Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that a Muslim law clerk can be prevented from wearing a headscarf during court proceedings.

In its ruling, the Federal Constitutional Court said the judiciary’s obligation to complete neutrality outweighed her freedom of religion rights, the dpa news agency reported.

The Frankfurt-born woman of Moroccan background had sued after she began as a legal clerk in 2017 and was restricted as to what she could do by Hesse state authorities.

She was allowed to wear her headscarf, but while wearing it she was prohibited from following court proceedings from the bench, and instead had to sit among the courtroom observers. She was also unable to lead any courtroom sessions, or take evidence from witnesses.

Other German states such as North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Berlin have similar regulations, dpa reported. In other states, there is no guidance, because the issue has never come up or has been dealt with case-by-case.

mynorthwest.com/1737582/german-court-upholds-restrictions-on-law-clerks-headscarf/

The Iranian regime-controlled Islamic Center in the northern city of Hamburg oversees a growing network in Europe that is tolerated by the state and federal authorities in Germany.In a bombshell January exposé in the German magazine Focus titled “The long arm of the mullahs: Iran‘s European network is controlled from Hamburg,” the historian and Islam expert Christian Osthold unpacks the dangers of the Iranian clerical regime in Europe.

Osthold wrote that the Iranian regime’s strategy is “the result of the execution of a well-calculated master plan according to which Tehran uses religious organizations to infiltrate EU countries.”The historian said that, “when I gave an interview to the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in March 2019, I learned that all properties associated with the Copenhagen Imam Ali Mosque would become the property of the Islamic Center Hamburg in the event of closure.”He added that, “since the Copenhagen mosque was only opened on October 1, 2015, it is clear that Iran is expanding its network in Europe to this day and that Hamburg is still at the center of this network.”The Islamic Community of Shi’ite Communities of Germany is controlled by the Islamic Center of Hamburg, wrote Osthold. The center’s reach stretches to the Islamic European Union of Sharia Scholars and Theologians, according to his analysis.The Jerusalem Post can reveal that the address for the Islamic European Union is the same as the Islamic Center Hamburg: Schöne Aussicht 36, Hamburg.Osthold took Germany’s government to task for failing to crackdown on Tehran’s growing presence in the country.

“For years now, Berlin in particular has been failing to contain Iranian influence in its own country,” wrote Osthold.There appears to be as many as 150 Shi’ite communities in Germany under the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran via the Islamic Center Hamburg, one of Europe’s oldest mosques. In the capital Berlin, there are 24 Shi’ite associations that are members of the Islamic Center that oversee 15 prayer rooms, wrote Osthold.The Post reported in January that a group of 600 pro-Iranian regime Islamists from the Islamic Center Hamburg attended a memorial service mourning the death of the EU- and US-designated terrorist Qasem Soleimani.The US neutralized Soleimani in January because the US Defense Department said he was planning terrorist attacks against American diplomats.The mourners from the Islamic Center praised Soleimani as a “heroic martyr.”Soleimani was responsible for the murders of over 600 military personnel in Iraq, according to the State Department.Osthold noted that the Islamic Center is viewed as a valued partner for the city’s church and political establishments. Hamburg’s social democratic government negotiated a 2012 agreement with Muslim organizations that pledged common values and peaceful activities and tolerance. According to the contract, the Islamic Center agreed to “international understanding and tolerance toward other cultures, religions and world views.”Hamburg’s domestic intelligence agency has monitored the center for the last 26 years. According to the agency’s 2018 report, “the Islamic Center has established a nationwide network of contacts and exerts influence on Shi’ites of different nationalities as well as Shi’ite Islamic mosques and associations, right down to complete control.”Iran’s regime is classified by the US government as the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism.  The regime of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei  is animated by the goals of its 1979 Islamic revolution – a deeply anti-Western expansionist, Islamist, revolutionary ideology that seeks the destruction of Israel and a system of gender apartheid.Despite the German intelligence data about the Islamic Center Hamburg, the entity still functions as the center of Iran’s network in Europe, said Osthold.He recommended that, “before the German government sets out to solve the Iran crisis, it would do well to first ensure that the situation inside [Germany] is clear. This would contribute significantly to finally finding a stringent foreign policy towards Tehran.”

