Bits and Bites from around the World > Hundreds of thousands of dead fish

 

State of emergency declared as dead fish

fill Greek city's waters

By Mike Heuer

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of dead fish are polluting waters in Volos, Greece, and creating a public health hazard that caused authorities to declare a civil protection emergency for one month.

Volos is located in Thessaly about 250 miles north of Athens, and local authorities are removing 100 tons of the dead fish every day and taking them to an incinerator for disposal.

One would think they would make good fertilizer, no? Does nobody think outside the box anymore?

The civil emergency expires on Sept. 30, but local officials expect to finish the cleanup of dead fish as soon as Sunday.

Heavy rains from Cyclone Daniel last September caused local reservoirs to flood and breach levies, and dams flushed the freshwater fish into drainage ditches, which enabled them to thrive throughout the winter.

Springtime irrigation for nearby agricultural fields drained the ditches and forced the freshwater fish into the nearby Pagasetic Gulf, which is a saltwater body on Greece's eastern coast.

Exposure to the saltwater killed the fish, whose bodies contaminated local beaches and bodies of water.

Petros Varelidis, secretary-general for Natural Environment and Waters, said many fish died when the flooded Karla Lake in Thessaly in central Greece enabled more fish to spawn.

When the lake slowly returned to its normal size, the excess fish slowly suffocated and died.

Migrants on the Move in Europe > Greek Coast Guard shoots migrant; Solingen Terrorist wasn't deported because he wasn't home at the time

 

Greek Coast Guard opens fire on migrant vessel

from Turkey after provocation, one migrant killed

Aug 26, 2024 10:30 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Turkey has been bullying and provoking Greece for quite some time, while aiding Muslim migrants to invade Greece — which is, of course, recognized as an important entry point to the European Union.

Recently, a Greek border guard was shot by what was believed to be a migrant smuggler while he was patrolling the unsafe border with Turkey.

Tensions will continue to grow between Greece and Turkey. Islamic supremacist Turkey is at fault.

Greece Coast Guard opens fire on migrant vessel from Turkey and kills one

by Lilian Trickey, Jurist, August 24, 2024:

The Greek Coast Guard confirmed on Friday that they opened fire on a boat of Turkish migrants and killed one man, according to local media sources.

The migrants were allegedly agitating the coast guard by rocking the latter’s boat, which prompted the crew to fire “warning shots” before shooting at the migrants. In their statement, the coast guard stated that the victim, a 39-year-old man, was likely killed by one of the bullets.

Greece has faced ongoing criticism over its treatment of migrants. In April 2023, the Aegean Boat Report registered “57 illegal pushbacks in the Aegean Sea” by the nation’s coast guard. The rights organization found in that month alone, 1,711 people were “denied their right to seek asylum” and that “their human rights [were] violated by the Greek government.”

What is the difference between the right to seek asylum and the crime of sneaking into a foreign country without permission? Can someone explain that to me? 

The Aegean Boat Report added that in the prior three years, Greece pushed back 58,000 migrants from Turkey in 2,167 separate cases…..

Germany's Scholz vows to increase deportations

after visit to Solingen mass stabbing site

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government was looking at more ways to increase the rate of deportations during a visit to the site of a deadly mass stabbing carried out by a suspected Islamic State group member from Syria. Speaking during the visit, Scholz said that deportations had already increased by some two thirds compared to 2021 levels.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations on Monday during a visit to Solingen, where a deadly mass stabbing linked to the Islamic State group has emboldened the far-right opposition and stoked criticism of his government's handling of migration.

"We will have to do everything we can to ensure that those who cannot and are not allowed to stay in Germany are repatriated and deported," Scholz told reporters in the western city, where he laid a flower at the scene of the crime.

"This was terrorism, terrorism against us all," he added.

The attack, in which a 26-year-old suspected Islamic State group member from Syria is accused of killing three people, has fuelled political tensions over asylum and deportation rules ahead of three state elections next month.

The militant Islamist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred on Friday evening during a festival celebrating Solingen's 650-year history. Alongside the three killed, eight were injured, some seriously.

The theme of the festival was "Celebrate Diversity"!

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which campaigns for a crackdown on migration, is leading in the polls in Saxony and Thuringia, where state elections are set for Sunday, and in Brandenburg, which has its election on Sept. 22.

The AfD seized on the attack in its election campaign, with Thuringia's leading candidate for the party, Bjoern Hoecke, pitching to voters the choice of "Hoecke or Solingen".

Opinion pollsters Stefan Merz of Infratest dimap and Manfred Guellner of Forsa told Reuters the attack would be unlikely to translate into more votes for the far-right party because its supporters had already been mobilised by migration issues.

