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| Dutch PM Slams 'Cowardly' Attack on Refugee Shelter, Support for Merkel's Party Falls Over Refugees | |
| 2015-10-12 | |
Rutte visited the sports hall in the central city of Woerden on Saturday where some 150 refugees, including 51 children, are being temporarily housed, just hours after it was attacked late Friday by about 20 youths. No one was hurt in the incident, but Dutch police were Sunday still questioning 11 men aged between 19 and 30 who were detained after the attack. The men, all dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, had allegedly unsuccessfully tried to storm into the building. "This cowardly action is totally unacceptable," Rutte said on his Facebook page, after visiting the group who he said had been very "shocked" by the incident. It comes amid rising tensions in The Netherlands over the thousands of refugees due to be given shelter in the country under an EU scheme. Over the next two years, it will take in more than 7,000 people as EU nations share out the migrants flooding into the continent, mainly from Syria and Iraq, in Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Last week, an angry crowd in the tiny village of Oranje tried to block the car of Deputy Justice Minister Klaas Dijkhoff after he tried to explain why the small hamlet was having to house some 1,200 refugees, twice the number initially planned. A woman was injured and hospitalize after she threw herself against Dijkhoff's car. Rutte, who on Friday had already called for calm over the refugee situation, vowed after his visit to Woerden that those behind the attack would be severely dealt with. Some local mayors have reacted angrily at the government plans for temporarily housing refugees in their villages, saying they were being "overruled" by the ministers based in The Hague. A poll published Sunday in the De Telegraf showed that the Freedom Party (PVV) of firebrand ... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders appears to be shooting up the polls amid the refugee crisis. His party won 15 seats in the last elections in 2012. But according to the daily De Telegraaf, if elections were held today his party could snatch as many as 35 seats in the 150-seat lower house. Support for Merkel's Party Falls over Refugee Influx [AnNahar] Backing for German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's party has fallen to its lowest point in two years, a survey published Sunday showed, as dissatisfaction over a record refugee influx spreads. Support for her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has dropped two percentage points to 38 percent -- its lowest since the last parliamentary election in September 2013, according to the latest weekly polls by newspaper Bild am Sonntag. Almost one in two Germans (48 percent) believe that Merkel's decision to open the country's doors to those fleeing war was wrong. Those who back her stance stood at 39 percent. The survey also showed political parties that have been pressing for Germany to shut its doors to refugees as gaining ground, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the liberal FDP both gaining one percentage point to 6 percent each. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Betcha the Euro ruling class is really happy they don't have a 2d Amendment in their lives. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-12 19:17 |
| #2 It's not a cowardly attack if those young men are risking a confrontation with their own police, possible jail time and a criminal record. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-12 11:41 |
| #1 Pretty nice dike system you got here, be a shame if anything happened to it. /free ridin |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-10-12 10:57 |