Last Saturday evening, around 10:45 p.m., a 36-year-old Syrian national from Alsfeld was killed in an apartment building in Obergasse during a family dispute. Afterwards, the 35-year-old suspected husband and his three children fled. In the course of the immediately started search, the accused was arrested without resistance – with the support of police officers from the police headquarters of Lower Franconia – in the area of the motorway BAB 7,near the service station Riedener Wald. The three children were found safe and sound in the vehicle and handed over to a shelter.According to the current state of the investigation, the 35-year-old Syrian national has caused fatal injuries to the victim with a striking tool.The Alsfeld criminal investigation department has started investigations in cooperation with the public prosecutor’s office in Gießen.The exact background of the crime is currently still unclear.The 35-year-old Syrian will be brought before the responsible judge at the Alsfeld district court on Monday.

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Germany listed three left-wing terrorists from the Red Army Faction on the European police’s most wanted list.Europol, European Union’s Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, tweeted on Monday, “Germany has joined Europe’s Most Wanted list today! They are looking for 3 former suspected members of Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). Maybe you can help locate these fugitives on http://eumostwanted.eu? Germany is the 26th EU Member State to join this Flag of European Union crowdsourcing initiative.”

The three terrorist are members of the so-called “third generation” of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group. The RAF suspects Daniela Klette, Ernst-Volker Wilhelm Staub and Burkhard Garweg are wanted for numerous murders, including the head of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen.The RAF members are also accused of the robberies of an armored car and supermarkets. The three RAF members disappeared at the end of the 1980s.The RAF was permeated with deadly antisemitism targeting Israel and Jews. “Auschwitz … meant that six million Jews were killed and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were considered: money-Jews,“ said Ulrike Meinhof, a co-founder of the RAF.The RAF cooperated with armed Palestinian terrorist entities.

Writing for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Michael Whine noted that, “Members of both the German neo-Nazi Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann and the leftist Red Army Faction were trained by Fatah; Italian neo-Nazis were invited to Iran for training after the Islamic Revolution; and, as noted, members of the Red Army Faction and the PFLP cooperated in the 1976 Air France hijacking that ended at Entebbe.”The EU and the US designated the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine a terrorist organization.

https://www.jpost.com/international/three-german-left-wing-terrorists-on-europes-most-wanted-lists-626839

It’s not every day that the foreign minister of Germany places an op-ed in Hebrew in a popular Israeli newspaper, but that was the case on Yom Hashoah, when you addressed the Israeli public on the pages of Yisrael Hayom, arguably the Hebrew language daily with the largest circulation. You expressed your commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, and the concern we all share about how to present the testimonies and history of the Shoah in a “modern” manner, one that will ensure that millennials and future generations will not only learn the historical facts, but will also internalize the important lessons of this unique tragedy.”

But what are those lessons? You mention the fight against anti-Semitism and correctly refer to anti-Semitism in the guise of anti-Zionism, both of which are undoubtedly important, but your fine words call for a practical course of action, one that Germany has failed to follow since you became Foreign Minister in March 2018.

You write that the essence of memory today is “to identify with the victims and display courage in the face of the perpetrators,” but has that been German foreign policy under your tenure as foreign minister? You need no introduction to yesterday’s victims, and it is not very hard to identify today’s perpetrators: The only good thing about fundamentalists is that they are not shy about their ideological principles. The Islamic Republic of Iran openly speaks about destroying the Jewish state, the only Jewish state, and the country that has provided a home for hundreds of thousands of survivors and their descendants.

Simon Wiesenthal, my mentor and the person for whom our organization is named, often shared, in his public lectures, his experiences as a young architecture student in Prague in the mid-thirties. He and his fellow students would mock Hitler as a buffoon and downplay the threat he posed. The conclusion is obvious and applicable today as well. When Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls Israel a “cancerous tumor” that “must be eradicated” we take it seriously.

One would assume that those threats alone would be sufficient for Germany to cut off diplomatic relations with the mullahs and suspend all diplomatic and commercial ties with those who threaten Israel with genocide. But contrary to all logic, Germany continues to maintain relations with Iran and instead of strengthening the American sanctions against the major exporter of terror and mayhem all over the globe, it has persistently sought means to circumvent the sanctions.

