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Germany: Muslim migrant who murdered taxi driver for ten euros

says ‘Killing is a good thing’

SEP 2, 2023 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

His victim was a fellow Muslim, which will lead Islamic apologists in the West to insist that this killing had nothing to do with Islam. Indeed, it doesn’t seem to have been motivated by any jihad-related sentiments. But where did the accused get the idea that killing was a good thing? Could it have been from his holy book, which thrice tells him to “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5) and makes it clear that killing under certain circumstances is what Allah desires? One thing is certain: no one in Germany will dare consider that question, or the implications of bringing into the country large numbers of people among whom are inevitably some who think killing is indeed a good thing.

Taxi driver killed over 10 euros – defendant under interrogation: ‘Killing is a good thing'

Translated from “Taxifahrer wegen 10 Euro getötet – Angeklagter bei Verhör: „Töten ist eine gute Sache“,” 

by Laurenz Cushion, Berliner Zeitung, August 29, 2023

In room 701 of the Moabit Criminal Court at around 11 a.m., everyone present audibly held their breath. The 24-year-old defendant had actually just said: “Killing is a good thing.” He said this during an interrogation by the Berlin police with two officers and an interpreter. The recording will be played again on Tuesday on the large screen for visitors and those involved in the process. The accused admits to the charge of stabbing a taxi driver in Berlin right at the beginning of the recording.

In the early morning of April 6 this year, Maundy Thursday, shortly before Easter, the 49-year-old taxi driver was found seriously injured by a passer-by in Grunewald. He immediately provided first aid, but the taxi driver died in the hospital before noon. In addition to the family, many Berlin taxi drivers came to the funeral service for the father of a 14-year-old son and a 22-year-old daughter in the Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin-Neukölln.

Even before the accused says the terrible sentence about the killing, he talks about his escape from Tunisia in 2011. He was only 13 years old when he arrived on Lampedusa in Italy with distant relatives. He hasn’t seen them since. Via France he came to Belgium, where he lived until the beginning of the year.

In order to be able to possibly explain the accused’s “extraordinary attitude” towards human life, the officials ask about the background to his escape as a seventh grader and whether he was a victim of violence in Tunisia. For both questions, the accused stated that the answers were too private.

Sitting silently on the glass dock, the suspected perpetrator also watches himself testify in the video on Tuesday morning. His defense attorney had said her client did not want to testify for the time being. He has confessed to the crime several times. Later in the recording, the accused reports that he boarded the train in Liege. His actual destination was Denmark, on the way to Oslo, Norway. The accused had killed a woman in Belgium two days earlier.

When changing trains on the way to Berlin, the accused said he had already tried to find someone at a train station between 4 and 5 a.m. on the morning of April 6. The last time he ate was at 12 noon the previous day. “When I got out, I was hungry,” he says, “I wanted to take someone’s money, kill him.” However, he didn’t find anyone on the streets, although “everyone” was an option. He was too proud to ask for money or food on the train.

In the video, the interrogating officers assumed that the alleged perpetrator got “a kick” from the killing. Finally, he declared that he had stolen the new shoes he was wearing when he was arrested in Flensburg from a Lidl. Why didn’t he steal bananas or other groceries from Lidl, asks an official, instead of killing someone? The accused says: “If you want something, you have to kill.”

The taxi driver’s children and his sister are joint plaintiffs in the process. One of her lawyers says on the sidelines of the hearing: “This act is what makes it happen out of nowhere, out of absolute coincidence, so many questions arise.” After reading out the indictment, the court gave the legal notice of the accommodation of the accused in a psychiatric hospital.

The woman in Belgium and the Berlin taxi driver were murdered with the same knife. The suspect said he had this ready in his jacket pocket when the taxi driver took him to Brahmstrasse in Berlin-Grunewald. He had already looked for the place on the map on the train because of the large green area. The two communicated in English. In the video, he says, “I’m waiting for him to stop to kill him.” Then he recounts the gruesome details of the murder.

He found his way to violence in Belgium, at least that’s what he claims. There the 24-year-old sold cocaine for a long time, he said: “This way is surrounded by murderers.” For him, it follows that killing is “a good thing thing.” He chose this path until he died. When asked if he would continue to kill, he says, “Now I’m in prison, I think I’ll sit it out.”

Only towards the end of the video does he describe the moment when the taxi driver left the car and he was alone in the car. He only found ten euros. When asked if he was satisfied with it, he said: “It was enough to fill my stomach and continue driving.” With the money he bought chips and a Capri Sun. The trial continues on September 5, and the verdict is set for September 29.

Germany: Muslim migrant stabs man because he felt insulted

SEP 3, 2023 9:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

What happens when you admit large numbers of people into your country who believe that violence is an appropriate and even divinely sanctioned response to provocation under certain circumstances? This:

Victim (53) stabbed at Rewe: Iranian accused of attempted murder

Translated from “Opfer (53) bei Rewe niedergestochen: Iraner wegen Mordversuchs angeklagt,” 

by Mirko Voltmer, Bild, September 2, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):

Hanover – A wrong look, a wrong word – Behnam Y. (40) freaked out!

At the beginning of June, the Iranian rammed a knife 20 centimeters deep into the stomach of a 53-year-old in the Rewe parking lot on Marienstrasse. The victim survived. Now the 40-year-old is about to appear before the regional court for, among other things, double attempted murder.

Crazy: Shortly before the assassination he had injured the unknown 53-year-old on a bench on the street with a knife because he had obviously felt insulted. At first he went off, but then he came back with a bigger knife…

Islamic hysteria!

