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“Major police investigation under way Munich ... several dead’ and 10 injured in shooting rampage inside a Munich shopping centre as police hunt gunman ... gunman went on a shooting spree in a shopping centre near Olympic park ... the gunman has reportedly fled the scene via the underground network”
There is a further report of a shootout or possible shooting at Karlsplatz / Stachus.
Update: The death toll stands at eight and ten injured, several in a critical condition. A ninth body found a kilometre away, which police think might be that of the shooter. They say he died violently. No further details, like ethnicity, available.
BBC News tonight reported that the gunmen may be “far right” on the basis that a single witness named Luan Zequiri claimed that he heard someone, who he says had a gun, cursing foreigners ... and it was also the fifth anniversary of Anders Breveik’s attacks.
The Daily Mail has declared for the usual suspects, stating that witnesses heard the shooter shouting “Allahu Akbar” while firing at kids in MacDonald’s.
Sky News has studied film of a person on a car-park roof. This, they claim, is the same person as was filmed firing at people outside the shopping centre. This person shouted that he was German, born locally, and raised on benefits (for which latter he blamed foreigners). Of course, what that would mean ethnicity- and motivation-wise is far from certain.
Update: It is now confirmed that the body in the woods is that of the shooter, an 18 year old Iranian born in Germany. The nine fatalities include young people, and children are among the 16 wounded, three of whom are in critical condition.
The media will now regretfully put aside its story of a far right extremist. Iranians are Shias while ISIS is a Sunni organisation so perhaps that will provide some small opportunity for musing on a non-religious motivation. I’m sure they will come up with something.
Posted by DanielS on Wednesday, 20 July 2016 16:18.
Day of the Jackals in Mr. Hyde’s Park
New Observer, “African Mayhem in Central London”, 20 July 2016:
At least 4,000 Africans chanting “black lives matter” and other anti-white racial epithets rioted in London’s famous Hyde Park last night. Several blacks were stabbed, at least five police officers were injured, and a supermarket was ransacked.
The Africans were only halted in their mayhem by rigorous police action in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
According to the Metro newspaper, the violence erupted as the “spontaneous event” disrupted into chaos. Video footage showed Africans chasing people with knives “through the busy streets of London.”
The large crowd of Africans gathered in the park as Britain experienced its hottest day of the year, with temperatures reaching 90 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius). As the crowd grew ever larger—spurred on by social media—the Africans turned “hostile towards officers,” the Metro said in an understatement.
“People were heard chanting ‘black lives matter’ throughout the evening as more people arrived.”
Two people who were not identified by police were stabbed when “violence flared” at around 8.40 p.m. Police said both were taken to the hospital where one received treatment for nonlife-threatening injuries. The condition of the second victim is not known.
Police units moved in to disperse the crowds and the operation lasted into the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Metro concluded.
BBC: Three people were stabbed, including one police officer.
Elsewhere in London, officers were pelted with missiles as they tried to break up an illegal street party on the Stamford Hill estate in Hackney, north London.
Another water fight in Burgess Park in Camberwell, south-east London, saw the crowd grow to about 1,500 people, police said.
Two 16-year-old boys were stabbed - neither suffered life-threatening injuries but one remains in hospital.
Visigrad Post, “The world’s first flying car may come from Slovakia”, 19 July 2016:
Slovakia – The AeroMobil company has been able to create a car with retractable wings, of which the third generation model spent seven-and-a-half hours in the air during test flights. It is now displayed in the entrance lobby of the European Commission building in Brussels, to highlight Slovakia’s will to focus on new technologies. The company AeroMobil is currently working on the next model.
Slovakia is already an automotive hub. With the fall of communism, many left the country to pursue education in Western Europe. They are now coming back and bring foreign expertise with them, putting down four decades of state-planned economy. With its flying car, the AeroMobil company is on a “technological journey”, said Doug MacAndrew, the company’s chief technical officer. They are in competition with entrepreneurs such as Google’s billionaire co-founder Larry Page. The model of the Slovak company could be sold in 2018.
“There is a start-up hype in Slovakia,” Mr Hessel, the country’s entrepreneur of the year, says from his factory in the town of Dunajska Streda. “The situation is very different from 10 or even five years ago.” Slovakia seeks to show off her technological potential in the same time she assumes the EU’s rotating presidency. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s cabinet will host an innovation conference with the European Commission in late October that will highlight nano-, bio- and other advanced technologies.
More than 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media report.
A police operation including a helicopter is under way in Heidingsfeld, a part of the city of Wurzburg in southern Germany.
Local media (in German) wrote that 21 people had been injured and a suspect appeared to have been shot.
The train line between Wurzburg-Heidingsfeld and Ochsenfurt is closed.
The German news agency DPA reported that the police said some of the victims’ injuries were life-threatening.
No further details yet. We wait to learn if there were shouts of “Allahu Akbar”. Assuming that turns out to be the case, the next question will be: “Was he one of Merkel’s new guests?”
