Migrants from North Africa set sail on the Mediterranean already in possession of phone numbers of a Soros-funded organization’s lawyer in their pockets, said Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in reference to a report from Italian daily Il Giornale.

The migrants contacted the lawyer while they were still sailing on a damaged rubber boat from Libya to Europe. The lawyer then filed an appeal on their behalf with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) while they were still at sea.

The case has been highlighted Salvini, leader of the conservative Lega party, who reacted in a tweet to the news:

“Crazy! With the collaboration of the lawyers of an association financed by Soros… In the meantime, the government welcomes everyone on the ferry at the expense of the Italians. Sooner or later we will vote …,” Salvini wrote.

According to Il Giornale, a boat with at least 47 migrants on board left the Libyan port of Al Khoms on the night of April 8 to April 9, only to send an SOS signal one day later, on April 10, via the Alarm Phone network — a telephone hotline offering support to migrants in distress on the Mediterranean Sea. The organization does not carry out rescue operations itself, but instead draws attention to emergency situations at sea.

The network then alerted Italian and Maltese authorities through Twitter. Maltese authorities issued a call to all vessels in the area saying Malta was not in a position to provide safe harbor.

But even before any decision was made about their landing, a lawyer filed a complaint at the Strasbourg court of European human rights against Maltese authorities, followed soon afterwards by a second one against the Italian authorities for denying help.

The appeal was filed by Italian lawyer Lucia Gennari on behalf of two of the boat’s occupants, 28-year-old of Sudanese national A. W. M. and 21-year-old Ivory Coast national N.D.

The migrants in question were eventually rescued by fishing boat that passed by them in the Mediterranean, which brought all the occupants of the dinghy boat back to Libya, including the migrants who contacted the two lawyers. Now, there is a pending court case claiming that it was illegal not to rescue the migrants and allow them access to European ports along with other alleged violations.

As Remix News previously reported, the ECHR is greatly under the influence of judges who have receiving funding or who have worked for billionaire financier George Soros’s Open Society Foundation or affiliated projects.

Following Salvini losing power with his former coalition partners of the Five Star Movement, Italy resumed allowing migrant NGO boats to land in Italian ports. Recently, the coronavirus has forced Italy to shut its ports once more, but there are reports of migrants still landing after being subjected to quarantine.

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Germany’s foreign ministry has been plunged into a new anti-Israel row after a top diplomat posted a series of tweets in defense of an academic who supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel, and has been accused of trivializing the Holocaust. Andreas Görgen,the director of the foreign ministry’s department for culture and communication, tweeted an article titled “Antisemitism Accusations against Achille Mbembe : Comparing is not equating.”

Görgen tweeted at least seven posts in favor of Mbembe over the last week without links to critical texts of Mbembe alleged antisemitism and belittling of the Shoah.The Deutschlandfunk Kultur article claims that Mbembe did not compare the former apartheid system in South Africa with the Holocaust. Antisemitism experts, however, claim Mbembe trivialized the Holocaust via his comparison.The German government’s antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein told the news outlet WAZ that Mbembe had “questioned Israel’s right to exist and also compared South Africa’s apartheid system to the Holocaust — something that is out of the question in view of the unprecedented crimes during the Nazi era, and especially given Germany’s historical responsibility for it.”German Jews and other experts agree with Klein’s assessment. Critics say Görgen has used his official foreign ministry Twitter feed to push articles that support Mbembe. His Twitter biography makes no reference retweeting or Tweets signifying a lack of endorsement of the content. The Jerusalem Post first identified Görgen’s stream of allegedly pro-Mbembe tweets on Tuesday.The prominent Austrian-based foreign policy think tank mena-watch tweeted: “Why has this foreign ministry of foreign affairs been busy for days protecting Achille Mbenbe against any criticism? One cannot call it balanced if only the defenders have their say and not even a text of the critics is posted.”

