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Europe's Violent Shadow Army Unmasked ---- Mysterious men wearing balaclavas are beating up refugees at the external EU border or abandoning them at sea. Months of reporting now reveals who is behind the operations.
spiegel.de/international ^ | July 10, 2021

Posted on 10/09/2021 8:41:59 AM PDT by elpadre

You can hear the blows before you can see them. The noise of blunt objects striking arms, legs and backs filters through the thick shrubbery on the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. People screaming in pain, gasping and whimpering. Anzeige

Powerful men in dark uniforms are standing on the Croatian side of the border on this hot June day. They are battering Afghans and Pakistanis who have come to Europe to apply for asylum.

All of the men are wearing balaclavas; one of them has also donned black sunglasses. Their uniforms bear no insignia to ensure that they are completely unrecognizable. They are completely unaware that just a few meters away, hiding behind just a couple of bushes and trees, two reporters are filming their every move.

The videos document how these masked men chase 22 refugees out of the European Union, forcing them back into Bosnia-Herzegovina. One of the masked men swings again and again with his club, aiming at the legs of the migrants and making them stumble into the chest-deep border river. He then raises his arm in a threatening gesture and yells: "Go! Go to Bosnia!"

Human rights experts refer to such operations as pushbacks, and they are illegal, violating both EU law and the Geneva Refugee Convention. The deportation of migrants must not put them in danger and once they have reached European territory, they must be given the opportunity to apply for asylum. And beating defenseless people is prohibited anyway.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alexanderepp; andreipopoviciu; balaclavas; bashardeeb; bosnia; croatia; dersoygel; derspiegel; europe; europeanunion; genevaconvention; giorgoschristides; herzegovina; immigration; interventionpolice; interventnapolicija; jacksapoch; klaasvandijken; lamiaabi; letsgoderspiegel; nicolevgele; pakistan; phevossimeonidis; pushback; pushbacks; rafiqatschannen; rafiqtschannen; steffenldke
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To: dynachrome; Ikeon

BRB, headed to the store for more popcorn.

21 posted on 10/09/2021 9:05:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: elpadre

SS&SU


22 posted on 10/09/2021 9:07:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: elpadre

Violent shadow army much like our extremist white supremacist terrorists


23 posted on 10/09/2021 9:10:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Always look behind the curtain)
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To: elpadre

Doing the job their government refuses to do.


24 posted on 10/09/2021 9:15:13 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: elpadre

Can I send these Shadow Army guys some high quality American Hickory Baseball Bats, and the request to send the der Spiegel reporters back to Afghanistan, too?


25 posted on 10/09/2021 9:20:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Joe Boucher

“Nothing wrong with immigrants, the problem is ILLEGALS.”

American leftists would legalize 100% of anyone wanting in or already in.

In my area, almost all new construction is done by immigrants, legal/illegal.

I believe most of the local homeless used to do construction work.

Such level of economic displacement is intolerable.

One homeless man I saw about 6 weeks ago had small purple patches over his body where insects had eaten his flesh and his body was rebuilding his flesh. He used to put in flooring.


26 posted on 10/09/2021 9:24:02 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: elpadre

Where do I sign up?


27 posted on 10/09/2021 9:26:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: elpadre

...........”reporters in the bushs” is laughable. Unless it was Sharyl Atkison or John Solomon, there’s no such thing as a “reporter”. Committed Leftist propagandists “in the bushes” would be a more honest description.


28 posted on 10/09/2021 9:28:11 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: elpadre
Doing the job that needs to be done. I really like that "can do" spirit!

29 posted on 10/09/2021 9:28:37 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Joe Boucher

No, there are plenty things wrong with immigrants.
They have no desire to integrate, but spread like a virus and take over.
Whites are a huge minority on Earth. We need to look out for ourselves.


30 posted on 10/09/2021 9:29:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Joe Boucher

Plenty wrong with immigrants too, if too many come, and they hate the country they are coming to. Today’s immigrants are not like the immigrants who came to America decades ago.


31 posted on 10/09/2021 9:30:13 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: elpadre

Not all heroes wear capes


32 posted on 10/09/2021 9:30:48 AM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: elpadre

It seems to me that what we really have is a surfeit of “human rights experts” who are in practice nothing more than thieves.


33 posted on 10/09/2021 9:34:03 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dynachrome

So, what’s the problem?

************

The “reporters” weren’t accidentally drowned by suicide in that chest-high river?


34 posted on 10/09/2021 9:35:11 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Billthedrill

Well and perfectly said Bill.


35 posted on 10/09/2021 9:36:46 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: doc maverick

Yes.


36 posted on 10/09/2021 9:37:06 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: dynachrome

That was also my first thought.


37 posted on 10/09/2021 9:48:23 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Western civilization is almost done.)
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To: elpadre

Pushback, i.e., protecting your country from invasion is illegal, while illegal immigration is not.


38 posted on 10/09/2021 9:50:47 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: elpadre

If this is real, it is a start. Europe, and the US need to start fighting for their cultural and ethnic self preservation yesterday or Western civilization will be history.


39 posted on 10/09/2021 9:51:40 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: elpadre

The real problem is nations of Europe losing their national sovereignty to the EU and the EU dictating “immigration” regulations to them all. Minus all that there would be no mass “refugee” problem because their would be no world understanding that once you, as an illegal migrant, set foot on the soil of any EU state, that the EU, not that state, determined your fate and that fate included that the state you landed in had to allow you transit to any other EU state.


40 posted on 10/09/2021 9:51:52 AM PDT by Wuli
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