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Thursday, January 09, 2025

Germany's Two Tier Policing: Berlin Police hunt those responsible for leaked list of New Year’s Eve violence suspects dominated by foreigners

 

The leaking of a list containing the first names of 256 suspects arrested by Berlin police in connection with violence during New Year’s Eve celebrations has sparked an internal investigation into a security leak.

The leaked list, published by German media outlet Nius, refers to those apprehended after mass civil unrest in the German capital after New Year’s celebrations turned sour and migrant-fueled violence erupted with fireworks launched at police and into residential buildings.


Aftermath of civil disorder in Berlin New Year celebrations (picture Remix News)

 

As reported by Remix News, the authorities’ own data showed 670 suspects in total had been arrested — 406 had a German passport and 264 were foreign nationals.

German police do not identify the nationalities of suspects, but a list of the “German” suspects, which included a plethora of foreign names including Abdul Kerim, Abdulhamid, Abdulkadir, Ali, Hassan, and Mohammed in its various spellings, managed to make headlines.

Nius, run by the former editor-in-chief of Bild, Julian Reichelt, estimated that 65 percent of those named in the German section of the list had first names “that are clearly of non-German origin.”

The authorities are now reportedly determined to track down those responsible for the leak.

The Department for Police and Corruption Crimes at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has been tasked with identifying the source, police spokesperson Florian Nath confirmed to Tagesspiegel.

“Our Police and Corruption Crimes Department is investigating the suspect who may have illegally extracted and released lists of names from protected, internal police systems,” Nath said, adding that the authorities will always pursue “the release of personal data without any legal basis.”

The police spokesperson described the release as an unauthorized and unacceptable violation of data protection laws that promotes a “disproportionate and discriminatory approach to explaining criminal behavior.”

However the  Police have not at any point denied the authenticity of the list. 

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Friday, January 19, 2024

Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy

 

Thousands of German truck drivers, farmers, and agricultural workers parked in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday as another massive protest over the government's 'green' plans to end tax breaks on diesel fuel and subsidies to farmers prevented from getting the best out of their land by loonytoons EU 'rewilding' policies.

(Liesa Johannssen/Reuters)

 Tractors and other farm vehicles started to arrive for the protest on Monday and by Tuesday 3000 were within Berlin city limits according to police, who said that another estimated 2,000 were on their way in the biggest display of disaffection with the government so far after a week of protests. Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik told municiplal leaders that a total of 1,300 officers were engaged in crowd control.

Major disruption to local bus and train services reported by Berlin's public transit agency, after around 10,000 people registered for demonstrations against the plan by Chancellor Olaf Scholz to cut subsidies.

As if trying to provoke escalation of the protsts to civil disobedience, Finance Minister Christian Lindner (Green Party) told crowds of farmers that the country has run out of money for further subsidies. The government announcement is part of a plan to try and fix a 17-billion-euro (US$18.6 billion) hole in Germany's 2024 budget, AP reported last week.

"I can’t promise you more state aid from the federal budget," he said, adding "But we can fight together for you to enjoy more freedom and respect for your work." It was not what the farmers wanted to hear.

The head of the farmers union, Joachim Rukwied, snatched the microphone from Lindner to ask the crowd to stop booing, telling them: "I have respect for every politician who is prepared to come to us ... The finance minister is here, it makes no sense to boo him."

Of course, the government also justified the cuts as 'required' after the country's highest court annulled an earlier decision to redirect nearly US$66 billion originally meant to mitigate fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in order to combat climate change and modernize the country.

According to a press release from the office of Chancellor Scholz, "we took the farmers’ arguments to heart," adding that he thinks the government has arrived at "a good compromise."

Not according to the farmers they didn't.


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Thursday, July 20, 2023

How Germany's open door to migrants and mad dash to Net Zero Brought Down The Establishment

 

Giorgia Meloni one of the new wave of European leaders opposing globalist policies like Net Zero and mass immigration as millions of citizens shift their allegiance towards populist Right-wing parties. .

Friedrichstrasse in  Berlin is one of Europe's most renowned shopping streets. Lined with glitzy stores, from Galeries Lafayette to Karl Lagerfeld  it is on a par with Avenue des Champs-Élysées, London's Regent Street or  Via Montenapoleone in Milan, teeming with shoppers eager to spend their hard earned or ill - gotten cash and flowing with cars, buses and taxis.

However this busy, lively, profitable scene was something of a novelty for traders in Friedrichstrasse because for the past three years, the once busy street has been pedestrian-only, covered with huge flowerpots, wooden tables and chairs occupying the tarmac once reserved for cars.

