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  • Appeals against far-right extremism as people remember Hanau massacre

    Appeals against far-right extremism as people remember Hanau massacre

    Claus Kaminsky said the memory of the racist killings in Hanau town on Feb.19, 2020, should bring the whole of Germany to an annual assessment of its fight against far-right extremism.

    Kaminsky is the mayor of the German town of Hanau.

    “We are in a worse position in the fight against the right than we were on Feb. 19, 2020.

    “The good news is that we can see from the nationwide demonstrations that many people are standing up against it,’’ he said.

    In 2020, a shooting rampage by a far-right extremist in Hanau targeted foreigners.

    The gunman killed nine people before shooting his mother and himself.

    Many events were planned in Hanau on and around Feb. 19, on the fourth anniversary of the attack that occurred in the town east of Frankfurt.

    The largest would be the demonstration on Saturday, starting at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT), which has been called for by the Feb. 19th Initiative, which unites relatives and victims of the attack and supporters.

    The rally aimed to remember the victims and send a “strong signal against racism, anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism,’’ according to the appeal.

    The organisers are expecting a large number of participants from all over Germany.

    The demonstration had been organised for 3,000 people.

     

  • German opposition lawmakers call for migration crackdown

    German opposition lawmakers call for migration crackdown

    German centre-right opposition lawmakers on Friday called on the country’s coalition government to sharply limit the number of asylum-seekers allowed in the country.

    Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) introduced the proposal in parliament.

    The proposal in parliament would noticeably reduce irregular migration in order to relieve the burden on the federal, state and local governments.

    “We offer to solve this issue together, because otherwise it can develop into a major social conflict,’’ CSU politician Alexander Dobrindt said in parliament on Friday.

    Dobrindt said asylum numbers in Germany were rising, municipalities are overburdened and social acceptance of migrants is waning.

    Dobrindt said the CDU/CSU proposal called for expanding the list of so-called safe countries of origin, which allowed for accelerated asylum procedures and potentially swifter deportations.

    This was to include Georgia, Moldova, India, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.

    He also said that Germany should work to speed up deportations of migrants whose asylum claims have been denied as well as re-establish controls along the borders with Poland.

    Also the Czech Republic and Switzerland were to prevent migrants from traveling to Germany from southern Europe.

    Dobrindt framed the proposal as a response to a call from Germany’s Social Democratic (SPD) Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier this month for the CDU/CSU to join a Germany Pact to modernise the economy and streamline government bureaucracy.

    Dobrindt also accused Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, an SPD member, of blocking needed migration reforms at the EU level.

    Faeser rejected the criticism and pointed to government policies, including cooperation with Czech and Polish border guards, as evidence that “our measures are working, we control and regulate migration.’’

    Faeser said there were no easy solutions and accused the CDU/CSU of trying to exploit debate over migration for political gain.

    She said 200,000 persons annual cap on migration proposed by the CDU/CSU was mere populism that only strengthens the far-right.

    “Don’t continue on the misguided path of political campaigning on the backs of people who are threatened by war and terror,’’ she said.

     

  • Requiem for Benedict XVI to hold in his former German archdiocese

    Requiem for Benedict XVI to hold in his former German archdiocese

    Former German archdiocese of Munich and Freising has planned to bid farewell to the late pope emeritus Benedict XVI with a requiem on Tuesday evening.

    As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982.

    The current incumbent, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, is expected to celebrate the mass for his predecessor in Munich’s Cathedral of Our Lady, or Liebfrauendom.

    According to diocesan information, a memorial site had also been set up there where people can commemorate the late pope emeritus.

    Such places also existed in Freising’s St Mary’s Cathedral and in the parish church of St Oswald in Traunstein, the church where Ratzinger celebrated his first Mass after his ordination in 1951.

    Benedict XVI is lying in state in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome after his death on New Year’s Eve.

    Funeral Masses are planned in several German dioceses.

    His funeral service would take place in St Peter’s Square on Thursday morning, followed by the burial in the basilica.

  • ECOWAS Court orders Nigerian Government to pay N53m for unlawful detention of German

    ECOWAS Court orders Nigerian Government to pay N53m for unlawful detention of German

    The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Nigerian Government to pay over N53 million to a German national, Mr Martin Gegenheimer, for unlawful arrest and detention.

    The Court’s Communications Department disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, following the judgment of the court on the matter on Thursday.

    According to the statement, the court ordered the payment of N53 million as special damages to Gegenheimer for various losses suffered.

    It explained that the costs were incurred while Gegenheimer was under unlawful arrest and detention by the Nigerian Immigration Service.

    ”The cost related mainly to hotel expenses incurred by the German while under forced detention by the government.

    “Delivering judgment in a suit filed by the German, a panel of three judges headed by Hon. Justice Edward Amoako Asante, also ordered the government to pay another N10 million in general damages.