Mena-watch responsed to a tweet from Görgen in which he posted an article claiming the antisemitism accusations against Mbembe are a “Sign of a witch hunt.”Profesor Richard Landes, an internationally distinguished historian and expert on antisemitism, told the Post that “The real witch-hunt is this kind of criminally sloppy use of elisions to smear Israel and paint her as a pariah, and then an equally sloppy but opposite use of terms to clear Mbenbe of any responsibility for his own ‘word crimes.”‘Mbembe urges the complete “global isolation” of the Jewish state and signed a BDS boycott petition against Ben Gurion University academics.Görgen says his twitter feed address “educational policies.”Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal’s chief Nazi-hunter who oversees the organization’s Jerusalem office, told the Post that “It is comprehensible why a high-ranking official of the foreign ministry is devoting such efforts to block a BDS supporter who compared apartheid to the Holocaust.”The German cultural festival Ruhrtriennale  invited Mbembe to deliver the opening remarks for its summer festival. However, the supervisory board cancelled the festival yesterday due to the coronavirus crisis. Critics urged the festival to disinvite Mbembe.Zuroff said Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas should “take the steps to send [Görgen] him home, “adding Maas needs to “draw the proper implications” and have Görgen “pack his bags.”The antisemitism expert Zuroff said Maas “apparently showed great sensitivity toward the Shoah” on Twitter and questioned how Görgen’s playing down of the Shoah meshed with Maas’s recent tweets remembering the Holocaust. Zuroff said that surely Görgen has “more important issues to deal with during the pandemic.”The Post has sent twitter and email queries to Görgen and the German foreign ministry.Last year, the director of the German Foreign Ministry’s representation for the Palestinian territories, Christian Clages, was revealed on Thursday to have liked scores of antisemitic tweets while using his government Twitter feed. Clages retained his job.

https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/german-diplomat-tweets-to-defend-advocate-of-holocaust-trivializationbds-625620

The Wiesbaden public prosecutor’s office and the Wiesbaden Criminal Investigation Department are currently investigating three Afghan refugees aged 19 and 23 years on suspicion of rape. All three are suspected of having raped a 19-year-old woman at a construction site in the area of Moritz-Hilf-Street in Wiesbaden on the evening of the 7th of April 2020. Arrest warrants have now been issued for all three suspects.

After the crime, the victim revealed herself to a confidante who, together with her, informed the police on the 11th of April 2020. According to this information, one of the two 19-year-olds is the victim’s former boyfriend, with whom she had an appointment on the evening of the crime and whom she then also met. At this meeting, the accused was accompanied by two family members who had come from Berlin to visit Wiesbaden. It was during this meeting that the sexual assaults occurred.

After a report on the incident as well as initial investigations and securing of evidence, the 19-year-old former friend of the victim was arrested at his place of work in Idstein on the 13th of April 2020 and taken into custody after being brought before a judge. This was followed by extensive criminal investigations in Wiesbaden and Berlin, which finally led to the arrest of the other two suspects in Berlin. These two men, aged 19 and 23, are now also in custody. The criminal investigations in the proceedings are still ongoing.

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It’s a typo, courtesy KPRC TV in Houston. And it’s the perfect typo for our crazy times.

As you may have heard, thanks to Megan Fox, the Houston PD is in revolt today because Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo went bananas and ordered everyone above the age of 10 in Texas’ largest county to wear face masks or risk jail time.

This same county judge has been trying to free “nonviolent” inmates from the local jails. Why? So she can make new ones out of Texans who don’t want to wear masks? It’s… bananas, isn’t it?

This, however, is not.

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The 25-year-old man in custody for the stabbing death of Rik van de Rakt (18) from Heesch this weekend in Oss is an asylum-seeker from Sudan.

The suspect is an asylum status-holder and lives in Heesch in the Netherlands. It is the second refugee arrested this year in the province of Brabant for a fatal crime.

The police confirmed the background of the suspect after an inquiry by Dutch daily De Telegraaf to the community of Bernheze, under which Heesch falls. “Today a search took place in his residence in Heesch. The investigation is still in full progress, and we are still looking for witnesses, especially the cyclist who was riding over the Hescheweg in Heesch on Sunday. The suspect will be brought before the examining magistrate tomorrow,” said a spokesperson from the East Brabant police.

In the village there is a lot of anger and sadness over the murder of the teenager who, as it now seems, was attacked and stabbed to death for no reason. It quickly became known in Heesch that the suspect was the 25-year-old migrant. He had previously caused a nuisance in the village and is known to the police. It was made public on Monday that the suspect was arrested in a confused state shortly after the murder.