Since you became Foreign Minister, instead of unequivocally supporting Israel at the United Nations, Germany has consistently voted against us time after time. If Iran and its proxies held dear the European Union values that are ostensibly so important to Germany, your policies might be more understandable. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Democracy? Human rights? Women’s rights? Gay rights? Our enemies are models of the consistent abuse of such values.

To be honest, if someone had told me in early 2018 this would be the case with you at the helm at the Foreign Ministry, I would have refused to believe it. For several years, I had been following your meteoric rise to prominence in Germany. It started in fall 2014, when the Wiesenthal Center contacted you in your capacity as Justice Minister. We had identified a serious problem in the efforts of the Federal Republic to facilitate the prosecution of an important category of Nazi war criminals.

While Germany had taken steps to enable the conviction of camp guards — a change that facilitated the conviction of Sobibor death camp guard Ivan Demjanjuk and the opening of investigations against others who played similar roles in death camps and other notorious concentration camps — the new laws left out cases against those who served in the Einsatzgruppen. These mobile killing units operated in the areas which were then part of the Soviet Union, and murdered approximately 1,500,000 Jews during the years 1941-1943.

Our protestations regarding this omission fell on deaf ears for some years until we contacted you on the matter. Based on our information, and with your assistance, investigations were finally launched against three individuals from Einsatzgruppe C suspected of participation in the mass murders at Babi Yar, outside Kiev, the largest massacre in the history of the Holocaust. It was about the same time that I learned of your famous quote in which you said you entered politics “because of Auschwitz,” a statement that deeply impressed me.

Under the current circumstances, however, I find it difficult to take the words of your message to us seriously. After all, since becoming Germany’s Foreign Minister, you have been uniquely positioned to implement your guiding principle. Thus far, you have failed to rise to the challenge.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/heiko-maas-you-say-you-entered-politics-because-of-auschwitz/

After an attempted rape of a 55-year-old woman in Poysdorf (Mistelbach district), a decision by the Korneuburg Regional Court has caused a stir: Only a few hours after the crime, the judge released the 22-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, who was strongly suspected of the crime, due to lack of evidence. For the police and the municipality of Poysdorf this was an incomprehensible decision, because a decisive result of the investigation – the comparison of DNA traces – was not yet available at that time. The mayor of Poysdorf, Thomas Griessl ( Austrian People’s Party, ÖVP), has now written an angry letter to Minister of Justice Alma Zadic ( Greens). According to Griessl, this decision had led to a change of mood among the residents. At the same time, Karl Wilfing (ÖVP), President of the Poysdorf State Parliament, initiated a parliamentary question on the matter via Andreas Minnich (ÖVP), member of the National Council. According to the investigation, the suspected perpetrator attacked the woman last Tuesday and tried to rip her clothes off her body. The assailant was holding a six-inch knife in his hand. The victim resisted and suffered several cuts. In addition, the woman bit her tormentor in the genital area. The torturer let go of her and fled. A short time later the young man was arrested in the course of the search. But he denied any involvement. The alleged weapon, the knife, was found and seized.The 22-year-old had already been investigated because he allegedly harassed a 30-year-old woman near the crime scene days before. In this case, however, witnesses intervened, and according to the police, no punishable act was committed.Just one day after his arrest, the suspect left the court as a free man. The arresting judge saw in the victim’s statements too many contradictions to the state of investigation. This was also the case with the information given by the spokesman for the Korneuburg public prosecutor’s office, Friedrich Köhl: “The description of the perpetrator does not match the 22-year-old. For this reason he was released and the investigation continues.The suspect is 163 centimetres tall, but the victim has described him as much taller. At the time of arrest, the colour of his jacket did not match that of the description. In addition, there was no injury from the alleged bite. The police have a different view of the matter: the woman was scared to death and could therefore have been mistaken in her perception of the size and colour of the jacket, according to investigators. It is also obvious that the perpetrator could have changed his clothes while fleeing. The court’s argument that the victim had indicated the direction of escape to the east and the suspect was arrested in the opposite direction caused a stir. “It is not surprising that someone changes his direction while fleeing,” police sources say.The 22-year-old Afghan is believed to have gone into hiding immediately after his release. He was no longer to be found in the asylum centre by the investigators of the state criminal investigation department.

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France’s borderless policy continues even though on Saturday May 2, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had announced that anyone entering the national territory would be subject to quarantine from May 11 to protect the country from external spread.

