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  1. France sees 650 cars torched on New Year’s Eve

    The Interior Ministry has revealed just how busy France’s emergency services were on New Year’s Eve.

    New Year’s Eve “went off without any major incident” but “saw some troubles with public order”, the Interior Ministry has said in a statement.

    Police arrested 454 people over the night, 301 of whom were taken into custody.

    Meanwhile, in something of a tradition for the French, vandals [ Muslims ] torched a whopping 650 parked cars.

    While the figure is worse than the 602 the year before, the ministry was quick to point out that there has been a 20 percent drop over the last five years.

    Meanwhile, Le Monde newspaper accused the ministry of deflating the figures, reporting that 945 cars were actually on fire during the night – an increase on the 804 that it reported were torched the year before.

    The paper said that the government was only reporting on the cars that were “directly” torched, ignoring those that caught fire nearby from leaping flames.

    A ministry spokesperson responded that the figures released were the “most pertinent and the most coherent”.

    Elsewhere in France, a fire fighter in the eastern department of Ain was also hurt while trying to extinguish a car.

    In Nice, where security was at a high following the terror attack on Bastille Day last year, two police officers were hurt when revellers threw objects at them.

    Interior Minister Bruno le Roux said no attack on security would not be tolerated.

    “I regret that once again there were too many instances of security forces being hit with projectiles, or met with aggression or insults,” he said.

    He thanked the tens of thousands of police and firefighters, however, adding that they “allowed December 31st to pass by particularly well”.

    Why do people burn cars in France on New Year’s Eve?

    The custom of setting vehicles alight on New Year’s Eve reportedly began in the east of the country, around Strasbourg, in the 1990s, in the the city’s poorer neighbourhoods.

    It was then quickly adopted by youths in cities across the country.

    Cars are often set ablaze whenever there is an outbreak of social disorder, as seen in the 2005 riots when hundreds of vehicles were torched.

    Authorities have previously refrained from reporting on the number of torched cars on New Year’s Eve after it was discovered that a district-by-district breakdown was fuelling destructive competition between rival gangs.

    http://www.thelocal.fr/20170102/france-sees-650-cars-torched-on-new-years-eve

    https://twitter.com/justinMYroyalty/status/815361246354620417/video/1

    • “Meanwhile, Le Monde newspaper accused the ministry of deflating the figures, reporting that 945 cars were actually on fire during the night – an increase on the 804 that it reported were torched the year before.”

      Sweet merciful crap!

      Let’s round up those 945 carbeques to an even 1,000. Now, how much was each car worth? Knowing that those vandals Muslims probably went after the more expensive vehicles—and even granting that they were used cars—there has still got to be about $20k per automobile in outstanding value.

      That’s $20 million gone in just a single night of rampaging chimping out. This is a form of financial jihad and no country’s economy can possibly withstand such an erosive force coming from within it.

      They used to hang horse thieves. Maybe a little hemp would help to calm down these pyro-car-thieves.

      • Hit them with Grape and Volley fire for as long as they can be seen, then arrest any that survived. Repeat as needed until they learn not to destroy other peoples property.

  2. ITALY – Facebook ‘censors’ nude statue of sea god Neptune, the well-known Renaissance symbol of northern Italian city

    A virile, muscled statue of the sea god Neptune has fallen foul of Facebook’s prudish policies on nudity after an Italian art historian was told to remove it from her web page.

    The sixteenth century Renaissance statue dominates Piazza del Nettuno, a grand square in the heart of Bologna.

    A symbol of the prosperous northern Italy city, it was chosen by Elisa Barbari, a local writer, to illustrate her Facebook page, called “Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna”.

    […]In a statement, Facebook told her: “The use of the image was not approved because it violates Facebook’s guide lines on advertising.

    “It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts.

    “The use of images or video of nude bodies or plunging necklines is not allowed, even if the use is for artistic or educational reasons.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/nude-renaissance-statue-sea-god-neptune-well-known-symbol-italian/

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Bologna_%E2%80%94_Fontana_del_Nettuno.jpg
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    May 2011 – Bologna, a Moroccan refugee, Bouizatoua Salà ( 40 y o ), climbed on the Nettuno’s Statue in Piazza Maggiore, PROTESTING for the Residence Permit

  4. Syrian suspected of planning truck attack in Germany arrested: prosecutors

    A Syrian migrant who arrived in Germany two years ago has been arrested on suspicion of seeking funds from Islamic State to drive truck bombs into a crowd, a German state prosecutor’s office said on Monday.

