Germany’s political parties agree to ignore voters’ main concern
Germany’s major political parties have agreed not to address mass migration in the upcoming Cologne elections, despite it being the top issue for German voters.
Remix News reported on Friday that the CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, Left Party, Volt, and Die Partei have all signed a “fairness agreement” pledging not to blame migrants or refugees for unemployment, crime, or security concerns. All parties are competing in the upcoming Cologne elections scheduled for September 14th.
The pact, initiated by the Cologne Round Table for Integration association, excluded the Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. AfD has risen to popularity by promising to end mass immigration, which continues to negatively affect Germans. A recent report from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (BKA), for example, revealed that young migrants, particularly those from Muslim countries, commit up to 56 times more crime than German youth.
A YouGov poll in February found that German voters view mass immigration as the biggest problem facing the country. Sixty-nine percent of CDU/CSU voters, 63% of BSW voters, 54% of FDP voters, 39% of SPD voters, 29% of The Left voters, and 25% of Greens say that mass immigration is one of the most important issues. Eighty percent of Germans overall say that immigration is “much too high.”
The decision by Germany’s parties to deliberately ignore voters’ main concern is being slammed as “tactically stupid.”
"It's tactically stupid not to address issues and leave them to the AfD," political scientist Werner Patzelt told Bild. He explained that the parties “are so stupid that they don't see the tactical disadvantage and that they are so weak-minded that they don't see that they themselves are damaging our democracy by not wanting to talk about important issues."
While AfD routinely campaigns against mass immigration and the crime it brings, the Social Democrats who control the government are unlikely to take action. Germany has become increasingly protective of its migrants, even criminal ones, sometimes going so far as to punish their victims.
Convicted for stabbing a migrant sexual attacker
In April, a German court convicted an American woman of manslaughter after she fatally stabbed an East African migrant while he was sexually assaulting her.
The incident occurred in June 2024 at the main train station in Kaiserslautern, a city in northwest Germany. The 20-year-old American woman, identified as Fallyn Ball, was riding the escalator when she was grabbed on the buttocks by Alem Tekeste, a 64-year-old Eritrean migrant with a history of sex offenses. Tekeste followed Ball off the escalator and tried to grope her again. A scuffle ensued, during which witnesses said Ball warned her attacker: “Don’t touch me!” As the two struggled, she pulled a pocketknife and stabbed the migrant once in the chest. He later died from the wound.
Panicked, Ball fled the station and turned herself over to the local police. During her trial, she broke down over her actions. Psychologists testified that Ball, already emotionally fragile from childhood trauma and abuse, had acted out of fear. The migrant, on the other hand, had already been fined for four counts of sexual assault in 2024 alone, according to German media.
The court acknowledged that Ball had initially acted in self-defense but concluded that she was the attacker. “If you are no longer in an emergency situation, you become the attacker yourself,” the judge said. Ball was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a two-year suspended prison sentence and 500 hours of community service, in addition to drug counseling.
When Ball was charged last year, billionaire Elon Musk posted: “What is wrong with Germany?” and added that Ball was “being held hostage for stabbing a migrant.”
Migrant sex offenders walk free while ‘racists’ are jailed
In June 2024, German authorities jailed a woman for making “hateful remarks” against a group of migrants who raped a 15-year-old girl.
The 11 migrants had been charged for raping the child in Hamburg’s Stadtpark in 2020. The girl had been drinking with friends but found herself alone after police scattered park attendees in accordance with social distancing mandates. She was found by a group of four men, each of whom raped her in turn. She was then violated by two more men. The rapists invited others on a WhatsApp group, after which a man showed up to abuse her an additional time, and then a group of three men came to rape her as well. Her wallet and phone were stolen.
Out of the eleven migrants who were charged, two were released for lack of DNA evidence. Traces of semen from the other nine men were found on the girl’s body, and evidence showed they had shared videos of the rapes on WhatsApp.
The nine rapists came from Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran, Armenia, Kuwait, Libya, and Poland. During the trial, Judge Anne Meier-Göring criticized the men for not expressing a word of regret. Nevertheless, she sentenced only one to prison. The other eight walked free, sentenced only to probation.
The decision sparked widespread fury in Germany. Some netizens managed to find out the phone number of one of the rapists and circulated it publicly.
A 20-year-old woman, enraged by the act and the lenient sentence, began messaging the rapist. She called him a “disgusting freak” and a “dishonorable rapist pig.” “Aren’t you ashamed when you look in the mirror?” she wrote.
The migrant reported the woman’s message to the police, who charged her with hate speech. She was convicted and spent a weekend in jail, reported German media, which is more jail time than eight of the nine convicted rapists received. In court, the woman apologized for her remarks, which she said were a “reflex” and the result of impulsive behavior.
But she was not the only one to send angry messages to the rapist. Police placed 140 other people under investigation for doing the same.
