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Here yet is another atrocity happening in Germany, following two
others that have occurred in quick succession this past week. Germans,
it seems, are beginning to reap what Angela Merkel recklessly sowed
for them. The chicken are coming home to roost, rather earlier than
expected by Mrs Merkel and her naive and some would argue very crass
and criminally negligent policies of allowing 2 million Muslim
refugees to enter Europe through Germany without any checks,
assessments or verifications being carried out.
I have been to Germany several times, and the country is just not
prepared for a terrorist campaign to the extent that the UK is. Right
now, the German population is completely paralysed by the barbaric
acts of terror being perpetrated on their soil by Islamic terrorists.
Mrs Merkel should have known this would be the outcome of allowing
thousands upon thousands of young Arab men to enter Germany virtually
unchecked. She opened the doors of Germany and to some extent Europe
wide open to potential terrorists. These young men are not going to
adjust to living in a civilised society and the effect is already
being felt in Germany. First with the Iranian who shot dead 9 people
in Munich, then the Syrian teenage axe-man who ran a rampage in a
train injuring and maiming many, quickly followed by another Syrian
asylum seeker who chopped off the head of a woman in a shopping mall,
and now this one, of a man who would have detonated a bomb inside a
night club killing and injuring hundreds.
Germany should have followed the UK policy of selectively accepting
asylum seekers, instead of opening its doors like it did. The UK will
never open its borders, but at the same time it has an asylum and
refugee policy that the government, and not the refugees, have control
over. The UK will never allow a mass entry like Germany did. It will
select only genuine refugees, mainly directly from the refugee camps
or in the affected countries themselves.
Recent atrocities in Germany have been perpetrated by very young men
who have developed serious mental health problems. I have already
warned about this several times on this forum. I have worked with
Muslim refugees in the past and I know from experience many of them
find it very difficult to adjust to a civilised way of life, and
especially to the western way of life. The consequence is many then
fall into a trap of social isolation, disaffection and debilitating
alienation from society, which drives them into the hands of
terrorists. Many of the thousands of the young Muslim men who entered
Germany will no doubt try to adjust and build a new life for
themselves, but a significant number will not and this lot will become
disaffected and form the recruiting ground for Islamic terror.
Chancellor Merkel should have known about this. France is just next
door to Germany and I wonder why she failed to study the monumental
problems France is having in integrating Arab Muslims into French
Society. One would argue France has failed completely to create an
integrated society and nearly 90% of the Arab population still lives
as an underclass, clinging on to their religion for identity, rather
than a France that they feel has rejected them.
Bobby
Ansbach explosion: Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up in Germany
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12
other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German
town of Ansbach.
The 27-year-old man, who faced deportation to Bulgaria, detonated the
device after being refused entry to the music festival, Bavarian
officials say.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion.
Bavaria has been on edge since a knife rampage on a train claimed by
so-called Islamic State (IS) last Monday.
The Ansbach blast is reported to have happened at about 22:10 (20:10
GMT) outside the Eugens Weinstube bar in the centre of the town, which
has a population of 40,000 and is home to a US military base.
The bomb went off close to the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival.
A witness, Thomas Debinski, reported "panic" after the explosion,
although some people had thought it was caused by a gas explosion.
"Then people came past and said it was a rucksack that had exploded,"
he told Sky News.
Image copyright AP Image caption A backpack, apparently largely
intact, was seen on the floor close to where the man died Image
copyright EPA Image caption Armed police sealed off the centre of
Ansbach Image copyright EPA Image caption Three of the injured are
said to be seriously hurt
Three of the injured were in a serious condition, police said.
Security services have sealed off the city centre and experts are
trying to establish the kind of explosives the bomber used.
In other developments
The mayor of Munich, Dieter Reiter, suggested backpacks might be
banned from the Oktoberfest beer festival as a security precaution
An Afghan teenager arrested by Munich police met gunman David Sonboly
shortly before he killed nine people and knew that he had a gun,
German police say
An MP from Chancellor Merkel's party, Stephan Mayer, called for
Germany to regain control over its own borders but insisted it was
wrong to blame "Angela Merkel and her refugee policy" for last week's
violence
________________________________
Seven deadly days
A week of bloody attacks has frayed nerves in Germany, which led the
way in accepting asylum seekers from Syria. To date, only the first
has been linked to a militant group:
18 July: An axe-wielding teenage asylum seeker from Afghanistan is
shot dead after injuring five people in an attack on a train. IS
claims the attack, releasing a video recorded by the attacker before
the incident
22 July: A German teenager of Iranian extraction goes on a shooting
rampage in the Bavarian state capital, Munich, killing nine people,
most of them migrants, before shooting himself. He is said to have
been obsessed with school shootings
24 July: A Syrian asylum seeker is arrested in the town of Reutlingen,
Baden-Wuerttemberg, after allegedly killing a Polish woman with a
machete and injuring two other people. Police suggest it was probably
a "crime of passion"
24 July: A failed Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside a
music festival in the small Bavarian town of Ansbach, injuring 12
other people. Motive not immediately clear
German media on the attacks
________________________________
Failed application
The Syrian man entered Germany two years ago and had his asylum claim
rejected a year ago, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.
