A 20-year-old man who allegedly tried to kill his 17-year-old girlfriend in Linz in October last year has stood trial on Friday for attempted murder. The accused does not admit to having intended to kill the teenager, the whole crime had happened “unintentionally” or “by mistake”, he said. Still on the day of the crime, the Afghan is said to have declared that he would “cause a bloodbath” and that he would do again and again what he had done with his girlfriend.

According to the indictment, the 20-year-old asylum seeker, who has been in Austria for five years, and the 17-year-old, who lives in a residential group, had an on-off relationship. They have a common two-year-old son who lives with a foster family. There had been frequent arguments about visiting rules, the accused described. His ex-girlfriend, on the other hand, said that he had been very jealous and had often called her names. He had also once said that he would “chop her head off” if she turned to somebody else. However, he had never physically assaulted her before.

On October 18, the couple again had an argument in the 17-year-old’s room. In the course of the argument, the 20-year-old allegedly took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his girlfriend in the neck. Eventually, she managed to take the knife away from him, whereupon he fetched another one, the prosecutor said. In total, the woman suffered eight stab wounds, mostly to the neck. The prosecution considers this an attempted murder.

The accused pleaded guilty and eloquently described the quarrel with his son’s mother, “she caused me a lot of problems”. But when the judge asked him if or how he had stabbed, he remained vague: “I lost control, I don’t know how it happened”, he said, another time he answered: “We had a scuffle. In the commotion, the knife struck her neck”, or “the knife somehow got in her throat”.

According to the indictment, the victim begged the 20-year-old to let her call the ambulance. He allowed the girlfriend to do so on the condition that she said she had injured herself. In fact, the young woman stated this to the first responders and only told them about the attack by her boyfriend in hospital. The boyfriend was also taken to hospital. There he is said to have behaved very aggressively and to have announced a “bloodbath”. However, he does not remember this exactly. Perhaps he had said something “in his sleep or in a dream” or was not understood so well because of the language barrier, he assumed.

The psychiatric expert Adelheid Kastner certified the defendant’s sanity. Although she considered him “not entirely harmless”, she did not see the necessity of imprisonment. She described the 20-year-old, who had apparently never been educated, as intellectually only moderately gifted, excitable and with “a flexible attitude to facts”. He had attracted negative attention several times in previous care facilities, among other things because of a “certain affinity for knives”, and there were also drug problems.

The police records show that the accused repeatedly told different versions of the events. During questioning, he claimed that his girlfriend had attacked him with a knife and choked him. The young woman was stunned during the questioning: “None of this is true, not a single word.

The jury is not expected to reach a verdict until later that night.

https://www.tt.com/artikel/30790551/prozess-in-linz-messerangriff-auf-freundin-aus-versehen

At the beginning of October, a raid by the tax authorities on 211 Turkish-Islamic institutions made headlines. Seven months later, there are now new explosive details about alleged tax tricks. Millions in cash are said to have been paid for properties in Vienna, and an Erdogan association even received Corona aid.

As reported, operators of cultural associations, mosques, Islamic kindergartens and schools are being targeted. And the investigators are demanding millions back from almost half of the controlled institutions of four umbrella organisations – among them Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s extended arm ATIB. The people concerned, however, deny all accusations.

The accusations of the tax authorities are explosive: In contrast to the alleged non-profit status due to donations, money was cashed in on weddings, Islamic festivities and funerals including catering and even pilgrimages. The money was also allegedly used to buy real estate in Vienna in cash. Due to the lack of records or receipts, the investigation is difficult and time-consuming.

The fact that an Erdogan association is said to have received Corona subsidies from Vice-Chancellor Werner Kogler’s fund, which was actually intended for fire brigades or aid organisations, has caused a stir in tax advisor circles.

https://www.krone.at/2403550

New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) MP Mathias Vanden Borre filmed an assault on him by Africans in broad daylight in Brussels. “I was attacked, stomped, beaten, and almost robbed,” Vanden Borre told a Flemish daily. The MP was able to flee but sustained injuries. The police have confirmed the story and are conducting an investigation.

The events occurred at around 5pm in Brussels in the Essegem neighborhood, reported Het Laatste Nieuws about the attack on Mathias Vanden Borre. “I was with my wife and my 7-day-old son visiting a photographer. While my wife and my son were still inside, I went out for a walk around the block,” said Vanden Borre. The N-VA member of Parliament knows the area because he himself lives nearby.