The very next day, the Elysée Palace overturned its decision. Finally, “anyone, whatever their nationality, from the EU, the Schengen area or the United Kingdom” , will be free to enter French territory without restriction, reported weekly magazine Le Point.

Concerning other countries, the measures will be specified by the Quai d’Orsay “in the coming days”.

This weekend, Olivier Véran explained that, as part of the extension of the state of health emergency, all “people entering the national territory or arriving in an overseas territory” would be placed in confinement for 14 days. This measure strongly resembled a form of closing national borders, an option that France has always opposed since the arrival of the epidemic. As of the beginning of March, many European countries had decided to close their borders to avoid spreading the virus from outside.

With this retraction, France is therefore exposed to receiving cases of the Coronavirus from the outside, even though a second internal wave of the epidemic could hit the country from the inside. The government decided on Saturday May 2, to extend the state of the health emergency by two months until July 24. On May 11, France, like fifteen European countries, will begin a phase of deconfinement.

Stocks of masks have now seen a new resurgence of looting. Hospital establishments, pharmacies, suppliers, etc, with the complicity of certain caregivers or to their detriment, have been stolen while there is still a shortage of several thousand masks in the country.

With the approach of a partial deconfinement which will require a large number of masks, several lootings have been organised in recent days, according to information obtained by Valeurs Actuelles.

On April 25, in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), the non-profit association Adef Résidences, which collaborates in particular with Ehpad, deplored the theft of 16 000 of its surgical masks.

According to its president, who lodged a complaint the day after the discovery of the facts, individuals, taking advantage of the movements of employees, entered the premises of the association and stole its stocks on two occasions.

Also in the Paris region, in Roissy-en-France (Val d’Oise), 20 000 masks were stolen, among other materials, from the premises of a mail order company, visited by two burglars, ironically both masked.

Marine Le Pen, interviewed on BFM TV on Sunday, once again castigated the measures taken by the government and the lack of masks.

After several weeks of withdrawal from the political scene, the president of the National Rally placed a wreath at the foot of the Joan of Arc statue in Paris on Friday, and also made a short statement on government policy. Le Pen urged all French people to wear masks to prevent the spread of the virus. “We have been locked up at home for almost two months,” she replied to the journalist who questioned her.

“So I’m sorry, but it seems to me that wearing a mask is much less painful and has less consequences on our economy, because I also think of artisans, self-employed entrepreneurs, traders, tourism… I say to myself that wearing a mask in public space […] is still less detrimental to individual freedoms than being locked up at home.”

Asked about the countries that follow this policy of wearing a mask, she said: “In general, in Asia, the mask does not need to be mandatory because everyone wears it. It is part of the tradition.” She added: “Studies have been done, that if 90 percent of people wear a mask, it considerably reduces the risk of spreading the virus.”

Throughout her interview, Marine Le Pen was acerbic towards the executive. “It is a state bankruptcy from start to finish,” she said. She also considered that passing a health emergency law for two months was “too much” for the country. “It has to last a month or three weeks,” she added.

Marine Le Pen also joked about maintaining the closing of beaches when transport is open: “We say ‘yes’ for the metro and ‘no’ for the beaches, it’s inconsistent.” Finally, she replied to the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, who “would do better, in her opinion, to deal with public security rather than only comment on it”.

Meanwhile, Professor Yves Cohen, head of the intensive care unit at Jean-Verdier hospital, located in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis), has claimed that a patient treated for pneumonia last January actually had the Coronavirus.

The first cases of contamination with Covid-19 in France were identified on January 24, but it is possible that the virus were spreading in France several weeks earlier, said Cohen, the head of resuscitation in two hospitals in Seine-Saint-Denis, who was invited on the set of BFMTV this Sunday, May 3.

The practitioner, who works at the Avicennes hospital in Pantin and Jean-Verdier de Bondy, affirmed that after verifications, one of his patients who came to seek treatment on December 27 for pneumonia was in fact suffering from Covid-19 . “We repeated all the PCRs tested in patients with pneumonia in December and January whose results were negative,” he said. “And of the 24 patients, we had a positive case at Covid-19, on December 27, when he was hospitalized with us, at Jean-Verdier.”

Cohen’s comments follow in the wake of US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo saying he has “enormous evidence” that the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

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While the attention of the international community has been directed towards the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government appears to be allowing Iran’s sanctioned banks to operate freely in Germany.