https://www.jpost.com/International/Germany-permits-Irans-regime-to-build-European-network-report-618995

Yesterday, Johannes Huber MdB, member of the German Parliament (AfD), shared a video on his Facebook account, which within a very short time spread enormously in the social network. And it shows footage that has been deliberately withheld from us by state-run broadcasters and mainstream media for years. The video is entitled: “Refugee Attack in Bosnia”. And further: “At the Croatian-Bosnian border: aggressive migrants all demand to go to Germany”

Voice over: 

“Here you can now see some of these peaceful refugees, who resemble more a mob of Islamist fighters than poor refugees in need of protection. They are running here armed with sticks aggressively and domineeringly  in the streets, shouting Allahu Akbar and other Islamic slogans…”

The images and recordings of the video are very remarkable when it comes to the (often Islamic motivated) propensity to violence of certain migrant groups. However, the video consists of a compilation of various sequences from different places and at different times. Most of the scenes are not current, easily recognizable by the season (summer) in which the footage was recorded. What is true, however, is that the German mainstream media have been hiding such footage from us for years. And yet they are an integral part of the overall complex of the so-called refugee crisis.

philosophia-perennis.com/2020/02/27/aggressive-migranten-diese-bilder-werden-ihnen-die-mainstream-medien-niemals-zeigen/

Sweden’s Greta Thunberg has become the face of environmental activists warning of the threat of global warming, but she now has a rival.

The 19-year-old German, Naomi Seibt, who some are referring to as the “anti-Greta”, has become an influential icon among those questioning climate change.

“Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: Whom should we trust?” asks the conservative Heartland Institute think tank, which is considered one of the most influential groups in the United States rejecting climate change theories.

Naomi is a member of the institute and even spoke at the “Climate Realism” conference organized by the think tank in Madrid.

According to the think tank, Thunberg’s apocalyptic visions of the irreversible damage caused by ignoring climate change provoke panic while Naomi “advocates proper scientific discourse” and wants people to “free themselves from the indoctrination of climate alarmists.”

Naomi has experienced growing admiration from conservatives, including a number of media outlets like Breitbart, which describes the German teen as “courageous, independent thinking, intelligent girl whom every parent would be proud of” and who has become “the target of the hatred of the leftists around the world” because of her opinions.

However, Naomi has also appeared on mainstream media programs. The reporters of conservative show “Outsiders” on Sky News Australia characterized her as “an incredibly brave girl” who has “lots of fans here in Australia.”

Naomi strongly opposes climate alarmism, which she believes prevails in the mainstream media.

“These days, climate change science really isn’t a science at all. These self-proclaimed scientists draw conclusions without testing the hypothesis, and build their assumptions on completely incoherent models, which is an insult to science itself,” said Naomi at the conference in Madrid, adding that the climate activism is, at its core, a “very inhuman ideology.”

Though the media and her supporters put her in contrast with Thunberg, Naomi doesn’t like the label of “anti-Greta”. She claims that this suggests that she is also an “indoctrinated puppet” for the other side.

She thinks her opponents came up with the label to have a simple degrading name for her.

“I am not this evil opposite of Greta. She might be a really nice girl, and I would love to talk to her someday,” she told news website Insider.

For the same reasons, she refuses to refer to herself as a denier of climate change.

“This is a grave insult, especially in Germany, as it is supposed to resemble the insulting denomination of the Holocaust denier,” she said in an interview with Sky News Australia, adding that she was often described as a “Nazi” and compared to far-right terrorists.

Naomi is set to make her American debut at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual gathering just outside Washington for right-leaning activists.

According to a Washington Post profile, Naomi’s political activism first began a few years ago when she began asking questions in her school about Germany’s liberal immigration policy.

“She said the backlash from teachers and other students hardened her skepticism about mainstream German thinking. More recently, she said that watching young people joining weekly ‘Fridays For Future’ protests inspired by Greta helped spur her opposition to climate change activism, according to the Post article.

rmx.news/article/article/gretas-opponents-have-their-own-young-star

By Jared Peterson

On the evening of February 19, 2020, in the west German city of Hanau, a severely disturbed 43-year-old German male opened fire in two separate bars frequented by persons of non-German origin, particularly Turkish, killing nine innocent people.  It appears that all the victims were non-Germans, either immigrants or first-generation born of immigrants.  The murderer fled the scene, returned to his apartment, and turned the gun on his 72-year-old mother and then on himself.

