Syrian migrant smirks after arrest for attack on American in Germany - "A Syrian migrant smirked after he was arrested for the brutal attack on American model John Rudat on a tram in Germany on Tuesday. Wearing a gray Adidas hooded sweatshirt, white Nike sneakers and black sweatpants with “Hood Rich” written on the front, the 21-year-old, identified only as Majd A., stared defiantly at photographers as he was taken before a judge in handcuffs in the eastern German city of Dresden. Majd was originally arrested at a migrant shelter on Sunday following the violent attack, but was released less than 12 hours later as German police said they didn’t have enough evidence to tie him to the crime. But newly-released video footage from the tram showed Majd punching Rubat in the face while armed with a weapon before his accomplice slashed the US tourist with a knife... Majd has previous charges for grievous bodily harm, robbery and illegal entry, Bild reported. Rubat, a paramedic and part-time model from Colonie, New York, was attacked after he intervened to stop Majd and his accomplice, who were allegedly violently assaulting two women on the tram. “Then the two guys came in and started making fun of her. She didn’t respond, but seemed to know the two men,” Rubat told the outlet. “But I immediately saw that one of them was on drugs. He had this completely insane look on this face.” “But this guy didn’t want to fight. He wanted to kill me,” Rubat said of one of his attackers."
We all know smirking is a horrible crime, so when will he be convicted?
Populist Right-Wing Parties Lead the Polls in U.K., France, and Germany - WSJ - "For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading the polls in Europe’s three biggest countries of the U.K., France, and Germany, the latest sign of growing voter discontent in much of the continent following years of high immigration and inflation. Far-right and anti-immigration parties have already entered government in countries such as Italy, Finland and the Netherlands. But this year marks the first time that they have been ahead in Europe’s biggest economies at the same time. That could provoke a period of political turbulence in all three countries, even if national elections are likely still a few years away. “It’s significant. Leaders in all three countries are grappling with an ascendant far right that looks on the cusp of power unless politicians can address what’s fueling the rise, which is immigration and cost of living,” said Mujtaba Rahman, head of Europe for risk consulting firm Eurasia. France’s anti-immigration National Rally has had a consistent lead in polls this year. An Elabe poll last month showed Jordan Bardella, the young protégé of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, was the most popular with an approval rating of 36%. Polling for the next presidential vote also suggests National Rally’s candidate—whether it is Bardella or Le Pen—would lead the first round. In the U.K., the anti-immigration Reform UK led by former Brexiteer Nigel Farage has surged in the past six months and is now comfortably ahead in opinion polls of the ruling Labour Party and the opposition Conservatives, the political duopoly that has dominated British politics for the past century. In Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has been neck-and-neck with the ruling center-right Christian Democratic Union in polls since the start of the year. The AfD has pulled slightly ahead in recent weeks, the first time it has done so since April, according to Forsa, one of the country’s leading pollsters. Like the U.S., much of Europe has experienced two things at the same time since the pandemic: record levels of immigration that have caused a voter backlash, and a surge in inflation that has now eased but left prices for many goods much higher than before—leaving many voters feeling worse off. Social media has also polarized opinions. Unlike the U.S., however, much of Europe has almost no economic growth, fueling a widespread sense that the continent faces years of drift, as well as political gridlock... In recent years, Germany and the U.K. both saw the biggest surges in immigration in their history, even if the numbers have begun to fall this year. In Germany, the share of residents born outside the country surged from just over 15% in 2017 to a record high of 22% in 2024, according to government data. That compares with about 16% in the U.S. The U.K., meanwhile, has grappled with a record rise in legal and illegal immigration. Some 4.5 million people arrived legally between 2021 and 2024, primarily from India, Nigeria and China. That is slightly more than those who legally entered the U.S.—which has about five times the population of the U.K.—over that time. In addition, tens of thousands of people have illegally crossed the English Channel on flimsy boats each year to claim asylum. So far this year, record numbers of people—29,000 through the end of August—have made the crossing, sparking growing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who came to power last year vowing to “smash the gangs” that control migrant smuggling and reduce the crossings. Adding to the pressure on Starmer, protests flared this summer in some English towns over the use of local hotels where the government is paying for migrants to stay until their asylum cases are resolved... Friedrich Merz, the conservative chancellor, has also done away with some of his predecessor’s green policies, often criticized as excessive by the AfD."
