A Bronx man was shot and killed Thursday during a robbery over his iPhone, the NYPD said Thursday.

The body of Dutch-born Moyra Liz As-Chainey has been found in a wooded area of the Scottish Highlands.

Most Dutch MPs believe parents should have to pay for the criminal damage caused by their children under the age of 18 (...)

The police in the Dutch province of Zeeland have arrested 26-year-old Anthony Downes from Liverpool, reportedly one of the most wanted men in the United Kingdom. He had been on the run for eight months (...)

Police have launched an investigation after officers shot dead a man who was throwing bottles out of the window of his flat in a small town near Frankfurt.

The scale of drug trafficking at Brussels Airport continues to increase. Last year nearly 5,000 pills, 379 kilos of cocaine and 17 kilos of heroin were seized at the Belgian airport.

International security experts have gathered in Berlin for the European Police Congress. The focus this year is on stepping up police cooperation across the EU to fight cross-border crime and international terrorism

Researchers at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) have helped create an infrared device that can detect tiny traces of cocaine in human saliva

 

A German court handed down a life sentence Friday to a man who has confessed to killing two US soldiers at Frankfurt airport in what has been called Germany's first deadly jihadist attack

Four young car thieves in the western German state of Saarland notified the police on Sunday night after they stumbled on the corpse of a small baby in the boot of a car they were breaking into.

Germany’s Federal Administrative Court ruled Wednesday that police can film on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn red light district for crime prevention purposes, ending a legal dispute closely watched by privacy advocates.

A hand grenade disguised as a toy and placed at child’s eye level on the shelf of a supermarket could have killed someone, say German prosecutors investigating it as an attempted murder.

The DNA of convicted terrorists and burglars will soon be collected in the databank operated by Belgium's Justice Ministry. As a result of the new measure the number of profiles in the databank will more than double every year.

One of the Netherlands’ most infamous criminals, Willem Holleeder, has been released from prison, the justice ministry has confirmed.

The dismembered, partially cooked corpse of a missing man has been found in a Berlin apartment, where prosecutors believe he was killed after a sex game spiralled out of control.

At least two German tourists were killed on Tuesday in an attack on a group of foreigners visiting a remote part of Ethiopia, the German government confirmed on Wednesday

A sadistic pimp not only beat the women he forced into prostitution – he had turned his genitalia into a weapon with metal implants and used it to hurt them further, a court in Frankfurt has heard (...)

The businessman who shot dead a prosecutor in court in Bavaria, would have walked out a free man had he not fired a gun at the judge and then turned on the prosecutor (...)

A judge has handed down prison sentences of between four and six years to four young men charged with attempting to kill a man at a Berlin metro station earlier this year ...

Other police stations have offered the lure of free TVs to nab suspects, but British police appealed to suspects' thirsty sides, offering free beer ...

IT was a horrific killing that shocked even the most hardened prison officers.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/10/03/paedophile-mitchell-harrison-disembowelled-in-frankland-prison-killing-115875-23463016/#ixzz1ZhpQnNaK 

Police officers in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Joost-ten-Node were attacked by the husband of a woman that refused to remove her burqa. The incident happened on Wednesday after a patrol from the Brussels-North Local Police Service spotted the woman wearing a burqa on the Liedekerkestraat at around 12:35pm

The Tamil community in the Netherlands (between 9,000 and 13,000 men) has been “largely annexed” by the Tamil Tigers to the violent conflict in Sri Lanka. Through extortion and sedition, a “climate of fear” has been shaped among Dutch Tamils.

Two young men have admitted attacking more than a dozen people with a gas-powered weapon.

Teachers at a Berlin high school are threatening to strike if the teenager convicted of brutally beating a man in a metro station in April is allowed to attend classes there.

A pensioner poured inedible soup over a farmer and his tractor for disturbing his siesta.

With crime statistics on the rise in Switzerland, the Swiss criminal code has been an increasingly hot topic—and in particular the system of “day fines.” 

 

Berlin police have re-arrested the son of a Left-wing politician, accusing him of setting fire to cars in the capital. Protests are expected as he is a well-known figure in the city. 

Two teens told the police they acted "out of boredom" when they fired iron bullets at passing cars.

The longest series of bank heists in the history of Austria could have been clarified.

A 21-year-old man from Kosovo apologised in court Wednesday for killing two US soldiers at Frankfurt Airport as they headed to Afghanistan, saying he had been influenced by Islamist propaganda.

(Video)

How would you react if the windshield was shot out of your car as you sped down the highway? It's becoming a common occurrence in the Netherlands.  As many as 37 Dutch drivers have been shot at, while driving on the highway, in the past month.

