It must have been a shock for the children. In the park, two 13-year-olds were suddenly groped and even kissed by Karim H. (22). Now the sex offender was before the district court. Also because the children helped to catch the perpetrator quickly.

According to the indictment, the Afghan-born man sat down on the bench with the children, who were completely unknown to him, in People’ Park Heinrich-Greif-Straße in December 2020.

Saying he wanted to see what she was wearing, the man tugged at the girl’s clothes and groped her buttocks.

The children immediately fled, but Karim came after them. And grabbed the boy, kissed him and reached into his trousers, offering 160 euros for another kiss.

The children ran away, and called the police. “They were able to give a detailed description,” said a detective, who first spoke to the victims, then went to look at the crime scene with his colleague.

“When we arrived, we recognised him immediately from the description. Black cap, white Lacoste jacket, black shoes, Gucci bag and shiny gold watch. We checked him immediately.”

And while the policewoman was calling the police car, Karim also tried to run away.

But the officer chased him all the way to Räcknitzhöhe. “Then he must have run out of breath…”.

Since then Karim H. has been behind bars. He has a criminal record (drug offences), is on the police register (sexual offences) and also had to answer for giving drugs to a 17-year-old girl.

He remains in prison for the time being. Sentence: two years in prison.

https://www.tag24.de/justiz/gerichtsprozesse-dresden/13-jaehrige-angefasst-und-gekuesst-so-lautet-das-urteil-gegen-karim-h-22-1897004

The financing of the great Eyyûb Sultan mosque in Strasbourg continues to arouse controversy. On Thursday, March 24, members of the government and other political figures continued to question the decision of the ecological municipality of Bas-Rhin to grant a subsidy for the future building whose project is supported by the Turkish association Millî Görüs.

On Wednesday evening on the set of Morandini live, on CNews, Sahin was invited once again by the media to explain his version of the facts. And Sahin, the president of the Islamist Confederation Millî Görüs Grand-Est, once again congratulated himself that his association had not signed the charter of the principles of Islam in France. “We refuse to sign this charter because this charter was not prepared, worked on by Muslims, mosques and federations and then finalized by the CFCM.” Following the journalist’s insistent question: “So you refuse to sign it?” Sahin confirmed his refusal clearly with a “yes”.

Sahin’s attitude riled Gaëtan Dussausaye, one of the representatives of the National Rally (RN). On the set, the latter invited him to leave the country if he did not respect its laws: “If he does not want to sign it in agreement, as in this case, he will do his business in a country other than France. Either we respect French law and we respect signing the charter or we go away.” Visibly not affected by these words, Eyup Sahin retorted in a threatening tone: “He has the right to say what he wants. And I say to him: Either he respects me or he leaves France.”

Since the municipality’s decision, the President of the Confederation has repeatedly said that his association respected only the values ​​of Islam and that it had no connection with Turkey. The Minister of the Interior blasted him for “financing foreign interference” and asked the Bas-Rhin prefecture to refer the decision to grant a subsidy to an administrative judge.

The Deputy Minister in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, on Wednesday evening on BFMTV questioned the attitude of the ecological municipality which “visibly has problems with the principles of the Republic”, accusing it of “making a pact with political and radical Islam”.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/27/president-of-milli-gorus-grand-est-tells-representative-of-rn-to-leave-france/

The crime was committed yesterday at noon in Lengefelder Street in Korbach (Hesse). According to the mother, the two strangers first tried to tear off her mouth and nose protection. When she resisted, one of them kicked the woman and slightly injured her. The other pushed the pram over. The six-month-old baby inside fell to the ground and was seriously injured. A rescue helicopter took the infant to a special clinic. It is not yet known how the baby is doing and whether there are any possible consequential damages.

The perpetrators fled after the crime. According to the mother’s description, they are both between 15 and 20 years old and have dark skin. They were both wearing a baseball cap and dark clothes.

The police are asking witnesses who have clues about the perpetrators or the crime to contact the police in Korbach by calling 05631-9710 or any other police station.

https://politikstube.com/korbach-dunkelhaeutige-attackieren-mutter-stossen-kinderwagen-um-baby-schwer-verletzt/

A Sweden Democrats (SD) politician in Ljungby found an ominous letter and a bullet when he returned home on Wednesday. The Smålänningen daily, which was the first to report on the matter, wrote that the police are investigating the incident as a death threat. 

