The attack occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. (0930 GMT - 31st May) in Marktplatz, a downtown square in the southwestern city of Mannheim.
The assailant stabbed participants in an event organized by the Pax Europa group, wounding five members of the organization, police, and prosecutors said in a statement. The police officer was stabbed several times from behind in the head, they added.
This terrorist event has been reported by various news platforms; however, the tone hardly incriminates the attack but rather focuses on the victims. And not in the way you might think. Words are carefully chosen, and refugee or terror attack are avoided. There is an almost orgasmic tone, for example, with euronews.com, which doesn't miss the chance to point out that:
Euronews understands that German far-right activist and anti-Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger was injured in the attack while taking part in a Citizens' Movement Pax Europa (BPE) party rally, of which Stürzenberger is a member.
The term "far-right" is in the title and repeated twice in the short article. It somehow suggests that the crime is justified if the victims are falling into this category. It doesn't stop here:
"The Bavarian branch of BPE and Stürzenberger have previously been linked to Pegida, a xenophobic extreme-right group with a strong neo-Nazi following, prompting an investigation by the German federal state's Office for the Protection of the Constitution."
Keep in mind that it's easy these days to be labeled "right-wing," "far-wing," or "xenophobic." It's enough to question European policy about forced vaccination during the Covid pandemic, the shady business between Pfizer and Ursula von der Leyen, or express concerns about migration, which brings people from various impoverished areas of the world, along with their problems.
Western Europe is currently experiencing a strong identity crisis. Organized events are targeted by terrorist attacks, and there's a climate of fear preventing open dialogue. Everyone – the press, police, governments – rushes to minimize the effects and protect the attackers. The population is subjected to this treatment by those who should have protected them in the first place. And then they wonder why elections yield unorthodox results.
So what about the attacker?
Euronews.com does its best to avoid discussing hot topics like the terrorist's origin or motives:
"An assailant with a knife attacked and wounded several people ... The motive for the crime is currently unclear and is subject to investigation."
However, we can find out from another source that the attacker was born in Afghanistan, is undoubtedly Muslim, 25 years old, and has lived in Germany since 2014, in the city of Heppenheim. Although the immigration status is kept secret, one can infer from the circumstances how this individual ended up in Europe.
Today's update: we find out from the same euronews.com that the police office involved in the attack, died. He was 29. Let's take a moment and thank Angela Merkel for her "welcome refugees" policy.
On this theme, a book recommendation. It's a challenging read for most, leaving a bitter taste but remaining true to the core:
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Death-Europe-Immigration-Identity/dp/1472958055
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray.
The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was first published to huge acclaim. These include rapid changes in the dynamics of global politics, world leadership and terror attacks across Europe.
Douglas Murray travels across Europe to examine first-hand how mass immigration, cultivated self-distrust and delusion have contributed to a continent in the grips of its own demise. From the shores of Lampedusa to migrant camps in Greece, from Cologne to London, he looks critically at the factors that have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration as a society. Murray's "tremendous and shattering" book (The Times) addresses the disappointing failures of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation and the Western fixation on guilt, uncovering the malaise at the very heart of the European culture. His conclusion is bleak, but the predictions not irrevocable. As Murray argues, this may be our last chance to change the outcome, before it's too late.
