Strict measures to contain the Coronavirus have been imposed in Hong Kong. Since the global spread of the virus began, 11 836 Coronavirus infections and 210 deaths believed to be related to an infection have been reported.

Of the 3,3 million BioNTech vaccine doses that have been shipped to Hong Kong, only 1,2 million doses have been used so far. The plan was to vaccinate 6,5 million people with BioNTech and the Chinese vaccine Sinovac. The number of new infections, however, seems to be so insignificant to Hong Kong residents that only 19 percent have been vaccinated so far.

Only 14 percent of the population are fully vaccinated. One positive Coronavirus case is currently reported per day. In addition, the citizens of Hong Kong seem to be particularly skeptical about the vaccination of the Chinese preparation. The two million vaccine doses stored will expire in mid-August.

Hong Kong Vaccination Commission member Thomas Tsang pointed to other countries like India where much-needed vaccine is missing while Hong Kong vaccines are lapsing: “After the expiration date, they can no longer be used, and the vaccination centers for BioNTech will cease operations from the end of September according to the initial plan.”

In order to make a vaccination palatable to Hong Kong inhabitants, public employees are to be given additional days off if they are vaccinated against the Coronavirus. The idea of a monetary incentive or vouchers was dismissed the head of government, Carrie Lam. In their opinion, this could have the opposite effect.

There is also widespread skepticism about vaccinations among health workers in the special economic zone. Earlier this month, the hospital authorities said that only a third of hospital staff had been vaccinated. The next step is to vaccinate refugees and asylum seekers.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/05/28/vaccine-sceptics-hong-kong-has-millions-of-unused-biontech-vaccine-doses/

They can’t read, have no understanding of language or traffic signs, but still want to drive.

No problem: these men did the testing for cash!

On Tuesday, the trial about the big driving licence scam started at the Regional Court of Hanover.

The defendants: German-Iraqi Kamal B. (28) from Lehrte and Tahssim K. (26) from Peine.

The duo cashed up to 2,000 euros per person for their service, which was mainly used by Kurdish refugees from Syria and Iraq. For the theoretical exams, they sent similar-looking substitutes who completed the 30 tasks on the monitor.

According to the indictment, the swindlers had collected at least 42 800 euros from customers in 72 cases.

The scam was uncovered in summer 2018 at the Technical Inspection Agency headquarters in the Döhren district of the city. Inspectors suspected cheating and informed the police. A plainclothes officer happened to spot Tahssim K. in the middle of a test scam – he was arrested.

After analysing his mobile phone chats, the police found out about the nationwide fraud network (e.g. in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg).

In court, the accused (previously convicted of driving without a licence) largely confessed to the offences. Unjustly obtained licences were seized from the customers in the meantime.

The public prosecutor’s office intends to confiscate the amounts from Kamal B. and Tahssim K.. Money is available for this:

In order to get out of custody, both had paid 15,000 euros each as bail.

Verdict on June 1.

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The Islam map presented by Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) in Vienna on Thursday also provided “‘ political dynamite” for the debate in the provincial parliament on the measures to be taken against the tendencies of religiously motivated extremism in Upper Austria.

For Upper Austrian People’s Party (OÖVP) regional manager Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer and FPÖ club chairman Herwig Mahr, the annotations to the map – which lists more than 600 institutions of Muslim organisations and religious communities – “clearly show the potential danger posed by extremist Islamic structures that are hostile to integration”.

For example, there are Islamic associations “that see integration as a danger, that warn against participating in the everyday customs common in Upper Austria, that advise against education at an Austrian university, that continue to advocate state-Turkish training for imams working in this country, or that generally want to create a fault line with our Western values”, according to Mahr and Hattmannsdorfer, the “central pointers” in the study. It is all the more important to recognise these dangers and to take decisive countermeasures for the sake of integration.

“The results of the study strengthen our demands for consistent steps in the fight against the agitation of political Islam,” said the two MPs. In Upper Austria we do not want “social coexistence and certainly not against each other, but peaceful coexistence” – which is why the status of the consultations on the package of measures against Islamism is “only an intermediate stop and not the final destination”, Hattmannsdorfer and Mahr emphasised.

