The German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will no longer send police officers to Berlin for relief missions. The reason for this is the recently passed anti-discrimination law in the capital.
The state’s Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier (CDU) told the dpa news agency on Wednesday that he now sees as a reversal of the burden of proof, for example in the case of racism allegations against officials. “We cannot accept that,” emphasized the CDU politician. Police officers should not run the risk of suffering legal disadvantages during operations in Berlin.
The state anti-discrimination law passed by Red-Red-Green coalition in Berlin is designed to protect citizens and associations from discrimination, for example when dealing with authorities, checking tickets or dealing with the police. If a court finds discrimination, the person concerned receives compensation from the State of Berlin. The law is the first of its kind in Germany. It provides for a so-called burden of proof relief, according to which it is sufficient if a person concerned can claim any incident was “mostly likely” credible.
Critics, on the other hand, speak of a reversal of the burden of proof. Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) also announced to the dpa that for the time being federal police officers will no longer be sent for deployments to Berlin. “I cannot subject my officials to this discrimination, where they must then prove that they have not discriminated.”
Several interior ministers of the federal states had already considered suspending support missions in Berlin due to the new regulations. On Wednesday, Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) criticized the move in an interview on rbb-Inforadio saying that every citizen should have the opportunity to defend themselves against illegal treatment of police officers. A reversal of the burden of proof is, however, the wrong way. He said he would not allow the legal position of police officers from Brandenburg to be undermined.
Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg had announced that they would reconsider further deployments by their officials to Berlin. Should they experience disadvantages due to the anti-discrimination law, they will no longer send support. Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia, on the other hand, had announced that they would continue to send police officers to the capital.
Berlin’s Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel (SPD), repeatedly criticized the law. Claims for damages will in all cases be directed against the State of Berlin, not against individual officials, he said on Inforadio. He accused his colleague Stübgen of not having read the law, which is why he has now sent him the text. He classified the debate about the new Berlin regulation as “political folklore”.
The State Anti-Discrimination Act is also the subject of discussion at the Interior Ministers’ Conference in Erfurt, which started on Wednesday.
Ever since Donald Trump announced he would designate “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, calls have emerged to pursue the violent far-left mobs and their shadowy backers internationally. Official budget number from the German government show this includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The budget for Angela Merkel’s Chancellery totaled €3.19 billion 2020, of which more than half, €1.82 billion, went to the Chancellor’s Office for Media and Culture. The office was created by Merkel’s forerunner Gerhard Schröder (Social Democrat) in 1998 even though the German constitution explicitly delegates cultural affairs to the states and not the federal government. Despite its apparent unconstitutionality, it now serves as a kind of propaganda ministry for the German Chancellor, with its own world-wide public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (German Wave).
Former US ambassador in Berlin Richard Grenell frequently sparred with Deutsche Welle on Twitter over their pro-Iran and anti-US coverage. Deutsche Welle fired back and called Grenell “Donald Trump’s agitator in Berlin”, a remarkable way for an ally government’s network to treat the US ambassador.
Now, a parliamentary query by the conservative AfD party has revealed over €1 million out of Merkel’s media/propaganda budget 2019 went to fund Soros-funded NGO “Neue deutsche Medienmacher” (New German Media Makers – NdM), whose avowed goal is to increase “diversity” in German journalism by promoting ethnic minorities (New Germans) in the media and establishing “speech guidelines” for journalists. Merkel’s 2020 NdM funding totals €291.000 so far, according to the German federal government.
The New German Media Makers is headed by left-wing Spiegel columnist Ferda Ataman, who has frequently raised hackles among conservatives with seemingly racist remarks. Thus NdM awards an annual negative award for reporting it deems insensitive, called the “Goldene Kartoffel” (Golden Potato). “Kartoffel” (potato) is a racial epithet used by Muslims for ethnic Germans, a euphemism for the Muslim slur “Kaffir”. “Kaffir” ranks among the most grievous insults for non-believers in the Islamic world, tantamount to using the “N word” in the USA. In South Africa, you can go to prison for using the “K word”. Nonetheless, Ataman and the New German Media Makers continue to use the term and make light of its racially defamatory meaning.
During the onset of the Corona pandemic, Ataman stirred controversy with a tweet implying German doctors are racist and would give preferential treatment to ethnic Germans, causing a storm of outrage in the hard-pressed medical community.
