Month: January 2023

A quarter of Germans arrested for their participation in the Berlin riots on New Year’s Eve have dual nationality, according to information handed by the Berlin authorities to the Die Welt newspaper.

As this site already reported, 145 people were detained for their part in the mayhem which ensued throughout the German capital on New Year’s Eve, which footage circulated on social media showing torched vehicles and outbreaks of fires in apartment blocks.

Emergency service vehicles were attacked as they responded to 3,943 incidents across Berlin on Saturday night, resulting in the injury of at least 33 emergency responders.

Civil disorder was “particularly bad in the hotspot neighborhoods of Kreuzberg and Neukölln with a high proportion of migrants,” reported the Bild newspaper.

Of those 145 arrestees, 100 (69 percent) are reported by Berlin authorities to be of a migration background, i.e., they have either immigrated to Germany themselves or are descendants of immigrants.

However, the latest update provided by Berlin police revealed that of the remaining 45 people of German nationality detained, 11 have a second passport.

Three have Turkish nationality, two have Lebanese, and one each have Tunisian, Romanian, Jordanian, Iraqi, and French, an update from authorities cited by Die Welt showed. In the case of one person, the second nationality was unclear.

The latest figures revealed that 77 percent of those arrested were either migrants or those holding dual nationality.

Of the initial 100 people arrested without a German passport, the largest contingents included Afghans (27) and Syrians (21).

Progressive politicians, including Berlin’s Green MP Canan Bayram, sought to downplay the high level of involvement from migrant communities, instead seeking to discredit conservatives who highlighted the issue and accusing them of attempting to “instigate a racist discourse.”

However, the demographic report by the city’s authorities justified those who called for a discussion on the disproportionate involvement of migrants in the riots.

For example, Jens Spahn, the deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group, claimed the failure to integrate a large influx of immigrants into Germany in recent years was to blame for the riots.

“It’s more about unregulated migration, failed integration, and a lack of respect for the state instead of fireworks,” said Spahn, who called attacks on emergency responders “unspeakable.”

https://rmx.news/crime/a-quarter-of-the-germans-arrested-for-new-years-eve-riots-in-berlin-have-dual-nationality/

The prefectural decree banning the traditional march of Identitarians in Paris in honour of Saint Geneviève has been rejected by the administrative court. The State has also been ordered to compensate the organisers.

Every year, the Paris-Fierté association organises a torchlight march in honour of Saint Genevieve, the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.

Is French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin being overzealous? The minister had ordered the Paris police prefecture to ban the eighteenth edition of the march in honour of Saint Genevieve, scheduled for Saturday 7 January in Paris. This decision was motivated by the “high risk of public disorder”.

The minister feared the presence of several “ultra-right groups” such as “La Cocarde étudiante, Gud Paris, Division Martel, Luminis” or members of dissolved movements: Génération identitaire and the Zouaves

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Moreover, the prefectoral decree, published on Thursday 5 January, also mentioned “the important mobilisation of the forces of order” that day in Paris.

There have been indeed calls for demonstrations by the Yellow Vests, enhanced security of sensitive institutional and governmental sites in a context of terrorist threat eight years after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, but also a demonstration by the Kurdish Democratic Council in France, on the Place de la République, two weeks after the assassination of three Kurds, on the Rue d’Enghien in Paris.

The police prefect said that he could not “guarantee that the two demonstrations would be watertight”, as they were only a few metro stations apart. The police also cited soccer violence as an excuse.

Surveillance of the ultra-right

In the context of surveillance of the ultra-right, following the World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco, a show trial is currently being prepared for seven young white men suspected of “gathering to commit violence”.

The trial of the seven was adjourned on Saturday to 13 January. According to a police source, the group was preparing to go to the Champs-Élysées, with belligerent intentions against the Moroccan supporters.

It is the first time that a group of people have been arrested for “a crime against humanity”. Some of them were even charged with refusing to give the code of their smartphones.