“Suddenly six or seven young guys came walking behind me. They began yelling at me to intimidate me. I grabbed my cell phone and began to film. Then they came closer. I first got a kick in my side, then a blow on my jaw. One of them tried to steal my cell phone. Then I ran.”

Vanden Borre was able to escape, but the African mob ran after him. “Then I ran another 500 meters and called the police.” They were at the scene within a few minutes with several teams, according to the MP.

“My jaw is swollen, and I suffer from ringing in the ears,” says Vanden Borre, who visited a doctor on the same afternoon and has been booked off work for three days. He has no idea why the youths attacked him. “They came after me out of nowhere,” said Vanden Borre.

A police spokesperson confirmed to HLN that an investigation of the attack was in progress. Whether the perpetrators have been caught is not clear. “A police officer immediately recognized one of the guys from my images. So I assume that they are well-known to the police,” Vanden Borre added. He hopes that the images taken, which he has put on social media, will help in the identification of his attackers.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/05/01/new-flemish-alliance-parliamentarian-violently-attacked-by-africans/

They each got their personal photo of the Turkish president: Kemal Ergün, the chairman of the Islamic Community Milli Görüs based in Cologne, his colleague from the Turkish religious umbrella organisation Ditib, Kazim Türkmen, Durmus Yildirim, head of the far-right Grey Wolves umbrella organisation Atib – and Köksal Kus, new chairman of the European AKP lobby organisation UID.

All of them and other representatives of German-Turkish organisations were invited to Ankara this week and were welcomed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish Defence Minister Hulusai Akar. Photos of the meeting were disseminated by the Turkish government on the internet. The content of the talks was not made public.

Nevertheless, the politically explosive trip reveals a lot about the efforts of the Turkish ruling party AKP to influence the Turkish community in Germany. This is what Burak Copur, a researcher on Turkey and political scientist based in Essen, believes.

In an interview with the newspaper WELT, Copur emphasised the “remarkable timing” of the delegation’s trip. It coincides with a time of intense discussion in Germany about the Grey Wolves and the AKP lobby organisation UID. The pressure on the organisations is currently increasing, Copur states. The meeting in Ankara is therefore a “call for help to Erdogan”.

For years, experts have pointed to the close ties of the participating organisations to the Turkish government. Erdogan’s meeting with representatives of UID, Ditib, Milli Görüs, Atib, the business association Müsiad and the Federation of Turkish Democratic Idealist Associations in Germany (ADÜTDF), which is also part of the Grey Wolves movement, has a “new dimension”. All the organisations and institutions that are important in the AKP’s network are involved. Apparently, they had come to the conclusion that “a common strategy” was needed.

Apparently, the organisations are looking for a way out of the crisis. German politicians have recently spoken more clearly regarding the activities of AKP-affiliated lobby groups and Turkish nationalists. During the visit of the German delegation, Mustafa Sentop, Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, said: “It is important that we jointly oppose the attacks on our country, our flag, our citizens and our state property within the framework of the law.

Last November, the German Parliament approved a motion by the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party (Greens), which called on the federal government to consider banning the Grey Wolf associations. However, high legal hurdles have prevented this so far. A study commissioned by the American Jewish Committee in Berlin has just put the number of members of the nationalist movement at just under 18,500. This means that the group remains the most powerful right-wing extremist organisation in Germany. The report on the protection of the constitution for 2019 states: “The different forms include classical racism as well as the fringes of Islamism”.

The German government describes the UID as a lobbying association supervised by AKP functionaries, which tries to “influence the political decision-making process in Germany in favour of the AKP”. Criticism of the Islamic associations Ditib and Milli Görüs also continues.

Copur expects a reaction from Ankara to the increasingly critical words. “We have to fear,” warns the political scientist, “that the meeting was also about how to deal with Erdogan critics in Germany in the future”.

ADÜTDF President Sentürk Dogruyol also posted a photo on social media showing a meeting with the leader of the far-right Turkish party MHP Devlet Bahceli. Copur is concerned about the picture: “To all appearances, files were exchanged there. We have to expect that these talks will have repercussions in Germany.” The meeting of the participants with Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar also catches the eye, he says. What are associations that also indirectly sit at the table at the Islam Conference looking for with the Turkish defence minister?” asks Copur.

