Austrians are increasingly dissatisfied with the way the government is handling the epidemic, according to a survey commissioned by the Paul Lazarsfeld Society.

While at the time of the first wave of the coronavirus, last spring, 78 percent of those surveyed believed that Austria was better at managing the crisis than other countries, that proportion has now fallen to 7 percent. When asked whether Austria is worse off than other states, 30 percent of respondents said yes, up from 3 percent last year.

Dissatisfaction is also reflected in the support of the ruling parties. In April last year, the popularity of the right-wing Austrian People’s Party, led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, reached 48 percent, and in the same survey, 16 percent had the support of its governing partner, the Greens. This ratio has shrunk to 37 and eight, respectively, according to the latest poll.

Since the introduction of curfew restrictions in December, the Vienna government has managed to significantly reduce the number of new infections per day, which approached tens of thousands in mid-November, but which has not risen to over 2,000 in the past month.

The figures are, however, rising again. On Sunday 1,838 new cases of coronavirus were registered in the country. The six-week full closure ended two weeks ago with the reopening of shops selling non-essential necessities and hairdressers and beauticians, but stricter epidemiological measures came into force. It is now mandatory to wear the more effective FFP2 masks, to maintain a two-meter social distancing, to provide 20-square meters of space for each customer compared to the previous 10-square meters, and to show mandatory negative test results for services requiring physical contact. Restrictions related to entering the country have also been tightened.

“Further easing of restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is likely to take place only around Easter,” Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said last week, pointing out that the long-awaited March opening of restaurants and hotels should be postponed to keep the epidemic under control. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober also drew attention over the weekend when he said that even though the vaccine seems to be effective and the number of infected people is declining, care must be taken because of new mutations in the coronavirus.

With its strict closure last spring, Austria was the example to follow, but since then, the opening and closing of the country have swung back and forth. Now, the government promises to ease the restrictions, return life to normal, and is promising light at the end of the tunnel. However, the tunnel looks longer than the government had originally hoped, virologist Gerald Gartlehner said, referring to Kurz’s August statement who told Kurier newspper that he saw “the light at the end of the tunnel” in regards to the crisis.

https://rmx.news/article/article/austrians-increasingly-dissatisfied-with-cabinet-s-coronavirus-measures-poll

It sounds like a joke, but according to research by FOCUS Online it is true: 24-year-old Iraqi Farhad A., who was involved in the fatal knife attack in Chemnitz in August 2018 and has been wanted worldwide ever since, will soon be the subject of a court case in Germany – as the alleged victim!

As FOCUS Online has learned from judicial circles, a trial will start on March the 3rd at Leipzig District Court concerning alleged bodily harm against Farhad A. (Ref.: 216 Cs Js 48913/18). The accused is the employee of a dance club in Leipzig who singles out guests in the entrance area.

The crime allegedly took place on June the 17th 2018, about two months before the fatal knife attack in Chemnitz, in which the 35-year-old German Daniel H. had died on August the 25th. Farhad A. is said to have been one of the two stabbers. Shortly after the attack, he had fled Germany. Until today, the international search for him remained unsuccessful. The second perpetrator, a Syrian, has already been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.

According to FOCUS Online, the current trial at Leipzig District Court is about an incident in front of the Leipzig nightclub “L1”. The location in the city centre is considered a party hotspot with a large dance floor and elegant lounge bar. The 1.5-litre bottle of champagne costs 3300 euros here, the half-litre of gin 140 euros. So the similarity in name to Munich’s posh club “P1” is no coincidence.

On June the 17th, 2018, the rejected asylum seeker and notorious criminal Farhad A. wanted to visit the club. According to the public prosecutor’s office, a physical altercation with an employee of the “L1” took place in front of the club. The person in question is 38-year-old Michael T., who is now considered the accused. His defence lawyer Frank Hannig from Dresden did not want to comment on the case when asked.

According to FOCUS Online research, Michael T. works as a so-called ” chooser” in front of the entrance to the club. His job is to check the dress code of the guests – “stylish, chic, modern” clothes are desired. He decides who gets in and who doesn’t.

