Afghan who attacked Germans on train ‘martyrdom’ video with English subs.
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Culture-Enricher Runs Amok Near Würzburg
Translation by Egri Nok with much thanks!
As reported earlier this evening, an underage Afghan immigrant inexplicably ran amok on a train in Bavaria, attacking a number of fellow passengers with an axe and a knife. After the train stopped he ran away, and was eventually shot dead by police.
The following account aired on ARD, the German public broadcaster, while the news was still breaking. Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation.
Below is a more detailed report on the incident from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, also translated by Egri Nök:
Near Würzburg
Police shoots perpetrator after attack on train
Near Würzburg, a man with an axe and a knife attacked several travellers in a train and wounded them critically. According to the Bavarian Interior Ministry, the attacker is a 17-year-old Afghan.
[Photo caption: Police forces at the commuter train in Würzburg. After the attack on passengers, the attacker was shot by police]
On a commuter train near Würzburg, a man attacked several commuters and wounded three of them critically. He subsequently was shot by police. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Bavarian Interior Ministry late Monday evening in Munich. Another person was lightly injured, a police spokesman said. A further fourteen affected people who had been in the train remained uninjured, according to his account.
A spokesman the Bavarian Interior Ministry said that the attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan citizen. In an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Radio], Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed the information regarding the underage attacker. Relying on eyewitnesses, the police were starting from the premise of a lone perpetrator, said Herrmann. He had come to Germany without parents, had been living for a while in the parish of Würzburg, in an institution in Ochsenfurt. Most recently, he had been living with a foster family.
Answering the question whether there was the possibility of an Islamist background, Herrmann said there had allegedly been “a yell”.
“According to my information there is an account reporting a cry of ‘Allahu Akbar’”, the Interior Minister said in the Nachtmagazin [Night Magazine] of ARD [public TV]. This needed to be verified. “Apart from that, according to my information, the passengers on the train did not note any specific Islamist background or anything like that,” Herrmann said. The investigations into the milieu of the perpetrator should be decisive, in his view.
[Photo caption: Attack on the train: a man critically injured several people near Würzburg]
As the police reported Monday evening in Würzburg, the perpetrator attacked the commuters with an axe and a knife. The train was stopped between stations in Heidingsfeld, where the perpetrator fled from the train and shortly thereafter was shot by police. A special forces detachment had coincidentally been nearby and could immediately begin pursuing the fleeing perpetrator.
The train had been on its way from Treuchtlingen to Würzburg. Railway traffic between Würzburg and Ansbach is suspended, Deutsche Bahn report. According to “Main Post”, substitute busses have been running between Ochsenfurt and the main train station in Würzburg since 10:30 pm.
French PM Valls greeted with booing at minute of silence for Nice attack
Weak kneed and whiny
An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks.
From this German website:
How pathetic. A Tunisian mows down 84 happy and innocent people celebrating Bastille day, injures dozens heavily, women and children are laying on the street bloodied – and the only reaction that immediately follows is the same old threadbare phrases just like after Toulouse and Brussels, Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan.
One knows them by heart. Consternation, bewilderment, shock, pre-cut empathy and feigned grief, solidarity and partnership and thoughts and prayers and so on and on and on. Flowers and stuffed animals in front of the embassies, spotlights in the national colors of the at the moment affected country’s buildings, Facebook profile pictures with “je suis something” – messages, the rituals are as practiced as they are helpless.
Where is the righteous anger, the determined and absolute call to the terrorists followed by actions, instead of the ever same phrases and hang-in-there rallying calls? “We strongly stand on France’s side”, sounds exactly like the phrase machine from the chancellor, regardless of whether she resides in Berlin or in Ulan Bator.
The return to normalcy is shorter every time
The reactions are all a little short of everything, when the frequently invoked oldest ally gets hit in the core. And whether they are responsible or not, the ‘islamic state’ is rolling on the floor laughing over the West’s whiny, weak kneed and spineless reactions. There is not much to fear of such enemies.
