Two of the six far-left extremists Antifa suspects involved in the brutal beating of a German television crew have been revealed as coming from a privileged middle-class background, originally from a well-off Swabian town.

The two suspects, 27-year-old Miriam S. and her 25-year-old brother Simon S., were arrested shortly after the attack on a camera crew of German broadcaster ZDF on May 1st in Berlin that sent four members of the crew to the hospital with various injuries suffered during the brutal assault. The background of the pair has now been revealed by German newspaper Die Welt which reports that the two Antifa extremists originally come from the small wealthy town of Schwaigern near Heilbronn in the historic Swabia region, now divided between Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria.

According to the paper, both siblings have connections to far-left extremist groups and have expressed support for Antifa and migrant transport NGOs in the past.

The father of the pair, who did not find out about his children’s role in the assault until approached by the paper, said that his son works as a kickboxing coach and has supported migrant transport NGO “Sea-Watch” along with other pro-mass migration and left-wing extremist groups in the past.

His daughter Miriam has also expressed her support for far-left groups and causes including signing various petitions and leftist campaigns and both siblings are well-known among the local leftist scene.

The pair fit the profile of many far-left extremists in Germany and elsewhere across Europe who seldom come from working-class or more financially humble backgrounds. Antifa rioters arrested after the ultra-violent May 1st riots in Paris in 2018 were also revealed to have come from privileged upper-middle-class backgrounds as well.

A 2017 report from the Agency for the Protection of the Consitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence organisation, found that while many far-left extremists may come from wealthy backgrounds, nine in ten still live with their parents and just 16 per cent are female. Nine in ten are also said to not have any sort of romantic relationship.

Far-left violence and extremism continue to be a major problem despite the lockdowns put in place across Europe due to the Wuhan coronavirus, with French authorities believing Antifa extremists may be linked to a series of serious acts of sabotage of communications infrastructure in recent weeks.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/13/far-left-antifa-suspects-in-beating-of-german-camera-crew-come-from-privileged-backgrounds/

Billionaire financier and convicted inside trader George Soros fears that Hungary and Poland will benefit from a recent decision from Germany’s Constitutional Court by gaining more independence and sovereignty from the European Union.

In the same interview with Project Syndicate where he said the European Union faces an “existential crisis” due to the coronavirus that it may not survive, Soros also said one of his top concerns is last week’s verdict from Germany’s Constitutional Court.

“When Germany joined the EU, it committed itself to abide by European law. But the ruling raises an even bigger issue: if the German court can question the decisions of the European Court of Justice, can other countries follow its example?

“Can Hungary and Poland decide whether they follow European law or their own courts — whose legitimacy the EU has questioned? That question goes to the very heart of the EU, which is built on the rule of law,” said Soros, whose network has been unsuccessfully attempting for months to smear Hungary’s government with claims that they violate international law.

In last week’s German case, the country’s top court decided that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overstepped its mandate in the case of the bond purchasing program that started in 2015.

According to the German court, the Central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany has to suspend purchases of bonds under the ECB’s program within three months, unless the ECB proves that such purchases are necessary.

Soros worries nation states may gain more freedom

The verdict is expected to strengthen the hand of nationalists who want greater sovereignty from Brussels in a wide range of cases. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed it  as”one of the most important [decisions] in the EU’s history”.

Soros believes that Poland’s judicial reforms, which have been fought aggressively by the EU, may now have a greenlight if national courts have supremacy over decisions from the European Court of Justice.

“Poland has immediately risen to the occasion and asserted the supremacy of its government-controlled courts over European law,” said Soros. “In Hungary, Viktor Orbán has already used the COVID-19 emergency and a captured parliament to appoint himself dictator. The parliament is kept in session to rubber-stamp his decrees, which clearly violate European law. If the German court’s verdict prevents the EU from resisting these developments, it will be the end of the EU as we know it.”

Despite Soros’s claim that Orbán’s government’s actions “clearly violate European law”, the EU itself announced just this month that none of the actions Hungary has taken during the coronavirus crisis or its state of emergency are in violation of European law. Although the law gave Orbán extra powers during the crisis, the EU found that many countries across the EU have enacted similar legislation.

European Commission legal experts also examined the law and found no breaches of European rules.

The Project Syndicate interview also explored Soros’s plan for a type of bond he labeled a “consol”, which he says countries such as Germany and the Netherlands have been opposed to in the past, but which are needed now during the coronavirus crisis. As with Orbán, he also called US President Donald Trump a “dictator” and lamented that Italy may leave the EU due to the coronavirus crisis.

Soros has made a number of inflammatory comments in the past as well about Trump, Orbán, and migration.

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With more than 400,000 immigrants, the first of January is recorded as the birthday in the Central Register of Foreigners. According to an inquiry by the AfD member of parliament René Springer, which has been published in the daily newspaper Die Welt, the majority of them come from Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan.