According to the prosecutor, one person was “at the initiative of the rally by sending a message to a very large number of people to invite them to defend the flag against the Moroccans”. He was arrested in possession of a bag “containing a lot of weapons”.

This was contested by his lawyer,  Clément Diakonoff, who said that the case was deeply flawed. “Where is the ticket on the Eastpak bag that allegedly contained the weapons? Where is this khaki bag? We don’t know if there was one. We don’t even have the famous message,” he said.

Order dismissed by the courts

The association Paris-Fierté had filed a petition for interim relief before the administrative court, denouncing in a statement “false statements” and a “purely political” motivation on the part of Gérald Darmanin, whose note was revealed by two news outlets – Europe 1 and FranceInfo.

Blamed for the incidents that marred the procession in January 2022, the association defended itself by underscoring that it had succeeded in containing them thanks to its security service. “The rare disturbances suffered by our march were caused by the militias of the extreme left, who on several occasions attempted to attack participants in the tribute,” the Parisian structure said.

These incidents “do not in themselves establish a risk of public order disturbance sufficient to justify a ban on the demonstration”, the Paris administrative court ruled in its judgment, handed down a few hours before the initial departure time of the torchlight march.

The judge pointed to “a serious and manifestly illegal infringement of the freedom of demonstration” and therefore authorised the holding of this demonstration, at 6pm, from the Quai de Tourelles to the Place Sainte-Geneviève, at the foot of the church of Saint-Etienne du Mont, which guards its relics.

In addition, the State must pay 1500 euros to the organisers and the association.

“A solid and well-reasoned decision,” said the association’s lawyer, Pierre-Vincent Lambert, who added that he was “fully satisfied to put a stop to the Interior Minister’s frenzy against freedom. “More than 400 people are expected,” said one organiser. In 2022, more than 600 people marched behind the coat of arms of the Parisian districts and the motto of Paris: “Fluctuat nec mergitur”.

The motto means “Rocked by waves, and/but never sinks”. The expression appears on the city’s coat of arms, and in 2015 after the terror attacks re-emerged as a powerful, emotionally resonant symbol of contemporary Paris.

https://freewestmedia.com/2023/01/08/saint-genevieve-march-finally-authorised-in-paris/

Another day, another Jihadist terror plot that we’ll ignore.

An Iranian national was arrested in his underwear Sunday after he was reportedly caught trying to deploy biological weapons in northwestern Germany.

The 32-year-old man had allegedly obtained cyanide and ricin in preparation for a “serious act of violence,” investigators said, according to German outlet Welt.

The Iranian and one other man, whose affiliation was not disclosed, were arrested by anti-terror investigators in the former’s Castrop-Rauxel living quarters around midnight.

Investigators wearing protective suits wheeled the toxins and other evidence out of the building in blue barrels and deposited them at a decontamination point set up by the fire department.

It’s not as if this is the first time this has happened in Germany.

On June 12, 2018, heavily armed German special forces police with gas masks raided a residential building in the city of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia) in Western Germany. A Tunisian national named Sief Allah H., who lived at the premises, was arrested. His wife, a German convert to Islam named Yasmin H., was also taken into police custody and was later accused of helping her husband in a terrorist plot. Police investigators and bio-chemical experts of the Robert Koch Institute, wearing full protective gear, then entered the residential block and searched several apartments.They were looking for the poison ricin.

If at first, they don’t succeed, they’ll try and try again until a whole bunch of people are dead.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/muslim-busted-plotting-biological-weapons-attack-in-germany/

An Iranian man has been arrested in western Germany suspected of preparing an “Islamist attack” using cyanide and ricin, police and prosecutors said Sunday.

Muenster police and the Duesseldorf prosecutors’ office said in a press release that officers searched a residence in the town of Castrop-Rauxel for “toxic substances” intended to carry out an attack.

The 32-year-old Iranian was “suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence threatening the security of the state by obtaining cyanide and ricin with a view to committing an Islamist attack,” said investigators.