They are not dissatisfied with the interim conclusion of the sub-committee, which has now been submitted to the Upper Austrian Parliament, as 13 of the 26 measures proposed by the Integration Department in the fight against Islamism and radicalisation are being implemented or are outside the responsibility of the Upper Austrian government. Ultimately, eight of the 26 proposals for measures still had to be implemented.

The guiding principle for integration, which has been in place since 2018, must be the pivotal point “for all integration policy measures and for the allocation of integration funding”. According to Hattmannsdorfer and Mahr, the clear mandate for the Integration Office is to “set priorities in the fight against political Islam”.

This must include, in particular, an evaluation of associations and groups, a deliberate strengthening of liberal groups, a focus on stopping radical platforms on the internet and the training of migrants in the critical use of internet platforms, the two emphasise.

https://volksblatt.at/karte-zeigt-gefaehrdungspotenzial/

A new poll has revealed that 71 percent French people believe the country has taken in enough immigrants and that it cannot take any more.

The 2021 Fraternity Barometer, carried out by the international polling and market research firm Ifop along with le Labo de la Fraternité, revealed that nearly three in four respondents believe that France has taken in enough migrants and do not wish for any more to be admitted into the country.

The poll also revealed that 64 percent of French men and women think the country should no longer accept asylum seekers because they’re contributing to the growing threat of terrorism.

In the recent past, several deadly terrorist attacks committed by individuals who had been allowed into the country as so-called “refugees” have been carried out against the French people. Following the gruesome beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty last fall, it was later revealed that the Chechen perpetrator, Abudllah Anzorov, along with his family, had been admitted to France as asylum seekers after their request for refugee status in Poland was rejected.

While speaking to journalists from the French newspaper Le Parisien about the survey’s results, Eric Thugez, the spokesperson for the Labo de la Fraternité, noted that: “The study reflects a rather stiff general discourse vis-à-vis the migratory phenomenon, while this is the first year that we have tested this subject.”

François Legrand, who works as a research and projector manager at Ifop, said that despite the French public being open on an individual level, they’re still skeptical about the benefits of immigration when it’s examined at a national level.

Although 85 percent of the survey’s respondents reported that diversity was a “good thing”, 74 percent admitted that diversity gives rise to social problems.

This latest Ifop survey comes weeks after Harris Interactive published a poll which revealed that nearly half (49 percent) of the French public said that they would support military intervention to “restore order” to the country.

Earlier this month, to the surprise of many, Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former chief Brexit negotiator and a top figure in the liberal-conservative Republican Party, proposed that France halt all immigration from outside of the EU for three to five years.

“There is a risk of an explosion, particularly on the topic of immigration. We need to introduce a moratorium on immigration. We need to take time to evaluate, check, and if necessary, change our immigration policies,” Barnier said during an RTL broadcast.

“There are links between [immigration flows] and terrorist networks which try to infiltrate them,” the 70-year-old moderate politician added.

Although there’s been some speculation that Barnier could run for the French presidency next year, the latest polls clearly show Marine Le Pen — the leader of the populist National Rally party — as the candidate who is mostly likely to face off against incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in the France’s 2022 presidential election.

In March, a survey conducted by French cable channel BMFTV showed that nearly half of the French public believe that Marine Le Pen’s victory over Macron in the country’s upcoming presidential election is “probable”, as Remix News has previously reported.

Poll reveals 71% of French public think country has had enough immigration

In Magdeburg on Wednesday, there was an anti-Semitic attack on a 22-year-old man wearing a kippa. According to the police, the man, who comes from Iran, was attacked by an Arab-looking man and slightly injured. The accused punched the 22-year-old several times in the face and against the neck and tried to take away his kippa.

When a witness approached, the attacker let go of the 22-year-old and left. The attacker was accompanied by three to four people, the police said.

