European Union member states must release as many migrants as possible from detention centers amid the coronavirus pandemic, demanded Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic in a plan that could present both grave security and public health threats to Europe.

In her statement from March 26, Mijatovic writes that these facilities “provide poor opportunities for social distancing and other measures to protect against COVID-19 infection”.

“I call on all Council of Europe member states to review the situation of rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants in immigration detention, and to release them to the maximum extent possible,” the commissioner wrote.

Mijatovic offers no guidance or recommendations on where migrants should be released to or what should happen to them after their release, and in reality, a mass release of detained migrants could present significant challenges

In Germany, after one migrant tested positive for coronavirus in Suhl asylum center, it led to mass riots after migrants attempted to break out from an imposed quarantine. When police intervened, migrants threatened to burn down the asylum center, used a child as a human shield, and threw objects at officers.

Germany is already short on housing and services are stretched thin due to fighting the coronavirus. Simply letting migrants in detention centers enter the general population may not even be legal.

The issue is no different in Greece, where thousands of migrants are currently locked down in migrant camps. Greek islanders, even before coronavirus, were protesting against overflowing migrant camps and the constant arrival of thousands on their shores.

NGOs and medical workers have reportedly left the Greek migrants camps over coronavirus concerns andreports of migrants aggressively attacking some staff, which means testing inside the camps is limited. Any mass release of migrants could serve to further spread the coronavirus to the general populace, both in Greece and elsewhere.

Releasing illegal migrants present public health risks and challenges during coronavirus crisis

According to Mijatovic’s statement, “releases have been reported in several member states, including Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, with the latter country having just announced a review of the situation of all those in immigration detention.”

The commissioner also points to the current coronavirus pandemic. She considers the detention centers unsuitable for social distancing and other measures aimed at protecting the centers’ staff, as well as migrants, against COVID-19 infection.

Moreover, Mijatovic wrote that many countries have suspended deportation procedures due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Therefore, according to the commissioner, holding people in detention is unlawful since deportation often cannot actually take place.

In Belgium, there were concerns in migrant detention centers that social distancing guidelines could not be followed due to overcrowding, prompting authorities to release 300 illegal migrants who had no documentation and were not applying for asylum. The Brussels Times writes about the dilemma facing authorities who choose such measures:

In such cases, the sans-papiers, as they are known, are not forcibly placed on a flight to their homeland, but simply allowed to go out of the front door of the detention centre.

It is to be expected that many will disappear into clandestinely. Since they are without papers, tracing them from now on will be difficult if not impossible.

It is also unclear if any migrants released in Belgium were first tested for coronavirus before their release.

Mijatovic, for her part, is urging EU countries not to issue new detention orders against illegal immigrants or unsuccessful asylum seekers.

In Great Britain, there has been a similar push to not only release migrants in detention but also have taxpayers pay for the accommodations of all illegal migrants during the coronavirus crisis. An estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million illegal migrants live in the country but Migrants’ Rights Network and over 50 so-called “charities” demanded housing and support for all of Britain’s migrant population in an open letter to local councils across the country.

The letter demanded hardship funds be made available from Britain’s central government to “ensure that everyone, regardless of immigration status, can access self-contained accommodation and self-isolate safely”. The government should also book hotels, use empty houses, and turn university dorms into domiciles for illegal migrants.

The plan goes farther than any proposal put forward by Mijatovic but also underlines how much money and resources would be required to accommodate migrants in Europe during the coronavirus crisis. The Migrants’ Right Network letter also does not address what should be done with migrants who are set for deportation for violent and sexual crimes.