Time to arrest climate change deniers and far right anti-migrant protesters, ban political parties and censor the press to "protect democracy". We need more degrowth to Build Back Better
Visegrád 24 on X - "Migrants protesting against Israel have attacked a group of Swedes in the Swedish town of Uddevalla. One of the Swedes could have suffered life-threatening injuries after one of the migrants slammed his head into the ground. Welcome to Sweden 🇸🇪🇵🇸"
Carlos Abadi on X - "🚨 France’s Interior Minister just released a 76-page report that should make every Western nation wake up. The Muslim Brotherhood is a clear and present danger to French national security—its numbers have doubled to 100,000, and it’s worming its way into mosques, schools, sports clubs, and NGOs. And guess who’s backing this insidious infiltration? Two foreign powers we all know too well: Qatar and Turkey. This isn’t just a French problem—it’s a blueprint for the West, and if we don’t act, we’ll be next. Open your eyes before it’s too late."
Islamophobia!
Thread by @CompositeGuy_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " A French think tank has estimated that the significantly lower employment rate of immigrants compared to French nationals results in an economic cost equivalent to approximately 3.4% of France’s GDP In this thread, I will present further insights on immigration in France 🧵
France has experienced something of its own Boriswave. After COVID, the number of European migrants dropped precipitously, while the numbers of African and Asian migrants have increased. African foreign nationals are 2-8 times overrepresented for a multiple of crime categories. 54% of non-European migrants who arrived in the last five years are unemployed. One of the highest in the EU. Less than 1 in 3 immigrants who arrived in France in 2023 had a job in early 2024. Broken down by region:
Sub-Saharan Africans: 1 in 4
Maghreb: 1 in 3
Europeans: 1 in 2
Over half of working-age non-European migrants in the PACA region are unemployed. The region with the lowest unemployment rate is Paris, where 36% of this group are listed as unemployed. 43% of Turks and 39% of Algerians in France are not employed, studying, or retired. Compared to French nationals (which includes non-native populations):
Turks: 3.6 times
Algerians: 3.3 times
Moroccans: 3.3 times
Tunisians: 3.1 times
Sub-Saharan Africans: 2.9 times
65% of Turkish women in France are not employed, studying, or retired.
The descendants of immigrants are five times more likely to live in 'priority neighbourhoods.' The vast majority of households in priority neighbourhoods are social housing, and over half of private tenants receive housing benefit from the state. Among migrant groups in France, the likelihood of living in social housing:
• 57% of migrants from the Sahel region (including countries like Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania) reside in social housing.
• 52% of migrants from Central Africa (such as Cameroon and Congo)
• 49% of Algerian migrants
• 44% of migrants from Morocco and Tunisia
On average, immigrants receive twice as many social benefits as people without migrant ancestry. For those from Africa, it is 2.6 times higher. Algerians are 6 times more likely to immigrate to France for family reunification than for work reasons. In France, 41% of non-European migrants suffer from long-term health problems, the highest proportion recorded in Western Europe.
Immigrants in France are:
• 15x times more likely to have tuberculosis
• Sub-Saharan Africans are 40x more likely to have hepatitis B
• 4x more likely to have HIV/AIDS
• 8x more likely to be treated with PTSD
A quarter of asylum seekers cite health as the reason for their migration into France. The number of beneficiaries of state medical assistance reversed for illegal immigrants has increased 3-fold in 20 years. 96% of those rejected for asylum remain in the country. These sorts of statistics are repeated across Europe. Immigration, on the whole, has been a disaster across the continent."