“A Kosovar stabs a Swiss man.” “A Kosovar kills the head of social services.” These are not newspaper headlines but instead the latest set of newspaper ads the Swiss People’s Party is running ahead of the general elections in October. 

 

Frankfurt has been declared the most dangerous city in Germany according to still unreleased crime statistics for 2010, which apparently show the city had the largest number of murder and manslaughter cases per 100,000 residents.

From muggings in the middle of the night to burglar alarm scams— the public’s perception is that crime in Geneva is out of control.

Read also:

http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/tourism-head-says-proper-reaction-to-geneva-crime-.shtml?26086

The 18-year-old accused of a vicious attack in a Berlin U-Bahn metro station has confessed to the crime at the opening of his trial.

A disgruntled Alabama church musician allegedly zapped a pastor with a stun gun after the pastor fired him following last Sunday's service.

(report:  WPMI Local 15)

WINNIPEG - A 22-year-old man is charged, accused of firing a sawed-off shotgun after two Winnipeg restaurant employees declined to sell him a cigarette.

A 79-year-old man from the village of Nindorf in Lower Saxony has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his 72-year-old wife, butchering her and leaving parts of her body on fire by the side of a road...

The hunt for the man who police say shot and killed two women and seriously injured a man in Berlin on Thursday, has gone nationwide, after authorities admitted they could not find him – and that he was still armed.

A German court on Thursday awarded more than €3,000 ($4,265) in damages to a child murderer over a threat by police to inflict "unimaginable pain" if he did not reveal his victim's whereabouts.

This year, female visitors at Oktoberfest will be offered green armbands on which to put their contact information and names. Organizers of the initiative hope it will help young women to find their way back to where they are staying, and in the process cut down on the annual number of sexual assaults.

Motorists taking a bathroom break at a rest stop in Brandenburg might not get much privacy these days. Thieves made off with 22 stainless-steel toilet stall doors within a few days and, up to now, police are clueless. 

28/07/11 - On Wednesday, a man armed with a gun had a row with his girlfriend. She managed to escape with her three children, but the man barricaded himself in a flat. Passers-by were kept at a distance and customers in an Aldi store across the road had to stay inside.

Proposals to put young offenders in correction centres run by former military personnel are being drawn up by the French government.

Vandals broke into a Catholic church in North Rhine-Westphalia and peed into the bowl of holy water, the police announced on Thursday

A burglar who gorged on a typical Austrian delicacy was struck down with pepper spray by a landlord ...

Germany will not name and shame sex criminals by putting their details on the internet, Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has stated, knocking back a suggestion made by a police union leader. 

Untaxed cigarettes and tobacco are costing the German government an untold amount of money in lost tax revenue each year, and as new fronts in tobacco smuggling open, authorities seem powerless to stem their market penetration.

A leaked government report has revealed that police servers were only protected by cheap software, making a recent hack on databases much easier. Police were forced to shut down several servers with data on serious criminals.

Rising commodity prices have prompted thieves to target copper cables and other metal parts used by railways, forcing interruptions in train service in Germany and other European countries. Now, new invisible markers may help German rail get the upper hand.

A noise that sounded like the screams of a child drew Miami police to a van in a parking lot on Monday.

The security of Germany's new multi-million-euro spying agency headquarters might be compromised; blueprints for the building are missing, allegedly stolen. The government says it's looking for the plans, and answers.

The security of German government computer systems has come into question after hackers broke into the Customs Administration’s servers and stole data on Thursday night.

A MAN driving under the influence of cannabis has caused nine accidents by travelling the wrong way up a motorway at speeds of up to 130kph.

Vultures from an Austrian zoo are part of an extraordinary project by German police.

Due to the abolition of border controls, German customs and immigration personnel have been checking suspicious vehicles and people within German borders randomly, and very often near rest areas and former borders.

Last Monday at 6:40 a.m. on the autobahn A20 near the Polish border at the rest area of Lindholz, the present mobile task force of the Federal Police wanted to check a van, Ford Galaxy, with Danish license plates.

A police officer on a motorbike quickly approached the van, overtook it at a speed of about 200 kph (160 mph) and gave the 'follow me' order. But the thug in the car didn't have the intention to follow. Instead, the driver, a 30 y/o male Polish citizen, touched the motorbike, creating a life-threatening situation for the officer.

Fortunately, the cop didn't get a scratch but only his vehicle (damage at about €1.500 / U.S.-$2150).

The federal officer alerted his colleagues, and the guy was caught in Ahlbeck on his getaway to Poland.

Why didn't the young Pole stop? Well, because he stole the van in Denmark by having professionally opened the van's doors and cracked the ignition lock. Some additional hobby and professional tools and electrical devices were found as well and confiscated.