Although the SD politician in question does not want to comment at this time, the SD’s party leader in Ljungby, Jan Lorentzon, shared what he has learned about the incident.

“When he came home after work, there was a letter on the stairs and on it was a 9mm bullet,” Lorentzon told Nyheter Idag.

The police arrived quickly and seized the evidence. Lorentzon says the content of the letter was related to the man’s political activity.

“There was something about SD being racists,” he explained.

When asked if there were any death threats in the letter, Lorentzon said he was not sure.

“But when there is a nine-millimeter bullet on the letter, you can probably interpret it that way,” noted Lorentzon, adding he has no idea who is behind it all.

It is also the first time something like this has happened in Ljungby.

“Frankly, you get so angry. It is damn unpleasant because it is an attack on the democracy we have here in Sweden, which we have defended for quite a few years. But some will then take liberties and disrupt it to get their agenda through,” said Lorentzon.

Although it may have been the first such threat issued to Ljungby, his party’s leader, Jimmie Akesson, has been the target of a range of threats, including a letter with an ISIS flag on it in 2018 threatening to behead Akesson and his son. 

“We will behead you if you do not withdraw from the election by the end of this week,” the letter read, and then added a similar threat against Akesson’s son, who was four at the time.

https://rmx.news/article/article/sweden-democrats-politician-receives-threatening-letter-with-a-9mm-bullet

The case of the teacher at the Grammar School in Batley, Northern England, against which there were angry protests from Muslims, made it to the front pages of the British media.

A few days ago, the religious studies teacher showed some of the infamous Mohammed cartoons from Charlie Hebdo magazine and talked about them with the students, The Times reported. That was exactly what happened to the French teacher Samuel Paty almost half a year ago – a jihadist waited for him after school and cut his head off.

The educator in Batley near Bradford, a town that is home to a large number of Muslims, has now realized where the real limits of freedom are in Britain in the 21st century. After loud protests from parents and Muslims who had travelled to the school, the school administration kneeled down, and issued a deeply contrite apology for the “completely unacceptable” teaching material. The teacher also had to “most sincerely” apologize. The school has opened an investigation into the incident and has suspended the teacher from duty.

Obviously, the submissive requests for forgiveness were not nearly sufficient. There are already numerous appeals from Muslim organizations circulating on the Internet, which – figuratively – challenge his right to life. For example, the local Muslim association “Purpose of Life” writes that the teacher should never teach again because of his “sadistic” offense. The Ramadhan Foundation from Manchester also raged that the teacher had made a “disgusting attack on the faith”. He should have known “how much that affects his 70 percent Muslim students”.

Several dozen Muslim demonstrators gathered in front of the school on Thursday, shouted at the hastily summoned police and blocked the entrance. Education Minister Gavin Williamson has meanwhile let his spokesman condemn the fact that there were threats against the teacher as “unacceptable”. But Williamson avoided positioning himself clearly in favour of freedom of expression. Other politicians also warned not to “pour oil on the fire” and avoided making clear statements.

After there were numerous death threats against the educator, according to the Daily Mail, on the advice of the police, he has now gone in hiding with his girlfriend somewhere at a secret location.

The Free Speech Union, a group that campaigns for freedom of expression, reacted with outrage to the fact that the school had given way to a “censorship mob” and suspended the teacher. The school is thus signalling that it is indeed a crime to show the prophet Mohammed in a picture. The publicly financed school is submitting to the Islamic understanding of a ban on images and violating its educational mandate to a critical discussion. Muslim students should feel no more hurt by Mohammed drawings than Christians by the satirical film “Life of Brian”. “In this country there is no ban on blasphemy above freedom of speech,” said Toby Young, journalist and general secretary of the Free Speech Union.

After all, on Friday students at Batley Grammar School started a petition for their teacher, demanding that his suspension be lifted. The teacher is not racist or “Islamophobic”, they said. Some 7000 signatures were collected within half a day.

