Why oh why can’t we be more like Europe? I found this report embedded in the description of a YouTube video which was a clip of a news report talking about the increase in crime by immigrants in Switzerland. Apparently armed gangs of “youths” are crossing into Swiss territory to rob banks and commit other mayhem. It’s what they’re armed with that is the issue:
Cross-border crime is on the rise, and becoming ever more violent, in western Switzerland and the Ticino, according to new statistics.
The latest figures produced by Swiss border authorities show a significant increase in the number of arrests being made at the borders, newspaper Tribune de Genève reports.
“The perpetrators are armed with assault rifles, machine guns and even rocket-propelled grenades. They will stop at almost nothing,” Jürg Noth, head of the Swiss Border Guard, told the newspaper.
“We even had a case where criminals blew up a bank with explosives,” he said.
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According to Noth, the numbers are increasing because of the rise in aggravated robbery carried out by organized crime gangs from the French suburbs, newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reports.
The criminals are believed to come mostly from around Lyon, and are targeting Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel and Jura, as well as the Ticino.
Wow. There’s a story you won’t see in the American media. Think about that for a second, Muslims from the “suburbs” (which in France and other European countries are ghettos) are bringing military grade weapons into another country to commit crimes. This would be like if American gang bangers were driving into Toronto in APCs armed with .50 cals. Everyone would assume that some other group was funding and arming them.
In other words it doesn’t sound so much like “petty crime” as … a Jihad. There’s definitively a Janjaweed feel to this story. A translation of a German report makes the situation clearer:
French immigrant gangs armed with bazookas raiding banks in Switzerland:
The swiss border guard is arming against heavily armed gangs from the french banlieues. These gangs stem mostly from the Lyon banlieue; their members are mostly french nationals of north-african origin. Until now, they have committed their raids mostly in western Switzerland [that is the german swiss term for the country’s francophone zone] and in the Ticino [Switzerland’s italophone zone].
Jürg Noth, chief of the Schweizerisches Grenzwachtkorps (GWK) [Swiss Border Guard Corps], warns against french tourists in crime raiding banks, clock manufacturers and clock museums in Switzerland. ‘The perpetrators procede each time more violently and inconsiderately’, says he in an interview with ‘NZZ am Sonntag’ [sunday edition of this newspaper – NZZ, or Neue Zürcher Zeitung]. ‘They are armed with assault rifles, submachine guns and even bazookas, and they even use them.’
These gangs stem usually from the banlieues of Lyon; their members are mostly french nationals of north-african origin. Until now, they have carried out their raids mostly in western Switzerland and the Ticino. But now they expand their activities towards north-western Switzerland [meaning: the german-language area towards Basel], continues to say Jürg Noth. ‘Severe raids have augmented in recent months.
The key word here is raid. Raiding is a part of Islamic culture and an important part of Jihad. It sounds to me like we’re a couple of years out from a multi-country Bosnia type war in Europe.