A 22-year-old Afghan national has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of a stabbing attack that left a German student of the same age dead near the University of Trier.
Witnesses contacted emergency services at around 9:55 a.m. on Wednesday after finding the injured student on Robert-Schuman-Allee, a few hundred meters from the university campus.
According to Bild, witnesses told police that the victim had been attacked by a man armed with a knife who then fled the scene.
Paramedics attempted to resuscitate the student behind a privacy screen before taking him to hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
An immediate manhunt resulted in the arrest of the Afghan suspect later that day, who was registered to be living in the city.
The motive for the attack remains unclear, and it is currently unknown whether there was any connection between the suspect and the victim.
A police spokesperson told T-Online on Thursday morning that the suspect was expected to appear before a magistrate later that day.
Several people witnessed the attack and some required support from emergency chaplains at the scene.
The University of Trier said it had learned of the student’s death with “great dismay and deep sorrow.”
“Such an event deeply shakes us as a university community. The loss of a young person leaves a painful void in our community and leaves us speechless,” the university said.
A minute’s silence was due to be held at noon on Thursday.
Am Mittwochmorgen ist am Bahnhof Ruhpolding ein 28-jähriger afghanischer Asylbewerber mit einem Messer Amok gelaufen und hat wahllos auf unschuldige Menschen eingestochen! Schulkinder flohen in blanker Panik, schreiend und völlig verstört – ein Albtraum mitten im bayerischen… pic.twitter.com/pjzilkc4J2
On the same day as the Trier attack, a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was arrested at Ruhpolding train station, suspected of embarking on an indiscriminate knife rampage that was caught on camera.
Meanwhile, in Dresden, German police shot and wounded an armed Turkish national and known criminal after he opened fire on officers outside a Netto supermarket.
The man had reportedly been shouting “Allahu Akbar” in the lead-up to the attack, and several local residents had reported him to the police for erratic behavior in the days leading up to the stand-off.
German police shot and wounded an armed Turkish national and known criminal after he opened fire on officers outside a Netto supermarket in Dresden on Wednesday morning.
Emergency services were called to the store in the Friedrichstadt district of the city at around 8:20 a.m. after witnesses reported seeing a man carrying a weapon and threatening people in the area.
According to Dresden police speaking to Bild, officers encountered 41-year-old Mehmet Ü. armed with a musket-style rifle. He allegedly fired one shot at police before officers returned fire.
The suspect was struck multiple times and taken to a hospital where he is expected to recover.
TAG24 reported that the man shouted “Allahu Akbar” before the exchange of gunfire. One construction worker told the outlet that the suspect had been making Islamic declarations before police arrived.
“He shouted ‘Allahu Akbar,’ so we ducked down and ran,” the witness said.
One local resident filmed the stand-off from their balcony window, which shows the moment police returned fire against the suspect, who continued to say “Allahu Akbar” as he lay on the ground in a pool of blood.
🇩🇪 A Turkish gunman fired a rifle outside a supermarket in Dresden yesterday and was gunned down by German police officers.
It happened outside the Netto supermarket in the Friedrichstadt district of the city, where there was a stand-off between police and the 41-year-old known… pic.twitter.com/1iviF7msJm
Residents and nearby business owners claimed the suspect had displayed threatening and erratic behavior in the weeks before the incident, including repeatedly leering through the windows of local residents’ homes and telling people he was “God’s warrior and that a curse would befall us.”
The man had also been reported to the police for regularly screaming to himself in his apartment, day and night.
According to the German press, the Turkish national had previously served a significant prison stretch for two counts of attempted murder, being sentenced to ten years in prison back in 2013.
It is unclear why he was residing in Germany given his criminal history, or whether he had been successfully naturalized.
Former Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has resigned from parliament after accepting a senior international position with Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD.
Szijjártó announced the move on Facebook on Wednesday, saying he had submitted his resignation from his parliamentary mandate after receiving what he described as an “extremely honorable offer” from one of the world’s leading companies.
“BYD is one of the biggest automotive success stories of the past twenty years and is also the world’s leading manufacturer of new energy vehicles,” he wrote.
“From today, I will continue to work as the head of the group’s external relations and the development of new business lines.”
Szijjártó served as Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade from 2014 until April 2026, when Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party lost power. He was returned to parliament in the subsequent election but has now decided to leave politics entirely.
His appointment comes after years in which he played a central role in strengthening Hungary’s economic relationship with China and attracting major Chinese investment into the country.
During his time in government, Szijjártó helped secure BYD’s expansion into Hungary, including agreements connected to the company’s European operations and plans to increase production and exports within the European market.
BYD has become one of the most prominent Chinese companies investing in Hungary as Budapest sought to position itself as a leading European hub for electric vehicle and battery manufacturing.
In May last year, Szijjártó signed a strategic cooperation agreement with BYD executive vice president Stella Li. The agreement was presented as a major step in the company’s European expansion and in the development of closer economic ties between Hungary and China.
Wang Weizhong, the governor of Guangdong Province, described the agreement as an important development for BYD, Hungary and the wider region.
“The establishment of BYD’s European headquarters is a tangible result of Hungarian-Chinese cooperation under the One Belt, One Road Initiative,” he said. “BYD is fortunate to be able to participate in Hungary’s economic development.”
“The world can witness the boundless possibilities of Chinese-Hungarian cooperation,” he added.
Szijjártó was one of the Orbán government’s most prominent advocates of closer ties with Beijing. Hungary repeatedly broke with more cautious European governments by welcoming Chinese investment in sectors including electric vehicles, batteries, telecommunications and infrastructure.
Italy’s Court of Cassation has upheld the convictions of five members of a Pakistani migrant family over the honor killing of 18-year-old Saman Abbas in northern Italy.
Her parents, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, and her cousins, Ijaz Ikram and Noman Ul Haq, will serve life sentences. Her uncle, Danish Hasnain, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The Supreme Court rejected the defendants’ appeals, making the sentences final.
Saman was strangled in Novellara, in the province of Reggio Emilia, on the night of April 30 to May 1, 2021. She had rejected a forced marriage to an older man in Pakistan, reported her parents for abuse, and made clear that she wanted to choose whom she loved, how she dressed, and how she lived.
As cited by Il Giornale, Attorney General Marco Dall’Olio described the murder as “chilling” and said it had been planned in detail as punishment for Saman’s refusal to obey her family.
“The intention was to teach her a lesson: she couldn’t make her own decisions about her life, she couldn’t have a life of her own,” he told the court.
Prosecutors argued that the killing was premeditated and driven by the family’s refusal to accept Saman’s desire for self-determination. The appeal judges found that her wish to escape the rules imposed by her parents was treated as a serious offense within the family.
The investigation began after Saman disappeared and her then-boyfriend raised concerns. Surveillance footage from the farm where the family worked showed several people heading toward nearby fields with digging tools shortly before she vanished.
Her parents then returned to Pakistan, while other relatives attempted to flee through France and Spain. The suspects were arrested at different times and extradited to Italy.