The Pole was arrested on the spot, and the office of the district attorney of Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-W Pomerania has filed criminal charges against him.

The counts are attempted murder in the second, causing an accident with 'hit-and-run', grand theft and handling stolen goods.

What's the difference to chases in the U.S.?

Well, I don't think that an American state police trooper on a motorbike would have tried to overtake this thug at 160 mph. I rather believe that quite a bunch of police cars would have been assembled to chase and stop the perpetrator.

The German federal police officer had really risked his life unnecessarily. Thank goodness, he didn't make a flight stunt which could have been life-threatening or worse.

This nasty example of a ruthless, reckless, inhuman criminal behavior shows that the current soft approach toward sentencing those thugs without borders should be revised.

The Danish People's Party pushed the conservative, right-of-center minority coalition in Copenhagen toward stricter border controls. If there had already been an 'exit control procedure' at the Danish-German border the guy would probably been caught on the Danish side.

Nevertheless, thumbs up for the federal police task force officers who successfully caught this criminal. 

In Germany, you often hear traffic messages by radio,"Attention, pedestrians on the autobahn A... near ... - be careful in both directions." In most cases, it is not a bus load of tourists who wander on the emergency lane but the cargo of ruthless human traffickers, international organized mobsters - unloading refugees, asylum seekers from distant countries without any IDs or passports mostly by night.

Shortly after midnight on Saturday 20th, 2011 at around 12.05 am, federal police officers checked a van with British lincense plate at the German ferry port Puttgarden (Isle of Fehmarn). The driver, a 49 y/o male Latvian, had the offical papers but not the six young Afghan juveniles (15-16) whom he obviously wanted to 'smuggle' to Scandinavia. The 'Vogelfluglinie' (bird's covey line) is an autobahn-ferry transit connection to the Danish Isle of Lolland. 

Well, what happened next? The six Afghan juveniles -two of whom had already been 'administratively processed' in Greece and Italy (!) by (police) authorities - have been put under custodial care in official youth welfare facilities.

And the driver? The investigating judge in Oldenburg/Ostholstein, Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein, released him on bail with a 'whopping' payment of €650 ($910). His car wasn't confiscated.

The bail was allegedly levied to ensure the guy's presence at criminal court after further police and district attorney investigations. Will he ever show up then?

One can only laugh about such naivety. This kind of 'justice approach' can be regarded even as an invitation for the 'perpetrator' and the criminal gangs behind him to continue and extend 'shipping tours' of illegals. The means of transportation, namely the van, wasn't impounded. Obviously, the German penal code hasn't the legal basis for confiscation and sale when a vehicle is involved as means of committing a crime.

Hey, perhaps, the guy got even a friendly good bye and take care, and drove off after having paid the bail with a happy smile and spiritually given them the finger.

The Federal Police labeled the incident a success of the joint task force Schengen South!

Really? If you wanted to get tough on crime, like drug- or human-trafficking, you should drain and dry the swamp, meaning by taking their money and, at least, their means of transportation. A hired car? Well, no problem. Give notice to the car company, they are allowed to pick it up at the official impound facility. Costs? What costs? The rental car company can retroactively charge the credit card of the perpetrator or pocket the cash deposit due to breach of contract, any questions? A bounced check or no money transfer by the card company? Well, the car companies are savvy enough to set up databases by blacklisting those 'customers'.

This justice system toward those criminals is so flawed one is inclined to think that law enforcement of quite simple traffic offenses get more attention than the 'thugs without border' issues. But, at least, the Danes are going to address this mess by re-introducing border controls.

What would the Danish immigration and customs authorities have done if they had picked up the guy and the juveniles in Rödbyhavn (DK), on their soil?

Simple answer, they would have shipped them back by ferry to Puttgarden (D) -their 'first' pick up location.

Not quite, two juveniles had already been administratively processed in Greece or Italy; probably expulsion, they will be processed there again.

And the other four? Oh, that'll take a lot of time and money and care to get them back to their homeland.

Btw, the radio traffic messages, mentioned above, often peak on weekends! I'm wondering why.  

Police are investigating after a German couple were numbed and robbed at a motorway rest stop in Carinthia on Tuesday night.

BERN, SWITZERLAND – A 39-year-old police officer was killed on duty when a tenant who was being evicted shot and killed him at 08:00 Tuesday morning 24 May in Schafhausen im Emmental. Police said late Tuesday that a private letter had been sent to an employee of the bankruptcy and receivership office warning of a “possible reaction” by the gunman should he be evicted...

