It sparked fresh calls for the U.K. to quit or seek reform of the ECHR. Robert Jenrick, the former Immigration Minister and Tory leadership contender, said: “Yet again the ECHR has been used by activist judges to prioritise the rights of a criminal over the safety of the British public.
“It’s a disgrace. We will only be able to get the thousands of dangerous foreign criminals out of our country if we leave. Reform is a fantasy. It’s leave or remain – I’m firmly from leave.”
Kemi Badenoch, the Shadow Housing Secretary and Tory leadership rival, said the Government should be prepared to quit the ECHR if necessary but warned that such a move alone will not solve the migrant crisis.
The Telegraph has also established that two of Bleta’s children have been convicted and jailed for drug offences. Son Dorian, 37, is serving an 18-year prison sentence for trafficking cocaine while daughter Sara, 28, a former actress, was jailed for four years for supplying class A and B drugs.
Worth reading in full.
Why, after 14 years of Conservative Government failing to make headway on this, does Kemi still think we need to establish whether leaving the ECHR is necessary? How long does the party need to work this one out?
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As we’re not allowed to use ‘profanity’ and ‘abuse’ it’s difficult to comment on this article.
This decision is a firkin disgrace and an insult to the indigenous people of these islands, and those responsible for making the decision are complete Next Tuesdays.
Will that suffice?
“Why, after 14 years of Conservative Government failing to make headway on this, does Kemi still think we need to establish whether leaving the ECHR is necessary? How long does the party need to work this one out?”
I’m not sure this comment is entirely fair. I think she is absolutely correct in what she says. The “crisis” is an invasion. The barriers to repelling that invasion are principally three (nothing to do with the ECHR which is just an excuse):
1) Public opinion. Any action taken that makes a significant difference will need to be forceful, and there will be much hand-wringing from the tens of millions of bleeding heart liberals in the UK.
2) Practical – resources are not unlimited. The more force we use, the less resources will be needed, but see point (1).
3) International opinion. We would come under immense pressure from France (especially if we start dumping them back on French beaches) and many other countries – there will be threats of sanctions and other action, possibly making it harder for us to travel. Look what happened to Truss.
As far as I am concerned we have to accept the costs of a very necessary export drive, illegals first.
It’s either that or the UK ceases to exist in any meaningful way. The costs would be high, though other countries may follow when citizens realise it can be done, at which point it would be much easier. If the whole of Europe were united in this…
Nothing easy is worth having….!
I must disagree with that. Making breakfast this morning was easy, and definitely worth having… 🙂
What a long winded load of tripe answer is that ? Just vote Reform
Not sure what voting Reform has to do with it. Just pointing out that in this case she is correct – the ECHR is essentially irrelevant. It’s just an excuse. The challenges are nothing to do with the ECHR but practical and with public and international opinion and the consequences of any action we take. Whoever you vote for, those are the issues.
Do explain where my logic is flawed.
You seem to be extremely verbose tof perhaps love the sound of your own voice a bit much lots of words to explain not much or the obvious ? We all understand what you seem at pains to explain just seems to be the way you are.
Why don’t you tell us (in a non verbose manner) how Reform or Dorsetman would deal with (a) a boatload of migrants in the English Channel or (b) a boatload of migrants landed on some English beach. Take as a given that they don’t have papers and won’t be telling you where they are from or who they are.
Oh hello triggered !! Personally I would return them to France. Practically I would return them to the last port they were physically at. All European ports are safe
Where and how would you return them to France? Take them to a beach somewhere and hope the French don’t notice? How would you know what port they came from? Why would any of these countries want them back?
Where and how ? To dieppe or Calais where they made their illegal attempt from. A refugee makes their home in the first safe place ie. France it’s a safe country no difference from UK. An illegal immigrant makes their way lllegaly into the UK. Hence pay £3k for a very risky boat crossing or pay £30 for a flight from Paris you choose tof which way you gonna go ?
I’d be delighted if we tried. Not sure the French would want them. Sadly I don’t think it will happen.
That answer seems like you’ve backed down my friend why pipe up if you’re not committed? Verbose ?
Backed down from what?
Once these people have left France, they’ll also be illegal immigrants into France should they return. Or rather, they’ll be illegal immigrants into the EU coming (in case they reached Britain) from a safe state which is not an EU member where they should have made their asylum application instead of illegally immigrating into an EU member state.
You seem to be under the wrong impression that other states are somehow obliged to help the British to deal with their own problems but they’re certainly not. RN ships (for example) being instrumental in violating French/ EU immigration laws is only insofar different from that other people smugglers do that it would technically be an act of war.
Considering that French military doctrine calls for a nuclear first strike in response to a conventional invasion, the outcome could be France and Britain nuking each other. Popcorn!
Of course leaving the ECHR in snd of itself will solve nothing. It is however a necesssry step to regain control.