Saman’s remains were found in November 2022 near an abandoned farmhouse after information was provided by her uncle. An autopsy confirmed that she had died from strangulation.
At the first trial in 2023, her parents were sentenced to life imprisonment and her uncle received 14 years, while the cousins were acquitted. Prosecutors appealed, arguing that all five relatives had played a role in the murder.
In April 2025, the Bologna Court of Appeal overturned the cousins’ acquittals and sentenced them to life imprisonment. It also increased the uncle’s sentence to 22 years.
Maria Teresa Manente, a lawyer representing the women’s rights organization Differenza Donna, said the killing was not an impulsive act but a deliberate punishment for Saman’s attempt to live freely.
“The plan to kill her was born at the exact moment Saman dared to assert her right to choose who to love, whether to study, how to dress, how to live,” she said. “Her freedom was her ‘crime’ in the eyes of her family; her life was the punishment.”
On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that, with the final verdict, “a painful judicial saga comes to a close.”
“Saman, a young woman of Pakistani origin in Italy, was killed by her parents and some relatives after she opposed a forced marriage and asserted her right to freely choose her own future.
“No verdict can bring her life back, but it is right that those responsible for this barbaric crime have been definitively convicted.
“In Italy, there is no room for those who presume to deny, in the name of supposed cultural or religious justifications, a woman’s freedom, dignity, and life. These are non-negotiable principles from which we will never retreat,” she added.
China exported more than one million vehicles in June, the first time the country has surpassed that figure in a single month. The total was almost 73 percent higher than in June last year, while exports during the first half of the year rose by 53 percent to more than 5.3 million vehicles.
The figures represent another serious setback for Germany’s carmakers, which are already dealing with weak demand, underused factories and declining influence in China, German broadsheet Handelsblatt reported. Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW were once widely regarded as prestigious status brands among Chinese consumers, but domestic manufacturers have rapidly closed the gap in quality and moved ahead in areas such as electric vehicles, batteries, and in-car technology.
German manufacturers are now being squeezed both at home and abroad. They are losing market share inside China while facing a growing flow of cheaper and increasingly competitive Chinese vehicles into Europe.
Automotive expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer told Bild that German companies had spent too long making only minor changes to models designed elsewhere rather than developing vehicles specifically for Chinese consumers. He said the industry had “fallen asleep at the wheel” and warned that China was now “miles ahead in automotive high-tech.”
While Germany faces plant closures, job losses and declining competitiveness, Hungary and Spain are taking a different approach by actively welcoming Chinese investment.
BYD is completing construction of its first European factory in Szeged, Hungary. Production could begin in the fourth quarter of the year, giving the Chinese company a major manufacturing base inside the European Union. BYD is also searching for a second European site, rumored to be in Spain.
Hungary has presented itself as one of the most open European destinations for Chinese industrial investment, offering Beijing a route into the EU market while securing jobs, infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity at home.
In Spain, Chinese automaker SAIC has completed trial operations at a terminal in the port of Ferrol. The project could make the port an important entry point for Chinese vehicles and components, further strengthening Spain’s role in China’s European expansion.
A 40-year-old Senegalese man denied raping a minor with an intellectual disability after appearing before the Palma Provincial Court on Monday.
The defendant, sitting with his interpreter, answered questions only from his lawyer and claimed he had never entered the garage in Manacor where the alleged sexual assault took place.
The court accepted as evidence a statement previously given by the victim, in which she stated she had met the accused through Instagram and had exchanged messages with him before agreeing to meet.
As reported by Ultima Hora, prosecutors allege the man went to the garage of the victim’s home at around 4 p.m. on April 30, 2020. They claim he knew she had a “clearly perceptible” intellectual disability.
According to the prosecution’s account, the defendant persuaded the teenager to open the garage door before entering the property. Once inside, he allegedly forced her to undress and touched her genitals.
The victim reportedly told him she did not want any form of sexual contact and asked him to allow her to leave.
Prosecutors allege the man prevented her from leaving and threatened to take a knife and kill either her or her sister if she continued to resist, Diario de Mallorca reported.
He then allegedly threw a mattress onto the garage floor and raped the teenager for approximately 10 minutes. The prosecution said the victim attempted to stop him but was unable to force him off of her.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office is seeking a nine-year prison sentence, followed by the defendant’s deportation from Spain after he has served three-quarters of his sentence.
Prosecutors are also requesting that he pay the victim €20,000 in compensation for the emotional harm she suffered.
Remix News has reported on several other cases in recent years involving the sexual assault of children with disabilities by migrants.
Last month, an 11-year-old girl with disabilities was allegedly sexually assaulted at a special-needs school in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate.
A 20-year-old unemployed Afghan man, identified as Nassar S., is accused of entering the Hans-Zulliger School without authorization and assaulting the child at knifepoint inside a school bathroom. A suspected accomplice had not been apprehended at the time of the report.
The family’s lawyer told Bild newspaper, “The girl told me that one of the two young men was at the scene of the abuse, pulled down his pants. A knife was also involved.”
In May, a 17-year-old dual citizen of Sweden and Syria was charged with the aggravated rape of a child, while a 14-year-old was also investigated over the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl with a disability.
The abuse was reportedly filmed and took place in November across four public bathrooms at a shopping center in Uppsala.
Investigators allege the two suspects acted “together and in concert,” using violence and threats to force the victim into vaginal and oral intercourse.
Although the victim was 15 at the time, she was treated as a child under the relevant legislation because her disability had resulted in a “reduced ability to protect their sexual integrity.”
The 26-year-old was also accused of sexually assaulting three other females, including two 15-year-old girls and a woman in her 40s, at swimming pools across the city.
Prosecutors alleged he first approached the disabled teenager at the Lingolsheim public swimming pool in May. Local media described the victim as “slightly disabled,” without providing further details.
In October 2024, a French former activist affiliated with the far-left La France Insoumise party in Nantes was indicted on allegations of raping and torturing a 4-year-old girl with a disability.
Pierre-Alain Cottineau, 32, was placed in pretrial detention after reportedly admitting to the allegations while in police custody.
Spain’s mass amnesty for illegal migrants could ultimately result in around three million people obtaining legal status when family reunification is included, according to senior immigration officials cited by El Mundo.
The estimate is based on approximately 1.2 million expected applicants, far above the 500,000 beneficiaries initially projected by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government.
Officials warned that each person granted legal status could later be joined by several relatives.
“For every person whose status is regularized, at least three more will be added if they apply for and are granted family reunification,” one source told the newspaper.
Senior National Police officials reportedly believe the resulting volume of applications could cause the immigration system to break down.
“The system is going to collapse. This process is something no one in their right mind would initiate. Spain is an exception, that much is clear,” police officials in highly-affected areas told the press under the condition of anonymity.
They warned that the process is widely open to abuse, suggesting that regularized foreigners could charge illegal migrants to “pose as relatives. In other words, paying for papers and certificates.”
They also accused the government of deliberately reducing the police role in the process and transferring greater responsibility to the Ministry of Migration.
