Martin Hess, April 3, 2019, Criminal Statistics

Martin Hess

Criminal Statistics

German Bundestag, April 3, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/91, pp. 10852-10853

[Martin Hess is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg. He is a police officer. He here responds to a statement by German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer concerning police criminal statistics (PKS). Last month, in the western German state of Saarland, a government response to an AfD parliamentary inquiry indicated that approximately 10 percent of those accused of crimes involving a knife in recent years were of Middle Eastern background.]

Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Right honorable Herr Minister, each year again it can be said: the same show. You present the numbers of the police criminal statistics and go head over heels with the superlatives. You even assert that in 2018 we had the safest Germany in decades. Your viewpoint is thereby clear: You gainsay the citizens’ own judgment and defame as fearmongers and panic-makers all those who, based on personal, empirical experience, know that you, Herr Minister, are wrong. The truth is, Germany becomes ever more insecure and the subjective sense of insecurity of our citizens –

            Niema Movassat (Linke): But that is due to the AfD!

- accords quite well with the objective situation of the statistics.

I will so long repeat that, Herr Minister, until you acknowledge that the PKS do not really portray the security situation in our country. Previously, we had no concrete barricades and heavily armed police in our inner cities, and there were also no publicly organized safe zones for women. That alone quite obviously shows that day by day we are living more insecurely. Finally acknowledge that. Do not persist in insulting the intelligence of the citizens.

Herr Minister, during the presentation of the PKS, you said you did not want to speak of the violence of migrants, and thus of refugees and asylum seekers, lest you be accused of a political instrumentaliztion of the numbers. And I say to you quite clearly: We will not allow you to cover up your political failures by use of such taboos. Who wants to solve problems must clearly state the facts. The fact is, Germany is becoming more insecure and the principal cause of this is the opening of the borders in 2015.

Over one million punishable offenses by migrants, including 250,000 acts of brutality, 16,000 sexual offenses and 1,500 homicidal offenses, would never have been committed had you effectively defended our borders.

When we compare the relation between perpetrator and victim, we must state: Last year, 102 Germans fell victim to a terminal act of homicide by a migrant, yet only a single migrant was killed by a German. In 2018, a total of over 46,000 Germans were victims of punishable offenses by a migrant. That means an increase of 19 percent. The fact is, Germans are ever more frequently victims of serious punishable offenses by migrants. This development must be stopped and is unacceptable.

Let us look at Bavaria, Herr Minister, where your CSU governs. Last year, 20.8 percent of the accused in the area of violent criminality were migrants. Ten years ago, it was less than 2 percent…You cannot talk that away. That is a fact.

Keyword “knife attack”. Even the perpetrators’ lawyers concede that in the countries of origin of many migrants conflicts are resolved with a knife. And it is precisely this cultural background which is confirmed by the criminal statistics. In Baden-Württemberg in 2018, migrants account for over 30 percent of those accused in the area of violent crime by means of a knife.

            Niema Movassat (Linke): What about the AfD inquiry in Saarland?

            Beatrix von Storch (AfD): That is German.

At last be thorough, Herr Minister: Who wants to stop knife crime must stop mass immigration.

            Niema Movassat (Linke): In Saarland?

Lately, migrants in Berlin are rapidly forming street gangs. Our legal state has no real conception of the implanted criminal family clans which tyrannize our citizens and reject the state’s monopoly of violence. This problem is made more acute by migration. The BKA forewarns of an increase of clan structures and the BND [warns] of the Nigerian mafia. Herr Minister, he who wants to fight criminal family clan structures cannot import massive reinforcements into the country. Ever more citizens report to me because they are worried about their families’ safety. Especially women approach me because they are anxious about sexual aggression. They tell me, for example, that they no longer go jogging in the evening. And this anxiety is indeed confirmed also in your new victimization survey. More than half of women avoid specific places so as not to become a victim of a criminal act.

I recall the 2015 New Year’s Eve in Cologne. 661 victims of punishable acts, 43 proceedings, 3 sentences. Only 3 sentences! This balance, Herr Minister, is unworthy of a state of law. And what do you make of it? You ask yourself, How can I dissuade the citizens from their angst? And I say to you, finally trouble yourself for more security. Then this angst will pass away from that alone.

Our state of law – and this too is a fact – erodes ever more. But the AfD is resolutely opposed to this and will always again confront you with this reality. Germany can first become safe again when the illegal mass immigration is stopped. And the AfD is ready for that at any time.

            (Laughter from member Axel Müller (CDU/CSU)).

