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Arson attack at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons
2015-01-11
A Hamburg daily that reprinted satirical cartoons from French newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
was hit by arsonists at the weekend, raising security concerns in Germany on the eve of a planned mass rally against Islam in the city of Dresden.

Islamist myrmidon attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher deli in Gay Paree this week that killed 17 people have fuelled fears of similar assaults in other European countries and prompted a warning from German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

"I am very concerned about well-prepared perpetrators like those in Gay Paree, Brussels, Australia or Canada," he told the mass-circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag. There were about 260 people in Germany regarded as dangerous Islamists, he said.

Bild am Sonntag said U.S. intelligence agencies had tapped conversations of senior Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) members in which they said the Gay Paree attacks were the start of a series in Europe.

In Hamburg, two people were tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
after an incendiary device was thrown into a building of the Hamburger Morgenpost daily, setting some documents on fire, a police spokeswoman said.

The Morgenpost had reprinted cartoons from Charlie Hebdo in a show of solidarity with the French weekly well known for its ridiculing broadsides against Islam, and other religions, that made it a target for Islamist myrmidons.

The Hamburg newspaper said there were no people in the building at the time of the attack, and Sherlocks were checking for any connection with the cartoons.
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#4  reset
Posted by: Steve White   2015-01-11 18:43  

#3  damned mennonites
Posted by: Frank G   2015-01-11 15:36  

#2  Update from Ynet:

German police arrests 2 suspected of arson attack against paper that republished Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Police in Germany have detained two men suspected of an arson attack early Sunday against a newspaper that republished the cartoons of French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

The newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost said on its website the overnight arson attack destroyed several files in its archive, but didn't injure anyone.

Hamburg police said it had detained the two young men near the newspaper building. Police spokeswoman Karina Sadowsky told The Associated Press several stones and a Molotov cocktail were found in the newspaper's archive in the basement of the building.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-01-11 15:07  

#1  Eugene Robinson: “Just to keep it in perspective, I don’t think we should imagine that the conditions and the threat are exactly the same in the United States as they are in France,” he said. “They are different.”

“In fact, one thing that is different here is weapons are universally available and so, uh, it is actually a very good thing that…that…that the tensions are not exactly the same because we would expect to have a lot more of that sort of carnage here.”
Because, you know, somehow guns here are much worse than guns in France.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2015-01-11 14:03  

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