German chancellor admits that unfettered immigration caused chaos... in France and Italy, not das Vaterland!

Santa Barrazza! German Chancellor Friedrich "Fred" Merz shocked viewers around the world this week when he admitted in a video interview with Bloomberg Television that importing millions of non-European alieans and failing to integrate them is causing carnage in Europe.

The interview was taped on the sidelines of the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin this week. Herr Merz expressed "concern" that riots in France and Italy could spill over into das Vaterland and other EU nations. 

When the Bloomberg interviewer dared to inquire as to the reasons for the unrest seen in cities like Paris and Milan, which have seen thousands of arrests, widespread looting, and arson attacks, Chancellor Merz admitted that it is "most likely" the result of "non-integrated people" [Love that phrase! Kind of like "unhoused people"! Ed.] due too... errr... "migration".

He said this was leading pissed-off native Europeans to vote for "extremely right [read: Alternativ für Deutschland] and extremely left" political parties, thereby creating "tensions and obviously riots in some countries, including France."

Walt says the only reason there have been no major riots in Germany yet is the Germanic tendency to wait until permission has been given, organizations put in place and jackboots issued. But I digress...

Fred's admission that mass migration and the failed attempts at assimilation are not only radicalising the host populations, but also responsible for violent civil unrest is pretty rich, coming from the leader of the same party -- the Christian Democratic Union -- whose previous leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, opened the floodgates, thus starting the European Migrant Crisis of 2015, giving impetus to the Great Replacement which appears now to be unstoppable.

While Herr Merz campaigned in the last federal election on clamping down on immigration, he largely abandoned this position after forming a coalition with the left-wing, pro-open-borders Social Democrats  rather than partnering with the anti-mass-migration AfD, which he regards as beyond the pale of political acceptability. 

Chancellor Merz has frequently defended the need for continued mass migration into Germany and Europe as a hole [misspelling intentional. Walt], claiming that more waves of foreigners are required due to supposed shortages in the labour market and to mitigate the demographic impacts of an ageing population. Just last May he declared, "Germany is a country of immigration. It has always been so; it is so now; and it will remain so."

All the same, in  the Bloomberg interview, he admitted that Germany and Europe feel a sense of "uncertainty" and "anxiousness", saying people are concerned about rising energy costs, inflation, and housing costs. "People are really fearing what is next and what comes in our future, and how can we establish our future for our kids and for our grandchildren?"

He said that with a straight face while failing to acknowledge that mass immigration exacerbated many of the issues he listed, straining the housing supply, while studies have consistently found that increased diversity lowers social trust. Breitbart News reported in April that recent police data found that migrants accounted for 42.9% per cent of all violent crime suspects in Germany. How much longer Chancellor Merz can pretend there is no connection is anybody's guess.

Recommended reading: "Protest Leaders Remind Rioters To Take Breaks To Pray Toward Mecca", Babylon Bee (of course!), 21/10/26.

German politicians agree not to say anything bad about illegal aliens

As a follow-up to our post about the Muslim asylum-seeker who killed a Ukrainian refugee last month, we present below a slightly shortened version of an article by Katja Hoyer, a German-British historian and writer, published on UnHerd, yesterday. Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for the lead.

Cologne immigration pact opens doors for AfD

In Cologne, a bizarre conspiracy of silence has settled. Only it's not happening behind closed doors. All of the political parties involved in upcoming local elections, except the anti-immigration AfD, have openly agreed to avoid negative commentary on immigration during their campaigns.

Everyone, from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to the far-Left Die Linke, has signed a "Fairness Agreement", pledging not to talk about migrants in connection with "negative social developments such as unemployment or threats to domestic security".

This is likely to backfire spectacularly. Democracy thrives on open debate, especially on polarising issues such as immigration. By effectively imposing a gag on critical voices, the agreement tampers with the democratic process itself, stifling dialogue with superficial silence. Citizens deserve a truthful negotiation of competing policies, not a hastily erected facade that ignores discomfort or disagreement.

This curtailment comes at a high cost, especially in Cologne. The city has not forgotten what happened on New Year’s Eve 2015, when hundreds of women reported sexual assaults by groups described as of Arab or North African appearance near Cologne Cathedral and the central train station. Police admitted later that around half the perpetrators had been in the country for less than a year, and that there was "a connection between the appearance of the phenomenon and large-scale migration, especially in 2015."

A decade on and mainstream politicians are agreeing not to talk about this connection, not only alienating victims and witnesses of crimes committed by migrants, but also allowing the AfD a monopoly on the political representations of related concerns.... 

Meanwhile, the broader democratic ecosystem suffers. Voters, particularly working-class ones, and even long-established migrant-origin communities, are shifting toward the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), not because they embrace extremism, but because they feel unheard and abandoned by the political centre. Without legitimate channels to express concerns, cynicism grows and democracy erodes. 

To call this silence "fair", when it abandons one of Germans’ most pressing concerns, seems cynical. It's a capitulation: a denial of many people’s everyday experiences, fears and frustrations. It validates the smug belief that "politics knows best", even when public safety and social cohesion are at stake. Fairness demands honest engagement. Problems and conflicts in Cologne, including the horrors of New Year’s Eve 2015, must be acknowledged — not exploited, but confronted openly. 

Even if the intention of the agreement was solely political, it would backfire on those terms. By collectively signing the “Fairness Agreement” and singling out the AfD as the only dissenting voice, mainstream parties confirm a huge frustration that has driven so many voters towards the Right in the first place: the idea of a "uniparty" that blocks all change. 

