Following the machete attack on a 19-year-old Moroccan in Innsbruck, a suspect was arrested on Thursday. After further investigations, the 31-year-old compatriot was questioned on Friday, according to the police. He did not confess to the facts he had been accused of and was temporarily taken to the police detention centre in Innsbruck. After further necessary investigations have been carried out, the public prosecutor’s office in Innsbruck will decide on the further arrest of the suspect.At Landhausplatz square in Innsbruck there was an attack with a machete shortly after 06.: 00 p.m. on Wednesday. According to police, a 19-year-old Moroccan was seriously injured. Witnesses report that the perpetrator had tried 6 to 7 times to attack the victim with a machete both on his thigh and face. 

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This early Friday morning a “quarrel” escalated on street Bahnhofstraße in Münster and resulted in a brawl.A 39-year-old homeless man was on the sidewalk of the street Bahnhofstraße. Suddenly three initially unknown persons yelled insults at him. Thereupon an argument broke out. The perpetrators beat and kicked their victim and took away his mobile phone. The 39-year-old then fled to a snack bar on the street Bahnhofstraße.But the three perpetrators did not let go of the man, followed him to the snack bar and continued to beat him. They devastated the place and threatened the 47-year-old owner, who tried to settle the conflict. Then the trio fled. The three 16, 19 and 29-year-old perpetrators from Eritrea were arrested near the railway station. The investigations are continuing. 

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In Graz, five asylum seekers raped an only 13-year-old girl, the brutal crime is even said to have been recorded with a mobile phone. The accused (17 to 22 years old) have now been sentenced to several years in prison. The sentence is not final. These details are deeply shocking: At the end of October last year, a 13-year-old girl was already a little drunk at Graz Central Station. There she met five asylum seekers between the ages of 17 and 22.Two of them, including the 17-year-old primary defendant, had already been convicted of various drug-related offences. The five men are said to have persuaded the 13-year-old to come to an apartment in Graz. Then they locked the front door and gave her drugs and more alcohol to make her submissive. Then they are said to have forced the girl to undress. When she noticed what a threatening situation she was in, it was too late: Because the girl fought back, the defendants tied her victim up and raped her one by one.Even worse: The crime was even recorded by video on a mobile phone, relevant material was discovered by the police at the first defendant. The defendants have denied the accusations, but the court believed the victim more. The primary defendant was sentenced to seven years in unconditional prison, and the other men were also put behind bars for several years. However, the sentences are not yet final as appeals have been filed. 