Infratest dimap's Merz cited the possibility that the centre-right CDU could benefit at the expense of Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats.

Botched deportation

The attack puts pressure on Scholz as his Social Democrats, alongside their Green and Free Democrat coalition partners, bruised from months of quarrelling, are trailing in the polls.

In a sign of tougher rhetoric, Scholz promised in October 2023 to ramp up deportations "big style" – a promise he repeated after his visit to the Solingen attack scene.

Again in June, Scholz said he would take a tougher stance on deportation after an Afghan man stabbed a police officer, who later died of his injuries, during an attack on a right-wing demonstration in the city of Mannheim.

Scholz said on Monday deportations had increased by some two thirds compared to 2021 levels. "But that is no reason for us to sit back and relax," he added, saying the government was looking at legal and practical ways to boost the numbers.

Statistica reports some 16,000 deportations in 2023, 4000 more than in 2022.

Astonishing!

Authorities had planned to deport the suspect in Friday's attack to Bulgaria last year under European Union asylum rules, according to German media. The deportation was unsuccessful because the man had not been at his refugee accommodation when authorities tried to carry out the measure, the reports said.

A government spokesperson said the deportation plan had "failed in practice" rather than on any legal basis.

So, it sounds like the police made one effort to deport the terrorist, but because he wasn't home at that moment, they forgot about him. Someone should be held responsible for that piece of extremely shoddy work that ended up with 3 people dead and 8 wounded.

(Reuters)

Migrants on the move in Europe > Greece detains 76 illegal Muslim migrants but takes them to Crete anyway; Courageous Home Secretary to crack down on migrants

 

Greece: Authorities detain 76 illegal Muslim migrants

on Crete as smugglers seek new routes

Aug 21, 2024 7:30 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

As a transit and destination country, Greece has had its fair share of problems, stemming from illegal Muslim migrants coming across its borders. This time, they came from Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Bangladesh.

Last month, a Greek border guard was shot while patrolling the border with Turkey. Greek authorities stated that “a migrant smuggler may have opened fire on the border guards to allow illegal migrants to cross into the country.” Now these smugglers are seeking out new routes.

People smugglers who abet mass migration for their own profit should be arrested and made an example of.

Greek authorities detain migrants on Crete as smugglers seek new routes

Associated Press, August 20, 2024:

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities on the southern Greek island of Crete detained 76 migrants early Tuesday after they arrived on three boats, as smugglers seek new routes in the region to evade coast guard patrols.

The migrants from Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Bangladesh included six children and arrived before dawn on the tiny island of Gavdos, near Crete’s southern coast, local officials said. Usually, such migrants are detained for identification and processing, after which they can apply for asylum while waiting in refugee camps, with cases accessed on an individual basis.

Smugglers typically target Greek islands close to Turkey’s coastline, but in recent months they have increasingly chosen longer routes to Crete and islands in the central Aegean Sea, where coast guard patrols are more relaxed.

The Greek government is considering setting up state-funded processing centers on Crete to assist local authorities. Currently, migrants are housed in sports facilities, disused buildings, and schools during the summer months.

The Aegean route remains active, and on Tuesday Greece’s coast guard said it had picked up a total 70 people over the past 24 hours in three separate incidents off the country’s eastern islands. All made the short crossing from Turkey in small boats. They were taken to migrant reception centers on Samos, Leros and Chios.…

UK announces new measures to crack down on migrant crossings from France

The UK on Wednesday announced new measures to curb the number of migrants arriving illegally from France via the English Channel. The measures include recruiting specialist officers tasked with dismantling smuggling gangs and sanctioning employers who hire people without a legal right to work. The government aims over the next six months to reach the highest rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers in five years.

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The British government on Wednesday announced new measures to crack down on high numbers of asylum seekers arriving illegally on small boats from France.

It said 100 "new specialist intelligence and investigation officers" would be recruited to the National Crime Agency (NCA) to help dismantle smuggling gangs that run the dangerous crossings.

The interior ministry added that the government aims over the next six months to achieve the highest rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers for five years.

The Labour government, which won an election last month, intends to increase detention capacity at removal centres and sanction employers who hire people with no right to work in the UK, the Home Office said.

"We are taking strong and clear steps to boost our border security and ensure the rules are respected and enforced," interior minister Yvette Cooper said in a statement.

Here, again, Yvette is making herself a target for the Muslim lobby. What she is planning on doing is absolutely right and might do more to quell the far-right uprising than all the jail terms Sir Keir Himself is demanding. But will she be able to withstand the pressure?