A week later, the fugitive Behnam Y. was caught in the Linden district – in custody. Then it came out that the Iranian, who, according to BILD information, is the father of five children, is also responsible for the attack on a jeweler on Badenstedter Strasse. In mid-January, a masked knifeman demanded the contents of the safe from employees.

The owner and employees managed to get the robber to flee. According to the prosecutor, a DNA hit led to the trail of the 40-year-old.

In Swedish City, Women Warned Not to Wear Expensive Jewelry

Because of Migrant Gangs

SEP 3, 2023 2:00 PM BY HUGH FITZGERALD

The gangs of migrants who are behind an epidemic of street robberies in Sweden are discussed here:

Swedes urged not to wear branded clothing or jewelry amid spike in robberies

and migrant gang violence

by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, August 29, 2023:

Police in the Swedish county of Värmland have urged residents not to wear branded clothing or expensive jewelry when walking through the county’s largest city of Karlstad due to a rise in robberies and migrant gang violence.

No-Go Zones

As reported by the Samnytt news outlet, citizens are being told to dress poorly to ensure they aren’t robbed, with local authorities identifying several areas within the inner city and the suburbs that should be avoided.

It’s a bad idea to wear any expensive items, such as “a branded vest, gold chains, or a cap,” said Tia Jylhä, the crime prevention coordinator for Karlstad district police.

The young people referred to are primarily recruits to migrant gangs, which have surged in notoriety across Sweden in recent years, as stated by several high-ranking law enforcement officers and Magdalena Andersson when she was serving as Swedish prime minister last year.

“Integration was poor, and alongside this, we have experienced intense immigration. Our society was too weak, while money for the police and social services was too little,” Andersson said of the state of affairs that has enabled migrant gangs to thrive in Swedish cities.

The Swedes must not blame themselves for the current dismal state of affairs. “Integration is poor” because it is the Muslims who refuse to integrate into that society, for they believe themselves to be “the best of peoples,” while the Swedes, as non-Muslims, are “the most vile of created beings.” Andersson should know that the epidemic of Muslim crime in Sweden is no different from that in the rest of Western Europe, where Muslim migrant gangs are making life hell for a great many people.

“The level of violence in the capital is high, and the number of people involved is frightening. Every day, three new people join the criminal environment, often children and young people,” warned National Police Chief Anders Thornberg back in May in reference to Stockholm; however, this is happening across Sweden….

Muslims now in Sweden consist almost entirely of economic migrants who arrived to take advantage of the many benefits the generous Swedish welfare state offers: free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education (including vocational training), unemployment benefits (without the need to have a prior work record in Sweden), family allowances, and more. But to supplement these benefits, young Muslim males engage in crimes of property: street robberies and home burglaries. And they are responsible as well for a seep rise in crimes of violence, too — rapes, assaults, murders. The rate of Muslim criminality, not just in Sweden but all over Europe, is three to four times that of non-Muslims. And that is why the police in Karlstad issued their warning to the women in the city: “Don’’t wear expensive jewelry or clothing.” That’s the best they can do. Meanwhile, the politicians in Stockholm dither, and refuse to recognize what is staring them in the face. To wit: the large-scale presence of Muslims in Sweden has resulted in a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for non-Muslims, than would be the case without that large-scale presence. And when they finally do comprehend the Islamic roots of the problem, only then will they pass legislation to prevent any further Muslim immigration, and work to reduce the number of Muslims who have already been allowed to live in generous, tolerant, rich, and discombobulated Sweden.

While all this is going on, an Iraqi, Salwan Momika, in June set fire to a Qur’an outside a Stockholm mosque during the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which triggered widespread condemnation throughout the Muslim world. In July, the same man stomped on and kicked a Qur’an in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm. In retaliation, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered the expulsion of the Swedish ambassador from Iraq and the withdrawal of the Iraqi charge d’affaires from Sweden. He also forced Ericsson, a Swedish company, to halt work in Iraq. But that was not enough to calm angry Iraqis; calm has not returned, either to Iraq or to other Muslim countries. The Muslim countries are demanding nothing less than the abandonment by Western democracies of the most important right of all, the one without which democracy cannot exist – free speech. The government of Sweden has distanced itself from the Qur’an burnings, calling them an “Islamophobic” act: “The Swedish Government fully understands that the Islamophobic acts committed by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden can be offensive to Muslims,” the foreign ministry said in a statement on July 23.

Muslims have no regard for Western freedoms. Unfree themselves – monarchies and despotisms prevail in the Arab and Muslim world — they do not appreciate, nor understand, what freedom of speech means, and why it is the most indispensable of rights in a democracy. The alacrity with which Sweden is ready to denounce those determined to exercise their free speech rights is disheartening. There is no need to distance themselves from those brave souls. Western countries should say only this: protecting the “freedom of speech” does not constitute “approval” of such speech. That’s enough. That’s more than enough.

Far-right militants in Greece illegally ‘arrest’ migrants

they blame for fires

Two videos posted online on August 23 show Greek members of the extreme right illegally “arresting” migrants in Evros, a Greek region bordering Turkey. The footage shows the militants forcing one group of men to sit in the dirt. Another group of terrified migrants have been crammed into a trailer. While members of the far right have carried out this type of illegal arrest of migrants before, it is rare to have footage of it. The attackers accuse the migrants of being responsible for the widespread fires in the region. These militiamen feel empowered by the political context hostile to migrants, say our Observers. 

But their motivation obviously comes from the lack of effort by the state to control these migrants.

