Posted on 11/07/2005 4:19:07 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Five cars set ablaze in Berlin
Monday, November 7, 2005 Posted: 1103 GMT (1903 HKT)
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BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Five cars were set on fire overnight in a working-class district of Berlin, and police said Monday they were looking into whether those responsible were inspired by violence in neighboring France.
The vehicles were set alight in the inner-city Moabit district, and police said as they investigated the incident that they would step up their presence. No one was injured.
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Last paragraph speculates as to whether it is copycat.
I have a feeling the Germans are going to handle this very differently.
Suicide bombers are all copycats too.
Oh, wait...
Kindly note tagline...
They're just Ohio State football fans...
"I have a feeling the Germans are going to handle this very differently."
All the citizens have guns there and they like using them??? Yes/No
Are there any Freepers who live in Germany that could chime in here?
In other news, popcorn sales in the US have experienced a sharp rise in recent weeks.
I believe in Germany this counts as modern art.
Berlin - Five cars were set on fire in a poor district of the German capital on Monday and police said they were trying to determine if there was any connection with the wave of violence sweeping France.The cars were burned in five separate streets in Berlin's Moabit district, a poor region with a high number of foreigners a few kilometres from the central government district.
Police said nobody had claimed responsibility for the attacks and so far there was nothing which suggested they were copy-cat crimes.
Cars have been regularly torched in Berlin by left-wing extremists on violent May 1 protests which have been a fixture in the city since the 1980s.
Moabit is in former West Berlin and has a high number of Turkish nationals. Turks comprise the biggest foreign minority in Berlin, numbering 118 000 out of a total population of 3.4 million, according to official figures.
There are about 450 000 foreigners living in the German capital.
Comparions between Germany and France
Berlin does not, however, have the same sort of huge, impoverished foreign ghettos as Paris.
Although parts of the city such as Wedding and Neukoelln have major social problems and high unemployment, they have not become no-go areas for police.
Youth unemployment in Germany is less of a problem than in France, according to European Union data. In Germany some 13.8% of people aged 15 to 24 years are jobless, compared with almost 22% in France.
Politicians from all German parties underlined the difference between Germany and France but they warned that steps had to be take to improve integration of foreigners.
"We don't have ghettos like in France," said Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a Greens member of the European Parliament in comments to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.
Cohn-Bendit also stressed that Germany's social welfare network was in far better shape than that of France.
Need to learn German
Wolfgang Schaeuble, a senior member of designated chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, said greater efforts were needed to ensure that all young foreigners learned the German language.
"Districts are developing in our cities with high proportions of foreigners which are being cut off from the rest of society," said Schaeuble.
Michael Mueller, a left-leaning member of outgoing chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) said the events in Paris showed that Germany could not afford to trim back its social welfare programmes.
"Social conflicts and disintegration are increasing in Germany," said Mueller. -
The invisible jihad and silent swoon of Europe continue.
I thought most Muslims in Germany are European Muslims from Turkey, Poland and the former Soviet republics.
If these people are acting the same way as the ones in France, then it confirms that an act of aggression/war by the Islamists has been made in Europe, and the bogey of oppression/racism was just a farce. Somehow other non-Muslim immigrants, even those from southern Africa, and the Pacific Islands and India, are far better integrated into French/ European society than these Muslim hordes. Sadly, they'll inherit the outrage of the native French when acts of violence will spike against these similar-appearing non-Muslims, just like how some Sikhs were murdered in the US immediately after 9-11.
ANGST VOR FRANZÖSISCHEN VERHÄLTNISSEN
Brennende Autos - auch in Berlin und Bremen
In Berlin und Bremen brannten in der Nacht die ersten Autos. Politiker warnen vor einer Eskalation der Unruhen wie in Frankreich. Die Bundesregierung beschwichtigt: Es sei voreilig, die gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen in französischen Städten auf die Situation in Deutschland zu übertragen.
Mooligans.
I figure that the Detroit area is probly next. Let us hope that the fires burn down that town so we can start over there.
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