Neubrandenburg. Apparently he had a homicidal hatred for his compatriot’s free and western way of life.
The Regional Court sentenced the Syrian Ala T. (43) to five and a half years in prison for attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm.
At noon on September 9, 2022, Ala T. had rung the doorbell of his compatriot (26) – holding a 55 cm long axe. When the acquaintance opened, he struck him without warning. Reflexively, the victim was able to raise his arms and ward off the blow. He was also able to block a second blow with his arm, then, injured, he managed to escape into the hallway.
The Syrian then rode away on his bicycle with his axe and shouted loudly: “I’ll come back and kill you! After a red alert using helicopters and warning announcements to the population, Ala T. was arrested hours later.
The victim, who arrived in Germany as a refugee together with the accused in 2015, said in court: “We were good friends before, I never thought it would come to this! Ala T. had not been able to cope in Germany and had blamed him for it, he said. “He cursed me and my family too,” the witness said. Beforehand, Ala T. had said that he could not tolerate his compatriot living with an unmarried woman and having alcohol in the house.
According to the police, the Syrian immigrant had also dealt with the terrorist organisation “Islamic State” on the internet. The accused remained silent in court.
The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) reported 745,000 members left the church last year, the highest figure on record, as increasingly more Germans turn their backs on institutional religion.
A total of 380,000 members made the conscious choice to leave the church in 2022, an increase of almost 36 percent over the previous year, while 365,000 existing members died. The church recorded a total of 170,000 new members, resulting in a net loss of 575,000.
EKD now represents just 19.1 million people in Germany, or 22.7 percent of the population.
Annette Kurschus, chair of the EKD Council, called the record loss in membership “depressing,” and while accepting that “constant change is a characteristic of the evangelical church,” she revealed that “particularly far-reaching changes need to be made at the moment.”
“Baptism is at the heart of the Christian faith,” added Kurschus, who revealed the evangelical church plans to promote a nationwide baptism day on June 24 for the first time in a bid to revive the church’s popularity among young people.
Reports in the German newspaper Junge Freiheit suggest EKD’s involvement with NGO humanitarian vessels facilitating illegal immigration in the Mediterranean has turned some of the church’s more conservative members away from the institution. Church leaders have regularly blessed NGO vessels collecting migrants attempting to travel to Europe in the Mediterranean, and the church funded the purchase of the Sea-Watch 4 vessel used by a German NGO for such purposes off the Italian coast.
Some regional churches also attributed the decline in their congregation to the increased cost of living in the past year.
However, the numbers show a continual decline in membership. Similar figures were recorded by the Roman Catholic Church across Germany last year when it was reported that for the first time in history the established Christian churches now represent a minority of the German population.
“Church abandonment has steadily increased over the past decades,” said religious scholar Prof. Detlef Pollack at the time. He attributed the demise to a loss in significance among Germany’s youth and the church’s demise as a political power; he additionally pointed to the role that German unification played in increasing secularization.
The ruin of the burnt house in Apolda, screen grab youtube
In August last year, several people died in a fire in an apartment building in Apolda (Weimarer Land). Now the trial against the arsonist has begun at the Erfurt Regional Court.
The 36-year-old has to answer for murder in a so-called safeguarding procedure. However, he is not to be sentenced, as the accused was not criminally responsible at the time of the crime, according to an expert opinion.
The aim of the trial is to place the arsonist permanently in a psychiatric ward.
The perpetrator allegedly set fire to an apartment building in August 2022 using two canisters of petrol. Three people died in the fire. A fourth person died when he jumped out of the window in fear of the flames.
In addition, almost two dozen people were injured, some seriously. The fire brigade had rescued more than 30 residents from the blazing house.
The perpetrator and the victims are Bulgarian citizens.
Almost three years after the murder of Nicole Z. († 25) on a railway property on the street Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße in Leipzig, the suspect is finally to stand trial. The public prosecutor’s office has now applied to the Regional Court of Leipzig for the so-called “implementation of a safeguarding procedure” against a Bulgarian (22) who allegedly killed the woman.
According to senior public prosecutor Ricardo Schulz, Ahmed N., who was 19 years old at the time, killed a 25-year-old woman on the night of ” March 15, 2020, thus committing manslaughter.”
Passers-by had discovered the body on the railway premises on March 15. The dead woman had severe injuries on her upper body. The public prosecutor’s office and the police reported one year later that a suspect could be placed in a psychiatric hospital.
The investigating authorities assume that Ahmed N. “committed the offence in a state of insanity”. Nevertheless, the aim is to prevent the man from being released. Schulz told the newspaper BILD that the safeguarding procedure is intended to ensure that the suspected killer remains in a psychiatric ward for a longer period of time.
The case against another suspect, however, was dropped. The Turkish man (35) could not be proven to have participated in the crime “with the certainty necessary for an indictment”.
A Christian street preacher was reportedly referred to the UK’s counter-terrorism police after saying that a so-called “transwoman” was really a “man in woman’s clothing”.
David McConnell, a Christian preacher, had already been convicted of “harassment” in a British court of law over the incident last year, with the preacher being sentenced to a 12-month community order with 80 hours unpaid work after saying that the transgender individual was really a “gentleman” and a “man in woman’s clothing”.