Under the proposed system, police would largely produce residence cards after applications had already been approved by immigration officials. The senior officers argued that ministry personnel lack the specialist training needed to verify foreign documents and criminal records properly.
The National Police’s General Commissariat for Immigration and Borders had previously challenged the government’s justification for treating the measure as an urgent social emergency, under which Sánchez passed the amnesty by royal decree, effectively bypassing any parliamentary oversight.
An internal report, cited by El Mundo, warned that a regularization on this scale could encourage further illegal migration, create public-order concerns and place additional pressure on healthcare, schools and social services.
The report argued that the number of applicants and the short processing deadlines were incompatible with the state’s ability to absorb them.
Remix News reported last month that more than one million applications had already been submitted after the government introduced the measure.
Successful applicants would gain the right to travel within the Schengen Area, prompting criticism from conservative politicians elsewhere in Europe.
Vox leader Santiago Abascal accused Sánchez of attempting to expand the future electorate by eventually granting citizenship to large numbers of foreign residents.
Polish MEP Anna Bryłka argued that Spain’s policy could allow newly regularized migrants to move elsewhere in Europe and said the decision threatened the functioning of the Schengen system.
An earlier National Police analysis, reported by Remix News in February, estimated that between one million and 1.35 million people could qualify directly for the program.
That estimate included between 750,000 and one million migrants already living illegally in Spain, as well as up to 350,000 asylum seekers.
Applicants are generally required to show that they have lived in Spain for at least five months and do not have a criminal record.
The Czech Supreme Court has upheld a suspended prison sentence imposed on a former dissident who publicly wore clothing displaying symbols associated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to Echo24, botanist Pavel Křivka walked through Pardubice in April 2024 wearing a black sweatshirt bearing a large white letter ‘Z’ and the Russian words “For Victory.”
Lower courts convicted him of publicly approving a crime against peace and sentenced him to six months in prison, suspended for two years. An appeal to the Supreme Court has now been rejected.
“Freedom of expression is one of the fundamental rights of a democratic society, but it has its limits,” court spokeswoman Gabriela Tomíčková said.
“According to the Supreme Court, public support or approval of the most serious international crimes exceeds the limits of expression which is entitled to full constitutional protection,” she added.
The court said a person does not need to make a speech or explicitly attempt to persuade others to commit an offense. Publicly displaying symbols can itself constitute a crime when their meaning is sufficiently clear.
Judges also rejected Křivka’s argument that the Z symbol does not appear on an official list of prohibited imagery. They ruled that its meaning must be assessed in context and said the combination of the letter Z and the “For Victory” slogan could not reasonably be interpreted as anything other than support for Russian aggression.
The court said Křivka’s education and experience in public and political life meant he would have understood the symbolism. He had also repeatedly expressed opinions on Russia and Ukraine.
Prosecutors described the hoodie as “warmonger clothing” and argued that Křivka intended to stir hostility toward Ukraine and Ukrainians. His lawyer maintained that wearing clothing he liked was not illegal.
The letter Z first appeared on Russian military vehicles during the February 2022 invasion before becoming a wider propaganda symbol used at rallies, on billboards, on clothing and across Russian social media.
Křivka had previously criticized the rulings of the lower Czech courts. “I did not commit any propaganda for war or genocide or anything like that. I walked down the street in standard clothes, clothes that I bought in China when I was there to teach Czech. We have much more freedom in China than in the Czech Republic,” he said in February, as cited by Novinky.cz.
Four Syrian brothers have been sentenced to between four and seven and a half years in prison for the attempted murder of a German teacher who was allegedly having an affair with their mother.
According to Bild, the Itzehoe Regional Court found that the brothers believed their family’s honor had been violated and jointly planned the revenge attack at the Wedel Adult Education Center in Schleswig-Holstein.
Two of the brothers who were 21 at the time, Ali A. and Salih A., were each sentenced to seven years and six months in prison. Omar A., who was 19, received a six-year juvenile sentence, while Besam A., who was 17, was sentenced to four years in juvenile detention.
The verdicts are not yet legally binding and are subject to appeal.
According to NDR, the brothers lured the teacher, Hisham A., to the center’s parking lot under the false pretense that the youngest brother needed help with a German writing project.
One brother distracted the teacher in conversation while another kept watch. A third approached him from behind, slashed his neck with a knife, and stabbed him three times.
The attack damaged the teacher’s lung and spine, leaving him with potentially fatal injuries.
The court ruled that the assault amounted to jointly committed attempted murder and aggravated assault.
According to Welt, prosecutors said the brothers had discovered the alleged extramarital relationship between the teacher and their mother on the evening before the attack.
The teacher had previously given German lessons to the brothers’ parents.
The youngest brother was not believed to have been physically present during the stabbing but was convicted over his role in planning the attack and communicating with his brothers.
His defense attorney had sought an acquittal, arguing that he had only exchanged messages with the others and had not attended the scene.
The defense also argued that the eldest brother had been present but had not participated in the attack. The court rejected both arguments and largely followed the sentences requested by prosecutors.
The teacher suffered life-threatening wounds to his neck, shoulders, and lungs but narrowly survived. He had spent years volunteering to support refugees and taught German at the adult education center. Several months before the attack, Wedel’s mayor awarded him a medal of honor for his work.
An illegal Algerian migrant has been remanded in custody after allegedly punching a woman and slashing her across the face at Milan’s Duomo metro station because he believed she was looking at him a certain way.
According to MilanoToday, the 23-year-old woman of Moroccan origin was waiting for a train on the station’s yellow line platform with friends when the 27-year-old suspect confronted her at around 3.30 pm.
“What are you looking at? I’m a man and a Muslim,” he allegedly said before insulting her and punching her in the face.
When the woman tried to defend herself, the attacker allegedly produced a small knife and slashed her across the lip and cheek. Her screams were heard by several witnesses.
The blade struck close to her eye, and she was taken to hospital with injuries initially assessed as requiring ten days of treatment.
According to Il Giorno, some passengers told investigators in the immediate aftermath that the suspect had made a statement along the lines of “I am a man, and I am Muslim.” Police are continuing to examine surveillance footage and identify witnesses who left the station following the attack.
The suspect, identified as Mohammed Saidi, fled from the station but was chased by local police officers and arrested nearby, close to Via Torino and Via Falcone.
He was reportedly found hiding behind a sofa in the entrance area of a gym.
Saidi denied attacking the woman during questioning at Milan’s San Vittore prison and claimed that he was the victim.
He said the blood found at the scene was his rather than hers and claimed the wound to the woman’s face had been caused by the buckle of her own handbag during a struggle.
At an initial court hearing, the investigating judge rejected his account as implausible and upheld his detention for permanent facial disfigurement and resisting arrest.
Saidi had been arrested less than 12 hours before the metro attack over an alleged attempted robbery and damage to parked cars.
After a fast-track hearing, he was released with an order banning him from residing in Milan.