All four to five persons, aged between 18 and 25 years, were being searched for. Witnesses to the incident were asked to contact the Magdeburg police.

https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article231392891/Magdeburg-Antisemitischer-Angriff-auf-Kippa-Traeger.html

At the weekend, hundreds of Arabs partied in Dresden’s Neustadt district – the police did not intervene. The same police officers who beat up pensioners and families, who report every mask violation and break up peaceful walks, cower when the target is not the indigenous population of Saxony but “new citizens”. There is no better way to express how great the contempt for one’s own people is.

And while politics is outdoing itself in the outrage following the victory party of the Dynamo Dresden football club – which was peaceful until the police escalation – there is not a single word to be heard about the Arab party in the Neustadt district. The topic is probably politically incorrect. At the next opportunity, they would rather warn against conspiracy theorists, contrarians, right-wing extremists, reichsbürgern or the like. What is meant here is the ordinary citizen.

https://politikstube.com/hunderte-araber-feiern-wilde-party-in-der-dresdner-neustadt-polizei-schaut-zu/

Following a fatal fire in a shelter for asylum seekers in Kronach in Bavaria, the Coburg public prosecutor’s office has issued a warrant for the arrest of a 34-year-old resident of the shelter.

Accordingly, investigators assume that the man intentionally set the serious fire, as a spokesperson of the Upper Franconia police headquarters reported on Tuesday.

A 31-year-old woman and her two-year-old child died in the attack on Sunday evening. The perpetrator and the victims are said to have known each other, according to the police.

According to current information, the man had first gained access to the woman’s flat via the balcony and attacked her and her young daughter several times with a knife.

He then allegedly set the fire.

In the process, the man himself suffered life-threatening burn injuries – on Tuesday afternoon, he was still in a critical state of health in hospital, according to the police.

A post-mortem examination has now revealed that the child had already been fatally injured by the knife wounds. “The 31-year-old woman also suffered a fatal stab wound and died after the fire broke out,” the police added.

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Nadia B. joined the terrorist militia IS with her three-year-old child in 2014. Now the trial against the mother begins, who did not care about the emotional anguish of her daughter.

The girl is nine years old today. These nine years will probably ruin her entire life. What little Amina (name altered) has gone through as the daughter of a fanatical Islamist seems inconceivable. And yet, from this Thursday on, it will be a matter of public record. The mother, Nadia B., has to answer to the State Protection Senate of the Court of Appeal. In addition to being a member of a terrorist organisation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses her, among other things, of massively violating her duty of care.

The 41-year-old woman had travelled with her child from Berlin to the war region of Syria-Iraq in December 2014 to join the terrorist militia “Islamic State”. Even the child’s father Wael C., also a Salafist and classified as a dangerous person in Berlin, did not want this. But Nadia B., according to research by the daily Tagesspiegel, was unstoppable in her delusion of holy war. Of the many shocking stories that are known about Germans in the IS, this is one of the worst.

Amina was three years old when Nadia B. went to war with her. The mother had radicalised herself in the Berlin Salafist scene. Nadia B. had moved from Hesse to Berlin in 2008, became friends with a Salafist and converted to Islam. The fanaticisation apparently increased due to the influence of her friends. Until she left for the IS, Nadia B. married several extremists according to Islamic law. The fate of the little daughter, born in November 2011, was apparently secondary for the mother. And Amina had to join the IS, although the dangers were known.

The terrorist militia had overrun parts of Syria and Iraq in the summer of 2014. The Islamists perpetrated massacres and established a regime of terror. The women and children of the ethnic religious minority of the Yazidis who were captured in the campaign were enslaved, and opponents had their heads cut off. Nadia B. will have known all this when she arrived at the IS with her daughter. But the woman was enthusiastic.

Shortly after joining the terrorist militia, Nadia B. married again, this time to the fighter Ahmed C. When he had to go to the front and was injured, Nadia B. pretended to be a widow and joined forces with another IS man. But it turned out that Ahmed was still alive. The terrorist militia punished Nadia B. with lashes. However, the woman was allowed to stay with the IS and joined forces with Ahmed C. again.

Little Amina not only had to endure the stress of her mother consorting with changing fanatical men and getting into trouble with the terrorist militia. The anxiety got worse when Amina went to a school in Rakka, Syria, the unofficial capital of IS. Not only did the children have to deal with the Koran, the teachers also described the IS’s system of punishment. Right up to the cutting off of heads.

