Monthly Archives: August 2022

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/31/2022

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to increase the state’s electricity supply in the face of a weeklong heat wave. Meanwhile, the California Independent System Operator has extended the “Flex Alert” calling for citizens to reduce electricity use. Owners of electric vehicles have been asked not to recharge them while the alert is in effect.

In other news, in an effort to combat inflation, Hungary’s central bank has raised its base interest rate to the highest level in eighteen years.

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Throwing Robert Habeck Under the Bus

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The energy crisis in Germany is severe, and getting worse all the time. The coming cold season looks to be disastrous for the general public, with unpredictable (but likely unpleasant) political consequences for the current government. Scapegoats will undoubtedly be required, and it looks like Economics Minister Robert Habeck may well be the first one.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

“Pretty words are not enough”

The crash of Robert Habeck

Berlin

These are tones that are rarely heard from the government factions about their own minister. But now there is apparently no stopping the SPD and FDP when it comes to Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens). The politician, always celebrated in the media, has become the target of massive attacks from within his own ranks.

The reason is the completely unsuccessful gas surcharge, with which consumers have to support energy multinationals. Now it turns out that even healthy companies can use it to further increase their profits. It was actually intended to save gas importers from bankruptcy.

The first to open fire on Habeck was SPD leader Saskia Esken. Last week she called for the gas surcharge to be changed and repeatedly referred to the responsibility of the Minister of Economics. Next failure: To save his head, Habeck wanted to lower the sales tax on the levy, but overlooked European law. Consequence: The EU banned him from taking this step.

Habeck styling himself as a victim is the last straw

When Habeck complained that things had — literally — “spoiled the day for the last 48 hours” and presented himself as a victim, numerous journalists jumped on the bandwagon and felt sorry for the minister. In the traffic light coalition*, however, more and more politicians were getting frustrated with the self-portrayal. In the case of Habeck, the others are always to blame, it was said. SPD parliamentary group leader Dirk Wiese put it in a nutshell in the Bild am Sonntag: “The Habeck principle works like this: appearances ready for film, technical implementation questionable and in the end the citizen pays for it.”

Other politicians from the SPD and FDP are now demanding that the minister submit a revised version of the gas levy by tomorrow’s government meeting at Meseberg Castle. Suddenly Habeck looks like a schoolboy who hasn’t done his homework.

His obvious incompetence is now being talked about quite openly: both SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil and FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr accuse him of “technical errors”. These should be “eliminated by the cabinet meeting,” demanded Dürr in Bild. The gas levy should “under no circumstances lead to extra returns for companies”. The fact that the FDP accuses a Green of enriching large-scale industry does not happen that often. Dürr warned that Habeck had to be careful not to “make the energy crisis better for worse” with his interventions.

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Enough of the Nuisance!

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I’ve posted several times (most recently here) about the situation at the asylum facility at Ter Apel in the Netherlands. The following German news video provides a fairly detailed account of recent culture-enriching events at Ter Apel.

MissPiggy has translated the German captions for this video. However, where the audio is in English, translations of the captions have been omitted. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


Video link

From the German-language description of the video, also translated by MissPiggy:

In Ter Apel, the Netherlands, a completely overcrowded refugee and migrant camp is causing anger and resentment among the locals. On the other hand, the people seeking shelter in the camp are completely disappointed by the living conditions on site. The camp, designed for 2,000 people, is so overcrowded that hundreds are forced to sleep in the open. Judith Sargentini, national director of Médecins Sans Frontières, describes how 700 people in the camp sleep in the open and cannot take showers or receive medical care.

She says, “When you come here after a long journey as a refugee, you think you find safety, but you find neglect. And that’s how you sleep here. Even if you are healthy, you get sick here.” Local residents, in turn, complain about skyrocketing crime in the area and have now taken to the streets around the camp to protest.

Among them was Eric Wessls, also a resident from the small town, who explains:

“The reason for the protest is that we are fed up with the problems like thefts in stores. People are threatened, people are intimidated, cars and houses are broken into. Enough of the nuisance. And now we see people (asylum seekers) staying outside the asylum center. We say real refugees are welcome, like the people from Ukraine or the people fleeing Islamist terrorism, but these are African young men we can’t tolerate any longer.”

Dutch aid organizations are nevertheless somehow trying to stay in control of the situation and are feeding hundreds of migrants camped outside the overcrowded asylum center. Only the day before, a three-month-old baby died in the camp; the cause of death is still under investigation.