In April, Ataman published an essay on the website of hard-core leftist “Antifascist League” (Bund der Antifaschistinnen – VVN-BdA), avowing her support of violent left-wing Antifa. The Antifascist League VVN-BdA has been classified as extremist by Bavarian secret policeand recently lost its tax-deductible status due to its overt political agitation. In her essay, Ataman compared the AfD, the largest opposition party in the Bundestag, to the National Socialists and fascists, announcing her intent “to fight to make Antifa socially acceptable.”
Last year, Antifa members attacked AfD member of parliament Frank Magnitz from behind, nearly killing him. No arrests were made. AfD members are frequently attacked in Germany with no effort at finding the culprits, including leading figures like Jörg Meuthen, Beatrix von Storch, Uwe Junge and Guido Reil.
In February 2019, left-wing Antifa website Indymedia published “assassination instructions” for attacks on AfD members, and just a few days later, four members of the AfD youth wing were attacked on their way to a screening of a film on the Warsaw Ghetto, including one Jewish member who felt “reminded of the 1930s.” No arrests were ever made.
A freelance member of Soros-funded hate watchdog Amadeu Antonio Foundation was arrested February 2019 for torching the car of an AfD politician in Berlin. The Amadeu Antonio foundation is headed by former Stasi secret agent Anetta Kahane. and also funded by the Merkel government to the tune of €1.1 million in 2019 and €837.000 in 2020 to date.
In March of this year, AfD chair Tino Chrupalla suffered smoke inhalation and had to be hospitalized when his car was torched outside his home. On May 16, three members of conservative auto workers union Zentrum Automobil were attacked by a mob of approx. 40 left-wing extremists on their way to an anti-shutdown protest in Stuttgart outside Mercedes HQ. One of the men, Andreas Ziegler, was shot in the head point-blank with a tear gas gun, leaving Ziegler comatose. The MSM took five days to even report the near-fatal shooting, employer Mercedes has yet to comment. Ziegler has now emerged from the coma. No arrests have been made.
In a video statement (English subtitles), AfD foreign policy spokesman Petr Bystron demanded of the German government: „How do you explain to your taxpaying citizens that German Chancellor Angela Merkel spent over 1.2 million Euros in 2019 on racist, anti-German NGOs which support violent, extremist Antifa?”
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas recently documented US Antifa members acknowledging their financing by George Soros funded NGOs. Several members of the violent “BLM” riots in the USA have been shown to have ties to Soros NGOs. In Germany, it seems it is the federal government funding Soros NGOs with taxpayer Euros, who then finance Antifa and far-left activists to function as a shadow army of Blackshirts to exert violence against the political opposition. Undercover journalist Christian Jung has documented the extensive ties between Antifa and local governments in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Bremen, who finance grafitti-covered “culture centers” and illegal squats as Antifa HQs, and pay salaries and even rents for far-left “activists” to monitor, harass and threaten the political opposition.
A sophisticated network of radical left-wing computer hackers will also dox and expose conservative politicians in Germany and attempt to ruin their lives. In February, when conservative Christian Democrats were discussing the possibility of forming a center-right minority government with the Free Democrat Party tolerated by the AfD in the state of Thuringia, hackers attacked conservative lawyer Ralf Höcker, exposing his personal information and even hacking the e-mail list of a right-wing air gun mail-order site in Hungary, claiming Höcker was a customer. (Höcker denies this.) His address was released and Höcker received what he called “very credible threats”. Höcker, whose wife was pregnant at the time, was forced to withdraw from politics and resign as speaker of the conservative “Values Union” within Merkel’s party.
Several leading AfD politicians, including Beatrix von Storch, Alice Weidel and Petr Bystron have called for Germany to follow Donald Trump’s lead in designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. Leftist politicians and MSM journalists rallied around their Antifa allies in defense. The German government funded left-wing Open Society-related NGOs to the tune of at least €9 million Euro in 2019s, the AfD query found.
Video Petr Bystron: Why does the German government finance violent, extremist Antifa supporters?
With fanaticism and iconoclastic fury, the statues of southern Confederate leaders, such as Robert Lee, were the first to fall. An easy job, how can we disagree?
Then they went to hit the stones of Christopher Columbus, the “exterminator of Indians”. Here they had a small jolt, given that he is still the man who discovered America and we are talking about five centuries ago.
Following that, on to the monuments to Thomas Jefferson, the Enlightenment statesman who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Here it was a little more controversial, but not much, because Jefferson may have been a hero of the separation of church and state, a Founding Father, but he was still a famous slave owner.
Removing the Columbus statues should be the easy part, like deleting Andrew Jackson’s name and face from American highways, campuses and currencies, The New Republic wrote last week. “Who is next? George Washington? Teddy Roosevelt? Abraham Lincoln? You certainly won’t agree with their demolition.” Instead, a resounding Yes.