He is homeless, has no previous criminal convictions and is illegally present in Italy. He reportedly told investigators that he had arrived from France around a month earlier and wanted to be repatriated to Algeria. He had originally applied for political asylum in Germany back in 2022.
Gergely Gulyás, leader of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party parliamentary faction, announced his resignation from his position on Monday afternoon during an extraordinary press conference held at 1 p.m., marking yet another politician removed from the political opposition due to a new constitutional amendment.
Speaking at the press conference, Gulyás described the wider political consequences. “From now on, there is a political competition in Hungary where at least half of the representatives are excluded from the political competition,” he said. He added: “The replacement of the state president, the violent attitude that we experienced in the past period, is unprecedented.”
The amendment includes term limits for members of parliament. It effectively bars lawmakers with 12 or more years of service from future elections. Gulyás has been an MP since 2010, meaning he exceeds this threshold and would be restricted. In fact, many Fidesz politicians are conveniently hit by this new law as the party has been in power for 16 years. In particular, the new amendment has made Orbán ineligible to run for prime minister in any future election.
Gulyás explained the move by stressing that the representative group of the largest opposition party must be led by someone whose chances of winning an election are not limited.
Fidesz released a statement providing further context for the decision.
“This is the day of mourning for Hungarian democracy and the rule of law,” the party wrote.
Gulyás also outlined his expectations for the faction’s future leadership.
“I will ask that the Fidesz faction be led in parliamentary work by someone who has the opportunity to run in the elections after 2030,” he emphasized.
The developments mark a significant shift for Fidesz as Hungary’s largest opposition party navigates the restrictions imposed by the recent constitutional amendment which limits politicians to only two terms.
Influencer and model Jessica Goicoechea has posted a video on her social media channels in which she openly criticizes the insecurity she believes plagues Barcelona and details the personal measures she has taken to protect herself. In the clip, Goicoechea displays several security items she recently bought in Andorra, including 4 bottles of pepper sprays and a taser gun, which she describes as her “new essentials.”
The video ends with a direct message: “Now, I can go calmly through Barcelona.”
🇪🇸🔴 JUST IN: Spanish model Jessica Goicoechea shows off her 4 bottles of pepper spray and a Taser gun while speaking out against immigration.
"Now, I can go calmly through Barcelona," she said.
Following the video’s viral spread, Goicoechea wrote a statement explaining that… pic.twitter.com/ATZYvfkOaX
The publication quickly sparked intense debate across social platforms. While some users criticized her for publicly showcasing self-defense weapons, many others — particularly women — expressed support and inquired about where similar products could be purchased. In response, Goicoechea stated that she is receiving “infinite messages” from women seeking ways to protect themselves. She defended her actions by saying that, given the current situation, she believes “if you don’t protect yourself, no one will.”
Following the video’s viral spread, Goicoechea followed up with a written statement. She explained that she had never wanted to enter debates about safety or immigration but felt compelled to speak out because conditions have deteriorated.
“I’m never going to shut up again,” she declared. The model described living in fear while walking the streets of Barcelona and highlighted what she called a daily increase in stabbings and shootings that she becomes aware of almost constantly.
In the same statement, Goicoechea emphasized that her concerns are not aimed at immigration in general but specifically at individuals who commit crimes. She pointed to recidivism, impunity, and insufficient controls on people with serious criminal records as the core issues.
“The problem is not where someone comes from, but how they behave,” she maintained.
Addressing comments under her video, Goicoechea responded to one follower who linked Barcelona’s rising crime to immigration by saying she “100% agrees.”
🇵🇱 "They started hitting me in the stomach and in the face."
A Polish model, attacked by a group of migrants in Milan, spoke to Polish media about her experience.
The attack only ended abruptly thanks to the heroics of an Italian man who intervened.
“It all stems from political mistakes, regardless of the party’s political color, due to poor immigration planning,” read the comment she agreed with.
She later clarified that this agreement applied only to those who engage in criminal activity. She argued that “if you come to steal or kill, I prefer you be deported.”
Goicoechea reiterated that her goal is to call for improved street safety and a firmer response to crime. “I believe that demanding safe streets and firm laws against those who come to commit crimes is essential and common sense,” she concluded in the statement shared on her profiles.
🇵🇱🇺🇸Poland is much safer than the US, says Polish-American supermodel Joanna Krupa.
She directly refers to the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was killed by a career criminal with 14 convictions.
Her comments arrive amid a series of violent incidents recorded across Catalonia in recent weeks, including approximately thirty firearms-related events, many concentrated in the Barcelona metropolitan area. These have been accompanied by frequent robberies and assaults that continue to affect both local residents and tourists, often generating significant public attention.
Former Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has turned the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup semi-final between France and Spain into a sharp debate about racism and the evolving nature of football in Europe.
In a column published in the conservative Spanish newspaper El Debate, Rajoy praised the quality of France’s national team while adding a pointed qualification: the squad possesses players “of the highest level — however, without French players.”
The remark, coming just days before the highly charged semi-final in Dallas, immediately triggered accusations of racism and reignited long-standing debates about national identity, citizenship, and the composition of “Les Bleus.”
French Football Federation President Philippe Diallo responded sharply on social media, stating that the players “do not need citizenship documents from a former Spanish Prime Minister.”
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez went further, calling the statement “absolutely unacceptable” and incompatible with French values.
France’s embassy in Madrid issued a firm clarification: all 26 members of the French squad are French citizens. Twenty-three were born in France; the remaining three also hold French nationality.
Does Rajoy have a point?
The reality is that the French national team, along with other European football teams, have been the focus of a debate about identity for years.
French commentator and YouTuber Thaïs d’Escufon stated that there is little reason for ethnic French people to root for a team that does not reflect the nation’s historical identity.
“I couldn’t care less about soccer, but as a true native French I hope we lose, to silence all the relentless immigration advocates who use every victory to promote a multicultural France. I’d trade every World Cup won by this team for a charter flight to Africa.”
I couldn’t care less about soccer, but as a true native French I hope we loose, to silence all the relentless immigration advocates who use every victory to promote a multicultural France.
I’d trade every World Cup won by this team for a charter flight to Africa. https://t.co/BoEoj7A8wV
Thomas Joly, president of the nationalist Parti de la France, expressed a comparable view in a post that has circulated widely.
“Admittedly, the African mercenaries of the French team are undeniably talented. But no sane native Frenchman can identify with this team. All the victories in the world won’t change that. Moreover, our Afro-Maghreb immigrants have well understood this and regularly remind us that this team is theirs and not ours.”
Certes, les mercenaires africains de l'équipe de France sont talentueux, c'est indéniable.
Mais aucun Français de souche sain d'esprit ne peut s'identifier à cette équipe. Toutes les victoires du monde n'y changeront rien.
D'ailleurs, nos immigrés afro-maghrébins l'ont bien…
Notably, when teams are “too White,” the mainstream press is quick to make claims of racism. For example, in February of this year, the Associated Press slammed Sweden for not having enough “diverse” athletes in the Winter Olympics.