Video transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/30/2022

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91. Mr. Gorbachev, who presided over the U.S.S.R. at the end of the Cold War, died in the hospital after a long struggle with illness.

In other news, sectarian violence in Baghdad has left at least 30 people dead and many others wounded.

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Imam on the Run

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A “French” imam is on the lam after an expulsion order was issued against him due to his incendiary sermons.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Monde:

Imam Hassan Iquioussen can be expelled to Morocco, the Council of State having given its approval

The Minister of Interior had asked for the lifting of an administrative order of suspension of the expulsion request for this preacher, accused of giving “a speech with anti-Semitic content.”

August 30, 2022

Imam Hassan Iquioussen is on the run and has been placed on the list of wanted persons, a source close to the case reported to Agence France-Presse on the evening of Tuesday, August 30.

Earlier in the day, the Council of State, the highest French administrative jurisdiction, gave a green light to his expulsion to Morocco, after a request from the Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, against a ruling from the administrative tribunal of Paris suspending the expulsion of the preacher. The police proceeded to the residence of the Moroccan imam in Lourches, near Valenciennes (North) to arrest him. But they could not find him, according to a source close to the case, who raised the possibility that he is in Belgium.

On July 28, the Minister of the Interior had issued an order for expulsion directed at Mr. Iquioussen due to “a proselytizing speech interspersed with remarks inciting hate and discrimination and carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the Republic.”

Petitioned by Mr. Iquioussen’s lawyers, the Paris administrative tribunal suspended this extradition demand in early August, arguing that the expulsion of the imam, born in France 58 years ago, but with Moroccan nationality, would constitute a “disproportionate attack on his private and family life.”

“Explicit and deliberate acts of provocation of discrimination”

The Interior Minister particularly criticized the imam for “a particularly virulent anti-Semitic speech,” and his sermons advocating the “submission” of women “in favor of men”. The expulsion order also referred to the encouragement of “separatism” and “contempt for certain Republican values, such as secularism and the functioning democracy of the French society.”

In his decision, the interim judge of the Council of State ruled that “his anti-Semitic remarks, going back several years, during numerous widely disseminated conferences, as well as statements on the inferiority of women and submission to men constitute explicit and deliberate acts of provocation to discrimination and hate, justifying the expulsion decision. He (the judge) also ruled that this decision does not pose a serious and manifestly illegal attack on the private and family life of Mr. Iquioussen,” the highest administrative jurisdiction explains in its statement.

In a tweet posted just before the press release by the Council of State, the Interior Minister stated that this decision was, “a great victory for the Republic.” “He will be expelled from France. Once arrested, he will be placed in an administrative detention center,” Mr. Darmanin stated early this evening from the steps of his ministry, noting that “since 2017, 786 radicalized foreigners have been expelled,” and that “74 of them over the course of recent months.”

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Cultural Appropriators Must Be Cancelled!

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The prohibition against “cultural appropriation” seems to be in force now in Germany, just as it is on this side of the Atlantic.

The following report doesn’t mention it, but I would expect that “The Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would have to be cancelled, too. Not only is it an epic poem about Injuns written by a honky, but it even uses the word “wigwam”! Which is almost too much for a sensitive soul to bear.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

Discussion about “cultural appropriation”

Dieter Hallervorden: That is patronization!

Berlin

With biting irony, the actor and theater manager Dieter Hallervorden got involved in the debate about so-called “cultural appropriation”. Regarding the discussion about the Indian chief Winnetou created by the writer Karl May, the 86-year-old said: “I think we live in a kind of sensitivity cult where other people want to dictate to us which slalom we have to use to go around alleged blunders in the future.”

Hallervorden attacked the advocates of a prohibition culture harshly: “I take it as patronization,” said the director of the Berlin Schloßpark-Theater. Background: The Ravensburger publishing house stopped the delivery of two children’s books for the film of the same name, “The Young Chief Winnetou”, in mid-August. Because one is aware “that we have hurt the feelings of others with the Winnetou titles”.

Also ban Goethe’s “Faust”?

If one followed this logic, Goethe’s “Faust” would also have to be banned, Hallervorden averred. “Because the way Faust approaches Gretchen is not only outdated, but downright misogynistic.” And he said sarcastically of characters invented by Walt Disney such as Donald Duck: “Talking ducks — don’t you do a certain animal species a bitter wrong here?” He could only recommend that everyone not take the topic seriously and “have a great laugh about it.”

