Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/27/2017

An explosive device detonated this afternoon inside a storage area in a supermarket in St. Petersburg, Russia. At least ten people were injured in the blast, which did extensive damage to the store.

In other news, a court ruling in the UK may allow thousands of Albanian criminals to remain in the country, despite their history of arrests and convictions.

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Stabbed to Death in the Drugstore by a Culture-Enricher

The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier today at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Teenage German Girl Stabbed to Death in Drugstore by 15-year-old Afghan

An original translation from B.Z. Berlin:

15-year-old Afghan stabs girl to death in supermarket

December 27, 2017

A 15-year-old Afghan stabbed a German girl of the same age to death in the town of Kandel in Rhineland-Palatinate. An argument between the two teenagers preceded the attack, Prosecution Landau and Police Headquarters Rhineland-Palatinate announced.

The girl died from her injuries in hospital. Passers-by overpowered the young Afghan after the crime; police arrested him.

According to preliminary investigations, the victim was in drugstore in the company of a friend. But the arrested youth did not enter the shop together with the 15-year-old. The trigger for the argument is still unknown.

The Afghan will appear before the committing magistrate on Thursday. It was not announced whether or not the youth was a refugee.

Translator’s note: the above text is a dpa (German Press Agency, Deutsche Presseagentur) text, which is currently featured in identical wording in dozens of German newspapers. According to police, the crime took place at 3:20 this afternoon.

Flashing Back to Indecent Winter Exposure in Augsburg

The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Germany: Augsburg Serial Exhibitionists Arrested: Syrian and Afghan “Refugees”

This is a follow-up to a story we featured on December 17, Underage Girls Sexually Harassed On Augsburg Public Transport.

An original translation from Augsburger Allgemeine:

Augsburg: Exhibitionist On Bus and Street Tram: Police Make Two Arrests

Dec. 23, 2017

Serial exhibitionists have appeared recently on busses and street trams. They have even harassed children. Now the police announce two arrests.

By Jörg Heinzle

Cases of exhibitionism have recently piled up in Augsburg. Time and again men exposed themselves on busses, street trams and regional trains, and have sometimes even harassed children. Now Augsburg police have are investigating two alleged serial perpetrators. The men, a Syrian and an Afghan asylum seeker, have been taken into preliminary detention this weekend. A third exhibitionist is still being sought.

One of the suspects, a 20-year-old Afghan, confessed to four instances of exhibitionism, according to a police spokesman. The man exposed himself in street trams in front of girls. All of the victims are only ten and eleven years old. The arrest of the suspect came thanks to the alertness of a criminal investigations officer, and a chance meeting. The investigator went downtown in his spare time on Friday. As he is professionally concerned with the case, he knew the images from the surveillance cameras of the street trams that show the suspect. In all street trams the public utility company installed cameras that save images temporarily. The investigators analyzed these recordings, which is how they obtained the images of the exhibitionists. The criminal investigations officer accidentally met the 20-year-old and recognized him. He informed his colleagues. The officers arrested the man, who did not resist, near Curt Frenzel Stadion.

Second Suspect Has Not Yet Confessed

Then, on Saturday, police caught a second man, who is allegedly responsible for at least seven cases of exhibitionism. He is a 32-year-old Syrian. He has not confessed yet. But police think that the man harassed mainly young girls and women — also on public transport, especially in Oberhausen. The 32-year-old did not just expose himself, but also touched the victims. The youngest victim is ten years old. He allegedly also exposed himself before three boys between the ages of ten and eleven years.

The suspect was apprehended because two young women — 17 and 19 — saw and recognized the man on a street tram. He had harassed them a few days before on a tram in Ulmer Straße. But initially they did not file a complaint. They now called the police. They followed the man when he exited the tram, and kept the officers informed about the location — he then was arrested in Bahnhofstraße.

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“Swedish” Terrorist Arrested in Rotterdam

As reported in last night’s news feed, four men suspected of plotting “terrorism” were arrested in Rotterdam on Christmas Eve.

Now we learn that one of the detained suspects is a Swede. Or, more likely, a “Swede”.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for this report from the Dutch public broadcaster NOS:

Four terrorism suspects arrested on Christmas Eve in Rotterdam

[Photo caption: Member of arrest team holds a suspect]

On Sunday evening the special police unit DSI arrested four men on Witte de Withstraat in the center of Rotterdam, on suspicion of involvement in Islamic terrorism. Among the suspects is a 29-year-old man from Sweden, reports the Public Ministry.