Eleven dead.

The perpetrator, Tobias Rathjien, apparently never married, had posted an extensive internet manifesto before his evil deeds and, possibly, a video, where his crazed and odious views were on display, as well as his obviously severe mental derangement. 

The events are still being investigated, so many of my sentences must begin with the phrase “it appears” or “apparently.”  But the political consequences of this appalling mass murder are unfolding so quickly in Germany — and in much the way I would have predicted — that I thought it important to comment now, based on what is tentatively known.

Significantly, it appears that all of the murderer’s internet leavings have been taken down, so it’s impossible now to add to the little that was quickly spotted about his severe, probably psychotic, delusions and paranoia.

Was that intentional, to make it easier to present him as a “typical right-winger”?

Some of what is known about the man, per various news sources that had brief access to the written manifesto and video:

He apparently expressed a belief that all people in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Israel, Pakistan, Iran, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, among other countries, must be killed.  He apparently said he favored reducing the world’s population by half through mass murder.

In addition to his dreams of mass murder, certain of his truly delusional ravings were spotted before the internet trail was expunged: he apparently believed that the United States military is currently operating underground facilities where children are being sexually abused and killed and some sort of satanic worship is going on.  He also said he has been unable to form a relationship with a woman because the German government has been following him.

How is this atrocity, perpetrated by an obvious paranoid schizophrenic, being used by German elites and the chancellor?

Unless you can read German, it’s impossible to appreciate the torrent of blame, howling rage, condemnation, and calls for punishment, all directed against the right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AFD), that this appalling mass murder has called forth.  It is no exaggeration to say this atrocity is being utilized, first and foremost by Chancellor Merkel herself, to destroy the AFD — a destruction that, if accomplished, would leave Germany with no conservative opposition to the government’s widely detested mass migration and climate hysteria policies.

The ongoing political reaction strongly suggests that this is the event Germany’s major political parties and their supporters were waiting for — an event that can be readily fashioned into a club with which to beat the AFD to death.

To give you a flavor of what’s being said, here is a translation of the lead portion of Merkel’s remarks on the event:

The background of these terrible murders will be investigated down to the last detail.  But there is a lot of evidence that suggests the perpetrator acted out of far-right extremist and racist motives, out of hatred for people with a different background, a different religion, and different looks.

Absolutely no mention by the chancellor of the fact that there is “also a lot of evidence” that the perpetrator was a delusional, paranoid psychotic, even more mentally disturbed than the German Wings commercial copilot who flew his plane into a mountain in the French Alps.

Neither the German nor the English mainstream coverage mentions — or does so only passingly — the individual’s obvious severe mental illness, paranoia, and delusions of persecution.  That would attenuate the narrative that’s being built up, which is this:

Everyone in Germany who has rational reservations about the sudden and deliberate import of millions of Muslims, everyone who sensibly and soberly questions whether it makes sense for two societies so different in values and behavior to be thrown together, is a potential mass murderer, or at least complicit in engendering mass murder.

What is unfolding in Germany now, hour by hour, is the deliberate and grossly dishonest intrumentalizing of a great tragedy, perpetrated by an almost certainly lone psychotic, for the purpose of shutting down the AFD, whose views on immigration are infinitely closer to those of a large majority of Germans than those of the chancellor.

The Germans have a special court (Verfassungsschutz Gericht) for monitoring and surveilling groups and occasionally political parties deemed a threat to the constitution, the rule of law, and democracy.  Being placed under such surveillance is the kiss of death to any political party.  The tactic is almost invariably employed against conservative groups.

“Antifa,” closely aligned with the three parties of the Left, the Greens, SPD, and the odious “die Linke,”  direct successors to the East German Communists, runs wild, intimidating, threatening, and physically assaulting conservatives; destroying property; and menacing peaceful demonstrators and conservatives in their homes.  But the Verfassungsschutz Gericht rarely if ever gives Antifa (or its stealth sponsor parties of the Left) a glance.  When a tragedy like this occurs, on the other hand, the cry goes up from the Left, with at least tacit support from the chancellor, for constitutional court surveillance — of a party that has never advocated anything close to what Antifa regularly engages in, let alone the horrible acts of the Hanau murderer.

