I grew up in a post WWII world where Germany was known as a well-run, efficient, economic powerhouse and a byword for law, order and civility. I never expected to live to see the day when Germany’s towns and cities would need vigilante ‘citizen patrols’ to deal with the growing problems of imported Muslims.
As with many other sorts of vigilante patrols and groups there is always the danger that they will overreact or target the wrong person or mete out violence when violence is not needed. Unfortunately when you get a situation where the legitimate security organs such as the police fail to deal with imported Muslims and their crimes, then you will get vigilante groups springing up to do the job that the police fail to do.
From Arnsdorf, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany comes a pretty disturbing tale of a citizens patrol who targeted an allegedly mentally ill Iraqi because of a shopping dispute and tied the Iraqi to a tree. According to the Independent news website the Iraqi had gone into the Arndorf branch of Nettos and got into an argument with the shopkeeper about a phone card he had topped up. Four members of a local vigilante group then turned up, dragged the man out of the shop and tied him up and called the police. As is usual policy for this blog the original text is in italics and my comments are in plain text.
The Independent said:
“A group of suspected vigilantes beat a mentally ill Iraqi refugee, dragged him out of a supermarket and tied him to a tree in Germany.
Police said the 21-year-old man had visited the Netto branch in Arnsdorf to complain about a top-up card he bought for his mobile phone.
He must have done something a bit more than merely complain if locals ran and fetched local vigilantes to sort things out.
A video of the incident posted online showed the man holding a bottle of wine behind his back as the dispute continued with staff.
Aha! Now we have a little more reason as to why the vigilantes may have been alerted. The man was holding a wine bottle in a manner that could give a reasonable person the belief that the bottle was going to be used as a weapon. I’ve seen the video and the man did have a bottle in his right hand and I would have been worried that this disturbed individual would use the bottle to injure the shopkeeper or other shoppers.
Here’s a direct link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f8w9c-eSHU You may need to create a hooky Google account to view it as it is ‘age protected’.
As he stood talking with cashiers, four men appeared and surrounded him, pushing him towards the doors.
As the asylum seeker tried to escape, they pinned him to a table and started punching and beating him, before dragging him out the door.
Sounds like these vigilantes really do mean business.
As the video ends, a woman behind the camera can be heard calmly saying: “Isn’t it a shame that we need a citizen’s defence group.”
It is indeed a great shame that law and order has broken down in Germany so much that such vigilante groups need to exist. It is as I have so often warned that when the police fail to deal with imported Muslim criminals then concerned citizens and those who are up for a ruck will step in to do the job that the police seem to be failing to do.
Police in Saxony said the men then dragged the man outside and tied him to a tree in the supermarket car park.
Sounds a little extreme, but these are quite extreme times in Germany and other places where the invaders have made their presence felt.
Officers called to the dispute found the gang awaiting their arrival and demanding to have the asylum seeker arrested after claiming they had “prevented him from escaping”.
Maybe the vigilantes had little choice but to immobilise the Iraqi in the best way they could to protect themselves and other German citizens.
Police told the men to leave as paramedics helped the refugee – without questioning them further or asking for identification – and found no evidence of theft or vandalism.
Sounds like the German police are playing down any alleged offences that may have been committed by the Iraqi.
The Iraqi man is a patient in Arnsdorf’s psychiatric hospital and had already visited the supermarket to complain about the phone card twice earlier in the day, being returned to the hospital by police after staff called the emergency services.
Employees said they had been threatened by the man after the store manager found the balance on the phone card had already been used up.
Even if readers think that the vigilantes went a little too far it’s becoming clear that the Iraqi is no true innocent either. He’d been to the shop several times that day and had had to be returned to the mental hospital by the police. There’s a strong possibility that this Iraqi had been perceived as threatening and maybe violent which is why the vigilantes may have taken an interest in him.
The suspected vigilantes, including three men wearing black shirts, were not identified until footage of the incident started to spread on social media.
Three of the suspects were identified on Monday as men aged 29, 49 and 54 from the Arnsdorf area but have not yet been caught, while officers are investigating “numerous clues” on other suspects.
It doesn’t sound like these vigilantes have taken any care to disguise their identities or anything like that. This could be because the vigilantes feel comfortable in what they are doing because they have some degree of support in the area.
The 49-year-old suspect called the emergency services around an hour after the attack claiming the asylum seeker had stolen from the supermarket but police said “no shoplifting had occurred”.
I have the sneaking suspicion that the police want to bury this case in order to get an easier life.
“We are investigating the events, as well as the actions of patrol officers at the scene,” police commissioner Conny Stiehl said.
A bland holding statement from the police that as usual that tells us very little.
In a statement posted on Facebook, Netto said it was taking the incident “very seriously”, adding that employees’ actions violated company guidelines but that staff did not call the vigilantes.
But someone alerted the vigilantes. My guess is that if it wasn’t the employee then it was someone who saw the Iraqi kicking off.
Police are investigating the men on allegations of false imprisonment and the Iraqi man for alleged threats made to staff.
What’s the betting that the German authorities will, if they catch them, throw the book at the vigilantes but leave the Iraqi alone and un-prosecuted.
The incident has provoked intense discussion in Saxony, where refugee accommodation has been set on fire and a group of asylum seekers were greeted by a mob chanting “go home” earlier this year.
The problems that the mostly Muslim invaders are causing are putting ordinary Germans under a lot of stress.
Since the attacks on hundreds of women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, numerous vigilante groups known as the “Bürgerwehr” have sprung up across Germany, gathering widespread local support, The Local reported.
I don’t believe it was just the attacks on New Years Eve that is driving the creation of vigilante groups. There is also the disgusting behaviour of the German police and German politicians who in their statements to the media have played down and tried to diminish the seriousness of the New Years Eve Islamic sex attacks. Many factors have come together to create the vigilante environment but is growing in Germany but the biggest one is Chancellor Merkel’s inexplicable decision to open up Germany to the dregs of the Islamic world and punishing Germans who speak out against such a policy.
This growth of vigilantism is something that I predicted would happen if the police failed to deal with Islamic and other immigrant crime. When the police fail to protect the citizen and go easy on the foreign criminal, then desperate people will take desperate measures to keep their area safe. This attack need never have happened had politicians taken better, more sensible decisions.
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Original story from the Independent website