Atib is the largest member organisation of the Central Council of Muslims, which in turn is a member of the German state Islam Conference. In the latest report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Atib is said to have an ideology “which represents an exaltation of Turkishness and is characterised by a pronounced thinking in terms of friend and foe, which leads to systematic devaluation of other ethnic groups or religions, in particular the Kurds and Judaism”.

Expert Copur therefore takes the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) to task. “The BMI must ask itself how it can be that a right-wing extremist organisation like the Atib is allowed to be involved in the Islam Conference in Germany while it is making politics in Turkey alongside Erdogan,” criticises Copur.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article230775615/Ditib-UID-Graue-Woelfe-Gipfeltreffen-der-Erdogan-Lobby-in-Ankara.html

The controversial Salzburg political scientist Farid Hafez was the subject of discussion in the European Parliament this week. A motion for a resolution by German Member of the European Parliament Markus Pieper ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU) laments that “Hafez has repeatedly received funding from the EU budget despite being closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish government, which seek to silence independent journalists and media freedom under the pretext of Islamophobia”.

The motion, adopted by a two-thirds majority, calls on the EU Commission to “amend the eligibility criteria for the ‘Rights, Equality and Citizenship’ programme under the EU budget to prevent individuals and organisations with such alarming views from receiving EU funding”.

Hafez’s EU-sponsored engagement against “Islamophobia” and “anti-Muslim racism” has long divided the political and academic scene, as well as Muslims.

In November, the resident of Upper Austria himself was the target of house searches among suspected Muslim Brothers. After he compared this “Operation Luxor” to the Nazi pogroms in 1938 in an article published in the USA, even the Salzburg university distanced itself from him.

He had “absolutely no understanding for comparing the procedure in a democratic constitutional state like Austria with events in the Nazi era”, said Reinhard Heinisch, Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. At the same time, however, Heinisch joined a supporters’ committee that condemns the raid on Hafez as an “intimidation attempt against a recognised academic”.

Hafez denies any connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. “No, I am not a Muslim Brotherhood member and I am not an Islamist,” he said in a press interview. Hafez also denies any proximity to the Turkish government.

The fact is, however, that he has been publishing the annual “Islamophobia Report” on behalf of the Turkish Seta Foundation since 2016. It not only denounces incidents that are actually hostile to Muslims, but also labels liberal Muslims and critics of political Islam as Islamophobes.

In the most recent report, even the Nobel Prize winner for literature Peter Handke, who is not known as a critic of Islam, made it onto the front cover. The judgement is based on Handke’s “glorification of the Serbs during the genocide in Bosnia” in the 1990s.

The Seta Foundation is a “non-partisan think tank” for Hafez, in fact it propagates the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In 2019, it caused outrage with a list of journalists critical of the government.

The EU funding for the “Islamophobia Report” commissioned by Seta had already prompted Austrian People’s Party MEP Lukas Mandl to sharply criticise the EU Commission’s funding practice two years ago. He feels vindicated by the latest parliamentary decision.

“I hope that the Commission will follow Parliament’s clear mandate to act,” Mandl told the VOLKSBLATT newspaper. The Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Greens rejected the motion for a resolution.

https://volksblatt.at/eu-parlament-kein-geld-mehr-fuer-umstrittenen-islamophobie-forscher/

“A grey passport” gives Turkish authorities the opportunity to allow individual Turkish citizens to enter Germany via the small official channels and without the bureaucratic hurdle of applying for a visa. The “grey passport” is an official service card that certifies that the holder is performing certain tasks on behalf of the issuing municipality in Germany. German customs have accepted such documents for years.

Now, however, the realisation is taking hold that – would you believe it? – an extensive abuse has been carried out. Eastern Anatolian communities in particular are suspected of simply selling the coveted documents to anyone who will pay for them. A “grey passport” is said to be worth 6000 to 8000 euros. In one case, a tour group put a used truck on the authority’s yard in return for 20 “grey passports”, the newspaper “Die Welt” reports.