Afterword from the translator:

Dieter Hallervorden also criticized gendering last year , calling it the rape of the German language. I call all of this the rape of humanity.

Unfortunately, all of this is nothing new. Over 200 years ago the busybody crowd around Reverend William Wilberforce did the same. They even had Cinderella banned, among many other fairy tales, because the story painted stepmothers in a bad light, and fairy tales in general were thought to take people away from “Christian values”— needless to say, it was THEIR “Christian” values.

And now the same crowd is coming for Karl May, a 19th-century German writer of travel adventure novels, ALL of which I read while growing up. Reading his books growing up made me leave Germany and Europe and have my own adventures. Pity, though, my collection of his books burned along with my house back in 2015.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/29/2022

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Czechia has the most expensive electricity in the EU as well as the highest level of debt. Meanwhile, the Czech prime minister warned that the country cannot be self-sufficient in food.

In other news, a record fifty migrant boats landed at the Italian island of Lampedusa in the space of just 24 hours.

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Thanks to Dean, DV, Reader from Chicago, Roger, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Affirmative-Action Jihad in Lugano

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A woman from the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland converted to Islam and became a mujahidette because she wanted to prove that a woman can be just as good as a man at slaughtering infidels. Now she’s on trial for stabbing two people in Lugano.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Corriere del Ticino:

Trial — Stabbing at the Manor [department store]: “Would you do it again?” “Yes, but better”

The 29-year-old who stabbed two persons in Lugano is questioned: “I wanted to show that a woman can also carry out a terrorist act.” The expert: The perfect storm.

“If you could go back, would you do it again?” asked the judge, Fiorenza Bergomi, toward the end of the questioning of the woman in the trial before the Federal Penal Tribune for stabbing two persons at the Lugano Manor on 24 November 2020. “Yes,” she answered. “But better”.

There is no remorse for what the defendant did, a Ticino woman of 29 who converted to Islam who has a history of mental problems and in 2016 attempted to travel to Syria to marry (“I want you, I want to fight with you,” she herself recalled today in court). “They don’t make me either hot or cold,” she added shortly afterward as the photographs were shown on the TPF screen of the wounds she inflicted on her victim, a woman who survived the assault…

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Beware of Criminal Migrants!

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‘Beware of criminal migrants — Enter at your own risk’

Political leaders in Germany (and all other Western nations, for that matter) never acknowledge or refer to the fact that culture-enrichers are driving a massive increase in violent crime wherever they are present in significant numbers. To compensate, in the German city of Cottbus, young activists have taken matters into their own hands and put up warning signs about migrant violence.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from JournalistenWatch:

Action: Cottbus — Violence Capital of Brandenburg

In no other Brandenburg city were there more violent crimes in 2021 than in Cottbus. Various police and press reports indicate that the crimes are often committed by what the police call “youth groups”: Crimes include threats, physical harm, robbery and even murder. The pedestrian zones in the city center of Cottbus and the parks have become hotspots for crime.

A contribution from “EinPercent”

Residents report that anyone who walks through Cottbus with open eyes knows that one important fact is being kept secret: the “gangs of young people” are largely migrants. However, local politicians and the police do not want to go into detail about the origin of the imported perpetrators. New protests are feared too much.

July, Cottbus, Goethe Park: A dispute escalates, a “youth” pulls out a knife and injures an opponent. In this case, too, only the research of the local AfD district association revealed that the perpetrator was a young Lebanese. In their public relations work, the police refrain from naming the origin of the perpetrators. This also heats up the atmosphere in the city. Since security authorities and local politics are failing, local activists want to set an example.

“Enter at your own risk”

Young Cottbus activists have intervened and put up warning signs for the citizens of Cottbus at the entrances to the Cottbus Goethe Park, the site of the knife attack by the young Lebanese.

If the police fail to educate citizens about the dangers posed by foreign violent criminals, the young people of Cottbus must take over. The aim is to increase the pressure and to show the responsible politicians that this policy of silence does not work in southern Brandenburg. An example that could set a precedent.

Afterword from the translator:

If I were a bookie, I’d take bets on how quickly these warning signs are taken down by the authorities. We can’t have that, now can we? That would make out of the whole narrative of a “peaceful kumbaya society” another monstrous LIE. Censorship MUST be applied to keep the majority in fetters and the authorities in POWER. Just as it was drummed into me as a child by my Grandfather; “The truth doesn’t need the censorship of the lie, but the lie on the other hand needs the censorship of the truth to survive.”