There were obviously problems with Farhad A., which quickly escalated. According to the public prosecutor’s office, club employee Michael T. allegedly hit the Iraqi several times in the face with his hand or fist at around 1.10 a.m.. At least once, the investigators claim, the accused kicked Farhad A., who was lying on the ground. The allegedly injured man was bleeding slightly from the lip and had pain in his right temple, according to the public prosecutor’s office.

In January 2019, the Leipzig District Court issued a penalty order for bodily harm against Michael T. The fine was 2500 euros (50 daily sentences of 50 euros). In addition, there are the costs of the court proceedings. Because the defendant appealed, the main hearing will take place at the beginning of March.

The trial is supposed to clarify what really happened in front of the “L1” on the evening of the crime. In an interview with FOCUS Online, Michael T. vehemently denies the prosecution’s accusations. The 38-year-old says he was insulted, threatened and spat at by Farhad A..

“The man was wearing shorts, had a backpack and a beer bottle in his hand,” Michael T. says. He made this clear to the visibly drunk man using a mixture of German, English and sign language. The man then became aggressive and insulted him – calling him a “shitty German” and a “son of a bitch”. Finally, the guy with the beer bottle in his hand gestured wildly and challenged him to a fight.

“He came very close to me and spat in my face from about 20 centimetres away,” the “L1” employee reports. “I then stretched out my arm and pushed him away. Then he spat at me again, a total of three times”. Again and again the alcoholic provoked him: “Are you a man or what?

Michael T. describes the critical moment: “I grabbed him and pushed him to the ground”. During the scuffle, his opponent “tore his jacket and ripped off the buttons”. In a headlock, he dragged the unruly visitor out of the entrance area of the club.

In an interview with FOCUS Online, the accused Michael T. assures that at no time did he punch the guest in the face or kick him when he was already lying on the floor, as the public prosecutor’s office accuses him of doing. It never even occurred to him at the time that there might be legal repercussions, the accused says.As a ” watchman” it was not his job to get the troublemaker out of the entrance area of the club, but the job of the security guards, says Michael T. But despite repeated requests, they did not support him, which was apparently due to the tense relationship between him and the bouncers. “One of them later claimed to the police that I had hit him,” says Michael T. “But that’s not true.Several witnesses have been summoned for the trial at Leipzig District Court to describe the events of June the 17th 2018 from their point of view. It will be interesting to see what they still know – or think they know – after more than two and a half years. The alleged victim Farhad A. is on the run and logically will not testify in court.A video recording of the fight between Farhad A. and Michael T. could be helpful for the investigation. According to FOCUS Online, a surveillance camera in the entrance area of the club had recorded the scenes. But the recordings, which were not seized by the police at the time, no longer do exist now.The current state of affairs is such that it cannot be ruled out that the German judiciary will rule Michael T. guilty – and thus give the hiding felon Farhad A. a late triumph. The idea that the Iraqi, in some hiding place, will learn of his legal victory and enjoy his victory is more than strange.Farhad A. had arrived in Germany at the beginning of January 2016 via Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and had unsuccessfully applied for asylum. During his two and a half years in Germany, the Iraqi, who had 14 alias identities, committed several offences: dangerous bodily harm, drug trafficking, theft, trespassing, damage to property, insults, threats, resistance against law enforcement officers. Most recently, he stabbed Daniel H., a carpenter, to death in Chemnitz, according to investigators.Acquaintances describe Farhad A. as highly aggressive, erratic, ruthless, emotionless. A police report on the young man available to FOCUS Online says: “He is generally feared because of his appearance”.

https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/blutiger-streit-vor-einem-nachtclub-prozess-um-mutmasslichen-messerstecher-von-chemnitz-jetzt-soll-er-das-opfer-sein_id_13006663.html

Using a knife, a 30-year-old man caused a real bloodbath in a refugee home in Augsburg in April last year. The public prosecutor’s office wants the highest possible sentence, the defence lawyer has a different opinion.The prosecution called for the 30-year-old to be sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. In addition, the public prosecutor demanded a judgement of particularly serious guilt in the trial before the Augsburg Regional Court on Monday, so that the prison sentence could probably not be suspended after only 15 years.

The accused, an Afghan national, had made a partial confession in the trial and admitted to having cut the neck of his 15-year-old brother-in-law.