This was a “attack on our values”, blathers the President of Germany, Gauck and his US-counterpart Obama in synchrony. No, it was not. It was an attack on France and the french, on Europe and the European people, as well as on our country and our nation [Writer is German, so he speaks of Germany]
It may be that these attacks in one or the other case really have nothing to do with islam. But they have to do with the Arabic-North African conquest. We won’t let our freedom and our lifestyle be taken from us? But we already have let it be taken. France just prolonged the state of emergency. The return to normalcy gets shorter and shorter, because the attacks come ever closer and in ever faster succession.
Symbolic actions
Whoever wantonly declares his country as a welcome paradise for hundreds of thousands or even millions of angry young men from other cultures, of which not just a few hate us as the enemy and despise us, will in accompaniment receive the development of a police state while still not being able to protect themselves from terrorism. When the festivities in the capitol city are protected with military security, then the attacks will just take place on the unprotected belly of the country.
All of this is of course not spoken about by the politicians and the media and their pseudo scientific accomplices, which at this time are once again are bloviating and beating around the bush on all channels. If they did, they would have to admit that they committed deadly mistakes and covered them up and because of that are indirectly co-responsible for the attacks.
Only when one recognizes errors can they be corrected. Only once one knows where the enemy stands, can then correctly be lead on the fight against terror, minus all the cheap and ineffective phrases and symbolic actions. Not somewhere in the middle East but in our own country. Then we could at least try to dry out the hostile parallel societies, the hate preaching mosques and conspirators, the violent- and terror inclined subcultures and infrastructures.
What else has to happen?
Then we can begin to reject and denaturalize those immigrants that come to our countries and hate and fight against our way of life, we can close and control our borders and slam the door in the face of those who try to intrude with hostile intentions. For the protection and the safety of our own citizens, but also for those immigrants who are really peaceful and want to assimilate.
What else has to happen until very necessary measures are taken?
Bataclan: the victims have been tortured and mutilated? (Update: parliamentary report)
An original translation by Ava Lon
From this excellent French language website:
07/14/2016
Mr. B. N., peace keeper. […]
We then left for the Bataclan.
Mr. O. B. When we were at the corner of the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot, while people in the Bataclan suffered horrific things, we have been very lucky.
We went back there, and the owner of the tile shop behind which we were sheltered explained that his shop was an old bank whose windows were shielded.
This protected us – I had a ballistic shield without additional plates. At the corner, we heard people moaning, but we could not go help them because we did not have the proper equipment.
Justice Georges Fenech. For the information of the Commission of Inquiry, Mr P. T., can you tell us how you learned that there had been acts of barbarism within the Bataclan: beheadings, evisceration, enucleation …? (castration)
Mr. T. P. After the police stormed the building, we were with colleagues at the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot when I saw a crying investigator who went out to throw up. He told us what he had seen. I did not know this colleague, but he was so shocked that sharing came naturally.
Alain Marsaud. Acts of torture happened on the second floor?
Mr. T. P. I think so, because I entered at the ground floor where there was no such thing, only people hit by bullets.
Alain Marsaud. To your knowledge, they were undoubtedly three? Is there not a chance for a fourth one to have escaped?
Mr. T. P. It is certain that they were at least three, but they were maybe four. The radio was broadcasting calls to the police emergency number, 17: we heard of three or four people.
Alain Marsaud. Is it impossible a fourth person was able to escape by being among the wounded that were evacuated?
Mr. T. P. It’s not impossible. That’s why my colleagues have carried out summary pat downs of all victims, even injured, coming out through the main entrance.
Mr. S. L. We were doing a systematic summary pat downs, at least at the plexus, the base of the torso and legs.
Alain Marsaud. A fourth terrorist could have hurt himself or fled among the wounded?
Mr. T. P. Among the injured, I don’t think so.
Alain Marsaud. We only found three weapons of war.
Mr. S. L. This is part of the investigation. For our part, we don’t know anything about it.
Justice Georges Fenech. Gentlemen, thank you very much for delivering this very important testimony. The inquiry commission commands your courage and intervention.
Hearing in camera, of the night BAC officials [Brigade Anti-criminalité= Anti Crime Brigade] from the Val-de-Marne that intervened November 13, 2015: MTP, corporal, MLS, sergeant, MOB, brigadier, MNB, peacekeeper, MAD, peacekeeper, and MPT, peace keeper
Hearing in camera, on the Monday, March 21, 2016
Mr. T. P. Commissioner N entered with his driver. Then we could hear him shooting and there was an explosion. Once the targeted individual is neutralized, the first rounds are being directed at us at the side Saint Pierre Amelot. During the ten minutes that the terrorist is shooting at us, we no longer hear any other shots inside.
