Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/31/2024

A “controlled explosion” on a London film set sparked a fire that destroyed a van and damaged two other vehicles near the O2 arena. The London Fire Brigade was called to put out the blaze. Video from the scene showed a burning red “BBC News World” lorry, but BBC News said there was no BBC News involvement in the event.

In other news, the Israel Defense Forces said today that several bodies were found in the Gaza Strip which could be the remains of Israeli hostages, but the bodies have not yet been identified.

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A Gold Medal for the Bladed Weapons Olympians

It appears that the Paris Olympic Games have been extended, to allow for the intramural Afghan knife-fighting competition.

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

Paris: Four injured during brawl between Afghans in the middle of the street

by Guillaume Poingt
August 31, 2024

The incident occurred on Rue Dormoy in the 18th arrondissement during the late morning on Saturday. Six individuals, two of whom were armed with knives, were arrested.

A brawl between Afghan nationals produced four wounded Saturday, 31 August at around 11:45am on Rue Dormoy (Paris 18e), Le Figaro learned from police sources. The wounded were treated by emergency services in absolute or relative urgency. A security perimeter was visible on the street where the incident occurred in the late morning while traffic was interrupted.

In the images circulating on social media, we can see some thirty individuals, some armed with clubs or wooden boards, confronting each other in the middle of the street. Six individuals, including two carrying knives, were arrested, the prefecture of police tells Le Figaro.

Comrade, Make Sure You Conform to the Norm!

A supermarket chain in Germany has launched an advertising campaign designed to “nudge” customers away from voting for the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany).

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius:

“Nobody is going to re-educate me. I have my own opinion!”: This is how EDEKA customers react to the supermarket’s new campaign

The supermarket chain EDEKA recently heated up tempers with an advertising campaign of its own devising. Shortly before the elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, the company appealed to its customers: “Blue is not a good choice.” With the advertisements published in major newspapers, in this manner EDEKA made a hidden appeal not to vote for the AfD.

Instead, the advert said: “Yellow bananas, red tomatoes, green lettuce, purple grapes, orange carrots, pink dragon fruit: EDEKA’s fruit and vegetable department is a colorful mix.” However, if you look closely, you won’t see one colour: blue. And that’s no coincidence. Blue foods are a warning from nature that tells us: “Caution! I might be intolerant!” According to EDEKA, evolution has taught people that blue is “not a good choice.” The advert is rounded off with a recommendation: “So let’s read the warnings correctly for the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg in September — and ensure that we live together in harmony.”

Numerous EDEKA operators have already distanced themselves from the campaign. NIUS reporter Marc Sierzputowski asked EDEKA customers in southern Brandenburg what they thought of the new advertising. Elections will be held in Brandenburg on September 22nd. In the polls, the AfD is currently in first place with 24%, ahead of the SPD [Socialists] (20 percent), the CDU [Christian Democrats] (19%) and BSW [Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance] (17%). The customers’ answers are clear. Nobody here wants to be re-educated. A customer in front of the EDEKA market in Lausitz remarked in a conversation with NIUS: “I am a grown man and do what I want and nothing else.”

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An Excess of Tolerance

Cape Verde is a tropical archipelago of the coast of West Africa. It is populated by black and mixed-race people who are descended from slaves brought to the islands by the Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Mougins is a town in southeastern France that is set in idyllic surroundings on a hilltop just above Cannes, on the Côte d’Azur. Last Monday the tranquility of Mougins was shattered when a migrant from Cape Verde with an extensive criminal record (including but not limited to assaulting police officers) ran over and killed the deputy chief of police. The driver maintains that he did not run over his victim deliberately, but eyewitnesses and video evidence suggest otherwise.

The following video features remarks made to the press by the widow of the slain deputy police chief. Below is an excerpt from the introduction to the video at RAIR Foundation:

France’s reckless open-border policies and left-wing justice system allowed a violent criminal migrant to roam free, resulting in the brutal murder of Deputy Police Chief Éric Comyn, a devoted husband and father; his widow, Harmonie, now condemns the state for putting dangerous migrants above the safety of French citizens, holding it directly responsible for her husband’s death and their children’s loss.

The murder of beloved French Deputy Police Chief Éric Comyn has not only left deep scars in the municipality of Mougins but has also sent shockwaves across France, exposing the profound failures of a justice system that many believe is broken. Comyn, who was a husband and the father of two children, aged 12 and 16, was due to retire in May 2025 after more than 30 years of service. A criminal migrant ran him over during a routine traffic check — an event that has ignited widespread outrage and demands for accountability.

Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/30/2024

A woman stabbed and wounded five people this evening on a bus in the German town of Siegen. Police arrested the alleged attacker, who is said to be a German national with mental problems. The incident is unrelated to terrorism.