According to the report, a quarter of the 416,420 people with a birthday on the first of January arrived in 2015. Thirteen of the 47 minors recently welcomed from the Greek camps also have a date of birth on the first of January. The first of January is recorded as the date of birth if immigrants do not know when they were born. “With regard to the date of birth, the registration of personal data necessarily provides for an exact date of birth, but not all countries and cultures register birth dates to the day and month,” the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees told the newspaper. The scholar of Islamic Studies Susanne Schröter, on the other hand, assumes that most immigrants know their birthday very well. There are pragmatic reasons for giving a fictitious date. Minors are “in many ways privileged over adults”, so that there is a great incentive “to appear younger than one actually is”.

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Seven of them lunged at their victim, inflicting life-threatening injuries from knife wounds. Four suspects were arrested, three are still at large, wanted:

Heavy knife attack in broad daylight, Saturday afternoon (9th of May) in the northern district of Dortmund.

Around 2:30 pm, a 25-year-old man from Dortmund clashed with about seven men at the street Bornstraße, police spokeswoman Kristina Purschke reported. “The quarrel escalated and a brawl broke out.”And even fisticuffs were not enough: after the perpetrators had first beaten up the 25 year olds , one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim’s upper body.

The seriously injured man fell from the platform into the track bed.
The attackers fled. An ambulance took the 25-year-old to a hospital where he remained in hospital. Kristina Purschke reported to our editor that his life was in danger at first.

Only two hours after the bloody attack, police officers spotted four young men on the spot and arrested them temporarily. The men living in Dortmund are 18, 19, 23 and 26 years old. During the search of the 19-year-old, the police officers found a knife and seized it.The police are now looking for three more suspects. As the police spokeswoman told us on request, the seriously injured 25-year-old is of Spanish origin. The attackers are all Syrian.

Zu siebt auf einen: 25-Jähriger durch Messerstiche in DO-Nord lebensgefährlich verletzt

For two months there has been an absolute silence among the brass musicians – no rehearsals, no club activities and no concerts. The 391 bands with their 19,172 actively registered musicians are slowly but surely becoming impatient. This is confirmed by association president Erich Riegler:”The situation is bleak, there is no solution to this problem. And the Styrian emphasizes: “Especially in the summer months, our music bands are an important figurehead for social, touristic and socio-political tasks”. Therefore Riegler demands: “In the gradual restart of cultural activities, the cultural asset of brass music must also be considered and defined accordingly”. So far there has been no information for those involved. When asked at the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs, the following answer is given: “According to the Covid-19 lifting regulation, there is an upper limit of ten persons for rehearsals as well as for concerts, the one-meter distance and a mechanical protection device covering the mouth and nose area must be worn”.”A face mask for brass musicians – that’s a joke, isn’t it?”, Werner Gollenz from the music association Grazer Linien is stunned. The bandleader is bothered by further worries: “The musicians’ motivation is decreasing from day to day.

“A face mask for brass musicians – that’s a joke, isn’t it?”, Werner Gollenz from the music association Grazer Linien is stunned. The bandleader is bothered by further worries: “The musicians’ motivation is decreasing from day to day. What should they practice for? We don’t even know if we can play any concerts in autumn.

The face mask regulation is valid until June 30th. Required are permitted group reharsals or rehearsals in large halls.

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By Mario Alexis Portella

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is one of the most controversial national leaders in the Western world.  Just over a month ago, his majority Fidesz (Hungarian Civic Alliance) Party pushed through the “unlimited” emergency powers by a two-thirds majority of Parliament on March 30.

Orbán has been harshly criticized by the European Union for his firm stance in keeping (predominantly Muslim) refugees from entering Hungary ever since he closed the borders to them in 2015.  Consequently, Orbán has been accused by the international community of being an Islamophobe, especially after he said: “Islam has never been part of Europe, it came to us.  We in Hungary decide what we want or don’t want. We don’t want that.” 

What Orbán’s critics failed to mention is that Hungary, a country of just under 10 million, was ruled for over a century by the oppressive Islamic Turks and was always on the front line during the many centuries of hostility between Christian Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire invaders.  The Hungarian Prime Minster has thus far been able to keep his country safe from Islamic terrorism compared to the United Kingdom, France and Germany, which took in large flows of illegal immigrants.

Yet the focus is Orbán’s emergency powers, now that Hungary is reopening after its lockdown. They entail the suspension of certain Parliamentary Acts, referendums and by-elections, giving Orbán the authority to rule by decree — something France’s Emmanuel Macron is doing unrelated to the coronavirus.  The Act also calls for penal measures to be taken against anyone who “in front of a large audience, [willingly and deliberately] states or disseminates any untrue fact or any misrepresented true fact that is capable of hindering or preventing the efficiency of protection” against the coronavirus.

