The German police would rather let a suspected terrorist roam free than risk looking mean — and now, scores are dead by the madman’s hands.
The deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany is proof of the real danger of political correctness. When common sense is ruled out in favor of niceties, innocent people will die.
German authorities have finally issued a wanted notice for Anis Amri on Wednesday — the Islamic terror suspect they originally refused to identify — and offered a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($104,000) for information leading to the 24-year-old’s arrest, warning that he is considered “violent and armed.”
Critics were outraged to find out Tuesday that the German police previously had custody of the Islamic terror suspect — but let him go free despite knowing he was radicalized and in the country illegally.
German officials had deemed Amri, who arrived in the country last year, a potential threat long before the attack Monday — and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before halting the operation.
They failed to deport him after his asylum application was rejected in July, but police were unable to do so because he lacked valid identity papers.
Instead, he was allowed to go free.
According to Fox News, “There were red flags galore surrounding the Tunisian-born Amri” —
- Amri, 24, left Tunisia in 2010 after stealing a truck, a crime for which he was sentenced to prison time in absentia, Die Welt reported.
- He arrived in Italy but couldn’t stay out of trouble, eventually landing in an Italian prison for setting fire to a school at a refugee camp, according to an interview with Amri’s father broadcast on a Tunisian radio station. News agency Ans reported the fire was part of a revolt against “infidels.”
- Amri applied for asylum in Germany in July 2015 and was denied in June 2016; however, he was never deported. Tunisia first claimed it could not find evidence he was a citizen of the country and then delayed in sending him a passport, German officials said.
- Germany had hoped to deport Amri after learning he was plotting a “serious act of violent subversion,” an official told The Washington Post.
- Amri was reportedly arrested in Germany on at least two other occasions after his asylum rejection, however, he was released each time.
- German officials monitored Amri’s connections to extremists, and at one point investigators believed he may have offered himself as a suicide bomber, Der Spiegel reported. But due to Amri’s ambiguous statements, Germany was never able to arrest him.
- Authorities began investigating Amri in March but ended the operation in September despite uncovering some troubling connections. He had lived with a suspected Islamic extremist and was allegedly a follower of an Iraqi-born German preacher who was later arrested due to connections to ISIS.
- Officials again convened in November to share intelligence that Amri was connected to Islamist militants. A month later, Amri killed 12 people and wounded 48 when he drove a truck into a crowd at a Christmas market.
A document belonging to Amri, who according to authorities has used at least six different names and three different nationalities, was found in the cab of the market attack truck.
Two Americans were among the wounded in the attack, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
Meanwhile, Trump renewed his vow to stop radical terror groups and appeared willing to move ahead with his campaign pledge to ban temporarily Muslim immigrants suspected to have terror ties from coming to the United States.
The president-elect, when asked Wednesday if the attack in Berlin would cause him to evaluate the proposed ban, said “You know my plans. All along, I’ve been proven to be right, 100 percent correct.”
“What’s happening is disgraceful,” said Trump, who deemed the violence “an attack on humanity, and it’s got to be stopped.”
A transition spokesman said later Wednesday that Trump’s plans “might upset those with their heads stuck in the politically correct sand.”
“President-elect Trump has been clear that we will suspend admission of those from countries with high terrorism rates and apply a strict vetting procedure for those seeking entry in order to protect American lives,” spokesman Jason Miller said.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack in Berlin that left 12 people dead and 48 injured. On Wednesday, German officials launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a “violent and armed” Tunisian refugee suspected in the killings.
Former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said during an interview with ABC on Thursday morning that Trump is “the guy out there saying we need extreme vetting policies, that we need to have a better system vis a vis countries that train, harbor and export terrorists.”
“He said during the campaign long after he originally proposed that that this would be more strictly tied to countries where we know they have a history of terrorism and that this is not a complete ban,” she added.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Political correctness gone mad.
Of course, the excuse everyone wants to use for Merkel’s treasonous behavior is that her father was a Lutheran minister, and taught her to follow Jesus’ example of helping the poor and helpless.
Jesus did not say that savages should be allowed to kill innocent people (because it helps the savages), and Merkel can’t produce any evidence of that.
Someone needs to look into offshore accounts that belong to Merkel, and were funded by Muslim countries.
Jesus also told his disciples if they have no sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
Madness! Pure Madness! Maybe when they find him he’ll be fed a nice Christmas dinner. But please don’t insult him by serving pork. We wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings or be inappropriate. Afterall, he only
killed a few innocent people. No big deal. Germany is so wise in their Terrorist Policy. Only 1 million non vetted Muslims allowed. Why bother protecting taxpaying citizens. Now Obama wants the U.S. to follow in Germany”s footsteps. Thank God Trump will stop the Madness!!!