He had been given leave to stay temporarily given the situation in his
home country and provided with accommodation in Ansbach, Mr Herrmann
added.
A federal interior ministry spokesman, Tobias Plate, confirmed the man
had faced deportation to Bulgaria.
"Syrians cannot at the moment be deported to Syria, but that doesn't
mean that Syrians overall cannot be deported," he told reporters in
Berlin.
Mr Herrmann said he was "incensed" by the attack which, he continued,
demonstrated the need to "strengthen controls on those we have living
in our country".
________________________________
The Syrian asylum seekers rejected by Germany
Image copyright AP Image caption Police in Ansbach searched a former
hotel now used to accommodate asylum seekers where the bomber is
thought to have lived
Germany has been the main destination of Syrian asylum seekers
entering the EU, most of them arriving irregularly in Greece via
Turkey.
Only 23 Syrians had their applications for asylum rejected by the
country last year, out of a total of 162,510. A common reason for
rejecting an application is when the asylum seeker submits false or
incomplete information.
Just under half of asylum seekers rejected by Germany in the past two
years were allowed to stay on in the country, according to a recent
report in German daily Die Welt (in German).
The Ansbach bomber, who was among those rejected for asylum in 2015,
appears to have been placed in a former hotel in the town, designated
by the municipal authorities for asylum seekers since 2014.
source of statistics: German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
report (in German)
________________________________
Ansbach deputy police chief Roman Fertinger said there were
"indications" that pieces of metal had been added to the explosive
device.
"The obvious intention to kill more people indicates an Islamist
connection," Mr Hermann said.
'He told lies so often'
Mr Herrmann said the man had been known to have tried to take his own
life twice and had spent time in a psychiatric clinic.
"We don't know if this man planned on suicide or if he had the
intention of killing others," he said.
A resident of the former Ansbach hotel where the bomber had lived,
Alireza Khodadadi, told the Associated Press news agency that he had
occasionally drunk coffee with the Syrian, whom he named only as
Mohammed, and they had discussed religion.
Mohammed, he said, told him IS was not representative of Islam: "He
always said that, 'No, I'm not with them, I don't like them and such
stuff.'
"But I think he had some issues because, you know, he told lies so
often without any reason, and I understand that he wants to be in the
centre of [attention], you know, he needed [attention],'' Mr Khodadadi
added.
Are you in the area? Have you been affected by the incident? Tell us
your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
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Here yet is another atrocity happening in Germany, following two
others that have occurred in quick succession this past week. Germans,
it seems, are beginning to reap what Angela Merkel recklessly sowed
for them. The chicken are coming home to roost, rather earlier than
expected by Mrs Merkel and her naive and some would argue very crass
and criminally negligent policies of allowing 2 million Muslim
refugees to enter Europe through Germany without any checks,
assessments or verifications being carried out.
I have been to Germany several times, and the country is just not
prepared for a terrorist campaign to the extent that the UK is. Right
now, the German population is completely paralysed by the barbaric
acts of terror being perpetrated on their soil by Islamic terrorists.
Mrs Merkel should have known this would be the outcome of allowing
thousands upon thousands of young Arab men to enter Germany virtually
unchecked. She opened the doors of Germany and to some extent Europe
wide open to potential terrorists. These young men are not going to
adjust to living in a civilised society and the effect is already
being felt in Germany. First with the Iranian who shot dead 9 people
in Munich, then the Syrian teenage axe-man who ran a rampage in a
train injuring and maiming many, quickly followed by another Syrian
asylum seeker who chopped off the head of a woman in a shopping mall,
and now this one, of a man who would have detonated a bomb inside a
night club killing and injuring hundreds.
Germany should have followed the UK policy of selectively accepting
asylum seekers, instead of opening its doors like it did. The UK will
never open its borders, but at the same time it has an asylum and
refugee policy that the government, and not the refugees, have control
over. The UK will never allow a mass entry like Germany did. It will
select only genuine refugees, mainly directly from the refugee camps
or in the affected countries themselves.
Recent atrocities in Germany have been perpetrated by very young men
who have developed serious mental health problems. I have already
warned about this several times on this forum. I have worked with
Muslim refugees in the past and I know from experience many of them
find it very difficult to adjust to a civilised way of life, and
especially to the western way of life. The consequence is many then
fall into a trap of social isolation, disaffection and debilitating
alienation from society, which drives them into the hands of
terrorists. Many of the thousands of the young Muslim men who entered
Germany will no doubt try to adjust and build a new life for
themselves, but a significant number will not and this lot will become
disaffected and form the recruiting ground for Islamic terror.
Chancellor Merkel should have known about this. France is just next
door to Germany and I wonder why she failed to study the monumental
problems France is having in integrating Arab Muslims into French
Society. One would argue France has failed completely to create an
integrated society and nearly 90% of the Arab population still lives
as an underclass, clinging on to their religion for identity, rather
than a France that they feel has rejected them.