    The arrest follows an attack two weeks ago when a Tunisian whose asylum request had been rejected rammed a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people. The man, Anis Amri, 24, was later shot dead by Italian police.

    In the latest case, the prosecutor in the western city of Saarbruecken said the 38-year-old Syrian was detained on Saturday and a formal arrest warrant was issued on Sunday on suspicion that he was trying to raise 180,000 euros ($189,000) to fund an attack.

    Prosecutor Christoph Rebmann said the man, whom he did not name, was suspected of seeking the money from Islamic State in Syria to buy trucks and load 400-500 kg (880-1,100 pounds) of explosives into each of them.

    “He is suspected of … requesting 180,000 euros from a contact person in Syria on his cell phone from Saarbruecken in December, 2016 so that he could acquire vehicles to pack with explosives and drive them into a crowd,” Rebmann said in a statement.

    The man has admitted making contact with Islamic State, which is also know as ISIS, but denied he had any plans to stage an attack.

    “He said he wanted the money from ISIS to support his family back in Syria,” Rebmann told Reuters, adding that the Syrian had said he wanted to fool the jihadist group into sending him the money.

    The Syrian is from the city of Raqqa, Islamic State’s main stronghold in the country. The prosecutor’s office in Saarbruecken, near the French border, had been alerted to his activities by the BKA federal crime office.

    The Syrian came to Germany on Dec. 5, 2014, just before a wave of more than 1.1 million asylum-seekers arrived from the Middle East, Africa and Asia in 2015. He was given permission to stay in Germany on Jan. 12, 2015.

    Chancellor Angela Merkel, who made the now-controversial decision to open the country’s borders to refugees in September, 2015, described Islamist terrorism on New Year’s Eve as the greatest test facing Germany.

    She has also said she is sickened by the prospect that refugees Germany has tried to help could mount attacks.

    Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that failed asylum seekers who are regarded as a danger should be detained until they can be deported. He made the suggestion in a guest column in Tuesday’s edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.

    Political analysts, conservative allies and diplomats have said a major attack could damage Merkel’s hopes of winning a fourth term in September’s election. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has blamed her policies for the Dec. 19 Berlin attack.

    In October, a Syrian refugee committed suicide in prison after being arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Berlin airport.

    http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN14M0YF?sp=true

  7. Danish politician says migrant boats should be shot at

    Kenneth Kristensen Berth now says that he regrets the remarks, and that he meant warning shots should be used

    A Danish politician has been criticised for saying boats carrying refugees migrants should be “fired at” to prevent them from reaching Europe.

    Kenneth Kristensen Berth, a lawmaker for the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DPP), which is allied to the country’s government, was speaking during a debate in Copenhagen.

    He was later forced to clarify the comments on Facebook, where he said he did not advocate “shooting at migrants”, but had meant “warning shots” could be fired against ships carrying them.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/danish-politician-says-migrant-boats-shot-at-a7463916.html

    • “Warning Shits Shots”

      How strange that the least of our worries should become one of our greatest concerns.

    • “The suspect stares into the lens as he films himself in a busy shopping street in Istanbul before an ISIS killer massacred dozens on New Year’s Eve.”

      When this behavior becomes viewed by Westerners as being “typically Islamic”, many more people will survive to see another day.

  9. Switzerland sees record number of asylum seekers ‘disappear’ (thelocal, Jan 2, 2017)
    http://www.thelocal.ch/20170102/switzerland-sees-record-number-of-asylum-seekers-disappear

    “Between January and the end of November 2016 some 8,166 asylum seekers in Switzerland dropped out of the system without telling Swiss authorities, according to the Swiss migration office (SEM).

    That’s a huge rise on previous years. In 2015 some 4,943 asylum seekers ‘disappeared’, while in 2014 the figure was 5,501.

    In 2016 the majority of those who left the system were from the African continent, including Eritrea (801), Gambia (792), Nigeria (716), Guinea (508), Algeria (504) and Somalia (494).