Amen, but this mad man is not out of office yet!! Wondering what his next move will be?! He is out for revenge, we see that, and to make chaos to the incoming president
Not “gone mad”. It is madness in and of itself.
No……political correctness resulting in DEATH. The stupidity of political correctness ….
They have failed in their responsibility to safeguard the citizens of Germany. Find the government or police officials responsible for this screw up and
Fire them!
Whatta think obozo has done and even ordered people to NOT enforce the law…..Import more terrorists PLEASE…..Then give’em – SS – welafre – food stamps -10K resettlement checks – 7 year tax amnesty – medical….etc….
No – the NWO gone mad —– merkel like obozo is aligned heavily with them…..Now – It’s up to the german people….
what the H is pc? this just plain stupidity! these people should be allowed 2 live in the residences of the leaders. all security pulled because it would be politically incorrect not 2 trust the murdering lunatics.
Fraulein Merkel has kept the German tradition of the past 100 years of it’s leaders leading that nation to ruin.
She is no Fraulein! She doesn’t even make a good Haus Frau!!! My German relatives are so upset with the homeland that she will not be re-elected! I don’t know if Germany has in place a way to impeach, but I’m sure it’s being worked on!!!
I always thought a Fraulien was an unmarried woman.In
” 1977 at the age of 23, Angela Kasner married physics student Ulrich Merkel and took his surname. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982.[95] Her second and current husband is quantum chemist and professor Joachim Sauer, who has largely remained out of the media spotlight.” – wikipedia
As she has no children from either marriage it is a little strange that she did not take her current husbands name or at least go back to using her birth name. I know I wouldn’t want to be married to a woman who kept her previous husbands name.But hey, that’s just me.
Merkel is just one of many elites who appear to be intent upon allowing savage primitives to destroy their own (the elites’ own) people.
There HAS to be a payoff somewhere for these elites, and I hope Trump can put someone on this, find it and expose it.
Why the ppl stand for that women is beyond me ? As far as im concerned , there is no place for a women president EVER. Take a good look at what we could have had . Same piece of garbage. 30% of the women in America are discusting. Know nothing cookie bakeing loud mouths ! Uneducated , lazy , users. Ive talked to some , they know ziltch about what is going on an yet the protest everything. If it is not demrat , its wrong. No clue what they are even talking about ! What a discusting hurd of cows.
CUTE. LOVE THE TYPOS. SHE’S REAL! AND MOST OF ALL, SHARON’S MESSAGE IS REAL. I GET IT, MOST OF AMERICA GETS IT.
The world is changing.
Let this be the death nail of the Politically Correct B.S. around the world.
In many places if you’re a Muslim extremist/trouble maker, You have rights and can do whatever you damned well please, get away with it, don’t have to give an account for what you did. But if you’re not a Muslim extremist/trouble maker, you have no rights whatsoever unless you’re very rich & wealthy.
People in Germany are past the breaking point with those damned ragheaded animals that love & promote violence for fun & enjoyment. The decent people in Germany next year when elections are held there will tell Angela Merkels you’re FIRED and all of those that side with her will also be voted out.
@ CHRISTOPHER S O’ROURKE
MERKELS FOLLOWERS WILL PROBABLY DEMAND THE GERMAN EQUIVALENT OF A RECOUNT,RIOT & CALL THE NEXT LEADERS NEW-NAZIS.
IT IS SO AMAZING TO ME THAT WE ARE NOW IN THE 21TH CENTURY AND THE GERMAN ARE SO INCAPABLE OF FINDING THOSE MUSLIM RATS. BACK IN THE EARLY 30s AND 40s THE GERMANS (NAZIS) SNIFFED OUT THE JEWS WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS EVEN THOU THEY SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE AND DID NOT LOOK DIFFERENT THAN THEMSELVES. – SEEMS LIKE KARMA IS IN ACTION
first think that needs to happen in Germany is a new government with some sense. merkel ain’t got none! That is pretty obvious. PC has to go, multi-culturalism needs to be trashed. It ain’t working! Stupid, can’t you see that? Use the gavel in the legislature to bop a bunch of someones on the head and wake up the brain. Karma in action? Maybe, I see the definition of insanity – doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. That does NOT EVER work!
The liberal left is the same all around the world, when are the people of the world going to wake up to the fact that liberalism is a metal disease. In a liberal mind two plus two does not equal four, it equals one, one group plus one group equals one group. Keep letting them run lose and the loss of life in numerous countries will multiply exponentially.