Detective Garda Brian Saunderson claimed the accused had punched the man in a completely unprovoked attack before the injured party ran out.
The accused allegedly followed him “with a knife in his hand”.
According to the prosecution bail objections, Mr Nalchutsrishibili ran after the injured party and stabbed him in the shoulder area.
The details of the case revealed the incident to be somewhat of a microcosm of all that is wrong with the country’s asylum system, which is, mostly because of the actions of our weak and reckless political class, completely in disarray.
Firstly, there is the issue that the name proffered at the bail hearing may not, in fact, be the accused’s real designation since, the court was told, he had “destroyed his passport upon arriving in Ireland to seek asylum”.
Of course, if that is the case, he wasn’t alone in taking this preemptive action.
According to the Department of Justice, more than 60% of those who applied for asylum in Ireland between February 2022 and January 2023 “had no identity documents.”
In fact, as Matt Treacy has consistently reported on this platform, more than 5,000 people who came here claiming to be asylum seekers in 2022 conveniently found themselves without any genuine identification papers.
The response of most of the media to these revelations has been to make myriad excuses for why someone might get on a plane with a passport and then suddenly find themselves without said identifying document at Dublin airport.
Mr Nalchutsrishibili, if that’s his real name, having found that he was unimpeded by the lack of a passport from entering through our sorry excuse for border control, was then presumably able to promptly claim asylum and be provided with housing and, one presumes, the other benefits accruing.
Not that his was the first case of an undocumented migrant appearing before the criminal courts.
In February, a man was arrested and charged with the sexual assault of a juvenile, but no-one seemed sure if he was from Moldova or Romania.
As reported on Gript:
He has been named as Anatol Botnari, and he has been charged with sexual assault of a juvenile.
The court heard he is aged 23, and is Moldovan. However, he does not hold a passport from Moldova, which is not an EU member state, but from Romania. Or at least that is what he claims because no passport appears to be have been presented in court.
Detective Garda Conor Garland cited this as one of the reasons why he was objecting to bail as he was unsure as to Botnari’s actual identity, and that the Gardaí were waiting to hear back from Interpol.
He was nonetheless granted bail of €750.
The truth is that we have now allowed thousands of people to enter our country without documentation and we haven’t the faintest idea who they are.
Unless we are stupidly naïve or wilfully blind we have to presume that at least some people are hiding their identity for nefarious reasons. But rather than take action – such as sending them home – the government is happily accommodating them at our expense.
Secondly, all the heartfelt excuses proffered about people fleeing war in desperation and understandably losing their papers doesn’t hold up when the data shows that thousands of said asylum seekers are actually from countries like Georgia (as Mr Nalchutsrishibili is, we think) which are not war torn.
This second reckless idiocy compounds the first: not only are we throwing open our doors to people without identification, we are doing so in the case of people – some of them who are chancers or criminals – who are coming from safe countries to claim ‘asylum’ here.
No wonder they treat us like idiots.
Thirdly, the case showed that at least some of those living in direct provision or in ‘refugee’ accommodation are earning the kind of money that should beg the question as to why the taxpayer is being forced to pay to provide free housing and services for them.
From the Irish Mirror:
The court heard the accused works as a labourer earning €700, plus €30 social welfare, a week.
He has been in Ireland for a year, having claimed asylum and staying in direct provision centres, lately at Bray Manor, where 22 other Georgian nationals have been accommodated.
The detective risked concerns and said the accused did not have many ties to this jurisdiction, and his wife and child live in Georgia.
Why is someone who is working earning in excess of an annualised salary of €36,000 living in free accommodation designed for asylum seekers?
How many of the 22 other Georgian nationals living in the direct provision centres are also working and earning similar sums? How prevalent is this situation, and how many people who actually came here illegally to work are living in refugee centres?
With taxpayer funded spending on housing and supports for refugees now running into billions of euro, while record numbers of Irish people are homeless (and 68% of young adults are living with their parents), it is simply extraordinary that the added strain that the immigration system is putting on housing is allowed to continue.
Fourthly, the case highlights the very real issue of violence and criminality in transient communities crowded together in migrant centres, a matter of concern both for those who live in such centres and for the communities on which they are imposed.
Detective Garda Brian Saunderson claimed the accused had punched the man in a completely unprovoked attack before the injured party ran out.
The accused allegedly followed him “with a knife in his hand”.
According to the prosecution bail objections, Mr Nalchutsrishibili ran after the injured party and stabbed him in the shoulder area.
It is not the first time such incidents have been reported.
Last January, eight men were charged in connection with a violent incident in a Killarney Hotel being used as a refugee centre after a stabbing spree broke out which resulted in four people needing hospital treatment.
And last month, a FOI request on a report regarding the migrant centre in Citywest revealed that armed Gardaí had been required to quell riots; the Muslim feast of Ramadan was described as a “flashpoint” that had led to “significant violent incidents”; and there were reports of serious injuries.
So the man who appeared in court last week was living in a direct provision centre, had no passport according to the Gardai, was accused of stabbing another man in an “unprovoked assault”, and was earning €700 a week and getting €30 social welfare. Our immigration system is a farce.
Of course, anyone who raises any of the issues above is shouted down and called ‘far-right’ by the plethora of taxpayer-funded NGOs who mostly exist to bully the Irish people into submission and distract voters from the real issue: that the views of the vast majority of people, who polls show oppose the government’s immigration policies, are simply being ignored.
We are being played for fools – and unless voters punish this government for its careless and reckless disregard for the Irish people, we will continue to get what we deserve.
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