A 33-year-old man from Essen appeared at the Steele police station in Essen yesterday at noon and reported a robbery. The man from Essen stated that after he had visited a bank on Krayer Street, where he had withdrawn several hundred euros in cash, he walked to the cemetery on Rodenseel Street (photo). There he was approached by two unknown men around 9:50 a.m. and involved in a short conversation. It is possible that the perpetrators had observed the man from Essen withdrawing money, as they held him shortly afterwards and demanded money. In order to add weight to their demands, one of the perpetrators pulled a one-handed knife, which he held towards the robbed man. The men fled with a backpack in the direction of a discount grocery store on the street Korthover Weg, where a suspected accomplice was staying. The men are said to be between 18 and 25 years old, approximately 1.75 to 1.85 metres tall and of slender stature. They had an Arabic appearance and spoke broken German. The man with the knife wore a face mask, a black baseball cap with print, a black Nike sweater and blue jeans.The suspected accomplice at the supermarket has a black full beard, wore a white unprinted baseball cap and light-coloured sneakers. The third perpetrator cannot be described. It is possible that passers-by or residents noticed the robbers in advance and could provide additional clues by calling 0201/829-0.

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The reportedly long-festering issue of antisemitism in the ranks of the German magazine Spiegel resurfaced on Friday in a new article that allegedly stokes Jew-hatred against a reporter for Germany’s best-selling Bild paper, according to German Jews and prominent journalistic critics.In a Spiegel article about the dispute between the German virologist Christian Drosten and Bild over anti-coronavirus measures, Spiegel asked if the Bild reporter Filipp Piatov came to the mass-circulation paper from Israel’s embassy.

The Bild’s editor-in-chief, Julian Reichelt, wrote on twitter that Spiegel asked about Piatov coming from Israel’s embassy in Berlin, suggesting Spiegel is fostering an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish conspiracy theory. Piatov worked on an article about Drosten.Spiegel wrote that Piatov is Reichelt’s “bloodhound” and singled out Piatov’s Jewish background in the article, writing he”came to Germany with his Jewish family” and is “unconditionally uncritical towards Israel.”Sigmount Königsberg, the representative on combating antisemitism for the 10,000-member Jewish community of Berlin, slammed Spiegel on Twitter, writing people “cannot remain silent with TheSpiegel’s antisemitism against Piatov.”On Saturday, the prominent Politico magazine journalist Matthew Karnitschnig tweeted: “There’s been a long-running discussion about whether Der Spiegel is fundamentally antisemitic.That debate is now over. This week, the magazine randomly describes a German reporter at the rival Bild as Jewish, compares him to a dog (‘bloodhound’)…and asserts that his loyalty to Israel is ‘unconditional.’ In reporting the piece, Der Spiegel asked Bild if the reporter came to them via the Israeli embassy. Case closed.”

Karnitschnig is Politico’s chief Europe correspondent.

