Christin R. was just at dinner when she heard a loud squeak and a bang outside the door. She went to the window and saw two cars and an injured person: “There was a little boy lying there,” the witness said. She ran barefoot into the street. “I first checked to see if the boy had a pulse,” she said. But there was no pulse.Then the “guys” got out of the cars “and yelled at me not to touch the kid.” She and a man who came running to the rescue tried to revive the boy and put him in a stable lateral position. “We were not allowed to do that because they were yelling at us and were very violent at us,” she remembers. Her son then fetched a towel to at least cover the child.More and more people came to the scene of the accident after the bang, says Christin R. 40 to 50 people were standing around. Later, the boy’s sister joined them – she had heard this from other witnesses. Her mother is in hospital and is expecting a baby. Christin R. then went back into the house, “to calm the children down, because they have witnessed this.Shortly before 9 pm a Mercedes driver (31) had crashed his car into the little boy – the force of the impact threw him against a bus stop. The child was seriously injured in the accident and taken to hospital. He died there a little later. In the evening he and two other children had run across a busy road. They remained uninjured.In an interview with Radio RTL, Marko Laske, spokesman for the Dresden police, said: “It has turned out, according to witnesses, that there is at least the suspicion that an illegal car race has also taken place here. Accordingly, the investigations into negligent homicide in road traffic against the 31-year-old Syrian have been expanded.” A 23-year-old also Syrian BMW driver who was involved in the accident is also being investigated.

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Yesterday evening, a six-year-old boy died in a traffic accident on Budapester Street in Dresden.

According to previous investigations, the driver (31 y.o) of a Mercedes car as well as the driver of a BMW car (23 y.o) were driving towards the downtown area. At the level of Schweizer Street, three children wanted to cross the road. A six-year-old boy was hit by the Mercedes. The Syrian child was taken care of by ambulance personnel and immediately taken to hospital. There the boy died a little later.The traffic accident department of the Dresden police is investigating the 31-year-old Syrian Mercedes driver for negligent homicide and dangerous interference with road traffic. In addition, witnesses have given evidence that points to an illegal car race. Against this background, the 31-year-old and the 23-year-old Syrian BMW driver are also under investigation for illegal motor racing. The driving licences of the two men were seized.The police ask witnesses who can give details of the accident or the style of driving of the two drivers to contact the Dresden police headquarters by calling (0351) 483 22 33.

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In the night from Friday to Saturday, various artistically crafted stained glass panes were smashed at the Rotenburg City Church (photo). On Saturday morning the sexton had to discover that several windows had been smashed in the area of the choir room/altar, some of which had been pushed completely out of their frames. Due to the evidence, it cannot be ruled out that the perpetrators injured themselves while damaging the property.The damage to property is likely to amount to a five-digit sum. Information about suspicious persons, possibly with cut injuries, can be given to the Rotenburg police station by calling 04261-9470.

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On Thursday August 20, at Pont-de-Roide, on the Doubs river, a father came close to death for having asked two Muslim teens to wait their turn to jump from the diving board, explained regional French daily L’Est Républicain.

At around 4:30 pm, the 38-year-old man lined up with his children when a teenager decided to jump the long queue at the popular diving board – a favorite attraction. The victim had been waiting patiently for his turn to jump into the river when the teenager planted himself brazenly in front of him.

“The father asked him to wait his turn”, said the chief of the Montbéliard gendarmerie. The minor became upset and tried to punch the father before he left to round up his friends. One of them returned equipped with a heavy-duty construction hammer and hit the father on the head with a blow of extreme violence.

Still conscious but seriously injured, the victim was hospitalized.

Law enforcement of Pont-de-Roide arrested two young residents of Valentigney. One of the minors, aged 16, is suspected of the first violence. The second, 17, is said to be the hammer attacker.

The two Muslim teens had already stood out earlier in the day during a Covid-19 check on the bus to the diving spot, in which they were fined for non-compliance with wearing a mask.

Both have denied the facts. They were released after their custody and have not yet been charged. There are still investigations to be carried out and witnesses to be heard as well as the victim, the police said.

“The hammer was discovered by lifeguards on the scene this Friday morning,” said the chief officer.

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Elie Rosen, the President of the Jewish Community of Graz, Austria, was attacked by an unknown man wielding a wooden bat in front of the Jewish community hall on Saturday night, a spokesman for the local police told Der Standard.

According to the spokeswoman for the Jewish community, Rosen was about to drive into the grounds of the Jewish community center with his car when he was attacked. Rosen and an escort became aware of a man with a baseball cap rising a bike who was obviously stalking them. His stature and appearance were very similar to the man who had been spotted by the center’s surveillance cameras on Wednesday and Friday of last week, when he was vandalizing the Graz synagogue.

When Rosen came out of his car, he was attacked by the stranger with the baseball bat. Rosen managed to escape at the last moment and got back into his car. The attacker then hit the vehicle with the baseball bat before fleeing the scene.