We have seen this tactic in America, but conservatives have more resources here for self-defense.  In the early days after severely disturbed Jared Loughner’s 2011 shooting spree in Arizona, which left six dead and a congresswoman severely wounded, there were serious efforts by the American Left to blame the deranged perpetrator’s acts on conservative commentators who had criticized President Obama.  In the event, those efforts failed.

And we all remember the unhinged Bernie Sanders–supporter who came within one brave cop of killing a score of Republican congressmen.  Republicans were outraged, but no one seriously suggested that Bernie Sanders, and his intense criticisms of America, was morally responsible for the acts of a lone psychopath, or that allowable political discussion needed to be abridged, to avoid the risk of pushing such persons over the edge.

I’m usually loath to analogize between historical events, to suggest that this or that set of circumstances is just like one that occurred long ago.  But in the case of the Hanau murders in Germany today, and how they are being ruthlessly utilized to destroy Germany’s only conservative opposition, to destroy a political party fully committed to democracy and the rule of law, the similarities of what did in fact occur long ago in Germany to these events are too much to escape mention.

Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany under the Weimar constitution on January 30, 1933. At Hitler’s ascension the Nazi Party held a plurality of seats in the Reichstag (parliament), but not a majority — other parties were present in the parliament, including the socialists, the communists (lots of them), and various smaller parties of the center and right.

Almost four weeks to the day after Hitler’s assumption of the chancellorship, the Reichstag burned,        almost certainly the work of an arsonist.  The crime was pinned on a Dutch communist, who almost certainly worked alone.  In fact, history has never fully settled the question of whether the Reichstag’s burning might have been a false flag action by the Nazis themselves.

But what followed the Reichstag fire is not in dispute: claiming that the act of arson was the work of Reichstag communist parliamentarians who were attacking the Weimar Republic (a contention no one credits today), Hitler convinced the aged President Hindenburg to issue an emergency decree allowing the arrest of all Reichstag communists — which Hitler did with alacrity.

This moved the Nazis in the Reichstag from a plurality to a majority and greatly facilitated Hitler’s dissolution over the ensuing year of the Weimar Republic and his establishing the Third Reich.

Will the Hanau atrocity be Merkel’s Reichstag fire?  So far, she’s certainly acting like it — and with as little justification, in fact or logic.

I leave the readers with a recommendation: over the next few weeks you will be reading more defamatory falsehoods about the AFD than at any time since that conservative, democratic, and sensibly patriotic party entered the Bundestag following the 2017 national elections.  The AFD’s platform is available in English on the internet.  It’s long, but much of it will not be of interest; some of it will be of great interest.  A Google search brings it up fairly easily.

I urge the readers to spend a few minutes on it, and to judge for themselves, based on this document, whether the hysterical denunciations of the AFD are remotely justified, measured against its stated aims.

I said in my February 16 AT article that democracy, freedom of expression, and the rule of law are at risk in Germany today.  After the horrific events of Hanau of a few days ago, and the shameful misuse by German leaders of those events, that risk has greatly intensified.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/how_a_german_mass_shooting_shows_a_possible_deadly_future_for_america.html

Germany officially announced “the beginning of an Coronavirus epidemic”. According to reports from Die Welt, the alarm was raised by the German health minister, Jens Spahn, after seven new cases of contagion were found within the country.

“We are in a new situation,” added Spahn, inviting the country to prepare “to make plans for a possible operational pandemic”.

The infection chains can no longer be tracked, he said. “Unfortunately, the situation has changed in the last few hours. That has to be said, unfortunately.”

Thus far, Italy has been the only black sheep in Europe, with over 400 infected patients and high up in the global ranking of countries most affected by Covid-19. But during the day, Germany also began to deal with a potential emergency scenario. This has prompted local authorities to raise their guard level as 23 people became infected with the virus in Germany within hours.

One of the cases, a 40-year-old in the city of Erkelenz, near the Dutch border, is in critical condition. The man, who already had previous pathologies, was taken to a specialized hospital in Duesseldorf.

