The Bremen chairman of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Frank Magnitz,
is battling for his life after sustaining a gaping wound to his head following an attack by three unknown assailants.
Magnitz was rushed to the hospital on Monday night after suffering a serious head injury following
a "politically-motivated attempted assassination," Bremen AfD said in a statement, posting a graphic image of the
injured chairman.
Armed with wooden sticks, the three men beat the politician
repeatedly on the head and kicked him while he was already on the ground until a construction worker saw the assault and tried
to intervene. According to the statement, the attack took place immediately after Magnitz left the New Year's reception
near Bremen's Goetheplatz.
Germany's far right is trying to rehabilitate the
German Empire and its role in World War I, resuming a decades-old debate ahead of the centenary of the armistice.
The
magazine Compact, which is close to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), is publishing a special November
issue dedicated to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles which held the Reich responsible for the Great War and compelled the country
to make colossal reparations.
The title recalls the rhetoric used in the 1920s by those nostalgic for Imperial Germany
and the Nazis: "The shame of Versailles: how the victorious powers enslaved Germany".
Its online story is
headlined "Germany in chains".
The aim is to reevaluate the German Empire (1871-1918) which for decades
has been seen in the collective consciousness as the first of the destructive powers of the 20th century.
Voters in Germany's economically dominant southern state of Bavaria delivered a stunning
rebuke to the ruling Christian Social Union, in an election that underscored the evaporation of support for the parties in
Angela Merkel's grand coalition in Berlin.
With all eyes on Sunday's Bavaria
election, moments ago the first exit polls were published and showed a historic collapse for the ruling CSU party, which has
ruled Bavaria continuously since 1957, and which saw its share of the vote collapse from 47.7$ in the 2013 election to just
35.5%, losing its absolute majority and suffering its worst result since 1950, as voters defected in their droves to the Greens
and the far-right Alternative for Germany.
The leak of an arrest warrant which names one of the chief suspects in a stabbing that set off neo-Nazi riots in Germany
this week has raised fears that the country’s police may have been infiltrated by the far-Right. [Instead of former
Stasi far-left anti-white traitors.]
The confidential document, which was shared by far-Right groups on social
media, names a 22-year-old Iraqi, one of two immigrants being held on suspicion of stabbing a German-Cuban man to death in
the eastern city of Chemnitz at the weekend.
The killing set off the most serious neo-Nazi violence in Germany for
several years. More than 6,000 far-Right protestors roamed through the streets of Chemnitz on Monday night, attacking foreigners,
giving the Hitler salute and chanting: “A dead foreigner for every dead German”.
Police confirmed on Wednesday
that the leaked document was genuine and said they had opened an investigation into suspected “violation of official
secrets”.
The German city of Dresden was the latest scene of a protest by the anti-immigrant
group PEGIDA, which marched through town carrying huge photos of people they say were killed by foreigners.
Footage
from the scene shows the PEGIDA protesters peacefully walking down the street on Monday, some carrying the pictures and
names of victims who have allegedly been killed by immigrants.
Others held German flags and banners that read “Merkel
must go!” One person was seen on the sidelines with a sign addressed to Amazon's digital assistant. “Alexa,
make Merkel disappear,” it read, prompting laughter and applause from marchers.
German authorities have dropped a case in which a 10-year-old Afghan boy
raped a classmate during a school trip while Syrian and Afghan accomplices held him down, as the perpetrators are apparently
not old enough to be tried.
The incident began when 38 students from a Berlin school went on a field trip
to Schloss Kröchlendorff, a castle in Nordwestuckermark, Germany. The students were supposed to have a fun day out
enjoying nature – but that wasn't possible for everyone.
The day turned horrific for a 10-year-old boy, who
was told by the perpetrators: "We f**k you today!" A total of three boys ganged up on the victim; an Afghan
and a Syrian, both aged 11, held him down while a 10-year-old Afghan boy sexually abused and raped him, according to the Berliner Zeitung.
The German politician, Barbara John, of the nominally conservative CDU party (Angela Merkel’s party), has written
an article telling Germans not to worry about becoming an ethnic minority.