Naturally, all this has led to Orbán being classified as a dictator, even being compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping.  Opposition figures have suggested that Fidesz will use the prospect of a coronavirus-induced recession to extend Orbán’s power indefinitely.  Outside observers, in fact, equally warn of a dictatorship within the European Union’s borders.

István Kiss, former Hungarian official and member of the Danube Institute, dispels this contention. As he personally explained to me, there are in fact several clauses to the Act.  The constitution that governs the “state of danger” says that when the danger, i.e., the epidemic, ends, government decrees made under the emergency become invalid.  Also, the constitutional court could reject it in whole or in part, either today or after the epidemic has receded.  Lastly, Parliament can vote to end the state of emergency at any time by a simple majority.

So far as the mandate of penalizing those who spread false information or for breaking a quarantine, the former is in full force in other parts of Europe, such asItaly, where I reside.  In fact, the Hungarian Criminal Code introduced during the state of emergency is less harsh than in a lot of other countries, as for example inFrance or in the Philippines where the army and police have orders to shoot violators on site.  Private communications or opinions, however critical they may be of the government, as well as speculations or forecasts, do not fall under the aforementioned sanction.

According to The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, Orbán has been a tireless advocate of Hungarian national sovereignty.  After the fall of the Iron Curtain, Westerners came in and bought up what was left of Hungarian industry at fire sale prices.  A big reason for Orbán’s popularity is that he realized that as long as the country’s economy is controlled, or at least strongly dominated, by foreigners, Hungarians do not control their destiny.  Hence, he pulled the reins on those industries and placed them under Hungarian sovereignty.  Despite Hungarians’ reservations of their Prime Minister’s cronyism, i.e., redistributing controlling interests in those industries to his own supporters, apparently the average citizen sees this, in contrast to foreign ownership, as the lesser of two evils.

This, incidentally, accounts for Orbán’s mistrust and contempt for those who seek to undermine his socio-political vision, such as his co-national George Soros. According to Dreher:

“This is something that Western liberals do not understand — or if they understand it, they don’t accept it.  Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire, has poured a fortune into trying to turn Hungary and the other countries of the former Soviet bloc into Western-style liberal democracies…. The idea in part is to undermine traditional sources of moral authority in that country, to turn it, politically, into a Western-style [moral vacuum that would promote open borders, abortion, same-sex unions and the like].”

The physical manifestations of a pandemic are now nearly non-existent in Hungary — emergency rooms stand empty, entire villages have not reported a single COVID-19 case and almost no one has been hospitalized.  Yet the paradox of Orbán’s purported Caesar-type takeover of government is that he maintains widespread domestic support since he is viewed to represent a politics that blends nationalism and values-traditionalism with economic modernity.

Part of this, especially with the demographic decline in his country before a rising Muslim population in Europe, has been the implementation of the Family Protection Plan, in which

•   every woman under 40 years of age will be eligible to a preferential loan when they first get married;

•   preferential loans for the family home purchase scheme will be extended; families raising two or more children will now also be able to use it for purchasing resale homes;

•   families with two or more children will be repaid 1 million forints (roughly over 3,000 USD) of the mortgage loan;

•   women who have had and raised at least four children will be exempt from personal income tax payment for the rest of their lives;

•   grandparents will also be eligible to receive child-care fees and look after young children instead of the parents, the prime minister added.

I am an American who resides in Italy — where the EU has thus far done nothingfor us here during the coronavirus pandemic — and believe in “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”  While Orbán’s emergency powers to rule by decree can be seen as an excessive in United States, I can understand whyhe is supported by most of his fellow Hungarians, as well as many other Westerners, and opposed by both the European Union bureaucrats and the left-wing mainstream media.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/understanding_victor_orbns_purportedly_unlimited_emergency_powers_over_hungary.html

In Cherbourg, the president of the association for aid to migrants was killed at his home on Tuesday, May 12. He had housed an Afghan asylum seeker. The individual was taken into custody for murder.

His name was Jean Dussine and came to the aid of migrants through the Cherbourg association Itinérance, of which he was the president since 2016.

This man was hospitable enough to accommodate in his own house in Bretteville-en-Saire, a migrant of Afghan origin. But Jean Dussine was unfortunately murdered on Tuesday, May 12. Witnesses said the victim “was sleeping when [the alleged assailant], an Afghan migrant barely 20 years old, attacked him with an iron rod. He could not be revived,” reported regional news outlet France 3 Normandy.

Jean Dussine was a retired teacher and former director of the Gonneville school in the Manche. At the same time, he had housed other migrants at his home, witnesses to the scene. They even reportedly raised the alarm which allowed the arrest of the alleged murderer.

The investigators are trying to determine the motive for this murder and the exact circumstances of the drama. Public prosecutor Yves Le Clair confirmed the arrest of the Afghan migrant. The suspect was taken into custody for first degree murder.

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