Leftist MPs Want To Ban News Reports on Migrant Crime To Prevent ‘Far Right’ Speech - "On June 10th, President Macron spoke out against “the tyranny of news” (faits divers) and said that the French were being “brainwashed” about murders that hit the headlines and shocked French public opinion in recent months. In line with this observation, several left-wing MPs proposed an amendment to media regulations aimed at “conducting an editorial review of the place of news items in the coverage of current events” in the public media. Behind this move lies an attempt to stifle media coverage of these cases—which are in fact linked to immigration. The amendment was proposed on June 25th by around 40 left-wing and far-left MPs. Under the guise of ensuring a supposed “balance of information”, these MPs are in fact attacking their favourite target: the conservative media, at the forefront of which, unsurprisingly, is the CNews channel owned by Vincent Bolloré, the bête noire of the French Left. The text to be put to the vote in the National Assembly explicitly mentions high-profile criminal cases: the brutal murder of little Lola in 2022 and the murder of young Thomas in Crépol in 2023. According to the authors of the amendment, these crimes “provided an opportunity for political representatives, editorialists and far-right media outlets to spread racialising rhetoric.” If we translate this newspeak, here is the message: the right-wing media had the audacity to point out that those responsible for these murders were the pure products of the uncontrolled immigration policy that has been corrupting France from within for decades. The solution proposed by the Left is therefore childishly simple: rather than asking questions about the chain of events that led Dahbia Benkired, who had been ordered to leave French territory (OQTF), to rape and murder 12-year-old Lola, or the murderers of Thomas to come to a village festival to “stab white people,” the media should just be quiet about it. What does not exist in the media simply does not exist: this is the cruel lesson learned by Christelle Gervaise, wife of military doctor Alban Gervaise, killed by a man shouting “Allah akbar,” who was met with a media blackout on her husband’s murder. The MPs behind this amendment justify their move by virtue signalling, the beloved exercise of the progressive Left. Information must not be manipulated for ideological purposes, repeat those same people who imported the George Floyd affair to France, turning it into a universal symbol of police violence and an opportunity to renew their anti-racist rhetoric. As they have no control over what is said on CNews, an entirely private channel, they intend to establish a cordon sanitaire to prevent the same tone from being adopted and the same subjects from being discussed on public service channels... Fortunately, the censors’ efforts are likely to come to nothing"
Record number of gang rape suspects in Germany in 2024, with over half being foreign nationals - "The German government has released figures showing that 2024 saw the highest number of gang rape suspects ever recorded, with a dramatic rise in cases involving foreign nationals... In 2013, 537 suspects were recorded — just over half the number now being reported. The figures indicate a steep upward trend, particularly since 2015, when gang rape suspect numbers and the proportion of non-German individuals began to climb sharply. This figure coincides with the migrant crisis of that year, when then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Europe’s borders to millions of migrants, primarily from the Middle East... The five most frequently cited national origins among the suspects have remained consistent since 2022: Germany, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Turkey. The German government has released figures showing that 2024 saw the highest number of gang rape suspects ever recorded, with a dramatic rise in cases involving foreign nationals. According to an official response to a parliamentary question by Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Stephan Brandner, authorities registered 1,011 suspects in connection with gang rapes during the 2024 reporting year. According to Nius, this marks a record high since the survey’s inception in 2010 and an increase from the previous year, which saw 990 suspects. In 2013, 537 suspects were recorded — just over half the number now being reported. The figures indicate a steep upward trend, particularly since 2015, when gang rape suspect numbers and the proportion of non-German individuals began to climb sharply. This figure coincides with the migrant crisis of that year, when then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Europe’s borders to millions of migrants, primarily from the Middle East. Most striking is the demographic composition of the suspects. In 2024, 51 percent of those identified as suspects in gang rape cases were foreign nationals. In 2010, that share was just 34 percent, but it has steadily risen over the years, surpassing 50 percent multiple times in recent reporting periods. The five most frequently cited national origins among the suspects have remained consistent since 2022: Germany, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Turkey. The data for “Germans,” however, is distorted due to the fact that naturalized foreign-born individuals are classed as German for the purposes of crime data in the country. Therefore, the number of foreign-born suspects is likely to be far higher."
Left wingers can't even use the "locals are a majority of gang rapists so you can't complain about foreigners" cope anymore, so they'll need to move to claiming that rape by locals is underreported
Swiss city hit by riots after migrant killed in police chase - "Violence has erupted in the Swiss city of Lausanne after a teenage migrant died while fleeing police. Riot police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at officers in the French-speaking city on the shores of Lake Geneva. Lausanne saw two consecutive nights of violence, with around 200 rioters clashing with 140 police officers. Marvin M, a 17-year-old resident of Lausanne, was fleeing police on a stolen scooter when he crashed into a wall and died at around 3.45am on Sunday.
