There was no social distancing, but there was plenty of violence on display as Muslim riots continued for a second night.

Rioting broke out in housing estates around Paris as tensions escalated over the coronavirus lockdown.

Footage posted on social media showed protesters hurling projectiles including fireworks, and police responding with tear gas and baton charges. Other videos showed several police cars and bins being set alight.

It followed prosecutors opening an enquiry after a 30-year-old motorcyclist, reportedly from an Arab Muslim background, was critically injured after a collision with an unmarked police car in the suburb.

Residents claimed it was an example of police heavy-handedness against ethnic minority communities during the lockdown.

So much for Safer at Home.

Despite a large police force, “forty individuals” braved the confinement to fight it out, for about two hours, with the police . The police responded to projectile shots with LBD and tear gas. Calm returned around 2 a.m. with no injuries. No arrest was made, said a police source.

“My client is just beginning to realize what has happened, he does not understand that the investigation is directed against him when he is the victim. Inevitably, he fears that it is his word against that of the police, “said Stéphane Gas. A fear reinforced by the fact that the biker is very unfavorably known to the police and justice services. Convicted 14 times, the victim, aged 30, had been under judicial supervision since March 16 for death threats, said the prosecution.

So the usual.

Arab Muslim with extensive criminal record. His buddies converge to riot and face off with the police. Social distancing rules and lockdowns are irrelevant.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/04/muslim-riots-paris-lack-social-distancing-daniel-greenfield/

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz has attacked coronavirus crisis-hit Italy’s Eurobonds demands, leading one German politician to suggest “the EU can fall apart because of this”. Mr Merz, who is considered most likely to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He made the serious allegations against  Giuseppe Conte’s government on Twitter on Sunday sparking a backlash. Mr Merz said Italy, hard hit by the coronavirus crisis, wanted to use the pandemic for its own purposes.

Italy has so far not wanted to accept aid provided by the EU, he wrote in a tweet.

The tweet said: “That shows that Italy has no acute need for financing.

“It tries to find unlimited financing options for its state budget in the slipstream of coronavirus.”

The comments caused outrage in Italy and in Germany.

The Green European politician Reinhard Bütikofer responded and said: “This is as malicious as it is wrong.

“The EU can fall apart because of such lies.”

The general outrage surrounding the tweet led the hashtag “#Merz” to trend on Twitter on Sunday.

Armin Laschet, a competitor in the race for the CDU chair also received criticism for his policy in the coronavirus crisis on Sunday.

Italy faces its most severe crisis since the second world war.

There have been more than 15,000 deaths from coronavirus and its economy on course to suffer the deepest recession in its modern history.

There is a rising feeling among even its pro-European elite that the country is being abandoned by its neighbours.

Carlo Calenda, leader of the pro-European Action party, says members write to him saying: “Why do we want to stay in the EU, it is useless.

“A massive, massive shift is happening in Italy.

“You have thousands of pro-Europeans moving to this position.”

Last month Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s softly-spoken 78-year-old president, and the man its establishment has relied on to safeguard its constitution and international alliances warned the future of Europe was at stake if its institutions did not show solidarity with their country.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1271416/eu-news-coronavirus-eu-split-germany-italy-eurobonds

On Saturday night, migrants rioted, attacked police and set fires at a migrant camp on the Greek island of Chios following rumors that a 47-year-old woman in the camp died of coronavirus.

Most of the rioters were young migrants, who attacked the police with stones and lit the dining room and several tents at the Vial refugee camp on fire. Several cars were also damaged during the attacks, reported the DPA news agency. The Greek police had to use tear gas to get the situation under control.

The hospital on the island of Chios where she was treated later denied reports that the woman had been infected with the coronavirus and said she only suffered from a high fever.

Video of the incident was also posted to social media.

According to the Greek migration ministry secretary Manos Logothetis, the facility of the European asylum service was also destroyed during the riots.

“A large part of the camp’s administrative services was destroyed,” Logothetis said.

Boris Cheshirkov, the UN refugee agency’s spokesperson in Athens, said that authorities are still evaluating the damage to the camp but that many camp residents were likely to lose their shelters.

“Authorities are still assessing the damages but a few hundred people are likely to be affected because their shelters have burned down. We have donated tents to the authorities which can quickly be put into use, and we will assist in replacing the warehouse tents,” he explained.

Police reportedly arrested two Afghans and an Iraqi in relation to the riot.

So far, there are no cases of coronavirus infection in the migrant camps on the Greek islands. However, two camps on the mainland have already reported several coronavirus cases.

Overall, about 39,000 people live in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos, and Leros, although the capacities are designed for a fraction of that number. For comparison, in April 2019, there were about 14,000 refugees in these camps.

Every day, there are skirmishes in the camps and tension is rising. The largest migrant camp Moria on the island of Lesbos hosts about 19,000 migrants, although the capacity of the facility is only 2,840 people.