The Swede had arrived in the Netherlands on a flight from Sweden Sunday afternoon. He was immediately placed under surveillance because the Dutch police had received information from a foreign police service that he was involved in terrorism.

In Rotterdam the Swede was arrested together with three men from Vlaardingen (21), Delft (30), and Gouda (23). The same evening their four residences were searched, two in Vlaardingen, one in Gouda, and one in Delft.

The four men were riding in an auto when they were arrested by police. A photo of the arrest was placed on Twitter.

No Risk Taken

In the residences, no weapons or explosives were found. Computers and cell phones were seized. The four men are in custody and are being interrogated.

According to a spokesperson from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, there is no concrete information that points to an attack. “But in the prevention of a terror attack, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the police take no risks. An indication can be enough to intervene.”

Glass Everywhere

On Facebook a woman whose residence was searched writes that she is being terrorized in her own home. The woman placed the report on the Facebook Page of Project A, an organization for Muslim prisoners in need. Yesterday, a request was placed there for prayers for the arrested men.

According to the woman, her rear door was destroyed, there is glass everywhere, and her belongings and clothes have been turned upside down. She herself was not at home at the time of the entry, and nobody was present at the time of entry at another home. One woman would have been at home during the entry.

Truck Jihad Plot Foiled in Germany

The following article about a foiled Islamic terror attack on a German Christmas market was published before Christmas in the Dutch media. Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this piece from De Telegraaf:

Man (29) wanted to drive into the crowd with a vehicle

ISIS Attack on German Christmas market foiled

KARLSRUHE — The German police arrested a 29-year-old man on Wednesday who planned to attack the Christmas market in Karlsruhe with a vehicle. The man has ties with the Islamic State. This was reported by German media.

According to the German police, the man, Dasbar W., was considering driving a car or truck into people at the ice rink on the Karlsruher Schlossplatz. In order to achieve his goal, he applied several times for the position of driver at various delivery companies.

Propaganda videos

The suspect was arrested in Karlruhe by an arrest team. His home has been searched. What is found there is not clear. It is known that the man made propaganda videos for the Islamic State. He often shared these on various internet sites. He also distributed propaganda material in a chat group.

W. traveled to Iraq several times in 2015 and 2016. There he joined ISIS and was trained in the use of firearms. The man will be brought before the court on Thursday.

Increased supervision

The security check on Christmas markets in Germany has intensified after the bloody attack in December of last year at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing twelve people.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/26/2017

The murder rate in the USA increased by 9% last year, and just five neighborhoods in Chicago were responsible for a third of the increase. Baltimore also showed an increased murder rate, but other major cities such as Los Angeles and Washington D.C. experienced a decline in the number of murders.

In other news, Italy rescued more than 250 migrants last night in the Mediterranean.

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Vienna: Silent Night, Violent Night

The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Vienna: Silent Night, Violent Night

An original translation from Kronen Zeitung:

Violence Against Officers

Vienna: Thugs break female police officer’s hand

December 26, 2017

On Christmas Eve, after three on-duty Viennese police officers were wounded, in part seriously, by thugs, the next attack on an officer followed on Christmas Day: four men downtown who were involved in a fist fight broke the woman’s hand.

According to police spokesman Patrick Maierhofer, the officers were called around 7pm. The reason was a fist fight among four men at Fleischmarkt.

The officers wanted to calm the situation down, but the thugs immediately turned against the police and attacked them verbally and physically. The female officer was taken to hospital with a fracture. Her colleagues arrested the perpetrators. They are four Russian citizens from Chechnya, aged 19, 20, 22 and 30.

Kneed the officer in the back of the neck

On Christmas Eve, three Chechens, a Georgian, and an Afghan attacked police officers in a restaurant at Vienna Stadtbahnbögen. An 18-year-old kneed an officer in the back of the neck from behind. The officer suffered a concussion and bruises. Another policeman was wounded in the shoulder and another on the nose.

Taking the Cross out of Christmas

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Il Messaggero:

Climbs up Christmas Tree on the Square to Remove Cross: Migrant Arrested

A 21-year-old from Gambia climbed up the Christmas tree in Piazza Duca D’Aosta in front of the Central Train Station of Milan in order to remove the cross. The young man, in an agitated state, was stopped before succeeding in his goal and was taken to the Questura (police headquarters) to be identified and charged.

