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Hungary
Claims Europe Has 900 “No Go Zones” Run By Terrorists
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April, 2016
[ Editor’s Note: Hungary hits
the nail on the head with the 900 no-go terrorist nests all over the
EU, and is challenging the incompetency of the EU leadership over
quite a period of time. But out of good manners, Hungary will not say
what I will.
There
could only be one of two reasons, the obvious incompetence… but
when it extends over a long time through many political
administrations, one has to look deeper. Where were all the
professional security people during all of this, both the civilian
and military side?
The
chances that they stood down — along with the political class —
without a powerful entity putting on the pressure seems very slim in
my book. I would not use the “doo-doo happens” convenient sluff
off.
Where
does this leave the unfortunate citizens, if their politicians and
defense classes are using their own people as cannon fodder on this
emerging mini-war of the worlds?
The
good news is that we saw a significant political shift in the last
German elections, and we have the Dutch vote coming up and the
challenges from the newer East European members, Poland and Hungary,
who are acting like they don’t want to be cannon fodder… but
again, for whom?
The
EU is not something they can punch in the face, or even spray
paint like a ghost. We will cross our fingers that this early
resistance we are seeing now has some staying power, because it will
take a long time to undo the damage that has been foisted on
Europe… Jim
W. Dean ]
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First
published … April 02, 2016 –
More
than 900 ‘no-go’ places with large numbers of illegal
migrants are
concentrated in EU capitals, such as Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and
London, the Hungarian government says, adding no one knows how many
terrorists arrive undetected.
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“The
“no-go” areas can’t or almost can’t be controlled by the
authorities. In European cities such as Paris, London, Stockholm or
Berlin, where there is a high number of immigrants, more than 900 of
these “no-go” zones exist,”says the website, launched this
week by the government ahead of a referendum in Hungary on the EU
quota plan.
“The
mandatory European quotas increase the terrorist risk in Europe and
imperil our culture,” the website says. “Illegal
migrants cross the borders unchecked, so we do not know who they are
and what their intentions are. We do not know how many of them are
disguised and may be terrorists.”
The
website also showed a ticking clock representing an asylum seeker
arriving in the EU every 12 seconds.
Those
who come to the EU illegally “do not respect our laws and do not
want to share common cultural values,” the website says.
“If
we do not act, we will not recognize Europe in a few decades.”
The
Hungarian government has long rejected a mandatory quota for the
resettlement of migrants and refugees. To tackle the crisis, it
argues the EU should secure its external borders.
In
September 2015, in an attempt to prevent migrants from illegally
crossing into Hungary, the government decided to erect a fence on the
border with Serbia. It also introduced tough punishments of up to
three years in prison for those abusing the border crossing or
damaging the barrier.
However,
the four-meter-high, razor-wire fence hasn’t stopped thousands of
illegal migrants from forcing their way into the country.
In
2015, over one million asylum seekers arrived in Europe, according to
data from the International Organization for Migration. Most came
from Syria, where a civil war has claimed the lives of 250,000 people
and displaced 12 million others since 2011, UN figures show. The
asylum seekers also come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Eritrea, Mali
and other countries.
Turkey builds first migrant centers, as Germany braces for new arrivals under EU-Ankara deal
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Marko Djurica / Reuters
The
tentative EU refugee-exchange deal with Turkey is soon to take
effect, as the Germans are set to take in their first refugees and
the Turkish race to build emergency accommodation for the thousands
about to be sent back from struggling Greece.
Once
the procedure starts on Monday, Germany will expect new Syrian
families with children numbering in the “double-digit
range,” German
Interior Ministry spokesman Tobias Plate told reporters on Friday.
The
agreement has faced both criticism at home in Germany and an overall
mistrust from the international community that Turkey could be
considered a ‘safe third country’ for refugees to return to,
stemming primarily from the country’s human rights record and
treatment of minority ethnic groups.
In
return Turkey is to get billions of euros in aid and political
concessions from the EU.
