[Fake News] A guide to the german press - 2019-01-26

The press in German-speaking countries is not just there to inform people. The press in German-speaking countries shows attitude. Georg Restle does it, Anja Reschke does it and Claas Relotius receive world wide fame for it. Time to explain the standards of German-language journalism. [1] [2,S.44-45] [3] [4]

On Protschenberg in Bautzen (Saxony) crosses were set up on which there were the names of terror victims. The mayor of Bautzen Alexander Ahrens (SPD) emphasized that one has to do everything to counteract such things. [5]
Das ist eine widerwärtige Darstellung. Dahinter steht eine hetzerische Intention.

This is a disgusting presentation. Behind this is a hateful intention.

Alexander Ahrens (SPD) mayor of Bautzen [5]
When activists from the Zentrum für politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty) had placed a copy of the Holocaust memorial in front of the house of AfD Politician Björn Höcke from Thuringia the press saw no problem. During an appearance in Dresden Höcke had called the Berlin monument a "monument of shame". The Zentrum für politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty) had then built a small replica on a neighboring site of Höckes residence and funded it by a fundraiser. However it is unclear how Höcke should have called the Holocaust a shame. For anyone who calls the Holocaust less than a shame is suspicious of historical revisionism. [6]
Gegen Nazis wenden wir Nazi-Methoden an

We use Nazi methods against Nazis

Philipp Ruch leader Zentrum für politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty) [6]
As members of the Identitarian Movement stuck posters with indications of left-wing violence to the editorial offices of several newspaper and party bureaus the press wrote of attacks on newspapers and party bureaus. At the building of the newspaper taz they allegedly beat a woman. But this is wrong. The violence came from the taz employee. [7] [8] When overnight messages appeared at several venues, restaurants and publishing houses that criticized the AfD the press saw no problem. Using a laser sentences such as "No room of the AfD" or "Fears eat Souls" were projected onto buildings. The action was called "AfDentskalenders" and was accompanied by an informational Internet platform. [9]

After the handball player Stefan Kretzschmar has questioned the freedom of expression in an interview the press wrote of a false and dangerous statement. Kretzschmar said that athletes must always expect reprisals from their employers or advertising partners, if they deviate from the vocal opinion of the media. And with their vehement criticism the press indirectly gave him right. [10] [11]
When however the member of the AfD from Bremen Frank Magnitz was seriously injured in an attack the press performed a perpetrator-victim reversal. Anyone who cites the slogan "no violence" in the fight against law would allegedly abandon victims of neo-Nazis. Racially motivated violence was completely and rightly condemned. But AfD members or sympathizers are supposedly like racist murderers and therefore violence against the AfD should not be condemned. [12] [13]

In December 2018 personal data of politicians, artists and comedians were leaked over several days. Among the data are chats, mails, identity card data, phone numbers, addresses and photos of children. Affected are all parties from the German Bundestag except for the AfD and the artists and comedians from the current leak belong to the left-liberal spectrum. The Federal Minister of Justice Katarina Barley considers new stricter legal requirements software developers and social media providers due to the leak. Barley says the authors are damaging the trust in our democracy and its institutions. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
On December 3, 2018 the Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für politische Schönheit/ZPS) published the project Soko Chemnitz. The goal was to identify those who demonstrated in Chemnitz after the murder of Daniel H. and to report them to their employers. The goal was to make the suspects lose their jobs. The ZPS demanded directly to denounce colleagues, neighbors and acquaintances. The mainstrem media have mentioned the events completely uncritically or even praised them. The newspapers taz and Tagesspiegel wrote that the actions were morally justified. [19] [20] [21] [22]

After the murder of 16-year-old Michelle F. in Steyr (Austria) the press warned against Nazi meetings in memory of Michelle. At the end the police in Steyr (Austria) was alarmed to prevent disputes. [23]
When a demo of Antifa in Stuttgart degenerated and the police had to use pepper spray and batons this was considered a legitimate demonstration. The press did not woite about injuries to due the Antifa but that anti-fascists warned the public. [24]

