JLH has translated Hans Heckel’s latest op-ed, which concerns the deep denial by the German elites of the significance of the murder of Maria L. by an Afghan culture-enricher.

The translator includes this brief note:

One more time: the city, the politicians, the media. Heckel seems almost too burdened by disgust to be humorous.

The translated essay from the Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung:

A Fatal Dynamic What we must not think about after the murder of Maria, what it is really all about, and how to count properly The Week in Review by Hans Heckel

December 10, 2016 When the opinion-makers of the republic, with one voice, warn against “general suspicion,” we know for what the bell tolls, i.e., a new neighbor — now called a “refugee” — has committed some awful crime. Since an Afghan has been under the heaviest suspicion of having raped and murdered 19-year-old Maria in Freiburg, Baden, the warning against being generally suspicious has been flying out of the mouths of countless politicians and experts. Of course, there is no intention to belittle anything, or sweep it under the rug, and this too is routinely broadcast with the “general suspicion” alarm. The chancellor is, as usual, vague: If it should prove true that it was an Afghan refugee, then that is “absolutely to be condemned,” she says to German Broadcasting. What is “absolutely to be condemned”? That something “should prove to be true” about the nationality of the alleged perpetrator? The listeners have no clue. Besides, that (stuff about his origins) “must also be identified clearly” insists the CDU chief, in other words, “as is the case with any other murderer.” And so the line is drawn, which everyone from now on will have to walk, if they do not want to come under suspicion of being a generally suspicious character, or, as Vice Chancellor Gabriel trumpeted, a “rabble-rouser.” The word is: We formally perceive, to be sure, the cultural milieu from which the alleged perpetrator comes, and we also know by what means and route and by means of what policy he entered the country. However, we will not allow ourselves or anyone else, under threat of ostracism or punishment, to consider that there is even the most insignificant connection with the act itself. The effort put into eliminating any politically undesirable view of the atrocity causes a choking-up which, faced with the horrifying murder, compels one to run away. And yet, as politically engaged people, we are not inclined to run away, and so we look more closely at the statements, especially those of the experts. Thus, Jörg Kinzig, Professor and Director of the Tübingen Institute of Criminology, explains: “Most violent crimes come from the ranks of young men. Young refugee men also act like German young men.” Does that sound familiar? That is the way it was murmured across the land after the New Year’s Eve excesses. Some pointed to Oktoberfest, where there was also groping and rape. And that worked, until someone proved that comparing the very, very isolated sexual assaults during Oktoberfest with the mass excesses of Cologne and Hamburg is just as far-fetched as finding snow on the equator.