Now in Boston, the famous statue to the president who paid with his life for the liberation of the slaves of America is about to fall. For some years now the ever-green terrain of “diversity” has been plowed well against Lincoln as well. “Was Lincoln an incorrigible racist?” asked slavery scholar Manisha Sinha in the Washington Post.
For over a hundred years, the Lincoln statue has dominated Park Square in Boston, in homage to the president known as the “Great Emancipator” – of black slaves. Lincoln is seen standing over a black slave who is on his knees, while one of the President’s hands is stretched out over the man who has broken the chains on his wrists. Now a black man, Tory Bullock, asks to bring down the statue, because Lincoln is not a liberator to him, he sees only a white man standing over a kneeling black boy.
Boston Mayor Marty J. Walsh said he was in favor of removing the statue, a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, which was donated to Boston in 1879 by Moses Kimball. He says that in addition to removing the statue, it could be redone to embody equality.
How about a kneeling Lincoln, in homage to the humiliation that is worn so prevalently in the West today? And why not go on to bombing Mount Rushmore, where you see George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, two slave owners?
America is comparatively new, it has no history such as Europe. Its history is to be found in these monuments and the men they memorialize. Take them down and you will have an empty public space to be filled by the ideological, grotesque manias coming out of liberal universities.
At this rate, these anti-racists will ask to repaint and change the name of The White House to The Black House. It may have already happened as I write this article.
After his statements on Tuesday that the Koran is more dangerous than the Corona virus, the head of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Norbert Hofer, says he is confronted with countless insults and death threats in social media. This shows that his words “may not have been completely without foundation”, the party leader sees his criticism confirmed.In the APA interview, Hofer reported death threats and insults in “the worst kind as well”, mainly on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or via direct messages. In numerous contributions – including the APA transmitted by the Freedom Party – the Freedom Party leader is called a ” son of a bitch” who “will burn in hell”. Several users also expressed the hope that Hofer would “die”. Others made themselves more explicit: “If one day one finds you dead on the street, don’t be surprised,” wrote one user, for example.Hofer also said he would take legal action: “I won’t put up with anyone threatening to kill me.”It’s a misguided community trying to put me under pressure. Although he had not expected it, he was not shocked and would certainly “not let himself be banned from speaking” by “oh so peace-loving people”.The collected evidence, which is constantly increasing, will be handed over to the security authorities as well as to the legal representation, the Freedom Party said. At the same time, Hofer reported “very, very many responses from Austrians” to his appearance, which were positive.Hofer has “no understanding at all” for negative criticism of his statements from politics or from religious leaders. “I would like people to develop a certain sensitivity to certain undesirable developments,” he rather said. “If I had said similar things about the Bible, those people who are now agitated would probably have remained silent,” said Hofer, who is faced with two charges of incitement and vilification of religious teachings. For him it was clear that it was always about the interpretation of the Koran.You can find some problematic texts in the Bible, “but we have experienced humanism and the Age of Enlightenment,” he said.
The scenes of violence that have multiplied in Dijon, in recent days have highlighted high crime, massive arms trafficking and non-integrated Arab and European Muslim communities in France. While the police have been facing severe criticism, this episode revealed a completely different picture.Kalashnikovs and shotguns, car pileups worthy of Hollywood and gangsters of all kinds – in recent days, the capital city of the historical Burgundy region in eastern France, has become a haven for organised crime and delinquency. In a city better known for its mustard than for its settling of scores, viewers on social media discovered the reality of mass immigration to Europe.
On June 10, a young man was attacked and threatened by Dijon dealers. But the 16-year-old boy is part of the Chechen community. The latter called for a vendetta on social networks after he was threatened with the words: “We will let you live so that you can tell the others that we will do the same with each of them.“
Consequently, many of them travelled to Dijon in order to avenge their comrade. Coming from all over France and from as far as Belgium and Germany, they were ready to fight and parade through the city center. They were filmed firing AK-47 assault rifles in the air and brandishing pistols.
On the evening of June 12, around a hundred Chechens armed with axes, knives and baseball bats marched towards a shisha bar in the center of the city, which is considered the point of contact for drug dealers. The Chechens forced the gang members to flee.
The following night, the Chechens drove their cars through the immigrant district of Les Grésilles to intimidate them. The tenant of a pizzeria was seriously injured when shots were fired. The two groups met again on Sunday night. A resident of the district raced towards the Chechens in his car, which overturned and he was seriously injured.