In other news, a powerful explosion shook a gas station in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden this evening. Five, eleven, or thirteen people were killed, depending on the report, and many more were injured. The incident has nothing to do with terrorism.

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Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay?

It pays quite well, at least for the criminals being deported from Germany to Afghanistan. You get to come to Germany, live on the dole, rob and rape to your heart’s content, and then they give you a cool €1,000 when they send you home. What’s not to like?

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

€1,000 in tax money for each

Germany deports 28 criminals to Afghanistan

For the first time in three years, Germany is sending Afghan criminals back to their homeland — and giving each criminal €1,000. The well-known rapist of a 14-year-old girl can also look forward to the money.

Berlin

For the first time since the Taliban seized power, Germany has deported people to Afghanistan. A total of 28 Afghan criminals were on a plane that took off from Leipzig on Friday morning and was bound for Kabul, reported Der Spiegel.

Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit confirmed the incident: “These were all Afghan nationals, all of whom were convicted criminals who had no right to remain in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued.” Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) also confirmed the procedure on the internet platform X. “Germany is deporting 28 criminals to Afghanistan today. Our security counts, our constitutional state is acting. I would like to thank the federal police and the states for their close cooperation,” wrote the minister.

There were no negotiations with Afghanistan

The criminals were driven from various federal states to Leipzig. Each deportee received an additional €1,000 in cash. A doctor was also on board.

Among those who benefited from the €1,000 were the rapist from Illerkirchberg, who raped and abused a 14-year-old girl for hours, an Afghan with more than 160 criminal offenses, and other child rapists.

The deportation is said to have been in preparation for two months. However, negotiations were not held with the Taliban regime, but with the Emirate of Qatar. Due to the “difficult conditions”, Germany “asked key regional partners for support to make the repatriation possible”, confirmed Hebestreit.

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Jihad Among the Tombstones

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Reformatorisch Dagblad:

Public Prosecutor: Destruction of Utrecht graves fits with jihadist ideology

August 26, 2024

The manner in which almost 100 graves were destroyed in the Utrecht Daelwijck cemetery in May of this year fits with the “jihadist” ideology. That is explained by an Arabist in the criminal case file that the justice system has built against the 21-year-old Mohamed B. from Vleuten. On Monday, he appeared for the first time in an open hearing at the criminal court in Utrecht. At the conclusion, he offered his apologies for the destruction.

Besides the desecration of graves, the Public Prosecutor’s Office suspects Mohamed B. of participating in a terrorist organization and preparing to carry out a serious crime, such as causing an explosion. B. reportedly almost traveled to Somalia last year to join ISIS. He was stopped by his father. Then he was in a deradicalization program and reportedly repented. He reportedly went looking for recruiters in order to unmask them.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office does not believe that and thinks that B. wanted to give a different impression to outsiders. B. allegedly remained in contact with jihadist sympathizers and allegedly transferred money to organizations that adhered to that ideology. On the walls of his cell in which he sits in pre-trial detention, he reportedly has written jihadist texts in chalk, according to the prosecutor. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a co-suspect has stated that B.’s terrorist ambitions have not lessened.

B. was arrested shortly after the desecration of the graves and has been in custody since. He reportedly filmed the desecration of the graves. His lawyer is asking the court to set B. free under conditions so that he can continue with his therapy process. “There is sufficient supervision and built-in control,” according to the counselor. She denies that the destruction of the graves had anything to do with any terrorist ideology.

The prosecutor opposed suspending the pre-trial arrest. The danger of a repeat offense is too great, according to him. With the destruction of the graves, B. has crossed over from just talking about violence to actually committing violence, he argued. According to the court, the suspicion is too serious and a suspension could not be explained to the public.

Thus, B. will remain in custody until at least the next interim hearing, which is scheduled for November 18.

We Sneer at Your Silly Knife Ban!

After last week’s knife jihad in Solingen, the dead victims cry out to be avenged, and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has heeded their call: she wants to ban longer knives and impose knife-free zones at public events.

That’s sure to take care of the problem. I can just imagine Ahmed saying to Mohammed: “Say, we’ve got to ditch these knives — this is a knife-free zone!”

Yup. It’s bound to work.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius:

After Solingen terror: ISIS makes fun of German knife bans!

After the Islamist terror attack in Solingen, calls for political changes are piling up. One of them: knife bans and such no-go zones at large events: “We will further restrict the use of knives in public spaces in order to increase protection against knife attacks. And I think that is very, very important,” said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) on Thursday in Berlin.

The terrorists of the so-called “Islamic State”, in whose name the knife terrorist from Solingen committed the murder, are deriding the actions of the federal government as the incompetence of the “infidels”. Security expert Peter R. Neumann was the first to report on this in Die Terrorlage.