In all of this, the fear of the public that “French conditions” could also spread in the UK, is palpable. There is no lack of a lively, aggressive extremist scene on the Brexit island, from which violence and assassinations have emerged again and again. Islamist-motivated attacks repeatedly shake the country, for example the triple knife murder in a park in Reading by a Syrian asylum seeker last year. Before that, an ex-prisoner convicted of ISIS propaganda had stabbed two people to death in South London. Before that, in December 2019, an Islamist participating in a rehabilitation program killed several people on London Bridge. In June 2017, three attackers also drove a pickup truck into passers-by on London Bridge and stabbed them with knives, they killed eight people and injured nearly fifty other people, some seriously. In spring 2017, a suicide bomber with a Libyan migrant background blew himself up and 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. The series of Islamist attacks has been never-ending.

And all the more amazing is the equanimity with which a large part of the British population reacted to this. Many prefer to close their eyes when Islamist fundamentalism arises, which is also taught in dozens of Islamic schools in the country. Fifteen years ago, when there was a wave of protests orchestrated around the world against the Danish Mohammed caricatures of the time, the British island was the scene of absurd scenes: Muslims raged in front of Parliament in London with posters saying “Behead those who insult Islam!”. Right next to them were British police officers, in their yellow safety vests. British “tolerance” at such moments could be rightly be mistaken for cowardice.

Toby Young of the Free Speech Union pointed out that the school’s Latin motto in Batley Forte non Ignave: Courageous, not afraid. The submission to Islamic guidelines has nonetheless taken place gradually.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/27/british-teacher-hides-from-protesting-muslims-over-mohammed-cartoons/

In case you missed it on the news — easy to do since it’s rarely mentioned — Europe is in the throes of the third wave of the pandemic.

Their rollout of the vaccines has been fraught with shortages and supply problems. It’s gotten so bad that the EU has halted vaccine exports for six weeks.

Along with the increased numbers of positive test results come the dreaded — and inevitable — calls for lockdowns. Italy may as well declare a perpetual lockdown as the nation will be shuttered over the Easter holidays. Partial lockdowns in France and most other EU countries will make it a grim Easter in Europe for the second year in a row.

Germany, with Europe’s most modern healthcare system and a reputation for government organization, was actually on top of the pandemic — at first. But their well-oiled system of tracing and isolating outbreaks has fallen apart, and German numbers have been as bad as the rest of Europe’s.

Seeing an alarming spike in positive tests and hospitalizations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a total lockdown of the country from April 1-5. There was a problem with that announcement: even experts said that a total lockdown wasn’t necessary.

The political firestorm caused Merkel to beat a hasty retreat and apologize for her “mistake.”

“We must try to slow down the third wave of the pandemic. Nevertheless, it was a mistake,” Merkel said during a press conference, according to German news outlet Deutsche Welle. “At the end of the day, I carry the last responsibility.”

“It’s now important for me to say so here. A mistake should be called a mistake and above all, it should be corrected, preferably in good time,” she added, according to the news agency.

CNBC:

Critics of the move, which included health experts and business leaders, said the lockdown could cause more harm than good, particularly the plans to allow grocery stores and supermarkets to open for a limited amount of time over the holiday — a move likely to cause crowds to gather. Others questioned the lost working hours and wages the move would entail.

“It was well reasoned, but was not really doable in such a short time,” Merkel said Wednesday, reflecting on the original lockdown proposal. “Too many questions, from missing wages through to the loss of time in factories and facilities, could not be adequately answered in time.”

Health officials in Germany are concerned that this third wave of the pandemic may be the worst yet.

DW:

Speaking at a joint press conference with Health Minister Spahn, Wieler appealed for people to reduce their social contacts over the Easter holidays.

Although 10% of the German population has now received a first dose of the vaccine, the gains from vaccinations are being eaten away by the high infection rate, he said.

Spahn also cautioned that the current trajectory of infections could overwhelm Germany’s hospitals in the next few weeks.

“At the moment, the figures are rising too fast and the variants are making the situation especially dangerous,” he said. “If this continues unchecked, we run the risk of our health system could reach its breaking point in April.”

Germany had more than 21,500 new cases on Friday — 4,000 more cases than were reported daily last week. Since the country has barely emerged from the previous lockdowns, those numbers reflect the futility of locking down an entire nation for a year, making little progress in slowing the spread of the virus.

Merkel will get away with her “apology” in the media, but what do ordinary Germans think? Merkel’s popularity has plummeted during the last year as people get angrier and angrier at a government that seems powerless to do anything about the pandemic.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/03/26/angela-merkel-admits-mistake-in-ordering-easter-lockdown-n1435223