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On the evening of February 29, Ahmad Z. discovers his nine-year-old daughter Tajala and wife Homa (38) dead in the common flat on the 8th floor in Berlin. The man had had to call the police and a locksmith because he did not manage to get into the apartment after work. The wife and daughter had not been reachable by phone for hours. He is seeking the help of a fellow Afghan Ali H. (32 years old), father of two sons, lives four floors below in the same house. Both families are friends. He goes with the desperate father to the locked apartment door on the 8th floor and tells him to call the police. The apartment key of Homa Z. is broken inside the door when the helpers open it. In the devastated apartment the family man collapses in shock. His little daughter lies stabbed to death in the hallway, his wife covered in blood under a blanket in the bedroom. She too has been stabbed. To cover his tracks, her killer sprayed the contents of a fire extinguisher at the scene of the crime. Why the woman and her child were killed is initially a mystery to the investigators of the 4th homicide department. On March 18th, the Homicide Squad offers a reward for clues, looking primarily for a fire extinguisher. Now Ali H. has been arrested. Martin Steltner, spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, comments to the newspaper B.Z.: “A warrant has been issued for double murder out of greed, the suspect has been in custody since Friday.” According to information from the newspaper B.Z., Ali H. suspected that the family had received a large sum of money. When Ahmad Z. had gone to work on February 29th, he is said to have gained access to the apartment under a pretext and killed Homa Z. with several stab wounds. To cover up this murder, little Tajala had to die too. He took back the fire extinguisher with which he covered his tracks. Apparently he didn’t get any loot.

https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/marzahn-hellersdorf/doppelmord-an-mutter-38-und-tochter-9-killer-festgenommen

Regarding pushback against politically correct but unsanitary reusable shopping bags in light of the Wuhan coronavirus, the free market weighs in:

[Supermarkets] Safeway and Albertsons say if you bring your own bag, employees will not be able to touch them or fill them, so you’ll have to do your own bagging. …

The policy is not unique to supermarkets. Trader Joe’s, Total Wine and More, Target and dollar stores are reportedly following similar procedures.

Some stores also are reserving the right to decline customers’ reusable bags and give them paper or plastic bags at no charge. …

[S]tores are worried that reusable bags might endanger both employees and customers because they could potentially transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

It is encouraging that steps are finally being taken to address enviromoonbattery as a menace to public health.

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Last December, vandals desecrated 107 Jewish graves with anti-Semitic inscriptions in Westerhoffen in eastern France. Anti-Jewish graffiti was also found in the nearby town of Schafhouse-sur-Zorn. No suspects were arrested. Earlier in 2019, in February in Alsace, also in eastern France, 100 Jewish graves were desecrated with Nazi symbols.

The desecration occurred just hours before the French government’s lower legislative house was to adopt a motion modeled on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism which states that denying Jews their right to self-determination is anti-Semitic.

In the same month, an Israeli student was attacked by two strangers on the subway for speaking Hebrew into a cell phone. His nose was broken. A 17-year-old, arrested with a stolen phone and known to police, was taken into custody. His ethnic origin was not given.

And perhaps most frightening, U.K.’s leading freedom fighter Katie Hopkins stated in a recent Glazov Gang video that 18 Jewish families in Paris had received letters telling them to “get out” or be killed.

Perhaps to indicate the senders of these poisonous letters meant business, Hopkins also cited the case of the 82-year-old Jewish woman last year who lived in one of the poorer suburbs surrounding Paris. She was stabbed to death and thrown off her balcony by her Muslim neighbor.

Anti-Semitic attacks are on the increase in France. According to Wikepedia, in 2018, they rose by 69 per cent amounting to about 500 assaults. Anti-Semitism surged during the Second Intifada from 2002-2004 to disturbing levels.

Despite only making up one to three per cent of the population of France, Jews are subjected to 40 per cent of all racially or religiously motivated attacks. There are about 500,000 Jews in France and they make up the third largest number of Jews in the world after Israel and the United States.

Anti-Semitism has a long history in France. From the Dreyfuss affair, in which a Jewish French officer was convicted of treason on false charges, through to the Vichy regime.