The arrest was carried out shortly before midnight on Saturday evening, a spokeswoman for the police said. Another person, said to be the main suspect’s brother, was also taken into custody during the operation, she said.

The 32-year-old suspect will be presented in the coming days to an investigating judge ahead of possible pre-trial detention, police said.

Ricin is a highly toxic substance, which is classed as a “chemical weapon” in Germany. Similar to cyanide, ricin can be lethal.

According to local media reports, the raids were carried out by agents wearing protective suits, due to the chemical hazard.

German authorities were tipped off to the risk of an attack with a “chemical bomb” several days ago by a foreign intelligence service, the German daily Bild reported.

In 2018, a Tunisian man and his wife were arrested on suspicion of planning a biological bomb attack in Germany.

The couple, who sympathized with the Islamic State group, was found in possession of 84 milligrams of ricin in their Cologne apartment. The man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2020, while his wife received an eight-year sentence.

Germany has been targeted in recent years by several Islamist attacks, including a 2016 truck attack on a Christmas market, that killed 12 people and left dozens injured. A 13th victim died five years later having suffered serious injuries in the assault.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-arrested-in-germany-on-suspicion-of-islamist-chemical-attack-plot/ / https://exxpress.at/islamisten-planten-gift-anschlag-sondereinheit-stoppte-terroristen/

By Monica Showalter

Has Barack Obama gone from ex-president to Democrat party crime boss?

It sure looks like it, based on a new report about his treatment of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Investigative reporter Lee Smith has got a stunning report that ran this week in Tablet, comparable in impact to that report by Molly Ball at Time who wrote about how elites conspired to “fortify democracy” by rigging the election against President Trump in 2020 and afterwards thought it was a smart thing to crow about.

Smith’s report beginns with how the FBI “hacked” Twitter, not just engaging in a “master-canine” relationship as Twitter files reporter Matt Taibbi put it in one of his reports, but actually infiltrating the company and controlling it from within, rendering it a corporate Zombie.

According to Smith:

The Twitter files’ disclosures about the coordination between the company and spy agencies to fix presidential elections sheds light on the nature of Twitter v. Holder, which was eventually decided in the government’s favor shortly before Baker joined the company.

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But something else was going on behind the scenes: Social media platforms were already being assimilated into the intelligence services.

That Twitter section alone is well worth reading, very well-explained by Smith for its details on the collusion that was deeper than many suspected — leading to a never-told-before story about how Obama muscled Facebook like a mafia don.

The Obama administration also realized that it could lean hard on monopoly social media platforms in order to gain political advantages—and it could make companies that weren’t compliant pay a price.

Here’s how it worked, emphasis mine:

First strike got you a dressing down from the White House: Weeks after the 2016 vote, for instance, Obama pulled Mark Zuckerberg aside at a conference in Peru and read him out about not doing more to keep Russian disinformation off Facebook. The reality is that Russia spent around $135,000 on Facebook ads, a small percentage of what presidential campaigns typically spend on a single day before lunch. But Obama wasn’t worried about Russia—he struck deals with Vladimir Putin to advance his own idiosyncratic foreign policy goals, like the nuclear agreement with Russia’s ally Iran. Obama’s problem was Trump.

As he was leaving office, Obama stamped the U.S. government’s seal of approval on Russiagate, ordering his spy chiefs to draft an official assessment claiming Putin helped put Trump in the White House. Since then, in Deep State parlance, “Russia” equals Trump and stopping “Russian disinformation” means censoring Trump, his supporters, and anyone else opposed to the national security apparatus’s takeover of the public communications infrastructure. Since Zuckerberg didn’t keep Trump off Facebook in 2016, he had to put up $400 million to drive votes to Democrats in 2020—and even that wasn’t enough. In 2021, Democratic Party insiders working together with Zuckerberg’s Big Tech competitor, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, sent a fake whistleblower after him to testify before congress that Facebook was bad for teenage girls.

