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

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte admitted on Monday that a hospital in northern Italy “did not follow protocol” and has thus contributed to the spread of the coronavirus in the nation.

“It is clear that there has been an outbreak and it has spread from there,” said Prime Minister Conte of the Italian hospital in question, according to a report by Corriere della Sera.

“It is known that there has been management at the hospital that was not entirely proper according to prudent protocols that are recommended in these cases, and this has certainly contributed to the spread,” added the Italian prime minister. “But beyond that, we continue with the utmost caution and rigor.”

The report did not confirm which hospital it was but said that it is likely in Codogno, Lombardy. Lombardy is one of the most heavily affected Italian regions with regards to the coronavirus outbreak, as there are 212 confirmed cases in the region.

Conte has asked the presidents of all Italian regions – even those not affected by the coronavirus – not to act without first consulting with Rome, the nation’s capital.

“It was actually the regions that made the decisions to be proactive, and to adapt to the difficulties of the moment by giving a response of superior efficiency,” said the president of Italy’s Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, who reportedly clashed with Prime Minister Conte over the issue.

Fontana also said that Rome did not listen to presidents of the Italian regions after some had suggested “about a month ago” that it might be necessary to take extra precautions due to the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

The president of the Liguria region, Giovanni Toti, agreed, suggesting that if anyone has been inattentive with regards to the coronavirus, it has not been the leaders of the Italian regions.

“If anything, some response and initiative has been lacking on the part of the government,” said Toti of Rome.

Italian officials have put parts of the Lombardy and Veneto regions on lock-down and estimate that about 100,000 people are affected by travel restrictions across the regions.

Italy has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in Europe. As of Tuesday, the Italian civil protection agency reported that the number of confirmed cases is now at 283. The number was at 229 on Monday. Seven people have died from the coronavirus in Italy.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/25/italian-pm-conte-hospital-negligence-helped-coronavirus-spread/

Reports are that the German government is doing everything in its power to make sure this video is not seen. While Turkish language videos are up, German and English ones are disappearing from social media apparently.

The Tweet below is from a known German financial consultant, a managing director of Goetzpartners. 

Dr. Markus Krall, is a German economist, risk manager, management consultant, author and lecturer on monetary policy issues. Since September 2019, Krall has been a member of the board and spokesman of the management of Degussa Goldhandel GmbH. He represents an ordoliberal concept of the economy and is close to the Austrian School.

(I believe the Austrian School is Hayek. I wait to be corrected)

Exact translation of Krall Tweet: My wife, who was born in Turkey, translated this video for me. This witness clearly says: “We are being lied to. It was more that one perpetrator in Hanau. It was NOT the person, that is presented to us as the perpetrator on television.”

(The segment where he says we are being lied to, is not in the first 2 minutes which we did)

According to MissPiggy, several people who posted translations of this video have had their entire German twitter accounts suspended.

Special thanks to RAIR Foundation and Luke Montgomery for the translation.

vladtepesblog.com/2020/02/25/was-the-mass-shooting-at-midnight-shisha-bar-yet-another-german-false-flag/

Gruesome conclusion to a difficult marriage. At dawn, a man is said to have killed a mother of four.

Around 6.30 a.m. on Monday, the man (41 years old) himself had dialled the emergency call. The fire department’s control center immediately called the police, and patrol cars and paramedics rushed to the apartment building in downtown Dortmund. In the apartment the worst fears were confirmed: For the young woman (30 years old) any kind of help came too late. Prosecutor Henner Kruse: “According to initial investigations, she died by violence against the neck. The exact cause of death will be determined in an autopsy on Tuesday.” Due to the death of the mother, four children (2 to 7 years old) of the Iraqi couple become half-orphans. According to the information in the newspaper BILD, the siblings were in the apartment at the time of the crime, but were probably in the children’s room. The youth welfare office took the children into care. Apparently the murdered mother had only recently broke free from her failed marriage. Several domestic violence cases are currently pending against her husband. The victim had sought temporary protection from her husband at a women’s shelter. After that, the woman and her children moved into an apartment of their own.