According to a recent report published by United Against Nuclear Iran:

“Siemens, Volkswagen and the big multinationals have pulled back due to U.S. sanctions, but many of Germany’s 3.5 million small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) are still prepared to do business with Iran. And they still can. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the ‘Mittelstand’ firms can obtain Letters of Credit, bank guarantees, insurance and all the other trade finance products they need from their Iranian facilitators. “

In a bid to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the US Department of Treasury has so far added to its list of sanctions 50 Iranian banks and their foreign and domestic subsidiaries. According to the US Treasury Department, November 5, 2018 was the largest single-day action by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) “targeting the Iranian regime’s abuse of Iran’s banking sector to fund its destabilizing activities. For example, the Iranian regime has funneled the equivalent of billions of dollars for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) through the banking sector”.

According to the report by United Against Nuclear Iran:

“Germany was again Europe’s largest trading partner with Iran by far, exporting $1.64 billion worth of goods in 2019. While German banks have been largely reluctant to finance Iran trade, there are at least five banks – all owned/operated by Iran and all operating inside Germany – that are more than happy to step in.”

One of the sanctioned banks freely doing business in Hamburg, Germany, is Bank Melli. It is the largest bank owned by the Iranian regime, and when it comes to revenues, it ranks first, followed by Bank Mellat.

Bank Melli, all the same, has been implicated in several major covert and illicit activities in foreign nations. When, for instance, a jury in the US federal court concluded that prosecutors could confiscate a skyscraper in Manhattan to pay the families of victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996, and the bombing of a US Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon in 1983, it was revealed that sixty percent of the skyscraper is owned by the Alavi Foundation and 40 percent by Assa Corp., which is controlled by and operates on behalf of Iran’s Bank Melli, according to the US government. After going through a “massive amount of evidence,” the judge said she was “firmly convinced” that the Alavi Foundation “takes directives from Iranian government officials, and its day-to-day operators have been appointed by Iranian officials to ensure conformity with the interests of the government of Iran.” The foundation has also madedonations to various institutions in the US, including Iranian programs and universities, such as Columbia.

Another major Iranian bank also still conducting business in Hamburg, Germany is Bank Sepah. Bank Sepah, also owned by the Iranian regime, has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department and has links to the regime’s ballistic missile program. According to United Against Nuclear Iran:

“Bank Sepah has provided ‘direct and extensive financial services‘ to Iran’s key ballistic missiles procurement and development agencies, including Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) and its subsidiary, Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG).”

Another key joint bank is the Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank AG (EIH), which has also been linked to carrying more than a billion dollars of transactions for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Defense Industries Organization (DIO), and Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO).

The Iranian regime seems to have become a master at charting illicit paths and exploiting other nations’ financial systems. In Bahrain in 2018, for example, Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa pointed out that the government had detected that the Iranian-linked Future Bank was operating a covert corruption scheme in Bahrain. It was later revealed that Iran’s Bank Melli had instructed Future Bank officials on what specifically to do when routing money through the US in order to conceal the origins of the funds.

By trading with the Iranian regime and allowing Iran’s sanctioned banks freely to operate in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is empowering the ruling mullahs and their regime. They are not only the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism; they are also racing to develop clandestine nuclear weaponsand the missiles to deliver them.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15971/germany-iran-terror-banks

The Prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, the Parisian suburb which has the highest proportion of migrants, is concerned that “hunger riots” could break out in the area due to a decline in the economic situation as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.

Georges-François Leclerc, the department’s Prefect, voiced his concerns about the risk of starvation threatening the region’s inhabitants in an e-mail he wrote to Michel Cadot, the Prefect of Île-de-France, on April 18, as reported by the news magazine Marianne.

Well over 50% of Saint-Denis’ residents under 18 are of foreign origin, and it has been estimated that as much as 20% of the department’s population are illegal migrants. It is also the poorest department in all of France.

“My main concern in the coming weeks, putting aside the health risk, is the food risk,” Leclerc wrote, estimating that between 15,000 and 20,000 residents would have difficulty being able to obtain food. The people at risk include those in the slums, those who stay in emergency housing, and migrant workers.

Leclerc said that the collapse of the black market, the decrease in demand for Uber drivers, and rampant unemployment among temporary workers — all brought about by the ongoing lockdown — has led to a dangerous loss of income for residents, many of whom were already barely at subsistence level.

