‘Europe unable to protect its children’: Putin cites fake news by Russian TV


The Russian President referred to a story of a refugee acquitted on charge of rape and blasted the West for its ‘inability to protect own children’ when speaking at Monday’s session of the Council for Inter-ethnic Relations.

The news item might well have aired on Russia’s Channel One, but European media outlets refuted it.

At the session, the head of the Federal Lezghian national and Cultural Autonomy Karimov came up with the proposal to simplify the procedure of granting citizenship for Russian nationalities living abroad and mentioned the corresponding practice of Europe as an example.

In response, President Vladimir Putin called for staying away from reliance on Europe’s experience in immigration policies saying that society that cannot protect its children does not have a future. As an instance of mischievous policies in the sphere of interethnic relations, Putin cited a recent situation in an EU member-state where an immigrant raped a child and was subsequently exonerated by blame by a court, which ruled that he did not have command of the language and therefore could not understand the child’s objections, state-controlled news agency TASS reports.

“That’s why their European experience is far from the best one, to put it mildly, while we have a millennium-old history of building up a multi-ethnic state and that’s why we have a much more profound experience,” Putin said.

In late October, the Russian Channel One reported the acquittal of the Iraqi refugee accused of raping a 10-year-old boy. In fact, the Austrian Supreme Court did uphold the sentence on the charge of sexual acts with aggravating circumstances, but ordered to review another aspect of the case ( ‘rape’) due to procedural errors. The convict was never released, he is still kept in a pre-trial detention centre.

Deutsche Welle published a detailed refutation of the Channel 1 report. Soon incorrect information was deleted from the channel website, but its copy is preserved in Google cache memory.

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