Police are investigating after a car sped through a pedestrianised street in the German city of Trier on Tuesday afternoon, a ‘rampage’ that left at least two dead.

Trier police confirmed that two people had died on Tuesday, with reports suggesting 10 others injured, including a child. Local news reported that the number of dead was actually four, and that the child mentioned in other reports was among the dead, and named the number of injured at 30.German source Die Welt reports eyewitnesses who said “that people were thrown through the air” as a car drove into a pedestrianised shopping area at speed.

Police subsequently arrested a 51-year-old German citizen and are investigating the circumstances around the incident, and whether there was any motive. The emergency service response to the deaths is so large, ambulances have come from over the nearby Luxembourgian border to assist.

Die Welt cited the remarks of Trier’s mayor who said Tuesday’s deaths were due to a “rampage”, and what had been left behind by the SUV-type car driving through the pedestrian area was a “picture of horror”.As is now customary in the aftermath of incidents that share similarities with previous terror attacks, German citizens have been asked by the government to not share speculation and rumours on the internet, Deutsche Welle reports. Indeed, the fact that two were killed in Trier today, the first day of December, near the city market, and surrounded by Christmas lights, will inevitably draw a comparison to the Berlin Christmas Market Attack, although police have indicated no extremist link today.

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His last date was his death sentence: On the gay dating platform “Planet Romeo”, the almost blind and disabled ex-cook Helmut K. (†50) from Kaufbeuren made an appointment with the user “wandalalaland” on March the 14th at 4.30 pm.

At 9.01 pm the heavy metal fan was bound and gagged in his bedroom, which is located above the well-known Escape-Room “Countdown”.He was so severely gagged that he choked to death by his dental prosthesis.The man whom the public prosecutor Andreas Slach suspects of being “wandalalaland” is now in the dock at Kempten Regional Court: Karam A. (29 years old) has lived as a model refugee in Kaufbeuren since 2015, but according to investigators, he has already killed people in his home country, Syria.But before he testified himself, he first insulted the reporter from that newspaper BILD: “Stop taking photographs of me, you are not allowed to do that. If my face becomes known in my homeland, my mother and siblings are in danger of death!”Together with Hazem K. (†21), A. is said to have plotted the murder that cost the life of Helmut K., who was in need of care and suffering from heart disease. Hazem K. knew from the neighbourhood that the person who had retired early was hoarding 8000 Euros in cash in his flat.Hazem K. chatted for the handicapped man also with potential sex partners – and is said to have had the idea for the robbery using a fake account. When interrogated by the police he confessed everything, incriminated his accomplice Karam A. severely, but then hanged himself in his cell in August.Now Karam A. is the only one in the dock for murder – and blames the dead buddy: “He fooled the police, religion and his lawyer. I don’t even know the man and I wasn’t in the flat.Now Karam A. is the only one in the dock for murder – and blames the dead buddy: “He fooled the police, religion and his lawyer. I don’t even know the man and I wasn’t in the flat. He forced me to chat with him, but then went to him all alone.”

But then how does the accused explain his DNA on the restraints and on a cupboard from which 3500 euros were stolen? Karam A. says: “Hassem K. took my cotton gloves and kitchen towel to gag him and then came back downstairs with a suitcase. He said the man died.”

In a dramatic way he tried to convince the judge of his innocence: “Ladies and gentlemen, there are many things in life that are incredible, so it is not impossible. Judge Christoph Schwiebacher ended this bizarre performance: “Don’t tell stories, stop the show!”.The computer traces also speak for themselves: the account “wandalalaland”, which was deleted on the day of the crime, led to the IP address of Hazem K. His mobile phone number and that of Karam A. were logged in at the scene of the crime.

And A., who was chronically out of pocket, went shopping for perfume for 180 euros in Munich two days after the murder, and even had 600 euros from the loot at the time of his arrest. A witness whose mobile phone Karam A. used to call the victim at 8.18 pm on the evening of the crime and confirm the sex date also recognised him in the courtroom on Monday.

