“Generation Identitaire is securing the border” to confront “the rise of the Islamist threat and the massive arrival of illegal migrants”, a press release published on Jan. 18 by the French Identitarian youth organization explained.

Last week, some 30 young Identitarian activists from Génération Identitaire launched a new “Defend Europe” mission at the Col du Portillon pass in the Pyrenees mountains, at the border with Spain. On Jan. 5, Prefect Étienne Guyot, who is the French government’s direct representative in the department of Haute-Garonne, announced that he had ordered the closure of the border at the Col du Portillon mountain pass because of the “terrorist threat which remains very high at national level” and of “sustained movements of migrants”.

On Jan. 18, French Identitarian activists embarked on an action with the goal to check whether the border had really been shut down at the mountain pass as Guyot claimed.

Generation Identitaire’s action in the Pyrenees was accompanied by three pick-up cars and manned with French activists only. It was very similar to the previous “Defend Europe” mission launched in April 2018 at the Col de l’Echelle pass in the Alps at the border between France and Italy, but the action was more low-key as they did not use a helicopter this time and were not joined by Identitarian activists from other European countries due to current health restrictions on international travel.

For that reason, their action did not unleash nearly as much anger in the media and among mainstream politicians as in April 2018, but there were still some decrying the action, including the Occitanie region’s socialist president, Carole Delga, and the Haute-Garonne department’s socialist president, Georges Méric. Méric demanded that the French prefect “decisively and immediately put an end to such an act of force as it is disgraceful and contrary to the values of the Republic”.

Reacting to those appeals from local political leaders, prefect Guyot informed that he was going to bring the case to court.

“We cannot be easily intimidated,” young Identitarian leader Thaïs d’Escufon told Remix News on the phone when asked this Monday if they fear a new judicial process. And she added that having won their appeal last Dec. 16 after two and a half years of proceedings for their 2018 action in the Alps, the risk of being prosecuted by the French state is now lower.

As a matter of fact, the young woman told Remix News that when activists from Génération Identitaire arrived at the border at the Col du Portillon pass on Jan. 18, there was not a single border control enforcement officer in sight in spite of the prefect’s order to shut down this part of the border with Spain and to ban all car and pedestrian traffic through the pass.

The Col du Portillon is a regular route used by illegal immigrants traveling from Spain further north into Europe, and with the Spanish government actively transferring migrants from the Canary Islands and setting them free on the mainland, there have been increased numbers of such migrants illegally crossing the border in the Pyrenees lately.

As Thaïs told Remix News, gendarmerie forces showed up only to observe what Identitarian activists were up to, but they had to take a few migrants into custody when the young civilian French citizens notified them of their whereabouts. She could not say, however, whether those illegal immigrants were later expelled back to Spain or released by French authorities and allowed to move about freely.

Génération Identitaire had nonetheless announced that their intention was not to catch migrants at the border themselves, which they are not allowed to do under French law, but to contact police and gendarmerie forces “to allow them to intercept and expel illegal immigrants”. In theory, this is what any citizen is supposed to do when confronted with a situation where someone is breaking the law, as migrants do when illegally crossing the border. That is why Generation Identitaire’s indiciates that that its latest “Defend Europe” mission, which ended last Wednesday, was success, as the team of activists says it lays bare the fact that the prefect’s order to control the border with Spain to stop potential terrorists and other illegal immigrants was only a public relations ploy by the French government and was still not in force on the field almost two weeks later.

In France, prefects are the government’s direct representatives in departments and as such they are responsible for executing the government’s orders. But instead of trying to control illegal immigration as it said it would finally start doing after the terrorist attack by a Muslim boat migrant freshly arrived from Tunisia through Italy last October, the French government has been looking for ways to criminalize the entire Génération Identitaire movement.

During a press conference held on Jan. 26, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that he had asked his ministry “to gather all elements which would allow the interior minister to propose the dissolution of Génération Identitaire”, explaining he had been “particularly outraged” by Génération Identitaire’s action in the Pyrenees and by the way young Identitarian activists “undermine the Republic”.

The fact that the activists’ most recent action helped reveal a government that was not delivering on its promises of border security, there are worries that these attempts to silence the Génération Identitaire organization represent a threat to rule and law and repression of political groups critical of the government. 