Issued on: 04/09/2023 - 18:10; 5 min

By: Corentin Bainier, Observers

A member of the far right filmed this video after having illegally “arrested” four migrants in the Evros region of Greece in August 2023. © Observers

"Four more ... you see? It is noon and where are the authorities? [...] We will contact the police, but there is never any response,” rages the man filming a video posted online on August 27. While it is clear the video was filmed in the region of Evros, it’s not clear when it was filmed.  

The man filming points the camera at four men, migrants, sitting on the ground in the dirt behind a Land Rover. Meanwhile, at least two other men loiter alongside the vehicle – seemingly in cahoots with the man behind the camera. At the end of the video, the man turns the camera on himself and you can see that he is bearded and wearing a black tee-shirt and camouflage pants. 

The video was posted on social media by an account under the name Walandi Abrassis – likely the man who filmed it.  

A video posted online a few days earlier shows a similar scene – albeit even more disturbing. The guy filming focuses the shot on his Land Rover, which has a trailer attached. When he opens the door, there are at least four men crammed inside, looking terrified. 

“I've loaded up 25 of them into the trailer. Get organised, get them all out and grab them," he says. He seems to be speaking to his cronies about the migrant men in the trailer. "The whole mountain is full, guys.”

“They swore to burn us […] They will burn us, that’s all I’ll say,” he adds, this time referring to the wildfire that has been raging across the northeast of Greece, considered to be the largest ever recorded in the European Union. According to the local press, this video was filmed in Alexandroupoli, just a few kilometres from the Turkish border, the Evros River. 

The website the Press Project later reported that these militia men had “arrested” 13 migrant men, not 25 as the man filming claimed. The victims told journalists that the militants had beaten them with metal rods. 

“They took off all of our clothes and filmed us. We stayed there a long time, sweating and unable to breathe,” said one of the 13 men who was detained. 

Greek authorities have put the man who filmed this second video under house arrest awaiting charges.

'These militia members arrest migrants but because they can’t deport them, they hand them over to police'

Panayote Dimitras is the spokesperson for the Greek Helsinki Monitor, a human rights NGO that gathers information on migrants who have been forcibly deported from Greece either by the police or civilians:

This phenomenon has existed for decades, but this time they decided to share videos of their actions themselves. This footage illustrates things that organisations like ours have been reporting for a long time. The release of the footage resulted in a deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court assigning a local prosecutor to deal with it. That said, nothing has been done about all of these illegal deportations orchestrated by Greece, even though they have been widely documented. So it is doubtful that people will be punished here. However, all of this information can be added to the files that we can give to international institutions like the European Court of Human Rights to show how that happens to migrants in the region. 

We know that these militias cooperate with local police. In Evros, these militia members arrest migrants but because they can’t deport them, they hand them over to police. The police don’t report the incidents because if the migrants’ presence is recorded, then they have the right to claim asylum and can no longer be illegally deported. 

Far-right parties like the Golden Dawn and the Greek Solution are trying to find support in the region and it is clear that the men in these videos have links to local far right organisations.

The man who filmed the video posted on August 27 hasn’t yet been arrested. However, he was interviewed in a far-right publication as well as on Facebook. He claimed that he was just bringing water and assistance to migrants.  

Migrants blamed

On Greek social media, citizen patrol groups have been working together to chase off migrants who have crossed the border from Turkey, as shown in a report by the Press Project, which shared screengrabs of a conversation on Viber. Leaders of the far right openly blamed the fires on migrants travelling through Evros. The chairperson of the Greek Solution party, Paris Papadakis, who comes from Alexandroupoli, wrote on Facebook: “I have information about illegals who are disrupting the work of [Canadair] pilots. We need to act! […] We are at war”. 

On August 30, the rightwing Prime Minister, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, implied that migrants were behind the fire, though there is no proof of that. 

"It is almost certain that the causes are man-made,” the prime minister said. “It is also almost certain that the fire began on routes often used by illegal migrants who have entered our country.”

However, he added that “acts of self-defence and self-proclaimed sheriffs are not tolerated by this government”,

'They have a certain ideology that is not very different to that of the state: to protect the border, not letting people cross, using violence to prevent them'

Eva (not her real name) lives in Evros and has been following the situation closely. She asked to remain anonymous:

In March 2020, when Turkey opened its borders to put pressure on the European Union, police  officially asked for help from civilians in controlling the migrants who entered the country. A local organisation of fishermen on Evros, Aenisio Delta Evros, became very active in arresting migrants. Officially, that’s no longer the case and the police don’t want people to think that they tolerate that. But when you ask them if they are still doing it … they won’t respond to the question, which says a lot. 

A lot of these people have very good relations with the police and the army especially the Aenisio Delta Evros association, and also the local authorities. It’s wrong to call them vigilantes: they have an internalised ideology of protecting the border, to serve the state. In their mind, they don’t do anything to go against the interest of the Greek state. They have a certain ideology that is not very different to that of the state: to protect the border, not letting people cross, using violence to prevent them, which is a very significant pattern in Evros.

Several arrested in Sweden over new Quran burning

Euronews, September 3, 2023:

Swedish police have arrested two people and detained around 10 others after a violent riot broke out at a protest involving a burning of the Quran. Organised by Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, its the latest incident among protests which have sparked outrage across the Middle East.

Swedish police arrested more than ten people on Sunday after scenes of violence in Malmö which followed a rally during which a copy of the Quran was burned.

Sunday’s rally, organised by Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who initiated similar events that angered the Muslim world, took place in a square in Malmö, a city home to a large immigrant (read Muslim) population.

“Spectators showed their emotion after the organiser burned the writings,” the police said in a statement adding that “The atmosphere was stormy” as “violent riots” broke out in the early afternoon.

