Yesterday evening, a 42-year-old Turkish citizen in a regional train from Karlsruhe to Offenburg attracted negative attention due to his aggressive behaviour. He had verbally threatened several passengers in the regional train RE 4737. A traveller reported the incident to the federal police at 6:30 p.m., who caught the 42-year-old at Offenburg station. He also behaved aggressively towards the police officers and insulted them several times. The Federal Police has taken up the investigations and asks passengers who have been threatened or insulted by the 42-year-old on the regional train from Karlsruhe to Offenburg to contact the Federal Police Inspection Offenburg by calling 0781/9190-0.

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/09/germany-aggressive-turk-threatens-rail.html

A 33-year-old man of Kosovar origin from Hagen is said to have driven his car Lupo into a group of eight people on the street Bassestraße in Iserlohn yesterday around 5.57 p.m., injuring two people slightly. The suspect fled the scene first. He was found at his home address in Hagen as part of the immediate search and was temporarily arrested. The suspected vehicle was seized. The police and the public prosecutor’s office have started investigations on suspicion of an attempted homicide. A homicide squad of the Hagen police headquarters is at work.

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/09/germany-kosovar-speeds-into-crowd-two.html

A 19-year-old woman from Mönchengladbach fell victim to a sexual offence in Mönchengladbach at the Sittardplatz square last Saturday at about 4:15 a.m.. There she had been asked for cash by a previously unknown dark-skinned man in English language. Then the man threatened her massively and raped her. After the crime, the man had fled towards Steinmetzstraße and had turned to the right direction towards Eicken. The victim filed a criminal complaint at a police station around 5:00 a.m.. She described the perpetrator as follows: black skin, about 1.70 m, dark hair, dark eyes, spoke English language. Clothing: dark trousers, dark jacket, light top. The Mönchengladbach police are looking for witnesses who have made suspicious observations at the time in question and who can provide relevant information. Police Mönchengladbach by calling 02161- 29-0. 

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/09/germany-black-skinned-man-raped-19-year.html

On Friday morning there was an incident on the street Marktstraße in Werlte. A police officer at the Werlte police station had noticed a 33-year-old man in his Opel Zafira car  shortly before 8 a.m. who was heading towards the main road. He stopped his car in the middle of the road so that it was not possible to drive past in either direction. Again and again he started slowly, only to stop again a few meters later.When the driver was asked by the police officer, who was patrolling alone that day, about his misconduct, the 33-year-old immediately began to insult him and threaten him with death. He denied the policeman the giving of his personal data and extended his threats with clear external effect on the complete police and every Germans. Even before the policeman was able to get reinforcements from Sögel, the 33-year-old left the scene of the crime in his car. Only a few minutes after the incident, the same man had attracted attention at the job center in Werlte, where he was similarly aggressive. There, too, it continued with insults and threats. According to police, the man is of non-German nationality.
Witnesses of the incidents are asked to contact the Sögel police by calling (05952)93450.

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Shortly before the final whistle, the soccer match between two youth teams escalates. A guest player is injured – he has to go to hospital. The police also intervenes.Not for the first time the home team is negatively attracting attention. The outbreak of violence with a youth soccer match led to a ban of the TSV Burgdorf for several months. The C youth will be excluded until maximally March 21, 2020 from the matches, said a speaker of the Lower Saxony football federation (NfV) on Monday.This decision was made by a sports court on Sunday after a 13-year-old player was injured and admitted to hospital on Saturday. After the district class match against FC Lehrte, the police are investigating both clubs. “The team of the TSV Burgdorf is obviously completely out of control and has frightening and straight criminal violent potential”, it says in the preliminary injunction of the sports court.Chasing down players, kicking players lying on the ground and laying in wait by entire gangs on parking lots are not only unacceptable in soccer. The exclusion is necessary according to the sports court, since matches against the TSV cannot be demanded of anyone. The NfV spokesman said that the ban was valid for the time being until the end of the proceedings. It is “particularly tragic that a team with a migration background and refugees is responsible for these two abandoned matches”, the association stated in a statement.The players from Burgdorf had attacked the boy after a foul, the newspaper “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” quoted the chairman of FC Lehrte, Marcus Bartscht. According to police, several Burgdorf players hit the guest player and kicked him. About 20 spectators could then have mediated. “The 13-year-old is still in hospital for observation,” said a police spokesman. He and at least one of the attackers are Syrian citizens. Criminal proceedings for bodily injury are ongoing. 
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Parks and squares serve locals and guests as recreation areas and meeting places. According to the Freedom Party, more and more public spaces in the provincial capital of Bolzano are threatening to become increasingly neglected. Not only women, older people or parents with small children feel insecure in some of the city’s parks: vulgarities, gangs that camp, noisy music, addicts and various unhygienic waste are now commonplace.Not to mention the hygienic conditions,” says Pernter. One of these negative examples is the park at the so-called victory place. Although the neighbors had complained about the conditions several times to the municipal administration, the city administration had remained inactive. The disrespectful behavior of some immigrants towards passers-by and the buildings or facilities of the city is particularly to be condemned. Even religious symbols such as the cathedral of Bolzano are not spared: Recently a man of foreign origin and his child could be spotted playing football in the street Eisackstraße in front of the cathedral of Bolzano. The outer wall of the cathedral was used as a gate. This is a gross disrespect. Imagine that we in a Muslim country would use the outer wall of a mosque as a football goal,” Pernter said.