Many Germans already feel that all establishment parties, regardless of ideological labels, are essentially the same, offering no genuine choice — especially on immigration. When voters see everyone from across the spectrum agreeing not to criticise immigration policies, despite widespread public concern, it reinforces the perception that no real political alternative exists within the system....  

In attempting to isolate the AfD, Cologne's political establishment is feeding directly into the party’s most effective messaging. The "Fairness Agreement" is no honour to fairness. It's yet another sign of how detached the political mainstream has become from voters. Migration is the big issue of our time. If centrists want to remain part of a conversation they can't stop, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and do what politicians are supposed to do in a functioning democracy: listen to voters.

Muslim asylum-seeker kills Ukrainian refugee in Germany

There is a difference between refugees and asylum-seekers. If we have to choose who we let into our safe and prosperous countries (???), I'd take the genuine refugees who are fleeing wars and natural disasters. To the asylum-seekers, who claim to be unjustly persecuted in "safe" countries like the US of A because of their religious or political beliefs, or because they're queer, I'd say, "Go away! We're full!" 

Thanks to Angela Merkel, Germany is chock full or asylum-seekers and refugees, both legitimate and bogus. Das Vaterland landhosts 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees -- fleeing Putin's invasion of their country -- the highest number of any EU country. Unfortunately, it has even more bogus refugees and asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Africa. 

On August 11th, in Frideland, one of the latter group killed one of the former -- a 16-year-old named Liana -- by pushing her into the path of a freight train travelling at 60 mph. Liana fled Mariupol with her parents and two younger brothers in 2022. In Germany, she had been training to become a dental assistant.

Die Polizei initially did not detain the 31-year-old man, even after pointed them to her body. Later DNA tests revealed his fingerprints on her shoulder, leading investigators to conclude she had been violently grabbed. Good police work there, Fritz!

The authorities said the suspect had a blood alcohol level of 1.35‰ and a history of paranoid schizophrenia. He was placed in a psychiatric facility and is under investigation for "unintentional homicide". Prosecutors said there is no evidence the suspect and victim knew each other. 

Investigators also found that the Iraqi citizen had lived in Germany for years despite his asylum application being rejected and a deportation order being issued. Imagine that!

Walt wonders how many millions of failed asylum-seekers are on the loose in Germany... and in all the Western countries which have put out the welcome mat for them, in spite of all evidence that they are detriments to our society. And how many are there in countries like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states? The answer is none, because the Arabs don't accept refugees and asylum-seekers, even fellow followers of the Prophet. Who says we're smarter than the Arabs?

After 6 months, Afghan "Allahu akbar!" killer finally charged

How time flies and how quickly we forget! Last February, Walt brought you news from Munich, Germany of a horrific attack by a Jihadi wannabe which took the lives of a two-year-old girl and her 37-year-old mother. See "'Allahu akbar!' in German... just in time for the election" WWW 13/2/25 and "Munich Islamic terror attack UPDATE" 14/2/25.

The general election came and went, and a cobbled-together coalition of leftists and centrists pipped Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) at the post. Apparently the Germans have yet to realize that that the Muslim fanatics really are out to kill them and all the other infidels.

The lickspittle media buried the Munich attack (and others) below the fold, and people forgot. These things have become so common that we don't even bother to search for a follow-up any more. The jihadi wannabes are usually portrayed as "lone wolves", not really part of the Islamic war on the west, and the perpetrators are rarely convicted, let alone deported to whence they came.

So it was a bit of a surprise today when Euronews reported that German authorities have, at long last, laid murder charges against the man who murdered the little girl and her mother, and injured 44 others in the car-ramming rampage.

The man, an Afghan national identified only as Farhad N., was arrested immediately after the attack during a labour union demonstration. He came to Germany as one of the asylum-seekers so beloved of Angela Merkel and other politicians suffering from white guilt. (The German version of this diseasis especially virulent, which accounts for the outcome of the above-mentioned election.)

Prosecutors say Herr N. was motivated by "a desire to avenge the suffering of Muslims." Ah yes, all those poor refugee and sylum-seekers... millions of them... still being fed and housed by the no-longer-Nazi German people. 

"The accused committed the act out of excessive religious motivation," the prosecutorssaid in the statement. He believed he was obliged to attack and kill randomly selected people in Germany in response to the suffering of Muslims in Islamic countries." Makes sense, no? No!

German elections: AfD rises to best result ever

We apologize for not having posted anything much in the last few days. We have been preoccupied with the Bergoglio death watch, which seems today to be a bit premature. Lord have mercy on him, and let your will be done. 

There is also the dizzying pace of the changes being wrought by President Trump. It's hard to keep up. And frankly, some things the Donald is doing -- the threatened tariffs, the apparent sell-out of Ukraine --  look wrong-headed. There may be method in his madness, but we'll wait and see. For now, we'll hold the applause.

We cannot, however, delay our congratulations to Alice Weidel and her Alternativ für Deutschland party for their best-ever showing in last weekend's election.

See that huge aqua-tinted area, roughly corresponding to the old East Germany, on the map? Those are seats in the Reichstag won by the AfD!

Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU/CSU got more seats -- those coloured in black -- but Germany's 2025 election has revealed a strong trend to the hard right. 

It is notable that the AfD's strength is mainly in the east, where millions of people remember what it was like to be governed by Communists. Their rejection of the socialism and liberalism of Angela Merkel and her successor Olaf Scholz.

AfD doubled its support from 10.4 to 20.8% in just four years, and is now the second biggest political force in the German parliament. Meanwhile, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's socialist SPD had its worst performance in decades, only securing 16.4% of the vote. The loony left Green Party, once considered the "coming thing", drew only 11.6% of the vote.