Justice Georges Fenech. Because the other is dead.
Mr. T. P. One of them was neutralized. The other is upstairs trying to … I tend to think that as long as I’m being shot at, it does not kill anyone else.
Pierre Lellouche. What do you mean by “trying to …”?
Justice Georges Fenech. I think some things have never been said. I think maybe we could, at this stage, clear things up.
Mr. T. P. Bodies have not been presented to families because there have been people who were beheaded there, people with their throats cut, people who have been eviscerated. There are women who have been stabbed in the genitals.
Justice Georges Fenech. All this was apparently videotaped for ISIS!
Mr. T. P. I think so. That’s what the victims have said.
The Rapporteur. These acts were committed by the two survivors. Do you know if you have hurt the one you were shooting at in St. Pierre Amelot pass?
Mr. T. P. I think so, but I’m not sure. As they blew themselves up, it’s hard to tell if he was wounded in the torso. I think I had hit him, because the shooting stopped, and the door closed. The fact that the Kalashnikov collapses and the doors close seems significant to me. Later, we talked to the civilian who made us signs in the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot: he told us we had hit the shooter and that’s why he had stopped firing.
After this time, the shots we heard inside were only very sporadic.There has been no more rounds fired. In all likelihood, a terrorist or more people were finishing their victims off. Then, I have to confess that I have only made fifteen meters [50 feet] inside the Bataclan behind the BIS. My presence was not necessary, so I left. I had seen enough.
Pierre Lellouche. Where were the people being tortured?
Mr. T. P. Upstairs.
Pierre Lellouche. This happens after the person you hurt went upstairs?
Mr. T. P. I even think that it happened before, but this is only my personal opinion. While we were fighting with a terrorist at the emergency door, another one was doing all these despicable things upstairs.
Pierre Lellouche. The video was sent?
Mr. President Georges Fenech. I understand that videos were sent.
Pierre Lellouche. We can find it out if the victims’ cell phones were recovered. Do we have them?
Mr. T. P. They blew themselves up. There were people decapitated, people with their throats slit, people who were gutted. There were pretend sexual acts on women and stabbing at the genitals. If I’m not mistaken, the eyes of some people have been gouged.
Hearing in camera, of Mr. Michel Cadot, prefect of police in Paris, Christian Sainte, director of the judicial police in Paris, Jacques Méric, director of security near the Paris area, and General Philippe Boutinaud, commander of the brigade of firemen of Paris (BSPP)
Minutes of the hearing in camera of Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The Rapporteur. Have Bataclan terrorists committed beheadings and mutilations? Was the victims’ cause of death other than by shooting or explosion? We are dealing with contradictory information – some of which were provided to us during our hearings – that must be clarified.
Justice Georges Fenech. Indeed, the Committee is troubled by this information which haven’t leaked anywhere. Thus, the father of one of the victims sent me a copy of a letter he sent to the investigating judge, which I quote in summary:
“On the causes of the death of my son A.,I was told, in the forensic institute in Paris, and with reserves given the shock I was in at that moment, that his testicles were cut off and put in his mouth, and that he was disembowelled. When I saw him behind glass, lying on a table, a white shroud covering him up to the neck, a psychologist was with me. The latter said: ‘The only presentable part of your son is his left profile.’ I noticed that he had no right eye. I mentioned it; I was informed that they had gouged his eye and crushed the right side of his face, where there was a very large hematoma that we could all see during the casketing.”
This particular testimony could corroborate the statements made by one of the BAC officials that one of the investigators vomited immediately on leaving the Bataclan after finding one decapitation and several eviscerations. Are you aware of such facts?
Michel Cadot. I had no knowledge of these facts, nor by the Forensic Institute or by the officials in question. It is obviously up to the court to assess the veracity of the investigation. Nevertheless, I realized that at the site of the attack we found no knife or other sharp device that would allow this type of mutilations. It will be easy to verify as part of the investigation. In my case, once again, I have not received any message from the Forensic Institute or the direction of guardianship of the relevant BAC that would suggest it was true [NT that there were mutilations].
