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Austria: The arrested Viennese posed on social media with weapons and sympathised with radical Islamists
After weeks of observation by the police, Elias H., a 16-year-old Viennese with Egyptian origins, was arrested for posing with weapons on social media and apparently sympathising with radical Islamists. eXXpress learned about the large number of charges against the teenager and how dangerous he could actually be.
After the arrest of a 16-year-old youth from Vienna, who not only posted videos of himself on the internet showing him posing with firearms, but is also said to have “strong radical Islamist tendencies” (eXXpress reported), the entire Viennese public is asking themselves: Who is this youth and how dangerous is he really? Could his arrest perhaps have prevented something worse?
The memories of the attack in Vienna in November 2020 are still fresh, only last week there was a terrible rampage at the university in Heidelberg, Germany – here it came to light that the perpetrator, Nikolai G., who was only 18 years old, had bought his weapons in Vienna (eXXpress also reported here). As a result, a debate about the weapons law in Austria came up, the attention around teenage perpetrators is still topical. The eXXpress was able to get first background information on the teenager who made headlines all over Austria on Saturday morning.
Elias H. has Egyptian origins, was born in Vienna and has lived in the federal capital all his life. According to police reports, the youth recorded and published several videos in which he was seen posing with and firing what he thought was a handgun. The videos do not show whether the weapon is a handgun or not. Not only in residential rooms, but also in a public park, the teenager repeatedly carried the gun and fired it uncontrollably in one video.
On one occasion, he also fired a gun several times into the air in a park in a densely populated area in the immediate vicinity of a residential complex, and once he fired from a flat in the direction of a house opposite and also videotaped himself doing so. The Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence (DSN) classifies the content of the videos as “questionable”, Elias H. is expecting multiple charges for these offences – even if it was a alarm pistol – according to section 89 of the Criminal Code, because of endangering the physical safety of others.
In some of the videos he uploaded to Instagram, Elias H. talked about buying ammunition – “nine-millimetre bullets”. The handguns, it later emerged, were “deceptively genuine-looking alarm pistols”, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
This footage had already been reported and initial investigations initiated when the boy uploaded further videos on New Year’s Eve. In one of them, he can be seen with a friend blowing up a chewing gum vending machine with pyrotechnics. In another video, he points a gun at a group of people standing in the distance, who do not notice anything.
At that time, the identity of Elias H. was not yet known, but that quickly became clear. The DSN, the FĂŒnfhaus City Police Department and the Western Branch of the Provincial Criminal Investigation Office were quickly able to track H. down: The police stopped him and two friends on New Year’s Day in a stolen white station wagon with stolen licence plates in Rudolfsheim-FĂŒnfhaus. “The accused youth was carrying a loaded alarm pistol. Further stolen licence plates were found in the boot of the vehicle. In addition, the driver of the vehicle was impaired by narcotic drugs,” said BMI spokesman Harald Sörös.
The DSN, WEGA and police dog unit then conducted a house search at Elias H.’s home. A second alarm pistol including ammunition, a combat knife, a mobile phone and other electronic data carriers were seized. The following night, he posted a video – recorded on a foreign device – in which he asked all his friends to “delete the chats with him”.
“Currently, the forensic evaluation of the seized data carriers and the investigation of possible radical Islamist connections as well as the investigation of further suspects is underway,” said Sörös. The youth did not cooperate and refused to hand over his passwords.
Furthermore, there are indications “that the youth at least sympathises with Islamist ideology”. The investigators suspect “Islamist tendencies”, among other things, because of the appearance of the boy in his videos, partly wearing “Islamic garments”, but also because he followed relevant persons on the internet. In any case, the accused had “a dangerous affinity to firearms”.
“Extremist activities have no place in our democratic society,” emphasised Interior Minister Gerhard Karner ( Austrian People’s Party) in a statement. “The new Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence will continue to be vigilant here and consistently combat every form of Islamist activity, anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism,” Karner said.
https://exxpress.at/folgte-radikalen-islamisten-auf-instagram-so-gefaehrlich-war-elias-h-16/
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France: After broadcasting a TV programme on Islamism, the TV presenter is now also threatened following threats against witnesses
Since the broadcast of the documentary, the lawyer Amine Elbahi, who can be seen in several sequences, is said to have received death threats. “My phone number circulated on social networks, several calls for murder were spread. I am threatened with beheading, slitting my throat and with attacking me for making a truthful speech especially about the inaction of the mayor of my municipality,” he told BFMTV. It seems, however, that he is not the only one. According to Nicolas de Tavernost, Ophelie Meunier, the presenter of “Zone interdite”, was the target of threatening messages that made it necessary to put her under police protection.
On Friday January the 28th, the CEO of the M6 Broadcasting Group was heard by the Senate’s Commission of Inquiry into Media Concentration. When asked if he had interfered with the editorial policy of his stations, he defended himself by referring to the said issue of the news magazine. “In order to do my job, I am forced to judge a number of criteria. Let me give you a very specific example: We made a programme called ‘Zone interdite’ which caused quite a stir. We discussed this programme. If you call that interference, Mr Assouline [rapporteur of the Committee of Inquiry, note], then I interfered in that programme.