            Uli Grötsch (SPD): The worst sort! Bad! The lowest drawer!

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Gottfried Curio, April 3, 2019, Criminal Statistics

Gottfried Curio

Criminal Statistics

German Bundestag, April 2, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/91, pp. 10844-10845

[Gottfried Curio is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin. He has taught theoretical physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich and his studies include time at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. He here responds to German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer’s statement on German criminal statistics.]

The criminal statistics are presented and the Minister Seehofer is a contented man. Why is that actually? The number of narcotics offenses have increased approximately 6 percent to 350,000. The borders with Belgium and Holland must be put under surveillance. GdP director Krummen said: The border security at this point in time is good for nothing. We are as open as a barndoor. – That is not reasonable. A failure of government!

There is an increase of 40 percent of violence against police; some involving deportation, some of which must be interrupted. Although the number of non-German suspects is already over 30 percent, Seehofer leaves the borders wide open!

            Filiz Polat (Bündnis90/Grünen): Schengen!

Thereby come ever more multiple perpetrators from the Maghreb, from Libya or central Africa. The deportation process is failing. It must be more effective. We need a deportations’ financial sanctions enforcement.

Prisons – overcrowded, police – personnel shortage, courts – overburdened, Arab clans gaining ground. Yet Minister Seehofer is a contented man. The number of attacks on police, medics, firemen increases. The gray zone of unreported offenses becomes screened-off. The number of threats subject to round-the-clock surveillance increases. Yet Minister Seehofer is a contented man. But it is not the Interior Minister who should feel safe, but the citizen, he who knows exactly what is going on in his town.

Fewer break-ins of homes an achievement? Far from it. Success only due to prevention expenditures on the part of the citizen. The government does little against the criminality flooding across the border as a result of Schengen. Because the borders have not been secured, the citizen must now secure his front door. When doctors complain of increasing aggression, security training and courses in de-escalation are offered – naturally for the doctors. The migrants can let loose.

            Konstantin Kuhle (FDP): Bingo!

When ever more citizens drive with pepper spray, then has Germany become more secure? When ever more people dare not go into no-go areas, it is an anticipation of risk-avoidance on account of the already prevailing criminality, which is at the cost of the citizens’ living space. That is total government failure!

The portion of migrants among suspected perpetrators is 14 percent, for serious crimes still higher; the portion for the general population is 2 percent. For foreigners, the general crime rate is over 30 percent; for the general population it is 13 percent. Every third prisoner is a foreigner. What is the government doing about the excessive portion of foreign criminality?

            Niema Movassat (Line): Do you know the minor question in Saarland?

You give away quasi-German passports! He who has such a government need no longer worry about reunification of outlaws!

            Konstantin Kuhle (FDP): Bingo!

Without Frau Merkel’s welcome culture, last year there would not have been 500 fatal offenses, 1300 rapes and 22,100 dangerous bodily batteries. The perpetrators were at the time refugees. Yet Frau Merkel’s friendly face was, ja, more important. No wonder the citizens’ sense of insecurity increases.

He who brings into the country a million-strong, high-risk group of young men of cultures from which are acquired a readiness for violence and a contempt for women – without any emergency keyword of “self entry” – he, ladies and gentlemen, manages irresponsibly.

Police personnel in a critical state. There are also declining numbers in the statistics because there are fewer police to take reports and enforce control.

            Christoph de Vries (CDU/CSU): There are not fewer police!

Government failure! Court personnel in a critical state. In 2018, 65 urgent suspects were released because procedures were not completed in time. They are now running around free. Government failure! Clan criminality. The Essen police president states: Integration is up against the wall because many of these people do not at all want to fit in. These people look upon the state only as loot. In Essen, a clan chief is not indicted: the security risk is too high! Madhouse Germany 2019!

            Niema Movassat (Linke): That is nonsense, what you are recounting! Fake news!

The Chemnitz perpetrator ought to have been long since deported: intensive perpetrator, knife attack, 14 aliases, robbery, assault, drug dealing. Tolerance running out, he was allowed to remain and he killed. The citizens can pay for Frau Merkel’s friendly face, a deadly negligence of insufficient prevention of danger. And where the despairing citizens rise up to demonstrate against this injustice, the Chancellor’s office unleashes an unequaled disinformation campaign and a top security chief who uncovers this is dismissed as politically inconvenient.

In the security ranking of the 2017 world economic forum, Germany was in 51st place; two years ago, it was in 20th place. When Herr Seehofer says that Germany is one of the safest countries in the world: Yes, ladies and gentlemen – for criminals.

