The
backlash: By Sue Reid for the Daily Mail, Published: 17:16 EST, 15 January 2016 | Updated: 19:16
EST, 15 January 2016
Neo-Nazis on the rampage. Gun sales soaring. SUE REID warns sex attacks
by migrants have unleashed dark forces in Germany that have disturbing echoes
of the past
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In contrast,
Eurosceptic party AfD hit an all-time high in an opinion poll
In Leipzig on
Monday 500 thugs set cars ablaze and attacked shops and fast food restaurants,
some of them belonging to migrants
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Came after the mass
sex attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve
Sitting in his white-walled room on the second floor of
an anonymous office block, the German
politician
talks from the heart. He states emotionally that his country has changed
forever; that the European Union is finished and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
days are numbered. ‘Frau Merkel, she’s not right in the head,’ adds 46-year-old
Siegbert Droese, pointing his finger at his temple.
She tells people from all over the Islamic world to come
here to paradise. The numbers are mind-boggling and could reach ten million
[when the migrants bring members of their families over to join them]. ‘So many
young men arriving every day with high testosterone and little respect for
women mean the New Year sex attacks in Cologne will be repeated.
‘I am not alone in thinking this. The penny is dropping
among ordinary Germans.’ What Herr Droese — president of the populist
Eurosceptic party, Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in the eastern city of
Leipzig — says about German views on migrants is all too true.
According to a recent survey, half of the population is
now skeptical that Mrs. Merkel will cope with the huge influx. This is despite her recent TV address to the nation —
complete with Arabic sub-titles aimed at the 1.1 million migrants who arrived
in 2015 and now live at the Government’s expense in 2000 camps, hotels and
rented accommodation across the country — when she repeated her insistence that
‘we can do this’. The tide is inexorably turning against her, and polls show
her popularity is declining.
In contrast, the AfD, with an increasingly middle-class
following of intellectuals and business people, hit an all-time high in an
opinion poll released by best-selling newspaper Bild this week. From a
standing start when it was founded in 2013, it is now supported by 11.5 per
cent of voters, making it the third largest political party in the country.
Nowhere in Germany do AfD’s demands for border controls
and fewer migrants chime more easily with the mood than in the former Communist
bloc in the east of the country.
Here in Leipzig, on Monday night, a local grassroots
organization called Pegida — Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of
the West — held an anti-migrant march and protest. It was followed by a
terrifying rampage through the city center by a breakaway group of 500 thugs
who set cars ablaze and attacked shops and fast food restaurants, some of them
belonging to migrants. Whether the vandals were attached to Pegida or simply
anarchists intent on destruction is not clear. But some likened the damage to
migrant-owned shops to the Kristallnacht attacks against Jews across Nazi
Germany in November 1938 — one of the most emotive subjects in this country’s
calender.
The mayor of Leipzig, Burkhard Jung spoke of ‘terror on
the streets’ as he condemned the ‘naked violence’. But given the febrile mood
over migrants that now pervades all of Germany, there will almost certainly be
more reprisals from the Far Right in the future.
The scenes in Leipzig — which has taken in 10,000 Merkel
migrants — came after the mass sex attacks in Cologne, western Germany, on New
Year’s Eve. During a barbaric night in that city’s main square, a substantial
group of Arabic-speaking men among 1,000 male migrants there deliberately
targeted and assaulted hundreds of women. A staggering 652 complaints were
received by the police.
Across Germany, including in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and
Berlin — not to mention towns and cities in Sweden, Finland and Denmark — it
was the same New Year story. Nearly 50 women in Hamburg complained to police of
sexual harassment by ‘North African men’, who called them ‘bitches’ and shouted
‘Fiki’ to indicate they wanted to rape them.
Amid acrimony over a deliberate police and media cover-up
to stop anti-migrant sentiment, Mrs Merkel started deporting some of the most
blatantly illegal migrants. But the number arriving still tops 3,000 a day, and
local authorities can’t cope.
On Thursday this week, Peter Dreier, the governor of the
Bavarian town of Landshut, sent a bus full of 31 migrants to Angela Merkel’s
office in Berlin with the message: ‘We can’t manage’. They were allowed to
stay in Berlin one night before being dispatched straight back to Bavaria.
This bizarre and cruel game of political ping-pong shows
that Germany is collapsing under the pressure of mass migration. Gerhard Schroeder, Merkel’s predecessor as Chancellor,
said this week that Merkel had ‘a lot of heart but no plan’ when she opened the
borders to migrants in August, saying all Syrians were welcome. Her mistake, he
added, ‘was to allow an exception to turn into a new normality — an unlimited
influx’. The resultant criminality and chaos has caused Germans to become
increasingly angry.
