National Court Judge, Ismael Moreno, issues international warrants against three former SS guards.

The National Court Judge Ismael Moreno has agreed to issue an international arrest warrant against three former SS guards-Johann Leprich, Anton Tittjung and Josias Kumpf, defendants in a case that is being investigated following a complaint filed against them by several survivors of Nazi concentration camps.

National Court Judge, Ismael Moreno, issues international warrants against three former SS guards.

The National Court Judge Ismael Moreno has agreed to issue an international arrest warrant against three former SS guards-Johann Leprich, Anton Tittjung and Josias Kumpf, defendants in a case that is being investigated following a complaint filed against them by several survivors of Nazi concentration camps.

In its order, the court ordered the prosecution of three former SS and ordered their remand in custody, notified and unconditional, while calls for the police and Civil Guard to proceed with search, arrest and detention, this includes a European warrant for their arrest.

Two of the defendants, Tittjung and Leprich reside in the U.S., while Kumpf resides in Austria.

Judge Moreno considered them to be "complicit" in genocide and crimes against humanity for their activity in the concentration camps of Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen and Flossenburg in the Second World War, in which it is estimated that over 7,000 prisoners were Spanish.

Another complaint was directed also against Nazi guard quarter, Jon Dmjanjuk, who is being investigated in Germany, so the court did not expand its arrest warrant to cover this man. continues here

Race riots kill man at Spanish holiday town of Roquetas del Mar

Riot police were deployed throughout a Spanish seaside town popular with British expatriates today after the second consecutive night of rioting by African immigrants.

The fighting in Roquetas del Mar, 12 miles west of Almería, were caused by a dispute between Spanish Gypsies and African immigrants in which a 28 year old Senegalese man was stabbed to death, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.

Outraged migrant workers set fire to the home of the man they said was responsible, and erected barricades, smashed shop windows and kept firefighters at bay with stones and bottles.

Police responded with baton charges and rubber bullets in scenes that were reminiscent of race riots in the Paris suburbs last year. Four police officers were injured and several fire vehicles were damaged. Eight Africans were arrested.

It was the latest outburst of race-related violence in Spain, which has witnessed a surge of immigration in the past decade. As many as 1,000 Spanish youths fought Latin American immigrants in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcón last year. Many claimed that they were reclaiming the neighbourhood from gangs that had arrived from Central America.

Immigration has swelled the registered population in Spain from 40 million in 2000 to 46 million today. A study by the research group Fundación BBVA estimated last year that the country had the largest number of immigrants in the developed world after the US.

The economy was one of Europe’s fastest-growing but there was little tension between Spaniards and the different groups of immigrants. The Spanish Socialist Government granted an amnesty to 700,000 illegal immigrants and considered the race riots in Paris as proof that the French hardline attitude towards immigration was wrong.

Some critics now worry that, with the Spanish economy slowing and unemployment rising, episodes such as the one in Roquetas del Mar are a taste of things to come. Immigrants work mainly in the construction and service industries, which are the hardest-hit by the economic slowdown.

“To British holidaymakers, places like this may seem like paradise by the sea,” David Mathieson, an associate of FRIDE, the Madrid-based think-tank, said. “But for many marginalised people, they can turn into hell.”

Others argued that the latest incidents were not comparable to race riots such as those in Britain in the 1980s. “They still appear to be isolated incidents,” Mr Mathieson said.

A Spanish Government official denied that the economic woes of the country had anything to do with the outbreak of violence, claiming that it was strictly racial in nature. continues here

Riot in Spanish resort town after immigrant dies in stabbing

Immigrants went on the rampage yesterday after a Senegalese man was stabbed to death in a southern Spanish resort town popular with British expatriates.

Barricades were erected, at least two houses were set on fire and nine cars were damaged in Roquetas de Mar, a small town 15 miles east of Almería.

The violence flared in an area with a large immigrant population after the 28-year-old man died. Firefighters, trying to put out the blazes, described the scene as a "pitched battle" between immigrants and riot police.

Police said the violence, which started just before midnight on Saturday, was brought under control at 5am.

Four men were arrested, two from Guinea Bissau, one from Nigeria and one from Sudan. 

Four police officers were injured. A spokesman said: "For reasons which the police are investigating, [the man] was attacked by a person from the neighbourhood who police are looking for."

The scenes on the streets of the resort town in Andalucia, which has a population of 71,000, were more reminiscent of riots in the suburbs of Paris.

It is the worst rioting involving immigrants in the region since 2000, when three murders in nearby El Ejido were carried out in the space of two weeks. They were apparently committed by Moroccans, and triggered racist violence that led to 23 arrests and 50 injuries and prompted an official protest from Morocco.

Despite having one of the fastest rising immigration rates in Europe in the past decade, Spain has largely escaped violence linked to immigration such as that seen in France.

Police in Roquetas de Mar said trouble flared when the Senegalese man, whose initials were given as OK, was stabbed when he reportedly tried to intervene in a row over drugs.

Miguel Corpas, of the Almería regional government, told the Cadena Ser radio station that "a large group [of immigrants] wanted to take justice into their own hands".

He added that a "fierce battle took place [in which] the immigrants took to the streets to try to stop the firefighters putting out the fires". continues here

Does immigration and enforced integration work anywhere, why, why must they force this on us, just what have we done, do our own leaders hate us that much?