Despite a heavy police presence, Cologne carnival saw a large increase in sex crimes on last year, with police reporting the same “problem groups” who ran amok on New Year’s Eve still causing trouble. There were 66 complaints of sexual assault and rape during Cologne carnival this year, up on 18 in 2015, reports North Rhine-Westphalia paper Express. The significant overall increase in crime at the carnival, including the 266 per cent rise in sex offences was despite a last minute threat to cancel Monday’s parade due to an incoming storm, and poor weather throughout the carnival week pushing down attendance figures. Police were effective in reducing certain crimes including thefts and murders, with a force spokesman crediting them with bringing about “positive effects” by “Close collaboration with our partners, more police in the city, video surveillance, the illumination particularly frequented areas in the dark and an early intervention by the police”. In wake of the New Year’s Eve sex attacks which saw over 1,000 assaulted and mugged in the centre of Cologne and saw the forced retirement of Cologne’s chief of police, the force was quick to downplay the explosion in sex crime at carnival. Rather than the rise being down
Author: Oliver JJ Lane
Imam Urges Denmark To Allow Muslim Child Brides: ‘It’s Part Of Their Culture’
Child brides being brought to Europe by their often considerably older migrant husbands are to be separated in Denmark, but one high profile Imam is urging the government to accept “that it is a different culture”. A number of recent cases where marriages of adult men to girls as young as 14 years of age, sanctioned by the Danish state, has become a national scandal. Now, right-wing immigration minister Inger Støjberg has vowed the children will be protected in future, with couples where one of the parties is under 18 being separated whether they have already arrived in Denmark or not — although the age of consent in the country is just 15. “It is completely unacceptable that there are currently minors within the Danish asylum system living with their spouses or partners and I have asked the Danish Immigration Service to immediately put a stop to it”, said Støjberg this week. In at least one case an adult husband was allowed to see his pregnant young wife under supervision, and in another the authorities were misled over the age of the wife and she was allowed to live with her husband in migrant accommodation unchecked. It is reported eight married children in Danish asylum centres are
‘Islam Gives You Wings’: Austrian Cops Investigate ‘Sharia Police’ Carnival Float
A clapped-out old Volkswagen converted into a ‘Sharia police patrol car’ for the amusement of crowds in Maissau, Austria is under investigation by police under suspicion of being ‘racist’. German police have had a number of carnival floats offensive to the new status quo to investigate this week, including ‘Asylum Defence’ Tiger tanks and steam trains bringing plagues of foreigners to central Europe, but now Austria’s Polizei have their own. Dubbed the ‘Shariah Police’, the float is an imaginative vignette of life in Austria in the year 2020. Piloted by a mannequin of Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, the car was adorned by signs reading ‘Sharia Police’, images of executed men who had offended the laws of the Islamic State, and images of German chancellor Angela Merkel in a Burka proclaiming “we are making a tolerant Germany”. One sign on the car satirised the world-famous Austrian energy drink Red Bull, with the company slogan changed to ‘Islam gives you wings’. While most carnival floats, which traditionally parody contemporary politics and events are protected by freedom of expression laws and the constitution in Austria, police may give particular attention to the mocked-up licence plate ‘ASYL 88’. In some communities 88 is used as shorthand for
VIDEO – Calais Native Reveals Migrants Attack Children, Rape, Steal: ‘It Is Unimaginable What We Suffer’
A video has emerged claiming to show a Calais native detailing a life filled with “iron bars and… Molotov cocktails” in the besieged port town, now home to one of Europe’s most notorious migrant camps. Filmed at the ‘Save Our Country’ conference just outside Paris, the video was released by the Secular Riposte campaign group, a movement working to halt the influence of political Islam in officially secular France. Featuring “native Calaisienne” Simone Héricourt, the meeting took place outside of Paris, after the group was banned from demonstrating in the city. Speaking the day after she stood alongside French General Piquemal, who was arrested for protesting, the woman told the assembled how the people of Calais feel abandoned by the government. Ms. Héricourt said locals live in fear of the thousands of migrants who are in a state of permanent flux through the port as they are smuggled, or attempt to smuggle themselves from France into the United Kingdom. She said: “I live in Calais, I am a native. My parents were too, and I have lived there all my life, and Calais used to be a very nice place… then some time ago where were refugees and the president decided to empty the squat… and those refugees
German Gun Ownership SKYROCKETS To 301,000 In Response To Migrant Crisis
The number of licences for ‘small weapons’ in Germany rose by 21,000 over the month of January, pushing the total number of papers held across the Federal Republic to 301,000. The declaration of small weapon licences comes after a request by a Green Party member of parliament, who criticised German citizens’ decisions to invest in self defence as provocative. Green politician, security committee member, and former policewoman Irene Mihalic acknowledged the change was because of growing insecurity felt by the Germany people, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine, and said: “Imagine that during major event like a carnival, if people acted rashly a weapon might only provoke chaos and violence… when more and more people carry weapons, it is more likely to contribute to escalation than calm situations”. The small arms licences being issued now in such great number only cover firearms such as blank firing pistols, and deterrent self-defence pistols. Rather than firing live shells, the gas guns which are indistinguishable from from their live-firing equivalents use an explosive propellant to fire a concentrated cloud of CS gas at an attacker. Once a licence has been acquired, there is no limit or checks on the acquisitions of these small guns, a “loophole” Ms. Mihalic has