No wonder "Fred" Merz and Frau Merkel are seen here watching in horror as the results came in. The AfD dominates eastern Germany, apart from pockets like Berlin and half of Leipzig. In the west, the vast majority went conservative black, especially in Bavaria where Herr Merz's conservative sister party, the CSU, swept the landscape. 

Alternativ für Deutschland is spreading in the west too, and loyalty to the old mainstream parties is a thing of the past. The AfD, demonized as "far-right" by the (((controlled media))), has, for one in five Germans, become "normal". 

Even though it came second, the AfD is blocked from being part of the next government because of a "firewall" constructed by Germany's main parties, who have refused to co-operate with any party seen as "extremist". 

The same strategy -- refusing to join in any coalition with any right-wing group -- has been employed to keep Marine Le Pen's National Rally out of power in France. The firewall -- Brandmauer in German -- has worked since the end of WWII, but AfD joint leader Tino Chrupalla says, "Anyone who erects firewalls will get grilled behind them." 

The cuckservative CDU/CSU did not win enough seats to form a majority government. Herr Merz must therefore find a coalition partner, but has vowed to keep the firewall in place. He told the meeja that he believes the only reason the AfD exists is because of "problems such as migration and security that need to be addressed:" Ya think?! "We need to resolve these problems," he said, "then that party, the AfD, will disappear." 

AfD leader Alice Weidel insists it is a libertarian, conservative movement, not racist. Its big increase in public support has coincided with a series of deadly attacks in the past nine months, all by Islamic extremists who Angela Merkel's minions welcomed into the Fatherland as "refugees" and asylum-seekers. What the AfD wants to do is send them back where they came from, in a policy dubbed "remigration". 

Herr Merz will now go into talks on forming a government with the Social Democrats, who came third. He has already flirted with the AfD in the Reichstag, relying on their votes to push through a motion on migration. Now that the AfD has more than 150 seats, many CDU/CSU supporters believe it is time for the firewall to go. Stay tuned.

Munich Islamic terror attack UPDATE

Some readers of liberal disposition [Yes, we do have a few of those. Ed.] have asked why we keep starting the headlines with "Allahu akbar!" when we don't know... yet... anything to suggest that the attackers are Muslims, let alone Islamic terrorists. Well, we go with our suspicions, which haven't yet been found to be unfounded. [Trust that's clear. Ed.]

The latest case in point is the horrific attack in Munich described in "'Allahu akbar!' in Germany", WWW 13/2/25. We noted that the German cops quickly identified the perp as an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan, welcome to the Fatherland by Angela Merkel's minions. However, they said at that time that they didn't know what his motivation was. 

Were we wrong to jump to the usual conclusion? NO! Today, The Times (UK) fills in the blanks in a story headlined "Munich attack suspect named as Afghan fitness influencer". Yeah, so? The truth comes out in the lede: "German authorities have arrested Farhad Noori — who flexed oiled muscles in Instagram and TikTok posts — and believe car-ramming was motivated by Islamism." Quelle surprise!

In case you're behind the paywall, here's more of the Times story. The emphasis is Walt's.

"A man suspected of attempted mass murder after a car was driven into a crowd in central Munich has been named as Farhad Noori, a competitive bodybuilder with tens of thousands of followers on social media. The authorities say they believe the car-ramming was motivated by Islamism. 

"Noori, an Afghan who came to Germany in 2016, described himself online as a 'fitness model' and posted selfies flexing his oiled muscles and posing with cars including a white Mini Cooper similar to the one reportedly used in Thursday's attack. 

"He has 68,000 followers on Instagram and 32,800 on TikTok, and his grinning persona online does not appear to fit the profile of a radical Islamist with a grudge against the West. However, Munich’s top prosecutor, Gabriele Tilmann, said on Friday that she believed there was an “Islamist motivation” to the attack. Noori faces possible charges of attempted murder in 36 cases and causing dangerous bodily harm. 

"'After the crime, the accused said 'Allahu Akbar' to police officers and then prayed after his arrest,' Tilmann told a news conference in Munich on Friday. She said that during a two-hour interrogation on Thursday he admitted he had driven into the crowd deliberately. 'He gave a reason for this, which I would now summarise as a religious motivation. I can’t quote from the interrogation of the accused here...but what he said about it suggests a religious motivation for the crime.'"

Footnote: Readers familiar with the cult classic Repo Man should note the presence of the pinetree air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror.

Good news from Occupied Germany

If you've been waiting for my comment on the staged, boring, counter-factual, dismal, CNN interview of the Cackler and her valorous protector... you just had it. Let's turn our attention to das Vaterland, where, right now, millions of people are voting against migration and wokeness.

Why, here's a voter right now! His sign asks German chancellor Olaf Scholz how many more Germans must die at the hands of Islamic terrorists. He's referring, no doubt, to atrocities like the recent stabbings in Solingen. See "More 'Allahu akbar!' in Germany... implications for USA and Canada". WWW 26/8/24.

This weekend, in the German States of Saxony and Thuringia, comes the reckoning for Herr Scholz and his Social Democratic Party (the German equivalent of America's Dimocrats), who, under the leadership of Angela Merkel, encouraged the occupation of Germany by hordes of "refugees" and asylum-seekers who are hell-bent on establishing a European caliphate.

In those states (which, significantly, were part of East Germany), the rightist Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) is on the cusp of winning the most votes in German state elections for the first time since the days of Hitler.

For the gliberals, progressives, and one-worlders, that's a nightmare -- like the rise of MAGA in the US of A -- but others, particularly in the east, say the AfD is the last chance to get their country back. Cries of "Deutschland den Deutschen!" are loud in the land!