In spite of the enormous impact of the deadly stabbing and multiple attempts by De Telegraaf, Mayor Mariecke Moorman refused to comment on the incident on Tuesday.

Teenager Rik van de Rakt was found dead Sunday morning next to his bike in Oss at the intersection of Julianasingel and Dr Saal van Zwanenbergsingel in Oss. It later turned out that he was stabbed to death.

As it appears from camera photos, the perpetrator also tried to stab a woman. But she was able to escape the attacker. The police are still looking for witnesses to both attacks. The police say a terrorist motive is not yet ruled out. “There are no indications in that direction. However, at this stage, we are keeping all scenarios open,” said a spokesperson from East Brabant police.

He called his stepfather, Mario, and screamed for help,” a friend of Rik’s told De Telegraaf. For the grandparents, it is still a big mystery exactly what happened on Sunday morning.

Four years ago, Heesch was turned upside down by large protests against the arrival of an asylum seekers’ center. Dead pigs were placed in a tree and eggs thrown against the windows of the town hall. The mobile squad had to intervene against protesters. The center was not opened.

The Sudanese is the second refugee in custody in Brabant on suspicion of murder. Last month police arrested a resident of the asylum seekers’ center in Echt for the murder of the 56-year-old Dutch man, Frank Schrijen, from Boxmeer (a major figure in the carnival world). The suspect is from Trinidad and Tobago.

The lawyer for the Sudanese suspect in the stabbing in Oss has not yet responded to requests for comments. De Telegraaf does not know the person is yet.

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The Democrats are turning the Chinese Virus into their 9/11 and they can’t wait to wield unlimited power over who lives and dies. 

Here’s what Cuomo’s administration is up to between his self-serving press conferences and CNN appearances. 

New York state just issued a drastic new guideline urging emergency services workers not to bother trying to revive anyone without a pulse when they get to a scene, amid an overload of coronavirus patients.

While paramedics were previously told to spend up to 20 minutes trying to revive people found in cardiac arrest, the change is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a state Health Department memo issued last week.

First responders were outraged over the move.

“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, head of the city union whose members include uniformed EMTs and paramedics, fumed of state officials.

“Our job is to bring patients back to life. This guideline takes that away from us,” he said.

Earlier this month, the Regional Emergency Services Council of New York, which oversees the city’s ambulance service, issued a new guideline that said cardiac-arrest patients whose hearts can’t be restarted at the scene should no longer be taken to the hospital for further life-saving attempts.

If you’ve had a heart attack, die and stay dead.

After all the attention, they’re partially pulling back from the mandatory euthanasia guidelines.

State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker “rescinded” the “do-not-resuscitate” order put out by his Bureau of Emergency Medical Service on Wednesday — just hours after The Post exclusively reported on it.

“This guidance, proposed by physician leaders of the EMS Regional Medical Control Systems and the State Advisory Council — in accordance with American Heart Association guidance and based on standards recommended by the American College of Emergency Physicians and adopted in multiple other states — was issued April 17, 2020 at the recommendation of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, and reflected ‎nationally recognized minimum standards,” the Health Department said in a statement.

“However,” it added, “they don’t reflect New York’s standards and for that reason DOH Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker has ordered them to be rescinded.”

“It was a bunch of other guys that did it. Not us. We’re not responsible. Also we don’t stand behind it anymore. But wait a week and we’ll sneak it back in anyway.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/04/cuomo-heart-attack-patients-drop-dead-stay-dead-daniel-greenfield/

A report in the New York Times today expanded on the scope of the massive disinformation campaign China has created over the COVID-19 pandemic it caused. The report partly reveals the massive nature of the coronavirus campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to take the offensive against the US government. A global propaganda war is underway, with China reportedly adopting many of the tactics employed by Russian disinformation agents over the past several years.

The NYT report begins:

WASHINGTON — The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Spread the word, the messages said: The Trump administration was about to lock down the entire country.

“They will announce this as soon as they have troops in place to help prevent looters and rioters,” warned one of the messages, which cited a source in the Department of Homeland Security. “He said he got the call last night and was told to pack and be prepared for the call today with his dispatch orders.”

