The Madness of Herbert Royle
North Rhine - Westphalia. One of the German lands. It is located, which is typical, in the west of the country, adjoining especially tolerant Belgium and the Netherlands. In fact, there is no border, so there is freedom for migrants. Migrants from the south are generally selective people, they need to go where they are richer. The Slavs are less whimsical in this regard. In any Pomerania (north-east of the country) there are not that many Arabs and Turks. They are uncomfortable there - evil Poles are squeezing out. And in Westphalia it is good.
But migration is by migration, and prayer is on schedule. Nobody canceled national customs. Christmas sabantuychik in Cologne on the eve of 2016 was a success - hundreds of attempts at rape, robberies, pogroms. Not with political slogans, as in France, but just like that, valiant prowess for, to show the Maghreb power to the well-fed burghers. And Cologne is just the largest city in North Rhine - Westphalia.
And only now the North Rhine police finally reacted (it seems that guest workers also serve there, and of Estonian origin). The local minister of internal affairs obliged his press office to always indicate the nationality of the criminals, "if it is clearly established." Remember the name of this man - Herbert Royle. Because, besides you, there will be no one to remember him: in modern Western society, such initiatives most often lead to an early end of a career. Although, of course, times are gradually changing through the efforts of the gay Arab youth. Slowly and lazily, Europeans are still moving from organizing protection committees to being more proactive.
And what about Russia?
President Vladimir Putin, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Head of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation Vladimir Pligin directly spoke about the need to ban the indication of the nationality of criminals in the media; the bill banning mentioning the nationality of terrorists was introduced by Chechen parliamentarians (strange that they are not from Vologda). The informal ban does indeed work, and if they want to get around it, the media refines themselves as best they can: they write the suspect's first and last name (sometimes with his patronymic), indicate his place of birth, and try to get a characteristic photograph.
Meanwhile, the effective ban on indicating the nationality of the suspect, accused and convicted in Russia was never adopted. There is only a vague wording in the Law on Mass Media prohibiting the use of a journalist's right to disseminate information "in order to discredit a citizen or certain categories of citizens, including on the basis of race, nationality, language, attitude to religion." Similarly, in the recommendations of Roskomnadzor: “information that incites social, racial, national or religious hatred” is prohibited. Question: Does the mention of the well-known fact that the special forces soldier Nikita Belyankin were killed in Krasnogorsk by representatives of the titular nation of Armenia is intended to discredit the Armenian people? I think not: if anyone tried to discredit him, it was the killers themselves.
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Literal adherence to the principle of “not mentioning the nationality” of suspects, accused and convicted persons sometimes leads to absurdities. We had such respected entrepreneurs of Dagestan origin Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedovs. The Summa group of companies, active activity in the transport sector, strong ties with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich … At what point did we lose the right to name their nationality - during arrest? arrest? an indictment that may well still fall apart?
After all, crime not only has a nationality, it is quite often based on this nationality itself. And we are not talking about situations when the norm of one people turns out to be a crime for another (drinking alcohol in the Arabian Peninsula or dragging lightly dressed girls into bushes in the Russian part of Russia). The unity of upbringing, culture, characteristic features of appearance and, most importantly, language makes ethnic criminal groups absolutely natural, arising almost automatically where there is a mixture of different ethnic groups and there is crime. If in a mono-ethnic society criminal elements have to invent "argo", "fenya" for conspiracy, then having their own language, sharply different from the title, becomes, unfortunately, an excellent help for criminals.
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There really is a problem, and if it is hushed up, it will gradually swell and, as a result, explode so that it will not seem a little to anyone. In this regard, "Russian Planet" sent a request to Roskomnadzor with a request to clarify the rules for mentioning the nationality of bad people. And, of course, we will follow the Westphalian experiment very closely.
Mikhail Melnikov