Brussels witnessed fireworks raining down on its streets, as some among the Moroccan supporters began throwing rocks at police officers. Some of the fireworks were even discharged horizontally, used as projectiles.
The incident, along with its ripple effects, lays bare a double-failing of the Belgian system: its inadequacy to deal with potentially dangerous individuals and a demoralised law enforcement on the verge of rebellion.
Deputy Chairman of Germany’s Federal Police Union Manuel Ostermann, who said more than 1,500 illegal migrants are arriving in Germany every day, accused Interior Minister Faeser of concealing the damning data.
The chief inspector for the Central Police Station in the city of Valencia, Ricardo Ferris, has been fired after publicly stating that “practically all street crime is committed by illegal immigrants.”
Responding to the attack, Lega chief Matteo Salvini said: “Rape and attempted murder on a policewoman in Naples, foreign citizen arrested. Anyone who rapes a woman or a child must be put in a position not to do it again, for the rest of his days.”
Police now show at least as much interest, if not more, in what people think and say as they do in obvious kinds of criminal behaviour. The new paramilitary social worker will sooner quiz a TERF than catch a thief.
A new report accuses China of using so-called ‘overseas service stations’ as police stations to help hunt down fraud suspects in foreign countries, while China claims their purpose is purely administrative.
Sebastian Morello | Harrison Pitt
September 30, 2022
The police have become an alien presence in our society. Gone is “the historic tradition,” as Peel put it, “that the police are the public and the public are the police.”
The Senate’s decree comes two years after official crime figures revealed that nearly two women in Germany are gang raped per day, with foreigners, despite making up 19% of the population, accounting for nearly half of all rape suspects.