This appears to be part of the strategy switch I wrote
about before from White Genocide Denial to White Genocide Acceptance.
In Germany it is only a question of time
until people of immigrant background form a majority of the population in the larger cities. That point has already
been reached in Frankfurt am Main: back in 2017, 51.2% of the city’s inhabitants had not been born in Germany or had
non-German parents. Augsburg and Stuttgart are the next candidates or have already reached that status. Across the country,
however, only one in four inhabitants have an immigrant background, the Federal Statistics Office reported a few days ago.
…The trend towards a rapidly growing proportion of immigrants is irreversible.
Fears are already spreading, but also hopes.
She points to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, where the ancestral inhabitants
are already a minority. as pioneers of this change. They offer a reassuring example, she says.
It became apparent
that the great fear of many of the indigenous inhabitants that they would now themselves become an insignificant minority
was unfounded. It was a mistake to believe there would be a new majority that would take their place.
It’s OK
because you’ll just be one minority among others, she declares, not ruled over by a new dominant race. {snip}
The
new population majority consists of many immigrant groups who differ enormously from one another ethnically, culturally,
religious, economically and by education. They often have disputes among themselves as well as other groups, just like the
indigenous people. In this way new political alliances form beyond people with and without an immigrant background. A second
certainty is unfamiliar but confirmed: it is no longer the indigenous majority who are solely responsible for economic and
social progress, but society as a whole. So many things will be different and many things better too.
{snip} You should
allow people who express hatred for you now to acquire power over you because once they have deprived you of power, they
will stop expressing hatred for you.
An African migrant has been arrested after an 11-year-old was found with multiple life-threatening stab wounds in Germany.
The suspect, a 25-year-old from Eritrea, lived in the same apartment block in Vilshofen, Lower Bavaria, as the victim’s
parents, according to TAG24.
Police say the boy was found with serious puncture wounds and deep cuts to his neck, upper body, and leg,
but is thought to be in a stable condition following emergency surgery.
The knife used in the attack has been recovered,
but the authorities have yet to determine a motive at this time.
The ousted head of Germany's refugee agency was central to an unfolding asylum application fraud scandal, but firing
her won't fix core "structural problems" in the country's migration system, a geopolitical analyst has told
RT.
After serving just 18 months as head of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Jutta Cordt was fired
this week by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, after an internal review discovered that the agency's branch in the city
of Bremen had violated legal and internal regulations for the approval of asylum applications. The decision was quietly announced
on Friday, and Rainer Rothfuss, a geopolitical analyst and professor at Tübingen University's Institute of Geography
in Baden-Württemberg, feels the sacking was long overdue.
The German federal migration service plans to review thousands of successful asylum applications.
Earlier, it was revealed that a regional migration office granted asylum to thousands of people without sufficient grounds.
The German Federal Office for Migration and Asylum (BAMF) will re-examine some 18,000 cases in
which refugees were granted asylum in Germany, the agency's director, Jutta Cordt, told journalists at a press conference
on Friday. The inspection will cover all successful asylum applications filed as far back as 2000, she added.
In a video interview with Informr, the new leader of the Green Party, Robert Habeck, made
controversial remarks denying the notion of a German people, newspaper Junge Freiheit reports.
When asked about the concept of betrayal of the people, Habeck says:
"That's
a Nazi concept. There is no people, in consequence, there cannot be a treason of the people. It's a statement of anger
that can be really divisive, discriminatory and pernicious."
These remarks
sparked the anger from the right-wing AfD party president, Jörg Meuthen, who quickly responded:
"Of course the Germans exist, as the Italians, the Spanish, the French and the Turks do (...) The Green
party have not yet accomplished their destructive goal, which is the abolition of borders".
"Our people survived worse ideologies and have nothing to fear from a pseudo-intellectual Islamophile being
a snob to the German people", he added.
