Each of the videos below concerns a brawl among “New Germans”. Actually, the Turkish rappers in the second video aren’t all that new — they’re probably third-generation “Germans”.
The first video describes a brawl by “youths” at a German girls’ school. Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.
The translator includes these explanatory notes:
Freshly arrived refugees brawl in a girls’ school. A young lady named Jessica, who was then a 16-year-old student at the school, is recounting the events.
As far as I can tell, some of these juvenile refugees actually became students. The school ran out of room, so there weren’t enough seats in the cafeteria, and the brawling started because a couple of these refugee students were complaining that girls didn’t give up their seats to them.
I was unable to find out what school this happened in. There are no details, but it says that it happened in 2015.
The second video shows a YouFeud — that is, a rivalry between YouTube rappers in Berlin that turns into a violent confrontation in meatspace. Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript #1:
| 0:00 | Hello, Jessica. —Hello. | |
| 0:03 | It’s nice to have you here. —I’m glad to be here. | |
| 0:06 | OK, and there’s a special reason why you are here, right, | |
| 0:09 | which is that you told me that back when this | |
| 0:12 | refugee crisis began, | |
| 0:15 | you were 16 years old, | |
| 0:18 | That’s right? —Yes. | |
| 0:21 | And back then, directly next to your school | |
| 0:24 | a container town for refugees was built. | |
| 0:27 | Yes, that’s correct. | |
| 0:30 | And now… tell us how your school | |
| 0:33 | school had become actively involved in this, | |
| 0:36 | and how it all went down. | |
| 0:39 | We had… we were put in front of facts, | |
| 0:42 | our principal walked through all the rooms, | |
| 0:45 | all of the classes, | |
| 0:48 | and told everyone that there’s now this container town for refugees | |
| 0:51 | next to us, and that we should please be there for them, | |
| 0:54 | that we welcome them… so they feel comfortable here… | |
| 0:59 | They were allowed to use our cafeteria, and eat whenever they wanted to, | |
| 1:02 | come into our school whenever they wanted to, | |
| 1:05 | and, yeah, that’s what that was like. | |
| 1:08 | So this was a true “welcoming culture”. | |
| 1:11 | Exactly, yes. And there were actually “welcome” signs everywhere, | |
| 1:14 | we were told to do that, | |
| 1:17 | write WELCOME on posters, exactly. | |
| 1:20 | That is madness. —Precisely. Yes. | |
| 1:23 | Yes, oh, well, and then… | |
| 1:26 | you finally saw them for the first time, | |
| 1:29 | when they came, you saw how all that was built up… | |
| 1:32 | Uh, yeah, we didn’t really realize that, it was on the other side of the street, | |
| 1:35 | but they came to us, | |
| 1:38 | though I think it wasn’t all of them, | |
| 1:42 | because if all of the refugees had come to us, | |
| 1:46 | the school — then we couldn’t have entered the school anymore. | |
| 1:49 | So, yeah, first some just came and looked around, | |
| 1:52 | and then we welcomed them in the cafeteria with our signs, | |
| 1:55 | and yeah, like that… | |
| 1:58 | With those welcome posters? —Yes, exactly. | |
| 2:01 | And were you told to do this by the teachers? | |
| 2:04 | Yes, from the school principal, that was her idea… | |
| 2:07 | Yeah. —Yes. | |
| 2:10 | And when they came to the school, in what manner did they behave? | |
| 2:13 | Actually totally normal, | |
| 2:16 | until something happened… | |
| 2:19 | So let me interrupt here, what do you mean by normal? | |
| 2:22 | Uh, so normal, what I mean is, | |
| 2:25 | basically — they were there, | |
| 2:28 | everyone heard that they were there now, | |
| 2:31 | they were talking with each other, but other than that they didn’t really | |
| 2:34 | make themselves noticeable at first, at least not in the beginning, | |
| 2:37 | everything was fine in the beginning, and everyone behaved themselves. | |
| 2:40 | Yeah… —And how did you experience them? | |
| 2:43 | Were they friendly, were they nice? | |