I have asked if we have guarantees that it is not an “extremist” programme, I have asked if the presenter who is being threatened is protected, I have asked if the witnesses who are speaking are well anonymised, etc.,” he said, adding: “I have done the job that I think I have to do on a programme whose decision is ultimately mine. I claim to have approved this programme. But only because I was asked to do it. It could have been decided otherwise. I consider it my duty to take responsibility: If you call that interfering, I call it doing my duty”.
France: More than 200 Christian graves vandalised in Houdain cemetery (VIDEO)
On the graves you can see the traces of the stolen Christ figures. Very often only the cross is left. On the stelae you can see some nails, a sign that there was a metal rose or plate there. On Friday morning, the families whose graves were looted in this way are shocked. “We are outraged, we are angry. To do something like this in a cemetery, you really have to be totally deluded,” some lamented. “This is unthinkable, this is deplorable,” said others. The crimes occurred on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday last week.More than 200 graves were vandalised. The perpetrators knew a lot about metals: They had pliers and tools with them. Some metal parts were found in the passageways, by the way. For the mayor of the municipality, this is a new occurrence. The police have of course launched an investigation, but at this stage there are very few clues. On Saturday, the Houdain Municipality will be exceptionally open all day so that families can come and report the thefts found.
https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/01/28/houdain-62-plus-de-200-tombes-vandalisees-au-cimetiere/
Historic number of irregularities in 2021 German election
Four months after the German elections, some 2 100 objections were lodged with the so-called Bundestag Election Review Committee regarding voting irregularities.
This is reported by the magazine Business Insider citing sources in âcommittee circlesâ. The number is a historic record for objections lodged against elections in Germany.
In the past, between 80 and 300 lawsuits were common, and only in 1994 was there a clear outlier with 1 450 objections. Most of the submissions against the election came from Berlin.
Four months ago, the chaos of the elections in the capital caused outrage across Germany: There were numerous problems in dozens of polling stations in the capital, including unreasonable queues, missing ballot papers and polling station relocations at short notice.
As a result, not only did the official concerned Petra Michaelis have to resign, but her colleague Georg Thiel also lodged an objection with the Bundestag against the outcome of the elections in several districts.
The election committee members, nine members of the Bundestag, must now check whether there was actually an electoral error that violated the federal election law, the federal electoral code or the constitution. The reported electoral error may have had an impact on the distribution of seats in the Bundestag.
While Michaelis denied this in a secret report to Thiel, the latter has signalled his objection to the Bundestag, noting that there were violations in several Berlin constituencies, involving tens of thousands of Berlin voters.
If the committee follows suit, the election could be repeated in these districts. The entire Bundestag would then have to decide with a simple majority on the basis of a corresponding recommendation from the Election Review Committee.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/01/29/historic-number-of-irregularities-in-2021-german-election/
Austria: 16-year-old Islamist arrested on suspicion of terrorist activities
A young man from Vienna was arrested after he repeatedly posted questionable videos of him using firearms on Instagram and committing criminal acts. In addition, there is suspicion of Islamist tendencies, which are now being investigated. The 16-year-old boy is in police custody for the time being.
A 16-year-old Viennese is said to have posted several questionable videos showing him handling firearms. “In addition, there are indications that the youth at least sympathises with Islamist ideology,” the Ministry of the Interior (BMI) reported on Saturday. During a house search, another alarm pistol including ammunition, a combat knife, a mobile phone and other electronic data carriers were seized.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the accused had posted several videos on Instagram in which he fires shots with a handgun out of a window and in a parking lot and expresses his interest in purchasing ammunition. It later turned out that they were deceptively real-looking alarm pistols. On New Year’s Eve, according to investigators, he posted further videos showing him and another youth blowing up a chewing gum machine with pyrotechnics and pointing a firearm at a group of people standing in the distance.
After the identity of the 16-year-old had been established, he was stopped together with two other youths in a stolen vehicle with stolen licence plates. “The forensic evaluation of the seized data carriers and the investigation of possible radical Islamist connections as well as the identification of further suspects are currently underway,” the Federal Ministry of the Interior said. The 16-year-old was temporarily arrested.
https://exxpress.at/radikal-islamistische-symphatien-wiener-teenager-16-von-wega-festgenommen/
Again ! Muslim invades French church and shouts “Allahu Akbar” during a funeral – He also made a graffiti showing a swastika
Yesterday, Thursday the 27th of January, at around 1.30 pm, a person entered the Saint-Denys Basilica in the Rue des Ouches in Argenteuil during a funeral and shouted ” Allahu akhbar ” .
He left the place before the police arrived.
Immediately after his escape, the sexton noticed a graffiti showing a swastika, which was about one metre in diameter.
An investigation was initiated.