BBC update: reports local police confirm the axe-man has been shot dead.
Some Polish and other EU companies are adopting the right wing anti-labor strategy that Russia has been notorious for deploying: Forced North Korean labor
EU – The NGO European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea (EAHRNK) reported that companies are employing North Korean workers in a semi-legal way – see their report about the Polish case. Their salaries go directly to fuel Kim Jong-un’s regime.
The death of Chŏn Kyŏngsu in 2014, a North Korean who worked on a Polish shipyard, the Crist Shipyards in Gdynia, contributed to start the investigation of the EAHRNK. The man worked 12 hours a day, 6 days per week. His salary was the minimum to survive and the only trip he was authorized to do was to go to work and go back home. Still according to the NGO, these conditions are imposed by Kim Jong-un and are systematic for the North Koreans that work in a foreign country. Chŏn Kyŏngsu was never given an employment contract. Chŏn Kyŏngsu burnt as he was welding pipelines, a Polish colleague helped him and he went to a hospital with 95% of severe burns over his body. The body was sent back to his family in North Korea with 637 EUR.
The work permits that are delivered are totally legal, but the work conditions aren’t. The North Korean embassy in Warsaw said that nobody was taking their salaries. But a worker said anonymously to the EAHRNK that “a manager told us that foreign companies employ us because we cost no money, and that they cut the price for the trip, gas, electricity, from our salaries. They never told us how much we were paid.” Also, the ambassy took their passports, and give them back only for exceptional situations, to go to the hospital for example.
According to another testimony, to work in a foreign country, North Koreans have to be married and their wife and children to stay in North Korea, so the country keeps the control upon them. NGOs estimate that, only in Poland, there are between 500 and 800 North Koreans working, mostly employed at shipyards and constructions sites. Also, in Poland, “there are no distinctions between nationalities and categories of workers, meaning that there are no extra procedures required for North Korean citizens” say Jacqueline Sanchez-Pyrcz, director of the Department of Foreigners at the Masovian Voivodeship in Warsaw. So the system is authorized by Polish law. North Korean workers are employed in many other European countries, such as Malta, Czechia, …
On the 6 July, the United States imposed penalties for serious violations of human rights on North korea. For the first time Kim Jong-un was directly affected by these economic sanctions. According to Remco Breuker, a professor of Korean studies at the University of Leiden : “What is going on in Malta and Poland directly contravenes national and EU laws, as well as international treaties, such as that of the ILO. It also defies the sanctions against North Korea set by the UN and the EU, although it is debatable to what extent. All things considered, there should be enough reason for the EU to take an interest in the topic, but so far, this has not happened.”
Poland, Warsaw – “Poland will be sending another contingent to support Hungary’s border protection system”, Polish Minister of Interior Mariusz Błaszczak announced following a meeting of Visegrád Group (V4) Interior Ministers in Warsaw.
In addition to the hosting Polish Minister, the meeting was also attended by Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, Slovakian Minister of Interior Robert Kalinák and Czech Deputy Interior Minister Jiri Novácek.
At the press conference following the meeting, Mr. Pintér said: Hungary turned to its Visegrád partners for assistance “in the interests of the implementation and international enforcement” of its new border protection system, which came into force in the beginning of July. Hungary will not only be receiving support from the V4; it is hoped that Thursday’s visits by the Austrian Minister of Defence and Minister of Interior will also have a similar result, he pointed out. Thanking his Visegrád colleagues for the assistance they have provided to Hungary so far to protect its Schengen borders, Mr. Pintér said “This has helped us allow significantly fewer illegal immigrants to reach the Schengen Area”.
Poland, satisfied with the decisions taken regarding the eastern flank of the Alliance, announced a few weeks before the summit in Warsaw her intention to participate to the defense of the southern flank and in particular the fight against the Islamic Stateby sending in Iraq and in Kuwait 200 men and four F-16 aircraft for observation missions and training of Iraqi units. Warsaw also wants to intensify its military effort to not have to rely on its allies by setting a target to get its investment in the defense from currently less than 2% of GDP to 2% in the short term and to 3 % in the long term. For comparison, Russia, which has an economy worth about four times that of Poland, spends nearly 4.5% of its GDP on its military machine
The summit held in Warsaw early July brings the first results: Slovakia will be in charge of a NATO trust fund to be used for the removal of explosives, ammunition and for demining.
According to the Slovak President, over 600 people were killed and 2,000 were wounded in Ukraine since the current conflict erupted as a result of explosions of various obsolete explosives. Slovakia has provided training to dozens of Ukrainian specialists between 2014 and 2015.
Coup attempt by parts of Turkish military against Erdogan
PM Yildirim: Nothing will harm Turkish democracy
Low flying jets and gunfire heard in Turkish capital
Both of Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus closed
There is a chance the good guys are at work for a change. We’ll keep you posted.