“At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes,” the article stated.
“That hardly reflects the diversity of the Nordic country: About 2 million of its 10 million residents were born abroad, about half of them in Asia or Africa,” the AP wrote, citing Statistic Sweden’s demographic figures.
“The Olympic rosters of France, Germany, Switzerland and other European winter sports nations look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation seen in their soccer or basketball teams,” the article continued.
This has been repeated again and again for any European team or group of athletes deemed “too White” in nearly any sport — not just the Winter Olympics.
Notice how AP suddenly wields demographic statistics, in this case the number of foreigners in Sweden. However, if these same statistic analyses to point out a distinct lack of ethnic White French people on the French team, the AP might not like the results.
After all, the French national team is far from “diverse.” In fact, the team is overwhelmingly dominated by sub-Saharan Africans, with some estimates indicating the team is up to 57 percent of African descent. Many of these players have descent from the Congo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, and other sub-Saharan African countries. The actual share of sub-Saharan Africans in France is estimated at 2.2 percent.
French of European descent and other native Europeans make up approximately 75 percent of the French population, yet their share on the French national team has plummeted.
So, how does this team reflect diversity in France? It simply does not. That is because diversity is not judged by the modern left by a makeup of different ethnicities and religions, it is judged as a lack of White people. Only then, is a team diverse.
Furthermore, if the French national team was 100 percent African, would there be mainstream hit pieces bemoaning the lack of diversity? Certainly, in certain track-and-field sports and in basketball, teams and athletes are sometimes 100 percent Black athletes. This never appears to be a cause for concern when it comes to diversity.
Certainly, one should not expect the Associated Press to ever run an article decrying the lack of White people on an NBA team or the lack of Whites on a national football team.
The criticism only goes one way, because at heart, the Associated Press and much of the mainstream press has an ideological bias and in some cases, a clear hatred against White Europeans. Of course, those within the press who promote mass immigration know that football and other sports are a powerful tool to advance this agenda. In other words, ignore statistics that insecurity is growing, housing prices are soaring, and that schools are deteriorating. As long as a European football team wins with a large group of individuals with foreign origins, then diversity is inherently good.
At least, this is the sentiment many nationalists and right-wingers have been pointing out for years. They point not only to the ethnic composition of teams like the French national team, but also to the attitude of the players themselves — such as those flying the flags of their parents’ countries of origin or making anti-White remarks.
“What’s my ‘connection’ with Mbappé, Dembélé, and other Boubakars in the group? Color-blind people are idiots. Most non-White players admit themselves that they wear the French jersey for sporting reasons, meaning financial ones. Benzema said it literally, Zidane paraded with the Algerian flag after several matches, Yamal in Spain has the flags of his parents’ countries on his sneakers, Mbappé is a left-wing activist who hates native French people voting right-wing because of insecurity. Lilian Thuram, for his part, is outright an anti-White militant, etc,” wrote Youtuber Daniel Conversano.
Quel est mon "rapport" avec Mbappe, Dembele et autres Boubakar du groupe ? Les colors blind sont des crétins. La plupart des joueurs non-blancs admettent eux-mêmes qu'ils portent le maillot francais pour des raisons sportives, entendre par là financières. Benzama l'a dit… https://t.co/KLSrUXxy6B
— Daniel Conversano ⏩ e/acc 🚀 (@dannyconversano) July 2, 2026
A debate that will only grow more intense
This debate is hardly new in France or other European nations.
In the lead-up to and aftermath of the 1998 World Cup, which France won on home soil with a diverse squad, National Front leader at the time Jean-Marie Le Pen called the team “artificial.” He argued that France “cannot recognize itself in the national side” because of the high number of players with immigrant backgrounds, particularly those of African or Caribbean origin.
He repeated and expanded these criticisms in 2006 ahead of the World Cup in Germany. At the time, Le Pen noted an overabundance of “players of color” in the squad, claiming the coach had “exaggerated” it and should have been “more careful.” He said again that France could not see itself reflected in the team.
In 2011, Laurent Blanc, who was the former France national team coach and a player, reportedly suggested introducing ethnic quotas in the youth academy system while serving as manager, which would have meant capping players of African origin at around 30 percent. He argued this was needed to produce players more aligned with French culture. The comments, leaked from a French Football Federation meeting, caused a major scandal.
So, these sentiments and concerns have been around for over 20 years. The question for the press is whether there would be cries of racism if European teams began capping the number of Whites in the Winter Olympics, for example. Again, we know the answer to this question.
Such caps already exist, though not in sports. They are present across the Western world, yet targeted at Whites in education, business, and government.
Again, this process of discrimination only works one way — against Whites.
So, should the French nation root for its national team? Each French person, of course, must decide for themselves. However, we can also take a page from the Associated Press and call out the racist policies of this team, which does not reflect the diversity of France and its people, including — gasp — White people.
Even if the French team wins the World Cup, was a policy of racism and exclusion really worth it? It’s time we had a real conversation about this very disturbing trend.
In a landmark ruling, the Paris criminal court convicted Souleymane D., a 25-year-old former after-school activity leader, of sexually assaulting a young girl aged between 3 and 5 years old. The verdict marks the first conviction of an activity leader in the ongoing Paris périscolaire scandal, which has involved multiple allegations of sexual and physical violence against children in municipal after-school programs and leisure centers.
The facts occurred between July 2023 and October 2025 at a leisure center on rue de l’Aqueduc in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, where Souleymane D. was responsible for the child. The girl reported the assaults to her parents. At trial, the accused denied the allegations, admitting only to “tickling” the child.
🇫🇷 JUST IN: A 25-year-old after-school activity leader has been convicted in Paris of sexually assaulting a child aged between 3 and 5.
Souleymane D. has just been sentenced 18 months in prison with a suspended sentence.
The court found Souleymane D. guilty of sexual assaults on a minor. It emphasized the coherence and consistency of the child’s testimony: she provided corroborative details separately to her father and mother, with no evidence of external influence from other proceedings.
In contrast, the court described the accused’s statements as “evolving” — he initially denied knowing the child, then any physical contact, before changing his account without a convincing explanation. Photographs recovered from his phone showed prohibited physical contacts with children, and the layout of the recreation area was deemed compatible with the alleged acts.
Souleymane D. has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, fully suspended and a 30-month probation. If he complies with his sentencing stipulations, he will not serve any prison time.
He has also been banned from professional activity involving contact with minors, is required to undergo psychological care, and will also be registered on the French sex offender registry (FIJAIS).
🇫🇷11 staff members are accused of sexual assaults and rapes at the Saint-Dominique nursery school, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.
"Look at that school behind us, that’s the school where my 3-year-old daughter was raped by several after-school care staff members,"… pic.twitter.com/unvnP8SUjM
This is the first conviction since the scandal gained prominence, following two recent acquittals of other former Paris animators accused of sexual assaults on minors. Those outcomes had sparked significant outrage among parents.
