A 35-year-old woman died this morning after a knife attack in her matrimonial home in the Hassels district of Düsseldorf. Her husband was arrested a short time later as part of the manhunt.

Witnesses reported to the Düsseldorf police during the night that a woman had been stabbed to death in a flat on Potsdamer Street. According to the information available so far, the suspected husband stabbed his 35-year-old wife with a knife. She died of her injuries at the scene of the crime. The suspected perpetrator, a 35-year-old Iraqi citizen, fled the scene of the crime. The man was arrested by police at the Düsseldorf-Garath suburban railway station during a search of the area. Witnesses and family members were cared for by emergency counsellors at the scene. The public prosecutor’s office and a homicide squad of the Düsseldorf police have taken up the investigation.

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The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU’s top court, has ruled that Hungary violated EU law when it prevented illegal immigrants from seeking asylum. The ruling paves the way for the European Commission, the EU’s powerful administrative arm, to impose financial penalties over Hungary’s restrictive immigration policies. The Hungarian government has vowed that it will not bow to pressure to jump aboard the EU’s multicultural bandwagon.

In its December 17 ruling, the court, informally known as European Court of Justice (ECJ) accused the Hungarian government of corralling migrants into so-called transit zones and of limiting their ability to apply for asylum. The court also found that Hungary did not allow asylum seekers to leave detention while their cases were being considered and offered no special protection to children and the vulnerable.

The case stems from a lawsuit filed by the European Commission over a 2015 decision by Hungary to establish two transit zones on its southern border with Serbia to stop a mass influx of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The action prevented migrants from entering Hungary or transiting the country to reach other parts of the EU.

In May 2020, the ECJ ruled that the transit zones were illegal under EU law. In order to comply with the ruling, Hungary has since closed the transit zones. Asylum seekers wanting to enter Hungary now have to apply for asylum at Hungarian embassies or consulates in neighboring non-EU countries. “External border protection is an issue that Hungary cannot, does not want to, and will not concede,” said Gergely Gulyás, from the Prime Minister’s Office.

The ECJ, in its latest ruling, acknowledged that Hungary had closed the transit zones but that it was still guilty of breaking EU law. The ruling states:

• “In the first place, the Court holds that Hungary has failed to fulfil its obligation to ensure effective access to the procedure for granting international protection, in so far as third-country nationals wishing to access, from the Serbian-Hungarian border, that procedure were in practice confronted with the virtual impossibility of making their application.”
• “The Court recalls that the making of an application for international protection, prior to its registration, lodging and examination, is an essential step in the procedure for granting that protection and that Member States cannot delay it unjustifiably. On the contrary, Member States must ensure that the persons concerned are able to make an application, including at the borders, as soon as they declare their wish of doing so.”
• “The Court confirms…that the obligation on applicants for international protection to remain in one of the transit zones for the duration of the procedure for examination of their application constitutes detention.”
• “The Court emphasizes that the Procedures and Reception Directives require, inter alia, that detention be ordered in writing with reasons, that the specific needs of applicants identified as vulnerable and in need of special procedural guarantees be taken into account, in order that they receive ‘adequate support’, and that minors be placed in detention only as a last resort. Owing, in particular, to its systematic and automatic nature, however, the detention regime provided for under the Hungarian legislation in the transit zones, which concerns all applicants other than unaccompanied minors under 14 years of age, does not allow applicants to enjoy those guarantees.”
• “Moreover, the Court rejects Hungary’s argument that the migration crisis justified derogating from certain rules in the Procedures and Reception Directives, with a view to maintaining public order and preserving internal security.”
• “The Court holds that Hungary has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Return Directive, in so far as the Hungarian legislation allows for the removal of third-country nationals who are staying illegally in the territory without prior compliance with the procedures and safeguards provided for in that directive.”
• “The Court recalls that an illegally staying third-country national falling within the scope of the Return Directive must be the subject of a return procedure, in compliance with the substantive and procedural safeguards established by that directive, before his or her removal, where appropriate, is carried out, it being understood that forced removal is to take place only as a last resort.”
• “The Court considers that Hungary has not respected the right, conferred, in principle, by the Procedures Directive on any applicant for international protection, to remain in the territory of the Member State concerned after the rejection of his or her application, until the time limit within which to bring an appeal against that rejection or, if an appeal has been brought, until a decision has been taken on it.”
• “The Court notes that, when a ‘crisis situation caused by mass immigration’ has been declared, the Hungarian legislation makes the exercise of that right subject to detailed rules not in conformity with EU law, in particular the obligation to remain in the transit zones, which resembles detention contrary to the Procedures and Reception Directives. On the other hand, when such a situation has not been declared, the exercise of that right is made subject to conditions which, while not necessarily contrary to EU law, are not defined in a sufficiently clear and precise manner to enable the persons concerned to ascertain the exact extent of their right.”