But at no time did Jews feel they were in such danger as today with the Muslim immigration to France. Some Jews are now so concerned with their security that they have emigrated to Israel with their families. In 2014, the number of French Jews leaving for Israel for the first time exceeded the United States. Seventy per cent of Jews are concerned about anti-Semitic insults while 20 per cent are concerned about physical assaults. Prior to this, Jews never felt compelled by anti-Semitism to leave France.

Muslim anti-Semitism is virulent and also deadly. The best proof of this occurred when Mohmmed Merah, a petty Muslim criminal, attacked a Jewish school in Toulouse and killed three students and a rabbi. There have also been numerous other attacks on Jews and against Jewish institutions, which are guarded by special security guards with some coming from Israel.

Some of these, such as the one against Ilan Halimi, are notorious. Halimi was a French Jew of Moroccan descent who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Muslims calling themselves “gang of barbarians.”

The problem with anti-Semitism in France is, essentially, that hatred of Israel and the Jews has become a major part of the identity of Muslims of north African and African origin.

“Hatred for Israel and for Jews has become a major component of the identity of French of Arab or African background; it is the cement of the second generation,” said Gil Mihaely, founder and director of the Causeur, a French magazine dedicated to intellectual debate.

Mihaely further states that the anti-Jewish demonstrations of 2014 in France, in which two synagogues were attacked in Paris, “betray a profound need to identify oneself as an adversary of Israel and of the Jews.”                      

The French historian Georges Bensoussan also states about anti-Semitism in his country that Muslim families in France “drink it with the mother’s milk.”

This does not augur well for the future of a Jewish presence in France.  

Anti-Semitism is so bad that Jewish students are avoiding going to public schools.

In a “large number of schools” students are “beaten and insulted because they are Jews,” said the president of the council representing Jewish institutions in France in a story in Le Figaro.

“In my time we all went to secular schools. Today not more than a third of third of Jewish children go to secular schools, the other two thirds go to private schools, either Jewish or Christian,’ said the president.

One high school principal was reported to have warned Jewish students in 2017 not to attend his school for fear of harassment and assaults.

It is also disturbing to see members of the French left ally itself with anti-Semitic Muslims. The Communist mayor of Valenton, a community near Paris, insulted France’s Jewish community in 2014 when he named a street after Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti was actually made an honorary citizen of Valenton five years earlier.

Barghouti was sentenced by an Israel court in 2004 to multiple life sentences for planning deadly terrorist attacks. But that didn’t stop Valenton’s mayor from calling the terrorist “…the face of the of the resistance of the Palestinian people against the occupation,,,”

As a counter, Sammy Ghozlan, founder of The National Bureau For Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, said: “The celebration of a murderer is unacceptable.”

It is noticeable that Muslims in France become very agitated about what they regard as Israeli crimes but don’t utter a word about their 300,000 fellow Muslims killed in the war in Syria or about the thousands killed in Yemen or Libya.

And when in 2012 a moderate imam tried to mobilize people, including Muslims, to demonstrate against Merah’s anti-Semitic crimes, only about 50 people showed up. But such apathy now appears among the entire population. In 1990, after a Jewish cemetery was desecrated, thousands of people showed up to protest against anti-Semitism. But after the Merah murders, only Jews showed up to demonstrate.

As one writer stated about Muslims and non-Muslims in France, the sentiment today is that two communities are forming side by side who regard one another with hostility. One can see this, in one respect, with their different attitudes anti-Semitism. And this sentiment, the writer states, is shared by many. In other words, France is a fractured society.