The victim’s family lawyer, Me Charles Héran, described the verdict as a relief: “We are glad that this child’s voice has been heard. This is a decision that changes the previous two [acquittals] and is therefore extremely encouraging for what follows… We are very satisfied with this decision. It’s what we were expecting. We sincerely hope that he will not appeal, that he will understand this decision, and that he will follow the care that has been imposed on him.”
Parents expressed mixed but largely critical sentiments toward the broader handling of such cases.
“I’m disgusted… despite everything, the children’s word is questioned,” said one parent.
Massive scandal involves 100 different schools
The case forms part of a larger scandal involving allegations of sexual and physical violence by municipal périscolaire after-school activity leaders in Paris public schools and leisure centers. The issue gained widespread attention in late 2025 and intensified in 2026, with investigations opened in more than 100 schools across all arrondissements.
The City of Paris has suspended 132 after-school activity leaders in 2026 alone, including 52 for suspicions of sexual or sexist violence. In addition, earlier data showed dozens of suspensions in 2025 for similar reasons.
Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire’s administration has responded with a €20 million action plan, including an independent commission of inquiry, improved reporting chains, and a citizens’ convention on the périscolaire organization and school programs.
Parents and #MeTooEcole organization members have repeatedly voiced frustration that children’s consistent accounts are often not deemed sufficient without additional material evidence, leading to perceptions of impunity.
In a disturbing case that has ignited fierce debate across Austria, a 12-year-old Syrian boy allegedly stabbed three teenage boys in a Vienna park, seriously injuring one with life-threatening wounds. Since he is below the country’s age of criminal responsibility of 14, the young suspect was released to his family shortly after police detained him without any charges.
The incident occurred on the evening of July 10, 2026, in Wielandpark in Vienna’s Favoriten district. According to police and multiple Austrian media reports, the 12-year-old had arranged to meet a girl online via social media. When three older boys, described as her brothers and fellow Syrians, confronted him over concerns about the girl’s “honor,” the situation escalated rapidly. The boy reportedly pulled out a folding knife and stabbed the three teenagers, aged 14, 15, and 16.
The 15-year-old victim suffered a life-threatening stab wound to the chest area and was airlifted by emergency helicopter to hospital. He has since stabilized. The other two victims sustained serious stab and cut wounds and were also hospitalized.
Police responded around 7:20 p.m. after reports of a youth fight. The suspect fled, discarding the knife, but was quickly apprehended by the WEGA special police unit in the Laaer-Berg-Strasse area.
He was questioned and then handed over to his legal guardians, according to Heute newspaper.
Political firestorm erupts
The case has triggered sharp political reactions, particularly from Integration Minister Claudia Bauer (ÖVP). She has called for lowering Austria’s age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12, arguing that current laws send a dangerous message.
In strong remarks, Minister Bauer stated: “If 12-year-olds rob, rape, or stab others with knives, then we must do something about it. Yes, children need to be educated, but if education fails, there must be other means. What kind of fatal message is it to perpetrators when their victims have to be flown to the hospital and they can go home unpunished to their mother?”
She added concerns about school safety: “It’s currently vacation, but during the school year, the perpetrator would be sitting in class again next to innocent children. That’s simply too dangerous for me.”
Bauer described the failure to update laws as “negligent,” warning that it endangers other students forced to share classrooms with serious young offenders.
The Freedom Party (FPÖ) quickly criticized Bauer, noting that they had proposed similar reforms earlier, including in February 2025, that were rejected by the ÖVP and other parties. FPÖ Wien Klubobmann Maximilian Krauss questioned the timing: “Where were these demands when they could have been implemented in parliament?”
An Austrian administrative court has confirmed a penalty against a hotel manager in St. Johann im Pongau, Salzburg state, for prohibiting two Austrian Muslim women from using the hotel pool while wearing burkinis. The ruling, issued by the Salzburg State Administrative Court, determined that the ban amounted to discrimination on the grounds of religious belief.
The incident took place last autumn at the hotel in the Pongau region. The two women, guests from Upper Austria, requested access to the pool in burkinis. Hotel management refused, arguing hygiene concerns and that other guests would feel uncomfortable, according to Austrian outlet Heute.
According to court records, the women were told they must adapt to Austrian customs. The manager reportedly stated that “with a burkini, one can perhaps swim in Saudi Arabia, but not in Austria.”
The hotel ultimately covered the cost of relocating the women to another accommodation.
The women filed a complaint with the local district authority. In February 2026, the authority imposed a €100 fine on the hotel’s managing director, but the manager appealed the decision.
On appeal, the Salzburg State Administrative Court upheld the fine and ordered the manager to pay additional procedural costs totaling €20, increasing the total to around €120. The court rejected the hygiene justification, finding no objective basis for unequal treatment.
The court ruled the hotel “discriminated against these persons on the basis of their religious confession and prevented them from using a service intended for general public use.”
The judges dismissed hygiene claims, noting that burkinis are made of the same materials as other swimwear and that routine water quality tests at the pool showed no irregularities.
Subjective discomfort expressed by other guests, the court emphasized, does not legally justify different treatment. No consistent, written pool regulations existed to support the ban.
One of the Muslim women, who is a lawyer, welcomed the decision and said it met the legal standard of discrimination.
She further described the experience of those who choose to cover their bodies for religious or personal reasons: “These people experience it as a ‘deep humiliation if they are forced to undress, although no one is harmed by it.’”
The Austrian Hotel Association (ÖHV) described the case as an individual decision that nonetheless provides useful clarity on how hotels should handle such requests. A spokesperson noted that burkinis had not previously caused significant issues in Austrian hotels.
The ruling does not set a binding precedent for other swimming facilities in Austria. It remains possible for the hotel to appeal further to the Constitutional Court or the Administrative Court.
In other areas of Europe, the burkini is actually banned or prohibited.
Several specific French coastal towns have enacted temporary municipal bans on beaches. Additionally, France’s highest administrative court has ruled that state-run public swimming pools can ban them for hygiene and secularism reasons, rejecting appeals from cities like Grenoble that tried to allow them.
Fresh figures from Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) confirm that company insolvencies are still climbing, extending a trend that has now persisted for several years amid a challenging economic environment. Now, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-chief Alice Weidel is calling it an “insolvency tsunami” and decrying the federal government’s failure to turnaround the German economy.
“Suppliers and service providers are falling like dominoes, not a week goes by without bad news. Germany’s mid-sized businesses are running out of reserves. The insolvency tsunami is driving prosperity and good jobs out of Germany. Every 20 minutes, a German company goes bankrupt,” she said in a speech in the Bundestag.
„Zulieferer und Dienstleister fallen wie Dominosteine, keine Woche ohne Hiobsbotschaften. Dem deutschen Mittelstand gehen die Reserven aus. Der Insolvenz-Tsunami vertreibt Wohlstand und gute Jobs aus Deutschland. Alle 20 Minuten geht eine deutsche Firma pleite.“ pic.twitter.com/RWrwOiwIVv
In April 2026 alone, 2,276 companies filed for insolvency — a 7.1 percent increase compared with the same month a year earlier. For the first four months of the year, the total reached 8,551 insolvencies, up 6.7 percent from the corresponding period in 2025, according to German economic newspaper Handelsblatt.