The episode that occurred Friday was only announced on Saturday. “After the Tunisian Gate right in the middle of the square, now we missed an African citizen who tried to remove the symbols of Christmas,” commented Riccardo De Corato, former vice mayor of Milan and group leader of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) in the Lombardy Region. “And all this, he added, happens on the day that the government says yes to the exhibition of a migrant boat in Milano, an operation that will cost 500 million Euros.”

Menorah Vandalized in Heilbronn

The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Germany: Hanukkah Menorah Vandalized in Heilbronn

An original translation from Stimme Heilbronn.

Jewish Hanukkah Menorah Vandalized on the Street

December 26, 2017

Heilbronn. Over Christmas night, the Hanukkah Menorah of the Jewish community on Allee was vandalized. Does the deed have a political background?

By Kilian Krauth

Police are calling it “a sensitive matter”, but they are unable yet to determine whether it was a political deed or stupid mischief.

Upon Stimme’s inquiry, a spokesman confirms that the intelligence services will investigate. Monday morning at 9:45, a pedestrian noticed that the ca. three-metre-high Hanukkah Menorah in the Alley at Synagogengasse had been vandalized.

Many believers feel dumbfounded

The nine-branched candelabrum had been erected by the Jewish Community for the Hanukkah feast, which traditionally coincides with the Christmas season. Several lamps and their glass cartouches were knocked off by unknown perpetrators. The exact time of the deed and the financial extent of damage have not yet been determined.

Heilbronn Police, telephone 07131 1042500, are hoping for clues from witnesses.

A spokesman for the “Friends of the Synagogue” society says that many believers feel “like dumbfounded”. The society asks for donations as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish community, which is not well-off financially.

The Hanukkah Menorah in Heilbronn. Photo: Stimme

Wolfophobia On Dog Island

Matthew Bracken sends this Boxing Day fable for you to ponder during the lull between Christmas and New Year’s.

Note: Alert readers will observe that our rules concerning decorum have been relaxed slightly in Mr. Bracken’s case. This is true of all the fiction we publish here. However, the posted rules for decorum still apply to commenters.

Wolfophobia On Dog Island

by Matt Bracken

Now you young pups sit down and listen to an old dog who didn’t get to be old by being a dummy. Try to sit still and pay attention, because some folks will tell you otherwise about what happened, but they have their own reasons and I have mine, and mine are right and theirs are wrong. After you hear the true story of what happened with the wolves on Dog Island, you’ll understand why you should never forget it. I was there, and this is what happened. Stop fidgeting and pay attention.

In those days, before the wolves came, there were a lot of show dogs on Dog Island, just like now, but back in those days the Standard Poodles were in charge, because for some reason everybody gave them credit for being the smartest dogs around. And compared to most show dogs, Poodles are geniuses, I’ll give them that.

Supposedly that’s why they were put in charge of dividing up the dog food, keeping the water bowls filled, and things like that. And despite their silly fur, Standard Poodles can grow pretty big, so they are not pushovers. And of course the show dogs loved it that the Poodles were in charge, and gave them dog food even though they didn’t work. If you can believe it, the show dogs had almost everybody convinced that they should get fed just for looking so good and raising everybody’s morale. And the poodles agreed with this nonsense and kept the show dogs fed for doing nothing but looking good.

And a big part of the reason for this crazy state of affairs was the fact that Apollo, the boss of the Poodles, was such a damned good bullshit artist. He could really lay it down thick, so that even some of the working dogs agreed with his ideas, such as feeding the show dogs even though they don’t work.

Of course, then like now, us working dogs did all of the work on Dog Island, but even so, Apollo and the other Poodles ran the show. They said that their breed’s specialty was brain work and consisted of managing things for everybody day-to-day. But that was okay, as long as there was enough dog food, and the water bowls got filled. Even though it griped us that the show dogs got fed for doing nothing.

But one thing we all agreed on, working dogs and show dogs, was that we could not let any wolves onto Dog Island. Wolves and dogs were enemies, and that was that.

We knew all about wolves on Dog Island. We could hear them yipping and yapping and mostly howling at the moon the way they do, on their own island which is farther out on the river and downstream a bit. Occasionally a stray wolf will fall into the river or be driven into exile, and they will show up trying to get onto Dog Island, but we never permit this. That was always a big important rule on Dog Island. No wolves. Period.