When The Jerusalem Post asked about the allegations of antisemitism on Twitter, Alexander Kühn, one of three Spiegel journalists who authored the article, wrote: “We reject the allegation of antisemitism. It is important to mention the Jewish family, as we will write later in the text that Mr. Piatov received antisemitic threats. He himself addressed the family [topic] in his book.”Anja zum Hingst, a spokeswoman for Spiegel, sent the same reply as Kühn to the Post on Friday.Post queries on Twitter to the two additional Spiegel reporters, Isabell Hülsen and Anton Rainer, went unanswered. Hülsen’s retweeted Kühn’s tweet denying antisemitism.Detailed Post queries to zum Hingst and the Spiegel authors about the additional allegations of modern antisemitism in the article, including the Israeli embassy question, were not answered.The Bild journalist  Björn Stritzel, who has written extensively on German antisemitism, commented on Twitter that “[Spiegel] absolutely wanted to tell an antisemitic lie about the homeless Ahasver who becomes a court Jew,” in connection with the Spiegel section on Piatov leaving “Leningrad at the age of one” to Germany and locating a “journalistic home” at Bild.Stritzel’s criticism directed at Spiegel suggests that the authors exploited the idea of the wandering Jew, or Ahasver, to create an antisemitic ideology to discredit the Bild and Piatov’s journalism.Antisemitic fear of the “wandering Jew” has a long history in Germany. The US academic Paul Lawrence Rose, who is a leading expert on radical Geman antisemitism, wrote that the Ahasver myth spreads the ideology that “ordinary Jews of the social environment were imbued with a supernatural demonic significance.”The German national security journalist, Florian Flade, also weighed in on the Spiegel row on Twitter, noting “sorry, but why is it important to mention that Piatov comes from a ‘Jewish family’? And what is this ‘emigrated from … given home’? Completely unnecessary. Journalism.”The controversy electrified Twitter, including one commentator who frequently monitors antisemitism in Germany, describing the Spiegeljournalists as a “pack of antisemites.”In March, after the Post was the first news organization to expose allegations of antisemitism against Spiegel journalist Christoph Sydow, he walked back his description of Israel’s government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the first “Corona Dictatorship.”The Spiegel declined to change the headline in response to Sydow’s statement that “if I wrote the text again today, I would not use the word ‘dictatorship’ again.”In 2019, Spiegel  alleged – with echoes of a classic antisemitic conspiracy theory – that two small pro-Israel organizations are directing German Middle East policy.

“The Spiegel must officially apologize for practicing Israel-related antisemitism,” Uwe Becker, commissioner to combat antisemitism in the state of Hesse, said at the time. “The article contains all the stereotypes that constitute antisemitism, and is an example of how deep these though patterns are in mainstream society.”

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“Hunger!” yelled the guest and ran straight to the kitchen of the restaurant. Because there was no solid meal on the table, David F. (21 years old) freaked out completely.

The rioting restaurant customer was now on the dock behind bulletproof glass.

For six months now, he has been without the delicious African cuisine or a pizza with friends: The big guy’s gonna have to make do with prison food at the prison psychiatric ward. It was 5 p.m. on September 12, 2019, when his stomach must have been rumbling. According to investigations, he was standing in front of a café-bar in Föhrer Street in the Berlin district of Wedding.

It smelled wonderful. A woman (44 years old) was cooking in the kitchen. Culinary and delicious things from Africa are on her menu. David F. with bad manners: “I want something to eat!” Chop, chop! The cook asked for patience: “I need some more time.” He should wait for the food outside the kitchen door. He didn’t like that at all. The prosecution says: “He grasped a kitchen knife with an eight-centimeter blade and stabbed the woman with it.” She reflexively protected her face. The blade injured her hand. The next stab was to the back of her head. She was very lucky: “The force of the knife stroke was largely absorbed by the woman’s hair tied back.” The rioting guest remained angry: “In order to further emphasize his demand for food, he beat the victim with his fists and the handle of a knife,” he said, “He pushed and beat the woman. Several strong men had trouble taming the rude guest and then handed him over to the police.

David F. arrived in Germany as a refugee from Somalia at the beginning of 2017 and initially lived in a refugee home in Mariendorf. He has already become known to the police and the judiciary on several previous occasions. The judge now says: “Do you want to testify?” The Giant-sized man shook his head. His lawyer said: “He can’t remember anything.”

Was he guilty? That’s the key question in the trial of aggravated assault and attempted extortion. F. is considered mentally ill. The prosecutor is seeking permanent placement in the forensic psychiatric ward. To be continued:11 June.

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George Floyd’s autopsy “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation” as race riots continue across the US.

The report noted that the combined effects of Floyd “being restrained by police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death”.

The Washington Times reported that Floyd died on Monday from preexisting health conditions exacerbated by drug use while being held down by Minneapolis officers, and not from strangulation or asphyxiation as is being alleged by rioters.