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Germany’s former ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bernd Erbel, will not oversee the European Union’s mechanism to conduct trade with Tehran because he appeared on a radio show with a virulently antisemitic radio host who allegedly denied the Holocaust. Germany’s top-selling paper, Bild, reported on Thursday about the latest antisemitism scandal that is consuming Germany’s Foreign Ministry. The US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, tweeted that “Bild reports that the German official tapped to run Instex, the outfit designed to bypass US sanctions on Iran, has been forced to resign because of antisemitic comments and poor judgment.”INSTEX is an abbreviation for the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges payment system between the EU and Iran designed to circumvent US sanctions. Erbel pulled out of the position for “personal reasons.” Erbel appeared twice on an Internet radio show with Ken Jebsen in which he praised the terrorist entity Hezbollah and defended Iran’s missile program as legal. The former ambassador to Iran and Iraq lashed out at the Jewish state in crude terms, stating that Israel was also founded “at the expense of another people” and the “people has lost their home.” As a result, Erbel said, “The Palestinians are the victims of our victims. Quite simple. For example, if one had said that a Jewish state was founded in East Prussia, then the Palestinian problem would not have existed.” Erbel said the Jewish state is “more than a foreign body in the region.”Erbel heaped praise on Hezbollah’s 2006 war against the Jewish state. “But it was enormously important to see, also psychologically, there are forces that oppose Israel and also successfully do it,” he noted. Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to outlaw Hezbollah’s entire organization in Germany where 1,050 members operate. The Bild said Erbel showed great sympathy for the mullah regime in the interviews with Jebsen. The Jerusalem Post previously reported that in 2010, while ambassador to Iran, Erbel said he wanted to promote the “historical treasure of the German-Iranian friendship.”The Bild reported that Erbel praised Tehran for not conducting wars but ignored Iran’s role in promoting the Syrian war and supporting the Houthis in their war in Yemen. The Bild also noted that Erbel went silent on Iran’s support for the terrorist entities Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Erbel declined to cite Iran’s role in providing missile technology and aid to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah and Hamas. The Jerusalem Post reported in 2011 that Jebsen wrote in an email that, “I know who invented the Holocaust as PR.” Jebsen added that Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels implemented the public relations plan of the Holocaust and the Americans provided fuel for the entire Nazi bombing campaign, citing Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller, the American businessman. The rambling e-mail is filled with grammatical and spelling errors.In a separate comment, which was voiced before the published e-mail, Jebsen termed the destruction of the twin towers on 9/11 a “warm demolition.” As a result of Jebsen’s alleged Holocaust denial, his former employer Radio Fritz fired him in 2011. The Bild article termed Jebsen an “antisemite and conspiracy theorist.” Merkel and her social democratic foreign minister, Heiko Maas, have spearheaded the efforts within the EU to weaken US sanctions against Iran’s regime. Last month, the director of the German Foreign Ministry’s representation for the Palestinian territories, Christian Clages, was revealed to have liked scores of antisemitic tweets while using his government Twitter feed.

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Bouworde has been working in the Taroudant region of Morocco for more than 15 years, sending groups of young volunteers from Belgium to work on infrastructure projects like water canals, schools, and a women’s center in the area. However, following significant media attention in Morocco this week, the organization has chosen to cancel its upcoming volunteering projects. On Saturday, Moroccan media shared videos and photos of a group of young Belgian volunteers from Bouworde building a road in the remote village of Adar, east of Agadir. The initiative earned praise for the girls from people across Morocco.“[…] Their heads should be cut off so that no one else dares to challenge the teachings of our religion,” a 26 year old teacher from northern Morocco wrote about the girls in a Facebook group of more than 500,000 teachers. The National Judicial Police, in coordination with the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), responded to the comment quickly, arresting the teacher on Tuesday, August 6, for inciting terrorism.Morocco takes terrorist threats seriously, particularly following the murder and beheading of two Scandinavian tourists in the Atlas mountains late last year. A parliamentary member of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) Ali El Asri also criticized the group. “Since when do Europeans do construction work in swimwear?” He also suggested the group’s volunteer initiative had an ulterior motive. “Is it humanitarian or does it have other goals, bearing in mind the region is still well known for its conservatism and intolerance towards westernisation and nudity?” he said. The president of Tiwizi, an association from the Taroudant region that works in partnership with Bouworde, responded to the comments, expressing his support for Bouworde and emphasizing the positive relationship between the volunteers and the people of Adar. In response to the threat of beheading, Hassan Ait Addi, the association’s president said: “That extremist does not know anything about the region, nor about the suffering of the population,” reported Moroccan news channel Goude. Ait Addi also commented on the controversial Facebook post by PJD member El Asri. “I want to tell him that you do not understand anything and you don’t deserve a place in the parliament,” Ait Addi said.Bouworde sought advice from the Belgian Embassy in Rabat. According to the organization’s press release yesterday, the embassy assured the organization that the safety of the volunteers who are currently in Morocco was guaranteed by the government, and by the presence of the Moroccan police. However, according to the press release, the embassy advised the organization not to allow a new group of volunteers to go to Morocco “under the current circumstances and given the large “publicity” of the case through the press and social media.” “We will of course follow that advice. This is why Bouworde decided to cancel all subsequent camps in Morocco,” the organization adds. When contacted by Morocco World News, the Belgian embassy did not provide further comment in relation to whether they had provided advice to the organization, and the nature of any advice, if provided. The embassy directed all queries to the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels. The Ministry’s deputy spokesperson in Brussels, Nadia Benini recognized that the matter had drawn significant controversy, but told Morocco World News that the Ministry “did not have any specific advice on this matter.” “We do refer back to our online travel warning page, which does say there is a real risk of terrorism against individuals” she told Morocco World News “But it is up to the organization to see how they will address this matter. We imagine they may have chosen to leave following all of the media attention,” she explained. Morocco has not issued any official comment. Bouworde has given the volunteers the opportunity to return to Belgium early. Three out of the 37 volunteers have so far opted to go home.

