{"id":6718,"date":"2016-11-07T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2016-12-02T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T06:34:40","slug":"inside-germanys-no-go-zones-part-1-north-rhine-westphalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/11\/07\/inside-germanys-no-go-zones-part-1-north-rhine-westphalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Germany&#8217;s No-Go Zones: Part 1 &#8211; North Rhine-Westphalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/11\/07\/inside-germanys-no-go-zones-part-1-north-rhine-westphalia\/germany-no-go-zones\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6719\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/germany-no-go-zones.jpg\" alt=\"germany-no-go-zones\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/germany-no-go-zones.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/germany-no-go-zones-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Inside Germany&#8217;s No-Go Zones: Part 1 &#8211; North Rhine-Westphalia<\/h3>\n<p><em>Parts of major German cities have descended into pockets of lawlessness where criminal migrants have usurped control of the streets from German police.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/9279\/germany-no-go-zones-nrw\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | November 7, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Mass, unvetted immigration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is turning parts of Germany into no-go zones \u2014 lawless areas where the state has effectively lost control and where native Germans, including the police, increasingly fear to come.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities steadfastly deny the existence of such areas, but confidential police reports, testimonies from police on the ground and anecdotal evidence from local citizens all confirm that parts of major German cities have descended into pockets of lawlessness where criminal migrants have usurped control of the streets from German police.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say the problems are being exacerbated by the German government, which has relocated hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees into these areas.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper, <em>Bild<\/em>, and the newsmagazine, <em>Focus<\/em>, among others, have identified (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bild.de\/bild-plus\/politik\/inland\/problem\/ghetto-report-deutschland-45300680,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus.de\/politik\/deutschland\/nicht-nur-duisburg-betroffen-no-go-areas-in-deutschland-in-diese-viertel-traut-sich-selbst-die-polizei-nicht_id_4895620.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rp-online.de\/nrw\/panorama\/no-go-areas-in-nrw-lokale-polizei-braucht-immer-oefter-hilfe-aid-1.5660985\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) more than 40 \u201cproblem areas\u201d (<em>Problemviertel<\/em>) across Germany. These are areas where large concentrations of migrants, high levels of unemployment and chronic welfare dependency, combined with urban decay, have become incubators for anarchy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/9279\/germany-no-go-zones-nrw\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Germany&#8217;s No-Go Zones: Part 1 &#8211; North Rhine-Westphalia Parts of major German cities have descended into pockets of lawlessness where criminal migrants have usurped control of the streets from German police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[179,21,181,195],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inside Germany&#039;s No-Go Zones: Part 1 - North Rhine-Westphalia - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/11\/07\/inside-germanys-no-go-zones-part-1-north-rhine-westphalia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside Germany&#039;s No-Go Zones: Part 1 - North Rhine-Westphalia - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inside Germany&#8217;s No-Go Zones: Part 1 &#8211; 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