    “As reparation for all violations and moral prejudice suffered for the violation of his rights and another 10,000 dollars being the expenditure incurred by the applicant to secure his bail.

    “The Court also ordered the ‘immediate and unconditional release’ of his German passport which was ‘arbitrarily and unlawfully’ seized by the government as well as his removal from the government’s watch list.

    “The court, however, ruled that it found no evidence of the violation of the plaintiff’s right to torture,” the statement said.

    The statement further stated: “In suit no: ECW/CCJ/APP/23/20 Mr Gegenheimer, who is married to a Nigerian citizen but based in Nairobi, Kenya, through his Counsel, Mr Festus A. Ogwuche, sought the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.

    “Along with those of his children arising from his wrongful arrest and unlawful detention and the seizure of his German Passport.

    “The Applicants, which also included SAT Swiss Aviation Nigeria Ltd, the company at whose invitation he visited Nigeria, are contending that the German legally entered the country for business purposes.

    “But was wrongfully arrested and detained while on his way back to Kenya, resulting in the violation of his rights to fair hearing, freedom of movement and dignity of his human person”.

    According to the statement, the applicant alleged that he was not informed about any justifying circumstances recognised by law, and neither was a warrant of arrest nor court order produced as the basis for his arrest and detention.

    ”He also alleged that he was not afforded the opportunity of fair hearing before any lawful authority or competent court,” the statement said.

    In the statement, the court noted that the Respondents through their Counsel, Mallam J.A. Adamu, raised a preliminary objection arguing that since the first applicant was a German, he lacked the capacity to bring the action not being a citizen of West Africa.

    The court had earlier ruled that it had jurisdiction to hear the case as the violation occurred in a Member State and non-suited the wife and children of the plaintiff as well as SAT Swiss Aviation Nigeria Ltd as plaintiffs in the suit.

    The statement said that the court also none suited the Nigerian Immigration Service as an improper party in the suit.

    It stated that in the 48-paged judgment, the court dismissed all the claims of the respondent.

  • Nigerian suspect linked to kidnap of German national arrested after 32 months

    Nigerian suspect linked to kidnap of German national arrested after 32 months

    The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of an armourer of a syndicate alleged to have kidnapped a German national and killed one police officer in the state.

    This comes about three years after 59-year-old Kreser Krank Michael of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company was abducted at a construction site along the Madobi Road in Kano.

    The Commissioner of Police in the state, Habu Sani, announced the arrest of the suspect in a statement on Wednesday.

    He identified the arrested suspect as one Abubakar Ismail of Wangara village in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of the state.

    Sani explained that the suspect was arrested by the police on December 19, 32 months after the incident.

    He also revealed that the suspect led a team of combined security operatives to an armoury in a village where one AK-47 rifle, a single-barrel gun, and a revolver gun were recovered.

    “The suspect confessed to the crime and confessed that the syndicate has been terrorising Rimin Gado, Gwarzo, Karaye, Kiru, Rano, Bebeji Tudun Wada, and other neighbouring states, including Kaduna and Katsina for over five years,” the statement said.

    The police commissioner added that the suspect also named other members of the syndicate who perpetrated the crime.

    According to him, a discrete investigation is in progress and the police are making efforts to arrest the other members of the syndicate.

  • Top 3 Well-known German Bundesliga Footballers

    Top 3 Well-known German Bundesliga Footballers

    Bundesliga is the main football championship in Germany. Even people out of this country bet on Germany Bundesliga predictions. If you also want to get engaged in this championship, you should learn more about the most popular footballers there.

    Gerd Müller, 365 goals

    Gerd Müller was born in 1945 in Nördlingen. Since childhood, the boy loved football and devoted all his free time to it.

     

    Müller began his career in the TSV 1861 team. In the season 1963/64, this team played in one of the regional leagues. The 18-year-old forward was the leader of the team and scored 51 goals in 31 matches.

     

    In 1964, Mueller signed a contract with Bavaria. During the season, he scored 33 goals in 26 matches and helped the team to enter the Bundesliga.

     

    Muller was the leader of Bavaria, which gradually became the strongest club in the country. He spent most of his career with this team. With Bavaria, Muller became the champion of Germany four times and the best scorer of the championship seven times.

    Klaus Fischer, 268 goals

    Fischer was born in 1949 in Kreuzstrasse. At one of the youth tournaments, Fischer noticed the TSV 1860 Munich club, and he signed up for the first professional contract.

     

    Fischer began his career in the championship of Germany as a member of the TSV 1860 Munich. In 26 games, the player scored 9 goals. In the following season, Fischer improved his performance, scoring 19 goals. Yet, Fischer did not stay in the club and moved to FC Schalke 04.

     

    In the Schalke 04 club, Fischer spent most of his career. He played for this team from 1969 to 1981. During this time he scored 182 goals in 295 matches of the championship. This is the best result in the history of the club.