Neighbour Romina N. (25 years old): “For four weeks her husband had also been living there. There was always fighting, one could hear the loud screams of the two throughout the house.” What was the trigger for the deadly escalation on Monday morning is unclear.

The suspect has been arrested and is scheduled to appear before the magistrate on Tuesday.

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/dortmund-vierfach-mutter-30-getoetet-ehemann-41-festgenommen-69005008.bild.html?fbclid=IwAR1yIRhURAwdJUNKyn-RiUVMbIKaHm2xxn1dy9N76E0PcfHfnEQ4dzjXXZc

The German federal government is slated to again allow an Iranian regime-sponsored demonstration calling for the obliteration of Israel’s nearly 7 million Jews to take place in the heart of Berlin.German Jews and politicians urged the Berlin authorities to pull the plug on the scheduled May Al Quds Day protest against the existence of Israel.

“A deeply divisive and inhuman demonstration. We must not let this mindset take public space away from us,” the Free Democratic Party politician Sebastian Czaja told the B.Z. paper.The Jerusalem Postreported on Sunday that the “Classic Days” auto show in Berlin’s main shopping district was cancelled because,according to the B.Z., “the anti-Jewish Al-Quds day demonstration was permitted by the authorities at the same time.”Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini–the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran–launched Quds Day in 1979,calling for the destruction of Israel. Al-Quds is the Arabic word for Jerusalem. The Berlin Quds Day demonstration has been held each year since 1996.The Al Quds Day rally attracts members of the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Neo-Nazis have also participated in the demonstration, where salutes to Hitler have been documented, according to the B.Z.Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Post that “Berlin leaders should spare us crocodile tears when spate of anti-Jewish attacks continue. They accurately tally anti-Semitic incidents while abetting Jew hatred and Holocaust deniers. Despicable. Mocks the dead and endangers living Jews.”

Kai Wegner (47), the state chairman of the Christian Democratic Union party in Berlin, told the B.Z., that”I have no understanding that the ‘Classic Days, a favorite of the public, is being replaced by a hate demonstration.”He added that “the Quds Demonstration should be prohibited. A march of fanatical enemies of Israel who openly express their antisemitism does not fit into the heart of our cosmopolitan and tolerant city. ”Berlin’s mayor Michael Müller has claimed that  legal action to  stop the Al Quds Day would not meet the courts criteria for a ban. There are doubts as to whether Müller’s contention is true because the law has not been tested.Dr. Elio Adler, the chairman of the German-Jewish organization, Values  Initiative, told the Berlin paper: “If the antisemites use the loopholes of the rule of law without being disturbed, then we have to clarify in the same detail how they can be stopped in the future.”US officials, including the acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, who is also the American ambassador to Germany, have urged Merkel’s administration to ban the entire terrorist entity Hezbollah—a main force behind the Al Qud Day in the federal republic.Merkel and her Christian Union Party interior miniser Horst Seehofer have opted to not crackdown on Hezbollah to the frustration of Geman Jews and counter-terrorism experts.German intelligence agencies have stated there are 1,050 Hezbollah operative in Germany. The Hezbollah members and supporters raise funds for Hezbollah in Lebanon, and recruit new members.The Al Quds Day is also a stronghold of supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel. In May, Germany’s Bundestag defined BDS as antisemitic.The Post sent press queries to Dr. Felix Klein, the federal commissioner for combating antisemitism, and Berlin’s commissioner Lorenz Korgel. Klein has refused to call for a full ban of Hezbollah, an organization that has murdered Jews and Iranian dissidents in Europe.Rabbi Cooper told the Post that “Of course there should be a chorus of German officials at all level of governments led by Dr Klein calling for the permanent banning of Al Quds this year and forever.”

Cooper added that Klein and Berlin’s commissioner, and the next Berlin Mayor, as well the state secretary of Berlin’s intelligence “should demand action” for a ban of Hezbollah.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Merkel-again-permits-Iranian-protest-calling-for-Israels-destruction-618676