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GERMANY RECORDED A sharp rise in politically-motivated crimes by foreigners includingjihadists and Kurdish militants last year, a trend branded “unacceptable” by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere this week.
Some 3,372 such cases were recorded last year, up 66.5% from 2015, according to the latest crime statistics unveiled by deMaiziere.
They include “criminal offences carried out in the name of foreign extremists of the so-called IS, or the (outlawed Kurdish militants) PKK”, said the interior minister.
Germany was hit by a string of jihadist attacks last year, with the deadliest being last December’s assault on a Christmas market in Berlin.
A Tunisian suspect had rammed a truck into the crowded market in the attack claimed by the Islamic State organisation that killed 12.
But beyond jihadist attacks, Germany has also seen a rise in violence pitting its sizeable minority communities of Turks and Kurds, as Turkey was increasingly split over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule.
Overall, the number of politically driven crimes was also up in Germany, reaching 41,549 such offences in 2016, 6.6 percent more than a year ago.
- © AFP 2017.
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If only pepole had warned of this.
@George Roche: Shhhhh! You might be called a xenophobe or a racist by the open all borders and lets embrace multiculturalism brigade.
@George Roche:
“But beyond jihadist attacks, Germany has also seen a rise in violence pitting its sizeable minority communities of Turks and Kurds, as Turkey was increasingly split over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule.”
Theirs your problem their, even after year of living in Germany they still refuse to intergrate and call themselves Germans, their either Germans or Turks get rid of the dual citizenship
“unacceptable”… But migrants still welcome.
Even if not one of the 1.5 million Muslims who have entered the EU commits not one rape, murder or violent crime, the offspring of this alien culture will, and continue do do so for future generations, as they are doing.
Those who say the threat from “home grown” EU passport holding jihadis is negligible.
May be a few tens or hundreds killed here and there, the odd drive thru, machine gun attack, machete beheading are not common events… But they are, and these atrocities are becoming normal.
For those liberals who say refugees welcome.. I say is it worth it?
@Buster VL: look at the Chinese, the Russians or the Polish. Sure enough they socialise together which is grand because they speak the same language etc but they’ve come here in sizeable numbers &they work hard..do we say they don’t integrate? no. The Chinese: do they demand a one child policy set up in Europe? no. do they demand the right to use rhino horns& kill rhinos herein our zoos? No. do they want foot binding of women legalised? no. are any of them blowing themselves up at Japanese embassies or getting even with the Japanese for the horrors of world war 2? no. o are the Russians or Poles massacring Germans? no. do we fear them? no. So we must ask ourselves what is it about other groups who arrive in Europe that is fueling such horrific attacks on innocent men, women &children…
@Dean Anderson: We need to just call a spade a spade and admit that Islam is the problem here. As you rightly observe, plenty of other cultures have come to Europe and assimilated with no problems. Multiculturalism isn’t really the issue here, it’s one particular culture that’s causing all these problems.
When is the next German election? Merkel must be in serious trouble.
I don’t think she is. Germans are weird. Maybe it’s the guilt.
@Awkward Seal: Guilt is a powerful thing, look at the control it supplied to the church here.
@Awkward Seal: Because, apparently, all Germans are to blame for the Third Reich, not just Hitler and his followers. To repay that debt, it is for the Germans to deemphasise themselves for others’ sake.
@jane: In September, 2017. And yes, she is in trouble, the old goat!!
@Awkward Seal: It is the guilt Awkard Seal!!
What did they think was going to happen? You can’t just let in a million people with vastly differing beliefs who don’t care about the country and expect everything to be fine. People are not water, they will not take the shape of whatever container you put them in. You can’t have open borders, if you don’t have borders you don’t have a nation, no nation no state, no state no state welfare, no state welfare no social contract, then it becomes everyone for themselves. You need a national identity to unify people to pull for the greater good and that nation should be beholden to the individual.
But wasn’t that the whole idea in the first place…??
I mean, unless they are complete and utter morons…
Dear the journal, if someone is a jihadist, then they are not motivated by politics. A jihadist is a person who fights for Allah. That is what the word means. Jesus christ……
@Matty kinevan: Someone could be a Muslim and a terrorist and not be a jihadi. They could fight for a million other things. The fact that every single media outlet refers to them as jihadists and says in the same breath that it’s nothing to do with religion is absolutely ridiculous. It’s very simple: jihad is an entirely religious concept. If they’re fighting for political reasons then it’s not jihad. If you’re calling them jihadists and saying their motivations are political, then I’m afraid words have no meaning.
“But beyond jihadist attacks, Germany has also seen a rise in violence pitting its sizeable minority communities of Turks and Kurds, as Turkey was increasingly split over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule.”
If anything this is the increase. There are millions of turks in Germany, and have been for decades. Surprised it doesnt mention how many IS attacks as that number is probably so low its not worth mentioning.
Also, these “Politically motivated crimes” are mostly made up of fights, not terrorist attacks, although it sounds like it from the article.
Another example of scaremongering using only half the statistic figures.
@Andy K:
Andy.
Look for the common denominator.
@Andy K:
One islamofascist attack on innocent people is one too many, and Germany has suffered quite a few. I doubt you’d be quite so blase if your family had been affected.
There are areas of Germany where you wouldn’t think you’re in Germany. They fly the Turkish flag only. And a large number seem to be in favour of Erdogan’s dictatorship. Turkey used to be a secular and free country (for the most part) and the Turks in Germany reflected that. But things have changed with Erdogan in power so the past situation is irrelevant. The German establishment and media don’t have a good record reporting these stories and statistics so I’d be more inclined to say it’s worse than they’re letting on. It’s funny how now that they’re reporting negative figures you don’t like you’re questioning them. Where have you been for the last 18 months.
Angela’s open door policy will come back and bite her .
Blame mother merkel
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