In a “note” at the end of the ruling, the ECJ revealed the apparent purpose of its ruling against Hungary:

• “An action for failure to fulfil obligations directed against a Member State which has failed to comply with its obligations under European Union law may be brought by the Commission or by another Member State. If the Court of Justice finds that there has been a failure to fulfil obligations, the Member State concerned must comply with the Court’s judgment without delay.”
• “Where the Commission considers that the Member State has not complied with the judgment, it may bring a further action seeking financial penalties. However, if measures transposing a directive have not been notified to the Commission, the Court of Justice can, on a proposal from the Commission, impose penalties at the stage of the initial judgment.”

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga vowed to continue to protect Hungarian sovereignty. In a December 17 Facebook post, she wrote:

“Today’s decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union has become devoid of purpose, as the circumstances at issue in the present proceedings no longer exist. Transit zones have been closed but strict border control is maintained.

“We will continue to protect the borders of Hungary and Europe and will do everything we can to prevent the formation of international migrant corridors.

“Hungary will only be a Hungarian country as long as its borders remain intact. Therefore, not only our thousand-year-old statehood but also the future of our children obliges us to protect our borders.”

The ECJ’s ruling comes less than a month after the European Commission unveiled a controversial “Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion” which aims to streamline the migration and asylum process with faster screening and to have EU member states contribute their “fair share” based on their GDP and population.

The EU’s bid to reform its migration policy has been met with mixed reactions from a number of EU countries. Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have been vocal in their opposition to it.

Zoltán Kovács, the spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, wroteon Twitter that Hungary’s stance on migration remains unchanged:

“1/5 Since 2015, the stance of the HU Gov’t on migration has been clear and unchanged. We have presented this stance and our proposals on several occasions. We believe that the EU and its member states must cooperate in keeping the looming migration pressure outside our borders.

“2/5 To this end, we should form alliances with countries of origin, so that they are able to provide proper living standards and ensure that their people do not have to leave their homelands. Instead of importing the trouble to Europe, we must bring help to where it is needed.

“3/5 We believe that Europe’s borders must be protected: External hotspots will have to be established to process asylum claims; we must ensure that the external borders of the EU and the Schengen Area remain perfectly sealed along all sections.

“4/5 Our goal is to see EU member states support each other in achieving the tasks above. While HU does not support obligatory distribution, it does defend joint borders, and we expect to receive the same amount of support as other Schengen states protecting those external borders.

“5/5 We would like to remind everyone that since the 2015 migration crisis, the Hungarian Government has spent more than 1 billion euros on protecting the borders of Hungary and the European Union, without a single cent of contribution from Brussels.”

After the ECJ delivered its ruling, Kovács repeated Hungary’s opposition to the EU’s migration action plan. In a December 17 statement posted to Orbán’s official blog, he wrote:

“On November 24, 2020, the European Commission presented its migration Action Plan on the social integration and inclusion of migrants. The Commission believes that barriers to the participation and inclusion of immigrants in European societies need to be removed. At the press conference presenting the document, it was clear from the words of the EU Commissioners responsible that the Commission would continue to encourage the reception of migrants, as they believe that this will be necessary in the future for economic reasons.

“While the Action Plan would give immigrants more rights and entitlements, it does not seem to take into consideration the security risks associated with mass migration.

“According to the main points of the action plan, Brussels would provide migrants housing and give them a greater say in public affairs at all levels of government. With this, more migrants and EU citizens with a migrant background would be involved in consultations and decision-making processes at the local, regional, national and European level.