According to police, the gathering ended after the organiser left, but a group of people remained behind.

Around ten people were arrested for disturbing public order and two others arrested on suspicion of having participated in violent riots.

According to media reports, spectators threw stones at Salwan Momika….

Euronews avoids telling us who those arrested were and whether they were all Muslims or not.

Reality Contradicts The 'Acceptable Narrative' in Germany

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It's almost unanimous in western countries that right-wing advocates are the greatest danger to modern society. The stupidity of that 'acceptable narrative' should be obvious when you realize that almost all terrorism is perpetrated by Muslims; that crime rates in Europe have skyrocketed because of Muslim migrants; that there are dozens of, if not hundreds of No-Go Zones in Europe, all occupied by Muslims.

These statements are sufficient to explain a rise in right-wing activism, and yet, we see in Berlin that most danger comes from the far-left. 60 police officers injured in one day exceeds both Muslim and far-right damage by a considerable margin.

It's time to drop the 'acceptable narrative' in favour of the truth!

Squatters and left-wing radicals clash with German police in Berlin,

60 officers injured

16 Jun, 2021 19:36

Police officers stand near extinguished barricades at Rigaer Street in Berlin, Germany, on June 16, 2021.

©  Reuters / Axel Schmidt

A routine fire inspection has led to massive riots in the German capital as left-wing radicals protested a fire inspector’s visit to a Berlin squat. At least 60 police officers have been injured in the violent confrontation.

Barricades have been burning on the streets of Berlin’s Friedrichshain neighborhood on Wednesday. Squatters, left-wing radicals and their sympathizers erected them from rubbish, bicycles and barbed wire to block the authorities from accessing a house on one of the local streets.

Known as one of the most popular get-together locations among German left-wing radicals, the ill-fated house on the Rigaer Strasse had been occupied by squatters for a year until they were evicted in a massive police operation back in 2016. Since that time, however, it has been apparently occupied again.

Its residents, some of them without rental agreements, have recently even filed a complaint with a local court, challenging the decision of the building’s owner and the local authorities to send a fire inspector into the house. The complaint was rejected by the court which cited a public interest in mitigating the potential risks of fire in the building.

The squatters and the radicals were apparently not ready to give up so easily. Some started pelting the police with bottles and stones as law enforcement officers sought to breach the barricades.

The situation escalated further and the area started to look like an active combat zone. A helicopter was barraging amid the billows of black smoke clouding the skies. Some witnesses reported dozens of loud bangs.

Footage published by the Ruptly video news agency showed the police trying to break one of the barricades with an armored vehicle and using water cannons to extinguish the flames. Berlin’s “emergency services and fire fighters were not let through,” the police said in a statement on Twitter, adding that they were pelted with stones, including from the roofs of nearby buildings.

At least 60 police officers were injured in clashes, mostly by stones and bottles thrown by the rioters, a police spokeswoman, Anja Dierschke, told the Berliner Zeitung. The police also said that around 200 masked rioters clashed with police before retreating to nearby houses. Only one person has been arrested so far. A police team also managed to climb on the roof of the Rigaer Strasse house.

Berlin’s Interior Minister Andreas Geisel has canceled his participation in a conference of interior ministers on Wednesday because of the riots. “Those who burn car tires are not fighting for left-wing open spaces, but are harassing their own neighborhood,” he said.

The riots also drew condemnation from German politicians. Burkard Dregger, the head of the conservative Christian Democratic Union faction in Berlin’s parliament, accused the local ruling left-wing coalition of pandering to the “chaos” and “violence” of the leftist radicals. 

“They created the breeding ground for...violence that Berliners have suffered from for years,” he said.

Karsten Woldeit, a member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, called on the police to immediately and “decisively” confront those he called “leftist terrorists.” The “hotbeds of violence” should be cleared immediately, he said.

The squatters previously announced violent resistance to the fire inspection of the house which is scheduled for early Thursday morning. Earlier, the district authorities ordered the owner to conduct the inspection or pay a fine of €500,000 ($605,650).

Police have cordoned off nearby areas and announced that access to the district would be granted only to its residents between Wednesday and Friday evening. Law enforcement are preparing for a “major operation,” according to the local media.

Islam - Current Day - Rival Muslim Drug Gangs Fight It Out in Dijon

A social sore left to fester? How Dijon became the scene of open gang war

16 Jun, 2020 
© AFP / Philippe Desmazes

The French city of Dijon was rocked by chaotic scenes reminiscent of a war zone as rival gangs clashed following an assault on a Chechen teen – but was it more a “battle of territories” in a drugs war than simple score-settling?

For several nights, the rule of law seemed suspended in parts of the historic French tourist town, as Chechen and Maghreb gangs openly brandished weapons and took over city streets, prompting surreal scenes and leaving residents in fear of venturing outside their homes. 

Footage posted to Twitter showed a car speeding through a group of Chechens and flipping over, like a scene from a video game. The situation finally calmed on Monday, after the government deployed militarized police units to quell the unrest. Dijon Mayor François Rebsamen accused the Chechen community of attempting to “enforce its own right and law of retaliation.”

On social media, some offered the knee-jerk explanation that the violence gripping the French city was simply the inevitable result of immigration – and, indeed, the non-integration of Muslim immigrants in France has led to plenty of cultural clashes. Yet, the reality of how Dijon became the center of all-out gangland warfare is more complicated.