I don’t think it would make any difference but think we should leave on principle
That’s a nothing reply commit to leave if you believe in it.
Leave what?
“. Nothing to do with ECHR…”. Surely it has been seen time and time again to bear some relationship to the crisis.
It’s just an excuse. If we really wanted to, we’d have done it.
Part of the “migrant crisis” is all the LEGAL immigration that successive governments have encouraged since the end of WW2, our addiction to cheap labour and the pitiful horror we now have of being called “racist”. The “crisis” has been deliberate.
Yep, and this is why I didn’t vote Conservative.
They had 14 years to fix this. And they didn’t.
Oh, they did talk about it, they made promises, Priti Patel furrowed her eyebrows and sounded tough, yeah, yeah, this time next year. Rodney, we’ll be millionaires, we’ll get married darling, just not yet.
End result? Nil. Nada, nothing, sweet FA.
So allow me to express my opinion: you didn’t fix it because you didn’t want to.
Oh, you had excuses, plenty of them. There was always something. Human rights lawyers, Strassburg, hostile media, international obligations, our reputation and all that. While Hungary built a fence and deported all “asylum seekers”, you were coming up with a litany of excuses.
Maybe one day you’ll realize that that’s why you lost the election. You absolutely, positively, definitely deserved to lose and, quite frankly, it will be a long time before we forget about the way you betrayed this country.
Follow the money. The Concriminals – many of them and their backers – are making money off the Great White Replacement invasion. Legal as well as illegal.
Yes, sure, there is money to be made.
But I think the problem is deeper. The absolute majority of the left-wing supporters of these policies won’t be made richer by an Albanian criminal.
I think they are spiritually as well as intellectually bankrupt. The “abomination of desolation” is the expression that springs to mind.
Spot on!
Solution – arrest him and his family and put him on a plane to Albania and F. the ECHR. What are they going to do?
Do human rights extend to those that are victims or at risk of being victims?
Did we consider the human rights of Fred West and how vulnerable he was to suicide?
This is what the authorities think about the human rights of the victims of the organized ( and known about ) rape/grooming/trafficking Pakistani gangs in the UK. Talk about a kick in the teeth, this is absolutely disgusting, but it says it all about the attitudes of those in charge, doesn’t it? Yes, it’s the phantom menace, the ”far right” again. Just don’t focus on the real problem and actual perpetrators;
”A leading UK journalist has expressed outrage after a Wikipedia page dedicated to the grooming gangs scandal in which approximately 1,400 girls were abused over decades was changed.
As Gript previously reported, thousands of girls in the UK were drugged, raped, trafficked, and beaten by groups which were “almost exclusively” comprised of Muslim men, mostly of Pakistani origin according to former Greater Manchester Police detective turned whistle-blower, Maggie Oliver.
Speaking to Gript, journalist Charlie Peters – who has reportedly extensively on the grooming gangs scandal and worked closely with numerous victims – said, “The state-endorsed narrative is that the grooming gangs scandal is a right-wing myth propagated by extremists, with a 2020 Home Office report released under Priti Patel’s leadership facilitating much of that agenda.”
“The grooming gangs Wikipedia article has been maliciously edited to describe it as a “moral panic” propagated by the ‘far-right.’ This false account of the scandal is helping to keep the public and politicians ignorant about what happened and what needs to be done.”
A page formally titled “Muslim grooming gangs in the UK” was changed to say that the scandal, which rocked both the political establishment and the UK police force, was a “moral panic” propagated by the “far right”.
The move has also sparked outrage among survivors of abuse by grooming gangs.
GB News reported the reaction of grooming gang survivors to the changes made to the Wikipedia page as, “It was a scandal where over 1400 children were raped and trafficked around England. I don’t see how they can class it as a ‘moral panic’ when every authority would not act because of racial tension.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/muslim-grooming-gangs-in-the-uk-wiki-page-altered-to-say-scandal-is-moral-panic-of-far-right/
Same story, different country. Always, when adjusted for population size, those with a migration background ( including second generation migrants ) are over-represented for criminal convictions. Anyone would think they don’t even want to be in their country of residence;
”In numerous German federal states, the prison population is made up of more than 50 percent foreigners, with the cost of these prisoners totaling €2 billion a year, according to an exclusive report from the Austrian news outlet Freilich.
Already in mid-July, German state media outlet SWR reported that for the first time, more than half of all prisoners in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg are foreigners. Currently, this figure stands at 50.8 percent. Freilich decided to look into the situation in other German states and found that five others also feature prison populations that are more than 50 percent foreign.
The state with the highest proportion of foreigners is Hamburg, which stands at 57.8 percent.
Other states, such as North Rhine-Westphalia, which is Germany’s most populous state, may not reach 50 percent, but the numbers are still extremely high, at 40.4 percent. The top offenders are Turks, Poles, Syrians, Moroccans and Romanians. In Bavaria, the second-largest state by population, 51.1 percent of the prison population is foreign, which includes 4,965 non-German nationals.