The weekly ISIS newsletter al Naba states under the headline “A Jihad in Europe”:

“Imagine how the knife — present in every household — has become a source of terror and harm, which has now even led the German government to call for ‘new restrictions on the sale and possession of knives’ and to limit the specific blade length to ‘no more than six centimeters’ in the hope that the knife will not penetrate the internal organs of its citizens.”

According to the terrorists, it seems “as if they (the German government) have given up hope of being able to prevent the attacks, and have therefore decided to limit themselves to regulating them,” according to the cynical wording of the newsletter.

IS threatens further attacks

Then the explicit threat: “The problem will not be limited to the knife, because what about a Muslim who can prepare the ‘birthday cake’ with explosives! Are you also prepared to ban it or reduce its size?”

The IS terrorists are calling on Muslims to carry out further attacks using all tools such as knives and hammers. The call is literally: “Be, o Mujahid, the ‘man of the hammer’ who destroys his victims and smashes their skulls without leaving a trace that leads back to him — not out of concern for his own life, but so that he can repeat the operation again and again until he is soaked in their blood.”

As Neumann analyzes, the terrorists want to exploit their “momentum” after an attack in the West has worked for the first time in years and find new people willing to carry out attacks.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/29/2024

One of the F-16 warplanes that Ukraine received from the West has crashed, Ukraine’s air force said today. The fighter jet went down when Russia launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine.

In other news, Telegram boss Pavel Durov was granted release on €5 million bail by French authorities, provided that he reports twice a week to police and does not leave French territory.

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We Don’t Want to Send You Back!

The German government is financing procedural instructions for migrants that tell them how to avoid deportation. It’s not enough to just stand by passively and allow the invading hordes into the country: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is teaching them how to circumvent Germany’s (and the EU’s) immigration laws.

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

Federal government finances anti-deportation brochure for rejected asylum seekers

A website sponsored by the Federal Ministry of the Interior gives asylum seekers tips on how to prevent their deportation. From legal tricks to violent protests on airplanes. Nancy Faeser makes it possible.

Berlin

The website “Handbook Germany”, which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, has published advice on how rejected asylum seekers can avoid deportation. Asylum seekers with children are advised, for example, that deportations may not take place “if a minor child cannot be found at the time of deportation”. The news site Apollo News was the first to report this.

The site also recommends filing a lawsuit against the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) — “You cannot be deported while your lawsuit is pending” — or contacting pro-asylum associations. The site also points out that for asylum applications that have been classified as inadmissible under the Dublin Regulation, the six-month transfer period begins again as soon as the asylum seeker submits an urgent application. The Solingen attacker, for example, used this legal loophole.

There is also a reference to the website “Stop deportations. Right to stay for everyone”. This is a Hessian anti-deportation group that is linked to the left-wing radical scene in Frankfurt and stresses that it is “against deportation for political reasons”. A text on the website contains information that is supposed to show “how you can try to prevent your deportation while you are still on the plane.”

Asylum seekers should discover “severe war trauma”

For example, rejected applicants should not “sit down on the plane and make it clear that they are not flying voluntarily.” In addition, “supporters” should inform the “other passengers” on the plane and “call on them to protest.”

Asylum seekers can also write follow-up applications after a successful deportation, according to another text from “Handbook Germany”. If there are “new indications”, such as if an applicant is found to have “serious war trauma” that “has previously gone undetected”, the application can still be approved.

The “Handbook Germany” website is run by the “Neue Deutsche Medienmacher*innen” association. The association is supported by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration and the Commissioner for Anti-Racism. The former chairwoman is the Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination, Ferda Ataman. The association annually awards the negative prize “The Golden Potato” for reports that the association does not like. The term “potato” is intended to be a derogatory term for Germans. [So much for anti-discrimination and anti-racism. But really not surprising that those who scream with each and every breath “racism” are the biggest racists and bigots alive.]

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Uber Alles

As an appropriate follow-up to last night’s post about how unsafe Germany is, the following video gives an account of the scary encounters that young women in Berlin have had with Uber drivers. The report doesn’t mention ethnicity, but it’s not hard to put two and two together about the culture-enriching aspects of the ride service drivers.

Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/28/2024

A Russian missile struck Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town of Kryvyi Rih today. Meanwhile, Ukraine used drones to hit two Russian oil depots hundreds of miles from the Russia-Ukraine border.

In other news, French authorities filed preliminary charges today against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app.

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“Germany is No Longer a Safe Country”

The following brief video features recent remarks by Manuel Ostermann, the chairman of the German police union (DPoIG).

Yes, I know he said “Islamists”, but remember — first there must be baby steps. Walking and running come later. It’s a major change to have an official acknowledgement that immigration causes increased crime. Someday he may be willing to say “Islam” without the “ist”.

Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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