In Vienna’s district of Währing, a ” Heute” magazine reader on Saturday became aware of a man holding a sword in front of the Gersthofer parish.
On Saturday, a Viennese citizen spotted a man who was apparently wielding a sword directly in front of a church at Bischof-Faber-Platz square in Währing at around 6 pm. It is not clear whether this was a real sword or just a toy.
Apparently nobody alerted the police, however. As the police press office confirmed to “Heute”, there were no emergency calls and no deployment of police on this incident. What the man with the sword wanted to intend with his action remains open.
It is perhaps the worst example of teacher violence in a country where other teachers have been fined for only pointing out messy students, but Pascal escaped with a suspended sentence and the case has so far only been described by Samhällsnytt and Nya Tider. Photo: screenshot The Green Party’s website / Private
In May last year, students at Samskolan in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, were shocked when a black teacher assaulted a student, hitting him in the face and according to several witnesses even strangled him when he was on the ground. The teacher, from Africa, was a member of the municipal council for the Green Party as well as a candidate for the EU election in 2014.
The court’s verdict has now been handed down: The politician Pascal Mafall Fall, only received a suspended sentence because the district court believes that he may have received “hate and threats” from the student after the incident and that he had been “provoked” – but the only source for these claims, is the black politician himself.
In May last year, John, who was in eighth grade, ended up in a discussion with 52-year-old Pascal Mafall Fall, a teacher of English and French at the school. Pascal wanted to give an E, the second lowest grade, to some students who had not handed in an assignment on time. John, one of these students, objected that it was unfair because it only affected a few students that Pascal himself had selected – those who were not selected had the chance of a higher grade even if they did not pass. There was a discussion and Pascal Mafall Fall finally erupted.
“He said ‘fuck off’ and asked me to leave the classroom. I said ‘I’ll leave then, you idiot’ and walked out of the classroom, John told Swedish daily Nya Tider.
“Then I turn around, because I hear him screaming at me, and he comes running towards me when I’m on my way out. He grabs my collar and pushes me up, his knuckles pressing against my throat so I can not breathe properly.”
According to John and his classmate Lisa, Fall lifted John off the ground so that his feet no longer touched the floor. John desperately tried to break free and eventually pushed the teacher, making him even more furious.
The African then continued to assault the teenager, throwing him down “so that I hit the back of my head against the stone floor”. The black teacher did not stop there: “Then he sits on me and strangles me, in what for me felt like an eternity. I thought I was going to die,” John added.
Two girls then arrived to witness the scene of extreme violence. They told the police during the interrogation: “John was lying on the ground and Pascal was sitting on him, and the closer I get I see that John is red in the face. As a pure reflex, I threw my books on the floor and ran forward and shouted ‘What are you doing? What are you doing?’ to Pascal and then I pushed him away. He was closing both his hands with pressure around his [John’s] throat, he [John] was red in the face. Had no one been there, I think John would have lost consciousness.”
Finally, another teacher arrived and escorted Fall to a classroom. During a medical examination, it was found that John had suffered a substantial nasal injury, several scratches on the face, bruise marks around his neck and a slight concussion. “The patient has been subjected to abuse and has sustained injuries that indicate quite severe violence,” the medical record stated.
Pascal Mafall Fall comes from Senegal, moved to Sweden in 1996 and has obtained Swedish citizenship. At the time of the assault, he was not only a teacher at the school but also a politician for the Green Party, a member of Nacka City Council and in the municipality’s leisure committee.
In 2014, he was on the Green Party’s EU list to advance “climate policy, migration and job creation”. In a now deleted article on the party’s website, he explained that he was worried about “xenophobic parties” who want to “close the EU to the outside world”.
In a picture on the Green Party’s website, Pascal Mafall Fall appeared in a conversation with the current Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin. “Pascal Mafall Fall and Isabella Lövin talk about green policies.” Even that image has now been removed.
Sidney Holm, opposition councilor for the Green Party in Saltsjöbaden, was interviewed by the online newspaper Samhällsnytt last year after the assault. He then said that Pascal Mafall Fall would retain his seat on the municipal council pending a message from the police, but that he would not be allowed to attend meetings while the investigation was ongoing.
When Nya Tider contacted Holm recently, he said that the party would now exclude Pascal Mafall Fall.
From the outset, Fall seemed to have decided to lie about everything and portray himself as innocent. Shortly after the assault, he accused John of attacking him on Facebook.
