GERMANY (Reuters) – German police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian refugee after receiving a tip-off that he was planning a possible Islamist-motivated attack, state officials in North-Rhine Westphalia said on Tuesday.
As the number of migrants requesting asylum in Germany rises on last year’s figure, the country’s tourism industry is suffering.
A Syrian professor revealed that Arab migrants see “slut” German women as fair game for assault, and warned that the country is set to see “big social conflicts”. Bassam Tibi said that the mass sex attacks in Cologne were a result of the migrants’ “value system”: furious at not being given a luxury lifestyle, they intended to “humiliate” Germans.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees says the number of asylum-seekers from Turkey has increased sharply in the first six months of this year compared with last year.
A German expert in migration has stated that Europe is at risk unless it stops resettling large numbers of migrants, and recommended that the bloc’s entire approach to asylum must be overturned.
Two weeks after Salzburg police made the grim discovery of a dead Serbian national in a bathtub two Syrian migrants have been arrested, confessing to killing the man.
The leader of the German Left Party, Die Linke, has come out and criticised mass migration after the terror attacks in Bavaria, and her party is now calling for her resignation.
While thousands of born Germans remain homeless, one city is building trendy downtown apartments for single male migrants on the corner of the Oberhausen Peace Square. The majority of the million migrants who arrived in Germany last year are now in
The German Federal Employment Agency admits that 74 per cent of new migrants to Germany have no qualifications and will likely only be able to do menial labour jobs.
Germany’s Interior Minister has told Germans to expect more Islamic terror attacks in the country, after a 17-year-old unaccompanied Afghan migrant injured 18 people. Thomas de Maiziere insisted there is no link between “refugees” and terrorist attacks. On Monday in
The aftermath of the failed coup in Turkey is raising tensions between supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and opponents to his regime including Gülenists and Kurds in Germany.
Deradicalisation programmes for Islamic State fighters who have returned from Syria and Iraq are largely unsuccessful. Some are continuing to make propaganda videos for the terrorist group while back in Germany, and most rejoin the country’s flourishing Salafist community.
A junior politician in the Left party who claimed to have been the victim of a homophobic, neo-Nazi knife attack faces up to three years in jail for lying. 19-year-old Julian Kinzel alleged in January that right wing extremists slashed
German Police raided the homes of 60 people suspected of writing ‘hate’ speech on social media in Germany. Coordinated by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), the operation saw officers from 25 departments search across 14 states. The police raids took place as part
In a documentary about the mass sex attacks on New Year’s Eve, tax-funded public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) has portrayed the criminals as white Germans. The piece concluded by saying that the “losers” of the night’s attacks were wrongly-accused migrants,
More than 1,100 Islamists in Germany have been identified as belonging to the country’s terrorist “scene”, a report has revealed. The Federal Criminal Police (BKA), also noted that, by the end of last year, 780 German passport holders had gone to
Ex-PEGIDA spokeswoman Tatjana Festerling is to be investigated by German authorities after a trip she made to the frontiers of Europe at the Bulgarian border to help locals track down illegal migrants was reported to police by an anonymous Twitter user.
As a result of the migrant influx to Germany, nearly a third of municipalities in a new study revealed that they would have to go into debt this year. A study, entitled “Refugee Integration: Challenges for German Municipalities”, surveyed 300
The vast majority of major German companies reported not having hired any of the million plus migrants who arrived in the country last year. The German government, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Deutsche Bank predicted the migrants would be an
Cities and municipalities across Germany are floating the idea of fast tracking migrants to become police officers to help “integrate” them. Gerd Landsberg, managing director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities (DStGB), is the man behind the idea
A prominent German architect has said that in order to better integrate migrants, churches should be demolished and very “visible” mosques be built in their place. Interviewed in Die Tageszeitung, Joaquim Reinig said he believes Hamburg needs to build more
Educating newly arrived migrants is set to cost Germany €3 billion a year, a federal report has estimated. More than a million migrants entered Germany last year, and as the majority of them are thought to be under 25, educational
A German city has decided to give away land worth €850,000 to Muslims for free so they can build mosques with minarets up to 65 feet high. The city of Monheim am Rhein has announced that it will be handing
A new study casts doubt on migrants propping up the economy, saying that they could heavily impact the economy in a negative manner. Enzo Weber from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and his colleague Roland Weigand produced a
A shocking new university study reveals that half of the Turks in Germany regard Islamic law above German law and the youth are the most devout. The study, commissioned by the University of Munster, surveyed 1,201 respondents of Turkish ethnicity on
After an influx of more than a million Muslim migrants last year to Germany and the subsequent crime waves that have left women feeling uneasy about walking alone after dark, Germans’ tolerance for Islam is wearing thin. A University of Leipzig
The stereotype of Germans’ love of bureaucracy has finally got in the way of all-embracing multiculturalism as a Bavarian pool has banned the “burkini” swimsuit on the grounds of hygiene. But not everyone is pleased with the decision. Bathers complained after
In a powerful speech, Lebanese-born filmmaker Imad Karim warned schoolchildren about impending Islamisation, which he fears threatens Germany, and urges them to save the country he loves by stopping mass migration. The writer and director told pupils at an event
Germany’s migration agency has calculated the number of recently arrived Syrian migrants will double, increasing by half a million, as those granted asylum are allowed to bring over families. Germany saw a record two million “foreigners” arrive in 2015, up from
Three Syrian migrants who were planning a Paris style massacre in Dusseldorf have been arrested by German police. The German federal prosecutor has announced the arrests of three men from Syria who entered the country during the migrant crisis. The
A German teen claims that most youths are afraid of Arabs, and in an interview with Die Welt discusses why German men have given up defending themselves, opting to wait for police instead. Eighteen-year-old Miguel has no problem defending himself on the
A gang of Chechen Muslims wielding knives and baseball bats have allegedly “ambushed” a group of Yazidi migrants in Germany, sparking a “religious war” involving more than 100 people and leaving several hospitalised. The showdown in Bielefeld, West Germany on Saturday
Desperate Yazidi and Christian migrants in Germany have attempted to report harassment and violence at the hands of Muslim migrants, only for Sunni Muslim translators to lie and deny sectarian attacks. Muslim translators, from whom the minorities sought help, “threw their support behind
A respected violence researcher has declared that the Cologne sex attacks show German men have forgotten how to fight, and it’s a good thing. Jörg Baberowski gave a speech recently at the Philosophy Festival in Cologne on Thursday night saying that
Latest figures show the number of home invasions and burglaries committed by migrants has drastically increased, while crimes committed by Germans have decreased. Gangs of migrants have increased the number of home invasions in Germany according to the head of the Federal Criminal Police
To aid integration, a linguistics professor has said that it is Germans who should learn Arabic or Kurdish, rather than migrants learn German. Professor Angelika Redder believes that Germans should adopt a multilingual concept of Germany rather than expect new migrants to
New footage of the Cologne sex attacks was released by police as regional Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger faced calls to resign by opposition. The one minute clip shows the chaos that occurred, and at one point a woman can be
A new study from a migration think-tank shows that Islam has become a major religion in Germany because of mass migration. The new annual report of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR), called, “Many gods,
The regional government of Saarland in Germany has proposed to test migrants’ IQ to aid in their integration. The Saar-Interior Minister Klaus Bouillon of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has put forth a controversial idea to help integrate
(Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government agreed on Thursday to require migrants granted residence rights to show willingness to integrate by learning German and seeking work or see their benefits cut. Ending months of disagreement, Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU),