Stephan Pusch, who heads the Heinsberg district administration, where Erkelenz is located, reported that schools and kindergartens in the area will remain closed and urged symptomatic people to stay at home and contact doctors by phone. The newspaper Bild reported that the man’s wife, hospitalized on February 25 in the same facility, also tested positive.

Her husband had contact with an acquaintance who had recently returned from China, where he had gone on business. The authorities are very concerned about his wife’s contagion, since the woman is employed in a daycare center. The children were asked to stay home; tests and swabs are currently underway to check if there have been cases of contagion among the young.

As if that were not enough, in the last two weeks the couple had taken part in numerous events, even on the occasion of the carnival. The couple may have infected the army of the Luftwaffe on duty at the air base in Cologne-Wahn. The infected was transported to the Koblenz Military Polyclinic.

The case of Erkelenz added to the previous 14 infected individuals identified in Bavaria, between the employees of the Webasto company and their family members. Two other infected are German nationals repatriated on a flight together with 126 other compatriots from Wuhan.

The list also includes a man identified in Baden-Wuerttemberg, who returned to his homeland with his family on 23 February after traveling to the quarantine area in the province of Lodi. And this could only be the beginning.

freewestmedia.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-arrives-in-germany-the-epidemic-has-started/

A leftist antisemite in the city-state of Bremen in Germany attacked a group of pro-Israel communists on Thursday who protested against xenophobia and the extreme right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau.“The attacked person was asked extremely aggressively by a left-wing antisemite to hand over the Israeli flag,” wrote the pro-Israel communist group Solarium on its website. The pro-Israel activist refused to hand over the Israeli flag.

Solarium – communist Group Bremen– titled its article: ”The provocation of Jewish existence.”Bremen has a long history of outbreaks of Israel-related antisemitism, including a flourishing Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel.An estimated 1,000 people demonstrated in northern city of Bremen under the slog “Stop Right Terror! Organize anti-fascist self-help” following the racist terrorist attack in the German city of Hanau in February. 
The mass murderer Tobias Rathjen  killed 10 people in Hanau He said he wanted to murder people from Israel, Asia and North Africa. 
 According to Solarium, demonstrators asked why “we undertook this provocation” with the Israeli flag. The anti-Israel protestors told the group that an Israeli flag had no place at the demonstration.“We stated…that we did not intend to provoke and would like to use the flag to express our solidarity with all victims of antisemitic violence, and we were again insulted,“ wrote Solarium.The antisemite spat in the direction of the Solarium members. Solarium wrote that “People who are so bothered by the Israeli flag are to be named antisemites.”

The group criticized “German news programs, which only report on an Israeli reaction after weeks of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip,” suggesting that Israel is to blame for disrupting Middle East stability.
“As uncomfortable as we felt, it was out of the question for us to drop the flags as it is the symbol of the only protective power on which Jews can rely,” adding that the failure of the police to protect the synagogue in Halle is further sad evidence of this,” wrote Solarium.
 The neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet’s attempt to create mass mass-murder in a synagogue in the East German city of Halle last year resulted in the deaths of two people. Balliet was wedded to an antisemitic world view that included the “Zionist-occupied government” theory.
Solarium said that “Any rejection of the Israeli state, as the only global shelter for the survivors of the Shoah and their descendants, is already motivated by anti-Semitism,” wrote Solarium.
Germany appears to be the only Western European country that has pro-Israel communist groups, many of whom are students or left-wing intellectuals and journalists.
Two journalists for the local Bremen paper Weser-Kurier, Pascal Faltermann and Jan-Felix Jasch, did not report on the outbreak of antisemitism at the demonstration.Writing on the popular German website “The Axis of Good,” Marcus Elmer also reported on the antisemitic attack on Solarium.Elmer listed other cases of anti-Israel activists ripping Israeli flags from supporters of the Jewish state in the cities of Berlin and Cologne.In 2018, reporters for Germany’s largest paper Bild hanged Israeli flags in a number of German cities. All the flags were pulled down, including one attempt to burn a flag.The Jerusalem Post reported exclusively in 2018 that the Al-Mustafa Community Center in Bremen is a major hub for raising funds for Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a Bremen intelligence report.The Bremen intelligence agency’s report stated, “The Al-Mustafa-Community Center supports Hezbollah in Lebanon, especially by collecting donations.”Bremen and the German federal government refuse to outlaw the antisemitic terrorist entity. The US, the United Kingdom, the Arab League, Canada, Israel and a number of Latin America countries classify Hezbollah’s entire operation as a foreign terrorist entity.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/German-antisemite-seeks-to-seize-Israeli-flag-from-pro-Israel-communists-618845

The leader of the League held a press conference to take stock of the Coronavirus crisis: “The problem is not with the red zones but with the whole territory.” Italy now has three times the number of infected cases compared to Hong Kong.

