Last night, police officers were able to arrest a suspect very quickly after a dangerous attack in the Benrath district of Düsseldorf. The man had got into an argument with other men and then tried to attack them with an axe. The suspect will be brought before a judge.According to the investigations so far, the 30-year-old got into an initially verbal argument with two other men at a bus stop on Urdenbacher Avenue for reasons that are as yet unclear. After he had suddenly struck a blow to one of them, he briefly disappeared, only to return shortly afterwards with an axe. His attempts to hit them with the hatchet fortunately failed. The police were called in and were quickly on the scene and were able to overpower and arrest the assailant. Pepper spray was also deployed for this purpose. The suspect was slightly injured.The crime is currently considered by the public prosecutor’s office as an attempted homicide. A homicide squad has been set up. The arrested man is a 30-year-old Moroccan. The investigation is ongoing.

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A volunteer at Nantes Cathedral has told police that he lit three fires inside the 15th-century building he was entrusted to look after by church authorities.

Nantes cathedral was badly damaged in the arson attack on July 18th, with dramatic images and footage showing fire ripping through the west porch and tower of the “Gothic jewel” of the city, which caused serious internal damage and destroyed the organ.An arson investigation was launched almost immediately after the two-hour battle by firefighters to save the building, and shortly afterwards a Rwandan immigrant — who was a volunteer at the cathedral and had been responsible for locking up the building the night before — was held and questioned by police. The man was released without charge shortly afterwards.

But now the same — named only as ‘Emmanuel’ in French newspapers — 39-year-old man has been rearrested and has confessed, Le Figaro reports, to arson. The man, who came to France as a refugee from Rwanda in 2015 or 2016 and was looked after by the church after his arrival, told a magistrate after presenting himself to the police to confess on Saturday night that he lit three fires. Two were in organs, and one was in an electrical control panel.

Taken into police custody, the man faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of €150,000 ($175,000) for the destruction. he caused.

The motive of the attack is unknown. By the account of the cathedral’s rector the Rwandan male had volunteered at the church for some years and served at altar. He was trusted enough to be one of six volunteers who had a full set of keys to the building and was on a rota for locking the building up in the evening. The lawyer for the man said his client “bitterly regrets” what had happened.

That Nantes burned so soon after the devastating fire at Notre Dame cathedral Paris did not fail to elicit attention and comment in France, although the Notre-Dame fire is said to have been an accident, rather than arson. French President Emmanuel Macron remarked as the fire burnt earlier in July: “After Notre-Dame, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, in the heart of Nantes, is in flames… Support for our firefighters who take all the risks to save this Gothic jewel of the city of the Dukes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/26/rwandan-migrant-previously-held-and-released-over-nantes-cathedral-fire-admits-arson/

The death of black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell in Milwaukee indicates what kind of country we live in now, thanks to the liberal establishment’s weaponization of the mob.

Via 1130 WISN:

Bernell Tremmell [sic], 60, was shot in front of his business, Expression Publications, at 911 E. Wright. The building is covered in handmade signs, the most prominent of which read “Vote Donald Trump 2020,” and “Re-Elect Trump 2020.” Law enforcement sources tell “The Dan O’Donnell Show” that it is impossible to know the motive for the shooting since the suspect is not yet in custody, but detectives are investigating the possibility that Tremmell was killed over his political beliefs. …

Law enforcement sources tell “The Dan O’Donnell Show” that the suspect rode up to Tremmell as he sat in front of his business, shot him and then rode away.

Trammell was shot in the head in broad daylight. Biz Pac Review notes that it occurred only hours after he reportedly gave an interview in support of Trump’s reelection. Also,

Reggie Moore, the director of the Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he had “intervened in a dispute between Trammell and a young man” that was “related to a Trump sign that Trammell was carrying.”

Even if we don’t know for a fact that this was a political assassination, at the very least it is a symptom of the violent chaos resulting from the liberal establishment’s War on Police.

Moderate Tim Pool explains why the national media won’t touch this explosive story with a stick:

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On the evening of July 23, 2020, a 33-year-old man was arrested in Homberg (Efze), who is strongly suspected of having killed Gabriel V. in the latter’s apartment. Specifically, the investigators of the “Lorbeer” task force and the public prosecutor’s office in Mannheim assume, based on the current state of knowledge, that the suspect struck Gabriel V.’s head with an unopened champagne bottle in his apartment on July 7, 2020, around 5:00 p.m., causing him to bleed heavily.The suspect then allegedly decided to kill Gabriel V. by further blows with a champagne bottle to conceal the previous bodily injury. Afterwards, he is said to have searched his victim’s apartment and left it with several items belonging to Gabriel V.

The investigators finally succeeded with the evidence via a shoe print, which could be found at the crime scene and matched to the suspect.

The arrested man is an Iraqi citizen and has no permanent residence in the Federal Republic of Germany. In a first interrogation he admitted the crime.

The 33-year-old was brought before the investigating judge of the Mannheim District Court today, who issued the arrest warrant requested by the Mannheim public prosecutor’s office for dangerous bodily harm, murder (murder with intent to conceal) and theft. The suspect was subsequently taken to a prison.