Just as in America, the temperature of German politics has been rising all year. At an SPD rally in Thuringia, protesters (like the one pictured) shouted "Liar!) at Chancellor Scholz. Chants of "Volksverräter" -- "Traitor to the people" -- were also heard. 

Polling shows the SPD (and its Green and Liberal coalition partners) are doing so badly in Thuringia that they may not even get a single seat in the state parliament. The AfD, by contrast, tops the polls with 30% to the SPD's 22%.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Saxony, the AfD is running neck and neck with the conservative CDU. The knife attack in Solingen, in which a Syrian asylum-seeker and jihadi wannabe killed three people, has fuelled fierce criticism of how successive "liberal democratic" governments have handled migration. In a response which can only be described as "panicky", ministers announce tougher asylum regulations and knife crime laws.

[How much tougher? Ed.]  Well, for one thing, they are actually in the process of deporting a handful of "irregular migrants" who asylum claims were denied.

Yesterday, a deportation flight bound for Afghanistan left Leipzig with 28 -- count `em, 28 -- Afghanis on board. That leaves only a million or so benefits-shoppers still in Germany. According to the Ministry of the Interior, those on the flight are convicted criminals from various states across Germany. Der Spiegel reported that each deportee, all of whom were male, received a payment of €1000 ($1100 in real money). The spokesthingy for Saxony’s Interior Ministry was unable to confirm this.

The flight marks Germany’s first deportation of Afghans back to their home country since the Taliban retook power there in August 2021, after the Biden Bug-out. In a presser following the flight's departure, a government spokesthingy emphasized that Berlin was not in direct talks with the Taliban. Rather,  he said, it secured the deportation through the mediation of "key regional powers" whom he carefully refused to name.

He did add, though, that the German government has made "intensive efforts" to deport migrants who have committed serious crimes back to Afghanistan and Syria in the wake of a knife attack -- not Solingen, but the "Allahu akbar!" incident in the southwestern city of Mannheim at the end of May. The German immigration control authorities have laboured mightily, it seems, and brought forth... well... see above.

FOOTNOTE and further reading on US election: If you really want to know how the Cackler (and Awalz) did in the CNN fake interview, read "Off-script Kamala blows it in the swing states", by Joe Concha, New York Post, 30/8/24.

Rightist AfD makes hyuge gains in German elections

"Things can't go much better than this," said Joerg Meuthen, co-leader of Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), pronouncing himself "highly satisfied" with the results of elections in the state of Saxony, in eastern Germany, this weekend.

With counting nearly complete, the right-wing party was on track to win 28% of the vote, its best performance in any state election to date. Five years ago the AfD polled just under 10% of the vote. Angela Merkel's ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union got 33% of the vote, down from 39% five years ago.

In neighbouring Brandenburg, Alternativ für Deutschland won 23.5%, almost doubling its vote share (12.2%) in the 2014 state election. The Social Democrats, partners of Frau Merkel's Christian Democrats, pipped AfD at the post, winning 26.2% of the vote, down from 31.9% five years ago. Like the CDU's showing in Saxony, that was the worst result for the centre-left party since the reunification of Germany 29 years ago.

Although the CDU-SDU coalition has clung to power in both states of the former East Germany, the strong showing by the AfD evidences growing dissatisfaction with Angela Merkel's government, which the German people hold responsible for the inundation of the Fatherland with millions of unassimilable Muslim "refugees" and asylum-seekers, all part of the Great Replacement orchestrated by (((George Soros))) and his useful fool, Pope Francis.

Although the AfD did not win the state elections, its chief whip in the Bundestag -- the German federal parliament -- Bernd Baumann, said its strong showing "pushes the issues forward that really interest people out there. I am glad that more and more people in the country say, 'We will take our country back from the left-wing, green mainstream, from the old parties to certain media."

Another gain for AfD forces Merkel to plan retirement

Cazart! Another defeat for "democratic socialism"[or "social democracy"? Ed.] in Germany! Results just in from Sunday's vote in the state of Hesse prove that the German people want change. They are sick of the self-centeredness and self-flagellation of Angela Merkel's liberal coalition, and sent them a strong message.

Frau Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats lost significant ground, while there were gains for both the Greens and the right-wing Alternativ für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany). Merkel's party barely managed to retain power, narrowly salvaging a majority by means of a coalition with the Greens.

The governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) is the classic example of all the "mainstream" parties banding together to prevent the rightist party from taking power. Within this decade, the same thing happened in France, Austria and the Netherlands. So for the last six months or so, Germans have been lumbered with a government that is so busy navel-gazing -- figuring out how to survive -- that it hasn't led, but rather paralyzed the Fatherland.

After 13 years in office, the German volk have learned to dislike and distrust Angela Merkel. Her abject failure to lead, particularly on the issue of mass migration, has led to the rise of the AfD and other right-wing parties, not just in Germany but in Europe as a hole. [Ed., I have checked the spelling. Quod scripsi scripsi.] Instead of tackling urgent issues like what to do with the criminal Muslim "refugees", the Merkel coalition is preoccupied with in-house squabbling over "the process of renewal". The German people have had enough!

Frau Merkel, 64, recently indicated she planned to seek another two-year term as leader of her Christian Democratic Union at a party congress to be held in December, but in light of the result in Hesse (and another debacle in Bavaria two weeks ago) appears to have changed her mind. At a news conference in Berlin today, she said it was her intention to remain as Chancellor, but this would be her final parliamentary term. "I will not run as candidate for chancellor in the 2021 election," she told the meeja, "and will not seek re-election to the German parliament. And, just for the record, I will not aim for any other political office," likely referring to European Commission elections to be held next year.