The messages became so widespread over 48 hours that the White House’s National Security Council issued an announcement via Twitterthat they were “FAKE.”They then report, “[t]he amplification techniques are alarming to officials because the disinformation showed up as texts on many Americans’ cellphones, a tactic that several of the officials said they had not seen before.” Several intelligence agencies have since increased their surveillance to analyze new platforms used by China to spread conspiracy theories and divisive rhetoric.

Officials interviewed for the report told the Times that the operatives did not create their own messages, as much as they amplified existing messages. While they utilized social media apps to make messages go viral, they also used encrypted options:

The officials say the Chinese agents also appear to be using texts and encrypted messaging apps as part of their campaigns. It is much harder for researchers and law enforcement officers to track disinformation spread through text messages and encrypted apps than on social media platforms.

Importantly, this campaign appears to go to upper levels of the CCP:

American intelligence officers are also examining whether spies in China’s diplomatic missions in the United States helped spread the fake lockdown messages, a senior American official said. American agencies have recently increased their scrutiny of Chinese diplomats and employees of state-run media organizations. In September, the State Department secretly expelled two employees of the Chinese Embassy in Washington suspected of spying.

Of course, the Times being what it is, they couldn’t help but to present information helpful to the enemy interspersed throughout the article. It takes quite a bit of discipline to filter this information out when reading these types of reports. With cooperation from Media Matters for America, they offered up several bits of analysis sympathetic to the ChiComs in their fight to contain the damage from the Wuhan virus:

Other rival powers might have been involved in the dissemination, too. And Americans with prominent online or news media platforms unknowingly helped amplify the messages. Misinformation has proliferated during the pandemic — in recent weeks, some pro-Trump news outlets have promoted anti-American conspiracy theories, including one that suggests the virus was created in a laboratory in the United States.

American officials said China, borrowing from Russia’s strategies, has been trying to widen political divisions in the United States. As public dissent simmers over lockdown policies in several states, officials worry it will be easy for China and Russia to amplify the partisan disagreements.

“It is part of the playbook of spreading division,” said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, adding that private individuals have identified some social media bots that helped promote the recent lockdown protests that some fringe conservative groups have nurtured.

Certainly the Russian and Chinese infiltrations into American media and social media have social upheaval and division as their goal. Then again, tying pro-liberty and pro-economy protests to the CCP strains credulity, even for the New York Times. Russia got Trump elected, and now they’re making Americans protest the overreach of tin pot governors exploiting a crisis? Never change, NYT.

Before re-engaging in Trump-bashing, the report briefly returns to facts of the Chinese disinformation campaign:

The propaganda efforts go beyond text messages and social media posts directed at Americans. In China, top officials have issued directives to agencies to engage in a global disinformation campaign around the virus, the American officials said.

Some American intelligence officers are especially concerned about disinformation aimed at Europeans that pro-China actors appear to have helped spread. The messages stress the idea of disunity among European nations during the crisis and praise China’s “donation diplomacy,” American officials said. Left unmentioned are reports of Chinese companies delivering shoddy equipment and European leaders expressing skepticism over China’s handling of its outbreak.

The entire report is worth a read, but note well that the NYT takes great pains to paint China / CCP and America as equal superpowers engaged in a propaganda war. The clear conclusion they wish to elicit from the reader is that the nations are on equal moral footing and are fighting over global dominance, while de-emphasizing the moral deficits of the communists who unleashed the virus on the world.

The CCP has fully engaged in an all-out effort to destabilize the United States, utilizing operatives and sympathetic media and political targets embedded in American society. The more aware we become of their efforts to undermine our nation, the more urgent it becomes to defend ourselves. We should recognize the new Cold War underway against a communist threat, similar to the threat of the USSR that we defeated a generation ago.

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This happens in times of strict hygiene measures and compulsory respiratory masks: a 24-year-old Moroccan spat on customers in a supermarket in Bolzano. A carabinieri patrol went to a supermarket in Bolzano’s Bindergasse street on Tuesday afternoon. Employees wanted to expel a heavily drunk man who had harassed customers of the supermarket. The Moroccan then began to spit on “everybody and everything”, according to the police. When the officers asked the man for his name and his identity card, he attacked them. The officers were able to overpower the 24-year-old and handcuffed him. The 24-year-old does not have a residence permit, there is already a deportation order against him. The Moroccan is charged with resisting the authorities and being drunk in public.He had also defiled other people’s belongings by repeatedly spitting around in the supermarket. According to the Carabinieri a crime that can be prosecuted on criminal charges. The 24-year-old will be taken to prison.