Speeding car FLIPS OVER amid clashes between Chechen and Arab gangs in Dijon, France

‘Sensitive neighborhoods’

The problem, it appears, boils down to the ghettoization of certain areas left to fester in crime, where many residents are terrorized and living in fear, the increasing powerlessness of local police and the subsequent ability of drugs gangs to enforce their own rules.

The exact number of Chechens in France is not known, but it’s estimated that around 15,000 refugees from the Chechen wars of the 90s and early 2000s lived in the country as of 2018. The communities are notoriously insular, with members preferring to stick to their own and have each other’s backs above all else. This, combined with the presence of North African drugs gangs, creates a tinderbox scenario – a disaster waiting to happen.

“The hardest part is the language barrier,” which “makes integration and access to work difficult,” Naourbek Chokuev, who teaches French to Russian speakers in Strasbourg told the AFP news agency in 2018. Unsurprisingly, some Chechen youths in these areas are radicalized rather than integrated into wider French society.

Reporting on the recent violence, France’s BFMTV network referred to the areas worst affected as “sensitive neighborhoods,” though French nationals often refer to them as immigrant “banlieues” or city “quarters” that are to be avoided.

Drug wars and a ‘battle for territory’

One journalist, who preferred to remain anonymous, told the Le Temps news website that he finds it “difficult” to believe the recent outbreak of violence is simply reprisal for the assault on a 16-year-old Chechen teen, as most reports have suggested.

“Look at the map. Dijon is ideally placed on the route of drug trafficking. Between the drug which arrives from Turkey by the east and that which goes up from the south of France, it’s a knot,” the journalist said. He suspects that recent seizures of cannabis near Dijon in May with an estimated street value of €4.5 million ($5.1 million) could have fueled what he calls a "battle of territories,” rather than the recent mayhem being a simple retaliation for the alleged assault on the teenager.

Dijon's unchecked Chechen-Algerian war shows tiptoeing around ethnic gang issues doesn't work

Public anger

The sudden escalation in violence was expected by some in Dijon, particularly as the Covid-19 lockdown began to wind down. “We felt that something was going to happen with the deconfinement,” one resident told Franceinfo, saying they had noticed that “the comings and goings of cars at drug outlets were much more than usual.”

An online poll by news website Le Figaro showed nearly 90 percent of respondents, out of more than 17,000, felt the police had not responded quickly enough to the violence.

There is certainly significant public anger over the seeming inability of the authorities to control the situation. The anger is all the more sharp because French citizens had to endure a stringent lockdown that saw even homeless citizens harassed by the police and fined for the crime of not remaining indoors. So futile were the attempts to enforce social distancing in the banlieues, however, that one government official advised police that it was “not a priority to enforce closings in certain neighborhoods.”

Legalization of drugs

An op-ed in the libertarian Contrepoint newspaper argued that police spend far too much time punishing ordinary citizens for non-violent and victimless crimes, while permitting total lawlessness among others.

The state is everywhere, it “monitors and punishes motorists who drive a little too fast or dispatches helicopters to discourage hikers who do not respect” Covid-19 rules, but it “does not fulfill its mission of fundamental protection” by allowing such scenes of street violence to unfold, the author wrote.

A possible solution, he said, would be to legalize the use and trade of cannabis. That would have “the concrete result of eliminating the mafias which are enriched by its trafficking and would allow the police to focus on something other than hunting down small dealers.” This, in turn, could bring down the levels of violence, he said.

A new normal?

While the problem of gang violence in the banlieues is hardly a new phenomenon, given that French police have been dealing with such issues for years, it certainly seems to be spinning more out of control and seeping out of the suburbs and into the cities themselves – a development that’s bound to spark fresh public debate on the situation.

“Until now,” one French columnist wrote in Le Figaro, “we imagined [this behavior] exclusively reserved for the ghettoized districts of the suburbs.”

Now these “symbolic boundaries” are disappearing, and the violence is metastasizing and out of control. Like many, she argues, this is because the powers-that-be have “turned a blind eye” to the endemic violence in these neighborhoods and given up enforcing the law.

There is a fear, she adds, that the scenes witnessed at the weekend in Dijon may not be an isolated case, “but the revealer of what awaits us in the future.”

Islam - Current Day > Germany's Forbidden Sharia Zone

Germany: Muslims declare a Sharia zone and forbid all unbelievers to enter,

threaten to kill infidels and cops

BY ROBERT SPENCER, Jihad Watch

Declaring enclaves that are free from the law of the land is all the rage these days, and this fad will continue, since government and law enforcement officials do not have the will to put a stop to it.

“Criminal clans threaten the police in Duisburg-Marxloh,” translated from “Kriminelle Clans bedrohen die Polizei in Duisburg-Marxloh,” by Christian Schwerdtfeger, General-Anzeiger, June 13, 2020:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse in the Marxloh district of Duisburg is one of the streets that are said to be firmly in the hands of Arab clans. The police patrol the pedestrian zone frequently, it is usually peaceful, and the officers sometimes wave to the many children playing. The situation was similar on the evening of May 17: at 6:07 p.m., a uniformed patrol car crew consisting of two officers and a third-year commissioner candidate was noticed by the German-Lebanese S., an 18-year-old frequent offender who is known to police and is a member of a large Lebanese family. This is a momentous encounter that will lead to a public reopening of the conflicts in the north of Duisburg and will make headlines nationwide in the following days.

Against S., born in Duisburg in July 2001, 75 investigations have already been carried out since 2014, mainly for property and violent crime, as stated in an investigative report by the police headquarters in Duisburg about the recent violence in Marxloh. The 13 pages are available to our editors. The report is declared with VS (classified information) – only for official use.

