About 50 left-wing extremists attacked a coach on Thursday evening in Berlin district of Kreuzberg with eggs, tomatoes and cups filled with paint. After the cowardly attack, people with cancer sitting in the coach were scared to death.The driver of a coach had noticed a larger group of people at the roadside. When the bus passed the group, some of the people stepped onto the road and threw eggs and tomatoes at the bus. A person dressed in black and wearing a mask is said to have thrown a cup of paint at the sidewalk from the bus. When the bus driver stopped to stop the assailant, he fled according to witnesses.What the rioting left-wing extremists didn’t know, who they were attacking with their cowardly assault: There were no “greedy brokers or slum landlords” sitting in the bus, but a group of cancer patients on their way to a private event in Oberschöneweide.  The group of about 50 people suffered a shock because of the attack on the bus and was under pressure caused by the attack.
Afterwards the group ran to a terrain in the Köpenicker street. There an event of the real estate association Germany took place, to which a multiplicity of participants were expected, who arrived there also with travel coaches, reports the newspaper BZ to the incident.In front of the entrance the left-wing extremists chanted their slogans and held up banners.A guest’s mobile phone was knocked out of his hand when he recorded the left-wing extremist rally. The guests of the event fled into the room and locked the door. The extremists then kicked the front door several times and finally fled when the police arrived.The tabloid  BZ reports in conclusion that the police state security has initiated criminal investigation proceedings for breach of the peace, dangerous interference in road traffic and damage to property due to the attack.

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Those who were already in anticipation of whether Islamophobes, racists and right-wing extremists were at work here again, were suddenly disappointed yesterday: a 30-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker was responsible for the attack on a mosque in Dresden’s Cotta district the day before yesterday.The man had thrown stones at a deserted mosque at that time. Several windows were broken. Shortly after the crime, he moved on foot to the street Alte Meißene Landstraße and also threw several stones at a kebab snack bar there. As the Saxon State Criminal Police Office announced yesterday, the police were able to identify and arrest the suspect on the basis of the personal descriptions of witnesses and photographic material.He is accused of disturbing the practice of religion and damaging property. The man currently lives in a Dresden asylum-seekers’ accommodation. According to the Police Terrorism and Extremism Defense Centre (PTAZ), which is included in the investigations, a political background has so far been ruled out.The mosque concerned in Dresden district Cotta had already hit the headlines two years ago because of an explosive attack. However, there is no connection to the current case.As the newspaper “Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten” reports, “…the identity of the 30-year-old, the documents he was carrying with him and his current residence status” are also the subject of the investigation, which suggests the suspicion that the Tunisian perpetrator of Wednesday obviously tricked the authorities with regard to his residence and asylum status. Unfortunately, the case should not be suitable for the prevalence of alleged Islamophobic attacks in crime statistics, which is often highlighted.  

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/06/islam-haters-my-ass-tunisian.html

An unknown perpetrator set fire to the high altar in the Catholic church of St. Johann in Bad Dürrheim  on Wednesday. A visitor to the church discovered the fire in time and thus prevented something worse from happening on the wooden altar, which is around 300 years old. The visitor entered the church around 6.40 p.m. and was surprised that all the candles were lit and at the same time noticed the smell of fire. During the inspection the woman noticed a flower pot on the altar, which was set on fire with a candle. The fire had already spread to the wooden plate of the altar. Quick-wittedly the woman put out the fire with holy water.The amount of the damage has not yet been quantified. The Villingen criminal investigation department has taken over the investigation and is looking for witnesses. Who made suspicious observations on Wednesday between 5 p.m. and 6.40 p.m.? The Villingen Criminal Investigation Department will take clues by calling 07721 601-0. 

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/06/300-year-old-high-altar-in-catholic.html

Yesterday, Thursday evening, around 7 p.m., there was a physical confrontation between young men between the ages of 18 and 39 in the old town of Gelsenkirchen. First, a group of men with a Turkish migrant background attacked a 19-year-old Afghan at a snack bar at the bus station who had arranged to meet his friends there. This group escaped into a bus, but was persecuted by the others. Since the injured person complained of pain, the bus driver called the police and ambulance services. At the street Zeppelinallee both groups left the bus and there were again verbal and physical arguments between the groups involved, which in the meantime partly received support from other acquaintances. The situation had already calmed down by the time the officers arrived, as a group had left in an unknown direction. The police have started investigations into the case.

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/06/germany-mass-brawl-between-turks-and.html

A naked man in a playground in the Vienna district of Favoriten has caused a stir when the police went into action on Sunday afternoon. The 40-year-old raved and screamed, pepper spray used against him was ineffective. He was finally overwhelmed by several officers and taken to an ambulance. There he continued to rage and suffered a cardiac arrest. The man was resuscitated.Shortly after 4.30 p.m. the police were called to the street Käthe-Odwody-Gasse. The reason for the call was that “frightened children ran away and climbed onto a garage roof”, police spokesman Paul Eidenberger reported. The naked man was aggressive and screamed when the officers arrived. They tried to reassure the man, who was in an exceptional psychological situation. A witness understood that the man was speaking Farsi and also tried to appease the 40-year-old.When the man began to physically attack the officers, they used pepper spray. But that had no effect, the naked man took flight. During the pursuit he was sprayed again with pepper spray, again without effect. “With persons in a mental state of emergency – also impaired by drugs and medicines – it was observed again and again that pepper spray was ineffective”, described Eidenberger.Several police officers finally overpowered the raving one, one officer was injured in the process. At the same time, a witness found the man’s clothes in a nearby staircase, which also helped to clarify his identity.The man was taken to an ambulance. He raved on there, officers and paramedics tried to calm him down. “At 5.24 p.m. his breathing stopped,” said Eidenberger.The emergency services resuscitated the man and an emergency doctor was called in. Stabilized and sedated, the man was finally taken to hospital. The 40-year-old may have consumed illegal substances that caused the psychotic state.