Due to high fuel prices, President of the Federal Police Office, Matthias Seeger, and highest federal police chief of some 40.000 federal police officers who are in charge of protecting and policing external borders, airports and railroads has ordered severe cuts on fuel consumption for federally managed vehicles - in the range of double-digit million euros, prescribed by austerity obsessed Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The leaders of the union for federal police officers and the political left-of-center opposition of Social-Dems, former Communists (now called the Leftists) and the Eco-Greens have been crying foul about this weird measure of Merkel-Schaueble's that might endanger necessary law-enforcement by self-prescribed negligence.

The fears and assumptions of the Danish government that the German Border Protection and Immigration Police ('Bundespolizei = Federal Police') haven't been able anymore to stop human and drug-trafficking through this virtually borderless 'Schengen Area' transit country might be confirmed by this. Therefore, it has obviously made sense re-introducing border controls between Denmark and Germany.

Imagine this nonsense, a German coast guard boat is not allowed to 'full throttle' speed in a chase against drug mobsters because of cuts on diesel consumption.

It's easy to figure out when patrol boats are at the pier or on sea, right?

Oh my, it seems as if Germany has to make the critical austerity adjustments because of a looming bankruptcy and not Greece.

Tax revenue is on sharp rise due to a booming German economy - and now this oath of disclosure! Unbelievable, incomprehensible. 

Police on Tuesday said they believed a leftist extremist group was responsible for an arson attack on Berlin's commuter train network. The incident severely disrupted transport in the capital and knocked out thousands of phone and internet connections.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Police in Zurich arrested an unusual-looking drug runner Wednesday at Kloten Airport, a man disguised as a missionary, complete with flowing robes.

LONDON, Ont. - The Hells Angels in Ontario are under attack by an unexpected new foe -- bureaucrats, QMI Agency has learned.

The naive imagination of European do-gooders in terms of 'free movement in the E.U. without any borders' seems to be over now.

The Danish minority government, pushed by the right-wing Danish People's Party, is about to install immigration and customs booths at the Danish-German border -Sonderjylland (DK) / Schleswig-Holstein (D)- again. This Schengen drop-out is going to be the beginning of the end of 'borderless' travel within the core of Europe.

Why? You might ask. Well, take this comparison. The NAFTA agreement of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico would have evolved to a 'North American Union' without borders between them. Mexico would be responsible for immigration checks in the south, for Central and South American states. The U.S. would only have to check their airports and habors for international immigration and the Canadians would be in charge for the northern immigration streams coming from the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans. Between the respective states of this union, there would be no border and customs controls. As you enter Mexico, you would be able to possibly visit the Inuits without showing your passport. But, the drug traffickers aren't interested in Inuits in Nunavut, Canada, right?

Wouldn't that cause quite big headaches for the U.S., esp. for the organizations like 'Homeland Security', FBI, CIA, NSA etc. pp.?

On a far smaller scale, the bold move of the Danish right-of-center coalition by reinstating border checks again has been caused by their perceived and observed increase of cross-border illegal immigration, asylum seeking, drug and human trafficking as well as imported crime into the Schengen area from mostly West, East and South Europe via Germany by 'borderless' vehicular traffic.

The Scandinavian country of nearly 6 million people (with nearly 10 % foreign passport holders) and a generous social security and welfare legislation has been deluged as well with all kinds of evil-minded criminals who have been overburdening the Danish financial, economic and homeland security system. Now, the Danes say it's high time to put the foot on the brake on this mess. It is an Danish emergency measure, for sure - the same contingency currently occurred in the row between France and Italy due to French halting trains with refugees, immigrants from Tunisia who have gotten temporary visas by Italian authorities. With these visas the Tunisians could have moved through Europe to Hammerfest, Polar Circle, Norway, at least theoretically, without showing their passports to the authorities. Does this make any sense if you consider your own national interests?   

Obviously, German Federal Police (formerly called 'Federal Border Protection') has not been efficient enough to effectively halt or, at least, dampen international crimes, for example, vast khat drug trafficking from Africa via the Netherlands and Germany to Scandinavia where Denmark is the entry for Norway, Sweden or even Finland. Well, if you read police reports released from the German Federal Police, you'll often get the notion that they are quite successful in fighting international organized crime, but news that the Federal Police force hasn't gotten the appropriate allocation of budget money to satisfactorily fill up their police cars and motorbikes because of austerity measures by the Merkel government has certainly alerted the Danes as well.

As a law abiding citizen, I have no problems with getting checked (showing my passport, opening the trunk compartment of my car, etc.).

My digitized fingerprints have already been part of the U.S. immigration and customs computers, available to all kinds of DoHS databases that can be relayed to almost any security entity, and I don't make fuss about this possibility because it's an understandable necessity for fighting crime and the war on terror.