If the flight of French Jews, and Jews from other western European countries as well, is not stopped, then they all will wind up looking like the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East whose Jewish communities were chased out decades ago. In other words, Hitler’s dream of a Jew-free Europe will finally be realized. Western Europe will be ‘Judenrein’.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/jew-hate-france-stephen-brown/

PePi sent in this video interview of a virologist by The Epoch Times. I have not seen it yet, but PePi explains that this is a really worthy video. The guest is a viral-weapons expert.

https://vladtepesblog.com/

Germany  was reminded of its Nazi history in a passionate plea for financial support to help tackle the deadly coronavirus by a group of influential Italian politicians. Angela Merkel was asked to consider the colossal debts racked up by Adolf Hitler’s evil war efforts some 81 years ago today. Rome has become infuriated with the German Chancellor after she helped block the creation of so-called “coronabonds”, a shared Eurozone debt mechanism to help prop up economies worst-affected by the global pandemic. In an open letter to the veteran leader, 12 Italian politicians, including the mayors of Venice and Bergamo, called on Mrs Merkel to reconsider her position.

“Currently the Netherlands are leading a group of countries, though, which resist this strategy, and Germany also seems to want to follow this group,” they wrote.

“The Netherlands are the one state, which has been evading taxes of the important European countries with its tax system for years. Our public budgets and the socially weak in our countries who have to pay the price for this. Those who are most affected by the crisis.

“The Dutch attitude is in every aspect an example of a lack of ethics and solidarity. But it was solidarity which was shown to you Germans after the war and until reunification by many European countries.”

The group were keen to remind Mrs Merkel that Hitler’s war machine run up debts of over €15 billion, in the Germany’s original deutsche mark currency.

They accused her of ignoring the generosity of Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, who have all voiced support for the creation of coronabonds, in halving the German debt in 1953.

“After 1945 the German debt had reached the amount of what was 29.7 billion deutsche mark,” the group wrote.

“Germany would never have been able to pay back the accumulated debt. In 1953 in London, 21 countries allowed for cutting the debt in half and the deferment of payments of the rest of the debt.

“This way German was able to avoid state bankruptcy. Italy is still proud and convinced of the correctness of the decision back then. And we repeat: with the eurobonds for the fight against coronavirus old debts are neither cancelled, nor shared.”

Despite the growing support for a joint Eurozone debt instrument, the single currency bloc’s bailout chief has warned it could take years to set up.

Klaus Reglung, the managing director of the European Stability Mechanism, said any short-term lending programmes would have to come from existing structures.

He said if the goal is to cover short-term lending to bolster healthcare or support businesses “then I think the only way is to use existing institutions with existing instruments”.

He told the Financial Times it was possible to create a new bespoke EU institution if there were political agreement between European capitals.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1262775/Angela-Merkel-latest-Germany-coronavirus-support-Italy-Nazi-history

The Association of Libertarian Students today issued a press release referring to an incomprehensible scandal. Ali Rami, lecturer for anti-discrimination and religion at the University of Vienna, had insulted local police officers on Facebook in the harshest way. The man had already appeared at an event of the radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood in 2014. The Islamic scholar Ali Rami is supposed to have said about the Austrian police: “If you have nothing to do then stay damned in your holes and crawl out only when you are needed. What a dirty fool you have to be to get off on harassment and fear of kids” This was reported by the Association of Libertarian Students (RFS) in an APA press release.RFS federal chairman Lukas Heim was horrified by this. “Especially the police should be paid a lot of respect in these difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

RFS federal chairman Lukas Heim was horrified by this. “Especially the police should be paid a lot of respect in these difficult times, of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The RFS further pointed out that Ali Rami appeared at an event of the radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood in 2014. In the background of the photo (above) published for this purpose, one can see the Islamist Rabia sign, which is now even banned in Austria. During an ORF television discussion in 2018, he allegedly refused to distance himself from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Clear steps are now expected from the university management. “With such a demasking an immediate dismissal is the only logical consequence , so RFS federal managing director Matthias Kornek. Also Freedom Party city councillor Maximilian Krauss demanded an immediate dismissal of Ali Rami as lecturer. “Ali Rami and his family environment are open sympathizers of the radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood and must therefore also be considered a danger to our society. That alone is reason enough to remove this person from the University of Vienna”, emphasizes the Viennese Freedom Party education spokesman.

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