Although the controversial green zone stretched for only a third of a mile, it was in the centre of the metropolis, near the tourist hotspot of Checkpoint Charlie, the notorious crossing point between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. ... Read all

The pedestrianisation of Friedrichstrasse, part of Germany's push to achieve a net zero emissions economy (and a return to the lifestyle of medieval peasants to to mention that is 'verboten', led to a furious backlash from shop owners, who complained of a sharp drop in customers.

At last business owner Anja Schroder, whose wine shop and bar, Planet Wein, has traded in the street for 18 yearsfor 18 years, decided she’d had enough.

‘My trade dropped by 40 per cent because of the car ban,’ she claims. ‘We lost tourists, but also lots of Berliners who used to pop in after travelling by car from the suburbs. Some other shops, cafes and eateries have gone under.’

Determined not to follow them down the drain and to help prevent more of her neighbours going the same way, Anja launched a campaign to bring back the cars and the crowds, using legal argument and public pressure she, and her supporters took on the city authority, federal government and Germany's powerful and increasinglyu authoritarian Green Blob and earlier this month achieved victory as the Berlin authorities surrendered to muktipolar pressure.

The Friedrichstrasse story has become a symbol of the German people’s fightback against the nonsensical agenda of the green blob introduced by a ramshackle coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in which the Green Party, by threatening to bring down the governing coalition and force an election has held Scholz to ransom and forced him to implement their extremist, ideological policies. Simultaneously support for hard-Right parties has surged as the green idiocies of the government have sent the cost of living soaring and created shortages of energy, food and basic household essentials and sharply impacted the living standards of German people, which is ringing alarm bells.

Once the economic powerhouse of Europe, Germndany is now officially in recession, a not only struggling with uncontrolled immigration and high inflation, but the need to keep in step with the European Union’s demands that each of its 27 member states achieve ‘Net Zero’ by 2050 as its switch to an energy policy dependent entirely on unreliable, intermittent sources such as wind and solar has failed dismally, while the premature closure of nuclear generating plants exacerbated the situation and led to a desperate rush to recommission the few remaining coal fired power stations.

 In spite of all this the ideologically driven headlong rush to ruin goes on, the sale of new cars with combustion engines will be banned in Germany by 2035 unless the vehicles are designed to run on e-fuels rather than petrol or diesel.

And purchases of new domestic gas and oil boilers are scheduled to be outlawed from the end of next year. Homeowners have been told to replace them with heat pumps (which are not suitable as a main heating source in northern climes,) at a cost of thousands of euros per household.

Many ordinary families fear that finding the money to comply with the government’s green diktats will leave them impoverished. One opinion poll found that no less than 80 per cent of Germans disagree with the impending bans.

At the same time, 9 per cent of small and medium-sized industrial companies are considering moving their operations abroad, aware that Germany's supine adoption of the EU's extremist environmental agenda who make it impossible to trade profitably in Germany.

‘There is a real danger of the de-industrialisation of Germany,’ says political scientist Alexander Rahr.

In effect, middle-class Germans are looking at a future without a car, a nice house and two weeks’ holiday a year — staples of their lives for decades. And the result of this turmoil is that citizens are rebelling at the ballot box.

 

 

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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Chechen Islamic Police Now Enforcing Sharia Law On Streets Of Berlin

A hundred Islamists are now openly enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Berlin, according to German police officers who are investigating a recent string of violent assaults in the German capital. The self-appointed religious police consist entirely of Salafists (Muslim fundmentalists) from Chechnya, a predominantly Sunni Muslim region in the Caucasus. The vigilantes are name-and-shame tactics and physical violence to intimidate Chechen migrants and dissuade them from integrating into German society; they are also campaigning for the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in Germany. German authorities appear unable or unwilling to stop them.


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Muslim women in Germany (image source: alarabiya)

The Sharia police became public knowledge in May 2017, when Chechen extremists released a video warning Chechen migrants in Germany that those who fail to comply with Islamic law and adat, a traditional Chechen code of behavior, will be killed. The video's existence was reported by Meduza, a Latvian news magazine. Unfortunately we cannot link to the video, which circulated through WhatsApp, an online messaging service, and showed a hooded man aiming a pistol at the camera. Speaking in Chechen, he declared (translation by Meduza):


"Muslim brothers and sisters. Here, in Europe, certain Chechen women and men who look like women do unspeakable things. You know it; I know it; everybody knows it. This is why we hereby declare: For now, there are about 80 of us. More people are willing to join. Those who have lost their national identity, who flirt with men of other ethnic groups and marry them, Chechen women who have chosen the wrong path and those creatures who call themselves Chechen men — given half a chance, we will set all of them straight. Having sworn on the Koran, we go out onto the streets. This is our declaration of intent; do not say that you were not warned; do not say that you did not know. May Allah grant us peace and set our feet on the path towards justice."