It is important to note that these statistics do not include those with a migration background. For instance, there is no data differentiating between ethnic Germans and Middle Easterners born in Germany. The data only shows if the perpetrator has a German passport or not.
In Hesse, 51.4 percent of the prison population is made up foreigners, equaling 2,245 prisoners. The largest groups come from Algeria and Morocco, but other top groups include Turks, Romanians, and Afghans, according to the Ministry of Justice.
As of July 22, 2024, Berlin featured 2,024 foreign prisoners, representing 56.4 percent of the total number, which stands at 3,588. A spokeswoman told Freilich that the largest groups are Poles, Turks, Serbians, and Georgians. In Bremen, the smallest federal state, the number of foreign prisoners totaled 56 percent.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-over-half-of-prisoners-are-foreigners-in-many-states-costing-taxpayers-billions/
“Always, when adjusted for population size, those with a migration background ( including second generation migrants ) are over-represented for criminal convictions.”
Probably not the Japanese 🙂
But then I am a horrid racist.
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I have to point out that the “1,400” figure was just for Rotherham and was subsequently raised by the Inquiry to 1,510. And that was then, still just Rotherham. The problem hasn’t gone away in Rotherham or anywhere else. And one should have been too many.
Of course that nice Yooman Rights lawyer appointed in 2009 as DPP knew nowt about it.
There have been proven cases in Telford, Leeds, Banbury, Oxford, Leicester, Peterborough – the list goes on and on and on. We must be approaching 100,000 by now. And let’s not forget the Sikh girls who were first in line for the RoP “Easy Meat” fanciers.
Those showing up on our beaches who have accidentally lost all their papers crossing the Channel should be immediately loaded into Landing Craft and headed off to the Normandy Beaches to go look for them. If the EU wants to fire on them and erect barbed wire entanglement, that is up to them. I would add half a dozen Yooman Rights lawyers to every craft to see that everything was fine on arrival and keep the lawyers’ own documents safe for them in Dover.
Unfortunately, won’t happen.
Why would we imprison someone who committed fraud in an asylum claim. Why not just deport.
The whole political elite snd their masters in the blob/swamp are a disgrace.
I’m not sure if lying about your country of origin should result in a prison sentence, which could be seen as a deserved punishment and possible deterrent to others, before deportation. However the fact that this person lied when claiming asylum should mean they have no right to stay in the UK and if they loose some of their human rights it serves them right. It’s taken for granted that convicted criminals loose some rights e.g. their freedom so why the hell shouldn’t they loose other rights?
Yes, as former Queen’s Chaplain Gavin Ashenden summed it up:
“The whole asylum system is POLITICAL DECEIT.”
Australia.
The Nazi ideology and regime also falsely argued that all social problems / criminality / ‘degenerate behaviour’ etc was down to ‘immigrant’, ‘non-indigenous’ / ‘non-Aryan’ / ‘alien’ etc groupings (most especially those from a Jewish background)…
And we all know how that ended up.
The main originator of the twin mass murderous and totalitarian ideologies of Nazism / Fascism and Marxism – Charles Darwin – first embarked on his anti-spirituality and anti-morality agenda at the very non-Albanian institution of the University of Edinburgh in 1825.
We need to get back to the simple spiritual ideals promoted by eg Jesus Christ and The Buddha of love, compassion, non-violence, self-sacrifice and egalitarianism;
Not yet more imaginary excuses for divisions, hatred, intolerance and violence.
Yes, but can we still deport them if they commit a criminal offence?
Nonsense!
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Right then – this chap is 64 years old. There id no mention of his job. Does this mean he is being supported by the tex-payer?
Hmmm thought so. I guess also that yet again his appeal to stay in the UK is being paid for by the tax-payer – again.
I am truly pi$$ed off that my taxes go to support the dross of society. The whole family need deporting – pronto.
Just round him and his family up, put them in a van, drive them to the airport, stick them on a plane and send them back to Albania. How hard is that?
“Why, after 14 years of Conservative Government failing to make headway on this, does Kemi still think we need to establish whether leaving the ECHR is necessary? How long does the party need to work this one out?”
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES.
The politicians keep saying we can’t leave the ECHR because of the Northern Ireland agreement. Why is it that every sodding issue seems to be blocked by the bloody NI agreement and seeing as the EU are not bound by the ECHR with their laws and dictats, why do the countries that are part of the EU have to be bound by it. Does this not mean that Brussels can impose a law on a country that could then be rejected by the ECHR. Which supranational body does the country then have to obey? The whole thing is a legal mess, needs tearing down and then rebuilt for the modern world and not some post trans European war situation. Only then should we give credence to it and until then we should be like the other 46 with the 10,000 rejections of the impositions, rather than being one of the most supine, compliant countries.
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