Friday, October 13, 2017

Truth-Commission Results

After the Christmas market terror attack in December of 2016, the Berlin authorities decided to do a truth-commission episode over the assassin....Amri (Tunisian guy).  It concluded yesterday.....68 pages in the final report.

There are three things to take home from this.

1.  The head local Senator from Berlin for the Berlin says in pretty strong language that virtually every single possible mistake that the cops could have made.....they ACTUALLY did make.  Mistake after mistake.  It was like the behavior you'd expect from some third-world Banana-Republic police department.   He criticizes not only the Berlin cops, but that of Baden-Wurttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia. 

On the drug trafficking and fake ID business?  That was enough to land the guy in jail, and it should have been an easy task to remove the guy from the country, or put him into long-term detention.

2.  Manipulation of the files over Anis Amri?  After the Christmas attack...it's more than obvious that digital files were altered.  You would think that the altering of the police files would be a serious thing and people punished.  The truth-commission more or less says that nothing related to punishing the people who were altering the data....will occur.  No reason behind that talk....just a blunt statement.

3.  Finally, the truth-commission kinda hinted at the end that things at the federal level aren't working.  Sixteen German states are basically running their own police enforcement routine, and at the federal level...it's more or less a public relations gimmick.....little else. 

From my perception, after you look over Anis Amri and his whole entire story....this is a young guy who arrived after screwing up with opportunities in Tunisia, and Italy....no real plan in life.....to resettle in Germany and screw-up another vast chance opportunity.  You could look at the whole story and imagine at least a thousand other characters like Anis Amri existing in Germany, and the police-system being overwhelmed to the degree (with the judges and prosecutors).....that it's a green-light all the way through dozens of intersections.  It doesn't make sense. 

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