Predictably, Brandenburg Interior Minister Jörg Schönbohm has been attempting to put in doubt that there was a racist component to the assault in Potsdam two weeks ago that has left the 37-year-old Ethiopian-born engineer, Ermyas M, in a coma. (For background, see "A Grim Record (Racist Violence in Brandenburg)".) This despite the massive prima facie [...]
Philippe de Villiers, President of the French political party Movement for France (MPF) and candidate for the French Presidency in 2007, is coming out with a new book this week titled The Mosques of Roissy [Les Mosquées de Roissy]. In it, Mr. de Villiers, citing the French domestic intelligence service, the renseignements généraux (RG), and [...]
In its edition of 12 April, the Berlin weekly Jungle World reports about a soccer match in Hamburg earlier this month between FC St Pauli and the Chemnitz FC. During the match Chemnitz supporters chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans such as "Galatasary, we hate Turkey" or "We’re building a subway from St. Pauli to Auschwitz"…. [...]
On Sunday, a German citizen of Ethiopian origins was attacked and gravely injured in Potsdam in the German Land of Brandenburg. He is presently in critical condition in an artifically-induced coma. On a recording that the victim left on his wife’s voicemail just before the attack, one of the presumed assailants can be heard yelling [...]
The US government’s refusal to issue a visa to the self-styled Muslim "scholar", Tariq Ramadan, continues to provoke howls of outrage from equally self-styled defenders of civil liberties – like, of course, the ACLU. (On Ramadan and his visa difficulties, see here on Trans-Int.) This even though controlling the entry of foreigners to the national [...]
The extent to which the apparent victory of Romano Prodi’s "Union" coalition in the Italian elections depended upon the support of Communist and "post"-Communist forces could easily be overlooked.
The following from a report published Monday (10 April) on the website of the German newsweekly Focus. A ninth victim has been shot to death in a mysterious series of murders. The victim was the owner of an Internet café in Kassel. The 21-year-old Turk was killed last Thursday by two shots to the head. [...]
Last week, French President Jacques Chirac announced that he had signed into law the so-called Law on Equality of Opportunity passed by the French National Assembly; at the same time, he instructed the government to "take all necessary measures" to assure that the dispositions of the law concerning the contested "First Employment Contract" are not [...]
On June 6, 2004, the 60th anniversary of D-Day, French President Jacques Chirac stood before hundreds of American veterans of the Allied invasion of Normandy at the American Cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, where their fallen comrades are buried. "To the entire American nation," he said, "…to all those men and women who paid the heavy price of [...]