The Christian man had been preaching at the time of the incident, with his sermons reportedly resulting in him being abused, assaulted, and even having some of his belongings stolen by passers-by, before being arrested by British law enforcement seemingly over his decision to espouse his religious beliefs.
Things did not end there, however, with a report by the Daily Mail revealing on Tuesday that the Christian man was also reported to the UK’s Prevent counter-terrorism programme over his views, which were deemed to be sufficiently radical for them to be contacted.
According to McConnell’s probation officer, the man was “viewed to be persistently and illegally espousing an extreme point of view” with his preaching, prompting the government official to “routinely” liaise with counter-terrorism police.
The revelation has outraged many Christians in the country, many of whom have already expressed shock over McConnell’s conviction for preaching his Christian beliefs.
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“This case represents a disturbing trend in our society which is seeing members of the public and professionals being prosecuted and reported as potential terrorists for refusing to celebrate and approve LGBTQ ideology,” Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre reportedly said regarding the case.
“The Bible teaches clearly that we are born male and female; this belief and the freedom to express it in public without fear of being arrested or reported as a terrorist to Prevent must be protected,” she went on to say.
The Daily Mail goes on to report that McConnell is in the process of appealing his 2021 conviction.
Although disturbing for many Christians, the idea that the UK’s counter-terrorism initiatives were involved in the processing of a Christian street preacher is relatively unsurprising considering the state of British law enforcement.
For example, a recent report found that the Prevent programme aimed at curbing terrorism in the country was disproportionally focusing on ephemeral right-wing threats to public security, to the point that officers had repeatedly overlooked threats arising from radical Islam, seemingly out of fear of being labelled racist.
The country is also now regularly cracking down on the practice of the Christian faith as a whole, with politicians writing to the Church of England demanding it change its doctrine on gay marriage, while those who dare to silently pray in the general vicinity of abortion clinics frequently face arrest for the thought crime.
Britain’s court system was forced to clear two pro-life Christians of wrongdoing last month after police arrested them for engaging in silent prayer near an abortion facility due to the fact that law enforcement was unable to provide sufficient evidence they were doing anything wrong.
However, one of those cleared by the court, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, has since reportedly been arrested again by police for silent prayer outside a facility.
A disturbing video from Delhi’s notorious Jahangirpuri area recently went viral on social media, where a boy was seen being thrashed badly with a belt and then sexually assaulted by some youth.
It was later confirmed that the victim was minor Hindu boy while his attackers were Muslim. Sudarshan TV reporter Sagar Kumar alleged that the criminal-minded Islamist youth even urinated in the mouth of the victim.
As per the Delhi Police, this incident took place on February 24 and police came to know about it when the victim’s parents filed a complaint the following Monday. The police have arrested one of the accused and are searching for the others.
An investigating officer said that the attack happened because of ‘rivalry’, adding that some of the accused had been recently released from an observation home. “After his parents noticed changes in his behavior, the boy revealed the assault, and they approached the police,” he added.
जहांगीर पूरी में हिंदू लड़के का किड्नैप किया।अपने घर लेकर गए उसके बाद जिहादियों ने मिलकर बेल्टों से मार मार कर किया अधमरा।
The accused seen in the video are Tauheed, Arshad alias Makkhi, Sahdab alias Golu and Shehzad, who are residents of Jahangirpuri, Delhi.
The Police have registered a case under the POCSO Act and various other IPC sections pertaining to unnatural offences and criminal intimidation.
Sagar Kumar shared more CCTV footage from the area to show how these juvenile gangs have unleashed a reign of terror and are seen firing in the air, brandishing weapons and harassing women. He also shared a social media post by the accused where they had displayed multiple daggers and bullets.
Jahangirpuri is believed to be a hotspot of illegal Muslim immigrant settlements and den of crime. Last year, it witnessed an attack on a Hanuman Jayanti procession which was pre-planned by local AAP leader Mohammed Ansar, who also had TMC links. The likes of Asaduddin Owaisi had come out in support of Ansar. The area had also witnessed violence during the anti-CAA Delhi riots of 2020.
In January this year, two terrorists Naushad and Jagjit Singh working for Pakistan handlers were arrested for murdering and chopping a Hindu boy – they had plans to attack Hindu leaders.
He claimed he wanted to die as a martyr. A 30-year-old schizophrenic man armed with two knives attacked police officers in the Var region. The events, reported by BFM TV on Tuesday March 7, took place on the evening of the previous day. As the news channel reported, citing a police source, the Tunisian man, who was known to the police, was arrested after he barricaded himself in his house in the commune of Hyères with his ten-year-old son. The municipal police officers turned to their colleagues from the national police after they spotted the man shouting “Allah Akbar” from his window.
The police officers of the Brigade Anti-Criminalité (BAC) mobilised at the spot tried to talk to the person from outside, the broadcaster continues to report. Fearing that the man’s son was in danger, the police officers decided to enter the flat. Immediately, the man – who was armed with two knives – lunged at them. According to BFMTV, the 30-year-old allegedly shouted, “We will die as martyrs”. He then tried to stab two officers, who were injured on their fingers. After he was overpowered, he was taken to a psychiatric hospital. The little boy was unharmed and was placed in the care of his family.
At the end of December, we reported on a report in the newspaper L’Indépendant about similar incidents in the municipality of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales). According to the report, a 30-year-old man had threatened his neighbours from his balcony, shouting “Allah Akbar”. He was then arrested by officers of the BAC.
