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5 November [IsraelTimes] Home's door had been set on fire after midnight; family suspects Islamist Arab neighbor who expressed anti-Semitic views online. Police detained the neighbor in connection with the incident. Last week, an unidentified person set the family’s car on fire. Witnesses saw a man wearing a hoodie set it alight. Islamization or fairy tale? 'Ali Baba' playground in Berlin stirs controversy 4 November [DW] An "Ali Baba" themed playground in Berlin has caused some to see creeping Islamization. Others find the whole debate silly and filled with hate. A wooden mosque, or palace, adorned with a half-crescent sits in the sand. Small blue minarets rise to the side. In the sand, there are wooden palm trees and camels. Franziska Giffey told the Berliner Morgen Post that other playgrounds in the district are based on themes from fairy tales, including "Captain Bluebear” and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” The decision to construct an "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" themed playground was made together with two local nurseries, including one that goes by the same name, she said. Güldane Yilmaz, the Turkish-origin head of the multi-cultural "Ali Baba and his Thieves" nursery, is also shocked by the response from some. No, 30,000 migrants haven’t disappeared in Germany ‘without a trace’ 3 November [TheLocal.de] When Bild reported on Thursday that 30,000 rejected asylum seekers had gone missing without a trace in Germany it was soon picked up in the international media. The only problem? It isn’t true. Bildblog.de points out that figures for people who have been told to leave the country don't just include failed asylum seekers. They could also be tourists whose visas have expired. Further complicating the matter is the fact that local authorities don’t always keep track of the exact status of the migrants to whom they give money according to German asylum law. That means that somewhat more than 23,617 people with deportation orders might in fact be registered for welfare. This is not the first time Bild has produced bogus reporting on refugees this year. In February the tabloid was forced to admit that a report on mass sexual assaults by migrants in Frankfurt over New Year had been completely made up. Right-wing leaders denounce ban on Brussels ‘Islam safari’ 3 November [IsraelTimes] Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders and Filip De Winter, a leader of Belgium’s Vlaams Belang party, say that by imposing ban Belgian government 'proves' Muslim neighborhood 'not part of Belgium'. The authorities banned the visit as a threat to public order flowing from their planned protest’s “ostensibly insulting and discriminatory nature.” Molenbeek — an impoverished neighborhood of around 95,000 people, many of them Muslim, from nearly 100 nationalities — is trying to shed an image as an extremist hotbed.
3 November [DW] The Federal Statistical Office has revealed that 2 percent of the people who lived in Germany at the end of 2016 had lodged asylum applications. That's more than double the figure for 2014. In almost all cases residency is limited, including for 75 percent of those already rejected. According to Destatis, 64 percent of the applicants were male and the average age was 29.4 years. Half of the people registered as seeking protection come from just three countries: Syria (455,000), Afghanistan (191,000) and Iraq (156,000). French football chief 'very careful' over threat against coach Deschamps 1 November [TheLocal.fr] French football federation president Noel Le Graet said he was adopting a "very careful" approach after a photoshopped image of national team coach Didier Deschamps emerged accompanied by threats from Islamic State sympathisers. The French federation chief, who announced Deschamps had agreed to extend his contract until 2020, was reacting to a mocked-up picture depicting the former World Cup winner published by the pro-Islamic State Wafa Media Foundation. According to experts, there is no proven and authenticated link between groups such as the Wafa Foundation and Isis or its official communication outlets. EU threatens visa restrictions for countries that don't accept rejected asylum-seekers 29 October [DW] The European Union is upping the pressure on countries that don't take back rejected asylum-seekers by making it harder to obtain visas, a newspaper reported. The threat has already resulted in a deal with Bangladesh. In the spring, a majority of migrants who crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy originated from Bangladesh. Berlin security staff pushed young refugees into prostitution 25 October [DW] Young refugees, including minors, have been lured into prostitution by the security guards hired to protect them. Insiders have told a German public broadcaster that the guards pay high prices for young refugees. EU to implement border fingerprint checks similar to United States 25 October [DW] The EU will soon establish a database of fingerprints and other biometric data for visitors from the US and other countries outside the bloc. The move aims to improve security, but some see an attack on human rights. Germany terrorism prosecution cases soar: report 22 October [DW] German federal prosecutors have opened up more than 900 terrorism-related cases so far this year, including 800 related to radical Islamists, according to a report published in the German language nespaper Welt am Sonntag on Sunday. The number of terrorism cases has jumped nearly four-fold compared to last year, when federal prosecutors opened about 250 proceedings. In 2013, there were about 80 terrorism cases in the courts. The sharp rise has stretched manpower at the Karlsruhe-based federal prosecutors office, the newspaper reported. Nearly 300 terrorism cases have been transferred from federal authorities to state prosecutors. Not all of the current terrorism cases in the system deal with actual plans to carry out attacks in Germany. Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq who fought for the "Islamic State" (IS) or other radical groups may also be tried for membership in an international terrorist group without planning attacks in Germany. In addition, the Federal Criminal Police Office estimates nearly 700 people in Germany are Gefährder (loosely translated as dangerous,) or radical Islamists who represent a security risk and are capable of carrying out violent attacks. Italy and US to share database of terrorists' fingerprints 20 October [TheLocal.it] The United States and Italy on Friday signed an agreement to share their fingerprint databases in a bid to root out potential extremists among migrants travelling to the West. The "technical understanding", which updates a serious crime accord from 2009, was signed by Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti and Elaine Duke, acting US Homeland Security Secretary. EU introduces new measures to combat 'low-tech' terrorism 18 October [DW] The EU has announced more than €180 million will be dedicated to stopping terrorist attacks by smaller, less complex cells. After a series of attacks around Europe, the bloc is aiming to make public spaces safer. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-06 |
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