Creditors’ claims in this period totaled approximately €13.9 billion, lower than the €22.5 billion recorded in the first four months of 2025, largely because fewer large-scale bankruptcies occurred early in 2026 than in the prior year.
On a per-10,000-companies basis, the insolvency rate stood at 24.1 through April. The hardest-hit sectors remain transport and warehousing, hospitality, and construction. Destatis notes that official statistics reflect insolvencies only after an initial court decision, meaning the actual filings often occurred several months earlier.
The Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) paints an even starker picture for the economically most relevant segment — insolvencies involving partnerships and capital companies. In the first half of 2026, the IWH recorded 4,996 such cases, the highest level since the second quarter of 2005. Researchers at the institute warn that the wave now affects numerous sectors and regions simultaneously.
Corroborating data from the credit information agency Creditreform reinforces the scale of the problem. In the first half of 2026, approximately 12,900 company insolvencies were registered — a 7.8 percent rise year-on-year and the highest figure since 2013. These cases generated around €28.5 billion in damages and affected roughly 165,000 jobs.
Analysts attribute the sustained rise to a combination of factors: persistently high energy and labor costs, elevated interest rates that have made borrowing and investment more expensive, weak domestic demand, and structural challenges in key industries.
The IWH has highlighted that many smaller businesses, which make up the vast majority of insolvencies, have been particularly vulnerable after years of economic stagnation.
Some reports also point to the ripple effects of geopolitical developments, including energy price pressures linked to the Iran conflict, which have compounded existing cost burdens. However, with Europe’s decision to abandon cheap Russian energy, leaders and policymakers are scrambling to contain the fallout, with fears that gas reserves could run dangerously low in the winter.
Neither the IWH nor Creditreform anticipates a quick reversal to the economic strain. IWH insolvency researcher Steffen Müller has indicated that very high insolvency numbers are likely to continue through at least July 2026 and beyond, with no trend reversal in sight.
In the German city of Düsseldorf, what began as a large gathering of approximately 1,500 Moroccan football supporters turned violent in the early hours of Friday morning after Morocco knocked out of World Cup.
Around 12:45 a.m., the situation on Ellerstrasse deteriorated rapidly. According to Düsseldorf police, masked individuals among a crowd of roughly 1,500 fans began hurling firecrackers, glass bottles, and improvised incendiary devices at officers and into the surrounding area.
🇩🇪JUST IN: Moroccan rioters attacked police and threw incendiary devices in the German city of Düsseldorf after France knocked their team out of the World Cup.
1,500 Moroccan fans gathered to watch the World Cup.
Traffic signs were ripped from their bases and bins were overturned during the disturbances.
Three police officers were injured in the clashes. One 27-year-old officer was treated as an outpatient at a hospital, while two colleagues sustained minor injuries. Officers cleared the street to contain the violence and restore order.
Two people have been detained in connection with the attacks: a 15-year-old Moroccan national from Viersen and a 20-year-old German man from Wesseling. The minor is accused of throwing a shopping cart at police, while the 20-year-old allegedly threw a bottle toward officers. Both face charges including assault on law enforcement officers, breach of the peace, and dangerous bodily harm. Investigators are currently examining extensive video material from the scene.
The incident occurred in an area with a significant Moroccan community and follows a pattern seen in some European cities after high-stakes international matches involving North African teams. Police continue to appeal for witnesses and additional footage as they work to identify further participants.
Unrest was not limited to Düsseldorf. Reports indicate that gatherings of Moroccan supporters in several other European cities with large diaspora communities also led to clashes and disorder.
In London, Moroccan fans clashed with officers on Edgware Road in northwest London. Riot police were deployed to manage the situation amid reports of disorder on the streets.
Police officers got chased by Moroccans fans Morocco after losing to France in round of 8 riot in London Edgware Road one police officer down got rushed to hospital I hope he survived pic.twitter.com/TjlrB1KMHH
In the Netherlands, unrest broke out in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague. Riot police intervened in multiple locations after groups of fans set off fireworks, engaged in honking and street gatherings, and in some cases committed acts such as dangerous driving or throwing objects. Police made arrests for disturbing public order and related offenses.
🇫🇷JUST IN: A young man wearing a France national team jersey was assaulted by Moroccan team supporters.
French political figure Éric Zemmour is arguing that robotics represents the true economic future of France, offering a technological solution to labor shortages in factories and farms rather than relying on mass immigration.
“Robotics is the economic future of France. Robots will provide our factories and our farmers with the arms they are missing. France can choose technology rather than migratory submersion through work. For an eternal, powerful, and sovereign France in modernity: more robots, fewer immigrants,” wrote Zemmour on X.
La robotique est l’avenir économique de la France.
Les robots offriront à nos usines et à nos agriculteurs les bras qui leur manquent.
La France peut faire le choix de la technique plutôt que celui de la submersion migratoire par le travail.
Zemmour’s post directly references an interview conducted by French outlet Le Journal du Dimanche with Éric Marchiol, Renault’s director of industrial metaverse and quality.
In the interview, Marchiol detailed Renault’s development of Calvin, a new humanoid robot created in partnership with French company Wandercraft. Designed for industrial environments, Calvin is compact, capable of handling heavy loads of up to 40 kilograms (88 pounds), and adaptable to real factory conditions — such as navigating uneven packaging or small steps on assembly lines.
Renault already operates around 11,000 traditional industrial robots and 8,000 autonomous guided vehicles. The Calvin robot represents the next generation: more flexible, intelligent, and space-efficient than older fixed-arm systems. The company is testing it for repetitive, physically demanding tasks like tire handling on fast-moving production lines.
Marchiol emphasized that robotization is essential for competitiveness: “Without automation and without robotization, there is no more competitive industry.” He noted France currently has about 190 robots per 10,000 workers — significantly behind China at 380 and Germany.
The goal, he said, is to deploy these humanoid robots widely across Renault and its suppliers within the next four to five years, targeting difficult-to-fill, physically strenuous jobs.
Robots over mass immigration
As Remix News has extensively reported over the last years, automation, robotics, and now artificial intelligence are increasingly seen as the primary solution to labor shortages, and mass immigration may even hinder the development of these technologies. Western employers, instead of developing this groundbreaking technology to work in factories and agriculture, are often still relying on human labor promised to them by Western liberal leaders. Often, this human labor comes with enormous welfare and cultural assimilation costs.
Zemmour, like many others, is pointing to this automation drive as the real solution to labor shortages. He wrote that Renault’s initiative as proof that France can solve its industrial labor gaps through innovation instead of large-scale immigration.
Remix News has run a series entitled “the big immigration lie” detailing the shift in thinking on immigration, with the Asian countries serving as the main counter example to Europe’s present course of open borders. Instead of embracing cheap labor and millions of culturally alien immigrants, Asian countries like Japan, China, South Korea, and Taiwan have focused on their native populations and implementing harsh immigration restrictions.
