Those knives are up to their old tricks in Germany.
To make the graphic at the top of this post, I screen-capped the map displayed at the website Messerinzidenz: Live-Tracker für Verbrechen mit Messern (Knife Incidence: Live-tracker for knife crime) after setting the dates for 9/1/2024 to 9/7/2024.
A Green Party politician wants Germans to pay no attention to all those pesky knives. After all, there are so few knife attacks! The country needs to get on with more important work. Why are all the right-wing extremists getting so het up about this?
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius:
“The few knife attackers”: Green Party spokeswoman dangerously downplays migrant violence
The Federal Republic is suffering from an epidemic of violent crime, particularly knife crimes. While left-wing politicians are taking refuge in a debate about the proportionality of dealing with imported crime, German citizens are having to pay the price for a misguided migration policy and an inadequate security policy.
“Is it a solution for a family in a Thuringian village who doesn’t know how they can pay for daycare places for their children, whose daughter wants to go to university and who gets far too little student loans — is it a solution for them if we all bash the few knife attackers who, unfortunately, are still in this country?” asks Inge Schwenger, co-spokesperson for the Havelland district association of the Brandenburg Greens, according to a tweet by NZZ journalist Dr. Alexander Kissler.
“The Brandenburg Greens do not want to criticise knife attackers too much,” concludes Kissler.
“The few knife attackers”
The data project Messerinzidenz.de is currently receiving a lot of attention on social media. Andreas Ziegler has been running the platform since July and is recording Germany’s knife attacks — every single day.
The knife incidents are recorded daily on a map and in a list. There is a corresponding source reference for each individual case.
According to the database, 109 knife crimes have been recorded since the beginning of September — that equates to 16 knife crimes per day.
Afterword from the translator: