The Office of the Attorney General of Lucerne has opened an investigation into an Iraqi imam at the Dar Asalam mosque in the town of Kriens. The man is alleged to have advised followers to beat their wives if they disobey them.
The procedure was opened following an article recounting the incident in the SonntagsZeitung newspaperexternal link on October 6, the prosecutor’s office told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Monday.
According to the newspaper, the 38-year-old Iraqi made the remarks during a speech at a Friday prayer session at the Kriens mosque, near Lucerne, at the beginning of August.
The man, who is presumed innocent until a final decision is made, purportedly suggested disciplining women with physical violence if other methods such as discussion or taking separate beds fail. He also reportedly called for respect for sharia law.
SonntagsZeitung reported that the imam arrived in Switzerland in 2007, where he filed an asylum request that was rejected. He was reported to have received an F residence permit which allows foreigners to be provisionally admitted to the country in cases where it is impossible to send them back home for specific reasons.
He was one of four Iraqis tried by a Swiss court in 2016 for alleged support to the Islamic State militant group. The other three people tried were all found guilty, while he was acquitted.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, Thursday, that if the European Union calls Turkey’s operation in northern Syria an invasion, Turkey “could just open the gates and send 3.6 million Syrian refugees into Europe.” Speaking in Ankara, Erdoğan asked the United States why it doesn’t mention that his country is hosting 300,000 Syrian Kurds and that 50 of the 291 parliament members in his party are Kurds.
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A 40-year-old woman from Kassel was the victim of sexual harassment in the entrance area of Kassel’s main railway station last Tuesday at about 8.15 pm. The victim was in the entrance area of Kassel Central Station in her electronic wheelchair at the time of the crime. Suddenly and unexpectedly, an unknown person stroked her back and grabbed her breast. Following this incident, she was asked to perform further sexual acts. This assault was fended off on the part of the victim by a slap in the face, whereupon the perpetrator left. The perpetrator was described as follows:
– About 35 years old,- corpulent,- of African origin,- dressed in a black jeans, a green sweater with lettering and a dark top jacket.
The Federal Police Inspectorate in Kassel has started investigations and initiated criminal proceedings.
Witnesses wanted:
Information on the crime is requested by calling 0561/81616-0 or the toll-free service number 0800 6 888 000 or via http://www.bundespolizei.de .
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Police and fire department were called in the night to Wednesday to a Turkish betrothal party in the Berlin district of Tempelhof, which had resultet in a mass brawl. The sad result: 14 people were injured and had to be treated in clinics.
The Department of State Security of the Bremen Police is investigating damage to property in the last few days. In the Neustadt district of Bremen, unknown persons damaged a Bundeswehr vehicle, and in the Schwachhausen district, stickers were affixed to the fence of the Jewish synagogue. The Opel Astra, recognizable as a Bundeswehr vehicle, was parked on a parking lot in the street Flughafendamm. Unknown persons threw a stone into the rear window between Friday and Monday noon and caused material damage of about 1000 euros. On Tuesday evening, the Bremen police noticed about 40 stickers with crossed out words at the fence and gate of the Jewish community in the street Schwachhauser Heerstraße.
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