On June 8, the picturesque city of Annecy, nicknamed “the Pearl of the French Alps,” was convulsed with terror when a knife-wielding man attacked a group of preschool children in a park, at least one of whom was sat strapped into a pram. Four children and two adults were seriously injured. The attack, which was partially filmed by bystanders, horrified France—and the world. The attacker was a Syrian asylum seeker.

In recent years, France has seen a number of attacks by migrants, but to call them “attacks” minimizes the nature of the brutality involved. People aren’t just physically assaulted in the sense most Europeans are familiar with: a punch, a kick, or a push. They are stabbed repeatedly without warning or mercy. They’re run over at high speed while walking on the sidewalk. Some are even beheaded in public. In October of 2020, a French secondary school teacher by the name of Samuel Paty had his head chopped off on the streets of Éragny-sur-Oise, a Parisian suburb. The Chechen attacker in that case was an Islamic extremist called Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov. He attacked Paty with a meat cleaver.

Some 500 miles away, in Germany, migrants and refugees regularly carry out abhorrent crimes. On the very same day as the attack in Annecy, Bild, one of Germany’s leading papers, published a shocking story involving an Eritrean who dismembered another Eritrean, before dumping the victim’s body in the forest.

Jan Karon is a German journalist who covered this particular story and many other similar stories. “Europe in general and Germany in particular have become the sad scene of escalating migrant violence,” he says. “Hardly a day goes by without a large number of cases, which often only appear in the local news, showing the upheavals in migration policy.” According to Karon, “Arab clans” now regularly clash on the streets of Essen, a city in western Germany

His home country, Karon laments, “has created a severe self-made security problem with its ‘humanitarian’ and very open refugee policies.” Germany has granted refuge to more than 2.5 million people since 2015, primarily from the Middle East and Africa.

Many arrivals have, as we might expect, totally alien attitudes toward violence. As Karon notes, with some understatement, “they have experienced a socialization that is often at odds with civilized and highly digitalized life in Central and Western Europe.”

Stabbings, machete attacks, gang fights, and gang rapes have, until recently, hardly been a prominent feature of daily life for Europeans, but they’re par for the course in war-wracked, poverty-stricken non-Christian countries like Syria, Somalia, and Afghanistan. According to Karon, all four styles of attacks “have risen sharply and are almost never committed by Germans.” In Dortmund, four black youths recently sexually molested two girls, ages 11 and 14, on a train, forcing them to undress and bare their bodies. In Germany, gang-rapes are at an all-time high. The vast majority of the rapes are carried out by foreigners.

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