There is a pre-trial detention order against S. for dangerous bodily harm. That is why he escaped that May evening when he saw the officials, accompanied by two people who, according to the police, are said to belong to the support group of the Lebanese-born extended family. He ran into a residential building – dangerous terrain for the police. The blocks, according to the mission report, have a freely accessible system of cellars and backyards, and are inhabited by large Lebanese families. Nevertheless, the police officers decided to persecute (pursue?) S., but they request reinforcement by radio.

Large Arab families in Essen: Criminal clans threaten police officers

In the block of houses, S. wanted to flee into an apartment, but when he rang the doorbell, the door was not opened immediately. The police took advantage of this and caught up with him. They overwhelmed him with an “irritant sprayer” and “with simple physical violence.”

Meanwhile, the candidate for the commissioner blocked the front door of the house so that no supporters of S. could come to his aid. Outside, 25 people were already protesting loudly against the police operation. The reinforcements arrived and cleared the space, but were attacked, and some officers suffered minor injuries. S. threatened the police with death: he said he would kill them all at some point. Everyone knew how big his family was and who the police had just messed with.

Since the arrest of S. “the conflict seems to be boiling again in and around Marxloh,” according to investigators. The police tactic of zero tolerance, which has been used in the field for several years, actually works. Since 2017, with 24 “tumult situations,” the number has been reduced to eleven in 2018 and four in the past year, as stated in the present investigation file. But just in the days after the arrest in the stairwell there were two further tumult situations in the north of Duisburg, on May 19 and May 28.

On May 22, it is stated in the file, the police headquarters in Duisburg received an email with the threat of an attack and a warning to withdraw from Marxloh. “Subject: Allahu Akbar, Duisburg-Marxloh is our district. (…) We prohibit all unbelievers from entering our district. We will drive away or kill all police officers, journalists and other unbelievers by force of arms. For us, only the radical Sharia law applies,” says the letter. “We got 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles from Turkey and Russia with enough ammunition. Allahu Akbar, kill all unbelievers.”

Investigators find that the sender’s email address is part of a platform that disguises email addresses and identities. Investigators appear to be taking the threats seriously. According to the police file, the public prosecutor’s office sees this as an initial suspicion of disturbing public peace through the threat of crime….

While there are dozens of No-Go Zones in Sweden and France, and elsewhere in Europe, this is the first I have heard of in Germany. I think the Germans may react differently than the French and Swedes.

Swedish Police Face Looming Crisis as Cops Quit While No-Go Zones Increase

French Police Say Lawless ‘No-Go’ Areas Exist, Challenge PM Valls Who Says They Don’t

EU Has 900 ‘No-Go’ Areas Because of Migrants, Hungary Says

Search this blog for 'No-Go Zones' for several more articles.

RCMP Adopt Europe's Insane Policy of Downplaying Muslim Migrant's Connections with Terrorism

Mounties worried about anti-immigrant backlash after terrorism arrests: documents

Police detained, then released, a man of Syrian descent

during Project Salento last January

Catharine Tunney · CBC News

Police officers carry evidence after raiding a house in Kingston, Ontario, on Jan. 24, 2019.

(Lars Hagberg/Canadian Press)

The RCMP was worried about anti-immigrant backlash in the wake of an alleged Kingston terrorist plot and raised concerns about a rise in protests due to "the government's position on immigration," new internal documents show.

Last January, the national police force charged a minor following a series of raids at two homes in Kingston after getting a tip from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation — an operation dubbed "Project Salento."

Police also arrested an adult male in connection with an alleged plan to detonate explosives at an undisclosed location, but later released him. He was from Syria originally and came to Canada with his family in 2017 through a private refugee sponsorship program after living in Kuwait for 10 years.

On the day of the arrests, the RCMP, with the Kingston Police, drafted a public engagement strategy, a copy of which was obtained through an access to information request.

"The arrest of a Syrian refugee may cause some negative reaction on the Syrian population and immigrant population due to current anti-immigration sentiments," the strategy document reads.

"Families and communities are deeply affected when police take enforcement action during a national security investigation due to the stigma attached to 'terrorism'."

Community leaders work to head off anti-Muslim backlash as Kingston terror arrests wind up political debate

What we know and don't know about the alleged Kingston terrorist plot

A spokesperson for the force said such strategies represent a recent shift for the RCMP, which has long been criticized over its treatment of minorities in Canada. In recent days the RCMP has come under attack after a report surfaced saying police were prepared to use snipers on Wet'suwet'en Nation protesters blockading a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.

"Given the anti-immigration protests in Canada following the government's position on immigration, it was important to provide support to this affected community of Kingston," said Cpl. Caroline Duval.

"Historically, efforts for safeguarding Canada's national security used to be primarily focused on enforcement and disruption. Public engagement strategies are now undertaken with communities that are impacted by arrests of this nature. They are not necessarily common and the level of engagement and support to a community is determined on a case-by case basis."

In the hours after the arrests, police organized a town hall with Islamic community groups, mental health workers and counsellors in the Kingston area.

Duval said the RCMP did not receive any reports of hate-related activities targeting Kingston's Syrian community following the arrests.

"This being said, the RCMP must remain vigilant for potential threats to the safety and security of Canadians and take active measures to continue fulfilling this commitment," she said.

So, this would appear to be an over-reaction to a perceived problem that didn't exist. In other words, it is not 'security motivated', but 'politically motivated', so as not to offend any migrants, nor embarrass Canada's very Liberal government and their policy of immigrating mostly Muslim people. 