Turkey
is currently working on two centers for processing refugees, local
officials said on Saturday. One is being constructed in the Aegean
tourist resort of Cesme in Izmir province, which faces the troubled
Greek island of Chios. The work includes laying hundreds of meters of
cable, as well as installing fingerprinting and registration
facilities and medical ones. The centers are only a stopover point on
the way to actual refugee center.
"Once
the health checks and registration is done for the migrants, they
will be sent on to camps," Cesme
Mayor Muhittin Dalgic told Turkish media, as cited by AFP. “We
intend to complete this work with them staying for as short a time as
possible.”
A
re-admission center is also being constructed in Dikili, which faces
the Greek island of Lesbos, and a new refugee center will be opened
by the Turkish Red Crescent in Manisa – the first facility in the
south of the country.
Meanwhile
dozens of protesters gathered on Ataturk Square in Dikili on Saturday
to express their opposition to the planned building of
the refugee camp.
Places
like Greece are experiencing the hardest fallout. Violence recently
broke out in a Greek camp that has taken on one of the central roles
in the crisis. Three migrants were hospitalized in a fight on Friday
at a camp on the island of Chios, aid groups reported. This was the
second time in two days. Violence was so rough that volunteer workers
and organizations were pulling their staff out amid concerns for
their safety.
Frustration
is simmering among the refugees and migrants who don’t know where
they will be sent. In line with earlier fears voiced by EU
politicians, Greek migrant centers have begun to resemble detention
facilities, with Greece tightening the grip on people’s freedom of
movement until they are sent back to Turkey.
Turkey
is to receive its first batch of migrants from Greece on Monday. Both
countries are receiving criticism for their lack of preparedness.
The
chaos in the Greek camps happened at the same time as Amnesty
International was condemning Ankara for sending back hundreds of
refugees to war-torn Syria – something the NGO said represented
“the fatal flaws” inherent in the deal struck with the EU.
The
plan appears to be going according to earlier predictions: not only
are refugee rights being violated, but migration routes are also
splitting up, with many illegal streams of people attempting to get
back to the EU with the aid of smugglers.
Turkey,
which has taken in 2.7 million Syrians since 2011, has always sharply
denied repatriating them illegally. However, Ankara is yet to comment
on the latest accusations from Amnesty.
Over
51,000 continue to be stranded in Greece. More than a million arrived
from Turkey last year. As Athens struggles under the sheer weight,
hundreds have been drowning in the Aegean Sea on the way from Turkey.
Outraged Greek farmer plows tractor through refugee camp
A
Greek farmer, who has had enough of refugees tenting on his land near
the Idomeni border crossing with Macedonia, plowed through the
campsite on his tractor, destroying tents and scaring the
inhabitants.
Several
police officers were called on site on Thursday in order to persuade
farmer, Lazaros Oulis, to stop plowing and abandon the vehicle.
Oulis
explained his harsh actions with the need to produce food for his
cows, the Greek media reported.
“I
need to plow my field. Not somebody else's field – mine! I have a
business with 70-80 calves. I want to produce, feed them, because,
financially, I can't take this anymore,” he explained.
The
farmer said that he had “no problem at all” with the refugees and
understood how difficult things were for them, but stressed that he
had obligations of his own.
One
of the refugees, whose tent was destroyed, called Oulis “a crazy
man,” telling RT’s Ruply video agency that his children and him
now have no place to sleep.
However,
his fellow migrant Reshal Hamdo of Syria said that he understood the
farmer’s feelings.
“He
is right. I say that he is right because it's his land. We don't know
what we will do, this is not our country. It's not our land,” Hamdo
said.
Some
refugees said that Oulis started plowing the camp after a canteen he
had set up on the site stopped bringing profit due to being outdone
by eateries with lower prices.
On
Saturday, residents of the Idomeni village blocked a road leading to
the refugee camp to denounce its continued existence.
The
rise in protest moods among the Greek population in the Idomeni area,
which is mainly involved in agriculture, is explained by the fact
that “cultivation season has started,” Xanthoula Soupli, the
president of the local community, said.
