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The rioters were a mix of immigrants and locals, apparently protesting against a controversial court ruling last week in which a man of Turkish origin became the first Danish-born person to get an expulsion order from the country, to be enforced after he had served a three-year sentence for violent theft.
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That may not be the same as an instant expulsion order, but it led to Ms Hirsi Ali's abrupt resignation from parliament.
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Previously migrants had been transferred from Lampedusa to Sicily, where those not given refugee status eventually received an essentially meaningless expulsion order.
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