French Identitarians’ new ‘Defend Europe’ mission sparks government anger after revealing total lack of border security with Spain

The bus on route 71 had almost reached its destination when the attack began. According to witnesses, on July 6, 2020, the attacker stabbed a woman several times with a kitchen knife shortly before reaching Obergünzburg in the Ostallgäu district until he was overpowered by the bus driver. The victim died, several pupils witnessed the crime. Since Tuesday, the victim’s husband has had to answer for the murder of the 27-year-old woman before the Kempten Regional Court. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment. The accused remained silent at the start of the trial. The prosecution accuses him of having planned the crime and of having carried it out insidiously – out of revenge for a supposed humiliation (Ref.: 210 Js 12078/20).

According to the report, the 38-year-old Afghan had previously physically abused his wife and children. In November 2019, he had, among other things, thrown a dish at his daughter’s head after she had, in his view, arrived home too late. When his wife intervened, he had hit her several times – and had already threatened the daughter that he would stab her mother.

When the wife and their children lived separately from the accused and ordered a ban on contact for her husband, he had developed a ” big grudge”, according to the prosecution. He was angry that he could no longer fulfil the role of head of the family. The man feared that he would lose reputation in the Afghan community in Obergünzburg.

These accusations were substantiated by a girlfriend of the victim. She testified in court that the accused had often been jealous of his wife and had “suspected” her of talking to other men. In addition, he had repeatedly abused and threatened her. Among other things, he had told their children that he would “make mincemeat” of her.

As a result, the woman was often afraid, the witness said. She had therefore taken a longer way to the bus to wait at a bus stop where there were more people around. The two women had recognised the accused during the bus ride to Obergünzburg on their way back from the German language class in Kempten, but the attack itself had still surprised her.

According to the prosecution, this was exactly why the accused planned an attack in public: he had assumed that the woman would feel safe on the bus. Several passengers testified in court that the attack came from behind and without warning. “She had no chance,” said a student who had witnessed the attack.

According to several passengers, the attack was only stopped when the bus driver intervened. The 31-year-old overpowered the attacker and threw him out of the bus, he said. His victim, however, was no longer responsive at the time.

According to the autopsy report, the woman died very quickly as a result of several of the eleven stab wounds. Among other things, one of the knife wounds severed the right ventricle, and the lungs, liver and diaphragm were also hit.

The resuscitation initiated at the scene of the crime was “hopeless”, said a forensic doctor. The woman’s heart had probably already stopped beating while the attacker was still stabbing her. However, no injuries caused by the woman’s defence had been found.The woman’s husband was arrested by the police after a short escape and has been in custody since July 2020. According to the Kempten Regional Court, a verdict in the murder trial against him is expected in mid-February.

https://www.fnp.de/welt/prozess-in-kemptentoedliche-messerattacke-in-linienbus-zr-90180576.html?fbclid=IwAR0hc5CjSShFPuSLJeQR7sNUxj4YothsvUEuMp7mcrwLKpSuVk5yEyus85U

Joe Biden removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Predictable, as was the fact that he would put Latin leader Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt in his place. Upon his arrival in the White House, Barack Obama was the first to remove Churchill’s bust, but Donald Trump had replaced it.

“The Oval Office is the President’s private office and it is up to him to decorate it as he wishes,” a spokesman for Downing Street said with Englsh forebearance. Quite right. But something about his choices, not just his aesthetic ones, tells us about him.

In 2016, then London Mayor Boris Johnson said of Obama: “Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislikeof the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender”. Obama replied that there are “so many tables where you can put busts, otherwise it starts looking a little cluttered”. Not exactly a certificate of esteem for Churchill.

Jeremy Corbyn’s number two and shadow chancellor John McDonnell also called Churchill a “villain”. Last summer, in the wake of riots by Black Lives Matter, the movement that the Democrats and Kamala Harris have supported, Churchill’s monument in London was vandalized and the British authorities were forced to cover it from public view.

Why do they hate Churchill so much?