“I quit the co-educational school because according to the school’s rules, teachers should not react when you are called an ‘idiot Negro’ and beaten by a student. I have learned to ignore racist attacks, which in itself is sad, but I can not ignore assault,” Fall wrote.
The witness however firmly rejected Fall’s version of the events and said that this had not been the case. She confirmed John’s story – that he called Fall an “idiot” but not a “Negro” and that this was only after Fall got upset and became unreasonable. Fall assaulted John and not the other way around.
During the police interrogation, Fall maintained that he only “held” John and that John then hit him with his fist and that he later, when witnesses testified that he had been strangling John, that in fact he had only “held John’s hands”.
John told Nya Tider that even though he had witnesses on his side, no one at the school supported his version because the school wanted to remain “neutral”. He said: “It felt a bit like they were protecting his [Fall’s] back.”
Fall was not fired but was suspended and was allowed to resign. “It looks good for him, and then he can work at another school.” The school’s deputy principal Max Ljungberg, who is responsible for John’s grade, was the one who had the first conversation with the teenager. He also happened to be the African’s Green Party comrade.
The trial against Pascal Mafall Fall ended with only a suspended sentence for normal assault in the Nacka District Court. The verdict is characterized by a number of peculiar arguments. Fall was not convicted for the strangulation but only for the assault. Even though doctors said the violence had been “quite severe” and that the injuries to his neck were consistent with strangulation, the Nacka District Court ignored these facts.
“Based on what has emerged in the case, it is not possible to completely ignore the fact that Pascal Fall may have acted after a certain form of provocation on John’s part.” It is not clear however whether this refers to John allegedly hitting Fall or the alleged racial slur.
According to the district court, “hatred and threats have emerged both directly against him [Fall] and in various contexts on social media”. But there is nothing in the preliminary investigation report and it is not clear how this could have “emerged”.
One of the witnesses explained to the police: “He [Fall] gets angry very easily. We knew this was going to happen someday, he was like a ticking bomb against some people. Including me.”
Police are investigating after a car sped through a pedestrianised street in the German city of Trier on Tuesday afternoon, a ‘rampage’ that left at least two dead.
Trier police confirmed that two people had died on Tuesday, with reports suggesting 10 others injured, including a child. Local news reported that the number of dead was actually four, and that the child mentioned in other reports was among the dead, and named the number of injured at 30.German source Die Weltreports eyewitnesses who said “that people were thrown through the air” as a car drove into a pedestrianised shopping area at speed.
Police subsequently arrested a 51-year-old German citizen and are investigating the circumstances around the incident, and whether there was any motive. The emergency service response to the deaths is so large, ambulances have come from over the nearby Luxembourgian border to assist.
Die Welt cited the remarks of Trier’s mayor who said Tuesday’s deaths were due to a “rampage”, and what had been left behind by the SUV-type car driving through the pedestrian area was a “picture of horror”.As is now customary in the aftermath of incidents that share similarities with previous terror attacks, German citizens have been asked by the government to not share speculation and rumours on the internet, Deutsche Welle reports. Indeed, the fact that two were killed in Trier today, the first day of December, near the city market, and surrounded by Christmas lights, will inevitably draw a comparison to the Berlin Christmas Market Attack, although police have indicated no extremist link today.
His last date was his death sentence: On the gay dating platform “Planet Romeo”, the almost blind and disabled ex-cook Helmut K. (†50) from Kaufbeuren made an appointment with the user “wandalalaland” on March the 14th at 4.30 pm.
At 9.01 pm the heavy metal fan was bound and gagged in his bedroom, which is located above the well-known Escape-Room “Countdown”.He was so severely gagged that he choked to death by his dental prosthesis.The man whom the public prosecutor Andreas Slach suspects of being “wandalalaland” is now in the dock at Kempten Regional Court: Karam A. (29 years old) has lived as a model refugee in Kaufbeuren since 2015, but according to investigators, he has already killed people in his home country, Syria.But before he testified himself, he first insulted the reporter from that newspaper BILD: “Stop taking photographs of me, you are not allowed to do that. If my face becomes known in my homeland, my mother and siblings are in danger of death!”Together with Hazem K. (†21), A. is said to have plotted the murder that cost the life of Helmut K., who was in need of care and suffering from heart disease. Hazem K. knew from the neighbourhood that the person who had retired early was hoarding 8000 Euros in cash in his flat.Hazem K. chatted for the handicapped man also with potential sex partners – and is said to have had the idea for the robbery using a fake account. When interrogated by the police he confessed everything, incriminated his accomplice Karam A. severely, but then hanged himself in his cell in August.Now Karam A. is the only one in the dock for murder – and blames the dead buddy: “He fooled the police, religion and his lawyer. I don’t even know the man and I wasn’t in the flat.Now Karam A. is the only one in the dock for murder – and blames the dead buddy: “He fooled the police, religion and his lawyer. I don’t even know the man and I wasn’t in the flat. He forced me to chat with him, but then went to him all alone.”