Suddenly all the pieces fit together — the Obama pieties about Russia he knew couldn’t be true; the forced cash cough-up for Zuckerberg’s Democrat operatives to take over election apparats even as elected officials protested  — which was actually declared bribery in Wisconsin; the phony whistleblower.

Smith continued, telling us how it all came together (emphasis mine):

In April, as Musk first said he wanted to buy Twitter and save free speech, Obama embarked on a “disinformation” tour, which took him to several college campuses to promote the un-American virtues of censorship. He first visited his hometown to speak at a University of Chicago conference, “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy.” Other guests included Anne Applebaum, an early advocate of the collusion conspiracy theory who pushed the spy-service fiction in dozens of her Washington Post columns. Also in attendance was former CISA head Chris Krebs, now famous for congressional testimony in which he claimed the 2020 election was the most secure ever.

EIP principals from the Stanford Internet Observatory were featured speakers at the daylong seminar at the Palo Alto university where Obama made the second stop on his April “disinformation” tour. Regulation, Obama told the Stanford audience, has to be part of the answer to solve the disinformation crisis. In other words, he went to Silicon Valley to threaten his listeners that he would ruin their financial model by stripping away social media’s liability exemptions.

The purpose of Obama’s speech was to present a choice to his audience: Either you impose a scorched-earth policy against the establishment’s opponents, or else you will face the kind of regulation that every company knows will be its death knell. Moreover, if they made the right choice, Obama showed, there was money in it for them.

“In effect, Obama announced that the funding channels are open for people who want to do disinformation work,” said Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online. “It’s like what happened with climate change. If you were an academic who wanted federal funding for anything, you made sure you made reference to climate to get grants. Same now with disinformation. Obama was saying, ‘here’s where the puck is moving, so skate here if you want federal funding.’”

So like a crime boss, Obama made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. And for good measure, he made an example out of Zuckerberg, effectively ensuring that Zuck woke up with a horse’s head in his bed.

But oh, he added sweeteners to the obedient. And yes, he was powerful enough to control distribution of federal funding, even out of office with his little operatives still in place. Obama determined who’d get what, distributing the spoils to loyalists on the very fakey-fake matter of “disinformation” which is why we saw freaks like that Mary Poppins woman, Nina Jankowicz, show up as a “disinformation expert” for a federal job as Joe Biden’s “disinformation czar” even though she had an account on TikTok of all places, a Red Chinese data-gathering operation that spies on its users and builds profiles on them. Jankowicz didn’t know much about disinformation, at least not enough to avoid some very avoidable spying on her by China. It was the money, honey, where Obama said the money was.

And Smith noted that there was a lot of money shoveled out for this purpose by the Biden administration on various characters in attendence at universities who attended this Obama speech tour. In some cases, it was a surge of federal money.

So, fail to censor President Trump, get dressed down, get “fined” $400 million to rig the next elections, get a phony whistleblower coming after your company. Sign up for the phony disinformation gig, hit the swamp jackpot.

What an ugly picture this paints for how the federal government has been transformed by leftists. Once upon a time, one could trust that the government would try to do the right thing. Now, all we can see is that Obama still runs the government from his retirement, plays a key role in muscling corporations into wokedom, including the all-important business of electing Democrats and nothing is beyond bounds, nor being done about it.

Is this an ex-president or a crime boss? It’s pretty obvious what the answer to that is.

Read the whole thing here.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/buried_news_obama_muscled_zuckerberg_to_censor_trump__and_made_an_example_of_him.html

Wells Fargo doesn’t exactly have the best reputation for the way its employees treat people, but this might be going too far.

Shankar Mishra, a vice president for the bank’s office in Mumbai, was on a flight from New York to New Delhi on Nov. 26, when he reportedly had a little too much to drink. The 72-year-old woman in a seat near him said that Mishra unzipped his pants and urinated on her.

“During the course of the flight, shortly after lunch was served and the lights were switched off, a male business class passenger seated in 8A walked to my seat, completely inebriated,” the woman stated in her complaint to Air India. “He unzipped his pants and urinated on me and kept standing there until the person sitting next to me tapped him and told him to go back to his seat, at which point he staggered back to his seat.”