    Martin Reichlin, a spokesman for the SEM, told news agency ATS there are several reasons asylum seekers may choose to drop out of the system without telling Swiss authorities. They might think their asylum request is about to be rejected, or they may want to go and find family members in other countries.

    The SEM believes that most of those who disappear leave Switzerland, most probably for Germany, Reichlin added.”

    • “The SEM believes that most of those who disappear leave Switzerland, most probably for Germany, Reichlin added.””

      Shall we take a brief moment to thankfully compare what “disappear” means in Switzerland versus somewhere like Guatemala?

      Then again, please try to remember just how “cruel” and “harmful” America’s barbaric immigration restrictions are compared to those in Central or South America where illegal aliens simply end up in mass graves.

  11. Istanbul: 8 suspects detained in connection with attack (ansamed, Jan 2, 2017)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/01/02/istanbul-eight-suspects-detained-in-connection-with-attack_674bd104-2097-421a-a97a-0cb9ba1d7c7a.html

    “At least eight suspected ISIS militants were arrested on Monday by anti-terrorism police in Istanbul over their alleged involvement in the New Year’s attack on the Reina nightclub in which 39 people were killed, Hurriyet reports…”

  12. Libya: media,Italian firms in Tripoli airport reconstruction (ansamed, Jan 2, 2017)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2017/01/02/libya-mediaitalian-firms-in-tripoli-airport-reconstruction_0e2d612a-9211-4936-84b0-884c9c926e6b.html

    ” A consortium of Italian companies has been tasked with the reconstruction work at the beginning of 2017 of the international airport of Tripoli, which was seriously damaged during the crisis in Libya, the online website of the Libya Herald quoted the transport minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Milad Matoog, as saying Monday…”

  13. Turkish police detain 63 ISIL suspects in three days before Istanbul attack (hurriyetdailynews, Jan 2, 2017)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-police-detain-63-isil-suspects-in-three-days-before-istanbul-attack-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108023&NewsCatID=509

    “The National Intelligence Agency (M?T) received intelligence on possible New Year’s Eve attacks planned by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Dec. 19 and conducted operations against ISIL suspects between Dec. 28 and 31.

    An ISIL militant staged an armed attack on a famous upscale Istanbul nightclub Reina in the early hours of Jan. 1, killing 39 people and injuring 65 others.

    The intelligence indicated that ISIL was planning to stage bomb, suicide bomb or armed attacks on nightclubs, celebration spots and crowded places in the capital Ankara, Istanbul, and the southern provinces of Adana, Antalya and Mersin.

    Operations were carried out in Istanbul, Ankara, the western province of ?zmir, the southeastern province of Ad?yaman, and the southern provinces of Hatay, Adana and Mersin, and a total of 63 ISIL militants were detained. Most of the detained militants were from foreign countries, according to the police report.

    According to intelligence gathered, the militant who carried out the attack could be from the same ISIL cell that attacked Atatürk Airport on July 28, 2016, claiming a total of 45 lives.

    Meanwhile, a total of 147 ISIL suspects have been detained in operations across Turkey over the past week, the Interior Ministry stated on Dec. 2, one day after a gunman of the jihadist group staged an attack targeting New Year’s revelers at a popular nightclub in Istanbul.

    During security forces’ operations targeting ISIL militants conducted between Dec. 26 and Jan. 2, some 25 of the detained 147 were later arrested for their links to the jihadist group, the ministry said in a statement.

    On Jan. 1, a gunman opened fire on New Year revelers at the Reina nightclub on the shores of Istanbul’s Bosporus, killing at least 39 people, including 25 foreigners, and wounding 65 before fleeing the scene.

    The jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Jan. 2.”

  14. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=washington%2Cdc+violin+weapons&atb=v44-3es&ia=web
    http://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/weapons-found-fletchers-boathouse-northwest-reports
    violin case near the boathouse at Fletcher’s Cove, according to a Fox 5 report, which noted that responding officers began to find more guns and ammunition nearby. Some were stashed in pails, others in garbage bags.

    http://wtop.com/dc/2017/01/police-investigate-discovery-weapons-ammunition-along-canal-road/
    https://twitter.com/WABADC/status/816762871497555968 (bike club has traffic closures)
    https://twitter.com/mbaschWTOP/status/816746072253022208