The Graz police announced that a search for the unknown perpetrator had been initiated and a police detail posted to protect the synagogue property.

Der Standard noted that the perpetrator must have felt quite safe, since this was his thirst visit in less than a week to David Herzog Platz in Graz, to attack the synagogue.

“The first two times he came in the night, today in the middle of the afternoon, in broad daylight,” police spokesman Fritz Grundnig told the newspaper.

When asked by Der Standard why the Jewish center building is no longer guarded by police, as had been the case until only a few years and since its renovation some 20 years ago, and why no police had been posted following last week’s attacks, Grundnig explained: “There hasn’t been anything like this for many years. But it has just been ordered.”

She explained that “a red line has now been crossed because it was against people.”

Will Elie Rosen now gets personal protection? “The offer is standing,” said the police spokeswoman.

Der Standard noted that local residents spontaneously gathered for a vigil in front of the synagogue on Saturday evening, including the former member of the state parliament from the Green party Edith Zitz and Tristan Ammerer, and later a delegation from the Islamic cultural center.

Rosen was elected Vice-President of the Federal Association of Israelite Religious Communities in Austria in November 2012, and was entrusted in 2016 by the Vienna Jewish Community as chargé d’affaires with the management of the Graz Jewish community for the federal states of Styria, Carinthia and southern Burgenland, which he now also presides over as President.

Last October, he was appointed to the board of directors of the Jewish Cultural Foundation for Styria, Carinthia and Southern Burgenland. He was behind the re-establishment of the Styrian state rabbinate, which was dissolved in 1938, and the appointment of the Viennese rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister as the Styrian state rabbi and chief rabbi of Graz.

Rosen’s work for the Jewish community in Graz is clearly characterized by an expansion of religious activities and, in a short time, stabilizing the Jewish community, which was in the process of dissolution. His term of office is also characterized by an increased representative presence of the Jewish community in public life in the Styrian capital and a clear opening to the outside world.

In October 2019, Rosen ran a campaign to exhume the remains of photographer Dora Kallmus, a.k.a. Madame d’Ora from Frohnleiten, Styria, and transfer her to the Jewish cemetery in Graz, where she was reburied in a grave of honor on the same day.

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The inhabitants of Neuchâtel are fed up. As the Rts.ch site reported, petty crime incidents are particularly worrying in the Swiss city. Posters have been put up to make the authorities aware of the problem. And the inhabitants have warned that they would enforce justice by their own means if law enforcers fail to do so.

“We are proud, organised and angry. We have the capacity to be dangerous for those who disturb social peace to such an extent,” the posters read. According to the details in the Swiss media, the Neuchâtel police have already intercepted around twenty people over the last two weekends.

Residents have indeed taken action by beating delinquents who sow panic. But for Georges-André Lozouet, communication officer for the Neuchâtel police, the attitude of the inhabitants is unacceptable. “No one can take the place of the police. We are in a democracy and the system put in place is bearing fruit,” he explained.

The police have carried out 500 interventions and 184 arrests in July. These delinquents are young North Africans “wandering around” and are often asylum seekers. “These are young men domiciled in the region, known to our services,” said Lozouet.

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The majority of suspects in so-called tumultuous situations in North Rhine-Westphalia have foreign roots. This is the result of the Ministry of the Interior’s answer to an inquiry by the AfD member of the state parliament Markus Wagner, which is in the hands of the weekly JUNGE FREIHEIT. According to the answer, 55.6 percent of the suspects do not hold German citizenship. In addition, according to the paper, many of the accused with German passports have a name that indicates a migration background. In total, 74.5 percent of the suspects are foreigners or Germans with foreign first names such as Ali, Hassan and Mohamed.According to the Ministry of the Interior, a situation of turmoil is “a police situation caused by or arising from an aggressive group of people, where the number of people, their role or the status of individuals cannot be determined immediately upon first intervention”. Whether this is the case is determined by the local police.On June 17, such a tumult happened in Cologne when, during a traffic control, the co-driver in the halted vehicle suddenly struck a policeman in the face, so that the latter had to be treated medically. About 150 onlookers, some of them aggressive, then gathered immediately at the scene of the incident, thus temporarily preventing the injured police officer from being medicated and disrupting the police operation. Only massive support forces were able to bring the situation under control.According to the Interior Ministry, 87 Germans and 109 foreigners were among the 196 suspects in the first half of 2020. Among the foreigners, Turks made up the largest group with 20 suspects, followed by Syrians(16). Many of the Germans mentioned above also have foreign roots. In at least 37 cases the suspects have foreign names.Wagner blamed migration and integration policy for the crimes committed by foreigners. “Three quarters of the suspects are foreigners or have an immigrant background. The connection to the failed migration and integration policy of the mainstream parties is therefore unmistakable. Nevertheless, the causes, i.e. the lack of border protection, the failure to deport and the refusal to integrate are not being challenged”.

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