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Afghan Migrant, 16, Rapes Worker at Belgian Asylum Centre Two Weeks After Attending a Course on How to Treat Western Women

By Eowyn @DrEowyn

Guess the poor child fell asleep during the course.

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A teenage Afghan immigrant has been charged with raping a female worker at an asylum seekers’ center in Belgium, authorities said, prompting outrage from anti-immigrant politicians.

According to the Daily Mail, the 16-year-old Afghan asylum seeker followed a worker from a catering firm into the basement and raped her at the center in Menen, near the French border, prosecutors said. The judge ordered him detained in youth custody until his next hearing.

A spokeswoman for the Red Cross said it was the first time in 25 years such an alleged incident had occurred at one of the organization’s asylum seeker centers in the country.

‘Two weeks ago we gave a course about how to treat women in Flanders and the boy was present there,’ the spokeswoman said.

The allegation feeds into to a highly charged debate over immigration in Europe, particularly since authorities in neighboring Germany accused gangs of migrants of sexually assaulting women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.

Tom Van Grieken Twitter profile

Tom Van Grieken Twitter profile

‘I repeat: people who need a course on how to treat women should not be there in the first place,’ Tom Van Grieken, leader of anti-immigrant party Vlaams Belang said on Twitter. That makes perfect sense to me!

Belgium received 35,476 asylum requests in 2015, more than twice the level of 2014.

Read the whole story here. Read about all the crimes committed by migrants here.

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