Turkish companies in Germany reportedly occasionally write invitations to imaginatively invented events in Germany to their compatriots, for whose participation Turkish municipalities then issue the necessary service cards. The meetings never take place. Even in Corona times, many well-behaved German officials apparently did not notice that these were fake events. In other cases, invitations from German companies were apparently simply falsified.

So some Oriental officials are evidently playing a lucrative game with letters and seals that are taken seriously by German authorities and pave the way for Turks to come to Germany who would otherwise only have been allowed to enter as tourists for a few weeks. Nobody could have expected that, could they?

http://www.pi-news.net/2021/04/so-schleusen-tuerkische-behoerden-illegale-nach-deutschland/

Christian Piquemal, the charismatic former commander of the French Foreign Legion, and more than 1000 other former and active French military personnel have made a dramatic appeal to the French public.

More than 100 high-ranking active and former officers of the French armed forces and more than 1000 other French military personnel warned in an open letter of the possibility of civil war in France. “The violence is increasing day by day,” says the appeal, referring to the murder of the teacher Samuel Paty last year.

The danger comes from “Islamism and the hordes from the immigrant areas” as well as from a left-wing political milieu that preaches “anti-racism”. “There is no time to hesitate, otherwise the civil war will put an end to the growing chaos and the death toll will be […] in the thousands.”

The high-ranking former officers around the 80-year-old former commander of the French Foreign Legion, Christian Piquemal, declared themselves ready to “support politicians who guarantee the protection of the nation”.

The outcry of the political class in France was correspondingly loud. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, chairman of the Left Party, called the ex-soldiers “rebels”. Florence Parly, the French defence minister, has announced that she would be examining the possibility of action against all signatories of the Open Letter who are on active military service.

The French government is apparently having a look at how to counter the call.

“What seems most likely to me in this case are possible prosecutions for incitement to conduct contrary to duty and disciplinary action, as provided for in Article L322-18 of the Code of Military Justice,” explained Elodie Maumont, lawyer specializing in French military law.

Marine Le Pen, on the other hand, has been encouraged by the letter. She asked the signatories of the appeal to support her party in the upcoming French presidential election campaign.

Christian Piquemal headed the French PEGIDA movement at a large demonstration in Calais in 2016 and then lost the right to appear in public in uniform. A court acquitted him of the charge of having committed crimes however.

In a 2017 interview with reinformation.tv, Piquemal commented: “Immigration is massive, uncontrolled. This will lead to the disappearance of nation-states and populations […] The identity of large countries and in particular of France will disappear if an end is not put to this creeping Islamization which is due to uncontrolled immigration.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/29/frances-generals-warn-of-civil-war/

According to a study by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), there are currently between 5.3 and 5.6 million Muslims living in Germany. For comparison, according to the internet portal Statista, the number of Muslims was around 4.5 million in 2015 and around 4.2 million in 2009.

[…] The number of Muslims in Germany has increased in recent years. This is the result of a study presented by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) together with the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Nuremberg on Wednesday. According to the study, between 5.3 and 5.6 million people of the Muslim faith currently live in Germany, which corresponds to a share of 6.4 to 6.7 per cent of the total population.

“The Muslim population has become more diverse in the context of immigration from Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East in recent years,” said BAMF President Hans-Eckhard Sommer. […] (Source: Welt.de)

The development of the number of Muslims from 2009 to 2015 alone shows that the statistics probably only reflect half the truth and are rather glossed over; an increase of only around 300,000 in six years is almost impossible, given the high birth rate and immigration. The increase between 2015 and 2020 also belongs to the world of fantasy. Since 2015, around two million so-called refugees have “officially” entered the country, almost all of them Muslims.

For decades, the citizens have been told the old wives’ tale that the proportion of Muslims in Germany’s population is not particularly high, which serves to reassure and argue against critical voices that warn of Islamisation, repopulation and of a Muslim majority. One can only guess how many Muslims are already living in Germany, it could already be between 15 and 20 million if one looks at the school classes and the street scene in the large and medium-sized cities, with the small towns gradually catching up.

The spread and thus the increasing influence of Islam, is not exactly reassuring, a look at Sweden and France shows the future, which is by no means rosy.

https://politikstube.com/eine-studie-aus-der-fabelwelt-nur-rund-55-millionen-muslime-sollen-in-deutschland-leben/