German police detain suspected hitman with list of Gülen followers: Der Spiegel
German police on Sept. 17 raided a hotel in Düsseldorf and detained a 40-year-old Turkish man with a gas pistol and a large amount of ammunition in addition to a list of followers of the Gülen movement, the Der Spiegel news website reported on Friday.
German law enforcement searched the niu Tab Hotel in Oberbilk for hours. The surrounding streets were cordoned off, and 550 guests had to vacate the hotel due to the operation.
The list of names of Gülen movement followers seized also included additional information on each person. The people on the list were possibly warned last weekend by the German police, according to Der Spiegel.
The Turkish government accuses the Gülen movement of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and labels it a “terrorist organization,” although the movement strongly denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.
The investigators are now looking into the question of whether this was a target list for planned attacks or for spying operations. Investigators are also concerned about the ammunition because it couldn’t be used in the weapon found on the suspect.
The investigators hope to learn more from chat messages that were seized from the suspect. In addition, a financial investigation will also be launched.
The Düsseldorf public prosecutor announced on Thursday that his office was now investigating the man on suspicion of criminal activity and violating the weapons law.
In July a pro-government social media account named “Jitemkurt” published a list of Turkish journalists living in Europe and North America whom they plan to assassinate.
The account published the names of 21 journalists resident in various countries and threatened to kill them. The name of the social media account refers to a group linked to the notorious gendarmerie intelligence unit JITEM.
Later, another hit list emerged that included the names of 55 critics of the Turkish government who live in exile. Politicians and artists are included on the new list in addition to journalists.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been targeting followers of the Gülen movement, a faith-based group inspired by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, since the corruption investigations of December 17-25, 2013, which implicated then-Prime Minister Erdoğan, his family members and his inner circle.
Dismissing the investigations as a Gülenist coup and conspiracy against his government, Erdoğan designated the movement as a terrorist organization and began to target its members. He locked up thousands including many prosecutors, judges and police officers involved in the investigation as well as journalists who reported on them.
Erdoğan intensified the crackdown on the movement following a coup attempt in 2016.
In order to avoid the government-led crackdown, thousands of Gülen followers have fled Turkey and taken refuge in European countries and others.
For years, Turkey has repeatedly urged the German authorities to take action against Gülen supporters who sought asylum in the country.
Bavaria: Football team cancelled – out of 12 positives, 10 are double vaccinated
Twelve professional footballers from Unterhaching have tested positive for the virus, the club said when asked by the newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The virus has a negative effect on the regional league club. One thing is certain: two matches are cancelled. It is unclear how the outbreak of the virus came about, given that almost all the professional players have been vaccinated, reports merkur.de. Really unclear, our editorial team asks?
Unvaccinated player with lowest test results
The president of SpVgg Unterhaching, Manni Schwabl, pensively states when asked to explain how this could happen: twelve positive cases in one dressing room – and this despite the fact that the “vast majority” of his professional players are double vaccinated:
“Of the twelve who tested positive, ten were double vaccinated, one recovered, and only one was not vaccinated – curiously enough, this is the one with the lowest test result. The Bavarian adds helplessly: “Nobody can explain it.
But Mr. President, any politician or “expert” will be able to explain this to you (at least behind closed doors), who currently decree that, despite alleged ” fully immunised”, participants in the vaccination experiment continue to be affected by harassment, such as wearing masks or keeping their distance.
And Schwabl indirectly admits to another extraordinary scandal involving vaccination fraud when he speculates:
“Someone will have brought it in the dressing room. It’s obvious that you don’t keep the distances like that when almost everyone is vaccinated.”
It’s the same thing, Mr. President: in future, tell vaccinated players or employees of your club that they should under no circumstances rely on the protective effect of untested vaccines. People will then, as you yourself say, become careless and neglect even the precautionary measures that were usually taken as a matter of course during “ordinary” flu outbreaks.
The demographic oblivion of Europe
by Giulio Meotti
Ten years ago I wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal with a fairly eloquent title: “Italy, R.I.P.”. It ended thus: “It is the mystery of one of the richest, most relaxed and peaceful societies in the world that opts for self-liquidation. By 2050, 60 percent of Italians will have no brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles. In the 14th century the plague wiped out 80 percent of the Italian population. In the 21st century it is disappearing by choice. ”
The president of the Bureau of Italian National Statistics, Gian Carlo Blangiardo, raised the demographic alarm, almost unheard. Speaking at the Treviso Statistics Festival, Professor Blangiardo said: “We are experiencing a problematic situation. Ours is a potential country of 32 million inhabitants”. The average age of the population makes Italy the third oldest country in the world, together with one of the lowest birth rates on the planet and the percentage of retirees compared to workers that will rise from 37 percent today to 65 percent in 2040 (from 1 in 3 to 2 in 3). We are traveling on a giant Titanic.”
Professor Blangiardo does not give numbers, but he does provide the numbers of a frightening crisis. These are the same contents in a study by the medical journal The Lancet: “Italy will halve in 2100”. Thirty million fewer Italians.
Depopulation is already underway, even if it is not visible in the cities.
In Capracotta, Molise, a sign in red letters on an 18th century stone building reads: “Nursery school”. Now it is a hospice. Capracotta is dying and the population has gone from 5,000 to 800.
It is not a difficult calculation. Against 650,000 deaths each year, there are fewer than 400,000 births. Even leaving the trend like that, it’s an annual net loss of 250,000 people. In eighty years there are 20 million fewer, not to mention that the number of deaths will increase exponentially. “In 2100 the Italian population will halve without immigration”, headlines Bloomberg.