Let us go back to the period before and during WWII: The sickly Neville Chamberlain had lost the confidence of the English people. His appeasement of Hitler and the first nine months of the war were dooming Britain and all of Europe to defeat. Churchill was asked to become prime minister the day Hitler conquered France, Belgium and Holland, which collapsed within weeks. But today Churchill is attacked as a “symbol of colonialism”.

It is not just a bust. Multiculturalism, with its profound vocation for surrender and moral relativism, has transformed Western culture, of which Churchill was one of the greatest expressions in a moment of crisis, into something to be ashamed of.

A few hours after removing Churchill’s bust, the White House’s contact form added a drop-down menu with pronoun options, including “she/her,” “he/him,” and “they/them”. Users can also select “other,” and write in their own selections or indicate they “prefer not to share” their pronouns. It is Biden’s final surrender to a toxic and ridicolous gender dictatorship.

“There are so many tables where you can put busts, otherwise it starts looking a little cluttered”. This is how the West looks with the Democrats in charge. As Churchill said, it is our “darkest hour”.

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Geert Wilders called on Prime Minister Mark Rutte to send in the army after riot police faced immigrant violence rocking the Netherlands for a third night following the introduction of a curfew to try to stop the spread of Coronavirus.

“The scum – often immigrant – is destroying our country. They have nothing to do with the Netherlands. They do not share our values. Stop this and act Prime Minister Rutte before this violence becomes half a civil war. Stop it now. Deploy our army. Now,” Wilders tweeted after shocking images of Moroccans attacking a police vehicle surfaced on social media.

Wilders also retweeted a comment noting the almost exclusive presence of Moroccans in the rioting, as FWM reported, the first news source to do so.

“The vast majority were of immigrant descent,” shop owner Robert van Ewijk told Dutch daily De Telegraaf. He saw how molotov cocktails and pig carcasses were thrown through broken store windows.

Riot police were called out across the Netherlands as rioting continued for third night following the introduction of a curfew to try to stop the spread of Coronavirus. Some 151 people were arrested, police said. Police chief Willem Woelders told current affairs programme Nieuwsuur: “Things were relatively quiet until 7:30pm, but then all hell broke loose.”

In Haarlem and Rotterdam extra riot police were drafted in, Woelders said. In Amersfoort, fireworks were thrown at police and there were also problems in Den Bosch, where a group of up to 150 Moroccans had gathered in defiance of the 9pm curfew, and a Jumbo supermarket was looted.

In Rotterdam, mayor Achmed Aboutaleb had to evoke his emergency powers to call in riot police with water cannons after trouble broke out in the south of the city. There were some 60 arrests. RTV Oost reported that mobs were running through the centre of Zwolle and there were renewed clashes with police in the north of Helmond. In Amsterdam, there were at least nine arrests after riots erupted in the east of the city and in Gouda, the mayor also had to evoke his emergency powers after several cars were set on fire.

There were several arrests in Geelen, in Limburg, including minors, police said.

Prime minister Mark Rutte said 99 percent of people were complying with the stricter new rules, including the 9pm curfew that came into force on Saturday. He singled out the vandalism in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, as well as Enschede where a hospital building came under attack, for special condemnation. “Any normal person will look at this with disgust and ask themselves what possessed these people. This has nothing to do with protesting: it is criminal violence and that is how we will treat it.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/01/26/wilders-calls-on-government-to-send-in-the-army-to-quell-immigrant-unrest/

The riot at the Capitol Building was less than three weeks ago, but it’s never too soon to start assigning blame. A bunch of those cuck RINO traitors want to blame Trump just because he held a rally to complain that the election was being stolen from him and then, purely by coincidence, it turned into a deadly riot. (We still don’t know who murdered Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick by smashing him in the head with a fire extinguisher. Probably an Antifa infiltrator, right?) And the media and their fellow Democrats want to blame the same people they always blame whenever something goes wrong: anybody who disagrees with them about anything, ever.

Social media has given millions of Americans a chance to make their voices heard, but those voices often annoy Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter. So, what’s to be done? In the case of the purportedly right-wing social media service Parler, our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters all agree that we’re all better off without it. They say it’s good that Parler has been shut down in the wake of the Capitol riot, because the wrong sorts of people were gathering there. Undesirables. Deplorables. Nobodies, or at least nobody who would ever even want a job at CNN or the New York Times.