| 2:46 | Yeah, I was lucky enough that I had a girlfriend | |
| 2:49 | Who understood Arabic, and that’s why | |
| 2:52 | I could converse better with them, and | |
| 2:55 | actually a lot of them were nice, but what I actually | |
| 2:58 | noticed was that there absolutely no women came along! | |
| 3:01 | That really bothered me, that there really only were men | |
| 3:04 | that came to our school. —Yes, well, that’s what we read everywhere, | |
| 3:07 | that there were only men, for whatever reason… | |
| 3:10 | Yes. —Yes. And then you told me that | |
| 3:13 | something happened on the schoolyard… | |
| 3:16 | Yes. —Or let me say, there were a lot of girls, right? | |
| 3:19 | So how did they behave towards you? | |
| 3:22 | No respect. I simply can’t say any more than that. | |
| 3:25 | Simply no respect… we | |
| 3:28 | experienced one instance with my girlfriend, | |
| 3:31 | when we sat in the cafeteria, | |
| 3:34 | we ate our lunch, and then these two refugee students walked past us, | |
| 3:37 | and my girlfriend understood what they were talking about. | |
| 3:40 | They said, “Why don’t women in Germany | |
| 3:43 | have to get up when men sit down?” | |
| 3:46 | Really. —And the other refugee student said, “I don’t know, either, | |
| 3:49 | what’s going on here in Germany.” | |
| 3:52 | That’s what they said, these two refugees, | |
| 3:55 | and it was just entirely too bad that my girlfriend had understood them, | |
| 3:58 | and she went to… —Your friend was from Syria as well, right? | |
| 4:01 | Exactly, yes. And so my friend, | |
| 4:04 | she understood them, and so she | |
| 4:07 | told a refugee friend because we were so shocked, we couldn’t believe | |
| 4:10 | that was true, that they could say such a thing, that they thought like that, | |
| 4:13 | I mean they were in Germany, they should’ve adapted, | |
| 4:16 | because we wanted to coexist here at the school. | |
| 4:19 | And uh, exactly, so then this friend of ours | |
| 4:22 | he went over to them and he said, | |
| 4:25 | “Excuse me, what was that about? Here in Germany, | |
| 4:28 | that’s how we do things, and here girls can stay seated if they want to.” | |
| 4:31 | And that’s when troubles started. That’s when s*** hit the fan. | |
| 4:34 | And they started to throw trays around, and they started screaming, | |
| 4:37 | “What do you want from us, what do you want from us!” | |
| 4:40 | And they were just so agitated, it’s hard to put into words, | |
| 4:43 | and then they went off on each other, | |
| 4:46 | and then they attacked our friend, | |
| 4:49 | until the teachers… they didn’t even know what to do anymore! | |
| 4:52 | They had… they really were, they were afraid. | |
| 4:55 | I saw fear in their eyes. | |
| 4:58 | They didn’t know what they were supposed to do. But that wasn’t all. | |
| 5:01 | It only started in the cafeteria, but then | |
| 5:04 | suddenly all refugees, uh, because we have many classes at the school | |
| 5:07 | that were letting these refugees | |
| 5:10 | sit in, and be taught German, etc., | |
| 5:13 | and there were international preparation classes, | |
| 5:16 | and all those refugees then banded together with the other refugees | |
| 5:19 | and they all stood outside. | |
| 5:22 | The entire schoolyard was suddenly packed with people, | |
| 5:25 | and then of course our people came into the mix, | |
| 5:28 | and then they [refugees] started to hit people, | |
| 5:31 | and we did whatever we could, we didn’t even want to hit back, | |
| 5:34 | and we shouldn’t forget what this event started with: | |
| 5:37 | it was all about a seat in the cafeteria! | |
| 5:40 | And… exactly, and then… —And then they immediately went and got reinforcements right? | |
| 5:43 | Yes exactly! Within two minutes, like, I’m gonna get my brother, my dad, | |
| 5:46 | my whatever, but | |
| 5:49 | that wasn’t the end of it yet! | |
| 5:52 | When my girlfriend and I then had class, | |
| 5:55 | class went a little longer that day, until 5:30pm, | |
| 5:58 | and so after class we walked outside with our friend, and | |