Many Germans feel foreign in their own country and are afraid that immigration is changing
their homeland rapidly. Every fifth person in Germany comes from an immigration background and that number will continue to
climb. What does that mean for the country? By DER SPIEGEL Staff
In the summer of 2018 Germany's state of Bavaria will have the strictest police laws
since 1945. Police will henceforth be allowed to carry hand grenades and infiltrate online chats without even suspicion of
concrete crimes.
The lines between police and intelligence services will also become
unclear. The law is sponsored by the CSU, the sister party of Merkel's CDU and will likely sail through without any resistance.
This plan gives the police unprecedented authority to monitor citizens. Experts are talking about
the strictest laws since 1945. It has all the hallmarks of a combined police and intelligence service. The executive will
be allowed to investigate without any indication of a crime.
Police officers
will be allowed to confiscate letters, search IT-systems, deploy undercover personnel and carry body cameras. The opposition
is protesting but largely in vain due to the majority the CDU-CSU has in the state parliament.
"Migrants" waging demographic warfare against German nation . . .
A large increase in the number of these births were registered among migrant women.
They were having 25 per cent more babies totalling 184,660, while an increase of 3 per cent was seen among women with German
citizenship, who had 607,500 babies.
While
the birth rate among German women rose from 1.43 to 1.46, the number skyrocketed among migrant women, who experienced a rise
from 1.95 to 2.28.
Volkswagen has been ordered by a German court to reinstate a suspected Islamist militant
it fired over fears he might launch a terrorist attack on the company.
Samir B.,
30, worked as a tyre fitter at Volkswagen’s plant in Wolfsburg, 55miles east of Hanover, and was fired in 2016 after
threatening co-workers and pledging to join ISIS in Syria.
Arab criminal gangs operating in Berlin have been accused of targetting individual police
officers with threats, including spreading rumours of sexual encounters with prostitutes, in order to intimidate or take revenge
on officers.
Over the past several years, the power of Arab family organised crime
gangs in Berlin has increased substantially as they have largely taken over the city's drug and prostitution trade. According
to a new report, the gangs are now using their power to threaten and intimidate authorities to stop investigations, German
media reports.
Essener Tafel, which provides food to about 16,000 people a day in Essen, Germany, began
to bar foreigners from using their services because they were taking 75 percent of the food. In order to be served, people
coming to the food bank must show proof of German citizenship with a passport.
Although
the charity says it is a temporary measure to deal with a crisis of supply, that hasn't stopped critics from slamming
the decision or local vandals from defacing the group's vehicles with graffiti decrying "Nazis."
Everything was aimed at closing German borders in mid-September and not letting anyone in
anymore. The only reason that didn't happen was that no one in the government wanted to take responsibility for the decision
and the "ugly" pictures that would have been made.
In retrospect, Angela
Merkel then made it look as if she was acting out of conviction and stood behind this decision for "humanitarian reasons".
In truth, the government had lost control and does not want to admit it.
How is a far-right party drawing voters from labor, a traditional bastion of the
left? The question is not academic, but goes directly to the heart of the emerging threat the AfD presents to Germany's
political establishment, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The
AfD shocked Germany in the fall when it became the first far-right party to enter Parliament since World War II. But that
breakthrough not only shattered a significant postwar taboo. It has also enormously complicated the task of forming a new
governing coalition, leaving Germany and all of Europe in months of limbo.
Earlier this week, Brandenburg state police reported that two male Syrian teenagers were arrested under the suspicion
of injuring a German teenager in the face with a knife.
The 16-year-old sustained non life-threatening injuries in
what started as an altercation between Syrian and German school acquaintances near a tram station.
The incident happened
just days after a group of three Syrian asylum seekers, aged 14, 15 and 17 years old, attacked a man and his wife outside
a shopping centre, according to a police statement. The 15-year-old was handed a “negative residency permit”
by authorities, effectively ordering him and his father to leave the city.
Many members of the group are considered to be on the extreme right. They maintain
that the old German Reich - which ceased to exist in 1945 after the capitulation of Nazi Germany - should be restored in its
pre-1937 borders, which included large swathes of land in Poland, Czech Republic and other neighboring countries.
In the past, members of the Reichsbuerger movement were often perceived as eccentric conspiracy
theorists, but a string of attacks on police prompted the German government to take aim at the extremists.