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Because she did not want to have sexual intercourse with him, a 21-year-old girl was attacked last week in her apartment in Gütersloh by a man “with African roots” with a broken wine bottle at about 02 a. m. The 21-year-old struck and stabbed the neck of the victim, who was not seriously injured just by chance. After the attack, the young African fled. The police have now been able to investigate and arrest the man who lives in Verl. The public prosecutor’s office in Bielefeld requested an arrest warrant for attempted manslaughter in conjunction with dangerous physical injury.
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Train attendants are often insulted, threatened or even beaten during their duties. This also applies to a conductor on the railway line between Innsbruck and Telfs. She was attacked by a fare dodger and threatened with death. Now the perpetrator is in custody … 
“Since the incident I can no longer move my arm properly, have nightmares and suffer from anxiety disorders”, stated the Austrian Federal Railways employee on Wednesday at the regional court.”I even  complied  with him and would have issued him the ticket for 8 euro also in the train.But suddenly he attacked me”, the train attendant described. The woman suffered, among other things, a laceration of the bursa on her elbow. “He also kept shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ and murder. It is said that the 20-year-old Syrian also showed the gesture of cutting off one’ s neck. The result was a 14-day sick leave. And right after the first night shift the next shock. Again, the accused was sitting in a compartment. “Fortunately, I had security guards with me this time,” said the conductor. After the Syrian was recently sentenced to 4 months probation and 1920 Euro fine for drug trafficking, Judge Andreas Mair imposed an additional sentence of three months. Austrian Federal Railways works council member Thomas Lintner, who assisted the train attendant during the trial, knows that the incident is not an isolated one. “Last week, a conductor was beaten between Landeck and St. Anton.” The “passenger” also attacked the train crew with a 20-centimeter-long pair of scissors.
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At Landhausplatz square in Innsbruck there was an attack with a machete shortly after 06: 00 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the police, a 19-year-old Moroccan was seriously injured and a group of four men was present at the Landhausplatz square when a male came running in and probably attacked the 19-year-old with a machete without any reason. The witnesses reported that the perpetrator had tried 6 to 7 times to attack the victim with the machete both on his thigh and face.According to initial information from the Innsbruck Hospital, the victim was seriously but not fatally injured by the incident. The man suffered two deep cuts on both thighs and had to be treated surgically at the Innsbruck Hospital. The investigations and witness interviews led to a possible suspect, a 31-year-old Moroccan citizen. According to the police, the search for the perpetrator, which was immediately initiated, has so far been unsuccessful.

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In Erding near Munich a 7-year-old girl was sexually harassed – now the trial took place. 23-year-old Afghan citizen had to answer before the local court Erding because he is said to have kissed a 7-year-old girl against her will and bitten her lips. The accused has already been tried several times for sexual offences. The asylum seeker had already stalked a student in an suburban train, resisted the subsequent arrest and in 2016 and 2017 stalked young women, some of whom were still minors, and touched them indecently. In the current case, the Afghan had been invited to a barbecue that took place in the home of his buddy’s girlfriend in the northern district of Erding. He first touched the ten-year-old on her breast and in her genitals. Then her seven-year-old sister was next. He kissed her, sucked her lips and bit on it. After the children revealed themselves to their parents, they informed the police, who started the investigation and brought the case to trial. The defendant was sentenced to one year and four months imprisonment without parole. 

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