He is now threatened with life imprisonment. His little brother Mohamad A. (23 years old) is also accused of complicity and receiving stolen goods – he hid parts of the booty under the cooker of a sandwich maker. A verdict is expected on December the 3rd.

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Nearly two years after a number of attacks on high-speed ICE trains in Germany, the trial of the 44-year-old suspect and his wife began in Austria under strict security measures. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the accused, who is of Iraqi origin and a member of the terrorist militia IS, allegedly tried to derail a total of four trains in 2018. Material damage was caused and nobody was injured.

The couple are accused of multiple attempted murder as a terrorist attack, serious damage to property as a terrorist attack and membership of a terrorist organisation. The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge of serious damage to property. However, he did not wish to be considered a terrorist on behalf of the IS. The Iraqi has been living in Austria with refugee status since 2013.

According to the defence lawyer, his client had not acted with intent to kill, but only to attract attention. In contrast, the prosecutor said: “They wanted to commit attacks in the name of the IS, to cause the greatest possible damage to property, the greatest possible harm to persons”.

According to the prosecution, the man was targeting the ICE line between Nuremberg and Munich in three cases. Near Allersberg he had attacked the trains with a beam construction, with wooden chocks and later with a steel cable stretched over the tracks. In addition, in December 2018 he is said to have thrown a rope with claw hooks onto the overhead line at an suburban railway station in Berlin in order to derail a train.

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Roland Fürst, the Social Democratic Party’s (SPÖ) regional manager for the federal state of Burgenland, criticises his own party for its stance in the debate on Islamism.”I have always wondered about the ignorance within the SPÖ towards the advocates of political Islam. For me, as a left-wing and rational social democrat, this was completely incomprehensible and not compatible with the values of the Social Democrats,” says Fürst to the newspaper “Presse”.

For him, criticism of Islamism is not “anti-migrant”, because it is a criticism of a “fascist ideology”. He now wanted to make an appeal to the “enlightened left”, said Fürst.

The increasing accusations of “Islamophobia” have already had an effect on this side. Even cabaret artists today would think twice before mentioning Islam or the Prophet Mohammed.But it is not acceptable that the exponents of political Islam manage to immunise society against criticism of religion. This could also be done by means of pressure groups at the universities, says Fürst, who himself taught at a university of applied sciences for a long time.The fact that the SPÖ voted in parliament in 2019 against the dissolution of the Islamist associations Atib and Milli Görüs had upset him. “Social democracy must decide internationally and nationally to make a clear commitment to the fight against political Islam.But Fürst concedes that there is already a greater understanding of the problem within social democracy. “There is now a more open discussion.” Now there is also criticism of those who used to label others – like him – simply as critics of Islam who exaggerate.

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Anyone who does not pay their radio license fees in Germany has to expect the relentless harshness of state authorities. On the other hand, foreigners who are obliged to leave the country but fail to do so have less to fear. Authorities often grant them a “Duldung,” which means that they can continue to live in the German welfare state without fear of deportation.

As Junge Freiheit reported, the AfD parliamentary group wanted to do something about the government’s sloppiness and use an effective lever against individual states and municipalities that deal with the enforcement of this foreign policy. The party wanted to erase federal payments made so far in connection with rejected asylum seekers. But in the “adjustment meeting” of the budget committee on Friday night, after which the members of the government coalition boasted about their uncompromising approach, the AfD attempts failed completely.

The parliamentary group sought to cut 4.4 billion euros from the budget of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of Hubertus Heil (SPD).

For its calculations, the AfD party used asylum statistics, which show that about 58 percent of all asylum applications were rejected in 2020. Since the rejected asylum seekers should actually leave the country and their further stay would no longer be justified, the AfD demanded a corresponding reduction in federal payments to the individual states.

The potential savings in Minister Heil’s budget would have been 4.46 billion euros. The largest portions of this amount would have been 1.76 billion euros for the “cost of accommodation” and 2.09 billion euros for social assistance payments. But the AfD request was strictly rejected by the budget committee.