Investigations are ongoing, particularly into the background and motives for the crime and the stolen objects.

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In the course of an argument last Thursday evening in a suburban train of the S2 line, a 27-year-old man bit off part of the finger of a 41-year-old passenger. According to the current state of knowledge, an initially verbal altercation took place between the 41-year-old and two 27- and 23-year-old men around 10:45 p.m. during the ride in the direction of Schorndorf. The reason for this is said to have been that the two Nigerian citizens, who were presumably intoxicated, had previously harassed several previously unknown passengers on the train.Since the two young men apparently reacted violently to the man intervening and are said to have molested other passengers, the 41-year-old, with the help of several currently unknown passengers, tried to get the 23- and 27-year-old men off the train at the later stop of the suburban railway in Stetten-Beinstein. During this, a physical confrontation broke out on the platform, in the course of which the 27-year-old allegedly bit the 41-year-old’s finger and stomach. An alarmed patrol of the state police arrested the suspect, who was already known to the police, and his younger companion on the spot and handed them over to federal police officers.As a result of the bites, the victim suffered a slight wound on his stomach and also lost part of his right index finger. Rescue workers took him to hospital for treatment of the wounds. Those who were provisionally arrested each carried light abrasions. As part of the investigation into the suspicion of dangerous bodily injury, the federal police are now looking for other possible victims and witnesses who can provide relevant information about the incident. These witnesses are requested to contact the police by calling +49711870350.

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Yesterday, the first official Islamic Friday prayer took place at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The controversy of the re-conversion of the former Christian Orthodox cathedral into a mosque is also hotly being discussed in Europe.

The church’s transformation into the mosque is considered a personal project of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the start of the inauguration ceremony, the Turkish president recited the opening passage of the Quran. The guests at the ceremony in the Hagia Sophia as well as prayer participants who followed the events from video walls erected around the imposing former church building, answered with “Allahu Akbar” calls.

In Germany, too, Erdogan uses the Turkish variant of Islamism for his policy of influence. The radical Sunni Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli Görüs (IGMG) has a network of more than 300 mosque communities in Germany. In total, the IGMG is said to have more than 30 000 members in Germany. The ideology of Milli Görüs [National World View] is strictly Sunni Islamist and Turkish nationalist, strongly opposed to Muslim integration into European society.

The Turkish state and the ruling party AKP evidently uses the IGMG to exert political and cultural influence in Germany. But both Ankara and the IGMG leadership deny this. Nevertheless, there are numerous indications that allow conclusions to be drawn about the IGMG being centrally coordinated from Turkey.

German authorities are well aware of the participation of diplomats from the Turkish embassy and consulates in IGMG events. With the AKP member of parliament and former Milli Görüs General Secretary Mustafa Yeneroglu, there is another lever of Turkish control and influence: Yeneroglu currently heads the AKP’s “Election Coordination Centre for Foreign Countries”.

In Germany, the IGMG is a member of the Islamic Council of Germany, the Islamrat für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, which in turn is a founding member of the Koordinationsrats der Muslime.

The Coordination Council of Muslims (KRM) in Germany was established more than a decade ago as a working platform of the four largest Islamic organisations in the country. The majority of mosque communities are represented in the KRM through its member organisations.

But this is a murky affair at best. The cooperation in the KRM is based on common rules of procedure which were signed by the four founding members. This essentially means that the KRM is not a registered association, so it does not have an independent legal personality.

The day-to-day business of the KRM is coordinated by the respective speaker function. It was not known whether the KRM had its own staff or whether member associations send their staff to the KRM. In 2008, the Islamic newspaper criticized the fact that the KRM had no employees, no budget, no lobby office in Berlin, no website of its own and hardly a clearly defined programme. It is not known whether the KRM acts as a separate organisation or primarily has a coordinating function.

In July 2019, the establishment of “country structures” was announced without providing further details.

According to the Berlin-based expert on Turkey, Ralph Ghadban, the Islam which is being preached in Turkish-controlled mosques in Europe is a “Sharia Islam with strong Turkish-nationalist overtones” that calls for a “strict separation from Western individualistic values”. He also says that the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) has been strengthening its ties to Milli Görüs.

The IGMG organisation is monitored by the Verfassungsschutz , the German domestic intelligence service.

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A leading curator of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Keith Christiansen, was criticized for posting on Instagram a painting of Alexandre Lenoir saving France’s monuments from the ravages of the French Revolution. Christiansen wrote:

“Alexandre Lenoir battling the revolutionary zealots bent on destroying the royal tombs in Saint Denis. How many great works of art have been lost to the desire to rid ourselves of a past of which we don’t approve. And how grateful we are to people like Lenoir who realized that their value — both artistic and historical — extended beyond a defining moment of social and political upheaval and change”.

Christiansen was criticizing the current removal and desecration of historic monuments. He could not have known that, a few weeks later, another French cathedral would be vandalized and an ancient organ, which had survived Lenoir’s revolutionary zealots, destroyed by the blaze.