But then apparently there were some worse-than-usual problems over on Wolf Island. Their moon howling became extreme, and some wolves tried swimming upstream to Dog Island. Normally we drove them off, but this time some Poodles met a smallish male wolf on the beach, and Apollo proposed that we should not drive him back into the river, as was customary.

When I heard about this, I met up with Duke and we went down to the beach to see what was going on. Duke is the biggest German Shepherd, and all the Shepherds and Dobermans and Rottweilers look up to him.

I’m not as big as Duke, but nobody messes with a male Labrador-Pitbull mix who is bigger than any other Labrador Retriever or Pitbull on the island. I like hanging out with Duke, we get along well, and the working dogs all look up to him. When we are running together, Spike and Duke, nobody messes with us, and most of the working dogs want to follow us. And the show dogs know enough to stay the hell out of our way.

But now Apollo was trying to convince us to let one poor wolf who had been forced to flee his home island stay and live among us on Dog Island. Apollo said that all canines are equal, and we must not show prejudice toward our cousin the wolf. He did not choose to be a wolf, he was born that way, and conditions on Wolf Island have become unbearable.

Apollo explained that our guest was a gray wolf, and they were always fighting with the red wolves on Wolf Island. All the game was wiped out by over-hunting, and the wolves were down to hunting each other, with no quarter given and the losers eaten. The refugee wolf had some old and new wounds and was truly a pathetic sight. And I’ll admit there was some satisfaction in seeing one of our eternal enemies reduced to this wretched state. He would even roll over on his back and show his throat, like a complete sissy lap dog. Yes, I’ll confess that it was enjoyable to see a wolf roll over and be submissive before us dogs.

There was plenty of dog food to go around, so we decided to go along with Apollo, and let this one miserable cringing gray wolf stay on Dog Island. It would be a death sentence for him to be sent back to Wolf Island, Apollo said. And we had no trouble with one wolf on Dog Island, even after he regained his strength by eating lots of our dog food. Apollo promised us that this wolf had given up his former carnivorous habits. This wolf must not be judged as a wolf at all anymore. We must not judge him negatively merely for being a wolf, which he did not choose and he cannot help. To do so would be wolfophobic.

But the next day, there were two more wolves who had come ashore, forlorn and desolate like the first wolf had been. These three wolves then became inseparable, and as they became healthy they would run all around Dog Island and generally be a pain in the ass to everybody.

First of all, they could not control their sexual emotions, and if they saw a female dog they would just mount her, if she was in heat, or not. Naturally this angered the female dogs no end, especially when they were not in heat.

And after a week, a golden retriever puppy went missing, and a day or two later, a year-old cocker spaniel. The wolves claimed to know nothing about them, and the Poodles offered no further information.

When Duke heard about the second missing puppy, he came to find me, and together we went down to where the Poodles hang out, which was now also where the three wolves were hanging out. Probably because it was where the Poodles divided up the dog food for everybody.

Me and Duke trotted right up to Apollo, between all the show dogs in the front of the Poodles. At least twenty or more working dogs were following right behind us, so we weren’t worried. Duke said he wanted to have a word with Apollo about the new wolf policy. One wolf had been okay, but not three. He said this while staring at the three wolves, who were lying on their bellies watching us.

The wolves bared their teeth and growled, but continued lying down, muzzles low. Duke said to Apollo, Two puppies are missing, and we think those wolves right there did it. Apollo acted angry and said Duke must not accuse them of such a terrible thing without proof.

And Duke said the wolves are mounting every female at every chance, and this must stop. Apollo responded that this is part of their wolf culture, and we must respect this cultural difference, and permit a certain amount of it, for the sake of good relations between the wolves and dogs.

Duke said, But we don’t want good relations, we want them gone! They are our eternal enemies, and they will kill and eat any dog they catch any chance they get, no matter what they promise.

Apollo got very angry and barked out that Duke and Spike were the leaders of the wolfophobic bigots, and we should be ashamed of how badly we spoke of our new canine cousins, and all canines are equal. Now that they had arrived on peaceful Dog Island, they would live in peace with us. Believe it or not, most of the show dogs were nodding their agreement at this utter nonsense.

And Apollo wasn’t finished. He said that more wolves were going to be accepted as refugees and immigrants from Wolf Island. The ongoing war between the reds and the grays made conditions just too dangerous for any of them to endure.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/25/2017

A commuter bus in Moscow lost control and plunged down the stairs of a pedestrian tunnel in Moscow, killing four people and injuring more than a dozen others. The driver, identified as Viktor Tikhonov, said the bus became stuck in gear and he could not stop it. The authorities do not believe the incident had any connection to terrorism.