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By Monica Showalter

Most people don’t quite know what to make of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s alarm about Manhattan prosecutors’ decision to throw President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, into Rikers Island prison. It was an unprecedented move. Yet she’s hardly a supporter of people connected to President Trump – she actually wants the president impeached. But she’s right about what she’s reading:

And she didn’t back down, either.

She gets a day off the idiot list for this principled political opposition. And whether she knows it or not, she’s taking on a very sick political situation quite correctly.

Manafort was convicted earlier and is doing time in Pennsylvania for white collar crimes around taxable income and foreign agent registration. These are crimes few are ever prosecuted for, but they were real enough. Now he’s a wedge player in a new and very dirty deep-state political game. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is throwing the elderly, now wheelchair-bound former campaign manager into Rikers Island prison, not because of any Rikers Island-worthy thuggery he could have done, but because they want to pressure him to cooperate with them to deliver Trump’s head on a platter to them. 

It’s unprecedented. Attorney Alan Dershowitz is horrified. Even the Daily Beast is horrified. Ocasio-Cortez is not saying something out of left field this time, and she has allies.

What we are seeing is Manafort now becoming a political prisoner. Which is insane, yet part of a believable continuum of fourth-world events coming from Trump’s enemies. We have just come off an attempted coup d’etat attempt by the Deep State, which went down in flames after the Mueller investigation and report. Yet this same Deep-State left, with its hands still on the levers of state power in an area outside Trump’s chain of command, is now responding with a new bid to Get Trump through its Manhattan district attorney’s office prosecutors. This measure against Manafort is a bid to secure his cooperation to take down Trump in unrelated real estate cases, and Dershowitz cites a quote from a judge stating exactly that.  Manafort may not even have much information anyway, given that he was Trump’s campaign manager only for a few months. But that doesn’t matter to them, they want Manafort there to put the screws on. And they are willing to take hostages — political prisoners — to do it.

And like any political prisoner operation from a fourth-world banana republic, they’re putting him through torture – from a nightmarish insanity-inducing solitary confinement, which is the de facto condition that Manafort is going to get “for his own protection,” to the heat of the summer without air conditioning or ice water in the confined space with only a wall slot for food deliveries. Rikers, remember, is the prison where at least one prisoner, Jerome Murdough, died in a 2014 heat wave. It’s a jail so bad prisoners plea guilty to crimes they didn’t commit in order to be sent to real prisons just to escape the Rikers conditions. It’s so bad the entire complex is set for destruction based on human rights considerations. The Manhattan prosecutors doing this to Manafort, who is in ailing health anyway, may well kill him, and we know they may be trying to kill him. That’s based on widespread knowledge of the incarceration complex’s conditions, coupled with their unneccessary act of moving him from a Pennsylvania complex where he is serving time for unrelated crimes, to be available for them – and to pressure, pressure, pressure him based on the execrable conditions.

What does this have an uncomfortably strongly parallel to? The Sergei Magnitsky case, which now forms the basis of many U.S. sanctions heaped onto Russia. In the Russian authorities’ bid to get a hedge fund manager named Bill Browder, they went after his accountant, a decent young man named Sergei Magnitsky, threw him into prison, subjected him to a barrage of deprivations in a bid to get him to cooperate – and then beat him to death. After that, they lied about it. Browder back in London was so affected by the horror he vowed to pressure the U.S. and the entire West to enact sanctions on the disastrous act of state inaccountability in the passage of the 2012 Magnitsky Act.  

Well, it’s going on now, and Russia’s Putin administration must be smiling in disgust at the U.S. hypocrisy, doing to Manafort exactly what the Russians did to Magnitsky and then haughtily placing sanctions onto the Russians as a human rights issue. And they didn’t even know Manafort, Manafort’s earlier crimes involved Ukraine, not Russia. 

We are looking at a travesty of justice here, based on a deep state still way out of control. Ocasio-Cortez has put her finger on something important and for once, she’s right.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/deep_state_first_the_coup_now_the_political_prisoner_.html#ixzz5q58c81bf

In 2020 The Mermaid will have been open for 600 years. We are hoping to mark that passage of time, with the recognition of certain events. Next year will mark 75 years since the end of World War 2. During the conflict, The Mermaid was used to billet Canadian Troops. In 1945 at the cessation of hostilities, one of the Canadian soldiers, Major L.Wilson, purchased The Mermaid, and operated it as a hotel, until 1959. We would appreciate any help in finding out about Major Lawrence Wilson, and the troops who were hosted at The Mermaid. We believe they were the 2nd Canadian Division. On September 16th 1942 the war came to The Mermaid…. “September 16 – At 0610 one 500kg bomb dropped on the rear of the Mermaid, bounced and exploded 20’ in the air and demolished Mr Brown’s butcher’s shop at Green Steps and damaged Strand House”