But is it really fair to lay all the blame on Parler?

Brooke Singman, Fox News:

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said any potential FBI investigation into the “role” Parler played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot “should include” Facebook and Twitter, calling the recent request for an FBI probe from committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney “evidence” of the “growing alliance between Big Tech and Democrats.”

Committee Ranking Member James Comer, R-Ky., and GOP Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., penned a letter to Maloney, D-N.Y., on Monday after she requested that the FBI investigate Parler’s “role” as a “potential facilitator” of planning or inciting the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“Like you, we were disturbed and angered by the riot and we believe those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law,” they wrote. “But casting blame on a single social media company known for its conservative username while simply ignoring other social media companies known for sympathizing with liberal causes is blatantly and overtly partisan…”

“A cursory search of other social media platforms yields identical, disturbing posts, from across the political spectrum, advocating for a wide swathe of positions, demonizing an equally diverse group of people,” they wrote, pointing to posts found on Facebook and Twitter.

Of course, accusing the Democrats of being blatantly and overtly partisan is like complaining that a creature that has fins and breathes water is blatantly and overtly piscatory. It’s just part of the package.

If you’ve ever spent more than five minutes on any social media platform ever created, you’ve probably seen something you didn’t like. I sure have! That’s why social media created functions like “muting” and “blocking” and “scrolling past stuff that makes you angry.” If you see something that offends you, then you can take some personal responsibility and do something about it. If you see something that you know is false, you can tell the truth about it. Which is almost always futile, but you have that option. You can control your online experience. You don’t need somebody else to do it for you.

Did people use Parler to communicate with each other during the Capitol riot? Probably. It’s tough to tell now, because the whole thing has been taken down. Did people use Twitter and Facebook and other social media platforms to do the same thing, on January 6 and many times before? Definitely. Hell, people have been livestreaming themselves committing violent crimes for years now. Is that Facebook’s fault?

Taking down an entire platform just because some people misused it… where does that end?

The same way it always ends, of course. The wealthy and powerful get away with it, and the rest of us don’t. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will be just fine. The guys who run Parler? Not so much.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2021/01/25/house-gop-if-the-fbi-is-investigating-parler-for-the-capitol-riot-lets-include-facebook-and-twitter-n1409462

By Monica Showalter

Joe Biden’s transportation secretary nominee, Pete Buttigieg, was all over the map at his confirmation hearings.

According to MarketWatch, emphasis mine:

Speaking at his confirmation hearing with his husband sitting nearby, Buttigieg pointed to a “generational opportunity” to create new jobs, fight economic inequality and stem climate change. Often sidestepping specifics, Buttigieg hinted at a broad climate-centric role for the department that will require significant investments, on top of Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan.

“We need to build our economy back, better than ever, and the Department of Transportation can play a central role in this,” the 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, told the Senate Commerce Committee.

He indicated he would reverse a Trump administration rollback in federal automotive fuel economy standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, work to stiffen oversight of aviation safety as the troubled Boeing 737 Max makes its return to the skies and encourage use of electric vehicles, such as by adding a half-million charging stations nationwide.

Buttigieg did not specify where money could come from for big investments in infrastructure, and wouldn’t rule out a tax increase. He floated the possibility of a major change in how highways are funded, such as by converting from the current Highway Trust Fund, which is paid for through the gas tax, to a “vehicle miles traveled” alternative that would tax drivers based on their road mileage.

According to the account of the same hearings by Roll Call, which seemed to be on damage control duty for the Biden administration, Buttigieg’s people walked the tax talk back, but not exactly.  The record of the hearing seems to be the reality.

Two things stand out: Buttigieg wants a tax hike for gasoline to fund his so-called infrastructure projects.  Who will pay those taxes?  Those who drive.  And if someone needs to drive a lot, such as an independent truck-driver or a low-wage service worker who can’t afford to live in the blue city center, but instead makes due with a commute on the outskirts of town, the tax becomes regressive.  The tax is the same for the rich or poor, and maybe the rich can afford it.  But the poor live on a low margin — the tax will likely cut to the bone for the poor, forcing them to go without, say, in food supplies or other necessities.  Tax hikes that are the same and unavoidably hit the poor the hardest.