When the Salafist preacher and former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden Sami A. was unlawfully deported the press wrote of a scandal. The deportation of Sami A. is not an isolated case. In 2017 and 2018 seven aliens were unlawfully deported. In five of the seven cases however the Federal Government has commenced the immediate return. By contrast however only 23,966 rejected asylum seekers were deported to their home countries in 2017. That was 5.6 percent less than in the previous year. In Hamburg every third deportation fails, in Lower Saxony three out of four deportations fail and deportations to Syria don't happen period. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]
After the murder of Susanna F. by an iraqi asylum seeker the press warned that the murder is instrumentalized to condem asylum seeker. On the one hand it is supposed to be an isolated case and that the AfD generalize against people of certain origins. On the other hand the author diagnoses a femicide and prefers to condemn all men instead. [30] As far as the representation of non-German crime suspects the numbers are clear. Non-German suspects are highly over-represented in criminal offenses. In murder the proportion of non-German suspects is at 37.3 percent and in homicide and assisted suicide at 44.5 percent. [31,S.19ff] The proportion of non-German suspects in general offenses against the right of sexual self-determination is at 28.7 percent. In the case of sexual harassment (§ 184i StGB) the proportion of non-German suspects is at 45.9 percent and for offenses from groups (§184J StGB) 82.1 percent. [31,S. 12]
Among the total of 95,148 victims of crimes with non-German suspects 41 percent were German and 33 percent were non-German asylum seekers or refugees. If a non-German asylum seeker or refugee was the victim of a crime then in only 15 percent of the cases Germans were suspects. [32,S.55]
Why Germany is supposed to rehabilitate criminal people from Syria, Afghanistan or Iran is still open. Germany is not responsible for the cultures in Syria, Afghanistan or Iran.

