Call to segregate rival refugee groups after clashes at German asylum centres

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Germany’s police said accommodation for refugees should be divided along religious and ethnic lines after violent clashes between refugee groups at asylum centres in recent days.

The latest violence occurred on Sunday night at a “tent city” housing 1,500 migrants in the town of Calden, north of Frankfurt. Police said rival groups of Pakistani and Albanian refugees attacked each other with clubs.

Fourteen people were injured in the clashes, which were broken up by police using teargas and pepper spray. “Between 60 and 70 people were involved. They attacked each other with clubs and threw things at each other,” a police spokesman said.

The incident followed similar violence on Friday at an asylum centre near Leipzig, where 200 Syrian and Afghan migrants attacked each other with table legs, bed frames and sticks after a dispute about who should be allowed to use one of the few lavatories provided in the accommodation first.

“The police have reached the absolute limit of what they can take,” complained the deputy head of Germany’s police trade union, Jörg Radek. “ We must do everything we can to prevent further outbreaks of violence.” He said segregation of refugees along religious and ethnic lines was essential.

“We take into account the religious and ethnic differences when providing accommodation for asylum seekers,” said Emilia Müller, Bavarian’s minister for social affairs.

The German government has set aside €6bn (£4.4bn) to fund accommodation and an extra 3,000 police to cope with the estimated one million refugees the country is expected to take in this year. But with training for police taking around three years, Germany’s 16 federal states are currently forced to rely largely on private security firms to meet the shortfall.

The clashes among refugees in Germany’s overcrowded asylum accommodation have followed more than 200 attacks on refugee centres by suspected far-right activists this year alone. In the east German town of Heidenau, the scene of earlier racist anti–immigrant attacks, a refugee was attacked and injured by a man armed with a beer bottle as he walked to his accommodation at the weekend. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has offered Syrian war refugees the prospect of immediate asylum in Germany for the next three years. However, her open-door migrant policy and her calls for a “culture of welcome” are facing a growing backlash from within her own conservative Christian Democratic Party.

Steffen Kampeter, a veteran Christian Democrat MP, insisted in an interview with Die Welt newspaper at the weekend: “We need to send more signals showing that not everyone can come to us...We must act thoroughly otherwise we will not be able to stop things going wrong.”

Erika Steinbach, another veteran conservative, said: “Life has not become easier as a result of the chancellor’s comments. I don’t know anyone who believes we can really bring the arrival of so many refugees under control – the people want a further influx stopped,” she insisted.

President Joachim Gauck also took a more cautious tone than Ms Merkel over the weekend, saying there are limits to how many refugees the country can take.

“We want to help. We have a big heart. However, there is a limit to what we can do,” he said.

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“We need to send more signals showing that not everyone can come to us...We must act thoroughly otherwise we will not be able to stop things going wrong.”

"[...] I don’t know anyone who believes we can really bring the arrival of so many refugees under control – the people want a further influx stopped,”

“We want to help. We have a big heart. However, there is a limit to what we can do,”

All valid observations. Let's hope that they can keep things under control before the roof falls in.

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Seems very unlikely

[TBoneTX 46,354]

I thought the same.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Links are important;)

[lostinblue 1,989]

Links are important;)

http://localbreakingnews.org/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11896855/Christian-and-Muslim-refugees-should-be-housed-separately-says-German-police-chief.html

[Jacque67 7,328]

Working in tandem?

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http://localbreakingnews.org/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11896855/Christian-and-Muslim-refugees-should-be-housed-separately-says-German-police-chief.html

Torygrap?, is not quoting them a breach of the TOC.

I only use hard left sources.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/call-to-segregate-rival-groups-after-clashes-at-german-asylum-centres-a6670706.html

The non racist source.

[Jacque67 7,328]

What a pair...

TOC?

Terms are important.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Jacque67

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Jörg Radek, deputy head of Germany’s police union, said migrants should be divided, following increasing numbers of attacks on Christians in refugee centres.

Since the beginning of the Islamic State takeover of massive swaths of territory in Iraq culminating in the fall of Mosul in July of 2014, more than 100,000 Iraqi Christians have fled their homes, leaving behind most of their worldly possessions. Christians who stayed behind have been subjected to torture, death and extortion.

http://www.clarionproject.org/news/isis-new-campaign-destroy-christian-houses-nineveh#

They flee and the attackers follow them into Germany.

Will German Jews and Christians be safe in their own country of Germany ?.. Should these attackers in the camps be identified and deported., or will they be turned loose on the German population ....to roam at will...

[Expat1 971]

I believe that the limit to reaching out a hand to help these people stops as soon as they bring violence with them. Segregate the violent from the rest of them and send the violent ones back home.

They walked over, they can walk back.

[lostinblue 1,989]

I believe that the limit to reaching out a hand to help these people stops as soon as they bring violence with them. Segregate the violent from the rest of them and send the violent ones back home.

They walked over, they can walk back.

They can swim back .