The hearing also notes that Buttigieg likes the Big Brother solution, to tax people based on miles driven.  Besides being amazingly intrusive, hooking worker cars up like guinea pigs to the meters, it’s also another big regressive tax that will hit the poor hardest.  See, those wicked, wicked poor, out in places like Sun Valley and Lancaster, commuting to a job to downtown Los Angeles because they can’t afford the L.A. rents, really should be paying more for the privilege of driving several hours to work and living out in the sticks. And don’t imagine that buses are practical with those huge distances.  L.A. is spread out, quite unlike Manhattan.  And this isn’t just the poor, but the middle class, the people who are able to buy homes in West Covina, Cerritos, or Lake Elsinore, but not Midtown or Culver City.  Hollywood movie stars and hedge fund managers who live in Santa Monica or the Hollywood Hills won’t feel a thing, but too bad about the guys coming in to serve them from Ontario, San Dimas, and Pacoima.

And as a side note, these regressive tax hikes for so-called infrastructure projects will likely be the kind that never happen, because if experience is any indicator, the funds will get diverted to other leftist priorities, which don’t include quality of life for the general public.  That, in any case, is what happened in the tax-for-infrastructure deal over in the Biden administration’s model state of California.  The taxpayers got nothing in the way of promised infrastructure repairs for their tax hike.  The money just went to hobby-horse greenie projects.  I wrote about that here.

Note that Buttigieg says he intends to put out more (gas-fueled) electrical car charging stations for these regressive tax hikes on the poor.  How many poor people does he know who drive electric cars?  Call it energy privilege, see — too bad about the poor.

Meanwhile, another big regressive Biden tax on the poor is already occurring, with Biden’s already signed cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as prohibitions on drilling and fracking on federal lands.  Such a move likely made greenie billionaire Tom Steyer happy, but it was terrible news for the poor.

The Ute Indian Tribe of Uintah and Ouray reservations near Four Corners area has fought poverty through energy development, and blasted the prohibition on federal lands.  American Indians on reservations, after all, are among the very poorest Americans.  Energy development had been their lifeline, helping to support their culture, language, and way of life.  The pipeline’s shutdown is also a nasty muscle-in on the Indian nations’ sovereignty, the Ute leaders noted, noting that nobody consulted them.  For all of us, it’s Big Government against the little guy, in the same league as the Big Brother move on impoverished and middle-class commuters.

Indian nations in North Dakota and Michigan are also reportedly alarmed at the shutdowns, with some issuing condemnations.  Sound like a place full of rich people?  Don’t think so.

In New Mexico, a state with a lot of poverty, there’s this:

Officials in the state of New Mexico professed to be taken aback last week by President Joe Biden’s day-one decision to impose a 60-day moratorium on all oil and gas-related leasing and permitting actions on federal lands. It is a decision that will have major ramifications on the state budgets of New Mexico and other Western states, especially if it is extended beyond its initial term and backed up by Biden’s promised ban on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.

As for the Keystone XL shutdown, the flyover states with few rich hedge fund managers, movie stars, or Beltway barons are hardest hit.

From Montana, it was a bipartisan rain of hellfire after Joe Biden with a stroke of the pen canceled the Keystone XL pipeline:

Montana Senator Steve Daines issued this statement: “It’s only day one, and with the stroke of a pen, Biden has already taken steps to kill American energy projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline which is critical to energy producing states like Montana,” Daines said. “This project will create thousands of jobs, generate tax revenue for local communities, promote North American energy security and independence, and it is the safest and most environmentally friendly way to transport oil. We must do all that we can to ensure construction moves forward.”

Congressman Matt Rosendale had this statement: “I sent a letter to the President-Elect before he was even inaugurated asking him to please reconsider this job killing action and his actions yesterday are going to have horrible consequences for Montana’s economy and our nation’s security,” said Rosendale. “I mean, we’re going to lose jobs. We’re going to lose an incredible amount of tax revenue through some of the most rural counties that are located within the state.”

Governor Greg Gianforte asked Biden to ‘cut through the malarkey and reconsider his decision’.

“A symbolic gesture for your fledgling, hours-old administration, this decision has real and devastating consequences in Montana. With your executive order, gone are the thousands of good-paying American jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to support our local communities and schools, the opportunity to advance America’s green energy infrastructure, and America’s energy security,” Governor Gianforte wrote.