It is not just the thugs with shaved heads, bomber
jackets and heavy boots who were seen in Leipzig this week. There is fast
emerging a new group of Right-wing activists — ordinary people with
conservative values; devout Christians; those angered by the arrogance of
Merkel’s out-of-touch political elite; and, now, an increasing number of women
who are frightened to go out at night. This powerful coalition is
vociferously challenging Merkel’s open-door policy for those fleeing war in the
Middle East and poverty in Africa.
Even a cursory glance at the latest police reports — now
being released more freely — shows the shocking sex attacks are not going away.
Since New Year, a 17-year-old girl near Cologne has been sexually abused by a
migrant from a nearby camp.
Meanwhile in Hamburg, there have been a string of
assaults. A white nurse was harassed by a 25-year-old Eritrean; a
group of girls groped by two ‘North Africans; a woman of 53 confronted by young
men of ‘Arabian appearance,’ who exposed themselves, making obscene gestures. Eight
Afghan asylum seekers are accused of attacking a ‘large number of white women’;
a 23-year-old Somali is under investigation for sexually abusing a ten-year-old
white girl near a migrant reception centre.
Across the country, from east to west, it’s been the
same. In Leipzig, eight days after Cologne, a local woman of 31 was accosted by
15 men, apparently Arabs and North Africans, who pinned her down as she walked
through the railway station at midnight, and thrust themselves at her. Only
because she broke loose did she avoid being raped by two of the men — a Libyan,
24, and a Tunisian, 31, from a local migrant shelter — who were described by
police as ‘her torturers’.
In Bornheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, a leisure centre has
banned all migrants after a schoolgirl was sexually assaulted in its public swimming
pool by three Syrian teenagers.
Merkel’s reassuring platitudes that Germany ‘can manage’
don’t convince her people. And nowhere is this more evident than in Leipzig.
In the town of Halle, a 20-minute drive away, the former
four-star Maritim Hotel with indoor swimming pool, sauna and fitness room, was
closed to guests last year after being turned into a giant migrant camp.
Its 1,000 new residents have officially complained that
the games evenings and film screenings laid on to entertain them are not enough
to stop them being bored with life in Germany.
Already, some of the migrants have disappeared, almost
certainly via the local railway station, where 52 trains arrive and leave every
hour.
This week, outside the station, German women were offered
free pepper defense sprays to ward off sexual attackers in a propaganda move by
another Right-wing group, the anti-Islam Identitarian movement, which was
formed in France and now has footholds all over Europe.
An Identitarian spokesman told the local Press: ‘What
happened in Cologne is happening everywhere. There was an attempted rape here
in Halle only yesterday. We want to help ensure that women can feel safe in our
town.’
The leaflet they handed out went further: ‘Cologne is a
symbol,’ it said. ‘It has shown that the state has failed to protect our
borders. In the past year, more than a million illegal immigrants have entered
our country and the state now cannot — or will not — protect women and girls.
‘It is up to us to defend ourselves... to fight back. For
us, our families, and our country. We demand the immediate closure of the
border, and the re-migration of all illegals to their home countries.’
The pepper sprays were snapped up by local women and
girls. Indeed, since the migration crisis exploded, nationwide sales of pepper
spray have jumped by 600 per cent with supplies running out in parts of the
country.
According to KH Security, a German manufacturer of the
spray, sales are the highest since the company was founded a quarter of a century
ago.
A store owner near Leipzig has reported he is now selling
up to 200 cans of the spray each day, compared with five a week before the
migrant crisis began. The customers? Women of all ages and men buying weapons
for their wives.
Günter Fritz, the owner of a gun shop in another town
nearby, explained: ‘Since September, all over Germany, sales of these defense
products have exploded. My clients come from all walks of life, ranging from
the professor to the retired lady. All are afraid.’
The same pattern has emerged in Cologne, where, for
example, there has been a dramatic rise in applications for air gun licenses
since the New Year’s Eve sex attacks. Police said they have already received 73 applications
this year, compared with just 100 in the whole of 2014. The fact is that fear
is gripping Germany and migration is being blamed.
Der Spiegel, the respected magazine, found 84 per cent of
people said the crisis would mean lasting changes to the country, while more
than half said they believed the new arrivals heighten the danger of terrorism
and increase crime.
The new Right in Germany is gaining particular popularity
in the former Communist east, where xenophobia is high among older people who,
before the fall of the Iron Curtain, were not able to travel abroad or meet
foreigners.