Christian Sainte. I cannot jump to the conclusions at this point, given the state of the investigation, but nothing in the present state of my knowledge allows me to think that what has just been read is true. I specify, for the sake of clarity, some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies. In other words, injuries described by this father may also have been caused by automatic weapons by explosions or projections of nails and bolts.
Justice Georges Fenech. His testicles were apparently put in his mouth …
Christian Sainte. I do not have that information and if these facts had been established, I think I wouldn’t have missed such information.
Hearing in camera, Mr. François Molins, prosecutor grande instance (TGI) in Paris, Véronique Degermann, Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic to the same TGI, and Ms. Camille Hennetier, Deputy Attorney of the Republic to TGI
Minutes of the hearing in camera of Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The judge. Following the November attacks, barbaric acts were reported to the commission.
François Molins. It’s a rumor. Forensic doctors were clear: there was no act of barbarism, no use of knives. According to a witness, the testicles of a person would have been cut, but no findings have corroborated it.
Mr. Sébastien Pietrasanta, rapporteur. I command your work, Mr. Prosecutor. Your voice is heard and respected by all.
REPORT FILED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF INQUIRY created as one the means used by the State to fight against terrorism since January 7, 2015 / PART 2: REPORTING OF HEARINGS
30/11/15
Rare testimonies posted online mentioned that heads were cut during the hostage-taking in the concert hall. Two weeks after the attacks, the internet users get angry and demand a government response.
(…)
Despite calls from the internet users who ask for a communicate about this rumor, the government remained silent.
16/11/15
“My son, who is a policeman, saw a spectacle of blood and severed heads …”
(…) One can then imagine the anxiety of relatives of the policeman. They will learn later that Marc is close to the room of the Bataclan, where the hostages are being kept. He has to monitor a bar. “I watched television until three in the morning,” continues Jeanine. “And then I just got a message from my son.” Mark only returns to his apartment the next morning. He then calls his mother. “It was reassuring to know that he was in his bed. He was tired. He said he was wearing two bulletproof vests and a helmet, and that it was very heavy. And then he told me that it was not pretty sight. His experience was horrible. He saw blood, severed heads … “An ordeal that started for him again last night, since he was back in service.
(…) Le Progrès
Testimony of a British survivor: “ISIS men with knives used them to torture their already wounded victims by slitting their stomachs open, when they lay on the ground. “
(…) Mirror.co.uk
[Ed: There are now many reports in the English media. But this is an original translation from a highly respected French counter-jihad blog]
A Nice resident of Tunisian origin at the wheel of the truck (with updates)
An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks
From this French language site:
INFO NICE MORNING. A Nice resident of Tunisian origin at the wheel of the truck [NT “Resident” here implies that he is a French passport holder]
A Nice resident of 31 years of age, of Tunisian origin, was driving the truck that claimed the lives of over 70 people on the Promenade in Nice on Thursday night.
According to our information, it was a Nice resident from Tunisia that was driving the truck. The 31 years old man has also fired at the crowd as he drove. More than 70 people died.
His truck was loaded with weapons and grenades.
The driver was shot dead by police.
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DIRECT. At least 80 dead after a truck plowed into the crowd after the fireworks in Nice
A truck drove through the crowd gathered for the fireworks on Thursday evening shortly after 10:30 pm, leaving more than 70 dead.
A truck drove through the crowd waiting for the fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday, shortly after 10:30 pm.
A provisional toll reported at least 75 dead and over 40 seriously injured.
11:44 pm UN condemns attack “barbaric and cowardly”
The UN Security Council has “condemned in the strongest terms the barbaric terrorist and cowardly attack” committed Thursday in Nice (France).
In a unanimous statement, the 15 members of the Council expressed “deep sympathy and condolences” to the families of the victims and the French government.
They reiterated “that terrorism in all its forms is one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.”
“All acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable,” say the 15 countries, which reaffirmed “the need for all States to fight” the terrorist threat “by all means” in accordance with international laws.