The German Federal Justice Minister, Ms. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (60), was quite pissed off about the Danish government's announcement of re-introducing checkpoints at the Danish-German border. But nevertheless, this attitude of hers should be regarded with quite some relaxation; with her permanent view through pink colored glasses in terms of the Schengen issue or German counter-measures against suspected Islamic terrorists, her 'njet' to more reinforcements of law enforcement troops or tightening security laws has been showing that she is an out-dated liberal role-model of a naive do-gooder who won't get the message anyway.

The Danes have made the right move. Thumbs up! Now, other Schengen countries should follow suit.   

The 18 y/o male allegedly boozed perpetrator who brutally kicked a 29 y/o man almost to death (probable charge: attempted murder in the second degree) at the Berlin subway station, Friedrichstraße, on Saturday 3:30 am has been set free.

Was the judge in 'Easter mood' when he/she made this decision?

The guy who turned himself in on Saturday afternoon will be staying at home until his trial. Due to the fact that the brutal attacker has not had a criminal record prior to this heinous crime the Berlin 'justice system' released him under conditions.

What kind of justice is this? The young adult who apparently confessed to his crime to the police and the Berlin district attorney will have the chance of bullying, harrassing and assaulting if he likes. No apparent possibility of repeating? How naive one has to be to believe this?

Doesn't a society have a right of being protected against those criminals who obviously don't have the ability to control themselves.

This 'soft' approach doesn't lead to anything good - only encouragement to others to follow suit. Isn't even a judge able to see the obvious issue here?

Hopefully, the CCTV coverage is evidence enough to graphically show the brutality of the criminal act.

But I fear that the victim will be getting an own 'charge' by the defense lawyer of the culprit, assuming that the victim didn't make de-escalating steps to defuse the situation. Weird, huh - but a common approach to minimize the damage for the perpetrator.

An outstander, a 21 y/o Bavarian guy, was the apparent life saver for the victim - but he did also get his dose of violence from the 2nd culprit who will possibly be charged with aggravated assault.

What did the accomplice do to defuse the situation? Nothing! By assaulting the young adult Bavarian, he was obviously 'actively supporting' the main perpetrator, right?

Oh boy! How can I express why I favor a 'strong response' on these criminal acts?

Being an avid spectator of the American series 'Law and Order, Law and Order New York or Law and Order Special Victims Unit', I have formed my favorable notion about the American justice system.

Why isn't the superior of the responsible district attorney able to file a complaint against this court decision to conditionally release this brutal attacker?

Personally, I have lost faith in such a flawed system that obviously rather protects the criminals than the victims.

Make yourself an opinion on this case if you like.

Just watch the video ('R') or look at the photos:

(Link in German by bild-online) http://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/schlaegerei/schlaeger-wieder-auf-freiem-fuss-17571316.bild.html

An 11-year-old Norwegian boy was forced to stand on his tippy toes for 10 minutes to get air. Someone had hung him up in a tree at a camping site at Haganäset in Charlottenberg in Värmland County in western Sweden.

PUBLIC prosecutors have asked that a man who abandoned his car on a high-speed line causing a TGV carrying 300 people to derail should face a maximum six-month suspended sentence and lose his licence for just eight months.

Inconceivable, incomprehensible, inhuman - adjectives barely describe the excessive violence burst of an apparent young guy who brutally beat a 29 y/o male into unconsciousness by kicking him to the face, the neck and other parts of the head- attempted murder, my first 'evaluation' of the crime, published in graphic detail by Berlin City State Police (video, IMO rating 'R') in search of the main perpetrator.

Crime scene, subway station 'Friedrichstraße' at Easter Saturday 3:30 am, two culprits - one main attacker and an apparent male accomplice.

CCTV's video clip (video/pol_press) also showed that one other male wanted to interfere but was also pushed away.

Those night time attacks are not uncommon in Berlin's public transportation, especially at subway stations.

Well, doesn't this crime show that those brutal guys don't have any sense of humanity? Isn't it pure insanity. I don't think that this partly dark / black dressed guy was judicially not responsible for his actions, due to a possible 'insanity claim' by his future defense lawyer.

It shouldn't matter whether or not the guy was drugged by alcohol or other poisons; he should be locked up, keys thrown away.

It's really high time to get tough on crime here.

Number of police forces' personnel are slimmed down due to 'too optimistic purple glasses carriers' - meaning liberal, left-wing politicians who think that the existing laws should only be properly applied instead of tightened up; they steadily say ,"We have sufficient police forces." but always consider the price tag of domestic security.   

Well, dear 'anti-gravitationists' (who have already lost the adherence to the ground), why do you pack those heinous criminals into cotton wool if they are between 18 to 21, only regarding them as minors and not as adults.

