Knife-wielding suspects ‘only have White skin,’ claims former German Green Party. Her view is completely disconnected from reality

A high-profile Green Party activist claims White men should be controlled at German train stations, not foreigners, but what do the facts and data say about her claim?

By Remix News Staff
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Knife-wielding suspects “only have White skin,” claims Jette Nietzard, the former leader of the German Green Party youth wing, in a monologue-style video.

In the video, Nietzard, a controversial Green Party member, is well known for triggering anger even in his own party, says knife controls in Berlin metro stations are targeting foreigners, which she says are the wrong people. Instead, she said that White people should be targeted because Nazi publications are telling readers to carry knives in self-defense.

It is worthwhile to examine her claims.

In many German states, over 50 percent of knife crime suspects are foreigners. For instance, North Rhine-Westphalia found that 51 percent of knife crime suspects were foreign offenders. Of the German citizen suspects, 33 percent had a first name that suggested a migration background.

Every day in the German media, foreigners are committing stabbing and violence against victims, a fact represented in the statistics again and again and again and again. Following one wave last year, criminal attorney Udo Vetter stated: “We have imported knife violence. In other cultures, the knife is a kind of status symbol. This is changing the social climate here in the country. Knives have become an everyday companion for many people. And the barrier to using them is low.”

“Because if some people deliberately pack a knife as a murder weapon, more and more people will also resort to knives, supposedly to defend themselves,” stated Vetter. “Young people in particular have knives in their pockets just like their cell phones.”

If we narrow the statistics down merely to public transportation, since that is what Nietzard is talking about, it becomes clear that the vast majority of stabbings and cases of violence are coming from the foreign population, which is vastly overrepresented in such statistics relative to its size. Foreigners are responsible for 62 percent of all crimes in the German state on public transport, despite being only 16 percent of the population

Notably, German police union deputy head, Manuel Ostermann, stated: “Germany is no longer a safe country… The migration crisis is first and foremost a crime crisis.” No matter what Nietzard says, Ostermann is closer to the ground of what police officers and the victims of crime are experiencing every day in Germany.

It is not just the police saying this, though; it is the actual victims.

Michael Kyrath lost his 17-year-old daughter Ann-Marie due to a Palestinian migrant with a long history of stabbings. The migrant stabbed her and her boyfriend Danny to death at random on a train in 2023.

Since then, Kyrath has become an activist and is in contact with hundreds of families who have suffered the same fate as him. He does not speak of “Nazis” targeting his daughter or any of these other families, either.

“People always talk about these as regrettable isolated incidents. But we’re in contact with more than 1,000 families who have lost loved ones to violent crimes in recent years. It’s always the same perpetrator profile. It’s almost always the same weapon. It’s nearly always the same sequence of events. It’s always the same motives. And it’s always the same platitudes from the same politicians, who, after such an act, tearfully cry into the cameras. Then nothing happens,” he told FAZ newspaper in a new interview. “There are people running around in this country whose origins we don’t even know. We don’t know if they’re willing to accept our way of life.”

Nietzard cites no facts, no statistics, and offers vague anecdotes that she has convinced herself of based on a narrative that falls to pieces once it is challenged.

Notably, the knife controls conducted on Berlin metros may be in response to rising knife crime brought on by mass immigration, but police are not actually allowed to profile based on race or ethnicity. However, Nietzard is demanding that officers actually start to conduct police controls based on race, and in her eyes, these officers should target White men.

This disconnect from statistical reality and facts is shared by millions of German men and women, along with millions of others in Europe. For them, reality is whatever narrative they are fed by the media, along with the pseudo-religious narrative they have adopted.

Regarding her specific allegations against a Nazi carrying knives, it is also unclear what court case she is referring to, but it very well could be the recent one involving Leander S., who belongs to the far-right Third Way group.

During a recent trial, Leander S. claimed that he always carries a knife with him for protection, and it turned out to have maybe saved his life. Two far-left Antifa activists have now been sentenced to prison in Berlin court after ambushing Leander S. at his own home with a hammer. Kolja B. and Konrad E. were given one year and six months’ imprisonment, suspended for four years, for grievous bodily harm against the far-right activist.

The court found he acted in self-defense when he seriously wounded both Antifa activists by stabbing them both. Leander S. also suffered wounds during the encounter. Essentially, the court ruled that Leander S. was the victim in the case and there was no question about his right to carry a knife for self-defense purposes.

After a series of high-profile attacks involving the Antifa “Hammer Gang,” which left their victims with life-changing injuries across Germany, it is no surprise that those on the right feel the need to carry knives for self-defense, regardless of what Nietzard claims. In turn, those on the left also have the right to carry a knife in legal areas for self-defense if they feel threatened.

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