The man had also injured four other relatives of his wife, who had separated before the crime, with the knife.

However, the accused testified that he had been attacked by the youth.

In his plea, the defence lawyer therefore considered the killing of the 15-year-old as self-defence.

The other offences were to be considered as dangerous bodily harm, there was no intent to kill. The defendant’s lawyer did not demand a particular sentence. The court will give its ruling on March the 2nd.

According to prosecutor Michael Nißl, the accused abused his wife for a decade and treated her like a serf. When the wife separated, he took revenge on his ex-partner’s family.

According to the prosecutor, the man, who had lived in Iran for a long time, in fact came to Germany solely because here only a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years might face him instead of a death sentence. Nißl attested to the man’s “inhuman callousness”.Initially, the 30-year-old was charged with murder and four counts of attempted murder. After the main hearing, however, the prosecutor assessed the knife attacks on the wife’s family members only as murder, attempted murder, attempted manslaughter and in two cases as dangerous bodily harm.

https://www.tag24.de/justiz/gerichtsprozesse-bayern/augsburg-blutbad-in-fluechtlingsheim-kam-angeklagter-nur-nach-deutschland-um-todesstrafe-zu-umgehen-1850233

In the first high phase of the pandemic, the office of Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, influenced researchers. They thereupon provided results for a dramatic “secret paper” issued by the ministry.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior engaged scientists from several research institutes and universities for political purposes in the first wave of the Corona pandemic in March 2020, extensive correspondence, which German weekly Welt am Sonntag had obtained, showed. It commissioned the researchers from the Robert Koch Institute and other institutions to create a calculation model on the basis of which the Ministry of the Interior, Horst Seehofer (CSU), wanted to justify tough Corona measures.

This emerges from more than 200 pages of internal correspondence between the management level of the Ministry of the Interior and the researchers, which Welt am Sonntag has in their possession. A group of lawyers fought to obtain the e-mails in a legal dispute with the Robert Koch Institute that lasted several months.

In an exchange of e-mails, the State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, Markus Kerber, asked the researchers who had been contacted to develop a model on the basis of which “preventive and repressive measures” could be planned.

According to the correspondence, the scientists worked in close coordination with the ministry over the space of just four days to develop content for a paper which had been declared secret, and was then distributed via various media over the following days.

A “worst-case scenario” was calculated according to which more than a million people in Germany could die of the Coronavirus if social life were to continue as it had been before the pandemic.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/23/german-ministry-of-the-interior-hired-scientists-to-justify-corona-measures/

Thanks to our reliance on social media, Big Tech’s robotic moonbat overlords determine what we can say to each other. This is bad news for people who are into chess.

Croatian chess player Antonio Radic (aka Agadmator) had his popular chess videos blocked by Google’s YouTube due to unspecified “harmful and dangerous” content.

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon suspect Radic’s discussion of ‘black vs. white’ with a grandmaster accidentally triggered YouTube’s AI filters.

Running simulations with software trained to detect hate speech, they found more than 80 percent of chess videos flagged for hate speech lacked any—but did include terms like ‘black,’ ‘white,’ ‘attack’ and ‘threat.’

They must have a liberal definition of hate speech. My guess would be that closer to 100% of chess videos lack any hate speech. But as the definition of hate speech expands, it incorporates ever more harmless conversation.

As has been previously determined, chess itself is racist because white goes first.

https://moonbattery.com/big-tech-robotic-moonbat-overlords-censor-chess-videos/

In Berlin, politics and police are reacting to new challenges posed by organised crime ( OK). While Neukölln’s district mayor Martin Hikel ( Social Democratic Party) is calling for a central office to be set up for confiscated real estate, investigators are currently investigating evidence of automatic firearms in the clan milieu, according to information from the newspaper Tagesspiegel.

In addition, the perpetrators of the spectacular robbery on Kurfürstendamm are being wanted: Four masked gunmen robbed the cash transport of a bank there on Friday. A burnt-out getaway car was found in the Berlin district of Schöneberg after the crime.

Regardless of the Ku’damm bank robbery, there is currently much evidence that individual submachine guns, which are subject to the War Weapons Control Act, were bought by the clan, said an official. Possibly, known clan criminals had purchased them in order to prepare for clashes with gangs from Chechnya.