Oh yes, immigration …
The effects of mass immigration are already becoming dramatically visible in many Italian schools. In Turin there are already classes without Italian children.
Where are we at? In a beautiful book written with the journalist Marco Valerio Lo Prete, Antonio Golini, one of the leading Italian demographers, writes: “Not everyone has been so reluctant to think the unthinkable, that is, to think about the effects of a demographic implosion that in some areas of the planet came immediately after the explosion.”
“I remember a private interview that Baudouin, king of the Belgians from 1951 to 1993, wanted to have with a small group of demographers and economists summoned to Brussels for a conference on the subject in the late 1980s. It was a dinner with an exchange of questions and very informal answers. Baldwin pointed his finger at the signs of decline in fertility and suddenly asked the diners: ‘Is there a point of no return?’. I didn’t hold back, a spontaneous one came out: ‘Good question, sir!’”
“The soldier who by protocol was standing behind the King made a face: how could I allow myself to tell the sovereign that he had asked a beautiful and correct question? Perhaps the others up to that moment were less so? Bon ton aside, I was sincerely convinced that Baldwin had hit the mark. So much so that on the basis of the analysis I was doing at the time, I formulated a sort of ‘law of aging ment ‘: if a country has a percentage of over 60s equal to or greater than 30 per cent of the total population, then that country – barring massive immigration – reaches a demographic point of no return.”
Today that percentage in Italy is 22.7 percent of the population. In 2050 it will exceed the fateful threshold of 30 percent.
An Italian think tank, the “Fondazione Fare Futuro”, has predicted that due to mass migrations and the different birth rates between Italians and immigrants, by the end of the century half of the Italian population will be Islamic.
This demographic suicide should be Europe’s top priority. Alternatively, as Michel Onfray wrote, “we just have to sink with elegance.”
Croatian President criticizes vaccination hysteria: Jabs for half the country are enough
When a journalist from the online news channel N1 stated that Croatia was not sufficiently vaccinated compared to the EU average, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said he did not care, because “we are sufficiently vaccinated, we will not go beyond 50 percent … then they should fence us in with barbed wire, but they won’t do that”.
N1 is a TV partner of the left-wing US broadcaster CNN, which broadcasts news about Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Alluding to the narrative that vaccinated people are protected from serious illness, Milanovic said: “We should know the aim of all this frenzy. If anybody tells me that the aim is to completely eradicate the Coronavirus, I will tell them that this is insane. It is impossible. What matters now is adjustment and resumption of normal life.”
According to the current paradigm, vaccinated people cannot be endangered at all. He also wanted to know what the goal of this “frenzy” was. “Get vaccinated. Then get vaccinated again. We want to wipe out Covid-19!” He said that was obviously impossible. The president must have alluded to the vaccination disaster in Israel, where despite a 90 percent vaccination coverage and the 3rd booster jab, infection rates, illnesses, hospitalization and deaths were skyrocketing. Israelis are now no longer allowed to enter Sweden and Portugal.
Milanovic then continued: “I start every day with CNN and these few TV channels. And I wonder, am I normal or are they crazy?” Commenting on the excessive focus on this topic in foreign media outlets, Milanović said: “The media frenzy over the Coronavirus is starting to grate on people’s nerves.”
He added: “Everything has been said. Those who have got vaccinated, have solved their problem. If you get vaccinated, you do not stand any chance of developing serious symptoms or consequences. It is then like the flu,” the president explained. “Everyone knows that… there is no chance of putting those people at risk,” the Croatian president said.
He also expressed surprise at the “obsessive culture of safety” being pushed by foreign media outlets. “No one can be absolutely safe and secure, there is no life without any risk or disease,” the president underscored.
“This amounts to sowing panic, and they are not the only ones to have been doing that since the beginning (of the pandemic). Simply, there is no absolute safety that excludes any possibility of getting sick. People develop thousands of more serious diseases, while we have been commenting on Covid for a year and a half.”
In a report by the online portal Index, Milanovic was quoted on the subject of Covid-19, saying that the assertion of absolute certainty cannot be continued indefinitely.
Many of his friends were vaccinated, some were not – but they were still his friends, he said.
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Germany: Iranian man allegedly raped and mutilated woman
The Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against a 54-year-old man before a jury of the Berlin Regional Court for attempted cruel murder for base motives, grievous bodily harm and rape.
According to the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office, Omid R. is accused of having threatened, tied up and gagged his former partner and her daughter, who was ten years old at the time of the crime, with a knife in their flat in the Berlin district of Schöneberg on October 30, 2012. There, he allegedly first raped the woman, then severely abused and mutilated her out of revenge and finally left her tied up in a helpless position in the flat. The woman, who was critically injured, was lucky enough to be able to call for help from one of the windows in the flat. She was saved by intensive medical care, but had to undergo a number of follow-up operations, among other things.
But why is the Berlin public prosecutor’s office only bringing charges now, nine years after the crime? The accused is said to have fled from Berlin to Turkey on the day of the crime and from there to Iran overland. There, he was arrested by Iranian security forces in November 2012 and, after several years of court proceedings, sentenced in September 2018 to prison for the offence of October 30, 2012 in Berlin as well as another offence to the detriment of another woman, among others.
After serving over six years of imprisonment in Iran, he was released in May 2019 and fled Iran to the Netherlands a few months later. He had already been sentenced to prison in the Netherlands in 2003 and 2005 for, among other things, the rape and attempted manslaughter of his then wife.
After his arrest in the Netherlands in March 2020, the accused was held in extradition custody there before he was extradited and transferred to the German justice system in July 2021. Since then, the accused has been in pre-trial detention in Berlin.