The fire at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes is believed to have been started deliberately. It was only a year ago that a massive blaze nearly totally gutted the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. After that, the historic Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris caught fire, as well as the Basilica of Saint Denis (the same depicted in the painting posted by Christiansen).

“The fire in Nantes Cathedral, after Notre-Dame de Paris, should make our elites reflect on the great disorder and the great change, decivilization is underway”, Philippe de Villiers, the author and former French minister commented.

“In France there is a low-noise destruction of the Christian roots”, said the philosopher Michel Onfray. “There are about one or two anti-Christian acts a day and it takes a burning cathedral to start talking about it”.

Six major French cathedrals and churches have caught fire during the last year and a half: Notre Dame, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Sulpice, Lavaur and Pontoise. Perhaps that is why historian Rémi Brague called the fire at Notre Dame “our 9/11”. The Observatory of Religious Heritage listed a total of 20 French churches that caught fire in just one year.

Little publicized and less condemned, attacks against Christian places of worship in France are multiplying and reaching alarming proportions. The Nantes fire was simply the latest in a succession of church destructions that have been going on for years and have apparently not scandalized anyone.

Four years ago, the Saint-Nicolas Basilica in Nantes was almost destroyed by fire. It had completed a renovation in 2014 and was in perfect condition. The first reports in the French media about the vandalism of churches were published ten years ago. Last year, there was one week in which four French churches were desecrated.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, a Guinean prelate of the Catholic Church, wrote:

“The desecration continues to grow in Europe. Recent acts on statues of the Virgin Mary in French churches show how much these gestures are the result of barbaric hatred. They call for reactions. Catholics can no longer remain silent”.

Cardinal Sarah added:

“Desecration and vandalism in churches are the sad reflection of a sick civilization that gets caught up in the net of evil. Bishops, priests, faithful must keep strength and courage”.

Some secular public figures have spoken out against the attacks. “Hands off my church!” read the title of a French petition of writers, journalists, politicians and university professors, who demanded the protection of churches.

Religious affairs expert Nina Shea wrote that the perpetrators are anarchists, thieves, militant leftists, Satanists and Islamists, who all share the same hate for France and Western civilization. Anti-Semitism seems to go hand-in-hand with anti-Christian sentiment. In France, synagogues are protected “like fortresses“; Jewish schools have been targeted by terror attacks, and Jews have been advisednot to wear any religious symbols for their own safety.

Anti-Christian incidents have risen by 285% between 2008 and 2019.

The magazine Reveue des deux mondes called the attacks on churches “the tragedy of French churches”. In addition, more than 5,000 French churches are threatenedbecause of their decaying structures. 875 France’s churches were vandalized in 2018. In 2019, 1,052 anti-Christian acts took place.

“I think there is a rising hostility in France against Christianity and the symbols of Christianity”, noted Ellen Fantini, director of the Vienna-based Observatory of Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe.

“Every day, at least two churches are profaned”, French MP Valerie Boyer told the Sun.

Gilbert Collard, MP of the National Rally party, compared the fire in Nantes with the recent decision by the Turkish authorities to convert the former Cathedral of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. “The symbols go up in flames”, he said.

In recent years, French churches have also been targeted by a series of provocations and attacks by Islamists. Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris and the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith, askedFrance to turn the country’s empty churches into mosques. In Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in northern France, two Islamic State terrorists killed Father Jacques Hamel during a morning Mass. The shock was immediate and immense. Islamists were also planning to strike Notre-Dame de Paris and actually did succeed in conducting an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on Strasbourg’s Christmas Market.

Boubakeur’s proposal reflects a realistic understanding of French Christian patrimony. “Abandoned, desecrated, transformed, churches are turned into performance halls, discos, restaurants, wine cellars… Everything to escape demolition”, noted the journalist Marie de Greef-Madelin in the magazine Valeurs Actuelles. These transformations are sometimes called the “second life of France’s churches”. “At the current rate, France will lose 10% of its churches and chapels by 2030”, predicts Édouard de Lamaze, president of the Observatory of Religious Heritage. “Either because they will be sold or because they will be destroyed”.

The Basilica of Saint Denis, burial place of French kings, is already a Christian museum in an Islamized suburb of Paris, and the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, before the fire, had become a museum for tourists. “We have reached the final stage of de-Christianization”, commented the political analyst Jerome Fourquet, as if the fires at its major cathedrals were a symbol of France’s dispossession of a territory, a history and an identity.

“How much worse can it get depends on what line activists are willing to draw for themselves”, noted Ellen Fantini, director of Vienna’s Observatory of Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe. “Will they stop at burning an empty church? Will they stop at decapitating statues?”

“We are at a crossroads” said the French author Alain Finkielkraut. “We must try everything, while it is still possible, to save our civilization. Our civilization is the Greek, Roman, Judeo-Christian heritage”.

Europe is not an abstract construction. Its identity is determined by many sources. Christian identity is obviously the most important. If France keeps failing to protect it, France as we know it will cease to exist; it will become a different place entirely.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16264/france-cathedrals-fire