Throughout the Fatherland, cries are heard, not of "Angela, we hardly knew ye," but of "We knew ye all too well. Auf Wiedersehen, gute Riddance!"

Merkel government could fall over failed open-border policy

June is proving to be a worse-than-usual month for discredited German Chancellor [pro tem] Angela Merkel as she struggles to keep her government from breaking up over her disastrous open borders policy, under which well over a million undesirable and unassimilable Muslim "refugees" and asylum-seekers have invaded das Vaterland in less than four years.

Frau Merkel is in a stand-off with her ally, Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister-party to her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and now Interior Minister in her tottering federal government. The row is centered on Herr Seehofer's asylum system reform plan, under which migrants who have already been registered as asylum-seekers in another European Union country would be turned away at the German border. Frau Merkel opposes such a ban, fearing that other countries will impose similar border controls.

Yesterday the CSU leadership agreed to delay introducing their entry ban until after a European summit to be held at month-end, allowing Frau Merkel time to seek an EU-wide solution. The compromise means Herr Seehofer can introduce immediate expulsion for people who have already been turned back at Germany's borders. "We wish the chancellor much luck," Herr Seehofer said at a presser in Munich. "This is not about winning time or anything like that but rather that in July, if there is no result at European level, we must implement this – that is a question for the functioning of our constitutional state."

Also on Monday, President Donald Trump, defending his own tough anti-immigrant polices, waded into the Germany debate on Monday with a series of tweets criticising Frau Merkel's open-border policy as a "big mistake" that had fuelled crime in Europe. POTUS wrote: "We don't want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!" And then this:

Further reading:
"Migrant overload spells doom for European Union" (retitled in some editions, for the sake of political correctness, as "Immigrant overload, not Brexit, heralds the end of the European Union") by Niall Ferguson, South China Morning Post, 18/6/18.
"EU official admits: Europe has no strategy for the impending new wave of migrants", by Christine Douglass-Williams, Jihad Watch, 28/11/17.

"Allahu akbar!" (?) in Germany: 3 dead as van crashes into crowd

It was a fine spring morning in the German city of Muenster. Hundreds of people thronged the downtown market square. People were sitting in front of the popular Kiepenkerl bar, enjoying their beer and bratwurst, until a van roared down the street at high speed, crashing into the patio and a crowd of pedestrians. The body count so far: at least three people killed and 20 injured.

Following the crash, the driver of the van shot himself to deadh. Another suspect -- maybe more than one -- may have fled the vehicle after the crash, according to eyewitness accounts. Inspektor Katzenjammer of the local polizei said the driver's identity was unknown. So also his motive. A suspicious object was found inside the van, but police declined to comment on a rumour that it was a black flag with some kind of foreign writing on it.

A spokesthingy for German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- yes, she's still in office -- offered her condolences and said Frau Merkel was terribly terribly sorry that the German people couldn't see the benefits of Willkommenskultur. [Ed., please check that last part.]

The police coverup ["investigation", shurely! Ed.] continues. The koppers put out a brief statement on social media describing the situation as "confusing" and told members of the public, "Please don't speculate." (They didn't say what we shouldn't speculate about! Three guesses....) ”Walt will bring you further details just as soon as the first denunciation of Islamoophobia is released.

German pro-migrant politicos cringe as Afghan asylum-seeker charged with brutal rape-murder

This is Maria Ladenburger -- the late Maria Ladenburger, the daughter of Dr Clemens Ladenburger, a German lawyers who works as an assistant to the legal director of the European Commission. Fräulein Ladenburger, who lived in Freiburg, Germany, was the victim of a brutal rape and murder. She was 19 years old.

A spokesthingy for the local police told a press conference last month that the pretty medical student had been at a party in October. She left around 0237 to cycle home, when she became "the victim of a sexual offence and a violent crime." She was raped and then drowned in the River Dreisam, where her body was found on 16 October 2017. Her black scarf was discovered on the riverbank, and a single strand of dark hair that had been partially dyed blonde was found in a blackberry bush.

DNA from the hair and the scarf were run through the police criminal database, but no matches were found. Detectives then turned to CCTV footage in the town and the surrounding area where the young woman was found. Video footage taken on a local streetcar showed a young man who had what police said was "a very conspicuous hairstyle, an undercut hairstyle", with a portion of his long hair dyed blonde. They arrested a teenage asylum-seeker whose DNA matched that found at the crime scene.

Fräulein Ladenburger volunteered at a home for "refugees" in her spare time, but it is unclear whether she ever met her murderer before he took her life. The German public prosecutor handling the case said the suspect, who had been taken in by a local family who believed in Angela Merkel's "Willkommenskultur", confessed to the murder.

Police are now trying to establish if he may be responsible for the death of another girl in the area. Carolin G., 27, was raped and murdered at the beginning of November while jogging in Endinge, just 18 miles away from Freiburg. Connecting the unnamed yoof with that crime will be difficult, as detectives found no DNA evidence at that crime scene.

Interest in this story has been revived this month as Chancellor (pro tem) Merkel struggles to put together a coalition government, after the rising tide of anger at her open-door refugee policy resulted in huge gains in last September's election for the anti-immigrant Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party and a drastically reduced minority for Frau Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.

