AN illegal migrant who taunted Brits on TikTok from his taxpayer-funded hotel room fled Germany for “soft-touch” Britain.
The Sun told yesterday how he racked up a million views by boasting of crossing the Channel by dinghy, saying: “Tell your friends to come.”
The TikTok asylum seeker smirking on dinghy to the UK on Saturday
The illegal migrant shared social posts wearing a balaclava
He is also seen in photos from his travels to France
He posted a step-by-step guide to reaching the UK before hosting a Q&A in the Afghan dialect Pashto.
Today we can reveal he swapped stays in Germany and France — two safe countries — to reach “soft-touch” Britain, one of 434 boat arrivals on Saturday.
The man, using the online handle Alexandra420, was moved to a hotel near Heathrow from where he shared eight clips encouraged others to make the journey.
It also emerged that months before coming here, he warned Afghan asylum seekers they could be sent home from Germany.
Following our investigation, TikTok has taken down his account for promoting people-smuggling.
Last night Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp blasted: “This illegal immigrant had multiple opportunities to claim asylum in other European countries before choosing to come here.
“The Home Office and police should be urgently investigating this man for encouraging others to enter the UK illegally and producing a step-by-step guide showing them how to cross.
“Facilitating illegal immigration is a criminal offence. Enough is enough.
“Everyone crossing the Channel illegally by small boat must be removed either to their home country or a safe third country. The Labour government need to get a grip of this crisis.”
Mr Philp called for the return of the Rwanda deportation scheme, proposed by the Tories under Boris Johnson and dropped by Sir Keir Starmer on Day One of his premiership.
Since then, 50,716 migrants have entered on a small boat — including 445 on Tuesday.
Removals to Afghanistan have been paused since the Taliban seized control in 2021. It meant the TikTok influencer knew when entering the UK that he would likely not be deported.
He poses for a picture at Berlin’s Altes Museum
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says ‘enough is enough’PA
He is believed to have stayed in Germany for a substantial time.
But he decided to seek better benefits in Britain after posting about a plan by far-right party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) to deport all illegal migrants.
It would have seen the mass return of asylum seekers had the party won February’s elections.
The current German government is also exploring deporting failed asylum seekers to nations other than their home country.
Everyone crossing the Channel illegally by small boat must be removed either to their home country or a safe third country
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp
Mocking taxpayers
The influencer posted a video of AfD firebrand leader Alice Weidel, in which she claimed: “The Afghans are a nation that grew up in a war-torn environment.
“We know this fact and we do not deny it. But it does not matter to me where they came from or what conditions they grew up in.
“When they reach Germany, they must respect the laws, customs and culture of this country. young people who appear in German streets in military uniforms…they are clearly from the battlefield, not from the borders of Europe.
“I say this as a warning, not a threat. Learn the civil attitude. Otherwise, perhaps where you came from is more suitable for you.”
The asylum seeker wrote of the video: “Listen to this woman’s speech, and indeed, she has spoken what she means.
“This law will be applied to Afghans at the earliest opportunity.”
In shared social posts he poses in front of Berlin’s Altes Museum, and in a keffiyeh headdress.
In another he showed off the city’s Alexanderplatz. In a third he sits in front of a bridge in a blue t-shirt, jeans and trainers.
He captioned the photo with a location pin emoji, the French flag, and wrote: “France”.
Another photo shows him at an unidentified train station platform wearing a black puffer jacket with cream cargo trousers.
We can also reveal he changed his TikTok bio after entering the UK to include a British flag — mocking taxpayers stumping up billions to put up 32,000 people in around 210 migrant hotels.
In his 45-minute Q&A session, livestreamed on TikTok on Tuesday, he told his 70,000 followers: “Finally, I left Germany. Then they moved me into France.”
Later, he attempted to make a sarcastic joke by claiming he had not come from Germany — despite admitting it multiple times.
A follower asked: “Brother, have you been to Berlin or not?”
The man replied: “Yes – oh, no, no, I haven’t been there, brother. I’ve never been to Berlin.”
He then laughed for several seconds before adding: “And I’ve never lived in Germany. Not for one second.”
The illegal migrant posted a step-by-step guide to crossing the Channel on a small boatTiktok
TiktokHe showed TikTok fans his view from the window of his asylum hotel[/caption]
He also took part in a live Q&A with his followers
Appearing to admit he had been rejected for asylum in mainland Europe, he went on: “What should I do in a country that rejects me?
“I didn’t get acceptance, I got nothing. I’m crazy to live there?”
Referring to Britain’s generous perks, he said: “There’s nothing there. Only here.”
Later, in the livestream, he admitted: “Everything in the story is about acceptance.
“There is no need for my attention there (in Germany) anymore.
“I came from a faraway place, aboard a ship.”
Finally, I left Germany. Then they moved me into France
After arriving in Dover, he was taken to the processing centre at Manston, Kent, and given standard-issue clothes, some of which he appears to wear in the video.
He was then transferred to the Crowne Plaza near Heathrow. The hotel is a stopover for many asylum seekers before switch to more permanent accomodation.
Yesterday more migrants came and went from the hotel, which is contracted by the Home Office after previosuly operating as a four-star stopover for holidaymakers and businesspeople.
A TikTok spokeswoman said yesterday: “We take a zero-tolerance approach to content promoting human smuggling, this account has been banned and we remove the vast majority of content before it is even reported.
“Through industry-leading search interventions and close collaboration with the UK National Crime Agency, we work to identify and disrupt organised immigration crime online, adapting our efforts to meet evolving threats.”
A Home Office spokeswoman said: “It is our longstanding policy not to comment on operational matters or individual cases.”
Dan CharityThe man, using the online handle Alexandra420, was moved to the Crowne Plaza hotel near Heathrow[/caption]
BBC edit for ‘xenophobia’
THE BBC was yesterday forced to apologise after a Radio 4 programme branded fears about illegal migrants as “xenophobic”.
A guest singled out Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick for saying he did not want his children “sharing a neighbourhood with men from backward countries who broke into Britain illegally.”
On Thought for the Day, Dr Krish Kandiah said: “These words echo a fear — fear of the stranger. The technical name is xenophobia.”
Jenrick slammed the comments and the BBC edited the show.
It said: “While its reflection on fear in society from a faith perspective is broadly in line with expectations of the programme, some of the language it used went beyond that and we apologise.”
Migrant in court over ‘hotel kiss’
By Rachel Dale
A MIGRANT appeared in court yesterday charged with sexually assaulting a man at an asylum hotel targeted by protesters.
Mohammed Sharwarq, 32, is accused of kissing him on the neck without his consent after approaching from behind on Tuesday night at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.
Sharwarq indicated a not guilty plea at Chelmsford magistrates’ court but admitted two counts of common assault and four counts of assault by beating during a clash with other men.
District Judge Lynette Woodrow set a hearing date of September 30. She remanded Sharwarq in custody, as she was not satisfied he would otherwise return to court.
Protests started outside the hotel last month after an asylum seeker was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old local girl.
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