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Swine heads in front of a mosque: Police tracking down the suspect
Article from Die Welt:
Translated by Hermes:
The 25 years old is said to belong to the extreme right – no confession made.
Berlin (dapd-bln). Police from Berlin have questioned a suspect in connection with the attack perpetrated using two severed swine heads against a mosque in Neukölln. The detectives, on thursday at around 6 pm, allegedly searched the apartment and the car belonging to a 25 years old in the district of Lichtenrade, the spokesperson for the dept. of public prosecution said, in this way confirming a report from the newspaper “Bild”. The man, however, said nothing when confronted with the accusations.
The man is accused of having left two severed swine heads in front of the Sehitlik-Mosque in April. This is a strong insult to muslims, because swine is considered by islam to be a dirty animal. Before this incident, paint bombs were already thrown to the building, and representatives of the mosque were blackmailed. In this letters, foreigners were told under threats of aggression to leave (the country).
According to some informations, the suspect detained on Thursday had been already investigated in the past for alleged resistence to authority, bodily injury and xenophobic insults. As newspaper “Bild” writes, the man is said to belong to the extreme right group “Autonomous Nationalists”. Accordint to police informations, extreme right pamphlets were found during the search of his apartment.
Evidence found at the scene of the happenings drove the investigators to the tracks incriminating the 25 years old. The secured evidences drove to the conclusion that the suspect could have bought the swine heads in a supermarket
After being interrogated, the suspect was set again free. There were not enough requirements to fulfill the parameters of the sentence, so there has been no arrest warrant, the spokesperson for the dept. of public prosecution said. But the investigations against the 25 years old are not closed. A filed complaint (against him) for having insulted religious beliefs is still not out of question.
David Duke endorses anti-Israel candidate from Brooklyn
Well, that age old question is now answered. Who does the KKK hate more.
From Times of Israel:
Ex-KKK leader and Louisiana congressman backs Charles Barron’s Democratic primary bid, citing shared hostility to ‘Zionist control’
By Nathan Burstein June 22, 2012, 8:49 am 6
A shared hostility toward Israel is apparently what it takes for an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader to endorse a black Democrat from Brooklyn.
David Duke, the former KKK Grand Wizard who served as a Republican state legislator in Louisiana, has spoken out in support of New York City politician Charles Barron, citing his opposition to Israel. “I certainly agree with Barron that Israel is the worst rogue, terrorist state on earth,” Duke says in the statement, posted Wednesday on YouTube.
“Barron is certainly right about Zionist control of our media and our government and the treason that’s existed in our Congress,” he later adds.
Duke, whose YouTube account describes the statement as a “qualified endorsement,” goes on to criticize Barron’s positions on race-related issues, but blames “Zionists” for sowing discord between white and black Americans. “The Zio-masters want constant conflict between the two groups so that they can utilize a divide-and-conquer strategy over us all,” he claims.
Barron’s campaign — part of a Democratic primary for a Congressional seat representing Brooklyn’s eighth district — has distanced itself from Duke. “”We’re staying focused — and we demand respect for our campaign,” the politician, currently a member of the city council, told the New York Daily News. “I don’t think that’s a campaign issue. I don’t think it’s intelligent.”
Greece: Alarming rise in violence against immigrants
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From ANSAMED:
Greek racists, one of them (C) holding a knife, attacking a migrant (R) in the center of Athens (archive photo)
(ANSAmed) – ATHENS – Racially motivated attacks are becoming more frequent and more violent by the day in Greece but, worse still, most of the attacks go unpunished because the police does not make arrests.
The alarm has been sounded by the Kathimerini newspaper, which reports almost daily brutal attacks and bloody brawls targeting immigrants, both legal and illegal. The paper quotes a surgeon practicing at the Evangelismos hospital in Athens, who says that “during every [12-hour] shift we have to deal with six or seven cases of foreigners who have been attacked and who are suffering from cuts, bruises and often even knife wounds”.
The attackers, who generally catch their victims by surprise, arrive in groups, hooded and dressed all in black, making them difficult to identify. Even if victims are able to identify and report their attackers to police, they are very unlikely to do so for fear of being attacked again, or worse. Yet everyone knows that almost all of the attackers are members or sympathisers of Golden Dawn, the far-right party with clear pro-Nazi sympathies, which at the recent general election earned almost 7% of the vote and 18 seats in Parliament. Kathimerini reports as an indicative factor that attacks against immigrants in the Athens area of Thissio have doubled since the party opened a new office in the area two months ago, a statistic backed up by health officials at the local hospital. A number of attacks have been recorded in the last month across Attica, of which Athens is the capital, but also on the island of Crete. Last Monday, a group of assailants, who are yet to be identified, carried out a bloody attack on a 25-year old homeless Egyptian who had found temporary shelter in a square in Chania, in Crete. After being savagely beaten with iron bars, the man was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition, and doctors were forced to remove one of his kidneys. A day earlier, four men had attacked two Algerian immigrants in their early twenties as they slept on the beach of Nea Hora. In this case, the attackers used not only metal bars but also wooden clubs and knives. The two victims, who also had their mobile phones and some money stolen, also ended up in hospital in Chania. These are just two of the most recent episodes.
As beggars fight for scraps, even police flirt with the Neo-Nazis, writes Andrew Malone in a special dispatch from Athens
Daily Mail:
PUBLISHED: 02:25 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 02:25 EST, 18 June 2012
Basking in the sun as Greece went to the polls yesterday, Dimitri Panaglos sipped a cold beer and gave a personal – and very cynical – insight into how his tiny country could ignite global financial meltdown and leave the cradle of civilisation in economic ruins.
Widely travelled, with family in London where he studied for a degree in fine art, the 40-year-old smiled grimly and told me: ‘We Greeks are all thieves. People didn’t know it when we had the drachma. But you soon knew when we joined the euro. We borrowed and spent without ever planning to pay it back. That’s just the Greek way.’
Now selling hand-drawn cartoons to tourists, having lost his studio and home, he added: ‘We are Greeks, not Europeans. That’s why we have always had two prices in every cafe – one on the sign that’s for foreigners and local cheap rates for Greeks.
On the move: Supporters of the far right party of Golden Dawn toast their election result in which they provisionally won 18 seats in the Greek parliament
‘Europe has never understood Greece – it’s a country where you take from foreigners, not give.’
Many of his countrymen would fiercely dispute his words. What cannot be denied, however, is that the good life seems to be coming to an emphatic end for the Greeks.
With Europe demanding austerity measures in return for keeping the country afloat – more than 240billion euros has already been provided by Europe’s taxpayers – Greeks were last night effectively voting on whether to accept the deal or plunge into chaos and possible bloodshed.
The EU has said that the conditions of the latest 130billion-euro bailout deal must be accepted fully by a new government or funds will be cut off, driving the country into bankruptcy.