Unsurprisingly, the AfD met with a lack of understanding. It is incomprehensible “why the federal government supports rejected asylum seekers in Germany instead of consistently deporting them and using the money for its own citizens,” said AfD member Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing.

The almost four and a half billion euros that would have been saved with the AfD’s plan could, in her opinion, have been used more sensibly in other areas of labor and social affairs.

But not only that. A cut in payments to the federal states would also have a beneficial effect, as these states would then try to avoid the loss of income. And federal politicians, such as Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), would then support their demand for faster deportations when the benefits for rejected asylum seekers got cut. Because whenever, for example, Islamists from abroad commit serious crimes, calls for quick deportations immediately emerge. That was the case, for example, when Abdullah Al Haj Hasan attacked a homosexual couple in Dresden. One man died, while the other was hospitalized with serious injuries.

Then, there was a huge hype when the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) called for more deportations and declared that “protecting the citizens has top priority.” And the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) demanded that “anyone who has carried out a terrorist attack should lose their guest rights. Immediate deportation should follow.”

There is, however, a large gap between Reul’s wish and reality. At the end of 2019, 249,922 foreigners were obliged to leave the Federal Republic of Germany. But out of this number, 202,387 foreigners were allowed to stay for various reasons. There is no deportation to Syria, even though the civil war there has ended in most parts of the country. Yet, this year (January to October), 29,413 asylum seekers claimed to be from Syria. At 35 percent, they were the largest group of all of the 83,735 asylum seekers (January to October 2020).

Last year, 22,097 asylum seekers were deported. The annual figures have declined slightly since 2016 when 26,375 asylum seekers were expelled. Most of the deported individuals were Albanians (1,604), Nigerians (1,432), and Georgians (1,242). However, they did not have to make a particularly long journey, as their most frequent destination country became Italy with 2,692 cases, followed by Albania (1,528) and France (1,196).

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A young man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a teacher “like Samuel Paty”, in reference to the teacher decapitated in October in Val d’Oise. He is sadly one of many.

According to FranceInfo, 187 cases have been opened in France for similar “threats”, “provocation to commit violent infractions”, or “supporting terrorism”, since the death of French teacher Samuel Paty.

In this case, the young man who is 19 years old, with no previous criminal record, was sentenced for threatening a teacher with death on social media, the prosecutor of Nice announced on Saturday, according to French daily Le Figaro.

In his fast-tracked court appearance, on Friday 27 November, the defendant defended himself, according to an account of the hearing published by the daily Nice-Matin, explaining that it had been a “joke”, intended only to show off in front of another young high school student.

This young man, who has completed school, had gotten wind on social media of an incident that had happened in one of the teacher’s classes. The latter, who has been a teacher for some 30 years, had asked for an explanation from certain pupils who were suspected of cheating during a practice baccalaureate test.

The defendant then succeeded in obtaining the private account address of the teacher on other social media, in order to be able to threaten him with a similar death to that of Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils during a course on freedom of expression.

“My client has lived through two very difficult weeks,” explains Julien Darras, lawyer for the civil part of the case, representing the victim. This teacher was forced to stop his courses and remove his name from his mailbox, while the police were busy identifying the author of the threats.

The defendant, with a clean record, faces up to seven years of imprisonment for public support of terrorist acts by electronic means and making a death threat. He has ten days to file an appeal of this judgment accompanied by an immediate custody warrant.

Since the jihadist attack on a Nice church on October 29, more than twenty cases for verbally supporting terrorism have been investigated by the prosecutor’s office of Nice, stated Xavier Bonhomme, the national prosecutor. One man has already been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening people in the proximity of this religious edifice, the magistrate added.

Since the murder of Professor Samuel Paty on October 16, acts of verbally supporting terrorism and death threats have multiplied. A resident of Roubaix, 21 years of age, a convert to Islam, was sentenced on November 19 in Lille to 18 months in prison, including 12 months probationary suspension, for supporting terrorism on social media.

In Var, at the end of October, another young man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for similar acts of supporting terrorism.

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