“The Union, according to the plan, would give more support to immigrants than to its own citizens by supporting businesses established and run by the former. Moreover, the plan, by supporting the employment of migrants, would put unemployed EU citizens in an even more difficult position.

“As if this is not enough, Brussels would also force us to adopt the mindset of the eurocrats on the issue, clearly setting forth in the Action Plan that it seeks to change the way Europeans think about migration and migrants: ‘Inclusion is also about addressing unconscious bias and achieving a change in mentality and the way people perceive one another and approach the unknown.’ Good to know.

“If you are thinking that all of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. The Action Plan looks similar to George Soros’ plan to have Europe admit ‘at least a million asylum-seekers annually for the foreseeable future.’ The financial speculator has been for years promoting his ideas of an ‘open society’ to change Europe and European society. Those migrants that Europe should be admitting, according to the Soros plan, their distribution should be permanent and mandatory. He also made it clear that his plan aims to protect immigrants and that national borders are an obstacle to this.

“But the Commission’s Action Plan goes even further, seeking to bring in some 34 million migrants to become EU citizens (nearly 8 percent of the current EU population). That is, 34 million migrants would be granted citizenship and the right to vote.

“Who says this is what Europe wants or needs? When have the citizens of Europe voted for this? As Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Parliament earlier this week, Hungary will oppose this plan with all its might and will not compromise.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16868/hungary-europe-borders

A little girl was lured into a flat by a 21-year-old man last Wednesday and raped there. The Ansbach Criminal Investigation Department is now appealing to the public and is looking for further alleged victims.

On December 15, 2020, a girl on her way home from school in Ansbach was lured into a flat by a 21-year-old Syrian national under a pretext and severely sexually assaulted there. The suspect was arrested on the same day and has since been remanded in custody.

Initial criminal investigations by the criminal police in Ansbach revealed concrete evidence of at least one further case of serious sexual abuse of a female child. According to initial interrogations, this assault occurred in July 2020, also in Ansbach.

The criminal investigation department in Ansbach is currently conducting numerous interrogations and examining further traces and clues. Based on the current results of the investigation, it cannot be ruled out that other children or adolescents, both boys and girls, have become victims of the alleged suspect.

https://www.polizeiticker.ch/artikel/update-zur-schwerer-sexueller-missbrauch-eines-madchen-in-ansbach-weitere-opfer-gesucht-174947?fbclid=IwAR2MznM4hRnAuYw15gbBTVl1H4_CL8OuxdJ768gT1-V1Zf83MGvYAJiyV2A

Cataleya awoke with a knife to her neck. Her father Q. A. wanted to kill the then 17-year-old because of her homosexuality. She barely survived.

“He screamed, ‘You’re gay?, you’re gay?’ and slashed the knife through my neck.” Those were the words Cataleya used to describe how her father tried to kill her in October 2019. Cataleya was still a man at the time and just 17 years old. Because of the severe injuries, Cataleya, who called herself Seran at the time, had to be placed in an induced coma. With a lot of will to live and luck, she survived her father’s knife attack – large scars bear witness to the attack.The father, who is of Iraqi origin, must now stand trial in Switzerland. The charges are attempted murder, attempted intentional homicide or grievous bodily harm.According to the indictment of the public prosecutor’s office of the Canton of Bern, the attack occurred on May 29, 2019, in Emmental. Q. A. woke his daughter, who was still a man at the time, with a knife held to her neck. The knife was 27 centimetres long, according to the documents. With it, he inflicted injuries on the victim’s neck, face and chest, according to the investigation. Among others, several deep cut wounds on the neck were detected by the experts. The trachea was also cut and the thyroid gland was severed, according to the report.”The victim suffered life threatening injuries, lost about 1 to 1.5 litres of blood and had to be intubated in hospital,” the indictment says. There is also talk of permanent disfigurement due to the scars, which are still clearly visible.

https://www.heute.at/s/du-bist-schwul-mann-sticht-tochter-messer-in-hals-100118323?fbclid=IwAR06dOj9x5c7yW-146ab_pSl3BknD8XPxGO6sAHACYBq1zpuH_XShUkrbZc