But the real problem here should be obvious to all. The RCMP have a program to deal with the possibility of racial threats to migrants, but have no such program to deal with the real threats to Canadians by the migrants, like the ones arrested in Kingston. Instead, they want to downplay the real threats, as they do in Europe, which only increases the danger to those Canadians who presume there is no real threat. So, in effect, they are over-protecting those who are potential terrorists, and demonizing regular Canadians who simply want to live in peace.

It's called #PCMadness, and it has resulted in the downplaying of hundreds of 'No-Go Zones' in Europe and the rape/gang-rapes of many unsuspecting girls and women.

"Particularly during sensitive times — as in the aftermath of Project Salento — the RCMP public engagement unit members meet with community representatives to apprise them of developments and to respond to any questions or concerns around the investigation and its potential impact."

Heated political debate on immigration 

Project Salento played out during a particularly heated political conversation about immigration in Canada, when many were expressing concerns about a rise in asylum seekers at the Canada-U.S. border.

As the story of the alleged Kingston attack gained traction in the news, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who has long called for tighter security at the border, attempted to assign some blame for the developments to the Liberal government.

"It is also clear that Canada's refugee screening process needs to be seriously examined," he said in a statement at the time, citing a 2017 audit of the Canada Border Services Agency which found gaps in the security screening of some Syrian refugees.

Ralph Goodale, then the public safety minister, called Scheer's comments on bolstering the security of the refugee screening system premature.

The teen's lawyer has said he hopes to proceed with a preliminary inquiry on the terrorism charges early this year.

This Week's 2nd Terror Attack in Europe - 19 Cars Burned in Stockholm

At least 19 cars burned, barber shop rocked by EXPLOSION in Stockholm suburb

FILE PHOTO. Burned cars are pictured in Gothenburg, Sweden. © AFP / TT News Agency / Adam Ihse

Some 19 cars have been torched in the northern Stockholm suburb of Marsta, while a small explosive device went off near a local barber shop. No suspects have been detained so far.

The early hours of Monday turned out to be very restless for the residents of the area, as they were woken up by at least two loud bangs which triggered a massive police and firefighter response.

It turned out an explosive device went off in front of a barber shop, heavily damaging its entrance, while cars were set alight in at least three locations across the neighborhood. Some 19 vehicles were destroyed by fire, according to local media.

So far, police have not established a link between the car fires and the explosion, treating them as separate incidents. Officers have been going door-to-door questioning residents but no suspects have been apprehended yet.

Arson attacks on cars have plagued Sweden for a few years now, happening in sprees and making international headlines.

Such incidents have repeatedly occurred in Stockholm and its suburbs, as well as other major cities, namely Malmo and Gothenburg.

The latter saw a particularly ‘hot’ August in 2018 when dozens of cars as well as several buildings were torched in a series of arson attacks.

The alarming growth of crime has resulted in certain neighborhoods of major cities, including Stockholm and Malmo, becoming virtual “no-go” zones. Authorities say high crime and poverty rates created these breeding grounds for gang violence and extremism.

Malmo, in particular, has developed a reputation as a crime hotspot in Sweden, where police went even as far as declaring a “hand grenade amnesty” back in 2018, urging residents to surrender their arsenals of explosives with no legal consequences or questions.

No-Go Zones are explicitly Muslim immigrants. While these particular acts may have not been acts of jihad, like the truck-attack in Limburg, Germany, but they are an indication of the lack of respect for the law and the country that took them in when they were desperate. There are a lot of criminal gangs and organized crime in these no-go zones, which is an indication of Sweden's government's remarkable stupidity for taking in far too many migrants than they were capable of handling.

Volvo Struggling to Attract Foreign Specialists Due Partly to Sweden's High Crime Rate

Volvo CEO laments Sweden’s high crime rate,

says company might move its HQ abroad

Volvo Car Corporation Headquarters in Gothenburg   ©  Reuters / Bob Strong

The head of the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has created quite a stir at home, saying that his company struggles to attract foreign specialists due to the lack of public security and may be considering moving elsewhere.

Speaking to the daily Svenska Dagbladet, Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson lamented the fact that the auto manufacturer has been gradually losing its appeal to foreign tech experts and engineers, as well as top managers. The problem, according to him, partly lies in the fact that the specialists are reluctant to move to Sweden’s second largest city of Gothenburg, where Volvo’s headquarters are located, because of the arguably high crime rate.

“We are building cars, we cannot solve this problem,” Samuelsson told SvD. “Yet, one can still point out that this problem does exist.” Among the other issues he mentioned were the lack of affordable housing and schools.

The Volvo CEO even mentioned that the company might potentially consider moving its headquarters somewhere else – probably even out of Sweden – if this situation does not change. He hastened to say that Volvo is not considering such possibility just yet, but he would not completely rule it out in the future.

Samuelsson's words provoked an angry reaction from Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord, who dismissed them as “unfair.”

The general situation in the city is not that bad, he said, explaining that something that is seen as “normal” elsewhere somehow gets “undeservedly great attention” in Sweden.

Could be because Sweden used to be a law-abiding place?

The American shipping company, UPS, has reportedly stopped delivering parcels to a notorious neighborhood in Malmo, Sweden, often labeled a “no-go zone,” following a wave of attacks on their drivers.

Nord also criticized Sameulsson for what he described as relying too much on social media, which provides a distorted view of the situation, according to the police chief.

“Even such people as Hakan Samuelsson get their information from what they read on Facebook and Twitter. That does not mean it is true,” Nord told the Swedish media, adding that “Gothenburg is a fairly safe city” as compared with other cities around the world.

But will you compare it to Gothenburg 10 or 20 years ago?