The Winters of Our Discontent

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You can’t say we haven’t been warned. What lies in store for us has been repeatedly forecast by political apparatchiks throughout the West — who, strangely enough, are all alumni and alumnae of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Program.

The future for us peons can now be clearly descried. Those of us who survive will shiver in our hovels, eke out an existence on our government-issued digital stipend, and eat the bugs. And the planet will be saved!

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Uncut News:

Next warning from a WEF Young Global Leader: ‘Up to ten difficult winters ahead’

Government officials across Europe are warning that a “difficult winter” is ahead. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, has stated that not only this winter but also the coming years will be difficult.

“The next five to ten winters will be difficult,” said De Croo at port company ICO Terminals in Zeebrugge. “The coming months will be difficult, the coming winters will be difficult. That’s what you can expect. Hope for the best, be prepared for the worst.”

The year 2030 will dawn in eight “difficult winters”. Coincidence?

The prime minister added: “As a country we can handle it.” De Croo has faced constant criticism on social media. For example, the psychologist Steve Van Herreweghe wrote: “Enjoy your last harsh winter as a self-proclaimed mini-star and Schwab doll. Not only did they not achieve anything, but they also disproved a lot. We’ll dry a tear of joy and are already waving.”

Following De Croo, French President Emmanuel Macron, also a WEF Young Global Leader and former Rothschild banker, also warned of a difficult winter and other problems ahead. “Perhaps this is the end of an era of plenty,” he said ominously.

“Our country is at a turning point. It’s going to be a difficult winter,” Macron said at his government’s first meeting after the summer break. “This could be the end of an era of abundance. From a plethora of technical products that always seemed to be available. Of wealth on land and water.”

The Spanish government also warned of bad times. “We don’t know what kind of winter is coming. The winter will be very harsh,” Defense Minister Margarita Robles said in an interview with the radio station NRE.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/28/2022

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Hundreds of illegal migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend. Meanwhile, an illegal immigrant from Morocco was arrested for robbing a blind woman in France.

In other news, in order to encourage the use of electric vehicles, a bank in Australia has stopped approving loans for the purchase of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Mass Immigration: Austria Says “Forget It!”

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from JournalistenWatch:

“No way! No chance!” — Austria launches anti-mass migration campaign

Like Germany, Austria has long since reached its breaking point due to a destructive migration policy. ÖVP [Österreichische Volkspartei, Austrian People’s Party] Interior Minister Karner wants to use a “No Way! No Chance!” campaign to discourage potential migrants and combat people-smuggling. Criticism always comes reflexively from the same side.

“We have record numbers of asylum applications. There were 42,000 in 2022 by the end of July. That’s more than in the whole of last year,” said Austria’s ÖVP Interior Minister Gerhard Karner. Karner’s ministry has therefore presented an online campaign that — as has been used successfully in Australia since 2014 — is intended to discourage migrants from making their way to Europe. According to Karner, there are many asylum applications from people from countries who “have practically no chance of asylum”. Nationally and at EU level, it must be clearly signaled that there would be no positive prospects for certain applicants, for example from “holiday countries”.

For example, pictures show a border soldier with a shepherd dog standing in front of a border fence with barbed wire, with the words “There is no way” underneath. Other pictures read in different languages: “You cannot stay” or “You will fail.”

In Austria criticism comes — how could it be otherwise? — from the same green corner. The Green Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic — like her German comrades — puts the well-being of migrants above that of their own compatriots, and demands: “We have to create legal escape routes. The Greens and the People’s Party have agreed to that in their Government program and give people the opportunity to apply for a work visa.” The Greens unashamedly spread the lie that mass migration from the Muslim poorhouses of this world would solve the alleged labor shortage.

The Viennese migration researcher Judith Kohlenberger — she is a permanent commentator on the subject of migration on Austrian public radio and writes regularly for the left-wing combat newspaper FALTER — criticizes that there is no evidence whatsoever for the success of such information campaigns.

A false claim by this mass migration cheerer. How it works was shown in 2014 by the then-conservative Australian government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott with the campaign “No Way” — “No chance — Australia will not be your homeland”. The government in Canberra spread this message in a total of 17 languages — from Albanian to Arabic, Farsi and Somali to Vietnamese and placed advertisements in several countries — including in Pakistani newspapers. The unmistakable message: Any boat illegally entering Australian waters will be pushed aside. “This rule applies to everyone: families, children, unaccompanied children, the educated and professionals,” the government clarified. “Think twice before you waste your money. People-smugglers lie.”