If the poor 29 y/o guy died due to his injuries it would surely be (premeditated) murder; minors would get 10 years in prison, adults life - meaning 15 to 25 years in Germany.

Let's hope that the beaten guy quickly recuperates in hospital and afterwards without long-lasting physical or psychological damages.

If you don't want to watch the video the screen-shot pictures also 'say' more than thousand additional words of mine.

(Look at the pictures,here : http://www.berlin.de/polizei/presse-fahndung/archiv/341842/index.html)

My recommendation for your next Berlin travel. Avoid making subway trips at night, rather take a taxi as your own safety measure. 

VICTORIA — The Tasering of an 11-year-old boy by police this month has spurred B.C.'s children's watchdog to launch a sweeping review into whether officers are needlessly called to group homes for behavioural problems of children in care (...)

A grocery store in this small southern Ontario town will remained closed until further notice after needles were found in fruit and meat.

The chairman of the police officers' union (GdP) section Federal Police ('BP'), Josef Scheuring, has sounded alarm bells. His colleagues of the successor to the former organization "Federal Border Protection" ('BGS') don't have money for filling up their police cars and motorbikes.

According to Bild-online, federal budget austerity measures, levied on all parts of the German federal government, have led to empty police service 'debit cards' which the respective superiors have been unable to refill satisfactorily.

Mileage restrictions and proposals to take bicycles are means that make fun of any law enforcement. Only in emergency cases, police officers are allegedly allowed to speed up.

"In my fourty years of service, I've never encountered such restrictions", Scheuring said.

Chancellor Merkel and her Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble (both CDU), with a windfall of tax-money due to a booming economy, have kept a tight fist on expenditures, and are now making the Federal Police a laughing stock. Why? You aren't able to understand this b.s.!

(Sarc) One proposal, the German Federal Police, currently very effective in rounding up sought criminals near the borders or at harbor terminals, should be allowed to keep the money, they reap in from people they catch. This money shall be used to refill the debit card.

This 'Punch and Judy Show' of 'devoted' amateurs making federal policy is ridiculous.

On the one hand, Ms. von der Leyen (CDU), the Labor and Social Affair's Minister, has been complaining about not-withdrawal of the education money for kids of the working poor and welfare recipients, called 'Bildungspaket', in her budget, ready to be allocated but not requested - on the other hand, the Interior Minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) and his subordinate staff are obviously obstructing law enforcement.

Uh, oh - this obviously indicates that the German Customs Service (subordinate to the Federal Treasury) might have to make stricter and more thorough checks at the immigration counters in order to reap in the necessary customs dues and fines from travelers coming by plane to Germany to fill the financial gap of the Federal Police???

(and) was found to be seriously drunk (...)

The German government is considering introducing locks that prevent car engines from starting if the driver is intoxicated. Drunk drivers in Germany could keep their license if they agree to have the device installed.

12/04/11 - It's exactly five years since the youngster Joe Van Holsbeeck was stabbed in Brussels Central Station. Figures show that since then the number of incidents of aggression in station that are reported has tripled.

A website enabling teenagers to post insults and racist comments about their peers has prompted an outcry in Germany after 20 youths beat another teen senseless over remarks made on its forums.

Video news

09/04/11 - Economic inspection teams confiscated some 180,000 counterfeit items in 2010. The figures are down on the year before, but this is mainly due to the smaller number of fake CD's and DVD's. The amount of counterfeit clothing saw a sharp rise.

A lone gunman has killed five people and seriously wounded at least eleven others in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn in the east of the Netherlands.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — About $19,000 worth of salty snacks were stolen from the Frito Lay warehouse sometime between Friday and Tuesday.

WINNIPEG - A young Winnipeg woman is speaking out about a gossip website that she says continues to post nasty comments, humiliating rumours and blatant lies.

Southampton City Council's leader has described how he overpowered a sailor who shot dead one crewman and injured another on board a nuclear submarine.

5/4/11 - It is here between Kontich and Wilrijk on the Brussels Antwerp motorway that the attack on a diamond transport occurred. The gangsters used a Kalashnikov to fire on the vehicle. As if by miracle nobody was hurt in this unsuccessful attack.

The Austrian confectioner who is allegedly 'unpolitical' and only business-orientated will certainly get mail from the Lower Austrian district state attorney due to offenses against strict Austrian anti-Nazi laws (concerning public display of banned Nazi emblems).
The 'baker' of Maria Enzersdorf would also produce Qadaffi images on his special cakes if ordered (price about 90 euros - $ 128 incl. tax), according to the 'diligent producer'.
The 'only for adults' cakes he has been making for eight years are currently on display in his own business catalog. He was reported to the "Mauthausen committee", a Holocaust awareness group, by a female guest who visited the confectioner's café and was quite shocked to look at his "pieces of baking art".