Clearly, it's the racist and xenophobic police's fault. If they didn't chase non-white people who committed crimes, he would still be alive
Germany: 15-year-old Syrian allegedly raped 12-year-old girl at public pool, but authorities kept quiet about the case for 3 weeks - "In Germany, authorities are facing pressure over a case that was not made public until three weeks after the initial incident. It involves a 15-year-old Syrian who is under investigation for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in the changing room of a public swimming pool in the city of Braunschweig. The incident happened at the Wasserwelt (Water World) swimming pool and came to light thanks to the reporting of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, which received a tip from a reader... Wolters says no action has been taken against the teen so far, including detention. He said that prosecutors are still trying to clarify what actually happened; however, he acknowledged that the young person and the victim have not been questioned, despite the incident happening three weeks ago. He said these interviews must happen first."
Germany: Foreigners vastly overrepresented in sexual assaults and other crimes at swimming pools in Lower Saxony - "Crime soared 65 percent in Lower Saxony’s swimming pools, and foreigners account for a huge share of these crimes, according to German government data released in response to a parliamentary inquiry from the Alternative for Germany (AfD). The data shows that crime at swimming pools in the German state went from 780 cases in 2023 to 1,286 in 2024. For sexual crimes, foreigners make up 41.67 percent of perpetrators in 2024, with 13 Syrian suspects and seven Afghan suspects among the foreigners arrested. In total, there were 116 sexual crime cases in 2024 in Lower Saxony swimming pools. However, for total crimes, foreigners are also greatly overrepresented. The amount of foreigners in Lower Saxony is estimated to be between 11 and 13 percent of the state’s population, yet they were responsible for 31.48 percent of all crimes in 2024 in the state’s swimming pools. Despite the statistical increase in crimes, the left-wing government leading the state said in response to the data: “There is generally no noticeable increase in crimes in swimming pools or bathing areas in Lower Saxony… The safety situation in urban outdoor pools is classified as unremarkable. The crime burden is at an unremarkable level relative to overall crime.“... Notably, when it comes to crime data, all suspects with dual nationality are listed in the statistics as “German.” There are an estimated 5 million people with dual citizenship in Germany, and some estimates go as high as 7 million."
Meme - AF Post: "Dr. Assad will return to ophthalmology after being deposed as president of Syria and plans to set up an eye clinic in Russia."
Petronius Arbiter @soulofpetronius: "Of course the one Syrian refugee who is actually a doctor doesn't end up in the EU."
Merkel was wrong – Germany’s Syrian refugees aren’t going home - "The Syrian Civil War is over. The bloody conflict finally ended last year after more than half a million deaths and a refugee crisis that saw more than 5 million flee the country. But now that the fighting has finished, many of those refugees seem less than keen on returning. In Germany, so far only 1,300 have gone home via official programmes that gives them financial incentives to do so. The total number that have returned to Syria in the first half of the year is estimated to be 4,000, out of more than one million that arrived after Angela Merkel opened the borders in 2015. This raises the question of whether many refugees are really refugees at all. After all, if you are only fleeing the war, then you would return once the war is over. The lack of willingness to do so shows that many refugees would rather stay in the countries that gave them refuge, where they have better economic conditions. Germany is a perfect example. Ms Merkel’s decision to allow so many refugees in was initially portrayed as a great moral act, one which would also provide the doctors and engineers of the future. After some pushback from conservatives, she stressed in 2016 that asylum should be temporary and that, “once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained”. A decade on, all of this looks very foolish. Some of those coming as refugees were terrorists, committing a spate of attacks that have horrified the country. That has driven much of the support for the populist Right-wing party Alternative for Germany, who now lead the polls. Far from being professionals and graduates, many refugees have instead remained out of work, taking advantage of Germany’s generous welfare state. Nearly half of all those on the main German welfare scheme are foreign nationals, with Syrians now one of the largest groups. This is one of the great problems of our age. Easy travel and social media mean that people are on the move in a way that was never previously possible. Around 900 million people want to migrate permanently, far more than any country or even continent can take. Many of them want to come to Britain, attracted by our wealth and the possibility of an easier life. But in coming they are already destabilising the very prosperity they seek. It is also unfair on the British people, who find themselves saddled with a bill of billions for so-called asylum seekers. But charity which is compelled is no charity at all. The scale of the refugee flows and the role of human rights law in facilitating them also means that many refugees in the West have received little or no vetting, in some cases have criminal histories, and even when convicted of crimes still cannot be deported. It is therefore necessary to change the laws governing refugees. Most of these date back to the aftermath of the Second World War and were well-intentioned. But those refugees were relatively similar to one another, in many cases they did go home, and the disparity in wealth or social capital between them and their host nations was not as high. Today, refugees would be better dealt with locally, where they generate fewer cultural problems and funding can go further. We should make absolutely sure that refugee status is temporary. This would ensure that people can seek safety but cannot come as economic migrants. This status should be reviewed at regular intervals and, when the situation in their country of origin changes, should be withdrawn. Those who commit any crimes should lose the right to refugee status, and be deported. Britain has seen an unprecedented wave of asylum claims in the last few years and although many have been granted, this is often on spurious human rights grounds, rather than because of their real circumstances."