As a result, the number of mass migrations via boat landings fell drastically. In 2014 only one boat was registered — a year later not a single one landed. Migrants who do make it to Australia have been held in detention centers abroad — in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. And despite this success — in the end countless people were saved from drowning — the intolerable criticism by the Greens. It was “obscene” that the Australian Government was investing the equivalent of $16 million in a “fear campaign”, according to the then-migration policy spokeswoman for the Australian Greens, Sarah Hanson-Young.

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Vehicular Jihad in Brussels

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Last Friday afternoon a young “Belgian” drove his van at high speed into the tables of a café terrace in Brussels, injuring six people. The youthful mujahid was relatively incompetent in his jihad, since none of his victims required hospitalization. Nevertheless, the attack achieved its intended effect, which was to strike terror into the hearts of the infidels.

The incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

The following news videos feature surveillance camera footage of the rampaging van. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

The first video was translated from the Dutch by Gary Fouse:


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The second video was translated from the French by MissPiggy:


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Below are excerpts from stories about the incident in three Belgian papers (two in Dutch and one in French, all translated by Gary Fouse).

From De Morgen:

The incident took place around 12:50 this afternoon on the Sint-Michael Street, a side street off Nieuwstraat. There the driver of a white van drove at a high speed into the outdoor tables of the City Pizza snack bar and the Le Corbeau Tavern.

In the incident, six persons were injured. None of them had to be taken to the hospital.

After the collision, the driver fled at a high rate of speed. The police set up a perimeter and, among other things, used a helicopter to track down the driver. In addition, victims and witnesses were interviewed and surveillance camera images analyzed.

From Nieuwsblad:

Almost immediately after the incident, it was thought there were terrorist motives. Witnesses claim that they heard the perpetrator shout “Allahu Akhbar!” or something of that nature. The OCAD, the Agency for Coordination and Threat Analysis, based on the initial evaluation, raised the threat level from 2 to 3 (serious), but shortly afterwards it was brought back to level 2.

La Libre:

According to information given by HLN News, the driver of the van is reportedly Muhammed G., a Belgian, aged 28, from Saint-Josse-ten-Node, born in Turkey. It has been confirmed to La Libre that he is not known for ties to terrorism. Nor does he have any ties whatsoever to recent incidents in Antwerp.

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Masks for Thee, But Not for Me

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Once again, the Powers That Be in Germany, as elsewhere, exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on us peons.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Scholz: The mask requirement on airplanes does not apply to the government

Berlin/Montreal

After pictures show Olaf Scholz (SPD) and his Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) on the plane to Montreal without a mask, the Chancellor confirmed that everything was correct. You have “clear regulations regarding the readiness to fly”. Meaning: Masks only have to be worn on board an Airbus A340 if normal citizens fly with them.

According to Scholz at a press conference in Canada, there are “clear rules” for government flights. And he stuck to them, just like Habeck and the journalists who were traveling with him. You don’t need to wear a mask. The Federal Press Office had previously pointed out that each passenger had to present a negative PCR test that was not more than 24 hours old. [Yeah, right.]

Infection Protection Act provides no exception

According to the current legal situation, a negative PCR test does not exempt you from the mask requirement. The Infection Protection Act states that passengers and staff must “wear a respiratory mask (FFP2 or comparable) or a medical face mask (mouth and nose protection) during transport”. No exception has been expressly formulated — neither for the submission of a Corona test nor for government aircraft. The regulation applies to all aircraft that take off from German soil.

Germany is the only country in Europe that still requires the wearing of a face mask on planes and in rail traffic. While other states have allowed their measures to expire, the cabinet wants to introduce further restrictions today for the population from October to April. The obligation to wear masks on means of transport and indoors should become an integral part of life for the Winter months. According to the proposals of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP), only those who are vaccinated every three months can be free of this.

Scholz “happy” about planned restrictions

Scholz said in Canada that he was “happy” about the very intensive and very timely preparation of the necessary legislation so that “the right decisions” could be made in the fall.

The public discussion about the chancellor and vice-chancellor ignoring the rules they issued for the population has not led to any rethinking. There was also no obligation to wear a mask on the onward flight of the government plane from Montreal to Newfoundland. There were also no changes to the self-imposed rules for the return flight to Berlin that took place on Wednesday night.

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