Every Sunday at 4pm in Plauen, just south of Leipzig, the
anti-Islam organisation Pegida stages ‘We Are Germany’ demonstrations in front
of 2,000 people. Pegida has a 19-point manifesto with a raft of grievances. It
is opposed to Germany’s membership of the EU and wants a return of the
Deutschmark. But its most pressing complaint is that traditional Teutonic
values and culture are being swept away by the huge tide of mainly Muslim
migrants, 80 per cent of them male and devoted to Islam.
One of the leading lights of Pegida is Hilmar Brademann,
a painter and decorator. He says he hasn’t got anything against foreigners in
principle. ‘But, I don’t want Plauen to turn into multi-ethnic areas of Berlin
where women wear headscarves and even burkhas,’ he said at a recent Sunday
meeting.
As for migrants who commit crimes, ‘they should be
immediately deported’. The crowd cheered and clapped at every word he said.
Similar meetings are being held throughout Europe. In
Austria, Far-Right parties are trading on the fear engendered by migrants and
calling for an immediate halt to asylum applications.
In Finland, militia groups linked to the Far-Right,
calling themselves Soldiers of Odin (after a god from Norse mythology), patrol towns
at night to protect women from attacks.
And here in Germany, this once fiercely Christian country
— which has seen more than 100 protestant and 400 Roman Catholic churches close
since 2000 while the number of mosques grows, with 128 currently under construction
— groups from xenophobic Pegida to the more moderate AdF are gaining ground
with astounding speed.
The worries of Germans have been heightened by a report
published earlier this month by Professor Adorjan F. Kovacs of the
world-renowned Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Entitled ‘Truths about the Refugee Crisis’, it blows
apart Merkel’s often-used argument that one, two or even three million migrants
will be a drop in the ocean compared with a German population of 80 million.
Professor Kovacs compared the 11.5 million existing
indigenous German population aged between 20 and 35 with the number of new
arrivals, who are predominantly male and in the same age bracket.
He predicts that by 2020, when it is expected that at
least two million young migrants will have each brought in between three and
eight family members, the ethnic demography of the under-40s will have altered
irreversibly unless Mrs Merkel changes her tune.
None of this, of course, is of interest to three Syrian
migrants I found sitting on the ground beside the front door of their new home
of the Maritim Hotel, smoking blue hookah pipes at 11am.
Ahmed Zaror, 45, his wife Malak, 40, and 30-year-old
brother-in-law Hosef Hasan claim in their smattering of English that they have
been in Germany for three years. As Malak, a mobile phone in her hand and smiling through
gap-ridden teeth, told me: ‘We are pleased to be here, although there are 1,000
just like us at this hotel and it is very crowded now more and more of us are
arriving.’
Pushing her pipe towards me for a puff, she added: ‘I
have three sons of 20,19 and 18 who live here, too. We have nothing to do all
day so we are bored, but we would like to work.’ Frankly, looking at the three
members of this family, that seems like an impossibility.
After a lengthy time in Germany, they do not speak the
language. They claim they fled the civil war between the Islamic State and
President Assad’s government, but have no papers to prove it. Yet they are
being housed for free, get three meals a day, and benefits from the Merkel
government, which they draw out at the local bank each week.
Back in Leipzig, I go to a coffee bar not far from where
the racist smashing of migrants’ shops took place on Monday. It is run by a
pretty, 37-year-old woman who escaped to Germany from Communist Cuba in 1996.
We start talking about the Cologne attacks and I ask if
she thinks there are too many new faces arriving. ‘Of course, I am worried,’
she replies. ‘This country cannot take in everyone, from everywhere. I fear for
women and what will happen to them now.’
Her views are not far distant from those of Herr Droese
and his increasingly popular AfD party. As he told me: ‘The Germans, at first,
wanted to help the migrants. Now we are growing afraid for the future.
‘We have our own problems to cope with. More than two
million German children go to school each day without breakfast because their
parents can’t afford to feed them.
‘Germans are realizing that we have to look after our own
people first before we open the door to all the world.’ He adds: ‘What is
happening in Germany is catastrophic. Nothing will be the same again.’
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The
German people have had enough of the leadership in the EU, UN and the German
government. Merkel is up for election in
2017. It would have been her 4th
term. She may be forced to resign before
2017. Her political career is over as are the political careers of all who
voted to sign up for this refugee resettlement program. The same goes for other politicians in other
European governments who fell for this scam.
If
they were smart, they would immediately arrange for sending their refugees to
whatever Muslim country could take them. Western countries could chip in to pay
the cost, but so should the Muslim countries.
I expect the liberal press in Europe will attempt to cast "right wing" groups as extreme, but those who came from East Germany can recognize Communism when they see it. Also, most Germans are naturally conservative and do not suffer from poor judgement. Their politicians certainly do have poor judgment.
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