From Nebraska, this:

“Keystone XL is a critical part of putting together an all-of-the-above strategy for North American energy independence,” said Gov. [Pete] Ricketts. “Failure to construct the pipeline would mean more dependence on overseas energy sources as well as fewer jobs and less property tax relief for Nebraskans. This is a project that would greatly benefit not just Nebraska but also our whole country, and it is our hope that TC Energy presses forward.”

And South Dakota, this:

“I’m very disappointed,” [Gov. Kristi] Noem said on Thursday. “I think it’s the wrong policy on energy, it’s the wrong policy on the environment, and it’s the wrong policy on safety. Over the years we’ve debated this pipeline and vetted it on all of those elements.”

This is just Biden getting started out the gate on energy, and as Sen. Ted Cruz noted, he expected there would be a cascade of such energy shutdown maneuvers.  Most Americans can tolerate some greenie energy development so long as normal energy can continue apace.  The shutdown, though, leaves no safety net for the poor and the workers as the greenie infrastructure and rich-man’s-plaything projects supposedly get off the ground.  That leaves a lot of poor hit hard.  The Biden energy policies are less than a week old, and the only message they send is that Biden means to make war on the poor. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/bidens_regressive_energy_policy_is_one_big_war_on_the_poor.html

It is already a marathon trial. Initially, the verdict against five teenagers and young adults (refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran) was supposed to have been passed last November. They are accused of raping a 14-year-old girl several times on Halloween 2019 in an asylum shelter in Illerkirchberg. But the proceedings continue to drag on. An understanding between the parties seems to have failed. The victim is suffering.

As a lawyer for the victim and representative of the accessory prosecution, Wolfram Schädler has first and foremost the well-being of his client, the injured youth, in mind. That is why he would have agreed to the “deal” already made, albeit only with “grave reservations”, as he told the newspaper “Schwäbische Zeitung” on Friday. But the “deal” between the parties involved in the proceedings seems to be out of the question for the time being; it is unclear whether it has finally failed.

Schädler, like the district court, is now preparing for several more days of trial, of which there have already been 17. As a precautionary measure, the court has already scheduled ten more dates; the next day of the trial is scheduled for next Monday, in the hall of the Donauhalle. Actually, the victim was supposed to testify as well, but an illness probably does not allow this.

Even if an agreement between the parties had been successful, the trial would not have ended in one fell swoop. Even then, there would still have been further discussions, and a verdict would only have been reached after the pleas of the prosecution and the defence.

However: In this case, one or the other questioning of the victim as well as one or the other day of the trial could probably be dispensed with. The girl and her family suffered greatly from not being able to close the dark chapter, says Wolfram Schädler. The renowned lawyer for the victim even speaks of the fact that it cannot be ruled out that “suicidal behaviour” could occur. That is how severely the trial affects the victim.

The girl suffered her first horrific experience on Halloween night last year, when she went with the five accused to a refugee shelter in Illerkirchberg (southern Alb-Donau district). There, she was allegedly drugged and raped several times, according to the prosecution.

Since the trial began last summer, she has relived the night in question – as she has to describe the course of events in court over and over again – as a kind of horror without a discernible end.

So far, the girl has always made her statements in camera. The defendants have so far mainly remained silent. However, the court has already given a first impression of how it assesses the accusation based on the testimonies and evidence: quite credible. The majority of the offences seem to be verifiable.

One of the accused, the youngest, is said to have confessed to rape during police questioning. It is possible, however, that this statement cannot be taken into account, as the 15-year-old at the time of the crime was possibly instructed too late that he did not have to incriminate himself. The oldest accused was 27 years old at the time of the crime.

Why the defence lawyers have so far not agreed to the present “deal” – in which only the range of sentences may be determined, but not the actual level of penalties, and the verdict also remains appealable – is not entirely clear. But apparently some of them consider the possible range of sentences to be too high. According to the “Deal”, this should be between two and three and a half years imprisonment for the defendants, who are all in pre-trial detention.
“Still very lenient for such a crime, says Wolfram Schädler, the victim’s lawyer.

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