    Robert Lewandowski, 229 goals

    Robert Lewandowski was born in Warsaw in 1988. At 17, Robert started playing adult football in the second most important Polish league. Lewandowski played in the lower leagues. In 2008, he signed a contract with Lech Poznań and made his Polish league debut.

     

    In 58 matches for Lech Poznań, Lewandowski scored 32 goals. His high performance attracted the attention of German coaches. In 2010, Robert moved to Borussia Dortmund and became the leader of the club. Lewandowski spent four seasons in this team and helped it to win the Bundesliga twice. Lewandowski scored 74 goals in 131 matches of the championship in this club.

     

    In 2014, Robert Lewandowski moved to Bavaria. In this composition, he won the Bundesliga five more times. Lewandowski became the best scorer of the championship three times.

     

     

     

  • Two dead, four wounded as gunman opens fire in German nightclub

    A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in southern Germany early Sunday, killing one and wounding four before being shot by police, officials said in a statement.

    The 34-year-old attacker “was critically injured in a shootout with police officers as he left the disco, and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital,” police said in a statement.

    “The motives of the man, who probably acted alone, are not known yet,” they said.
    Officers began receiving emergency calls from terrified clubbers at around 4:30 am (0230 GMT) after the man began shooting in the nightclub in an industrial zone in the city of Constance, killing one person on the spot and leaving three other people seriously wounded.

    Shortly after he left the building, he was shot by police. One officer was also injured in the exchange of fire. Terrified nightclubbers had either fled the building or found a place to hide, police said, adding that the danger was now over.

    Helicopters were circling overhead and special forces were also deployed to secure the site. Local broadcaster SWR reported witnesses saying that the gunman was armed with an automatic pistol.

    A bouncer at the site had sought to stop the attacker, but was himself injured by the man, SWR said. The shooting came just two days after Germany was shaken by a knife attack in the northern port city of Hamburg.

    A 26-year-old Palestinian had killed one and injured six in an assault at a supermarket. He was a known Islamist with psychological problems, and investigators say his motives remain unclear.

    Germany has been on high alert about the threat of a jihadist attack, especially since last December’s truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market that claimed 12 lives.

    But it has also been hit by other assaults unrelated to the jihadist threat.

    Among the deadliest in recent years is a Munich shopping mall rampage by 18-year-old German-Iranian man which left 10 people dead including the gunman himself.

  • Video: German inspectors forcefully drag Nigerian man out of train

    Inspectors of the S-Bahn Munich in Germany pulled a 48-year-old Nigerian from the train by force. The two ticket inspectors of the Deutsche Bahn German train system were caught on camera savagely dragging the Nigerian man out of a train after he reportedly refused to provide his ID and pay a fine for not having a ticket.

    The man could be seen vehemently clinging on metal handrails, as two men in uniform ferociously battle to get him out of the suburban S-Bahn train, headed to Munich city center from the airport.

    Natalia Miletic who filmed the incident and posted it on Facebook, can be heard telling the inspectors:

    “It’s absolutely not OK what you’re doing, the guy didn’t do anything to you.”“You should be ashamed of yourself, this is racism what you’re doing,”. “Why are you doing this? He paid.”

    The woman continues filming until someone seemingly tries to stop her.

    The man, said to be a 48-year-old Nigerian, was reportedly removed from the train at Leuchtenbergring station.

    He appeared to have no valid ticket as the inspectors came up to him during the check. They then asked him to show an ID card and pay a €60 fine ($68), according to the witness who filmed the incident and later described it to HuffingtonPost.de.

    The man, however, only had €9 in cash, which he reportedly needed for food. The inspectors collected the €9, saying he still owed the rest.

    Deutsche Bahn, the company operating trains in Germany, said it was “unusual to receive only partial payments,” commenting on the incident later.

     

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  • German national dies after slumping at Lagos airport

    German national dies after slumping at Lagos airport

    A German national, Mr Brenard Christo, who slumped on Friday at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, has died at an undisclosed hospital.

    The spokesman for the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the death of the German to newsmen on Saturday.

    Alabi said the deceased was waiting to board a local Arik Air flight on Friday morning when he suddenly collapsed.

    He said medical personnel attached to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) rushed to the scene to assist the German citizen and was eventually taken to a hospital where he later passed on.

    Mr Simon Tumba, the media consultant to Arik Air, also confirmed the development.

    In his words:“What happened was that a passenger en route Benin, when he was boarding had slumped.

    “And Arik being a responsible carrier promptly contacted the medical team from FAAN, who took him to the hospital where he later died. ”

     

     

    NAn

  • German Court sends 16-year-old girl to jail for terrorist attack

    A German Court sentenced a 16-year-old girl to six years jail on Thursday for an attack on a Police Officer.

    The prosecutors described it as the first assault ordered by Islamic State in the country.

    The teenager, identified as Safia S, was 15 years old when she slashed the police officer in the neck with a vegetable knife at the main railway station in Hanover in February 2016.

    The 34-year-old policeman was severely injured but survived the attack.