Based on the medical examiner’s initial report from a Tuesday preliminary autopsy conducted by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner there were “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxiation or strangulation”.

A criminal complaint was filed against former officer Derek Michael Chauvin who had arrested Floyd.

“Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease,” said the complaint from the Hennepin County Attorney. “The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”

Social unrest coupled with violence continued across major US cities on Friday evening. From Washington, DC to New York City to Atlanta to Ohio to Los Angeles to San Jose, tens of thousands of African-Americans supported by Antifa gathered in the streets.

The White House meanwhile arrived at a “general consensus” on Friday that no further riots should be stopped by law enforcement “because it would hurt their chances at coalition building with minority communities ahead of the election,” Ryan James Girdusky reported.

“If anyone’s expecting to see an LA riot type of response from the federal government. They’re going to be disappointed. A lot of conversation went into all the work they’ve put in to reach out to the black community (on average, Trump’s polling 8 percent with them),” Girdusky added.

Looting and calls to attack whites continued in several American cities.

Even “the most liberal, well-intentioned white person” has a “virus” called “racism” in their brain, CNN commentator Van Jones told his television audience on Friday. His anti-white statements were apparently not heeded by a large mob that had stormed the CNN building in Atlanta, Georgia.

In a partial transcript of Jones’s speech, he said: “It’s not the racist white person who is in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about. It’s the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park who would tell you right now, you know, people like that, ‘I don’t see race, race is no big deal to me, I see us all as the same, I give to charities,’ but the minute she sees a black man who she does not respect or who she has a slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been trained by the Aryan nation. A Klans member could not have been better trained to pick up her phone and tell the police a black man, African-American man, come get him.”

Very few African-American rioters bothered about adhering to anti-Corona measures. In Minneapolis, where the riots had erupted, the municipal government said it had provided hundreds of masks to the public for the purpose of reducing transmission of the virus.

The Democrat mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey asked that “protesters” practice social distancing and wear masks. Although his social distancing calls were mostly ignored, many looters could be seen wearing masks in a bid to hide their faces. Frey himself wore a mask for his Twitter profile photo, as he framed Lloyd’s death as a racial war.

“The City encourages everyone to exercise caution to stay safe while participating in demonstrations, including wearing masks and physical distancing as much as possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” the statement reads. “The City has made hundreds of masks available to protesters this week.”

The Treasury Department in Washington DC was also attacked by rioters, who vandalised the building. According to CNN, some of the protesters were stopped by US Secret Service but they were eventually released.

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The European Union has discovered what Democrats in America have known for years: never let a crisis go to waste.

In that spirit, the EU is presenting a massive relief package for European economies to help them get back on their feet following the coronavirus lockdowns.

But the plan isn’t designed solely to alleviate the crisis. It’s mainly structured to advance the EU’s climate change agenda to make the world safe for windmills…or something.

Guardian:

The EU’s plan seeks to pour money into emissions-busting sectors: €91bn (£81bn) a year for home energy efficiency and green heating, €25bn of renewable energy, and €20bn for clean cars over two years, plus 2m charging points in five years. Up to €60bn will go to zero-emissions trains and the production of 1m tonnes of clean hydrogen is planned.

At least a million green jobs will be created, with workers in polluting industries helped into new roles, a critical part of the plan. Increasing the Just Transition Fund more than fivefold to €40bn minimises the risk of protests against green measures, especially in states with the heaviest coal use such as Poland, Germany and Romania, which will be among the biggest recipients. This is politically necessary, despite investment in the green economy already being a no-brainer.

Barack Obama invested massive amounts of money in the green economy and gave us the weakest economic recovery in history, so good luck with that, EU.

Aren’t they worried some of that money will go to dirty, carbon-polluting industries? If it does, the greens are ready for it:

The Just Transition Fund will be routed through the European Investment Bank, but campaigners say its climate criteria allow the backing of gas projects that would lock in emissions for years. Another key fund, the €150bn React EU programme, allows member states to decide how to spend the money – most of the almost €2tn in coronavirus rescue funds spent by EU nations so far has had no green guarantees.

