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German Police Foil Christmas Market Terror Attacks

Jihadist attacks in Hanover and North Rhine-Westphalia were at an advanced stage of planning.

German police have made a string of arrests of Islamist terrorists who were planning attacks on the country’s famed Christmas markets, evoking memories of the December 19, 2016 attack in Berlin, where a truck driver plowed into a crowd of people, causing 12 deaths.

Concerned that the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip might prompt jihadist attacks, German authorities have been on high alert.

Their concern, as it turns out, is valid.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2023December 1, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

German police arrest three over Cologne cathedral plot

Police in Germany’s western state of North-Rhine Westphalia arrested three more people on Sunday over an alleged plot to attack the historic cathedral in Cologne. One person was previously detained on Christmas Eve.

Cologne police chief Johannes Hermanns told a news conference that they believed the perpetrators planned to strike on New Year’s Eve and that the “alleged means of attack” was a vehicle.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2023December 31, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany: Teens allegedly planned Christmas market attack

Two German teenagers are accused of plotting a terror attack on a Christmas market in the western German city of Leverkusen, German prosecutors said on Thursday.

The suspects, a 15-year-old boy in North Rhine-Westphalia and a 16-year-old boy in the eastern state of Brandenburg, were arrested earlier on Wednesday.

Prosecutors alleged that two teenagers planned to leave Germany after the attack to join an offshoot of the so-called “Islamic State” group in Afghanistan.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2023November 30, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is anything but a joke

They don’t believe the German state exists, they make their own passports and they want the German monarchy restored. It’s tempting to dismiss the so-called Reichsbürger movement as a bunch of deranged conspiracy theorists. But the movement is growing, increasingly well-connected and willing to use violence to overthrow the state.

In their latest crackdown on extremist Reichsbürger circles, the German authorities on Thursday conducted a coordinated raid involving around 280 police officers in eight of the country’s 16 states. They targeted 20 residences, involving people aged between 25 and 74 who are suspected of having formed a group around a 58-year-old Bavarian man. He had been arrested before, in November 2021, and is accused of running a Telegram channel through which he incited his 22,000 subscribers to commit crimes. Police officers, for instance, may be ‘summarily executed,’ according to the man. He also pronounced ‘death sentences’ against German ministers of government.

by Blazingcatfur•November 26, 2023November 26, 2023•0•"far right", Germany

“People Have Been Abandoned”: The Town That Epitomises Germany’s Migrant Failure

A Thuringian town, like many in Germany, grapples with a massive influx of migrants. Locals talked to us about their fears.

SUHL, GERMANY—Thuringia has no say in how many asylum seekers come to the state—these are the words of Thuringia’s Minister for Migration, Doreen Denstädt, whose admission of helplessness says it all about the migration situation in Germany.

Eisenberg, Hermsdorf, and Suhl are small towns in the eastern German state of Thuringia, where reception centres for migrants have been overcrowded for months. Just like most parts of Europe, Germany has been facing an influx of asylum seekers this year: around 205,000 migrants applied for asylum between January and August this year, marking an increase of 77% compared with the same period last year.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2023November 24, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

BKA Report: Sharp Uptick in Violent Crime Committed by Migrants Against Germans

New figures from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) that detail the demographic makeup of serious violent crime suspects in 2022 have been called “frightening” by the chief of the Federal Police Union, who urged both state and federal authorities to take swift action to put an end to the problem.

The BKA’s 2022 “Federal situation report on crime in the context of immigration” revealed that 47,923 German citizens fell victim to violent crimes carried out by immigrants—defined by the office as foreigners who came to the country as refugees or asylum seekers—last year, up 18% from 2021, BILD reports.

Only “serious crimes” like homicide, attempted homicide, manslaughter, rape, assault, and robbery that were solved by police were considered in this particular BKA report.

by Blazingcatfur•November 18, 2023November 17, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Germany pays a high price for reducing its energy

The country’s industry is struggling to reach previous levels

Based on its current storage, Germany looks set to make it through another winter without Russian pipeline gas, demonstrating that the fears of the past two years were unmerited. According to a new poll, Germans are no longer worried about potential gas shortages. Policy experts have come to hold the same view, provided the country isn’t subject to a combination of very unlikely factors, such as a complete halting of LNG imports or an enduring cold snap this winter. Alas, it would be premature to claim that the energy question has been finally resolved to Germany’s benefit.

by Blazingcatfur•November 9, 2023November 8, 2023•0•"Energy Matters", Germany

Refugee struggle drives German homelessness up by half

The number of homeless people in Germany has risen by more than 50 per cent in 12 months, according to a report that found the increase was almost entirely due to a doubling in the number of refugees with no fixed place to stay.