The Greek government has tried to ease the situation by transporting migrants to the mainland, moving around 10,000 migrants in the first quarter of 2020.

The transfers are expected to continue in the coming weeks, with the government transporting around 2,400 elderly and sick people from the islands to the mainland.

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Pro-crime policies work. Enact them and you get more crime.

As I discuss in today’s article, thugs killed more people in Chicago than the coronavirus. Freeing thugs as a response to the coronavirus makes as much sense as setting your house on fire to stop flooding in your kitchen.

The Big Apple freed 1,500 criminals from jail. “Today the jail population is at a number last seen in 1949,” the De Blasio administration boasted. As if making Escape from New York a reality by locking up the city’s population with criminals was a good thing, instead of another reason for Bill de Blasio’s next job to involve cleaning out the toilets at Grand Central Station with a toothbrush for the rest of his life.

New York City freed 329 violent felony detainees. But surely violent criminals won’t commit violence.

Meanwhile a fifth of the NYPD is out sick.

The coronavirus jailbreak that freed criminals under the guise of protecting them from the pandemic has endangered everyone’s lives.

Dozens of inmates freed from city jails over fears they were vulnerable to the coronavirus have wasted no time plaguing the city with new crimes, The Post has learned.

At least 50 of the 1,500 inmates cut loose amid fears of the spread of COVID-19 behind bars in recent weeks have already landed back in jail — and in some cases were set free yet again, according to police sources and records.

Of course they were.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s priority is putting as many criminals back on the street as he can.

The re-offenders — just over 3 percent of those released — include a Rikers Island inmate initially jailed for allegedly setting his girlfriend’s door on fire and choking her mother, who was released early only to return to the Bronx apartment and allegedly threaten to kill the whole family.

Daeshawn Sharperson, the 31-year-old Bronx man who admitted he torched his girlfriend’s door, pleaded guilty to criminal mischief, dodging felony charges, and got a four-month sentence. But his sentence was cut short when he was among about 100 inmates released early on March 26 over COVID-19 concerns.

Eight days later, police say, he returned to the apartment and allegedly threatened to kill the family before attacking a straphanger on two occasions. He is now being held on Rikers Island on $10,000 bail.

Democrats put criminals first and victims last. The coronavirus jailbreaks must stop. They threaten the lives of everyone on the outside.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/04/50-freed-coronavirus-inmates-carried-out-crime-daniel-greenfield/

Muslim prison inmates attacked Christian prisoners in the Komotini prison, in northeastern Greece, for drinking alcohol on Easter Sunday.

The prison staff had given beer to those prisoners who wanted it as an Easter gesture at noon on the holy day. Those inmates who didn’t want to drink alcohol received soft drinks. But inmates who are originally from Afghanistan and Pakistan were offended by the sight of alcohol being consumed. They first began insulting the Christian prisoners who were drinking, and then physically assaulted them, according to a report by Greek City Times.

Fortunately, the prison staff intervened immediately, which prevented the situation from becoming even worse. But as it was six prisoners were injured, one seriously enough to be taken to a hospital.

The Greek City Times indicated that some of the Muslims involved in the incident are known to have ties to Islamic extremist groups.

The Komotini prison has been reported to house many prisoners involved in illicit trading, and unannounced searches in its cells have often turned up marijuana, alcohol, and even mobile phones.

Prisons across Europe contain a disproportionately high number of Muslim inmates. In Denmark, where more than half of all prison inmates are Muslim, non-Muslim prisoners are pressured to convert to Islam, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/greece-muslim-prison-inmates-attack-christians-for-drinking-alcohol-on-easter/

The European Union has agreed to pay for hotel and apartment accommodations for nearly 2,380 migrants who will be transferred from the Aegean Islands to the mainland to avoid coronavirus infection.

The migrant transfer highlights the costs for the European Union and national governments associated with housing, transporting and treating migrants at a time when the coronavirus crisis is leading to massive economic contractions across the continent.

According to Infomigrants, the operation is organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to the head of the Greek branch of IOM Gianluca Rocca, migrants in high-risk groups should be provided with temporary accommodation for about two months.

Rocco said during an online press conference that “hoteliers are interested in housing migrants at this point for a limited amount of time, while the ongoing UN program to house refugees will continue as well.”

According to the Greek Ministry of Migration Policy, the transfer should start this week and last for a maximum of two weeks. It is currently unclear how much the transfers and accommodations will cost European taxpayers.

In the first transfer group, there are 200 migrants over 60 years of age. They will be accompanied by their families, the French news agency AFP reported. Then, another 1,700 migrants will also head to the mainland with their families.

In the migrant camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos, cases of COVID-19 have not yet been reported, while the mainland migrant camps of Ritsona and Malakasa already have dozens of people who tested positive for coronavirus.

It is very difficult to adhere to measures to prevent COVID-19 infection in the overcrowded camps, which are home to about 40,000 migrants.