A bus driver in Luxembourg city was confronted by a violent passenger on Sunday morning after waking said traveller to tell him the bus had reached its final stop.

The European Commission on Wednesday criticised the Dutch government's plan to make being an illegal immigrant a crime, reports news agency ANP.

A 23-year-old Romanian faces legal consequences for driving his car into an Alpine authority official.

Investigators probing a massive fraud involving fake euro coins have raided offices and homes of Bundesbank and Lufthansa workers, according to a Thursday media report.

A horse breeder is suing a veterinarian 60,000 euros for failing to return the frozen semen of top German Olympic stallion Carthago. A judge is to rule on the case on May 2.

A Pennsylvania woman who crashed her car after burglarizing a local inn had a sizable stash of drugs and cash hidden in her vagina.

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland recorded 80 incidents in 2010 where aircraft pilots were injured by lasers pointed at them. The figure was double that of the previous year, with 40 in 2009. Rega, the helicopter emergency service, filed 11 complaints, two of which resulted in charges being pressed, although they were dropped in one case.

The German government has decided to criminalize forced marriage, but some young women will have to continue running for their lives as their families try to hunt them down. 'Sibel' is one of them

Two broad-smiling GIs were standing on the autobahn A3 near Seligenstedt while paramedics treated a loudly nagging but still boozed crash-driver for a black eye. A teenager' s DUI with hit and run ended quite surprisingly. Two Iraq-experienced U.S. soldiers, Ryan V. (20) and John McC. (24), being in top shape, had caught the teenager (18) and his buddy (26) in the nearby woods.
(Article in German by Bild-online)

No E10 allowed for Schleswig-Holstein (S-H)'s Otto-engine police-cars and -motorbikes!

The state police of Schleswig-Holstein has 110 police-cars and 50 police-motorbikes that have been using this petrol "Super E5 RON95+".

I assume that these cars are assigned to 'crime busting', therefore being fast cars with Otto-engines.

Due to a 'no-extra-warranty & no-goodwill policy' of fuel-producers and car manufacturers (after expired warranty) and after the Merkel 'kaffeeklatsch meeting' yesterday (Wedn), the ConLib-coalition of Gov. Carstensen's (CDU) devised a NO-GO for E10.

Now my question: When a state government doesn't trust this ethanol-fuel-mix as 'Super 95+', why should an ordinary citizen take the risks of filling up with E10 as well?

Kieler Nachrichten-online reports that Gov. Carstensen's State Interior Minister is supporting the technical decision of the S-H State Police Authority for this 'prohibition order'.

See link in German:

http://www.kn-online.de/schleswig_holstein/aus_dem_land/221926-Schleswig-Holsteins-Polizei-darf-keinen-Biosprit-E10-tanken.html

1.263 police-cars are currently running on S-H's roads, mostly equipped with high-mileage Diesel-engines - but the state doesn't take the risk of having a 'dead' fleet of police-cars that are able to compete with 'high-powered' fast Mercedes, BMWs, etc. of potential criminals who use S-H autobahns and its federal roads as transit ways for drug- and human trafficking to Scandinavia.

Smoke-screening doesn't help here anymore. Get rid of this b.s. type E10 & not only on ethical reasons.

95 per cent of the votes cast at Bild-online today (nearly 125.000 votes) show disapproval of E10.

Why, the heck, won't the message penetrate Merkel's and (the Federal Environment Minister) Roettgen's brain?

The federal eagles 'who' allegedly have the oversight spoke yesterday:"You will take this E10 (period)!"

The not-so high flying state crows are saying today: "No way, at least not for our beloved 5+ years old fast police-cars. We won't fill up with E10 (period) - that's an order for our police officers!"

The ordinary citizens might think:"What? Policy from and for amateurs? Why this 'Punch and Judy show'? Have they lost the adhesion to the floor? If we don't want this stuff why is Merkel insisting on it? Do the farmers have such a say in 'pampering' her?"

Perhaps she needs a lesson. In about two and a half weeks we are going to know whether or not this 'kaffeeklatsch order' of Merkel's will be sustained.

In my home garden, I experienced the fact that the crows are a special breed of 'academics' in the birds' environment.

Why don't they listen to the 'doctors'?

Hamburg police have released surveillance footage of a stabbing at a döner kebab shop in hope of finding the attacker. The man nearly killed the snack shop worker because he was apparently unhappy with the quality of the meat he was served.

