Month: August 2022
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Germany: Trial begins for two African males who raped Ukrainian teen refugee ten minutes apart
Two African males have appeared in court in Germany charged with two separate counts of rape against a Ukrainian teenage refugee who had arrived in the country just days prior following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Rachid B., 38, from Tunisia, and Nigerian Abdullahi A., 26, stood trial on Wednesday in Düsseldorf after allegedly raping the 18-year-old Ukrainian refugee in two separate incidents on the Oscar Wilde Hotel ship back on March 6.
It is understood that the suspects, who both hold Ukrainian citizenship, had also claimed asylum in Germany in the days prior to the attack after fleeing Ukraine to Germany via Poland, and were accommodated on the hotel ship alongside their victim.
Prosecutors told the court that the young woman had met the accused Rachid B. at dinner on the ship and had followed her back to her cabin when he is said to have “attacked her immediately and brutally raped her,” according to the Bild newspaper.
She kept trying to defend herself, and shouted: “Stop! I don’t want that!”
Just minutes after Rachid B. had reportedly fled the scene, the second attacker, Nigerian Abdullahi A., entered the woman’s room and committed his own act of rape.
Neither of the accused spoke in court on Wednesday, and the victim was not present due to a positive coronavirus test.
A German police spokesperson said: “Politicians should now do everything to ensure that such terrible cases of rape as on the hotel boat in Düsseldorf do not accumulate.
“Harsh and swift punishment followed by deportation is the only language such perpetrators understand.”
Meanwhile, CSU MP Andrea Lindholz insisted that it was down to the police to do more to “specifically ensure the protection of Ukrainian women.”
The two suspects are a typical example of the concerns held by an insider German police chief in March, who revealed to German tabloids that many refugees arriving from Ukraine were not actually Ukrainian.
Similarly, an investigation from French newspaper Figaro, one of the top-selling newspapers in the country, found that approximately one in three people claiming they were Ukrainian refugees were not actually Ukrainians.
Those who are Ukrainians are generally vulnerable women and children, many of whom have already feared for their safety since arriving in Europe and being placed in close proximity to economic migrants from Africa claiming asylum, who are statistically majority adult males.
In two separate cases in Sweden, two Ukrainian boys were beaten with belts, pushed over, and threatened with a knife by a gang of Arab males, while Swedish news outlet Samnytt reported in March an incident where foreign national males entered a women’s refugee center for Ukrainian refugees in the town of Örebro and tried to attack them.
“They said that Sweden was a safe country, but I have not seen that,” one of the women told Swedish public radio at the time.
Giorgia Meloni calls for a naval blockade off Libya
Like every summer, a massive influx of asylum seekers is spurring on the political discussion in Italy. And the issue is once again grist to the mills of the right-wing opposition. Just a few years ago, Matteo Salvini, then Interior Minister of the Lega, was able to count on the approval of an overwhelming majority of Italians for his rigid measures against illegal immigration.
Currently the chairwoman of Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni, is benefiting from the situation. She makes no secret of the fact that if she wins the early parliamentary elections in September she is aiming for the post of head of government.
Meloni has been making a name for herself by calling for a ship blockade off the Libyan coast to deal with the current influx of migrants. “The best solution to the problem of migration is to block departures,” Meloni said in an interview with Italian radio station 102-5.
“Many claim that a naval blockade cannot be carried out because it is similar to an act of war. Why has the EU never attempted to negotiate with Libya to agree a stop-departure?” Meloni wanted to know. She spoke out in favor of setting up hotspots in Africa to decide who has the right to come to Europe as an asylum seeker. “You can negotiate with the Libyan authorities,” Meloni explained.
Meloni is eyeing top post
Her party, Fratelli d’Italia, which, unlike Lega and Forza Italia, was not involved in the recent disastrous government coalition under the resigning Prime Minister Draghi, is currently the strongest single party in the centre-right bloc according to the latest polls. Should the centre-right coalition win the general election on September 25 and the Fratelli d’Italia emerge as the strongest single party, Meloni is entitled to the post of prime minister.
“The rules are well known in the centre-right camp. The party that receives the most votes in the coalition proposes the name of the prime minister. That name will be me if Fratelli d’Italia emerges from the elections as the strongest single party,” said Meloni.
The centre-right camp made up of Meloni’s FdI, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and ex-Interior Minister Salvini’s Lega are currently way ahead in polls. According to polls, the Fratelli d’Italia could get 23 percent of the votes.
Illegal immigrants equals right-wing votes
Thus, for the Italian right-wing, the massive influx of illegal immigrants is a boon. Not only Giorgia Meloni, but the former Italian interior minister and Lega leader Salvini is also focusing on the problem of asylum seekers.