Leclerc mentioned similar concerns about the neighboring department of Val-d’Oise.

Most at risk for starvation are children and middle-school students. They are usually fed at their school canteens, but the schools have also been closed due to the lockdown.

Leclerc also indicated that the government is not distributing enough food vouchers for soup kitchens to the neediest, claiming that the number needs to be doubled. He pointed out that there are increasing numbers of unemployed workers joining the regulars at soup kitchens. “What could be managed during one month of confinement will not be enough in two,” he wrote.

The national government seems to have recognised the danger, as it is increasing the payments made to recipients of social benefits from May 15, and the city government has promised that the number of food vouchers will be doubled.

The situation in the Parisian suburbs is already tense, with attacks on police and other first responders on the increase in recent weeks, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

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Continuing the never ending stream of church attacks by illegal immigrants on the Greek island of Lesvos, Saint Catherine in the town of Moria, has become the latest victim.

This is only the latest incident and rather it has become extremely common for Greek Orthodox Churches to be vandalised and attacked by illegal immigrants on Lesvos.

Last month, the main entrance to the Saint Raphael church close to the Moria migrant camp was attacked too, as reported by Greek City Times.

This latest incident on Lesvos follows other recent shocking events, including two gangs of Afghani immigrants battling each other, African immigrants ridiculing and coughing on police in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and thousands of olives trees being destroyed.

About half of the 50,000 illegal immigrants on Lesvos are kept at the Moria camp that is supposed to host only 3,000 people. A rise in criminality has hit the island since the migrant crisis began in 2015 when Turkey allowed hundreds of thousands of people to leave and enter Greece illegally, whether via land or sea.

Lesvos, as an island of only 90,000 citizens, has been one of the most hardest hit areas of Greece.

As a deeply religious society, these attacks on churches are shocking to the Greek people and calls to question whether these illegal immigrants seeking a new life in Europe are willing to integrate and conform to the norms and values of their new countries.

These continued attacks has ultimately seen the people of Lesvos, who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, become increasingly frustrated by the unresolved situation that has restricted and changed their lives as they no longer feel safe on their once near crime-free island.

In addition to the increased crime on the islands, there has also been a deep ecological impact as waterways in Lesvos have become absolutely trashed by the illegal immigrants.

greekcitytimes.com/2020/05/04/illegal-immigrants-attack-another-church-on-lesvos/

Left-wing extremists assaulted a television crew in Berlin on May Day, resulting in a number of injuries, some severe enough to require hospitalisation.

The attack took place in the Kreuzberg district on Friday evening. A team of seven, including three security guards, from the satirical news programme Heute-Show (Today Show), which airs on Germany’s channel ZDF, had been filming as hundreds of demonstrators marched in the area. The march was held in violation of the ongoing lockdown in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The demonstrators shouted chants against the police and threw smoke bombs as officers attempted to disperse the crowd, according to a report by Die Welt.

Although it is illegal in Germany to wear a mask in a demonstration, authorities relented on this regulation on Friday as a coronavirus prevention measure.

After filming, the crew was on their way back to their vehicles when between fifteen and twenty-five extremists attacked them with poles. Five of them were injured, four severely enough to be hospitalised.

According to a statement by ZDF, the assailants were also using blackjacks, and the crew’s sound assistant was kicked in the face with such force that it was likely intended to be lethal.

Police arrested six people afterwards — four men and two women between the ages of 24 and 31 — but all were released the same night. The Prosecutor’s Office said that there was no grounds to detain two of them, and there were “no urgent suspicions” regarding the other four, according to a report by Junge Freiheit.

Barbara Slowik, Berlin’s Chief of Police, said that she did not want to speculate on the political motives of the attack, but said that there will be an investigation.

Horst Seehofer, Germany’s Minister of the Interior, condemned the attack, calling for better protection for journalists. “Freedom of the press is the pillar of our democracy,” he said, saying that state power should be used to prevent violence.

“This is about the basic values of our community,” Seehofer added.

Large demonstrations of extremists also took place in Leipzig, Hamburg, and Braunschweig, as well as in other districts of Berlin. A reporter in Hamburg was also injured after being hit with a bottle by demonstrators.

Left-wing extremists in Germany had vowed to commit acts of violence on May Day, saying that they intended to exploit the chaos introduced by the coronavirus for their own ends, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/germany-left-wing-extremists-assault-television-crew-some-hospitalised/

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