Light has since been shed on the Dijon situation. On the evening of the clashes, only thirteen police officers were on duty, facing more than two hundred delinquents. Half a section of CRS was dispatched along with several police officers from the anti-crime brigade. Also, in the destruction orgy by the local gangs in Les Grésilles, according to the Prefect of the Côte d’Or, Bernard Schmeltz, no Chechens took part.
The Chechens explained in video messages to the residents of Dijon that they did not want destruction, but only justice. The rioters, on the other hand, presented themselves in videos as the “Arab Mafia”. They patrolled with pistols and weapons of war. They shot out all of the surveillance cameras in the neighborhood so that the security forces could no longer follow what was happening, setting fire to numerous vehicles and public property.
Only after the elite police force, the RAID, arrived, they calmed down.
“Seeing young people brandishing arms, 100 people fighting, being aggressive, it’s unacceptable,” the agriculture minister, Didier Guillaume, told the CNews TV channel. At least 10 percent of the city are immigrants.
National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, denounced the “multicultural” policies of the Socialist mayor of Dijon, François Rebsamen. Rebsamen, without irony, blamed insufficient police deployment over the weekend for the violent clashes between Maghreb and Chechen communities.
Rebsamen declared on Monday that he “like all Dijoners very much like the beautiful district of Les Grésilles, in which he has invested a lot of money” and called the “‘young people’ who set fire to cars and build barricades” to go home, because he was promised more police officers by the interior minister.
Only the police “can provide security in the neighborhood, not the ‘youth’”. At the same time, he emphasized that Marine Le Pen was not welcome in the city.
Left-wing extremists threw stones at Le Pen’s vehicle on Tuesday through the city with impunity. Le Pen blamed the left and the civil right for “the monstrous reality to which 30 years of ideological aberrations have led”.
She called for an immediate immigration moratorium and the immediate dissolution of the mafia networks. “The secret services have to settle in the heart of the neighborhoods, the tax audits have to be carried out methodically to reveal the imbalance between declared income and an incredible lifestyle, the residence permits have to be withdrawn, the right to asylum lifted, residence bans imposed and expulsions carried out.”
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The deputy interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, had travelled to Dijon, vowing an “extremely strong response”, with more than 150 police and paramilitary gendarmes mobilised to halt any unrest.
“I want to send a very clear message to the hooligans we have seen brandishing weapons, to the individuals who have come here to commit violence in Dijon,” he said.
“Our response will be extremely firm.” He added that “the perpetrators […] will be prosecuted and severely punished, commensurate with the serious acts”. However, three of the four people who were arrested Monday during the urban violence have been released, reported French daily Le Figaro.
Only one person, a 32-year-old man with no criminal record, was sentenced to a 90-day fine of five euros and a ban on holding or carrying a weapon for five years. The telescopic baton he was carrying, was confiscated.
On Tuesday, June 16, the Interior Ministry also declared that it reserved the right to examine “systematically the possibility of expelling foreigners involved, in accordance with administrative procedures”. According to information from le Figaro, it was Emmanuel Macron who himself asked Christophe Castaner to examine the possibility of expelling foreign nationals implicated in the violence.
The conservative opposition was unanimous in denouncing the government’s lack of firmness, and in particular the Minister of the Interior in this affair. “We can see that French society is extremely restless and that we need authority. Yes, I think he lacks authority,” said Republicans member Éric Woerth on LCI, on Tuesday, June 16, referring to Castaner.
“Unfortunately the current government has remained completely powerless,” his colleague Éric Ciotti, told public broadcaster Europe 1.
To seal an “armistice” the two communities have approached a mosque instead, under the leadership of Imam Mohammed Ateb, the regional representative of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) and close to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to conservative weekly Marianne.
According to Marianne, representatives of the Chechen and Maghreb communities, who fought a fierce war in the Grésilles district, gathered in the garden of the Brotherhood mosque, under the leadership of Imam Mohammed Ateb, in the evening of Tuesday June 16. The father of the young man, whose aggression had triggered the punitive expeditions, was present.
“We are here for an explanation, in a conciliation process, to make things easier. We are one community, we are all brothers,” said Imam Mohammed Ateb, whose words were reported by Marianne .
Another imam, this time Chechen, joined them. According to a Chechen source in the weekly, representatives of the Maghreb community in the Grésilles district recognized the wrongs of the attackers of the young boy and apologized, accepted by their counterparts. But Mohammed Ateb is said to have made it clear that the “talks” being held “do not represent young people”.