Germany Can Only Absorb 350,000 Migrants A Year Despite 1.5 Million Influx
A senior manager of Germany’s Federal Employment Agency (BA) has said there is only limited capacity for the national job market to absorb new migrants, and it is already significantly overstretched. Speaking to a club meeting of Hamburg business journalists, BA board member and former left-wing political senator Detlef Scheele said the job market could absorb 350,000 new working age migrants a year — half of the 700,000 new jobs created in total annually. Yet over 1.5 million migrants arrived in Germany last year, with 1.1 million registering for asylum. Mr. Scheele’s comments support, and may even go further than the figures seen in a leaked Federal document from 2015, which admitted the government was expecting at least new 400,000 welfare claimants last year from the migrant crisis. The BA October migration estimate paper forecasted Germany was to receive over one million unskilled migrants that year. It said 80 per cent of arrivals were under the age of 45 and have no qualifications at all, not even to high-school level. Just eight per cent had any kind of academic qualification such as a university degree. The agency estimated catering for the new claimants would cost at least €855 million in 2016. Dealing with the
28 Cars Torched In Weekend Of Leftist Violence In Berlin
An ethnically-diverse Berlin neighbourhood has been rocked by two nights of rioting by radical left wingers, with a city official calling the attacks acts of “terrorism”. Up to 100 masked leftist political actors set cars alight and threw stones in Neukölln, one of Berlin’s most diverse district over the course of Friday and Saturday night. Elsewhere in the city some 4,000 hardened leftists staged a protest against the police and officers are now looking into links between the two events, reports Deutsche Welle. It is thought the attacks, which saw 28 cars burned and police pelted with rocks were conceived as revenge for a police operation three weekends ago when 500 officers stormed an “anarchist” squat in east Berlin, reports Die Welt. The squat had been linked to a number of crimes in the area including an officer being jumped and beaten by a number of youths. Stadtteil Neukölln: Bis zu 100 Maskierte demolieren 20 Autos in Berlin https://t.co/yuqGm1fiqO pic.twitter.com/sY6kIRgWJ1 — DIE WELT (@welt) February 7, 2016 When officers stormed the building they found a large number of what they deemed potentially dangerous items including a shopping trolley full of half-bricks and large quantities of nails. The raid was conducted without a warrant and so
Young Women Beaten, Sexually Assaulted In Migrant Attacks During German Carnivals
As central Europe builds up to the climax of the carnival season next week there have already been a number of sex assaults by so-called asylum seekers, despite a massive police presence. Police in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the German state worst hit by the migrant sex attacks, have deployed thousands of officers to the streets of cities like Cologne and Dusseldorf, established city-centre “safe spaces” and erected powerful generator-powered floodlights in dark streets. Despite these extensive precautions, German women still don’t appear to feel safe, and there have been a number of attacks on the first full day of carnival. Under the headline “revellers in fear” German magazine Focus reports the comments of festival-goers who told reporters they wouldn’t have come without male escorts. And some who went out alone have learnt the hard way what it means to be a young woman in modern Germany. In Cologne, a 17-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested at his government-funded camp after he knocked down and raped a 22-year-old woman last night. He had approached her in the street and showed her “pornographic video” on his mobile phone, reports Kronen Zeitung. He suddenly, and without warning, struck her in the face, causing the woman to lose consciousness.
Top German Journalist Admits Live On Air National News Agenda Set By Government
A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report. National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently forced into a humiliating apology for their silence on migrant violence and sex assault is being drawn into a fresh scandal after one of their former bureau chiefs admitted the company takes orders from the government on what it reports. He said journalists received instructions to write news that would be “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”. Former head of ZDF Bonn Dr. Wolfgang Herles make the remarks during a radio event (from minute 27) in Berlin where journalists discussed the media landscape. Moving on to the freedom of the press, the panel chair asked Dr. Herles whether things in Germany had got “seriously out of whack”. With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a “scandal”. He said: “We have the problem that – now I’m mainly talking about the public [state] media – we have a closeness to the government. Not only because commentary is mainly in
Austria Will Pay Migrants €500 Each To Go Home, Wants Citizen Militia to Patrol Border
Migrants who find Europe not to be the land of milk and honey they expected will be able to receive repatriation assistance from the Austrian government from this year. The development is part of a package of changes which the government in Vienna hopes will help them hit a new target of 50,00 migrants leaving the country by 2019. While the announcment has been reported sensationally as 50,000 deportations, it seems many of the newly arrived migrants will go voluntarily, with a bumper load of government pocket money to see them on their way. The full €500 will only be available if the migrant makes the decision to go quickly, and before the government rules on their asylum case. The government will also place adverts in media in migrant-origin countires and on social media in migrant languages telling them to stay at home, reports Kronen Zeitung. The rising pace of removals is a step-change for Austria, but not an entirely new policy. Interior minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said Austria already had one of the highest levels for deportations in Europe, but “we will further increase out success rate”. Austria deported 8,365 in 2015, a number that will rise to 12,500 in 2016 to