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Two long and beautifully designed Greta pigtails hang from the trunk. Above them is written “Problem solved”, and a little further up “Fuck you Greta”. The public prosecutor’s office has initiated an investigation against a man from Plauen who has stuck the pigtails on his car. “The accusation to be examined is a public request to commit crimes,” says Ines Leonhardt, spokeswoman for the Zwickau public prosecutor’s office. One could see in this kind of tailgate decoration the glorification of violence against children and the invitation to do harm to a certain person. The penal code provides for up to three years imprisonment.A citizen filed a denunciatory complaint. Just the sticker “Fuck you Greta”, which for example a citizen stuck on his old Citroen, was considered an insult, according to the prosecutor.
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Yesterday a colleague called me and drew my attention to a “bizarre” movement.

“The Ruhrbarons report about a Facebook group called Fridays for Hubraum” (piston displacement). As an avowed lover of engine humming, I liked the name immediately. The Ruhrbarons reported:

Many new outlets may get excited about Fridays for Future, yet on Facebook the Petrolheads are ahead. The Facebook group Fridays for Hubraum, founded on September 22nd, managed to playfully pass their ecologically correct counterpart Fridays for Future with 74,484 members to 74,102 followers within a few days, and they added: “The fun of cars with a lot of cubic capacity is in the foreground, those who don’t tolerate Greta jokes should avoid the group”.

The latter can be understood as a warning or as a recommendation, most people apparently understood it as a recommendation. This morning Achgut.com author Gunter Weißgerber wrote to me, as a country dweller urgently dependent on some cubic capacity in front of the log cabin:

I am a member of Fridays For Hubraum. Fine creamDiesel fillet so to speak”. And he reported: “Since two days there is the Facebookgroup Fridays For Hubraum short FFH. Currently this group has 228 700 members”.

As of 9 o’clock this morning, there are already 263,000 members, which is several times the number of Greta followers. And this despite the fact that the site has meanwhile been converted into a closed Facebook group, which slows down the growth, otherwise it would be even more. This was done because, of course, a lot of idiots want to sit on something like this and with stubbornness and resentment only achieve that this no longer tender little plant is immediately introduced to the parking lot to the right of Genghis Khan (Running a combustion engine without a bad conscience is already a proof of right mind anyway).

LZ-Online writes about the Facebook shooting star:

The demands of the Fridays-for-Future movement are not well received by everyone. Not least car drivers feel threatened in their freedom – after all, the protests of climate activists could lead to massive restrictions on their freedom. On Facebook, the opponents of the youth movement are now trying to counteract and have set up their own Facebook group to do so. Their name: Fridays for Hubraum (displacement). Their goal: to have more members than the official Facebook page of Fridays for Future Germany in as short a time as possible”.

And they have succeeded in doing so. The administrators of the group write:

We are more! First goal is to get more members than “Fridays for Future Germany. This group would like to counteract the out-of-control climate madness with fun. Climate change has existed since the Earth’s history. We cannot save the world in Germany at the expense of thousands of jobs. The environment should protect however everyone as well as he can. Please be nice in this group”.

The gigantic echo on this action teaches equal several things. Those, who pay taxes in this country, drive daily to work and mostly with the car, are tired of being shown everywhere as suspended fools and climatic sinners. The tone in this country is now set by tiny groups of people who contribute zero to value creation and 100 percent to word creation. And nobody opposes this tyranny of convictions. On the contrary. Most media feel part of the movement. Only when the last car advertisement fails to appear will they realise that no industrial country can be operated with ethics of conviction. The car industry has long been willing to jump over every little stick of an electric car that you hold out to it. And the ADAC runs the risk of being confused with the Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrradclub.

In France, a similar situation gave rise to the yellow vests. And also in Germany protest and rebellion are looking for new ways. What pleases me most about “Fridays for Hubraum” is the humour and self-irony that are already in the name. On “Fridays for Hubraum” you can read what works best on Facebook: mockery. You just have to laugh away the insanity. One user posts the video of several tractors emitting enormous clouds of smoke – another makes fun of the youth who “can’t even start a lawnmower”.

Humour has always been the sharpest weapon of doubt and makes it difficult for political opponents to swing the moral cudgel, because they run the risk of getting themselves hurt. And above all: humour is connectable for everyone. Most people who no longer feel represented by current politics and the published opinion are by no means dumb-heads, but open-minded people who stand in the middle of life and are the first to feel the effects of insane political campaigns. “Fridays for Hubraum” is a sign in this respect. I don’t want to overestimate that, but it’s a little throat clearing of an elephant that’s been in the room for some time.

Also in Germany the longing for an opposition, which one can join as reasonable people, is huge. This longing will find ways, which ways do I not know, because such things often depend on coincidences and unforeseen events. But when the time comes, it will happen very quickly. In climate science people like to talk about so-called “tilting points”. This means that a complex system that seems stable for a very long time suddenly and very quickly starts to slip. And the same applies to the political climate.

Addendum on 25 September at 18:15: The number of members now stands at 394,349.

Addendum on 25 September at 19:08: Fimico reports: “Fridays for Hubraum” was archived today with nearly 400,000 members in only three days by an own administrator. This can be a temporary procedure. It was not Facebook that intervened, but the participants themselves closed the group for the time being. According to our editorial observations, several 10,000 new members have joined the group in recent hours. After the group had experienced a wide-ranging media echo and a huge rush in the past three days, it is reasonable to assume that the group of administrators will first consider how to deal with this.”
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