By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-11 20:08:27 | Updated at 2024-12-22 12:46:33
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Syrian Demonstrators Storm German Christmas Markets
The European Conservative ^ | Dec 11, 2024 | Hélène de Lauzun
Posted on 12/11/2024 10:52:52 AM PST by posterchild
On Sunday, December 8th, 11,000 Syrian migrants entered the Christmas market in Essen, Germany, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and firing shots.
Since the beginning of the week, smartphone videos of the scene have proliferated on social media, sparking a number of angry and worried reactions to the scale of the demonstration, the behaviour of the participants, and the poor police response.
This latest gathering of Syrian migrants was known to and prepared for by the police. But the planned demonstration grew in size as the fall of Bashar al-Assad was confirmed, followed by his flight from Damascus, the Syrian capital. The numbers far exceeded advance estimates: with only 300 participants expected, ultimately, thousands of Syrians lined the streets of the city carrying flags.
In the videos circulating on social media, the contrast between the aggressiveness of the demonstrators and the festive, family atmosphere of the Christmas market is striking. Online, some have asked if the choice of location was random or deliberate. They see the targeting of the Christmas market as an offensive by the demonstrators against a symbol of Christian civilisation.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; European Union; Germany; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
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1 posted on 12/11/2024 10:52:52 AM PST by posterchild
To: posterchild; All
I don’t get why those people don’t have guns of their own and start firing back as soon as that happens. That’s how it should be with every gathering that’s attacked.
To: posterchild
Syria is now a fully armed, ISIS caliphate, courtesy of Joe Biden and his Regime Change cheerleaders from both political parties.
3 posted on 12/11/2024 10:55:40 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
To: jackibutterfly
Hitler got rid of their guns, and apparently they never got them back...
4 posted on 12/11/2024 10:56:30 AM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
To: jackibutterfly
They don’t have an equivalent of the Second Amendment.
Germany’s Basic Law reads like the old USSR constitutions.
5 posted on 12/11/2024 10:57:04 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: posterchild
The Germans should enjoy their dhimmitude. It’s not like they don’t have any experience in that area.................
6 posted on 12/11/2024 10:57:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: posterchild
Firing guns and shouting ah la snack bar. So, strict gun control?
7 posted on 12/11/2024 10:57:29 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: posterchild
“some have asked if the choice of location was random or deliberate”
“Some” are absolute idiots.
8 posted on 12/11/2024 10:58:22 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Facts can be ignored, but their consequences cannot be escaped” -- Thomas Sowell)
To: posterchild
If it is where I think it is, then it is a people only area. No roads. And it will be a Christmas Market. There is a Jewish synagogue close by that gets a police presence 24/7.
Shota? Guns are only legal at gun clubs and are heavily registered. This is what happens when you let people into your country that do not care about your country.
9 posted on 12/11/2024 10:58:51 AM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
To: posterchild
I am shocked.
I’m shocked the Germans refer to these markets as Christmas markets.
I would have bet they called them Holiday markets.
10 posted on 12/11/2024 11:00:46 AM PST by Biblebelter
To: posterchild; Red Badger; Liz
Best estimates now show that some 15% of the former Syrian original population are now “refugees” inside Germany and France. More up inside the UK, Sweden and Norway on welfare. Almost none are working taxpayers.
11 posted on 12/11/2024 11:01:07 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: posterchild
Glad to hear toppling Assad is ushering in a new era peace and understanding. 🙄
12 posted on 12/11/2024 11:01:38 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: posterchild
They should tell those **** **** It’s now safe to go back to Syria. So auf viedersehen.
13 posted on 12/11/2024 11:03:30 AM PST by Migraine ( )
To: posterchild
The Germans need to get off their asses and deport these koranimals back to their newly “liberated” Syria.
14 posted on 12/11/2024 11:03:39 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
To: posterchild
Ad Frau Merkel once opined, “gee, that multiculturalism doesn’t work as well as we thought it would.”
To: posterchild
Those Muslim rascals are always up to something. And never forget, Diversity Is Our Strength.
To: Migraine
17 posted on 12/11/2024 11:06:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: posterchild
Refugees welcome. More coming Fritz!
18 posted on 12/11/2024 11:07:04 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: JonPreston
19 posted on 12/11/2024 11:07:59 AM PST by Angelino97
To: jackibutterfly; All
"I don’t get why those people don’t have guns of their own and start firing back as soon as that happens." The Marlin 336 has been the best selling civilian firearm in Germany for over 40 years. It's a poor man's "assault rifle" as it can be reloaded before the magazine is empty. It's actually quite effective in that role. "While gun ownership is widespread,[2] and associations and ranges for shooting sports and the use of historical guns and weapons in festivals are not forbidden, the use of guns for private self-defence is restricted.
The German Ministry of the Interior estimated in 2009 that the number of firearms in circulation, legally and illegally, could be up to 45 million.[3] Germany's National Gun Registry, introduced at the end of 2012, counted 5.5 million firearms in use, which are legally owned by 1.4 million people in the country. About 1.5 million sport shooters in several thousand Schützenvereinen ("voluntary shooting sport associations") own and use guns for sport, about 400,000 hunters have a licensed gun, about 300,000 collect guns and about 900,000 own an inherited gun.[3] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_Germany
20 posted on 12/11/2024 11:08:06 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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