With the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party surging in polls, German government is taking steps to reduce the influx of illegal immigrants. Berlin “introduces new measures to make country less attractive to migrants,” the French state-owned France24 TV reported Friday.
The half-hearted measures come as Germany is in the midst of a migrant crime wave. In recent weeks, the country has been hit by a series of deadly stabbing attacks carried out by immigrants — mostly asylum-seekers from Muslim countries.
Steps such as creating ‘knife-free zones’ in cities across Germany has done little to curb violent migrant crimes. The crime statistics for 2023 “showed a 14.5% increase in the number of non-German suspects of violent crime,” German state-run DW TV reported in April. These numbers do not include foreign nationals with German passports.
German police on Friday evening took out a knife-wielding Afghan national who killed a man and stabbed several others who were attending a soccer event in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
This incident took place days after another Afghan man stabbed a women in Frankfurt. “A 19-year-old Afghan asylum seeker has been accused of attacking a 41-year-old woman with a knife in the German city of Frankfurt,” EU-funded news website InfoMigrant reported last Monday. “The victim was reportedly sitting on a bench in a park along the river Main when the suspected attacker came from behind, grabbed her shoulder and used a knife to stab her head and neck repeatedly.”
Earlier this month, a suspected Afghan jihadist stabbed a German policeman to death at an anti-Islam rally in the city of Mannheim. The attacker was apparently trying to murder Michael Stürzenberger, a prominent German anti-Sharia activist. Stürzenberger received several stab wounds, but survived the attack.
The France24 reports:
From a payment card that does not allow cash withdrawals, to mandatory community service, Germany is introducing measures to make the country less attractive to migrants. The country remains the destination of choice for asylum seekers within the EU.More than 330,000 people sought asylum there last year: almost a third of all applications in the EU, according to the European Asylum Agency. But the new measures – agreed by the government and regional leaders last November – are beginning to appear in municipalities across the country, especially in eastern Germany, where regional elections are due in September.The far-right AfD party is leading the polls there and its main campaign theme is immigration. Our correspondents report.
The open border migrant policy not only fuels a nationwide crimes wave, it has also turned Germany into a hotbed for Islamic terrorism. Germany is home to hundreds of Hamas and Hezbollah terror operatives, the 2023 annual report by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency — the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) disclosed.
“Germany’s federal intelligence listed an estimated 450 active Hamas operatives in the central European country,” the noted Israeli journalist, Benjamin Weinthal, reported in Jerusalem Post on October 14, 2023.
“Germany has long tolerated Hamas activists, as well as operatives from the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah. According to the most recent federal intelligence report, a total of 1,250 Hezbollah supporters and members are active within its territory,” Weinthal added.
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