Council members “also emphasize the need to prosecute those responsible for acts of terrorism.”
11:42 p.m. The CFCM and the Great Mosque of Paris condemned the bombing in Nice
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) and the Great Mosque of Paris condemned the attack that Thursday night in Nice caused at least 80 dead, mowed down by a truck crashed into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais.”France has just been hit again by an attack of extreme gravity,” laments the CFCM in a statement, condemning the attack “heinous and abject hitting our country on the day of the national holiday that celebrates values of liberty, equality and fraternity. “
The CFCM transmits its total solidarity with the inhabitants of Nice, expresses its deep sympathy to the families of the many victims and wish a speedy recovery to the injured, “it added. He also called on Muslims in France to pray Friday” in memory of the victims this barbaric attack. “
11:32 pm 18 people injured in an absolute emergency state
A final provisional toll reported 80 dead. 18 seriously injured people are absolute emergency.
10:39 pm
Interior Ministry
The vigipirate plan was put on “#attentat alerte”[terrorist attack alert] in the department #Nice
The @gouvernementFR advocates the cancellation of all events planned to #Nice in the coming days
10:37pm The Vigipirate raised in “Terrorist attack alert”
The interior minister announced Friday night that the plan Vigipirate was updated into ” terrorist attack alert” the department of Alpes-Maritimes.
10:34
Gregory Leclerc
LIVE on #Periscope: Press Conference Bernard Cazeneuve #attentatnice
10:24Promenade des Anglais closed indefinitely
It will be impossible to drive on the Prom ‘for an indefinite period, between Carras and the Theatre de Verdure.
The city of Nice invites motorists to take the Mathis and the highway. Bypassing the town will be free during the closure of the Prom ‘.
9:54
Nice-Matin
Hollande: “I would go to Nice after the next defense counsel” #AttentatNice
Hollande: “I decided following the suggestion of the prime minister that we will maintain high-level operation Sentinel” #AttentatNice
Hollande: “We will further strengthen our actions in Syria and Iraq” #AttentatNice
Hollande: “We can deploy the operational reserve everywhere where we need them” #AttentatNice
9:53 pm
Nice-Matin
Hollande: “I decided to use the operational reserve” #AttentatNice
Hollande:”Nothing will make us lose our determination to fight against terrorism” #AttentatNice
Hollande:The state of emergency will be extended by three months “#AttentatNice
9:39 pm
National Police 06
[#PerimetreSecurite] English promenade closed to pedestrians #LENVAL #JARDIN ALBERT 1. Please follow these instructions
9:27 pm
picture
9:19 pm
Christian Estrosi
Tomorrow the flags of the city will be at half mast. After the cancellation of the Rihanna concert, jazz festival is canceled.
9:16 pm At least 80 dead according to a latest report
9:08 pm. A Nice resident from Tunisia at the wheel of the truck
According to our information, this is a Nice resident originally from Tunisia which led the truck. The 31 years old man has also fired at the crowd as he drove. More than 70 people died.
8:40 pm
Interior Ministry
#Nice 2 telephone numbers 01 43 17 56 46 for public information and 04 93 72 22 22 for the relatives of the victims # Nice06
8:40 pm Christian Estrosi evokes “the worst tragedy in the history of Nice”
8:38 pm Barack Obama “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families”
The President of the United States responded after the attack in Nice.
“We are in solidarity with France, our oldest ally, when she is facing this attack,” Obama said in a statement, offering the help of the United States in the investigation to find those responsible for this tragedy.
other reactions of the politicians [NT do you want more platitudes?]
8:30 pm New update 77 dead
Christian Estrosi
The death toll of this terrible attack is 77 victims.
“People are running, it’s panic. He went on the Prom and he plowed into everybody,” explains Damien Allemand, our colleague, present at the time of the drama .. “There are people covered in blood, probably many dead. “
On Twitter, the evidence began to arrive shortly after 10:30 pm.
Natalie Huron
People stranded and hiding in the lobbies of buildings, deserted terraces and in the emergency cars # Nice06
Ougaverde
# Nice06 a total scene of carnage. Many testimonies speak of a truck that drove into the crowd by the sea.
Marco Demerling
Friends from Nice, I hope you are safe. ? # Nice06
Stabilo
I am on site, the cops told us to run in the opposite direction
Truck and gun attack in Nice France on Bastille day ongoing:
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO OF ATTACK IN NICE
Which was banned from Twitter and they closed the account of the people hosting it.