If one listens to the words of the Green politician Cem Özdemir, the “Grey Wolves” could be the largest anti-constitutional movement in Germany: he estimates the number of Turkish ultra-nationalists at up to 20,000 members. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that the umbrella organisation ADÜTDF alone has 7,000 members, but puts the total number at around 11,000. “It cannot be that Turkish right-wing extremists intimidate, beat up or threaten the lives of peaceful citizens in the middle of Berlin, Dortmund or Hamburg,” Özdemir said in an interview with the “Welt” newspaper on the occasion of a motion in the Bundestag aimed at trying to rein in and possibly ban the movement.Almost a month has passed since then. The initiative, which was supported by the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens, also came in the wake of a decree by French President Emmanuel Macron banning the Grey Wolves on November 4th. The parties had not only demanded to consider bans against parts of the groups officially called the “Ülkücü” movement, but also to show “solidarity with persons and groups persecuted by the Grey Wolves”.There is little sign of this today. Instead, the extremists, who dream of a racially pure Turkic empire in Central Asia, threaten Armenian Christians in their German exile. The television programme ARD-Mittagsmagazin on December 2nd featured a report on the parish priest Gnel Gabrielyan, who reported that threatening letters from the Grey Wolves had appeared in the mailboxes of his parishioners. “You dirty children of Armenia, we will find you all and your children will stand at your graves before they fall into their own graves” it reads. The shadow of Nagorno-Karabakh falls as far as Hanau in Hesse.

The day before, Serovpe Isakhanyan, Bishop of the Armenian Church in Germany, wrote a letter to the Interior Ministers of the federal states asking for protection for the places of worship of his compatriots. He said he was “extremely concerned as an Armenian church and community”. In light of the incidents, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution responded to this newspaper with the 2019 report on the protection of the constitution and did not want to comment on current developments. Similarly, the Federal Ministry of the Interior responded to the enforcement of the motion by the German Parliament, stating that it does not comment on “alleged or actual considerations of banning” as a matter of principle. Both comments are surprising in view of the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)’s statements on the attacks in Nice and his willingness to talk about banning certain political groups.The German public broadcaster ARD reported that a ban might not even be expected, considering the splintering of the Grey Wolves into countless associations. Germany is the country where, as a result of an infection control law, even basic rights may be questioned, but the ban of a movement hostile to Jews and Christians fails because it consists of three umbrella organisations.Meanwhile, according to the broadcasters “Report Mainz” and DLF, the supremacists are even infiltrating the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP).While a spokesperson for the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) responded to the threatening gestures against fellow Christians, the German Bishops’ Conference kept a low profile. Press spokesman Matthias Kopp stated that they “would not comment on this topic at the moment”. Not only the Armenian Church, but also the Catholic Church has had its experiences with Turkish right-wing extremists. Mehmet Ali Agca was deeply integrated into the structures of the Grey Wolves in the 1970s and 1980s and stormed out of prison with one of their leaders, Abdullah Catly. The arms dealer Bekir Celenk, who acted as a negotiator for the Bulgarian secret service, allegedly slipped the Grey Wolves 3 million Deutschmarks for Agca’s assistance. They were the bounty put on Pope John Paul II’s head. On May 13, 1981, the Grey Wolves were also behind the shooting.

https://www.die-tagespost.de/politik/aktuell/wir-werden-euch-alle-finden;art315,214302

In the course of the measures against extremism, which were supposed to be put together in the wake of the Islamist terrorist attack in Vienna, not only Islamist symbols but also the emblem of a patriotic youth movement is to be banned. Upper Austria’s deputy governor Dr. Manfred Haimbuchner ( Freedom Party of Austria) said that this action would be a mockery of the victims of the attack on November 2nd. According to the Freedom Party member, this way of dealing with Austria’s rule of law represents a security risk in its own right.Haimbuchner himself previously drafted a strict anti-terror bill.The deputy governor, who is also a lawyer, is not satisfied with that of the Turkish-Green government. “The federal government is obfuscating the problem and watering down the solution,” the head of the Upper Austrian Freedom Party said in a statement on Wednesday.The government is trying to simulate a right-wing threat equivalent to the Islamist threat.Specifically, the capitalised Greek letter “lambda” is to be banned. Since 2012, it has been used by the Identitarian movement in the course of demonstrations and actions. They have copied the symbol from the shields of the Spartans fighting the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae as seen in the movie “300”.