She went on to say that the airline offered her crew pajamas to change into but told her that there were no seats available for her to move. She claimed she sat in a flight attendant’s jump seat for about an hour before the crew asked her to return to her seat. Although the crew had put a sheet over the seat, the woman said that the seat was still wet and smelled of urine.

When the flight crew told the woman that Mishra wanted to apologize to her, she said that all she wanted to do was ensure that police arrested him when the plane landed in India. The crew had other plans, according to her account:

However, the crew brought the offender before me against my wishes, and we were made to sit opposite each other in the crew seats. I was stunned when he started crying and profusely apologizing to me, begging me not to lodge a complaint against him because he is a family man and did not want his wife and child to be affected by this incident. In my already distraught state, I was further disoriented by being made to confront and negotiate with the perpetrator of the horrific incident in close quarters. I told him that his actions were inexcusable, but in the face of his pleading and begging in front of me, and my own shock and trauma, I found it difficult to insist on his arrest or to press charges against him.

So Mishra basically said, “Sorry I peed on you. You’re not going to tell anyone, right?”

The woman demanded that Air India pay for damages to her items and refused to take Mishra’s money and then got upset that the ground crew didn’t wheel her around in a wheelchair when the plane landed.

Both Air India and Wells Fargo have undertaken disciplinary measures as a result of the incident.

“Air India has de-rostered four flight crew members and a pilot as a result and announced an internal investigation,” Deutsche Welle reports. “Mishra has been fired by his employer, with Wells Fargo calling the incident ‘deeply disturbing’ on Friday.

When he arrived back in India, Mishra basically went dark, turning off his phone to avoid authorities. Police discovered his location when he turned his phone on to make a credit card transaction — that mobile banking sure is convenient, ain’t it? — and they arrested him.

So what have we learned today, kids? If you want to avoid losing your job, facing criminal charges, and garnering unwanted media attention, hold it until you can get to the plane lavatory. This is a good lesson to learn from other people’s mistakes rather than your own.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2023/01/07/heres-what-not-to-do-the-next-time-you-fly-international-n1659569

A man in Sweden who was praised for cleaning up after last year’s Easter Qur’an riots by Swedish media has been arrested after being accused of participating in the riots himself.

Hani Bilal Madi, a 20-year-old from the city of Örebro, has been arrested by Swedish police after allegedly participating in last year’s riots over Easter in the city that took place in connection to the burning of the Islamic Qur’an by the Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan and his group Stram Kurs (Hard Line).

Madi was arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks and stones at police during the rioting, the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda reports.

The arrest comes despite the fact that shortly after the rioting, Madi was praised by the newspaper Aftonbladet in April of last year for helping to clean up a local park where the rioting had taken place and was later even given awards for his actions.

Report: Swedish Police Lacked Competence During Easter Qur’an Riots https://t.co/AvfAuMGoL9

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 16, 2022

“There was so much spinning in my head when I got to the park after the riot. Violent action is never the way to go, but we have to take care of each other,” Madi said at the time.

“We wanted to show some love. Both to the residents of the area affected and to the police officers. In addition to cleaning, we also handed out flowers to homeowners who had their plots vandalized,” he added.

Hani also made it clear that the thought burning the Qur’an should be illegal saying, “All religious writings should be protected by the law. Islam is my identity and that of many others and it takes a toll on you that it does not fall under ‘incitement to racial hatred’. The police authorities should have made a better decision in advance.”

Madi has denied the charges against him.

Since the Easter riots, several people have been convicted for both attacking police and sabotaging police activities, with many of them immigrants to Sweden.

A report released last month suggested that police lacked the proper skills and manpower to handle the violence, which saw some officers later express fears that they thought they were going to die during the violence.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/07/man-praised-for-cleaning-after-quran-riots-arrested-for-taking-part-in-them/