Other parties, including the CDU's erstwhile ally, the CSU, are demanding drastic changes to Germany's immigration policy. One of the major issues which they seem unable to resolve is the suspension of the policy of reunifying refugee families. The person who killed Fraülein Landenburger was one of 1000s of young Muslim men from the shithole countries of the Middle East and North Africa who came to Germany as unaccompanied minors. Crime among such young men has spiked as the tidal wave of "refugees" washed over Europe.

Now leading criminologists commissioned by Frau Merkel's government have produced a study arguing that family reunification would be an effective method to counteract crime among young migrants. The solution, then, is to bring in their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins -- millions more unassimilable Muslims to be welcomed into das Vaterland. Reaction to the plan, even within Frau Merkel's own CDU, has been distinctly cool.

Walt predicts earthquake in Germany

Germans are trooping to the polls, even as I write, to cast their ballots for or against the destruction of their country. As a result of Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy of "Willkommenskultur", which has seen the Fatherland "welcome" nearly two million non-white Muslim "refugees" and asylum-seekers, Germany is being transformed from a white Christian society to a colony of Turkey and the IS "caliphate".

"Merkel muss weg!" -- "Merkel must go!" -- read the signs and banners carried by tens of thousands of German citizens, fed up with the constant pandering to the "rapefugees" and the deluded one-worlders who goal is to impose Muslim culture and Sharia law not just on Germany but on all of Europe. But what are the chances that Frau Merkel and her liberal allies can be turfed out of office after three terms? Not so good.

The latest polls show Frau Merkel's Christian democrats with a substantial lead over the pinkish Social Democrats of challenger Martin Schulz. You can't call Herr Schulz the leader of the opposition, because for the last four years his party and that of Frau Merkel have governed the country in a so-called "grand coalition". Most forecasts suggest that coalition will win another majority today.

The only real opposition to the governing parties' suicidal Islamophiliac policies comes from the pro-German Alternativ für Deutschland, whose policies are populist, anti-migrant and anti-EU. Several German pollsters have forecast that the AfD, which appears assured of gaining seats in the national parliament for the first time, may come in as third-strongest party.

After Marine Le Pen and her Front National, and Geert Vilders' Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) did not do as well as expected in recent elections in France and the Netherlands, the liberals and one-worlders tried to tell us that "far right" populism was dead. It is not. Walt predicts that the AfD will indeed finish a strong third in today's elections, and, once they take their rightful place in Germany's Bundestag (federal parliament) will cause an earthquake whose tremors will be felt right across Europe. Lifetime pct .981.

Recommended reading: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, by Douglas Murray (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2017)

The word our "leaders" just won't say

"We have to stop being politically correct and get down to the business of protecting our people!"

Who do you think said that, following yesterday's "incident" of Islamic terrorism in London? (Body count as of this morning: 48 wounded, 7 dead plus 3 Muslim "martyrs" shot by British cops.) Give up? OK, I'll tell you. It was Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. It was not:
- Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a very proper English lady who is trying on her Maggie Thatcher impression -- "Enough is enough!", is what she said -- and failing.
- Angela Merkel, the frumpy hausfrau whose discredited Willkommenskultur policy opened Germany's borders to well over a million Muslim "refugees" and asylum-seekers, who are now sucking on the welfare tit while biting the hand that fees them.
- Emmanuel Macron, the newly-elected President of France, a "man" who never held political office and, because he couldn't marry his mother, instead married his school teacher, a lady (thank goodness!) 25 years his senior.
- Justin Trudeau, the King of the Selfies who poses as Prime Minister of Canada, who never met a Muslim he didn't invite to come to Canada and vote for him. M Trudeau and the state-owned CBC thump the multicult drum incessantly, preaching that Canada's diversity is its strength.

Now that President Trump has (according to the lamestream media) abdicated his position as leader of the Western world, Mrs May, Frau Merkel, and Messrs Macron and Trudeau are the only "leaders" we have left. Lord have mercy on us! Now that we so badly need a real man, where is the Churchill, where is the De Gaulle, who will order his government to take all means necessary -- including not just "containment", but deportation, imprisonment and execution -- to rid us of the scourge of Islamic terrorism.

For that's what this weekend's attacks in London (and Kabul) were. Islamic terrorism. "Allahu akbar!" is heard in the streets of a Western capital once again. Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest attack, ISIS had sent out a call on instant messaging service Telegram early on Saturday, urging its followers to launch attacks with trucks, knives and guns against "Crusaders" during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The one thing that the four "leaders" named above have in common is that not one of them used the words "Islam", "Islamic" or "Islamist" -- let alone "ISIS" -- in their public shedding of crocodile tears in response to the attacks. Like "cunt" and "piss", "Islam" is a word that the ladies who lead us have decided they just won't say. So the PC police have made it clear that "Islam" is now the I-word, the new N-word, not to be uttered, especially in the same breath as "terrorism" or "terrorists", in any form or any medium. Period.

Further reading (and viewing -- includes video): "Trump Uses London Attack to Criticize Mayor, Promote Ban", Bloomberg Politics, 4/6/17.

Apology to Theresa May: In the video embedded in the Bloomberg article, Mrs May did say "Islamist extremism" once, in the two-minute clip. However, she also said these attacks are not representative of Islam, which we all know is the religion of peace. (OK, she didn't say that last part. I did.)

Happy New Year (II) ! 100s of "Africans" detained in Cologne

In my first post of this beautiful New Year's Day, 2017, I said I was waiting for reports of "refugee" rape rampages in Cologne (aka Köln), Germany, and other European cities, along the lines of the attacks on white women which occurred a year ago.

I didn't have to wait long. According to Associated Press, Die Polizei von Koln have detained hundreds of men "seemingly of African descent" as part of operations to prevent a repeat of the attacks seen in that city a year ago. Whether "African" means sub-Saharan African -- the real black ones -- or North African -- the Muslim Arabs -- was not made clear, but I know which way I'm betting. (See UPDATE below.)