This is going to be a sloppy post of links as this is all breaking now.
Eye witness account, gunfire, planned
Truck drove into crowds for miles
Will update THIS post as more is known. Check back in 20 minute intervals
Dozens dead:
More video from scene:
The SUN UK has 60 dead and a hundred or hundreds injured.
France plans to lift the state of emergency July 26th.
(Cause after all, it was a criminal attack. Right?)
Thank you Tasha Car, M., Wrath of Khan, a huge number of people who are sending in links via twitter, SMS and email.
Will add your links later. Meanwhile, the Islamic State celebrates for the moment.
Last I heard, President Holand and President Barack Obama both agreed to legislate truck control immediately and reduce the use of diesel fuel in both countries. The theory is that diesel fumes make Muslims go crazy.
First person accounts of the events at the Bataclan club, Friday the 13th of Nov. 2015
An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks.
From le Figaro French news site:
Attacks of November 13: the confessions of the first police officer to be entered in the Bataclan.
Before the parliamentary committee, the police commissioner admitted he did not think he would “live through this hell.” Arriving before anyone else, he killed the jihadist Samy Amimour.
“For us, everyone was dead.” Before the parliamentary commission investigating the 2015 attacks, the Police Commissioner who was the very first responder of the Paris Bataclan concert November 13, tells how he shot down one of the jihadists. A chilling story, delivered in camera and anonymously, the transcript of which was released on Tuesday.
The man especially shares the feeling of terror during the first moments of the operation, even outside the room, seeing “the dead people on the ground in front of us.” “I remember seeing two: a man in front of the Bataclan Café and a woman outside the entrance. We (also with his police driver, Ed) were recorded because someone was filming with a mobile phone. We told him to leave. We heard gunfire.” The police commissioner then looked at his partner, saying: “Let’s go.” The two men understood each other in a glance, according to him. “It was enough to understand that we were on the same wavelength, and we were unified, a team.”
A face-to-face with Samy Amimour
Around 9:54 p.m., the two team members enter the Bataclan, without waiting for reinforcements, and without knowing what awaits them inside.” As soon as we started to move forward, Bataclan’s wooden swinging doors opened towards us, and between fifteen and thirty people fled running and screaming in our direction,” he said before the parliamentary committee. “From the moment we started to progress down the hall, the shooting stopped, and when we entered, there was no more shooting, it was silence.” “There, the scene was indescribable — you can imagine. Hundreds of bodies — for us, everyone was dead — were entangled with each other: at the bar, in the pit, sometimes piled on more than one meter [three feet] high,” he says. The man then describes an “icy silence” in this still concert hall that was so festive only a few minutes earlier. The Commissioner then describes the terrible face-to-face that eventually led him to kill one of the jihadists who was about 25 meters [80 feet] away. “One of the terrorists, whom we later identified as Samy Amimour […] appeared on the scene. He was in front of us and was holding his assault rifle and threatening a young man a few meters from him. I shot four times and my teammate did twice. The man uttered a groan, collapsed and fell to the ground.”
“There were only the two of us, we had no long guns, we did not know where the terrorists were” — Police Commissioner present at the Bataclan
Seconds later, the officer described an explosion “very high”. This was actually Samy Amimour’s explosive belt that went off. Then an exchange of fire took place in the room, before a new pause. The two men ducked. “We were certain we would not get out of that hell alive,” he said. “There were only the two of us, we didn’t have rifles, we didn’t know where the terrorists were. So I decided to go out to see if reinforcements had arrived.”
“The living pretending to be dead”
Once the two policemen left the room, the gunfire resumed “piecemeal” inside. “So we understand that they are executing people. It was not humanly possible […] for us to stay outside. So we’re all back inside (there are now a dozen policemen, Ed). There was still shooting in our direction, but it was really hard to tell where from. I fired back twice.” When they arrive, people still don’t move. “We could tell that even the living were pretending to be dead,” insists the policeman.