Bobby
Ansbach explosion: Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up in Germany
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12
other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German
town of Ansbach.
The 27-year-old man, who faced deportation to Bulgaria, detonated the
device after being refused entry to the music festival, Bavarian
officials say.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion.
Bavaria has been on edge since a knife rampage on a train claimed by
so-called Islamic State (IS) last Monday.
The Ansbach blast is reported to have happened at about 22:10 (20:10
GMT) outside the Eugens Weinstube bar in the centre of the town, which
has a population of 40,000 and is home to a US military base.
The bomb went off close to the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival.
A witness, Thomas Debinski, reported "panic" after the explosion,
although some people had thought it was caused by a gas explosion.
"Then people came past and said it was a rucksack that had exploded,"
he told Sky News.
Image copyright AP Image caption A backpack, apparently largely
intact, was seen on the floor close to where the man died Image
copyright EPA Image caption Armed police sealed off the centre of
Ansbach Image copyright EPA Image caption Three of the injured are
said to be seriously hurt
Three of the injured were in a serious condition, police said.
Security services have sealed off the city centre and experts are
trying to establish the kind of explosives the bomber used.
In other developments
The mayor of Munich, Dieter Reiter, suggested backpacks might be
banned from the Oktoberfest beer festival as a security precaution
An Afghan teenager arrested by Munich police met gunman David Sonboly
shortly before he killed nine people and knew that he had a gun,
German police say
An MP from Chancellor Merkel's party, Stephan Mayer, called for
Germany to regain control over its own borders but insisted it was
wrong to blame "Angela Merkel and her refugee policy" for last week's
violence
________________________________
Seven deadly days
A week of bloody attacks has frayed nerves in Germany, which led the
way in accepting asylum seekers from Syria. To date, only the first
has been linked to a militant group:
18 July: An axe-wielding teenage asylum seeker from Afghanistan is
shot dead after injuring five people in an attack on a train. IS
claims the attack, releasing a video recorded by the attacker before
the incident
22 July: A German teenager of Iranian extraction goes on a shooting
rampage in the Bavarian state capital, Munich, killing nine people,
most of them migrants, before shooting himself. He is said to have
been obsessed with school shootings
24 July: A Syrian asylum seeker is arrested in the town of Reutlingen,
Baden-Wuerttemberg, after allegedly killing a Polish woman with a
machete and injuring two other people. Police suggest it was probably
a "crime of passion"
24 July: A failed Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside a
music festival in the small Bavarian town of Ansbach, injuring 12
other people. Motive not immediately clear
German media on the attacks
________________________________
Failed application
The Syrian man entered Germany two years ago and had his asylum claim
rejected a year ago, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.
He had been given leave to stay temporarily given the situation in his
home country and provided with accommodation in Ansbach, Mr Herrmann
added.
A federal interior ministry spokesman, Tobias Plate, confirmed the man
had faced deportation to Bulgaria.
"Syrians cannot at the moment be deported to Syria, but that doesn't
mean that Syrians overall cannot be deported," he told reporters in
Berlin.
Mr Herrmann said he was "incensed" by the attack which, he continued,
demonstrated the need to "strengthen controls on those we have living
in our country".
________________________________
The Syrian asylum seekers rejected by Germany
Image copyright AP Image caption Police in Ansbach searched a former
hotel now used to accommodate asylum seekers where the bomber is
thought to have lived
Germany has been the main destination of Syrian asylum seekers
entering the EU, most of them arriving irregularly in Greece via
Turkey.
Only 23 Syrians had their applications for asylum rejected by the
country last year, out of a total of 162,510. A common reason for
rejecting an application is when the asylum seeker submits false or
incomplete information.
Just under half of asylum seekers rejected by Germany in the past two
years were allowed to stay on in the country, according to a recent
report in German daily Die Welt (in German).
The Ansbach bomber, who was among those rejected for asylum in 2015,
appears to have been placed in a former hotel in the town, designated
by the municipal authorities for asylum seekers since 2014.
source of statistics: German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
report (in German)
________________________________
Ansbach deputy police chief Roman Fertinger said there were
"indications" that pieces of metal had been added to the explosive
device.
"The obvious intention to kill more people indicates an Islamist
connection," Mr Hermann said.
'He told lies so often'
Mr Herrmann said the man had been known to have tried to take his own
life twice and had spent time in a psychiatric clinic.
"We don't know if this man planned on suicide or if he had the
intention of killing others," he said.
A resident of the former Ansbach hotel where the bomber had lived,
Alireza Khodadadi, told the Associated Press news agency that he had
occasionally drunk coffee with the Syrian, whom he named only as
Mohammed, and they had discussed religion.
Mohammed, he said, told him IS was not representative of Islam: "He
always said that, 'No, I'm not with them, I don't like them and such
stuff.'
"But I think he had some issues because, you know, he told lies so
often without any reason, and I understand that he wants to be in the
centre of [attention], you know, he needed [attention],'' Mr Khodadadi
added.
Are you in the area? Have you been affected by the incident? Tell us
your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
--
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