According to Meduza, the man is a member of a Berlin-based gang of about one hundred members, headed by former henchmen of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen separatist leader. All Berliners of Chechen origin who were interviewed by Meduza said they were aware of the gang's existence.


The video surfaced after nude images of a 20-year-old Chechen woman who lives in Berlin were sent en masse from her stolen cellphone to every person on her contact list. Within an hour, the woman's uncle demanded to speak with her parents. According to Meduza, they agreed to "resolve the issue" within the family by sending the woman back to Chechnya, where she would be killed to restore the family's honor. German police intervened just hours before the woman was to board a plane bound for Russia.


The woman was placed in protective custody, as her situation moved from being a family issue to a question of national honour for the Chechen community in the city. According to the adat code it is now the duty of any Chechen man, regardless of his ties to her or her family, to find and kill her in order to restore the honour of Chechen people.


"It should be none of their business what the girl does within German law, but it is an unwritten code of conduct," said the woman, who has since cut her hair and now wears colored contact lenses in an effort to hide her identity. She said that she intends to change her name and undergo plastic surgery. "If you don't change your name and your face, they will hunt you down and kill you," she said. Although the woman grew up in germany and graduated from a German high school, she is now afraid to leave her apartment because of the risk that she will be recognised. "I don't want to be Chechen anymore," she said.


Chechens interviewed by Meduza said that expectations for behavior are more rigid and strict in among Chechen emigrants in Germany than in Chechnya itself. This situation has been described as "a competition in righteousness" between Chechens living abroad and those in Chechnya who are loyal to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov: each party is seeking to prove that they are the better Chechens, and violence against "errant" women is viewed as an "act of patriotism."


According to Meduza, around half the single Chechen girls in Germany have enough compromising data on their cellphones to be deemed guilty of violating adat:


"Associating with men of other nationalities, smoking, drinking alcohol, visiting hookah lounges, discotheques or even public swimming pools can cause communal wrath. A single photograph in a public WhatsApp chat can outcast an entire family and the rest of the community would be obliged to cease all communication with them. With everyone under suspicion and everyone responsible for one another, Chechen girls say they are sometimes approached by strangers in the street who chastise them for their appearance, including for wearing bright lipstick. The theft of a cellphone and the subsequent posting of compromising material is a hard blow; the dishonored person has no one to turn to and the one who posted the victim's photos does not risk anything."


One has to say its no wonder the Russians give these medievalist idiots such a hard time. It is to be hoped the hand wringing, beast beating 'liberal' do gooders like Jeremy Corvyn, the French grandmotherfucker Macron and others calling for more immigration from backward, third world communities will see this story and it will help them understand why immigration must be controlled and immigrants vetted to establish their suitability to live in western cultures where punishment rapes, honour killings, child brides and religious police are all totally unacceptable.


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Friday, February 12, 2016

Clooney, Streep Open Berlin Islamophiliac Film Festival


Film festivals like award ceremonies are where shallow, self obsessed luvvies gather to indulge in mutual arse kissing. Trouble is these flimsy, one - dimensional people think they are important (Picture source)


Hollywood will be out in force to kick off the Berlin film festival Thursday, with Meryl Streep joining George Clooney and the Coen brothers for the event where Europe’s refugee crisis will also play a starring role.

The 11-day Berlinale which, like most film festivals in Europe except for Cannes and Venice, is usually ignored by Hollywood is this year attracting the 'liberal' airheads of Hollywood as they see a chance to indulge in the favourite pastime of rich, talentless American media luvvies by meddling in things they don't understand.

Clooney, a pretty, simpering dimwit actor who, in one of the festival's main attractions, Hail Caesar, plays pretty, simpering dimwit actor (the role he is cast in whatever his vehicle), is expected on the red carpet with his wife Amal and co-stars Channing Tatum and Tilda Swinton.

“Hail, Caesar!” made by ultra 'liberal' brothers Joel and Ethan Coen who used to make decent films until they decided their job was not to entertain us but to brainwash us with politically correct propaganda, opened in the United States last week to the predictable rave reviews from presstitutes but modest (less be honest, effing disastrous,) box office returns, is screening at the festival.

Streep is serving as this year’s jury president, judging 18 contenders from around the world.

The three-time Oscar winner and her team including British actor Clive Owen will on February 20 hand out the Golden Bear top prize, which last year went to Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi for “Taxi”, which he made in secret.

Among the world premieres generating buzz ahead of the start was a new adaptation of the international bestseller “Alone in Berlin”, Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel based on a true story.

The Nazi-era thriller sees Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson play a German couple who risk their lives to mount a resistance campaign against Hitler after losing their only son in the war.

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