The man explains that after a moment, when the shooting stopped, he decided “to go find the victims who were in the pit a few meters from us.” There, they began to move and to show themselves. “We started to implement an evacuation, one by one, not without difficulties: the floor was very slippery, because there was blood and casings everywhere. We had to step over or move the deceased. There were also people that we knew very well were seriously injured, but we had to retrieve them anyway, unable to use normal aid techniques to transport the victims,” says the police Commissioner.
North African Muslim attacks 17th century Crucifix
The history on the Church can be read here.
The edifice is popular as the seat of the cult of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, whose remains are housed inside.[…]The church is object of pilgrimages and wide devotion for the presence of the relics of Saint Lucy, which were carried here in 1861 when the nearby church dedicated to her was demolished. In 1955 Angelo Roncalli, future Pope John XXIII and then Patriarch of Venice, had a silver mask put on the saint’s face to protect it from dust.The saint’s body was stolen on July 7, 1981, but was restored in December of the same year without any ransom.
The Crucifix can be seen at 26 seconds here:
Video of the damage and description of attack in Italian:
Article in Italian here. Partial machine translation reads:
A young man of North African origin likely entered the church of St. Jeremiah and has heavily damaged the religious artifact. It was stopped by the caretaker and some faithful.
“It’s wrong. It’s all wrong,” he kept repeating the young Muslims that this morning has created havoc in the church of St. Jeremiah , in Cannaregio, Venice (the same one that houses the relics of Saint Lucia).
The man had been reported outside the church a little ‘revved up: Then, entering the place of worship, began to freak out. In a video spread online, the guardian tells what happened, shocked: “He tried to cross the main altar of the church. He said that ‘something was wrong'”.
H/T M
Interview with Bulgarian volunteer border patrol leader
A commenter at Youtube volunteered the following video to explain the battle for Europe the Bulgarian border volunteer referred to in this interview.
Germany: “Have made use of my right to kill my wife”
An original translation by Nash Montana
From Die Welt: A German news site:
A refugee, charged with murder, is facing the court. It is his right to kill his wife, the Iraqi had said to the police. Why he now has to go to prison, he cannot understand.
The 32 year old strangled his wife to death out of jealousy. The refugee delivered no statements about the murder to the court in Regensburg.
According to the prosecution, Jumaah K. was convinced that his 26 year old wife and mother of their three children, had an affair with another man. Therefore last November, the man strangled his wife to death in their bedroom in Laaber, township of Regensburg.
During the murder the three small children were in the house
After the murder, the man went to the police and turned himself in, accompanied by his three year old daughter. A little later the police discovered the body of the woman. An interrogator reported on Monday that the husband had said: “I have made use of my right to kill my wife.” But why he is going to prison, he cannot understand.
The refugee family with three children ages three to eight were housed in Laaber since beginning of September of last year. According to the prosecution, the husband went to the house on November 16th and strangled his wife to death. The children were present in the house during this time. Whether they witnessed the murder of their mother is not clear.
The process is being continued on Wednesday. The verdict is expected to be pronounced on the 22th of July.
Another cabbie refuses to take a disability dog “because of religion”
This is common everywhere now. Even on busses in Ottawa, Muslim drivers will try and refuse to board people with licensed helper dogs.
Daily Mail has this write up here:
This is the moment a Muslim taxi driver refused to transport a disabled man with his guide dog after claiming it is ‘against his religion’.
Footage shows Charles Bloch, with his guide dog Carlo and girlfriend Jessica Graham, trying to get in the taxi before being told by the driver that he will ‘not take the dog’ because of his religion.
Mr Bloch, who is registered blind after being born visually impaired, had booked the cab using firm ADT Taxis in Leicester but was shocked to be told the driver would not take him upon collection.
His partner, 21, who was also born with a visual impairment and is registered blind, filmed the encounter on her phone and posted the footage – which now been viewed by millions – online.
Eritrean receives 30 hours of community service punishment for brutal attempted rape
An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks
From this German language news site:
A man from Eritrea tried to brutally rape an 18 year old woman in Bad Oldesloe end of January. Yesterday his punishment was announced: He has to do 30 hours of community service.