Cologne police say the men were detained at two main train stations so that officers could question them and check their identities, to determine if they're "refugees" or asylum-seekers or failed asylum-seekers or just plain old illegal immigrants. Some revelers complained on Twitter that police appeared to be detaining people based on their appearance alone. Inspektor Katzenjammer was heard to say that they didn't have anything else to go on.

By early New Year's Day, police had received reports of two -- only two -- women being sexually assaulted in Cologne. One man was arrested. His nationality (or lack thereof) has so far not been disclosed.

UPDATE: Cologne police have now admitted that by "African" they mean, errr, NORTH African, by which they mean Arabs, by which they mean Muslims. Hundreds of people were robbed and sexually assaulted during New Year's celebrations in Cologne last year. The crimes were blamed largely on men of North African origin who had taken advantage of chaotic and crowded scenes around the city's cathedral.

Cologne Police Chief Juergen Mathies said he had instructed officers to intervene sooner this year. Of the 650 people detained for identity checks, almost all were from North African countries, he said, adding that "their characteristics were such that potential crimes could indeed be expected." Is it possible that Chief Mathies has not yet read Angela Merkel's diktat about "Willkommenskultur"?

Merkel does a big 180 on "refugees", Muslim headgear

Amazing news from Essen, Germany, where Angela Merkel's governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is holding a party congress this week. Chancellor Merkel announced last week that she would be running for a fourth four-year term in an election expected next September. But first she must be chosen to lead her party for another two-year term.

German public opinion polls and lamestream media assure Frau Merkel that she's a shoo-in, in spite of widespread grumbling about her "Willkomenskultur" policy, under which millions of "refugees" and asylum-seekers, most of them Muslims, have been admitted to Das Vaterland, where they have committed numerous acts of rape, terrorism, and general ingratitude.

Frau Merkel is a political survivor, not foolish enough to trust the polls and the media. In a speech today, she announced that she would take steps to prevent a repeat of last year's huge influx of Muslim invaders. And... wait for it... she advocated banning burqas and niqabs -- the full-face veils used by some Muslim women -- "where possible".

She told the CDU congress that her immediate priority is to make sure a crisis-shaken Europe doesn't get any weaker. Germany will continue to take in people in genuine need of protection, she said, but her government has moved to toughen asylum rules and declare several countries "safe", meaning that people coming from those places can't expect to get refugee status and all the cash and other benefits that go with it. Furthermore, Frau Merkel told delegates, "parallel societies" won't be tolerated. "In communication between people, which is of course essential to our living together, we have to show our faces, so the full veil should be forbidden wherever legally possible."

Isn't it strange that Angela Merkel can say things like that and be applauded, yet when Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders says the same things, he gets called a racist! But hey, the lower house of the Dutch parliament voted just a few days ago to ban Islamic headgear, as has also been done by France and Belgium, so it would appear that Frau Merkel is simply catching up. The USA and (especially) Canada may take somewhat longer.

Further reading: "Hijab, niqab, burqa -- what's the difference?", WWW 28/7/10.

Trump warns Germans after asylum-seekers' sex and crime spree

Germans -- real Aryan Germans -- are bitterly divided over the wave of sexual assaults, thefts and other crimes which rocked central Köln (Cologne) on New Year’s Eve. In spite of over-whelming evidence that the majority of the perps were Muslim immigrants and "refugees" from the Middle East and North Africa, there are still many guilt-ridden Krauts who defend Chancellor Merkel's "Willkommenskultur" policy of welcoming the migrants with open arms.

Growing numbers of protesters have taken to the streets of Köln and other German cities to demand that criminal foreigners be deported (und schnell!), and that bogus refugees and other scum be prevented from entering the Fatherland in the first place. But other crowds of "anti-racists" and "human rights activists" insist on blaming the police or the victims!

As Walt told you on Wednesday, Herr Inspektor Katzenjammer, after some politically correct hemming and hawing, admitted that the perpetrators were of "Arab or North African origin". In one report, police quoted a man as saying, "I’m a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly! Mrs. Merkel invited me."

By today, at least 106 women had come forward to file criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery during the New Year’s Eve festivities. That includes two reported rapes. Police initially failed to mention the assaults in their presser the following morning, describing the festivities as "largely peaceful"!

Witnesses told a different story. German media quoted dozens of women who said they were followed by groups of men who groped them, tried to pull off their clothes and stole valuables. One victim told BBC News, "They grabbed our arms, pushed our clothes away, and tried to get between our legs or I don’t know where!"

Der Spiegel quotes an unidentified senior official of Germany’s national police as reporting a "chaotic and shameful" evening in which a lack of officers at the scene meant those there "reached the limits of their abilities pretty quickly.... Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a gauntlet through masses of heavily intoxicated men that words cannot describe." [Said he, using words to describe the scene. Ed.]

Authorities have, however, described the men as being largely of “Arab or North African origin.” According to the report, at least one officer quoted a man as saying: “I’m a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly! Mrs. Merkel invited me.”

Tobias Plate, a spokesthingy for the Ministry of the Interior, told reporters today that federal police have identified 18 out of 31 suspects as asylum-seekers. The suspects included 9 Algerians, 8 Moroccans, 5 Iranians, 4 Syrians, 2 Germans, and one person each from Iraq, Serbia and (wait for it) the USA. Yes, he said, most of the men detained were North African, but investigators had yet to "prove with concrete evidence" that they were actually involved, and people should not jump to conclusions! Some konfusie op die stasie, surely!