Nadia B. became a mother again in Rakka. She had two sons; their father was Ahmed C. When the air attacks on the city increased, the family left for the northern Syrian province of Idlib in 2017. In addition to IS, jihadist militias with links to Al-Qaeda are still active in the region today. Fighter jets of Syria’s dictator Bashar al Assad and the Russians, who are allied with him, repeatedly fly attacks. Ahmad C. died in a bombing raid in May 2017, in front of his stepdaughter Amina. The child also saw one of her little half-brothers injured.

Nadia B. married again, this time also according to Islamic law. The new husband, also an IS fighter, raped the wife. For daughter Amina, there was no end to the fear. In September 2018, Nadia B. left for Turkey with her children. In March 2019, the three little ones flew to Frankfurt on the Main with an acquaintance of Nadia B.. The Youth Welfare Office took the children into care. Nadia B. also returned to Germany shortly afterwards. And had her fourth child. The Frankfurt Youth Welfare Office took it away from her in August 2020. On the day Nadia B. was arrested.

In the indictment, the Attorney General’s Office also accuses the woman of having possessed an assault rifle while belonging to IS. And Nadia B. is said to have continued to receive money from the job centre and the family fund after leaving for the IS, altogether more than 8,000 euros. The worst damage, however, was done to the souls of the children, especially Amina. The daughter is considered highly traumatised. It is doubtful that the child will ever recover from the years of horror for which the mother is largely responsible.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/islamistin-setzte-kleinkind-dem-dschihad-aus-tochter-nach-jahrelangem-schrecken-hochgradig-traumatisiert/27224252.html

According to crime statistics, 4468 people became victims of a sexual offence in Berlin last year. This is a slight increase compared to 2019 (4438 victims) and a significant increase compared to 2018 (4040 victims).

In 2020, the police registered three places in the capital in particular where assaults were particularly frequent. This is the result of a comprehensive answer to a parliamentary question by MP Marcel Luthe (Freie Wähler). The newspaper WELT has access to the report in advance.

According to the police, most sexual offences in Berlin were registered on Alexanderplatz square. There, 146 offences were committed, followed by Wedding Zentrum district with 86 reported offences and Tempelhof district with 85 offences. Alexanderplatz is considered a crime-ridden location in Berlin. It has its own police station and public prosecutor.

Last year, 3121 suspects were identified for sexual offences. 94.9 per cent were male, 35.8 per cent did not have German citizenship, not counting migrants who had already been naturalised, according to the police. The proportion of suspects under 21 years of age was 23.6 per cent. 610 of the total of 4468 persons who were victims of a sexual offence suffered physical injuries. Of these, 16 were seriously injured and one fatally, according to the statistics.

The most significant increase in the statistics for victims of sexual offences so far was from 2016 (2669 victims) to 2017 (3654 victims). At that time, the legal situation changed. At the end of 2016, Germany’s sexual criminal law was tightened. The offence of sexual harassment was added. Since then, it is no longer only forced sex with violence or the threat of violence that is punishable. Instead, it is sufficient for the perpetrator to disregard the “recognisable will” of the victim. In this case, the offender can be sentenced to up to five years’ imprisonment.

Luthe told the newspaper WELT: “While petty crimes are decreasing in Berlin, the so-called crimes against victims, which cannot be ignored, have continued to increase. Luthe calls for rape victims in particular to be placed at the centre of police action and sharply attacks the Red-Red-Green Senate. “Protecting citizens from violence and securing their freedom is the central core task of the state, which Berlin is obviously not fulfilling,” Luthe added.

A total of 84,270 people became victims of crime in Berlin last year – also an all-time high. In the previous year, there were 82,954 people. Among them were 31,833 women and 52,437 men. Even if a person became a victim of a crime more than once, this was included in the statistics as a single case in an individual case. However, there are no statistics on how many “multiple victims” there are. The largest group is made up of 21 to 60 year olds with 62,874 persons.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article231348135/Berlin-Die-meisten-Sexualdelikte-passieren-auf-dem-Alexanderplatz.html