While the state has been powerless to bring calm to Dijon, after Laurent Nunez’s failed promise to provide “a firm response”, peace has been sealed in a mosque. “Everything concerning drugs and trafficking is the responsibility of the state and the courts,” said the imam.
This conflict was therefore basically a matter of “honor”, according to Marianne. “We Chechens are united. When one of us is threatened and victim of an injustice, everyone mobilizes,” an interlocutor told the weekly.
“This way of doing things is characteristic of the Chechen tradition. We prefer to settle this between us rather than to appeal to justice,” he concluded.
The events in Dijon certainly demonstrated the total failure of the French political elite.
The number of Hezbollah members and supporters in the German state of Lower Saxony increased from 150 in 2018 to 160 in 2019, according to a damning new intelligence report released in late May.The report said that in “Lower Saxony supporters and sympathizers of Hezbollah are organized in several associations that have specified the care and dissemination of Lebanese culture and the practice of their religion as their purpose and goal in statutes.”
The report said that Hezbollah associations are located in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, the city of Osnabrück and the town Uelzen. Hezbollah members and supporters are also located in South Lower Saxony. The report added that Hezbollah “activities can also be observed in the area around Bremen in Lower Saxony.” The German Interior Ministry declared Hezbollah a terrorist movement in late April and banned all Hezbollah activity in Germany.The intelligence document said that “the Lebanese Shi’ite organization Hezbollah (Party of God) uses terrorist means to fight the State of Israel, but also directs its propaganda against Western institutions.”It is unclear if the German authorities plan to take legal action against the Lebanese Shi’ite Hezbollah members and supporters in Lower Saxony and their mosques and associations. The report did not provide reasons for the increase in Hezbollah members and supporters in Lower Saxony.The intelligence report said “the associations are mainly financed by membership fees and fundraisers. The connection to Hezbollah is made by officials who come from Lebanon again and again on…occasions such as…the anniversary of the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon or on high Muslim holidays.”
According to the intelligence document, “in Lower Saxony, members of various associations also visit the same mosques. Regardless of a certain sympathy in parts of the Shi’ite Lebanese living here for the political and ideological goals of Hezbollah.” The state of Lower Saxony has a population of nearly 8 million.The report noted that the Islamic Republic of Iran backs Hezbollah with funds.“The model for Hezbollah is the revolutionary Iran,” wrote the intelligence officials. According to various German intelligence reports, there are 1,050 Hezbollah members and supporters in the federal republic.The Lower Saxony intelligence agency wrote that Hezbollah seeks to propagate a radical system of Islamic law (Sharia) against the liberal, democratic social and political order, adding that” the mobilization potential of Hezbollah in Germany should not be underestimated.”Hezbollah members and supporters from Lower Saxony have participated in the annual al-Quds rally in Berlin last year that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, according to the report. “Among the demonstrators were people who had come from Lower Saxony.” Activists from the German Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel were present at the rally. A sign displayed at the rally read: “Boycott Apartheid Israel.” The intersection between BDS and US and EU designated terrorist entities at anti-Israel protests in Germany frequently occurs.
Police in Germany have arrested a suspect in a case where a death threat was sent to politicians from Die Linke (The Left), one of the country’s main liberal parties, in Landau. The suspect is a former member of Die Linke who wrote the threat to seem as if it had come from a Right-winger in the hope of getting publicity for the party.
The Prosecutor’s Office in Koblenz announced that police arrested the suspect after searching his home in the nearby town of Kandel on Monday. The man, 63, confessed to the crime during the search. He is a former member of Die Linke himself, according to a report by Die Welt.
The Treasurer of the Landau branch of Die Linke, Daniel Emmerich, had received a letter in his mailbox on June 6. It was addressed to him, as well as to fellow local Die Linke politicians Tobias Schreiner, Bastian Stock, and Jonas Wadle. “Terrorist antifas wanted,” the letter read. Along with the note were four unfired bullets.
Die Linke at first publicized the letter as a threat from Right-wing terrorists. Bastian Stock, Landau’s City Councilor, one of those named in the letter, said that “Right-wing terror is booming in Germany” in response to the incident.
Police had tracked the suspect to his home following an investigation. He told investigators that he had never actually intended to harm the politicians, but said that he had hoped that Die Linke would get lots of publicity as a result of the incident.
He said that he was inspired to send the letter after an incident in which members of a trade union who were attending an anti-lockdown protest were assaulted and severely injured by Antifa extremists in Stuttgart last month, as previously reported by Voice of Europe. Some on the German Right have accused Die Linke of being associated with Antifa extremists.
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