Worse, say critics, climate conditions on large parts of the main EU budget have been lifted for three years because of the pandemic. The proportion of the budget reserved for climate projects remains stuck at 25%, despite demands by the European parliament and many others to raise it.

The commission rejects these criticisms, saying the “objective of the green economy is present throughout the whole management of the funds”. Whether this oversight proves effective will be the critical test.

While the rest of the world’s economies are unleashed following the easing of the pandemic, the EU will be stuck trying to achieve green goals that will put a brake on any recovery plans they may have. Their unemployment situation — already bad before the pandemic — will almost certainly worsen as coal and oil industries will suffer huge job losses as governments try to starve them out of existence by denying them relief funds.

The voters in the EU should know that they are doing this deliberately, with their eyes open. They will create hardship and misery unnecessarily. But the way they see it, a few lost jobs is worth it if we save the planet.

Maybe voters should see to it that the officials lose their jobs at the next election.

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A large mob of “youths” set a large-scale ambush for first responders in Dietzenbach, in the Offenbach district of Darmstadt near Frankfurt, last night. Several police vehicles were destroyed in the attack.
The incident began when several trash bins and an excavator were set on fire in a parking lot at around midnight. Local residents alerted first responders, but when police and firefighters arrived at the scene, they were attacked by a group of approximately 50 people who were throwing large numbers of stones and flaming projectiles. Police had to call for reinforcements to secure the area due to the ferocity of the assault.
The clash between police and the mob lasted for approximately two hours, and three suspects were arrested. Two were released shortly thereafter. No injuries were reported, but several police vehicles were destroyed, and the damage is estimated to run between 100,000 and 150,000 euros, according to a report by EN24.
A property manager in the area told reporters that this is the third such fire in recent weeks and that he expects more. “It’s a mess,” he said, saying that it was difficult for him to employ staff to work in his building because of the deteriorating security situation.
Police are investigating what caused the riot. They have speculated that it may have been retaliation for police raids carried out in the area earlier this week that resulted in the confiscation of stolen goods, including bicycles, construction equipment, and a motorcycle. They also believe there might be a connection with the riots currently happening in the United States.
“It’s obvious that last night’s perpetrators wanted to send a message: ‘The state has to stay out of our district’,” said Heini Schmitt, the Chairman of the regional labor union. “The spiral of violence continues unchecked.”
The area where the attack occurred has been a frequent hotspot for conflicts between “youths” and police for decades. 95% of the residents in the vicinity are of a migrant background and come from 80 different nations, mainly Turkey and Morocco, according to a report by Junge Freiheit.
Violence against first responders has been on the increase since the beginning of the lockdown in response to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Germany and other Western European nations, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

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The situation around the country’s primary reception facility for asylum seekers in Suhl is becoming critical. It’s a case of drug trafficking, extortion, theft.

What’s going on in the accommodation on the Friedberg? Up to 500 refugees, Afghans, Eritreans, Syrians live in the shelter. And apparently they are taking their toll on the city and the police.

In fact, the number of police operations rose to 41 between February and April. According to the Ministry of the Interior, there were only 19 in the same period last year. 133 criminal charges were filed against 121 suspects during this period, including for assault, threat and residence offences.

The most recent incident was in April when 50 residents provoked a large-scale deployment, rioted and attacked each other with slats and iron bars.

According to Jürgen Hoffmann, regional head of the German Police Union (DPolG), this is only the tip of the iceberg: “There are now incidents every day, more and more in the city districts and the surrounding area. It can’t go on like this.” The officials felt more and more abandoned.

The officials felt more and more abandoned. Some residents of the shelter for asylum seekers were becoming more and more brazen, not taking the police officers seriously any more. He knows of no other facility where disturbances are so frequent.

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