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.”

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.

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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.

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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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Only 20 percent of Norwegians think immigration works very or quite well for the country, while 47 percent of people believe that the immigration system is failing, according to the 2020 Integration Barometer, a survey commissioned by the Norwegian Integration and Diversity Directorate (IMDI).

The survey also found up to 79 percent of Norwegians argued that the challenges of immigration are caused by the immigrants themselves as they make inadequate efforts to integrate into society.

The survey further revealed that many Norwegians are skeptical towards those who practice Islam, with 52 percent of the population considering Islamic values incompatible with the values of Norwegian society.

Another 56 percent of Norwegians expressed skepticism about having a Muslim son-in-law or daughter-in-law, while 45 percent stated that they are skeptical about Muslims in general. A total of 70 percent of Norwegians than said they are skeptical about people with “strong Muslim faith.”

Norwegians also expressed skepticism of those who have a “strong Christian faith” (54 percent), indicating that many Norwegians feature a certain degree of skepticism towards those with strong religious convictions. 

“I think some of it comes from Norway being a highly secularized society. It is envisaged that strong religiosity can go beyond the basic values ​​of society, such as equality and co-determination,” says Jan-Paul Brekke from the Department of Social Research, who was responsible for the study.

The Integration Barometer study further suggested that more than 80 percent of Norwegians are skeptical about those who wear a niqab, which provides full-face coverage, no matter if it is used in public spaces, in the workplace, in a school by a teacher or a police officer. The opinion on wearing a hijab, which leaves the face uncovered, was more accommodating though, with two out of three Norwegians expressing a neutral or positive attitude in this matter.

The study also covered general opinions on immigration, revealing a larger share of those (40 percent) who believe that immigration is fairly good for the country than those who think the opposite (27 percent). However, at the same time, more Norwegians (43 percent) think that Norway should accept fewer immigrants versus 28 percent who believe the country should accept more immigrants.

Overall, Norwegians are much more accommodating to refugees than to, for example, economic migrants.

Other factors play a role in the perception of the immigration issue, as women, young people, and people with higher education are in general more positive about immigration than men, middle-aged, and Norwegians with less education.

Currently, the share of immigrants in Norway is about 18 percent, but the number is much higher (more than 30 percent) among the younger generation of migrants.

During the 1970s, the country was extremely homogenous and featured 98 percent ethnic Norwegians, a share that has fallen dramatically due to decades of mass immigration.

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Azad G. had made headlines several times: One year after his departure for Syria in 2013, he returned to his hometown Vienna to receive multiple outpatient treatment for a gunshot wound. During this leave from the front he collected 14 times 885.47 euros in minimum security. Then he went back to Syria.

After the case became known, the municipal department 35 wanted to deprive him of his Austrian citizenship. However, the Administrative Court of Vienna has now overturned the decision on April 20, as Beatrix Hornschall, the Vice President of the Administrative Court of Vienna, confirmed to “Wien heute”. For the revocation of Austrian citizenship would only be possible if dual citizenship is present.

The municipal department 35 had assumed that Azad G. was an Austrian-Turkish dual citizen. “We have our knowledge from the naturalisation files of that time”, was the statement of the municipal department 35 in February regarding the ongoing denial proceedings against several alleged IS fighters.

In the case of Azad G., “it was only during the appeal proceedings before the Vienna Administrative Court that the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey announced by way of legal assistance that the complainant was not a Turkish citizen. There is no evidence of any other citizenship. Since the complainant is thus only in possession of Austrian citizenship, this cannot be withdrawn from him according to the clear wording of Article 33(2) of the Citizenship Act, as this would render him stateless,” said Hornschall.According to the Foreign Ministry, the current “whereabouts of Azad G. are unknown”. He is said to have been captured by Kurdish soldiers. Last year a video came up saying, “I hope you realize I’m remorseful.”If he enters the country, Azad G. is facing arrest. The public prosecutor’s office has issued numerous arrest warrants against suspected IS fighters, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry of Justice only states that “the case has long been known to the Austrian prosecution authorities. Unfortunately, no further information can be provided at this stage of the procedure.

So far, the municipal department 35 has legally revoked the citizenship of four alleged IS fighters, the authority informed upon request. The men are now no longer allowed to enter Austria. Two proceedings are still pending before the Administrative Court. “The complainants were each instructed to remedy substantive deficiencies in the complaints,” said Hornschall. And furthermore, “the municipal department 35 is currently examining in ten further cases whether the conditions for a withdrawal of citizenship are met”, a spokesperson said.According to the 2018 report on the protection of the constitution, which was presented last year, the “number of jihad returnees from Austria has changed only marginally compared to 2017 – and there were fewer returnees than expected,” it said. According to the report on the protection of the constitution, 107 foreign terror fighters were still in the war zone at the end of 2018. The 2019 report on the protection of the constitution is not yet available.

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Thanks to extensive state social benefits, the young African in this video does not have to collect bottles himself. But that does not stop him from treating a native needy person like trash. The needy man has probably slaved all his life in order to supplement his meagre pension by collecting returnable bottles now.

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