But then how does the accused explain his DNA on the restraints and on a cupboard from which 3500 euros were stolen? Karam A. says: “Hassem K. took my cotton gloves and kitchen towel to gag him and then came back downstairs with a suitcase. He said the man died.”
In a dramatic way he tried to convince the judge of his innocence: “Ladies and gentlemen, there are many things in life that are incredible, so it is not impossible. Judge Christoph Schwiebacher ended this bizarre performance: “Don’t tell stories, stop the show!”.The computer traces also speak for themselves: the account “wandalalaland”, which was deleted on the day of the crime, led to the IP address of Hazem K. His mobile phone number and that of Karam A. were logged in at the scene of the crime.
And A., who was chronically out of pocket, went shopping for perfume for 180 euros in Munich two days after the murder, and even had 600 euros from the loot at the time of his arrest. A witness whose mobile phone Karam A. used to call the victim at 8.18 pm on the evening of the crime and confirm the sex date also recognised him in the courtroom on Monday.
He is now threatened with life imprisonment. His little brother Mohamad A. (23 years old) is also accused of complicity and receiving stolen goods – he hid parts of the booty under the cooker of a sandwich maker. A verdict is expected on December the 3rd.
Nearly two years after a number of attacks on high-speed ICE trains in Germany, the trial of the 44-year-old suspect and his wife began in Austria under strict security measures. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the accused, who is of Iraqi origin and a member of the terrorist militia IS, allegedly tried to derail a total of four trains in 2018. Material damage was caused and nobody was injured.
The couple are accused of multiple attempted murder as a terrorist attack, serious damage to property as a terrorist attack and membership of a terrorist organisation. The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge of serious damage to property. However, he did not wish to be considered a terrorist on behalf of the IS. The Iraqi has been living in Austria with refugee status since 2013.
According to the defence lawyer, his client had not acted with intent to kill, but only to attract attention. In contrast, the prosecutor said: “They wanted to commit attacks in the name of the IS, to cause the greatest possible damage to property, the greatest possible harm to persons”.
According to the prosecution, the man was targeting the ICE line between Nuremberg and Munich in three cases. Near Allersberg he had attacked the trains with a beam construction, with wooden chocks and later with a steel cable stretched over the tracks. In addition, in December 2018 he is said to have thrown a rope with claw hooks onto the overhead line at an suburban railway station in Berlin in order to derail a train.
Roland Fürst, the Social Democratic Party’s (SPÖ) regional manager for the federal state of Burgenland, criticises his own party for its stance in the debate on Islamism.”I have always wondered about the ignorance within the SPÖ towards the advocates of political Islam. For me, as a left-wing and rational social democrat, this was completely incomprehensible and not compatible with the values of the Social Democrats,” says Fürst to the newspaper “Presse”.
For him, criticism of Islamism is not “anti-migrant”, because it is a criticism of a “fascist ideology”. He now wanted to make an appeal to the “enlightened left”, said Fürst.
The increasing accusations of “Islamophobia” have already had an effect on this side. Even cabaret artists today would think twice before mentioning Islam or the Prophet Mohammed.But it is not acceptable that the exponents of political Islam manage to immunise society against criticism of religion. This could also be done by means of pressure groups at the universities, says Fürst, who himself taught at a university of applied sciences for a long time.The fact that the SPÖ voted in parliament in 2019 against the dissolution of the Islamist associations Atib and Milli Görüs had upset him. “Social democracy must decide internationally and nationally to make a clear commitment to the fight against political Islam.But Fürst concedes that there is already a greater understanding of the problem within social democracy. “There is now a more open discussion.” Now there is also criticism of those who used to label others – like him – simply as critics of Islam who exaggerate.
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