In other news, in his Christmas message, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, “We’ll protect Christian culture, not retreat behind concrete blocks and not watch our daughters harassed on New Year’s.”

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Cologne: Antifa Announce Plans to Harass Cops on New Year’s Eve

The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Cologne: Antifa Announce Plans to Harass Cops on New Year’s Eve

by Egri Nök

Cologne — “Cologne Against Right — Antifascist Action Committee” announce that on New Year’s Eve night, they will monitor the police, to prevent “racial profiling” by the police.


New Year’s Eve In Cologne: RACIAL PROFILING IS ILLEGAL — CITIZEN*NESSES WATCH THE POLICE. Source: Köln Gegen Rechts/Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis

The group criticizes that, in order to prevent the mass taharrush of New Year’s Eve 2015 from being repeated, 2016 police stopped thousands of young male Nafris from entering the square between the cathedral and the train station:

Thousands of visitors to downtown were singled out because of the color of their skin, their assumed nationality, and their religious beliefs. They were apprehended and presented to the public as a catch in the glistening floodlights of the Main Train Station Square.

To fully appreciate the bigotry of Antifa there, it is crucial to understand that ethnically a “Nafri” (police abbreviation for a specific group of young, criminal, Northern African illegal migrants) is Mediterranean. Just like Southern Italians are, too, many of whom live in Germany, and are never singled out by the police. It is the behavior — aggressiveness, drunkenness, and showing up in large, male-only groups of young men — and not the color of their skin that “singles” (groups?) Nafris out to the police.

The Antifa state that they, too, were all for security:

Security of a long and healthy life, a secure income, a secure job, safety from pollution and destruction of the environment, security of our citizens’ rights, the security that police and intelligence services play by the rules, and, last but not least, the security to be protected from racial and gender-specific discrimination.

Not once does their long-winding statement mention the security of women.

So, for New Year’s Eve 2017, they announce that they will be observing and recording for the police.

They call upon citizen*nesses[1] to do the same, and to tweet and post on December 31 to gegenrechts@riseup.net and Köln gegen Rechts — Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis (FB) under the hashtag #copwatchcgn

Despite Köln gegen Rechts’ apparent deletion of critical comments, a few have made it through. One commenter asks:

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Danes Tighten Border Controls With Germany

The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Denmark Drastically Tightens Controls At German Border

An original translation from Die Welt:

Every Single Person is Scanned

Denmark Drastically Tightens Controls At German Border

December 23, 2017

In 2016, Denmark introduced controls at the German border, because of the refugee crisis. Since September it has even deployed armed soldiers. Now the country is tightening its border controls once again. Every single car is being examined.

Denmark is tightening controls at the German border. The measure is part of the budget that the parliament in Copenhagen adopted on Friday evening.

Automatic license plate scanners will be installed at all border checkpoints. At the five large checkpoints Frøslev, Padborg, Kruså and the ferry terminals Rødby and Gedser, additional control huts will be established, according to the Danish news agency Ritzau.

At the other checkpoints there will be sample checks with a patrol car, but, if necessary, also with civilian cars and from the air. Denmark tightened the controls at the German borders in January 2016 because of increasing numbers of refugees. The emphasis used to be placed on the five large checkpoints.

Since late September, armed soldiers have been deployed, to take the load off police. In October, the government extended the controls until at least May 12. Reasoning: the risk of terror. The Danish government announced that they saw a risk in rejected asylum seekers from Germany.

Syrian Asylum Seeker Was Planning An Attack

Currently Danish police have arrested a Syrian asylum seeker under terror suspicion. According to their statement, he and another Syrian who was convicted in Germany were planning an attack in Copenhagen. Police announce that the 30-year-old was apprehended in cooperation with the Danish intelligence service.

He and his 21-year-old accomplice wanted to “attack [people] with knives and after that detonate one or multiple explosive devices” in November 2016 in Copenhagen. Their plan failed when the Danish authorities refused entry to the younger of the two, and Danish police arrested him.

Norway Shines

Angelina Jordan is remarkable. An “old soul” who’s been singing since she was two and has now reached the ripe old age of almost-twelve.

This was recorded on Norway radio this year. Angelina has an innate grasp of jazz, something that can’t be taught.

Merry Christmas.