Posted on 12/19/2024 3:34:32 AM PST by lowbridge
Soaring knife crime in Germany, which many police officials openly say is directly tied to mass immigration, has now resulted in warrantless searches at German Christmas markets. In a news segment produced by state media broadcaster SWR, the clip reveals German police conducting controls on a German Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, where police were filmed confiscating a pocket knife from an elderly woman.
In the SWR video, the narrator states that the police had not discovered any pocket knives up until that point that day. However, once police stopped an elderly woman and searched her bag, she was found to have a Swiss Army knife in her bag’s side pocket. The police then told her it would need to be confiscated.
The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has already commented on the video, writing on X: “Deliberate loss of state control at the borders leads to the illegal immigration of countless knife attackers – and the state harasses its own citizens in response. You can’t make this up!”
The video is the latest evidence that Christmas markets, once seen as a safe location to enjoy the holiday season with friends and family, have become a target where violence could flare or even a terrorist could strike.
As the original video states, this is the first year that knife checks can be conducted at German Christmas markets without reasonable suspicion, and police are taking advantage of the ban on knives in such markets to conduct warrantless checks.
Many Germans in the SWR video shrug at the checks or say they make them feel safer, but many also lament the security state that necessitates such checks. If voting intentions are scrutinized, immigration and security remain top issues as Germans head to the polls in February
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Because it’s safer to harass old women.
They took her little Swiss Army knife from a random search, and kept it.
> Because it’s safer to harass old women. <
And more politically correct.
This is happening all over Western Europe. In the UK, an autistic girl mentions that a female cop looks like a lesbian. Does the cop shrug it off? No. The girl is arrested and hauled off to jail.
What about straight pokers.
They are just likes a sword and hangs around besides most fireplaces.
Are they on their you can’t have list ?
It is not the pocket knives. It is the muslims.
Now grandma won’t be able to cut the string on her package of low grade meat that, in times past, would have been used to make pet food.
dont think shes going to give them a problem, this is what society has given us, neutered police being dictated by globalist elitist government while the animals they let in take control and murder thier population
Any weapon carried by a little old lady can be used against the little old lady...
Isn’t that the same as TSA does at airports?
The false assumption is the knife is the problem, not the person.
This is the leftist way of shifting responsibility from the person to an inanimate object.
Unfortunately yes, We should be using the Israeli model where you look for people who fit the profile of terrorist, no 90 yr
old’s Christmas shopping. A radio talk show host the other either clay or buck, was talking about the patriotism of Israeli youth and how it was easy to see because they were all walking around with their service rifle or smg. That’s a sure sign the government trusts it’s people to do they right thing when the teenage population carry automatic weapons all the time. They also trust the Druze, Bedouins, and Christians to be good citizens. Just not the Palestinians. Profiling 101, look for the real bad guys.
She was merely out shopping.
Wear a hijab and this won’t happen
No dummy it’s no where near the same thing.
Looks staged.
Germany cannot identify the problem, therefore it cannot find a solution.
..police stopped an elderly woman and searched her bag, she was found to have a Swiss Army knife..
Because it’s safer to harass old women.
This, maro, is a money quote.
I didn’t check out the link until I read your post to me. You may have a point.
Shorten the sides of that young policeman’s mustache and you will see Deja Vu 1939.
Sick leftists.
Sadly, next week they’ll be writing her up as a murder victim because they stole her only protection.
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