It happened in a parking garage in the Bad Oldesloer innercity. On January 20th, at a quarter to eleven at night, a couple of police officers, male and female, were walking by, working the late shift. Suddenly they heard screams in the building. In the stairway they saw a young man from Eritrea, choke holding an 18 year old German woman from behind.
He was already half undressed and had bitten the young woman in the face and the neck multiple times. There was blood everywhere. The two police officers pulled the Eritrean off the girl and put him in cuffs. He was kicking and head banging one of the officers. They took him to a holding cell at the police station.
The case was cause for anger and horror in Bad Oldesloe. At a demonstration 150 demonstrators were focussing on the issues such as:
the police that sees nothing, the government that hears nothing, and the media that won’t tell nothing.
Yesterday the judgment against the asylum seeker, who claims to be 17 years old, was handed out. It was even milder than many were worried about already. He won’t be deported, and he doesn’t have to go to jail. The Eritrean was sentenced to 30 hours of community service and therapy for alcoholism.
In a comment about the case, the Kiel Criminology Professor Monika Frommel said that the Asylum seeker, due to “lack of money, lack of acknowledgment and appreciation, and lack of access to sex he could slide into a criminal subculture”. Therefore, it is important to steer against this development now and to finally give asylum seekers “perspectives” in Germany.
H/T Xanthippa
Ahmed Tschatajew Islamic State Terrorist with asylum status: How he lived in Vienna
An original translation by Egri Nok:
From this German language news site
Kronen Zeitung, Austria
07/01/2016, 11:13
Mastermind of the Istanbul Jihad Attack Lived on the Dole in Vienna
Islamic State Terrorist with asylum status: How he lived in Vienna
The one-armed and one-legged IS terrorist Ahmed Tschatajew is considered one of the possible masterminds of the carnage at Istanbul airport. For eight years, the Chechen held asylum status and lived in a Viennese municipal housing — and was therefore entitled to social assistance, and from September 2010 on to guaranteed minimum income in the amount of €837.76 per month. Those eight years could have cost taxpayers more than €80,000.
No one in the Interior Ministry yet wants to officially confirm the terror connection to Austria: “We are in contact with the Turkish authorities; participation by the suspect Ahmed Tschatajew cannot be ruled out.” But unofficially, from investigators’ circles, there is already more to be known about the Chechen-born IS warlord: “It is quite conceivable that Tschatajew had something to do with the attack in Istanbul. However, it should be kept in mind that there could be political interests in Russia to name a Chechen as a mastermind behind the attack.” As reported, 41 people died in the terrorist drama in Turkey.
Tschatajew deemed “major player in IS”
Well informed sources in the Interior Ministry confirm to the Krone that it is certain that the one-armed and one-legged Chechen is currently not a rose breeder or geriatric nurse in Syria, “This man is a big shot in the Islamic State. It is quite possible that the Chechen is the mastermind of the terrorist attack — as in most of these cases, you never, or only months later receive confirmation. He is in any case a radical Islamist suspected of terrorism, and he therefore lost the right to asylum in Austria.”
No official denial: social assistance for the terrorists
For eight years — from 2003 to 2011 — Ahmed Tschatajew lived undisturbed in public housing in Vienna Mariahilf. And without a job, the Chechen with asylum status was entitled to receive social assistance, which was paid from 1 September 2010 as a minimum security.
A monthly support payment of €837.76 would make €80,424.96 in eight years. However, there is no minimum security file under the name Ahmed Tschatajew at the City of Vienna, city hall insiders say. A Krone informant: “Ahmed Tschatajew could have used a false identity — he even had a false German name, because due to a Chechen feud he was under police protection temporarily.”
Ex-wife: “He had someone else in Syria”
On Friday morning, at a visit to the council flat of the terrorist, the Krone met the ex-wife of the IS leader; the woman with her five children still lives in Vienna. She said: “The divorce is through now, he had someone else in Syria.” The former wife had no idea about his work for the IS, “The last time Ahmed was in Vienna was three years ago.”
FPO leader, Norbert Hofer, responds to the news of the election do-over in Austria
For the background on what happened in the Austrian election, please read this post at Gates of Vienna.
It was about phony postal votes and a demented Green Party leader who they knew was not competent to lead.