Second ‘Germans Only’ Food Bank Stirs Emotions Even More

Yesterday, we here at thegoldwater.com reported that a small food bank in the German town of Essen had come under fire from local and national politicians for having decided to issue new member cards to ‘Germans’ only. One day later, someone had sprayed ‘Nazis’ on their bus.

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The head of the Essener Tafel, who has been in the media spotlight for a few days, caused further outrage among left-wing politicians by complaining that some migrants, whom the media accusing him of targeting with this rule, did not understand Germany's "queueing culture", i.e. waiting in line to be served, and therefore caused too many problems.

Now, a second food bank has stirred emotions even more, by issuing new restrictions.

They wouldn’t say it would ‘only be for Germans’, but only want to give new member cards to married women and children.

The head of the charity in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ms Renate Kampe claimed that they would be accepting no new single adults.

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Ms Kampe said about the issues with the single adult male migrants that she would be excluding: “They have a different idea of the role of the woman, but my female staff and myself deal with that pretty well.”

“When someone accuses us of racism over this, then I don’t understand the world anymore.”

Ever since the media storm erupted in Germany last week and even Chancellor Merkel waded in, various other food banks have reported on their experience with migrants in Germany.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A German charity barred foreigners from receiving free food. Merkel says that&#39;s wrong. <a href="https://t.co/x5k0lXlQul">https://t.co/x5k0lXlQul</a> <a href="https://t.co/jqWoO9z79p">https://t.co/jqWoO9z79p</a> <br> The food bank Essener Tafel in Essen, western Germany, … <a href="https://t.co/YStMS1axsy">pic.twitter.com/YStMS1axsy</a></p>&mdash; Westlake Legal Group (@WestLakeLegalGr) <a href="https://twitter.com/WestLakeLegalGr/status/968541648564072448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2018</a></blockquote>

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For example, in the eastern state of Thuringia, the female head of a food bank stated that asylum seekers had physically attacked her staff and stolen from the premises.

Source:

https://www.waz.de/staedte/vest/marler-tafel-weist-rassismus-vorwuerfe-entschieden-zurueck-id213586029.html