Samuelsson may get his information from the internet because the police, the government and the media in Sweden all conspire to downplay anything bad involving migrants and Muslims. The proof of that is in this very article where you will not find those two terms except where I have added them. This despite the fact that migrants and Muslims commit a grossly disproportionate number of crimes compared to their relative size.

Other Swedish officials, however, were seemingly more favorable towards the Volvo CEO’s assessment of the situation. Prime Minister Stefan Loefven said he had “respect” for Samuelsson’s opinion.

“If Volvo experiences [such problems] then it is so,” he said, vowing to build more homes, make education better, and combat crime.

“We are investing more in higher education. We train twice as many police officers as before we took office,” Loefven told journalists.

And about the migrants who are criminals - what are we doing with them?

Axel Josefson, a municipal official from Gothenburg, said that he is well aware of the city’s problems and “agrees” with the criticism voiced by the CEO.

Criminal activities in Sweden’s second-largest city have indeed featured in the headlines for quite some time. Back in August 2018, Gothenburg saw a massive crimes surge, with dozens of cars as well as several buildings getting torched in a series of arson attacks.

A year prior, some areas of Gothenburg were described as virtual “no-go zones,” which have high crime and poverty rates and serve as fertile ground for religious extremism.

And that is as close as the media will get to saying migrants and Muslims.

‘Political Islam’ Wants to ‘Secede’ from France – Macron

Of course, he is wrong to begin with; Islam doesn't want to secede from France; Islam wants France under Sharia Law. Islam wants every country under Sharia. But, at least Macron has recognized there is an elephant in the room and verbalized that realization. It may be too late to do anything about it, but, you never know.

©Reuters / Benoit Tessier

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed an ‘intractable’ fight against ‘political Islam,’ which he said seeks secession from the French Republic. His comments left many puzzled about his goals.

After delivering a speech addressing numerous social issues tied to France’s burgeoning protest movement, the Yellow Vests, Macron’s press conference took an odd turn when he laid into the French Muslim population.

“We are talking about people who, in the name of a religion, pursue a political project,” he said. “A political Islam that wants to secede from our Republic,” against which he asked the government to be “intractable.”

Macron also gave a ringing defense of French secularism, and called out “communitarianism.”

No-Go Zones, France

“We must not hide ourselves when we talk about secularism, we do not really talk about secularism, we talk about the communitarianism that has settled in certain districts of the Republic,” Macron said, referring to Muslim communities.

The government has in recent months worked to strengthen the enforcement of a 1905 law mandating a separation of church and state, Macron said, threatening to shut down “more associations or cultural institutions when they do not respect the rules of the Republic."

The move appears to make good on a statement Macron gave last year, saying he wanted to create an “Islam of France,” wherein the government would “set down markers on the entire way in which Islam is organized” in the country.

Good luck with that, Emmanuel! Better men than you have tried to rescue Islam from its barbaric roots, and failed miserably. Islam will always come back to its violent, bloody, intolerant roots.

Swedish Parliament Rejects Center-Right PM Candidate, No End in Sight to Political Deadlock

Just as British Columbia prepares to vote for or against changing our voting system from First Past The Post to Proportional Representation, Sweden gives us a great example of how well Proportional Representation works

(L) © Reuters / TT News Agency / Henrik Montgomery; (С) © TT News Agency / Pontus Lundahl; © (R) TT News Agency / Anders Wiklund

Sweden’s Riksdag has voted against Ulf Kristersson’s candidacy for prime minister, after his center-right allies refused to create a future coalition that would rely on support from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats.

The previously expected result leaves Sweden without a permanent government two months after the election, an unprecedented political stalemate in the country’s democratic history.

The Sweden Democrats backed Kristersson’s Moderates, but he received the support of only 154 deputies, short of the 175 majority needed. The 195 that voted against included the center-left, green and socialist parties, and the Liberal and Center parties, who campaigned together with Kristersson ahead of September’s election.

“It is a difficult day to vote against a colleague in our alliance,” Liberals leader Jan Bjorklund said. “But today’s vote is about something more and something bigger. There’s a rising tide of right-wing nationalism in the western world, which is a counter reaction to globalization, European cooperation, free trade, openness – those liberal ideas that have built our entire successful western model of society.”

Say what? How many dozens of 'no-go' zones are there in Sweden? Has not Sweden the 2nd highest rate of rape in the world? Have you never heard of the Nordic Paradox? Is not the extreme right rising because of your blindness to the troubles in Sweden? This is the 'successful western model of society'? It's more like cultural suicide to me.

Liberal pride, arrogance and blindness (deliberate blindness) makes them incapable of humbling themselves to work with anyone who doesn't believe in their (read George Soros') globalization protocol, the madness of which is obvious to everyone but them.

Although Kristersson freely conceded he was unlikely to win in advance, the vote was called by speaker Andreas Norlen to prompt a resolution to the post-election impasse.

There are now three official votes left to find a head of government before a new election must be called, but none of the other candidates look well-placed to capitalize. The center-left and other parties on its wing have fewer than half of the chamber, a centrist grand coalition is unprecedented, and no right-wing coalition is possible without the Sweden Democrats.

The mainstream parties are wary of another popular vote, as polls show that the nationalist Sweden Democrats are only gaining in popularity as the crisis drags on, meaning that the situation will be repeated unless enough parties work with the upstarts.

The previous socialist government of Stefan Lofven remains in power by default, despite being officially removed in an earlier Riksdag ballot, but will find it difficult to approve an ideologically purposeful budget for next year amid the squabbling.

Elections in Sept 2017 in Germany also resulted in more than 4 months of wrangling before they could form a government.