Matteo Salvini held a press conference at the Senate to address the coronavirus emergency. He rattled off some figures that reveal the gravity of the situation. “The tourism sector alone saw a 80 percent decline.” And he announced that the estimates calculated by the League would require “ten billion” euros in support of families and businesses.

Referring to Prime Minister Conte, who spoke of some “errors in hospital protocols” that caused the spread of the virus, Salvini pointed out: “Some blamed operators, doctors, nurses, and managers in an unpleasant way. Since the beginning of the crisis we have been working on the health front, with mayors, local doctors, operators and nurses who are doing a great job.”

Salvini went on to say that the League has prepared “a decalogue that we will make available to the government, because despite the unpleasant attitude of someone looking for enemies in other people’s homes, it is a time when the population is asking us for proposals. They will be handed over to the government and I personally I will deliver them by phone. We hope that the government will not quarantine the proposals of the League”.

The former Interior Minister also responded to the accusations of Prime Minister Conte, who had said that he had contacted Salvini without ever receiving any reply: “Just call, or send a Whatsapp, to the right number…”

Shortly before, Salvini on Facebook had expressed his solidarity with those who are committed to the fight against Coronavirus: “A big hug of solidarity and all our support for doctors, nurses, health workers, volunteers, law enforcement and all governors, regional administrators and mayors who are working tirelessly to contain and combat the virus emergency.”

And he has singled out those who “without any gratitude and to wash their conscience, want to deflect blame and responsibility” while some 100 000 suspected cases remain under an effective quarantine.

Prime Miniser Giuseppe Conte’s reputation has come under fire and his popularity is slipping despite the new measures his government has put in place to contain the contagion in the coming days.

This comes after Conte admitted that a hospital in Lombardy inadvertently helped spread the virus by not adhering to certain health-care protocols. Conte has blamed the hospital for the outbreak, raising questions about whether “the European nation is capable of containing the outbreak,” according to CNN.

“That certainly contributed to the spread,” Conte said, but he did not name hospital concerned. The infection has been centered around the town of Codogno, south of Milan. “Obviously we cannot predict the progress of the virus. It is clear that there has been an outbreak and it has spread from there,” Conte told reporters.

On Monday, a team of health experts from the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control arrived in Italy to assist local authorities.

China has registered around 80 000 cases, South Korea is approaching a thousand, and the figures will probably increase. In third place is Italy, which has already overtaken Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

The European country with the most infected, excluding Italy, is Germany with 16 cases. The virus has ignored Brexit, as the United Kingdom counts 13, followed by France with 12 cases and one death (a Chinese tourist).

At this point it is legitimate to ask how the other European countries have managed to avoid the health emergency. Many, by the way, have not even imposed air blocks, contrary to Italy.

As La Verità newspaper pointed out, without stopping flights, Paris has managed to stem contagion and limit damage to a minimum. Beyond the Alps, the password is prevention. Sensing that the Italian situation would get worse and worse, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe held a summit with the Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, that of Defense, Florence Parly, and that of Health, Olivier Véran. On that occasion, the strategy to be implemented to combat, or at least contain, the Coronavirus, was discussed.

Paris has imposed quarantine for all people who have returned from the former Middle Empire, but flights to and from China were not blocked. Rome instead blocked flights from China but acted with complete carelessness about the passengers who, although arriving from the area of origin of the Coronavirus, returned to Italy through other routes.

The French government has been able to limit the infections by cordoning off buildings or holiday villages with 200 people isolated in a holiday village of Carry-Le-Rouet, near Marseille; another 60, returned from Wuhan, were isolated in Branville, Normandy, in a holiday facility.

Also, in Contamine-Montjoie, in a ski resort where a British tourist from Singapore had contracted Covid-19, the resort was closed off.