Left wing logic: there's nothing wrong with looking for a better life for yourself, so they should be allowed to stay. Bait and switch, once again
Cologne immigration pact opens door for AfD - "In Cologne, a bizarre conspiracy of silence has settled. Only it’s not happening behind closed doors. All of the political parties involved in upcoming local elections, except the anti-immigration AfD, have openly agreed to avoid negative commentary on immigration during their campaigns. Everyone, from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to the far-Left Die Linke, has signed a “Fairness Agreement”, pledging not to talk about migrants in connection with “negative social developments such as unemployment or threats to domestic security”. This is likely to backfire spectacularly. Democracy thrives on open debate, especially on polarising issues such as immigration. By effectively imposing a gag on critical voices, the agreement tampers with the democratic process itself, stifling dialogue with superficial silence. Citizens deserve a truthful negotiation of competing policies, not a hastily erected facade that ignores discomfort or disagreement. This curtailment comes at a high cost, especially in Cologne. The city has not forgotten what happened on New Year’s Eve 2015, when hundreds of women reported sexual assaults by groups described as of Arab or North African appearance near Cologne Cathedral and the central train station. Police admitted later that around half the perpetrators had been in the country for less than a year, and that there was “a connection between the appearance of the phenomenon and large-scale migration, especially in 2015”... in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Cologne is located, AfD support is set to triple from just 5% in the last municipal election in 2020 to around 13-16 % now, according to polling. Meanwhile, the broader democratic ecosystem suffers. Voters, particularly working-class ones, and even long-established migrant-origin communities, are shifting toward the AfD, not because they embrace extremism, but because they feel unheard and abandoned by the political centre. Without legitimate channels to express concerns, cynicism grows and democracy erodes. To call this silence “fair”, when it abandons one of Germans’ most pressing concerns, seems cynical. It’s a capitulation: a denial of many people’s everyday experiences, fears and frustrations. It validates the smug belief that “politics knows best”, even when public safety and social cohesion are at stake. Fairness demands honest engagement. Problems and conflicts in Cologne, including the horrors of New Year’s Eve 2015, must be acknowledged — not exploited, but confronted openly. Even if the intention of the agreement was solely political, it would backfire on those terms. By collectively signing the “Fairness Agreement” and singling out the AfD as the only dissenting voice, mainstream parties confirm a huge frustration that has driven so many voters towards the Right in the first place: the idea of a “uniparty” that blocks all change. Many Germans already feel that all establishment parties, regardless of ideological labels, are essentially the same, offering no genuine choice — especially on immigration... In attempting to isolate the AfD, Cologne’s political establishment is feeding directly into the party’s most effective messaging."
Time to ban the AfD to Protect Democracy
Meme - pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism: "the town of Büren, Germany has launched anti-sexual assault campaign for its public pools and decided the best example of this problem to depict on the posters is a white woman grabbing an indian man’s ass
I was so captivated by the realism of this scenario that I almost didn’t notice he has one leg"
Meme - Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "The German anti-groping campaign portrays white Germans as a systematic threat to migrants and refugees"
disclosetv: "NEW - Public outdoor pool in Germany (Buren) now has posters warning against white women with red hair grabbing the buttocks of boys with dark skin and prosthetic legs."