Thorsten Craemer, of the Bürgerbewegung PRO NRW political party, declared, "This is where Merkel’s irresponsible immigration policy will lead us. There will be battles for resources, confrontations far worse than what we’ve experienced on New Year’s Eve."

And what does Chancellor Merkel say? Yesterday she said she didn't think the New Year’s Eve events were isolated cases, and that they must be dealt with swiftly and firmly. She said she feared that the incidents showed contempt for women. Well, DUH! "We have to send out clear signals to those who are not willing to observe our laws," said Dr. Merkel. "We must examine again and again whether we have already done what is necessary in terms of...deportations from Germany in order to send clear signals to those who are not prepared to abide by our legal order."

Perhaps Chancellor Merkel should consider some advice offered yesterday by Donald Trump, who raised the issue on Twitter. "Germany is going through massive attacks to its people by the migrants allowed to enter the country," he wrote. "New Years Eve was a disaster. THINK!"

Multiculturalism a lie, sez Germany's Merkel (again)

"Obey our laws, values and traditions!" That (believe it or not) is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel told immigrants in a speech on Monday in Karlsruhe, a city near the French border which has been overrun by non-European refugees.

Frau Merkel has recently been given a good deal of credit for opening Germany's doors to the flotsam and jetsam of the Middle East. For pushing "Willkommenskultur", she was named Time's Man of the Year ["Person", surely! Ed.] But since a million Muslims have entered the Fatherland this year alone, Frau Merkel admits that Germany may be reaching its limits in terms of accepting more refugees. "The challenge is immense," she told her audience. "We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably."

But wait (as Vince Offer would say), there's more! Frau Merkel made it clear that she and the German people expect the aliens to assimilate into mainstream German society. Her message to immigrants is: check your foreign ways and values at the door! "Multiculturalism", she said "leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a 'life lie'!"

The lamestream media and multicultists, in Germany and overseas, just about wet themselves, accusing Chancellor Merkel of contradicting herself. But she didn't! She merely reiterated a sentiment she expressed over five years ago, which I told you about in "Multiculturalism 'utter failure': German Chancellor" (WWW 17/10/10)

Yes, way back in 2010, Frau Merkel said "Of course the tendency had been to say, 'Let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other.' But this concept has failed, and failed utterly."

The intent of Monday's speech appears to have been to calm the vast majority of Germans, who have grown increasingly weary of the influx of refugees and of the "Willkommenskultur" urged on them by the liberals and celebrators of diversity. Newcomers, Frau Merkel stressed, should assimilate to German values and culture, and respect the country's laws. Walt asks how come she can say things like that, and Donald Trump can't?!

Second European leader declares multicult a failure

First it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Now it's David Cameron, Prime Minister of the Disunited Kingdom. Speaking to a security conference in Munich, Mr. Cameron has had the courage to say plainly what most Britons feel but don't dare say: state multiculturalism has failed.

Something must be done quickly, he said, to heal divisions in the country and "promote Western values". Mr. Cameron failed to equate Western values and Christian values, a glaring omission in Walt's opinion. Why? Because Mr. Cameron's chief worry is the radicalization of young Muslims and other marginalized elements in British society.

In the UK, as elsewhere, it's not the white, nominally Christian kids who are putting gunpowder in their shorts and plotting attacks on subways and office towers. It's the Muslims who are taking to the streets to either pray to Allah or demonstrate against the Western societies whose guests they are.

Mr. Cameron called for Britain and other European nations to “wake up to what is happening in our countries” as well as tackling terrorism through military operations overseas. “It is time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past,” he went on. “Instead of ignoring this extremist ideology [Islamic fundamentalism], we – as governments and societies – have got to confront it, in all its forms.”

And there's more. Mr. Cameron also said, “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream. We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong ... All this leaves some young Muslims feeling rootless.”

Mr. Cameron stopped short of calling on the Muslim yoof to go back to Pakistan or Iraq or Afghanistan in search of their roots. Rather, he said, it was time to replace Britain’s “passive tolerance” with an “active, muscular liberalism” to send a message that life in Britain revolves around certain key values such as freedom of speech, equal rights and the rule of law.

The Prime Minister did not go into specifics of what should be done if the Muslims refuse to accept and abide by those "key values". Walt wishes him -- and Britain -- good luck with the "active, muscular liberalism" thing.

Multiculturalism "utter failure": German Chancellor

According to recent polls, a significant part of the German population feels their country is being overrun by foreigners.

Recently, Thilo Sarrazin, formerly an official with Germany's central bank, published a book accusing Muslim immigrants of lowering the intelligence of German society. And Horst Seehofer, chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) -- a sister party to the governing Christian Democrats (CDU) -- spoke out against any relaxation of immigration laws. He said last week there was no room in Germany for more people from "alien cultures."

Germany's chancellor -- the equivalent of the British or Canadian prime minister -- is Angela Merkel. For years now, Frau Merkel has tried to accommodate both sides of the debate. She talks tough on integration, but, out of the other side of her mouth, tells Germans that they must accept that mosques have become part of their landscape.

This weekend, Ms Merkel became the first leader of a major western country to give up on multicult and political correctness. Her oft-repeated wish that everyone learn to get along together has been defeated by ... wait for it ... Germany's burgeoning Muslim population.

Speaking to a meeting of young members of the CDU, Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.

Her exact words (translated) were, "This [multicultural] approach has failed, utterly failed."

Walt congratulates Ms Merkel on her courage in stating the obvious, but wonders if she has a Final Solution in mind.