Over the years, especially left-wing extremist Antifa associations did everything they could to get this youth movement, which they hated, banned. But all the trials – some of them particularly lengthy – have so far ended in acquittals. This is because the patriotic group has always acted in accordance with the rule of law, which has been confirmed several times by the courts. But the Turkish-Green government obviously does not want to deal with this, which is why the movement is to be criminalised by the amendment to the Symbol Law.Manfred Haimbuchner firmly rejects this approach of the government. For it is precisely in times like these that people need to have confidence in the rule of law and its institutions: “This chimera created at the interface of Turkish and Green party interests does not even begin to reflect the actual threat to state and society. Rather, the arbitrary extension of the law on symbols contributes to a disorientation of society and thus itself poses a security risk.” Haimbuchner accuses the government of “degrading the important fight against Islamist terror with its authoritarian fantasies and its party-political brinkmanship”.The deputy governor expresses particular incomprehension towards the Greens. They should still remember the animal rights trials in Vienna district of Neustadt, where the application of the law concerning the Mafia rightfully caused a great stir both inside and outside their party. “Why the Greens suddenly support such an instrumentalisation of the rule of law against this background is completely beyond me,” Haimbuchner said.

https://www.wochenblick.at/haimbuchner-symbolgesetz-verhoehnt-opfer-des-islamistischen-terrors/

The murdering father apparently deliberately spared his youngest daughter (14 years old)!

After the bloody deed in Isselburg (11,100 inhabitants) in Münsterland, the police revealed further details this afternoon. A man (51 years old) had killed his wife (46 years old) and his daughter (17 years old) in a semi-detached house in the morning. Then the Kosovo-born Albanian hanged himself on the veranda using a white and blue rope.

“According to initial findings, the 51-year-old man wanted to kill his wife and the mutual two children,” said senior public prosecutor Martin Botzenhardt.

Asami S. had phoned an acquaintance living far away and confessed to her that he had done something bad to his family. The witness immediately called the police, but the officers arrived too late.

The police found the 14-year-old behind a door that was locked from the outside. According to the newspaper BILD, the investigators assume that the teenager was deliberately spared by her father. He had also threatened her with death, but did not carry out his intention.

The girl is receiving psychological help from experts. The couple’s eldest daughter (21 years old) is living in another city.The Münster police set up a homicide squad, meticulously secured traces of the crime until the evening. In the meantime, it is clear that Elfete S. (who worked in a company producing bed linen) wanted to separate from her husband. Allegedly, the couple also lived apart, the husband last inhabited a room in the basement. There are two letterboxes at the entrance of the red-brick house.

An acquaintance (37 years old) told the tabloid BILD: “I saw the second daughter just a short time ago. It is simply unbelievable. How can a man do such a terrible thing to his family?” Elfete S. had been going for frequent walks with her sister lately – the mother of three had been looking very grave and depressed, neighbours reported.

The bodies of the two women and the suspected perpetrator were taken to the forensic department in the afternoon. The investigations are ongoing.

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By Silvio Canto, Jr.

President Trump has argued “fraud” and the voters are apparently listening:     

For the second day in a row, a new voter survey has found support for President Trump’s vow to fight on with his challenge to the election, with more believing that it was plagued with fraud. 

While a Tuesday Pew Research Center survey said that it was mostly Republicans who believed that fraud occurred, the new McLaughlin & Associates poll found that all voters, by a 46%-45% margin, believed that there was fraud. 

Beyond that, Rasmussen now reports that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that the media hid the Hunter Biden scandal to help his father’s presidential campaign. 

What happens now?   I think that Democrats should not underestimate the extent to which Americans want answers about the 2020 election vote.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/_is_trump_winning_the_fraud_argument.html#ixzz6gyH4RIQR