German article by express.de (Region Cologne): "Brutale Axt-Attacke im Finanzamt"
An obviously 'intellectually challenged' citizen of Aachen, NRW, Germany, went crazy when he attacked a service-employee at the local tax authority. The 50 y/o perpetrator hit the 60 y/o 'taxman' with the stump side of the ax. The victim got severe injuries, fortunately not life-threatening. The 'madman' was arrested and transferred to a 'closed' psychiatric clinic. Cause for the rampage: allegedly unjustified tax claims from the 'IRS'.

German article by derwesten.de:"Räuber reißt Frau Laptop aus der Hand"
A 52 y-o woman of Wanne-Eickel, NRW, had just gotten her basket with laundry and, on top, a bag (with a notebook inside) out of her car's trunk when a cyclist 'seized' the opportunity of stealing the computer right away. Although the woman managed to hold the bag's belt the male robber successfully nicked the device. She was able to follow him with her car until he was able to escape in an area with some garden plots.

East Germany, Brandenburg state, Teltow-Flaeming district, Luckenwalde. It's just another sad example about bullying and school violence that can almost drive tears in your eyes.

But, we have to face the evil - and, it should be mandatory for us to do something about it, at least, we ought to comment on this phenomenon and give a helping hand to those who have not been ready to fight bullying.

Mother Ramona (40) has been having her son, Florian (12), a primary school pupil, in hospital for a week because four(!) other school kids kicked him against body and head until he spat blood. A medevac helicopter was called in, and the injured guy was air-lifted to the hospital. There, he has primarily been treated for concussion, but the hospital's medics had to seek specialized advice on the little guy's eyesight, result yet unknown.

Ramona told newspaper Bild that the horrifying event was just an episode of three years of bullying toward her son. The principal, Ms. Evelin Bendel, and her teachers have obviously done nothing so far. When Florian had asked them for help teachers just sent him away, saying "mind your own business, solve problems on your own, and don't be a snitch". Unbelievable. When Florian's mom had filed a complaint against the four bullies the principal turned her down by giving her advice to seek 'professional treatment against Florian's school fear'. What kind of educational professional is this principal? You can only shake your head.

Meanwhile, the Brandenburg education ministry has reacted in this case. The four bullies were swiftly suspended and dispersed to different schools. Investigations have been ongoing.

What message shall this give to us?

Well, help your kid whenever and wherever he/she needs you. File complaints at the school directorate, at police-stations if necessary. Don't hesitate to write a letter to the school's supervision board or directly to the education ministry. Don't let bullies influence your or your kid's life, 'strike back with legal means'. If possible, seek judicial help and fight with a court's injunction against the perpetrators.

The principal and the other teachers should face disciplinary actions, for sure. I cannot and don't want to believe that this behavior of theirs will remain unpunished. File criminal charges additionally against these 'unprofessional' educators at the respective state attorney's office.

These measures shall ensure that, hopefully in future, the bullies will be addressed swiftly and accordingly.

Any teacher has to interfere on the school yard in case of a brawl - because it has been and will be up to them to always protect the physical integrity of the kids. It's their job to take care of the children. Being liberal and cosmopolitan doesn't necessarily mean that school kids have to merely survive in a hostile, Darwinian 'school yard' environment where bullies claim to have the upper hand and teachers mind their own business instead of interfering. This dumb blabbering about 'don't be a snitch' shows premeditated, gross negligence toward helpless kids - in my opinion, it's a pre-stage of failing to render assistance and being accessory to a crime. The teachers who love to look away shall be well aware of that!

Ladies and gentlemen, this is NOT acceptable. If you teachers don't want to fulfill your duties quit your job.

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Times of India reports that police in Mumbai have recovered 20 diamond-studded Franck Muller watches worth several million dollars and six less expensive timepieces as well as "chemicals", stuffed into the cavity of a toilet on an Air India flight that landed in Mumbai Monday night 10 January.

KN headline:
Streit vor Bäckerei in Kiel-Gaarden
Ein Toter nach Messerstecherei
(transl. summary)
Obviously, a Kurd of Iraqi origin had been unknowingly pursued by several cars, when one of his attackers, allegedly a Turkish Kurd, tried to take him to task at a bakery shop in Kiel-Gaarden.
Outside the shop, the dispute appeared to have continued, because, when the car drove away at high speed, the victim's body lay lifeless on the sidewalk.

Bild's headline: PROZESS IN HAMBURG
Suff-Jugendliche schlagen Behinderten fast tot
(transl. summary)
Hamburg-Harburg - They were drunk, 'felt' attacked, allegedly beat back 'by reflex'.
They injured three men, one of them a 42-year-old hemiplegic man severely.
In court, they state their lapidary comments: "I do not know what was wrong with me. I am very sorry."