The radical movement made headlines both nationwide and internationally in October last year, when
a 47-year-old gun enthusiast, Wolfgang P., shot and killed a rapid response police officer on his doorstep.
Anti-Hate Speech law backfires in Germany
Germans Rage As New Hate Speech Law Backfires
by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge - January 7, 2018
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-07/spare-us-thought-police-germans-rage-new-hate-speech-law-backfires "Spare Us The Thought Police!" Germans Rage As New Hate Speech Law Backfires | Zero Hedge www.zerohedge.com "The law against online hate speech failed on its very first day. It should be abolished immediately," Reichelt
wrote, adding that the law was turning AfD politicians into "opinion martyrs".
As we reported recently, in
what was officially a noble attempt to eliminate online hate speech in social media, and unofficially a devious crackdown
on free speech, on January 1, 2018, Germany passed a law that forces websites to censor content deemed illegal under the new
law and have it deleted within 24-hours. Ironically, as we observed last week, just hours after the law's passage it immediately
backfired when it claimed its first victim, a German satirical magazine's Twitter account which "parodied anti-Muslim
comment."
Incidentally, this perfectly predictable if "totally unexpected" outcome is exactly what we,
and many others had warned would happen. And now, it is finally dawning on Germany that any time the government gets involved
in defining what is allowed and what isn't - especially when it comes to that most fundamental of liberties, free speech
- the result is always a disaster.
According to Germany's top-selling, and most popular newspaper, Bild, the
new German law meant to curtail online hate speech is "stifling free speech and making martyrs out of anti-immigrant
politicians whose posts are deleted."
The law which took effect on Jan. 1 can impose fines of up to 50 million
euros ($60 million) on sites that fail to remove hate speech promptly and threatens the profitability of such social media
giants as Twitter and Facebook.
"Please spare us the thought police!" read the headline in Wednesday's
Bild above an article that called the law a "sin" against freedom of opinion enshrined in Germany's constitution,
Reuters reported.
While the law requires social media sites to delete or block obviously criminal content within 24
hours, Bild Editor-in-Chief Julian Reichelt said it could be applied against anything and anyone since there was no definition
of what was "manifestly unlawful" in most cases. Intended to prevent radical groups from gaining influence, "it
was having precisely the opposite effect," he warned. "The law against online hate speech failed on its very first
day. It should be abolished immediately," Reichelt wrote, adding that the law was turning AfD politicians into "opinion
martyrs".
* * *
Two examples where the German law was already applied, included tweets deleted by AfD lawmaker
Beatrix von Storch criticising police for tweeting in Arabic, saying they had sought "to appease the barbaric, Muslim,
rapist hordes of men". Police have since asked prosecutors to investigate her for possible incitement to hatred.
There
was also deleted tweet by another AfD member of parliament, Jens Maier, called Noah Becker - the son of former tennis champion
Boris Becker - a "half-nigger".
In response to the criticism, Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas defended
the law, telling Bild that freedom of opinion did not mean carte blanche to spread criminal content on the internet.
"Calls to murder, threats, insults and incitement of the masses or Auschwitz lies are not an expression of freedom
of opinion but rather attacks on the freedom of opinion of others," he said.
Germany is no stranger to limiting
free speech: the country has some of the world's toughest laws on defamation, incitement to commit crimes and threats
of violence, with prison sentences for Holocaust denial or inciting hatred against minorities. Maas said social networks
needed to stick to the law like everyone else, adding: "Those who care about protecting freedom of opinion can't
just look on as criminal incitement and threats inhibit the open exchange of views." And so, the government refuses
to back down even as the rest of Germany realizes what a profound chilling effect the new law will have on online speech everywhere.
Once the lawsuits start flying and the social networks are punished a few hundred million, it will only embolden the critics,
who will then lash out again "anything and anyone" because, as the Bild editor correctly noted, "there is no
definition of what was manifestly unlawful." Incidentally, this inexplicably broad definition, one which puts any content
creator immediately on the defensive, is precisely what the government intended.
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