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One of Germany’s leading cultural festivals was at the center of a row over antisemitism on Tuesday, as a German Jewish organization joined in with earlier demands to cancel the opening address at the event by an academic charged with “antisemitism” and “Holocaust relativization.”

In a letter to the elected leadership of the North-Rhine Westphalia state in western Germany, the Jewish Values Initiative asserted that the invitation to Prof. Achille Mbembe to speak at the renowned Ruhrtriennale festival on Aug. 14 should be revoked.

The group said that Mbembe — a Cameroonian sociologist currently teaching in South Africa — had in his writings made the “antisemitic” equation between the former apartheid regime in South Africa and the Israeli government, endorsed the anti-Zionist campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish state, and diminished the Holocaust by bracketing it with the apartheid system.

“As Mbembe accuses Israel of apartheid and compares the former South African apartheid system to the Shoah, this leads to the legitimate assumption that he equates the position of the democratic State of Israel towards the Palestinian Arabs with that of the National Socialists during the Shoah –an antisemitic picture in its purest form,” the letter argued.

The Jewish Values Initiative protest came a few days after Germany’s top federal official dealing with antisemitism called for Mbembe’s appearance at the festival to be nixed.

“Delivering the opening speech to such an important event is a task of responsibility, not least given the fact that the festival is financed with public funds,” Felix Klein — the German government’s antisemitism commissioner — told the WAZ news outlet last Friday. “The person selected should be someone who lives up to this responsibility, not someone who has been criticized in the past for the relativization of the Holocaust.”

Klein said that Mbembe had “questioned Israel’s right to exist and also compared South Africa’s apartheid system to the Holocaust — something that is out of the question in view of the unprecedented crimes during the Nazi era, and especially given Germany’s historical responsibility for it.” He warned that the Ruhrtriennale festival would suffer “considerable damage” if Mbembe’s speech went ahead.

The controversy has stemmed largely from a lengthy essay Mbembe wrote in 2016 titled “The Society of Enmity.” Arguing that the present state of world politics was “characterized by forms of exclusion, hostility, hate movements, and, above all, by the struggle against an enemy,” Mbembe went on to state that “the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories can be seen to serve as a laboratory for a number of techniques of control, surveillance and separation, which today are being increasingly implemented in other places on the planet.”

Later in the same essay, Mbembe argued that the “metaphor of apartheid” — the brutally-enforced segregation of the black-majority population in South Africa for much of the twentieth century — could not “fully account for the specific character of the Israeli separation project.”

Wrote Mbembe: “[G]iven its ‘hi-tech’ character, the effects of the Israeli project on the Palestinian body are much more formidable that the relatively primitive operations undertaken by the apartheid regime in South Africa between 1948 and the early 1980s.”

Mbembe was also criticized for his statement that the “apartheid system in South Africa and the destruction of Jews in Europe — the latter, though, in an extreme fashion and within a quite different setting — constituted two emblematic manifestations of this phantasy of separation.”

In an email on Monday to the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, Mbembe vigorously denied that the charges against him had any validity.

“I am not a member or supporter of BDS or any other organization involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Mbembe stated, adding: “I don’t believe in a general boycott of Israeli academics.”

Furthermore, he disputed the accusation that he had relativized the Holocaust, saying that he knew of “no serious social scientist who would compare the apartheid system in South Africa with the Holocaust.”

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50 to 60 members of the criminal Arab Remmo Clan gathered in front of the emergency room of the Kreuzberg Clinic am Urban in Berlin on Tuesday night. An elderly member of the clan had been admitted there shortly before and had died. It is said to be the mother of clan boss Issa Remmo. On the way to the hospital, two other clan members are said to have speeded through a speed check by the police – one of the officers on site was apparently only able to save himself by jumping to the side. The police then apparently started a chase after the two cars. One of the two drivers allegedly escaped in his Porsche car. Another driver is said to have been arrested near the hospital after a collision of his VW car with a police car. Meanwhile, several police officers were presumably busy in front of the Urban Clinic to calm down the clan members and to make sure that the Corona distance rules were observed.

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