They're having a tough time with their newly imported neighbors in Europe. For all the smiles, subsidies, and enabling, the newcomers just don't seem to be willing to settle in, assimilate, and become productive members of whatever European countries they've landed in.
In Austria, one police spokesman from the Vienna area was quoted as saying he's never seen anything like the rampant crime he's now dealing with.
More than 30 victims of a Syrian youth gang, known as “505,” have been recorded n the cities of Graz and Vienna. The suspects range in age from 17 to 20, with police reporting they dealt a “severe blow” to the group with mass arrests.
“I’ve never experienced a dimension (of crime) of this magnitude before, and I’ve been in this business for 20 years,” said police spokesman Fritz Grundnig.
The organized gang is accused of a long series of extremely violent assaults between November 2024 and June 2025, mostly in Graz. Styrian police have released details to the national media about the group, including their involvement in the narcotics trade.
The level of violence is the thing - these aren't pickpockets and parked car burglaries we're talking about.
These are vicious, random beatings that make no sense and stabbings seemingly for the hell of it.
German public servants such as police officers and firefighters are under constant threat in the capital of Berlin, but even seemingly benign positions, like a ticket inspector, can also suffer severe violence.
Two thugs, 24-year-old Mohammad A. and his wife Israa M. (22), a husband and wife duo, beat a 47-year-old ticket inspector until he went blind in one eye.
The incident occurred on Aug. 18, 2022, on the M29 bus at the Wittenbergplatz stop. The ticket inspector was checking tickets on the bus for the BVG, the Berlin transport authority.
Sometimes they're just crazy, for sure.
An 18-year-old Turkish former student stabbed a teacher and a student at the Campus Vert d’Azur high school in Antibes, southern France, on Wednesday afternoon, despite having been on a national security watchlist and previously hospitalized for psychiatric and extremist threats.
The attacker, named as Ekin A., entered the school at around 1:30 p.m. armed with a kitchen knife and lunged at a 52-year-old English teacher, stabbing her three times. He then stabbed a 16-year-old student. As panic spread through the building, the 18-year-old moved deeper inside before being confronted by the school principal, who managed to calm him until police arrived and arrested him.
Thanks to all the cultural diversity that the Europeans have insisted on importing, they also have a problem with the social customs that come with said imports, who then refuse to mellow them somewhat in order to live in a blended European society.
This has given rise to a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in cities where there's a Jewish population or those that have significant tourist groups who are Jewish. For instance, last November, the world was shocked as Palestinian supporters (the kindest way I can put it) went on a rampaging 'Jew hunt' in Amsterdam during the soccer tournament being held there. An Israeli team was participating, and the soccer hooliganism spiraled violently out of control on the city streets.
For the most part, the only way you hear about these incidents is if you read the European news pages.
But what happened in Venice last weekend was so appalling, and, sadly for Jewish tourists traveling to that kind of magical place, not an isolated incident, that it made all the major news feeds, and the Washington Post.
A ten-man gang of 'North African' migrants attacked an American orthodox Jewish couple who were walking in the city.
The mayor of Venice on Thursday condemned a reported attack over the weekend on an American Orthodox Jewish couple by assailants who shouted “Free Palestine” as a “serious and unacceptable act.”
Italian news agency AGI said three assailants, believed to be of North African origin, were apprehended.
The description of what these savages were doing until, mercifully, passing Guardia saw what was happening and intervened to save them is just unbelievable.
And on one of the city's main drags, too.
...The American and Israeli pair were surrounded by the North African men shortly before midnight on Strada Nuova, one of the main shopping thoroughfares near the Rialto Bridge in the northern Italian city.
The couple, wearing Orthodox clothing, tried to flee but were chased and surrounded by the group, who chanted “Free Palestine”.
One then set his unmuzzled rottweiler on the tourists, while another slapped the man and a glass bottle was thrown, shattering and injuring the woman’s ankle.
Officers from the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial crimes unit, saw the attack and intervened.
The Guardia managed to arrest several perpetrators and discovered that two of them were, in fact, 'illegal.'
...Three of the men were arrested, including a 31-year-old Tunisian who had slapped the husband. The Modena resident was charged with assault and banned from entering Venice for two years by its police chief.
Two others were found to be illegally residing in Italy and were transferred to a detention centre, where they await deportation.
But this isn't the first time that Jews have been targeted in Venice lately. It was only a month ago that another vicious group assaulted and set a dog on another American Jewish couple near the same area.
...The attack comes just a month after another Jewish American couple were attacked by the Rialto Bridge in Venice.
Three men threw water at the couple, then spat at them and again set a dog on them, along with a flurry of anti-Semitic insults.
What on earth?
As the mayor said in his statement, Venice is proud to be home to what's known as the oldest Jewish ghetto in Europe. The city cannot abide this hostility and remain a beloved tourist destination.
...Venice is home to what is widely considered the oldest Jewish Ghetto in Europe. The lagoon city “is and must continue to be an open, welcoming, and safe city, where mutual respect is the foundation of civil coexistence,” Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said in a statement Thursday.
And it is beloved by many, including our little family, who enjoyed a wonderful few days tucked away in a tiny Airbnb in an alleyway a few blocks off the square where the Parocchia de Santa Maria Formosa stands. Definitely out of the tourista zone, easy to log 20K steps a day from there, and the bridges do wonders for your calf muscles.
Perhaps that's why these state-sponsored ne'er-do-wells are hanging close to where all the action is vice those still mostly local folks, smaller streets, alleys, and tiny squares tucked between.
Whatever the answer is, Europe is going to have a problem when its imports become everyone's problem and the word starts getting out that it's not safe. Americans have handled, say, Italian pickpockets for decades - those are quite literally legendary.
But being slapped and having dogs set on you by unfriendly non-natives while on your 'dream' European vacation could be a bridge too far.
Americans have no problem buying a ticket to go elsewhere.
