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 Palestinian who vandalized Amsterdam kosher eatery says it’s not about Jerusalem 9 December [IsraelTimes] Police sources told daily Het Parool Friday that during questioning the unnamed immigrant did not mention the US declaration. He also denied having any anti-Semitic sentiments, saying he vandalized the kosher HaCarmel restaurant, which is owned by Dutch Jews, to protest “the miserable reality in Palestine.” The Palestinian is suspected of vandalism, which he admitted to in his investigation. Prosecutors did not say yet whether they will recommend prosecuting him and if so, whether they will indict him for a hate crime.
9 December [DW] Migrants who arrive in Spain from Africa often face detention in a Center for the Internment of Foreigners (CIE), where their fundamental human rights are not always respected. Santiago Saez reports from Madrid. ‘Teen’ asylum seeker on trial for Freiburg murder is 33, says father 8 December [TheLocal.de] Hussein K.
Prosecutors were able to track down Hussein K.’s father when they came across a contact on his mobile phone. The defendant told them that they could contact his mother on the number. But when an interpreter called the number in the presence of two judges, the person who picked up was his father. The older man read out details from his son’s birth certificate which state that he was born on January 29th 1984, presiding judge Kathrin Schenk said in the district court in Freiburg on Friday.
7 December [TheLocal.ch] A border guard in Switzerland has been convicted of charges relating to the stillbirth of a baby born to a refugee who was sent back to Italy. A military court on Wednesday convicted the guard of causing bodily harm through negligence, attempting to abort a pregnancy and repeatedly failing in his duties, reported news agency ATS. The guard received a six month prison sentence and a fine, both suspended. German pilots refuse to carry out deportations 7 December [DW] Pilots across Germany are stopping planned deportations of rejected asylum seekers. At the same time, refugees are appealing their deportation orders in record numbers - and winning. The government said that 222 planned expulsions were stopped by pilots, which in some cases has affected controversial return of refugees to Afghanistan. Miniature gallows for Angela Merkel allowed to go on sale in Germany 6 December [DW] Saxony state prosecutors have attracted anger after ruling that a gallows "reserved for Angela Merkel" could be put on sale, because it was art. Legal experts say the decision betrays a failure of the rule of law. How clerics are using an ancient privilege to fight the German state on refugees 5 December [TheLocal.de] Authorities in Bavaria have started to act against the church when it shields people the state wants to deport. But clerics say they are unbending in their determination to resist - and claim the fight is only making them stronger. According to The German Ecumenical Committee on Church Asylum (BAG) - a network of Protestant, Catholic and Free churches - church asylum today exists as a temporary form of protection for people without a legal residence status, who are at risk of life and limb if they return to their home country. There are currently an estimated 531 people (including 127 children) receiving church asylum across Germany, all of which are noted with the authorities. While church asylum exists today in a grey zone - recognised in custom but not embedded in law - it has, until recently, been tolerated by the state, and was recognised in a 2015 agreement between Germany’s churches and the Federal Office for Refugees and Migration (BAMF). Switzerland launches anti-terror action plan 5 December [TheLocal.ch] Justice minister Simonetta Sommaruga on Monday presented to the press a new Swiss-wide action plan to fight against radicalization and violent extremism. The plan, developed in consultation with the cantons and communes over the course of a year, contains 26 concrete measures to fight extremism, bringing some measures already in place under one single action plan, the government said in a statement. Five million francs will be invested over five years to support cantonal or communal projects that meet the plan’s aims. “We must not wait until terrorism hits to take action,” Sommaruga said at a press conference reported by Swiss media. St Gallen approves conditional ban on face coverings 29 November The cantonal parliament of St Gallen on Tuesday voted in favour of introducing a ban on covering the face in public, under certain conditions. The new rule bans anyone from covering their face in public if they present a security risk or threaten social or religious peace, a condition that will be evaluated on a case by case basis. That could include women wearing the burqa and people covering their faces during demonstrations or protests or for criminal intent. In April the St Gallen government said it was against a complete ban on the burqa, feeling there was no public interest in doing so since the only women in the canton wearing the garment were tourists. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-10 |
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