Stopping the small boat arrivals was a key issue in the July 4 election, in which Labour won a thumping majority.

Within days of taking power, Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped a controversial scheme to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda, which had been a flagship policy of the last Conservative government.

Starmer has instead pledged to dismantle the people-smuggling gangs who organise the crossings and are paid thousands of euros by each migrant.

The Home Office is recruiting a so-called Border Security Commander who will work with European countries against the people-smuggling gangs.

Starmer has also pledged with French President Emmanuel Macron to strengthen "cooperation" in handling the surge in undocumented migrant numbers.

More than 200 people crossed the Channel in three boats on Monday, taking the provisional total for the year so far to 19,294, according to Home Office figures.

This is a 10 percent increase on the number recorded last year, which was 17,620, but down on the 21,344 crossings recorded in the same period of 2022.

The Home Office said the NCA is pursuing about 70 investigations against criminal networks involved in people trafficking.

It said the government would issue financial penalty notices, business closure orders and bring possible prosecutions against anyone employing illegal workers.

The department also said it was adding 290 beds to two removal centres and redeploying staff to try to remove failed asylum seekers at the highest rate since 2018. The ministry did not give figures on the numbers involved.

(AFP)

Islamization of Europe > Muslims arrested for attacks on Jewish establishments in Athens; Afghans riot in Vienna market on video

 

Greek Police Arrest Three Iranians & Two Afghans

for Attacks on Israeli Targets

Afghanistan International, July 5, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The Greek anti-terrorism police announced on Thursday the arrest of seven suspects, including three Iranian and two Afghan nationals, accused of setting fire to a synagogue and a hotel owned by Israelis in central Athens earlier this year.

According to the report, a 25-year-old Greek woman, two Iranian men aged 36 and 46, and their 44-year-old Afghan accomplice were arrested in connection with an attack on a building housing an Israeli-owned hotel and restaurant.

The attack, carried out on May 16, involved a homemade incendiary device.

The arrested individuals are accused of endangering lives through arson and causing damage to foreign citizens’ property in a racially motivated attack.

In another incident, a 44-year-old Greek man and a 26-year-old Afghan man approached a synagogue in Athens on June 18, and set its entrance on fire using incendiary materials. A 30-year-old Iranian man was also involved in this operation. All these individuals have been arrested and charged with arson, theft, and possession of weapons….

What happens now? If convicted will they be exiled to Britain or Germany?

Unbelievable: Afghans riot in a Viennese supermarket and injure customers

translated from “Unfassbar: Afghanen randalieren in Wiener Supermarkt und verletzen Kunden,” Exxpress, July 12, 2024:

“News from the open psychiatry of red Vienna!”, Gerald Grosz comments on X about the unbelievable scenes that took place on Thursday, July 4th in a supermarket branch in Vienna Meidling. A 4.27-minute cell phone video that is currently circulating online is causing fear and anger. The video, which was taken by a shocked witness on a cell phone, was uploaded a week later, on Thursday evening.

A group of three men, Afghans (22, 23 and 25) according to the police, are said to have entered the grocery store in Wolfganggasse, two of them – for unknown reasons – first started to riot in the fruit and vegetable department, then threw goods across the room and kicked shelves. 

Customers try to avoid the riot but are still drawn in, one user on the Internet posted about the footage: “Incredible. Now you have to have close combat training when shopping.”

Another said: “Welcome to Vienna, the new adventure playground, where shopping becomes an adventure, everything Dadada.”

Afghans attack customers: couple had to be treated in hospital An employee tried bravely to calm the situation again and again. A man (36) and his partner (47) were also attacked and injured by the three Afghans, as the police confirmed to “oe24”. They first beat the 36-year-old, then threw fruit and vegetables at him. Meanwhile, several wild insults were thrown. The couple, who were followed to the cash register and beaten there, had to be treated in hospital afterwards. The man suffered a concussion, a bloody wound and bruises, reports “oe24.”

Several reports and arrest after fight

The Vienna police arrived on the scene a few minutes after the alarm was raised. “The three suspected perpetrators were reported on suspicion of bodily harm and damage to property. One of the three, a 23-year-old man who was apparently drunk, was temporarily arrested for aggressive behavior. The men’s motive is still unclear,” police spokesman Markus Dittrich told “Heute.”

 So, the police let him go while he was still drunk? Really? The men don't need a motive, they're Muslims. They are susceptible to hysteria at the drop of a hat. European police are not very bright if they think Muslims need a motive other than the Quran. It justifies everything they do.