According to much of the coverage in the French and international media, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the perpetrator of Saturday’s terror attack in Paris, killed a “German” tourist, and he did so to avenge the killing of Muslims in “Palestine and Afghanistan”. Or maybe even just Palestine. According to the latest coverage in the French media, Rajabpour-Miyandoab was upset that the Eiffel Tower had been lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag (this occurred nearly two months ago) and thus chose to attack in the vicinity of the famous landmark.
But the almost entirely unreported facts of the matter are as follows. The “German” tourist was in fact Filipino or, more exactly, Filipino-German, though he appears to have grown up in the Philippines and to have merely ‘inherited’ German citizenship from a German father. He was visiting Paris with his Filipina girlfriend and another, older Filipina woman (perhaps the young woman’s mother). Neither of the two women were injured in the attack.
The group of visitors can be seen in a photo taken from the young woman’s Facebook page below.
The victim, who has only been identified as “Collin” in French news reports, is Collin Christian Bröter. His own Facebook page is here. His LinkedIn Page is here. He identifies himself on his LinkedIn page as a “Philippine Registered Nurse” and the location is still given as “Bauang, Ilocos Region, Philippines”.
It is clear from the information and entries on the pages that Bröter was educated in the Philippines and was still working there until very recently (2022).
He appears to have moved to Germany in January of this year, taking up work at a nursing home in Uelzen in Lower Saxony. German citizenship law is largely based on the so-called jus sanguinis or ‘right of blood’, meaning that German citizenship is ‘inherited’ at birth from a German parent. This will presumably have facilitated Bröter’s move to Germany.
His Filipina girlfriend Lyn is also a registered nurse, who, according to her Facebook page, lives in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony. All of the communication on Bröter’s social media pages is in Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, or English.
As will be obvious from the above photo, Rajabpour-Miyandoab will have had no idea that Bröter was “German” or had a German passport. But he may well have had some idea that Bröter and the two women were Filipinos, and, in any case, he would have had no doubt that they were East Asian.
Why is this relevant? It is relevant because there is an Islamic-State-affiliated Islamic insurgency in the Philippines and Rajabpour-Miyandoab pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the video he recorded prior to his attack.
Indeed, just hours after Rajabpour-Miyandoab killed Bröter on Saturday evening in Paris, a Catholic mass was bombed on Sunday morning in the Philippines in a terror attack for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility. Rajabpour-Miyandoab, moreover, dedicates his video message to mujahideen fighting to establish Islamic rule all around the world, explicitly including “the guardians of the religion in East Asia”.
Why is the fact that Rajabpour-Miyandoab attacked a group of Filipino tourists being covered up? In light of the foregoing, there is a very real possibility that he deliberately chose to attack them precisely because they were Filipino or East Asian. On the other hand, the idea that he killed a “German” tourist to avenge Palestinians killed by Israel is obviously absurd.
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Oh, I wonder how the French authorities could have made such a mistake.
The MSM headlines want to kindle civil war.
That´s alarming.
But it sells news. That´s the bottom line.
Welcome to Mafioso Europe, a minor gang amongst the American Mafiosi.
i.e. welcome to America.
There’s no way I’d be able to look at the above victim and two ladies and say with any confidence which East Asian country they hail from, so I think it’s just coincidence that the psycho chose this man to attack. And on the topic of said psychopath’s motivation behind his callous assault, it is important to revisit, once again, where exactly these garbage stats and info originate from and how these data are imperative in driving the propaganda which continues to put the Palestinians in the role of permanent victims and ergo Israel as the permanent villain, worldwide sympathy for the former and hatred for the latter must be maintained at all costs, for it serves a purpose in this gargantuan hot mess;
”To buttress their indignation and increasingly shrill demands, Harris and Sanders and the rest can look to no less an authority than the United Nations. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday published a chart of “Reported Casualties” in Gaza, and the numbers look grim indeed: over 15,523 deaths, with 4,257 women and 6,387 children making up fully 70% of that figure. The far-left establishment media is putting out substantially the same figures; the UK’s Guardian wrote Tuesday that “in the last three days, bombing has been heavy, and the total death toll since 7 October has risen to 15,899.”
These figures not only aroused the righteous indignation of our nation’s leftist self-appointed voices of conscience, but they moved the antisemitic Unz Review to the heights of hysteria: “We are certainly witnessing the greatest televised slaughter of helpless civilians in the history of the world, with nothing even remotely comparable coming to mind.”
Oh my, that sounds terrible indeed. But let’s step back for a moment. If you follow an asterisk down to the small print, you’ll see that the UN attributes its figures for Palestinian casualties in Gaza to the “Ministry of Health” and the “Government Media Office.” Which Ministry of Health? Which government? The UN doesn’t say, and its reticence on this point is likely due to the fact that the government and Health Ministry in question are those of Hamas in Gaza. The Guardian likewise attributes its figures to “the Gaza health ministry.” Yes, that’s right: the one that Hamas runs.
This would be like the New York Times during World War II reporting massive German civilian deaths in an Allied offensive and attributing its data to Josef Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. Hamas obviously has very good reasons to inflate the number of Palestinian civilian casualties: the higher the numbers, the angrier Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Antony Blinken get, and the closer the Biden regime moves to cutting ties with Israel and isolating the Jewish state completely.”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2023/12/05/everybody-is-upset-about-civilian-casualties-in-gaza-but-where-do-the-numbers-come-from-n4924500
Your Islamophobia knows no bounds.
The independent Geneva based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor say that 20,000+ Palestinians have been killed.
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/5957/Friday-17-November:-Twenty-thousand-Palestinians-believed-to-be-killed-in-Israel%E2%80%99s-genocide-of-Gaza
Firstly, I’ll ignore the ad hominem made-up slur, which is entirely predictable from fanatics and terrorist supporters such as yourself.
Secondly, what exactly makes this organization independent, apart from the fact they refer to themselves as an ”independent organization”? Because I see no source for the figures they quote on your linked page, dated 18 November.
Thirdly, the OCHA report ( see below link ), dated 3 December, states this at the bottom of their page;
”Disclaimer: The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures; the current numbers have been provided by the Government Media Office in Gaza and the Israeli authorities and await further verification. Other yet-to-be verified figures are also sourced.”
Therefore, if this OCHA report came *after* your supposedly ”independent” organization quoted those figures, why hasn’t the UN used them to verify
their casualty figures? Yet their disclaimer above expressly contradicts what you are implying. Furthermore, I would say it continues to be an impossibility to get any truly *independently verified* casualty figures from an ongoing war zone, hence the only source of information coming out of Gaza is via Hamas-run channels. No other channels, that have not been corrupted, are available.
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-58
It doesn’t seem to matter to people like you who support genocide and ethnic cleansing whether the death toll of brown faced Palestinian Muslims is 2,000, 20,000 or 200,000.
There is no limit in your warped mind as long as your beloved Zionist Israel eradicate Palestinians from their homeland.
You should be ashamed of yourself.