The transfer of migrants to the mainland comes only a short while after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called Greece to use hotels and boats as a temporary quarantine accommodation for migrants. The Greek Ministry of Migration Policy backed this plan, which will be funded by the EU.

According to Rocca, the IOM will try to provide accommodation for 5,000 asylum seekers over the next two months, for example, by renovating older buildings or installing prefabricated houses.

The IOM’s integration program in Greece has also helped 7,753 migrants receive asylum, with 1,294 receiving rent subsidies.

Rocco says that one of the most urgent matters is finding jobs for these migrants after the pandemic is over.

Rocco’s interest finding jobs for migrants come at a time when Greece has the highest youth unemployment rate in all the EU. Although seeking employment for migrants will help them reduce their reliance on benefits, it also creates more competition for Greeks who are already desperately looking for jobs. With tourism in the country destroyed, unemployment is expected to only increase.

Germany begins transferring migrants from Greece

This Saturday, 47 children and minors from migrant camps in Greece also arrived in Hanover, Germany. They will now have to stay in quarantine for two weeks. Most of them come from Afghanistan, and are, on average, 13 years old. Some of them will then move in with families across Germany.

According to Deutsche Welle, originally, 58 minors were supposed to arrive in Germany, but doctors said that 11 of them were too ill to fly by plane. Authorities added that their poor health condition was not due to coronavirus.

The group, which arrived in Germany, is the second group of minors that has left Greece. The first one, consisting of 12 young migrants, landed in Luxembourg last Wednesday.

EU countries have promised to accept 1,600 minors under the Greek relocation program, however, the Czech Republic refused to join the initiative.

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Germany’s Bild newspaper calculated last week that China owes Berlin around $162 billion in coronavirus damages, prompting a angry response from Beijing, news reports said.

The tabloid’s estimate of damages — over $1,938 per capita if Germany’s GDP falls by 4.2 per cent — was presented in an article headlined, “What China Owes Us.”

The Chinese government and Bild’s top editor, Julian Reichelt, have since exchanged angry messages, according to the Jerusalem Post.

For the Chinese embassy, the Bild story “stirs up xenophobia and nationalism”.

It is “pretty bad style to blame a country for a pandemic that is affecting the whole world and then to present an explicit account of alleged Chinese debts to Germany”, said a spokesperson for the embassy.

Reichelt, in turn, attacked Chinese President Xi Jinping directly, excoriating him over issues ranging from China’s initial handling of the pandemic to surveillance and rights, the Post said.

There has, in fact, been a chorus of concern over the manner in which Beijing tackled the virus, which first emerged in Wuhan city, the capital of Hubei province.

US President Donald Trump, for example, has said China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the pandemic.

Known as SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus has caused nearly 2.4 million infections and more than 160,000 deaths worldwide, paralysing life and business in major cities.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/coronavirus-china-owes-germany-162-bn-in-damages-daily-says-angering-beijing-1669003-2020-04-20

Neighbours called the police around 6 a. m. because they had heard screams and cries for help from the house next door at Möllers Kamp in the Hamburg district of Bergedorf. There the 22-year-old man from Iraq, who lived with his victim in a sublet and was looked after by him, had got into an argument with the woman.In the course of the dispute he is said to have punched the 59-year-old in the face several times. According to the police’s initial findings, he then reached for a stone which he is said to have kept in his room and hit the woman’s head with it. This caused several lacerations. When the police and paramedics knocked on the door, the man, dressed only in underpants and a T-shirt with a “Punisher” image, opened the door and let himself be arrested without resistance.To preserve evidence, the officers protected the man’s hands with plastic bags and handcuffed him.
The emergency doctor and ambulance service cared for the severely injured woman, who was apparently in shock. They brought her in an ambulance to the Boberg accident hospital, where her wounds were stitched. Meanwhile, police in Hamburg-Alsterdorf took the 22-year-old into custody. According to a police spokesman, the man had already been violent and had exhibited unusual behaviour in the past, which led to criminal charges. He is now being examined by a psychiatrist for his mental state.
A total of three police cars, two ambulances and an emergency ambulance were on duty. The road was blocked for about 30 minutes.

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Last night a young woman (22 years old) from Hanover was sexually harassed on the train during the journey from Braunschweig to Hanover. The woman was travelling with her friend (23 years old). Shortly before Hanover a young man (20 years old) sat down opposite the woman. Then the Afghan man looked the 22-year-old in the eyes and showed her a condom. The woman made it clear to the man, disgusted and clearly, that she was not interested in him. The Afghan stood up, gave her a kiss on the mouth and immediately got out of the train in Hannover. The women chased the man and called the police. Federal police officers were able to arrest and investigate the 20-year-old from Bemerode at the main station. The Afghan is known to the police as a sex offender, drug user and for numerous other crimes. A further procedure for sexual harassment has been initiated and the surveillance video recordings from the train have been secured.

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