“People
have lost their daily lives, they are locked in their houses all the
time, they cannot walk around Idomeni’s central square” because
of the migrants, she stressed.
“Of
course, we supported them from the beginning. We opened our houses.
We were next to them, but it is impossible for a village of 100 to
deal with 14,000 refugees and migrants," Soupli added.
Thousands
of refugees on their way to Germany and other Northern European
states set up an improvised camp in Idomeni after the Macedonian
authorities decided to close the border with Greece.
From the Guardian
Greece on brink of chaos as refugees riot over forced return to Turkey
Rival
ethnic groups clash in Piraeus and 800 break out of detention centre
on Chios as EU deal brings desperation
The
Greek government is bracing itself for violence ahead of the European
Union implementing a landmark deal that, from Monday, will see Syrian
refugees and migrants being deported back to Turkey en masse.
Rioting
and rebellion by thousands of entrapped refugees across Greece has
triggered mounting fears in Athens over the practicality of enforcing
an agreement already marred by growing concerns over its legality.
Islands have become flashpoints, with as many as 800 people breaking
out of a detention centre on Chios on Friday.
“We
are expecting violence. People in despair tend to be violent,” the
leftist-led government’s migration spokesman, Giorgos Kyritsis,
told the Observer. “The whole philosophy of the deal is to deter
human trafficking [into Europe] from the Turkish coast, but it is
going to be difficult and we are trying to use a soft approach. These
are people have fled war. They are not criminals.”
Barely
24 hours ahead of the pact coming into force, it emerged that
Frontex, the EU border agency, had not dispatched the appropriate
personnel to oversee the operation. Eight Frontex boats will
transport men, women and children, who are detained on Greek islands
and have been selected for deportation, back across the Aegean
following fast-track asylum hearings. But of the 2,300 officials the
EU has promised to send Greece only 200 have so far arrived, Kyritsis
admitted.
“We
are still waiting for the legal experts and translators they said
they would send,” he added. “Even Frontex personnel haven’t got
here yet.” Humanitarian aid also earmarked for Greece had similarly
been held up, with the result that the bankrupt country was managing
the crisis – and continued refugee flows – on very limited funds
from the state budget.
On
Saturday overstretched resources were evident in the chaos on Chios
where detainees, fearing imminent deportation, had not only run amok,
breaking through razorwire enclosing a holding centre on the island,
but in despair had marched on the town’s port. In the stampede
three refugees were stabbed as riot police tried to control the
crowds with stun guns and teargas. The camp, a former recycling
factory, had been ransacked, with cabins and even fingerprint
equipment smashed.
“This
is what happens when you have 30 policemen guarding 1,600 refugees
determined to get out,” said Benjamin Julian, an Icelandic
volunteer speaking from the island. “I witnessed it all and I know
that all the time they were chanting ‘freedom, freedom, freedom’
and ‘no Torkia, no Torkia’. That is what they want and are
determined to get.”
In
the mayhem that had ensued, panic-stricken local authorities had been
forced to divert the daily ferry connecting the island with the
mainland for fear it would be stormed.
Similar
outbreaks of violence had also occurred in Piraeus, Athens’ port
city, where eight young men had been taken to hospital after riots
erupted between rival ethnic groups on Wednesday.
With
tensions on the rise in Lesbos, the Aegean island that has borne the
brunt of the flows, and in Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonia frontier
where around 11,000 have massed since the border’s closure, NGOs
warned of a timebomb in the making. Hopes of numbers decreasing
following the announcement of the EU-Turkey deal have been dispelled
by a renewed surge in arrivals with the onset of spring.
Official
figures showed that 52,147 refugees and migrants were stranded in the
country at the weekend, with 6,129 registered on Aegean islands that
had been almost completely evacuated after the accord was reached on
20 March.. Last year, more than 1.1 million irregular migrants
streamed into Europe with over 850,000 pouring into the continent
through Greece.
Pleas
from Athens to fellow EU member states to reopen the Balkan route
have fallen on deaf ears.
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