| 6:01 | then suddenly there stood 20, 30 men, | |
| 6:04 | men, not boys, full grown men, | |
| 6:07 | with full beards. | |
| 6:10 | Where did these men come from? I thought they were juvenile refugees. | |
| 6:13 | Yes exactly! That is true, but those were the fathers of the juveniles, | |
| 6:16 | they were the fathers of these guys, | |
| 6:19 | but not just the fathers, there were more, | |
| 6:22 | there were brothers, everybody! | |
| 6:25 | So one really was afraid. I was really afraid for my friends. | |
| 6:28 | And where they all came from was of course not known. | |
| 6:31 | Well they came, they were with the people | |
| 6:34 | that started the fight with us in the cafeteria, | |
| 6:37 | that’s where they came from, | |
| 6:40 | they [the guys in the cafeteria] called them all in. | |
| 6:43 | You’re saying they were acquaintances and relatives | |
| 6:46 | of people who already were living here in Germany? —Yes exactly. —That is interesting. —Yes… | |
| 6:49 | And how did this all end? —Yeah, so that one guy at the center of it all, | |
| 6:52 | of this incident, one month later | |
| 6:55 | he was kicked out of school, | |
| 6:58 | for the reason that he also | |
| 7:01 | started another fight, | |
| 7:04 | and he couldn’t behave himself, [unintelligible] | |
| 7:07 | it was the exactly same thing, but I don’t know any more details, | |
| 7:10 | I just know he was kicked out of school. All I know is | |
| 7:13 | if we were to behave like this we would’ve been kicked out of school | |
| 7:16 | a long time ago, that is just really unfair. | |
| 7:19 | OK, Jessica, this was really interesting, and I hope | |
| 7:22 | that we can hear from you again, so that | |
| 7:25 | you can tell us more of stories of your experiences. | |
| 7:28 | Yes. —We need to hear this stuff, | |
| 7:31 | and like I said, many thanks to you and until next time. | |
| 7:34 | Thank you. |
Video transcript #2:
| 00:00 | There was a violent clash of people. Philipp Henkel captured | |
| 00:03 | the images and has the background on the story. | |
| 00:06 | What is normally expected from rival soccer club hooligans has now happened among | |
| 00:10 | the fans of two self-proclaimed YouTube stars. | |
| 00:13 | After a provocation the fists begin to fly. | |
| 00:18 | The result was a mass brawl with more than 50 individuals | |
| 00:22 | that could only be brought under control with a large contingent of police. | |
| 00:27 | A policewoman was injured during the arrest of one of the suspects, who sprayed an irritating gas | |
| 00:36 | in her face. In addition to that, another police officer was injured, | |
| 00:39 | and he had to be treated by paramedics. | |
| 00:42 | Pictured here are the YouTubers Thatsbekir and Bahar_al_amood. Thatsbekir has 260,000 subscribers. | |
| 00:48 | The rapper seems to have just as many insults in his song lyrics. —“You f***er, why did you | |
| 00:52 | write to my fans? You’re ten years older and that gives you a h***-on” — Until now, | |
| 00:56 | the two YouTubers had only verbally abused each other publicly | |
| 00:59 | on the internet. —“Boy, for you it is only about fame and the internet — that’s your goal.” | |
| 01:02 | “No, no, no. That’s what you’re all about, fame and whatever you f***ing idiot” | |
| 01:06 | Their meet-up on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz especially attracted their fans who are young people | |
| 01:10 | with a high propensity for violence. —We saw how | |
| 01:14 | the one YouTuber came from behind and then two boys whistled | |
| 01:17 | and said, “He’s there,” and then people came running. Then it all started. | |
| 01:21 | Nine people were arrested. The police made an appeal to the public and to the fans. | |
| 01:26 | Please don’t blindly follow these sort of announcements and each one should seriously consider | |
| 01:32 | his own actions, because violence is never the right goal. | |
| 01:36 | It only leads to injuries and severe penalties. | |
| 01:39 | Police are investigating for grievous bodily harm and aggravated disturbance of the public peace. |