Only on Thursday, 500 police officers – among them elite forces of the GSG 9 – searched 22 locations in Berlin and the surrounding area. Two men aged 22 and 44 were arrested, objects worth 300,000 euros were confiscated.The large-scale raid was targeted, among others, at the Remmo clan, which is known beyond Berlin and whose members were involved in fights with Chechen families in the summer of 2020. They are being investigated for violence, weapons and narcotics offences.In view of the wealth that clans could accumulate, Neukölln’s district mayor Hikel calls for a central agency to deal with confiscated real estate. The occasion is the current debate between the district office, the senate and the public about the villa in the Berlin district of Neukölln seized from the Remmo clan.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/als-vorbereitung-auf-machtkaempfe-mit-tschetschenen-clan-angehoerige-in-berlin-sollen-sich-kriegswaffen-beschafft-haben/26936018.html

An AfD information booth in Schorndorf became a crime scene on Saturday. At around 9:45 am, Landtag candidate Stephan Schwarz was attacked by a mob from the left-wing extremist group Antifa. He was brought to the ground and beaten all over his body with sticks and kicked.

In addition to him, the attack by around 20 left-wing extremists was also directed against the other two information booth helpers, including the AfD member of the Bundestag Jürgen Braun. He was unharmed.

Another helper, who is almost 80 years old, was maltreated with sticks and thrown to the ground. As if by a miracle, he was unharmed. The information booth and material were completely destroyed.

Schwarz is currently in the hospital. It was not the first attack he has had to endure. In the 2019 local elections, he was also the victim of violent attacks by Antifa.

“It then happened very quickly,” Braun told Berlin weekly Junge Freiheit. “They came around the corner, shouted something and rushed towards our booth. That was a division of labour in the sense of organized crime.” The attackers had pulled up banners so that possible witnesses could not see the attack on the street.

“When the injured party, lying on the floor, tried to dial the emergency number with his smartphone, it was said to have been torn from his hands and stolen by a hitherto unknown person,” the police said. The 36-year-old had to be hospitalized with several injuries. “We hope there are no internal injuries. Mr. Schwarz is still in the hospital and will be examined for a longer period of time,” said an AfD member.

“The police were not on site at this time,” Braun said in a disgust. “Agreements were not kept, because the presence of the police was actually discussed.” This has “created a climate of hatred against the AfD” in the city. Schorndorf is “also not a random place” because the left-wing extremist scene, IG Metall and those who are politically responsible all have very close ties.

Officials later temporarily arrested five suspects, ages 18-25. The investigations of the Stuttgart public prosecutor’s office and the Waiblingen criminal police department are ongoing.

On the left-wing extremist platform Indymedia, the act was admitted and compared with a similar attack in Hanau a year ago. An AfD stand in Schorndorf had been “visited” according to the platform, “to make it clear one year after the right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau that right-wing agitation would not be tolerated and that they will be confronted by our protest”. The platform deemed it shocking “how much the nihilistic mantra of ‘free speech’ had etched itself onto the public discourse”. People had “no right to right-wing propaganda”.

There was also an anti-fascist attack on an AfD information booth in Reutlingen on Saturday. The Südwestpresse reported on the attack. Ingo Reetzke, the AfD state parliament candidate for the constituencies of Reutlingen and Tübingen, commented on the incident with a press release.

Numerous left-wing extremists tried on Saturday morning to surround an AfD information stand in downtown Reutlingen. Only through the rigorous intervention of the police could the mob be pushed back and thus was possible violence against the election campaigners prevented.

“It turns out that there are consequences when left-wing extremists are systematically played down by the established parties or even supported with taxpayers’ money. They then feel encouraged to use undemocratic means to disrupt the democratic competition between the parties and thus hinder the citizens’ decision-making process,” said Reetzke.

In this context, it is scandalous that the established parties are not distancing themselves from the criminal violence of the left-wing extremists, even though a corresponding application by the AfD municipal council group was introduced a few weeks ago after a similar attack on an AfD information booth. “If I am elected to the state parliament on March 14, the problem of growing left-wing extremism in the state will be at the top of my priority list,” said Reetzke in conclusion.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/22/antifa-trash-afd-stand-visciously-attack-candidate/