[1] Georg Restle 2018-07-03
https://twitter.com/georgrestle/status/1014133298245853184/photo/1
[2] print Juli/August 2018
http://print.wdr.de/2018-07_08/
[3] Anja Reschke: "Dagegen halten - Mund aufmachen" NDR 2015-08-05
https://youtu.be/i9kv-rmvGKg
[4] Haltung zeigen! - mit Anja Reschke 2018-12-27
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/srfglobal/video/haltung-zeigen-mit-anja-reschke?id=7d4dc80c-8f00-4df6-9d9e-1de8056b0508&startTime=198.067514&station=dd0fa1ba-4ff6-4e1a-ab74-d7e49057d96f
https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/srfglobal/haltung-zeigen-mit-anja-reschke
[5] Namen von Terroropfern benutzt - Kreuze auf dem Protschenberg in Bautzen aufgestellt 2019-01-14
https://www.mdr.de/sachsen/bautzen/bautzen-hoyerswerda-kamenz/kreuze-protschenberg-104.html
[6] Aktion des Zentrums für Politische Schönheit - Aktivisten stellen Björn Höcke Holocaust-Mahnmal vor die Tür 2017-11-23
https://www.mdr.de/kultur/zentrum-fuer-politische-schoenheit-aktion-bjoern-hoecke-holocaust-mahnmal-100.html
[7] Identitäre Bewegung greift Zeitungen und Parteibüros an 2019-01-14
https://blog.zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2019/01/14/identitaere-bewegung-greift-zeitungen-und-parteibueros-an_27911
[8] Soviel zur "gefährlichen Körperverletzung" u. "Hausfriedensbruch" 2019-01-14
https://twitter.com/IBDeutschland/status/1084762244511162368
[9] GERECHTIGKEIT - Warum Aktivisten vom “AfDentskalender” Restaurants bloßstellen, die an die AfD vermieten 2018-12-18
https://www.bento.de/politik/afd-aktivisten-vom-afdentskalender-stellen-restaurants-bloss-die-an-rechte-vermieten-a-85f1fb97-af75-4ec7-a3ab-049e0898de8b
[10] "Wir haben keine Meinungsfreiheit mehr" - Stefan Kretzschmar 2019-01-09
https://youtu.be/MIknIT6DQgg
[11] "Keine Meinungsfreiheit in diesem Land" - Stefan Kretzschmars Aussagen sind falsch und gefährlich 2019-01-14
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/keine-meinungsfreiheit-in-diesem-land-stefan-kretzschmars-aussagen-sind-falsch-und-gefaehrlich/23859836.html
[12] Bundestagsabgeordneter der AfD - Erste Ermittlungsergebnisse nach Angriff auf Frank Magnitz 2019-01-07
https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-erste-ermittlungsergebnisse-nach-angriff-auf-frank-magnitz-_arid,1796965.html
[13] Rechte Gewalt, Notwehr und Nothilfe - Danke, Antifa 2019-01-15
http://www.taz.de/!5563181/
[14] Dieser Angriff gilt der ganzen Gesellschaft 2019-01-04
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hacker-angriff-terror-internet-politik-demokratie-1.4274610
[15] Datendiebstahl eines Einzelnen? - Gehackt, gekapert, gepostet 2019-01-04
http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/datenklau-101.html
[16] BKA wurde erst spät über Datendiebstahl informiert 2019-01-05
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/bka-wurde-erst-spaet-ueber-datendiebstahl-informiert-15973471.html
[17] Online-Pranger zum Mitmachen 2018-12-03
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/zentrum-politische-schoenheit-chemnitz-1.4237167
[18] Heftiger Streit um Online-Pranger 2018-12-04
http://www.taz.de/Zentrum-fuer-Politische-Schoenheit/!5556526/
[19] Online-Pranger zum Mitmachen 2018-12-03:
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/zentrum-politische-schoenheit-chemnitz-1.4237167
[20] Heftiger Streit um Online-Pranger 2018-12-04:
http://www.taz.de/Zentrum-fuer-Politische-Schoenheit/!5556526/
[21] Neue Aktion von Politische Schönheit - Wanted: Nazis! 2018-12-03
http://www.taz.de/Neue-Aktion-von-Politische-Schoenheit/!5555146/
[22] "Darf man das?" - ist die falsche Frage 2018-12-05
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/zentrum-fuer-politische-schoenheit-darf-man-das-ist-die-falsche-frage/23712606.html
[23] Nach Mord in Steyr - Angst vor Nazi-Treffen bei Gedenken an Michelle 2018-12-18
https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/oberoesterreich/Nach-Mord-in-Steyr-Angst-vor-Nazi-Treffen-bei-Gedenken-an-Michelle/360394440
[24] Antifa-Demo in Stuttgart - Polizei setzt Pfefferspray und Schlagstöcke ein 2018-08-29
https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.demo-in-stuttgart-ein-signal-gegen-rassismus.6fc74b59-1dd5-459e-ab0a-c3688f51afcc.html
[25] Sami A. kein Einzelfall: 2018 wurden bereits 5 Ausländer rechtswidrig abgeschoben 2018-08-17
https://www.huffingtonpost.de/entry/sami-a-kein-einzelfall-rekord-bei-rechtswidrigen-abschiebungen_de_5b765b61e4b018b93e924ea1
[26] Zahl der Abschiebungen 2017 deutlich gesunken 2018-01-28
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article172934015/Ausreisepflichtige-Migranten-Zahl-der-Abschiebungen-2017-deutlich-gesunken.html
[27] Jede dritte Abschiebung in Hamburg scheitert
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Jede-dritte-Abschiebung-in-Hamburg-scheitert,abschiebungen160.html
[28] Drei von vier Abschiebungen scheitern
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Drei-von-vier-Abschiebungen-scheitern,abschiebung866.html
[29] Seehofer gegen Abschiebungen nach Syrien 2018-11-23
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/abschiebungen-syrien-105.html
[30] Kolumne Minority Report - Der Einzelfall Ali B. 2018-06-10
http://www.taz.de/!5509191/
[31] "PKS 2017 - Jahrbuch Band 4 - Einzelne Straftaten
https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/PolizeilicheKriminalstatistik/2017/pks2017Jahrbuch4Einzelne.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=5
[31] Kriminalität im Kontext von Zuwanderung Bundeslagebild 2017
https://www.bka.de/DE/AktuelleInformationen/StatistikenLagebilder/Lagebilder/KriminalitaetImKontextVonZuwanderung/KriminalitaetImKontextVonZuwanderung_node.html
https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/JahresberichteUndLagebilder/KriminalitaetImKontextVonZuwanderung/KriminalitaetImKontextVonZuwanderung_2017.html?nn=62336

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