There were other precautions taken too by the French: the government invited parents who have been on vacation in Northern Italy, China or other areas affected by the virus to keep their children at home for 14 days.

freewestmedia.com/2020/02/26/salvini-condemns-italian-pms-slow-response-to-coronavirus-crisis/

The number of children who rob other children has increased by 100% in only four years, according to a new study by Swedish police about reported violent crimes in which children under the age of 15 are both the victims and the perpetrators. In 2016, there were 1,178 robberies against children under 18 years of age. In 2019, the number had increased to 2,484. The number of violent crimes where the suspect is a child under 15 years of age has also gone up dramatically: In 2015, there were 6,359 reported violent crimes where the suspect was a child under 15. In 2019, that number had increased to 8,719 reported violent crimes.

The crimes involve “Violence to the head, kicks, gun threats, burning with lighters, threats to kill, threats to bomb the school, stabbings with food knives, bites and children who have been scratched, dragged, thrown and locked up by other children”.

The lowest age of a suspected perpetrator was seven. There has also been an increasing number of girl gangs. One girl was violently assaulted by a gang of five girls who kicked her, beat her and spat at her. The girl said she thought she was going to die.

“It’s ordinary children who are robbed on their way to and from school, they are called ‘whore’ and told that they’re going to get a Glock in the mouth. I think we are letting the kids down”, said regional police chief Carin Götblad.

Crimes committed by children under 15 years of age are not investigated by the police; they are left to the social workers. “When we get [such cases], we send [them] to [the social workers] and then it goes a little under the radar. This is not something we have discussed before,” said Götblad, who criticized municipalities for not taking crimes committed by children seriously enough.

“I think there is an inherent reflex to ignore it because it’s not very nice, but then we who are professionals need to look at this in particular and raise awareness. I am terribly worried about all vulnerable victims of crime,” Götblad said. “The suspects are also victims in some sense, but this is still something we have to deal with, that children also commit crimes”.

According to Götblad, parents are afraid to report the crimes committed by other children against their children.

“Parents are afraid of threats and harassment of their children”, said Götblad. “It’s really important to report, [but] at the same time I can’t say I don’t understand their fear”.

The parents may not only be motivated by fear, but by an unwillingness — or inability — of Swedish authorities to help them and ensure the safety of their children — a basic duty of authorities everywhere.

In August 2019, 13-year-old Filip and his family had no other choice than to move from the city of Uppsala after a gang of minors made his life there unbearable. He was abused, robbed and his life was threatened by gangs, with Swedish authorities telling him not to report it to the police as this would make things “worse” for him. The police even told the family that moving was their best option.

When authorities fail to honor their responsibilities, lawlessness results. This is visible in all of Swedish society, not only with respect to children.

Recently, children found explosive material hidden in a sandbox in the Sorgenfri elementary school in the city of Malmö, according to Sveriges Radio. It is still unclear who put them there.

Last year there were 257 reports of explosions — including attempted explosions — an increase of 59% compared to 2018, according to SVT Nyheter. Yet, only seven people have been convicted for any of those 257 crimes. In 2020, at least 10 explosions have already taken place.

In addition to the rise in crimes against children and the rise in explosions, the number of reported rapes against women also increased by 10% in 2019, compared to the previous year, with a total of 4,670 reported rapes. The number of reported rapes against men has also soared by 35% to 260 reported cases. Reported rapes against children remained unchanged at around 3,400.

As previously noted by Gatestone Institute, this summer, a private foundation, Det Goda Samhället (“The Good Society”) published a report based on statistics from Swedish authorities. The report showed:

“For the first time now, more crimes — in absolute terms — are committed by persons of foreign background than by persons of Swedish origin… The most crime-prone population subgroup are people born [in Sweden] to two foreign-born parents”.

According to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, however, Sweden’s problems with gang violence would supposedly have been the same without immigration. When asked in November 2019 about the links between mass immigration and gang violence, Löfven refused any connection, while indirectly acknowledging, in a somewhat self-contradictory manner, that gang violence is an imported problem:

“We didn’t use to have this kind of [gang] violence then but now we have it… The segregation is because there is too low employment and too high unemployment in these areas. But that would have been the same regardless of who had lived there. If you would put people born in Sweden in the same conditions, you would get the same result.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15558/sweden-victimized-children