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             The appellant is a male citizen of El Salvador who was born in 1993. He appealed to the First-tier Tribunal against a decision of the respondent dated 5 February 2021 refusing his claim for international protection. The First-tier Tribunal, in a decision dated 4 September 2021, dismissed his appeal. The appellant now appeals, with permission, to the Upper Tribunal.
             I am not satisfied that the judge has erred in his determination of the appeal on asylum grounds. He has addressed this aspect of the appeal at [27-33]:
It was said in Gomez that it is difficult to see how a political opinion can be imputed by a non-state actor who is not itself a political entity. "Evidence of imputed political opinion cannot consist solely of the general political purposes of the persecutor" 7 Appeal reference: PA/51328/2021 While MS13 may be seen as having some social ideological background, Gang 18 is more easily categorized as a criminal organization. In the present case, the Appellant's encounters with Gang 18 and MS13 were not, in my view, motivated by ideology but rather by criminal intent.
I find that the Appellant has not established a Convention ground for his claim and therefore that he is not a refugee. I come to the same conclusion based on my findings of fact, in respect of the Appellant's position under Articles 2 and 3 ECHR
             On the particular facts, those were findings available to the judge and I do not propose to interfere with them.
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