Salvini even paid a visit to the island of Lampedusa, which is the first port of call on EU territory for many illegal immigrants. He previously declared: “Italy cannot take in tens of thousands of immigrants who will only bring problems. Italy is not the refugee camp of Europe.”
Salvini accused the government in Rome of trying to cover up the problem before his arrival. AFP journalists saw around 200 asylum seekers board a ferry to Sicily while the reception center was being cleaned up, apparently a cosmetic measure before Salvini’s arrival.
When he was interior minister in 2019, Salvini, as part of his “closed ports” policy, prevented so-called aid ships carrying migrants from going ashore in Italy. In polls, Salvini’s Lega is currently around 13 percent – behind the 23 percent of the Fratelli d’Italia.
Meanwhile, there are no signs of the influx subsiding. The Interior Ministry in Rome has counted more than 42 000 arrivals so far this year, up from almost 30 000 in the same period in 2021. Thousands of new illegal migrants are arriving almost weekly, most with the help of ostensible “sea rescuers”.
The left is playing the Russia card to divide conservatives
Because political observers believe it is likely that the right-wing bloc of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and Forza Italia will win Italy’s snap parliamentary elections and form the next Italian government, there are already many outraged comments on the left and in the media.
Meloni is therefore trying to dispel fears in advance. In a video message in three languages, she has now assured that her party will not pose a threat to the US or Ukraine if she comes to power. In the video message, available in English, French and Spanish, Meloni called fears about her party’s post-fascist roots “nonsense” and said such views were “inspired by powerful media on the left”.
“The Italian right handed fascism to history decades ago, unequivocally condemning the suppression of democracy and the shameful anti-Jewish laws,” she said in the video recording, which was posted on Facebook and also sent to foreign media. “We firmly oppose any anti-democratic tendency with a determination not always found on the Italian and European left,” she added.
But complaints about fascism ring hollow, especially against the fervent Ukrainian support for Nazi figure Stepan Bandera.
Born in Rome, Meloni underscored her party’s commitment to the West and her condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – a contentious issue in the right-wing party bloc. Ex-Interior Minister Salvini and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of the right-wing conservative Forza Italia are reputed to have good relations with the Kremlin.
Meloni also denied all speculation about Italy leaving the euro. Nor would a right-wing government led by her under any circumstances endanger Italy’s financial stability.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/12/giorgia-meloni-calls-for-a-naval-blockade-off-libya/
France: Iraqi attacks people in bar with a knife and accuses them of being bad Muslims
An Iraqi man armed with a knife threatened patrons sitting on the terrace of a bar in Grenoble on Thursday afternoon, accusing them of being “bad Muslims”. The guests surrounded him and chased him to Place de Verdun, where he was arrested by police.
“It was clear to me that it was an act of terrorism!” The 40-year-old man from Grenoble, who wishes to remain anonymous, is still in shock and recounts how he and several of his friends were attacked by an unknown man with a knife while they were sitting at the table on Thursday afternoon, August 11. Le Dauphiné
“He first said ‘hello’ and then asked us if we were Arabs,” the witness says. “He was a North African himself and insisted, asking the question several times. We answered ‘yes’ and then he pulled out a knife at least 50 centimetres long and started shouting: ‘You are a disgrace to your religion! You are bad Muslims! I will slash you all!””
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While his pursuers continued to surround him at a safe distance, the man finally knelt down with his hands above his head in front of the police officers, who threatened him with their service weapons. Le Dauphiné
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American Stasi?
By Rajan Laad
Eric Trump, in an interview with the Daily Mail, revealed astounding details regarding the FBI raid conducted at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday.
The raid was conducted by more than 30 plainclothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The agents accessed the Trump family’s entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters and offices, ransacking its contents.
The raid lasted for the equivalent of a working day, beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ending at around 6:30 p.m.
The most startling revelation was that FBI agents initially refused to hand over the search warrant for their raid on Mar-a-Lago to Donald Trump’s lawyer Christina Bobb. They only showed it to her from about 10 feet away.
Bobb was left in perplexity as to why a lawyer for the person’s home being raided by the FBI was not able to see or obtain a copy of the search warrant and thoroughly read it. Bobb also said that the supporting documentation for the warrant describing the probable cause was sealed.
The low-level federal magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the warrant, was in the news for switching from federal prosecutor to defense attorney for individuals connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Reinhart also donated $1,000 to Obama’s presidential campaign and $1,000 to Obama’s Victory Fund.