Thank you.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Peter Boehringer, March 21, 2019, Bank Regulation

Peter Boehringer

Bank Regulation

German Bundestag, March 21, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/89, pp. 10642-10643

[Peter Boehringer is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the southern German state of Bavaria. He is a businessman, investor and author and is currently chairman of the Bundestag budget committee. He here presents an AfD motion calling for an expanded right of inquiry by the Bundestag into the doings of the European Central Bank (EZB). The Target-2 program is part of the euro rescue regime designed to narrow the spread between German bond yields and those of other members of the euro zone and whereby the Germans are in effect required to pay for some of their own exports.]

Herr President. Worthy colleagues.

The motion today presented for an increased right of inquiry in the Bundestag should properly be a self-starter. Since the EU institutions exercise ever more power, they must be subject to more appropriate control. Especially the EZB exercises enormous power. It creates and moves about gigantic sums, far greater than the German state budget, and thereby in fact conducts an economic policy even though this is still characterized as monetary policy. Only a few examples to verify the enormous influence of the EZB and which quite clearly yield a need for control by us as the parliament of the largest EU nation of liability:

The EU’s purchase since only 2015 of over 2.5 trillion euros of government bonds, which is in fact an enormous public financing beyond the official public budget.

Soon, yet more hidden bank and public financing in the form of long-term credit for the TLTRO-III program announced for this year of over 1 trillion euros.

The 1.3 trillion default-endangered euros of the EZB’s Target requirements pertaining to the southern European nations. A default would be hundreds of billions for Germany.

The planned collectivization of our bank and savings investment in the sum of over 3 trillion euros.

And naturally the unnatural zero or indeed negative interest rate policy of the EZB which leads to immense damage for the savers and the banks. Not coincidentally, we must yesterday hold here an hour of debate on the emergency merger of the Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.

Etc., etc.

It is gigantic sums which the EZB has as its disposal. The German federal budget presented yesterday has on the other hand only 360 billion euros. And, yes, there is already since 2014 an EZB inquiry instrument, the so-called bank union inquiry right. It is simply dumb that that was so weakly drawn up that it as yet could almost never be successfully used.

            Patrick Schneider (CDU/CSU): Rubbish!

In 2018, it was for the first time tried. The result was the EZB’s most impudent platitudes. The concerned colleagues at that time openly characterized the answer as farce.

Yet nothing could be done about it. The legal basis was simply no longer granted. It is as before super difficult to approach the EZB. Besides, central banks are customarily not independent. Governments guarantee their existence and, in turn, the central banks purchase the governments’ paper. Thus is managed in fact a state financing. Thus the EZB from 2016 to 2018 purchased almost 100 percent of the Italian new net indebtedness. In many countries the EZB holds over 30 percent of all bonds. That cries out for parliamentary control since the German citizen is liable for these amounts, out of which credit based on nothing will be created.

The governments will never exercise a restrictive control over their central banks. The parliament must have thereon a right of inquiry, since the EZB policy substantially shrinks the management scope of future German Bundestags. The presented motion will transfer our right of inquiry, as yet insufficiently laid down in decrees and [European] Union law, to the Bundestag’s orders of business. This house can thereby provide itself with the possibility of publicly debating the mega-decisions of the EZB which far transcend national budgetary issues.

Today’s motion, on the other hand, does not deal with the Bundesbank. Why? The Bundesbank since 1999 is only a sub-branch of the EZB. The risks will be imposed on the taxpayer by the EZB. Besides, the Bundesbank management frequently and voluntarily comes to this house. An example: Last week in the audit committee we had a quite good and quite thorough hearing on Target 2 with the responsible economist and the responsible manager. It is funny that it was only the AfD delegation that made use of it. All the other parties and delegations were absent – all. That is so. It was an official hearing of our committee. There are now three possibilities: First, the colleagues already know everything about Target 2. Based on the substance, I hold that to be improbable. Second, they do not understand the importance of Target 2.

            Jürgen Braun (AfD): Or have no interest!

            Patrick Schneider (CDU/CSU): Are you still speaking on today’s theme?

That would be improbable or flippant. Third, they accept the Target 2 risks as an Act of God. We of the AfD do not and deem one who ignores to be irresponsible.

As always, the Bundesbank is present at these debates. The EZB does not do that. Therefore, vote for the change of the orders of business. A codification of the right of inquiry pertaining to the EZB is necessary and in our German interest.

Many thanks.

[Translated by Todd Martin]