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A lorry has ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing nine people and injuring many more, police say. Police say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured. A suspicious person has been arrested nearby, while a passenger was found dead, police say. The market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in the city's west. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, tweeted to say: "We are in mourning for the dead and hope that the many injured can get help."
There are now reports from local police that 12 people have been confirmed killed in the attack.
https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/810940347006197760
A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said.
They said they had collected evidence inside the building and would make more details available on Tuesday. They declined to comment on the potential motive.
Two of the three men -- aged 30, 35 and 56 -- were seriously injured in the attack shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT) near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich police said.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:25AM
You do realize that the transit to Europe is quite dangerous and can only be achieved illegally, while once you are here and are accepted as a refugee you are permitted to get your family here as well? Like, if you can't pay the human traffickers they will sell your body parts to reimburse their expenses? Hungary partially coming down violently on potential refugees? You realize, maybe, that many of the Syrian refugees are actually Christians? Well, probably you didn't. Otherwise it would be obvious, why they do not send children and young women here.
Once they are here, they to apply for them to be allowed here as well, but probably this is also prove again that they want to overrun our country by deviously coming in smaller numbers and increasing the number later by abusing their right for family reunion :-)
There are a lot of problems, among the refugees as well as between the refugees and locals. There is harassment from Islam refugees against Christian ones (especially targeted at converts). There are cultural differences, and especially women are probably not permitted by their family to make the necessary effort to integrate (learn German, study, etc.). There are probably many men having difficulties adjusting to a society where women can be in a position of power, and where they have to obey women in some cases. There are lots of frustrated young men who probably used to be king of the hill back home and are now not even able to communicate enough to buy a packet of cigarettes. I would be happy if Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. could be considered safe and there wouldn't be any reason for anyone to seek for asylum here. But it's not the case, and our politics is one of the root-causes.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:49PM
It still looks like a flood of muslims is invading Europe