Bobb also said she was ordered to stand on the outskirts of the Mar-a-Lago property i.e. in the driveway throughout the raid while the temperature was a sweltering 91 degrees with high humidity. It was an unprecedented refusal to permit a client’s attorney to be present as they conducted their search.
The demeanor of the three DOJ lawyers who accompanied the FBI was described as “arrogant,” and they repeatedly told Trump representatives: “We have full access to everything. We can go everywhere.”
Eric said the 30 agents who arrived at the property asked staff to turn security cameras off, but the request was wisely refused. If they were operating per procedure, there was no reason for secrecy. The footage from security cameras enabled officials at Mar-a-Lago to learn the extent of the FBI’s raid.
Both President Trump and his lawyer have rightly expressed concern that the FBI may have planted evidence.
The New York Post also revealed that the FBI spent several hours scouring through Donald Trump’s private office even breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers. They also looked through a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.
They searched the master bedroom, known as the Versailles Room, which Melania Trump renovated two years ago, and rummaged through the former first lady’s wardrobe and searched through her clothing.
Trump’s attorneys, led by Evan Corcoran told the New York Post that they were ‘cooperating fully’ with federal authorities to arrange the return of the documents, with the process beginning in May 2021 when it was noticed that some records were missing.
In January 2022, some of the documents were returned, and in February this year, the news became public.
In early June, four top DOJ officials traveled to Mar-a-Lago to speak with the former president’s attorneys about the documents.
The Justice Department has been investigating the ‘mishandling of classified information’ since the National Archives and Records Administration said it had received from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of White House records, including documents containing classified information, earlier this year.
Trump’s team showed the government officials where Trump was storing documents – in a basement room. Investigators reportedly observed that some of the files there were marked as classified. At one point Donald Trump himself reportedly stopped by to ‘make small talk’.
By law, all presidential correspondence and documentation have to be handed over to the National Archives.
Former top Trump administration official, Kash Patel, told Breitbart that a report claiming classified materials were found at Mar-a-Lago was misleading. The documents were actually already declassified by President Trump, but the classification markings had not been updated. As president, Trump had the authority to declassify any classified material in the government’s possession.
There are multiple federal laws governing the handling of classified records and sensitive government documents, including statutes that make it a crime to remove such material and retain it at an unauthorized location.
The raid, however, doesn’t mean prosecutors have determined Trump committed a crime.
Now for a bit of history.
Back in 2014, the House Select Committee on Benghazi asked the State Department for all of Hillary Clinton’s emails. The department didn’t have them all because, instead of only using the State Department email system (with an email address ending in @state.gov), Clinton used a personal email address (@clintonemail.com) housed on private servers located in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, New York.
How did the FBI React?
Were there raids on Clinton’s Chappaqua home or rummaging through Hillary’s wardrobe? No!
The FBI issued its findings in July 2016, and conceded that classified information had been improperly transmitted. However, they attributed it to carelessness, not an intent to skirt the law, hence she was let go.
Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, was prosecuted in 2004 for stealing and even destroying classified documents on the Clinton administration’s mishandling of terrorism prior to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
Gen. David Petraeus was similarly charged for sharing classified documents with his mistress.
Neither Berger nor Petraeus’s homes were ever raided, they merely pled guilty to misdemeanor charges and were let go.
What happened at Mar-a-Lago on Monday seemed like the actions of the Stasi.
The Stasi were the secret police of East Germany established with Soviet help in 1950 by German communists after World War II. It was responsible for the relentless persecution of dissidents or anyone who wasn’t a complete conformist. The Stasi conducted surveillance without warrants, espionage, and unannounced raids. The accused weren’t given access to lawyers and they were subject to prolonged detention without a warrant.
All the East German government agencies and even the courts were forcibly drafted and co-opted. If they needed a warrant, the judges became stenographers and gave the Stasi what they want. The Stasi enforced the law selectively. While dissidents were punished for the small infractions, loyalists to the state could get away with serious crimes. The celebrated film, The Lives of Others (2006) depicts the horrors of living in East Germany.
The huge difference, of course, was that East Germany was a totalitarian dictatorship, while the U.S. is a representative democracy.
In a functioning democracy, every citizen irrespective of their wealth, power, or connections must be equal before the law. These blatant dual standards only cause trust in government agencies that should be apolitical to erode.
The citizen, particularly the conservative citizen, will be thinking that if this could happen to a former president, what chance do citizens have at receiving fair treatment? When there is no trust left in law enforcement agencies, anarchy begins.
The Democrats are viciously gnawing at the roots upon which the nation stands. The questions remains: Will winning elections be enough to stop them?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/american_stasi.html