Soaring rents, a sharp rise in the broader cost of living and an acute shortage of social housing have compounded the difficulties of finding space for about a million Ukrainians fleeing the invasion of their homeland and the 148,000 non-Ukrainians who applied for asylum in 2022.

Germany: Nearly €50 Billion on Migration in 2023

Germany’s left-liberal traffic light coalition is set to spend 48.2 billion euros of taxpayer cash on costs associated with migration, up from 42 billion last year, the latest figures from the federal ministry of finance have revealed.

The overall costs covering reception, housing, migration registration, educational support for children and youth, and various social expenses equal Germany’s national defense budget, the Berlin-based daily Die Welt reports.

by Blazingcatfur•November 9, 2023November 8, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Germany may soon become a Sharia nation

In 2015, the so-called Arab Spring, which Barack Obama helped foment, turned into the Muslim march on Europe. As you may recall, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, from her powerful position as head of the EU’s most powerful nation, invited in all the displaced refugees from across the Muslim Middle East and Africa. It was an invasion by invitation, and now Germany may soon become a Muslim-controlled country.

by Blazingcatfur•November 8, 2023November 7, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Syrian Migrant Knifeman Admits He Killed for the Islamic State

A suspected sympathiser of the Islamic State who murdered a 35-year-old man on the streets of the German city of Duisburg earlier this year has admitted he carried out the deadly knife attack on orders from the terrorist group to kill its enemies.

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court heard from the 27-year-old Syrian this week on Thursday, November 2nd, as he admitted that he carried out the attack which left one dead and four others wounded on behalf of the Islamic State, the newspaper Die Welt reports.

h/t kiki9

by Blazingcatfur•November 5, 2023November 5, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany is waking up to Islamist antisemitism

A foiled terror plot this week is a sign of a more proactive approach

According to various German reports, domestic intelligence was tipped off earlier this week by a foreign source about a possible terrorist attack on a pro-Israel rally in a major German city. The suspect, “Tarek S”, is a former member of Isis who became infamous in Germany for posing with the victims of beheadings and featuring in propaganda videos for the Islamist group. Once returned to Germany in 2017, he was convicted to five years of juvenile detention.

I’ll believe that when I see it, though they have cracked down on the Hamas supporters.

Germany 🇩🇪
Police are fed up with #HamasNazis supporters pic.twitter.com/MR1aebAQi1

— RELIGION OF PEACE (@endislam) October 25, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•October 26, 2023October 26, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany to Begin ‘Large Scale‘ Deportations, Says Chancellor Scholz

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted that “too many people are coming” into the country illegally and vowed to begin deportations on a “large scale” as Germany is on pace to see more illegal migrants enter the country than during the European Migrant Crisis of 2016.

by Blazingcatfur•October 26, 2023October 26, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Hamas celebrations stopped in Berlin amid warning of attacks on Jewish sites

German police broke up pro-Hamas celebrations in Berlin on Saturday night as the country’s antisemitism commissioner warned of attacks on Jewish sites.

Police made multiple arrests in the district of Neukoelln after officers tried to disperse around 40 people who were celebrating on the boulevard of Sonnenallee in the evening.

Officers reported chants of banned slogans such as “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

Islamic Jihad in Europe. Berlin, Muslims celebrate the massacre of civilians, women and children carried out in Israel by Hamas Islamic terrorists. pic.twitter.com/FxyZxQ7Uuw

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 8, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2023October 8, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Hamas

Death Threats Force Family of AfD Leader Into Hiding

It has been revealed that the family of German AfD leader Alice Weidel was whisked away from their home to a secure location by police during the weekend of September 23rd after a “security-relevant incident” forced authorities to move to protect their safety.

The threat comes after years of growing state and left-wing harassment against the German populist party, which has recorded its highest-ever polling numbers in recent months on account of worsening economic conditions and rising anti-NATO sentiment.

by Blazingcatfur•October 6, 2023October 5, 2023•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Germany, Germany - AfD party

Left-wing extremism is on the rise across Germany

A spate of attacks on AfD politicians may have political consequences

At the time of writing, Tino Chrupalla, the co-leader of the German Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) is under observation at a hospital, after what appears to have been a potential attack with a needle-like object. The German authorities are still investigating the incident, but it is as of yet unclear what precisely happened.

by Blazingcatfur•October 5, 2023October 5, 2023•0•Germany