No-Go Zones? Berlin Police Chief Warns Jews, Gays to Be Cautious in Certain Areas

‘There are areas where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly homosexual or lesbians to be more attentive.’

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine

In the previous decade, there was a lot of debate about the existence of no-go zones, areas in European cities under the control of Muslim forces where the law did not apply. The authorities officially denied that such places existed, as did the media, even though they were widely described.

Here’s the Berlin police chief finally saying it out loud.

Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik has issued a warning to Jews and LGBTQ+ individuals to exercise caution in certain areas of the German capital amid rising antisemitism and hate crimes. Speaking to the press, Slowik emphasized the need for vigilance in the wake of recent events, particularly following the attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.

“There are no so-called no-go areas, meaning areas that are too dangerous to enter,” Slowik stated, as reported by Die Zeit. “However, there are areas, and we must be honest at this stage, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly homosexual or lesbians to be more attentive,” she added, emphasizing the importance of caution in public spaces.

Highlighting the tensions in certain neighborhoods, Slowik explained, “Unfortunately, there are certain neighborhoods where predominantly Arab-descended people live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups,” and where “open antisemitism is articulated there against people of Jewish faith and origin,” according to Der Standard – Archäologie. She stressed that her intention was not to stigmatize any community, stating, “I do not want to ‘defame’ any particular group of people as perpetrators,” as reported by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Refugees welcome. Everyone else unwelcome.

For the first time since the fall of Nazi Germany, Jews are once again not safe in Berlin. Not to mention gays.

None of this is news to anybody, but it’s the sort of thing that is fashionable to deny by the same sorts of people who claim that rising crime is also imaginary and that there would be no Islamic terrorism if it weren’t for cartoons.

The media and lefty activists still claim that “no-go zones” are an Islamophobic conspiracy theory.

‘No-Go Zones’: The Myth That Just Won’t Quit – Southern Poverty Law Center

How ‘no-go zone’ myth spread from fringes to mainstream – The Guardian

Jindal doubles down on Muslim ‘no-go zones’ in Europe – USA Today

Fox News Apologizes for False Claims of Muslim-Only – New York Times

The conspiracy theory seems to be so alive and well that the Berlin police chief has to warn gays and Jews not to go into these places… which don’t exist.