These Asians countries now lead in many areas over Europe, including AI, robotics, renewable energies, electric cars, and automation technology in factories.
Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock and arguably one of the most powerful men on the planet, openly said last year that the countries with xenophobic immigration policies are going to have a higher standard of living, faster productivity growth, and will be better able to accommodate the social impact of artificial intelligence advances over the coming years.
“You know, we always used to think shrinking population is a cause for negative growth. But in my conversations with the leadership of these large developed countries that have xenophobic immigration policies, they don’t allow anybody to come in, shrinking unemployment, excuse me, shrinking demographics. These countries will rapidly develop robotics and AI and technology. And if the promise, I didn’t say it’s going to happen, but as a promise of all that transforms productivity, which most of us think it will, we’ll be able to elevate the standard of living of countries and the standard of living of individuals even with shrinking populations,” said Fink.
“And so the paradigm of negative population growth is going to be changing. And the social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations,” he said.
When Fink talks about xenophobic countries, he is talking about countries like South Korea, China, and Japan, where robotics and AI are being used to deal with the demographic situation instead of mass immigration.
The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
According to the statistics, 53 percent of the suspects — a total of 574 — did not have German citizenship in gang rape cases. Broken down by nationality, 110 suspects came from Syria, 64 from Afghanistan, 46 from Iraq, 44 from Turkey, and the rest from other countries, Focus Online reported.
Among the victims, 80 percent were German citizens.
While the report discloses that 509 suspects came from Germany, data about a possible migration background among German citizens was not recorded separately. Previous studies have shown that when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, a total of 75 percent of gang rapes are committed by individuals with a foreign first name.
The high number of foreigners involved in gang rape cases comes at a time when more and more foreigners have been naturalized as German citizens. Millions of migrants also have dual citizenship and whenever they rape, murder or steal, their crimes are recorded as “German” in the federal crime statistics.
🇩🇪Germany
2 Syrians have been convicted for taking turns gang raping a 27-year-old unconscious woman in Düsseldorf on top of the hood of a car, along with a third suspect who remains on the run from police.
The AfD has demanded that the interior ministry begin breaking down crime statistics not only by citizenship status but also by migration background, which would enable German authorities to determine integration success and crime rates among German citizens with a foreign background.
“Although the issue has been on the political agenda for years, there is clearly a lack of effective political and legal measures to prevent these crimes,” AfD politician Stephan Brandner told WELT.
He also responded to the fact that 72 percent of all solved cases involve a suspect who was already known to the police.
“This demonstrates a blatant failure of the judiciary, security authorities and politics. This requires consistent prosecution, faster procedures, harsher sanctions and – in the case of foreign perpetrators – consistent termination of residence. Only in this way can women be effectively protected from such acts,” Brandner stated.
During a session in the Bundestag earlier this month, Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel described a case from Nuremberg in which migrants allegedly subjugated underage girls with drugs and forced them into prostitution. Her speech was met with loud interjections in the plenary session, including laughter. According to the official Bundestag minutes, a specific MP, the Left Party’s Katrin Fey, laughed at this specific point in the address.
🇩🇪 AfD co-leader @Alice_Weidel asks German MPs, "What have you done to our country?" after exposing the migrant grooming gangs taking underage German girls as sex slaves in Nuremberg.
She then spoke about the consequences of migration policy for internal security. Weidel said that “violent, sexual and crude offenses are not ‘cold statistics,’ but daily companions of fear and ‘concern for our children.”
The AfD chairwoman then detailed the case at the Nuremberg Central Station, where young men from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and North African countries are alleged to have driven girls between the ages of 13 and 18 from precarious circumstances into drug addiction in order to force them into prostitution.
In March of this year, Jan van Aken, who was serving as co-leader of the German Left Party at the time, claimed that the most prominent cases of gang rape involved all White men during his appearance on a German podcast show hosted by Ben Berndt.
Remix News fact-checked his claim, finding that non-Whites rape at far higher rates than their White counterparts in Western countries.
The European Commission is considering the possibility of punishing Poland, which concerns Warsaw’s maintaining an embargo on the import of certain agricultural products.
According to reports from Politico, the European Commission is working on a new solution that will enable countries applying for membership in the European Union to enjoy some economic privileges before formally joining the European community.
The aim of the new solution is to accelerate the process of enlargement of the European Union without relaxing the accession criteria and without changing the existing rules for admitting new countries.
The main beneficiary of such a solution would be Ukraine, whose accession process has clearly stalled recently.
The European Commission sides with Ukraine, not Poland
Meanwhile, Brussels may take measures against Poland, precisely in the context of Ukraine’s situation. As European Commission spokesman Olof Gill said during a press conference on Thursday, the EU may initiate infringement proceedings against Warsaw. He pointed to the reason given by Poland, Slovakia and Hungary maintaining a ban on the import of selected agricultural products from Ukraine.
“We don’t rule out the possibility that additional steps will be necessary at some point, but at this stage we are continuing our involvement (in the talks) and will remain so for now,” Gill said.
The actions taken by Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are a response to the influx of huge amounts of agricultural produce from Ukraine following the liberalization of trade with that country in 2022. The situation has led to a huge drop in prices and major problems for farmers.
The EU commission spokesman stressed that member states cannot introduce restrictions of this nature on their own.
“We call on the member states concerned to withdraw their unilateral measures and we will continue to work actively with them to achieve this. We do not believe that these measures, which threaten to fragment the single market, are justified,” Gill noted.
A Spanish court has sentenced a 53-year-old woman and her 33-year-old partner to nearly 14 years in prison each for killing their 56-year-old roommate, who also owned the residence, in the Spanish city of Alicante. The pair dismembered his body with power tools and burned the remains in an attempt to conceal the crime and take over his home and pension.
The case was heard by a jury in the Alicante Provincial Court. The events occurred on a date not precisely determined but shortly before June 12, 2024, in the Virgen del Carmen neighborhood. The victim was a man living alone without a partner or children. He had medical problems that kept him mostly indoors and shared the apartment with the woman, whose partner stayed there occasionally.
According to court documents, the convicted couple “by mutual agreement, driven by their desire to make use of the housing and keep the money of the victim, ended his life.”
The exact method of the killing could not be established by autopsy. However, forensic evidence showed “fractures in the skull and in the jaw of the deceased” that were considered “indicative of the homicidal action.”
After the killing, the couple “dismembered the corpse with a radial machine and a knife and burned the remains after pouring gasoline on them in two different places on the outskirts of the city of Alicante.”
On or around June 12, 2024, they purchased “a radial machine, a grinder and a pack of 10 metal cutting discs” along with other tools for about €38 in cash. These tools, together with a knife later found in the apartment, “they used to cut off the head and the extremities of the corpse with the intention of being able to remove it from the housing without arousing the suspicions of the neighbors.”
Police found ample amounts of blood stains in the room where they believe the victim was dismembered.
The torso was placed in the male accused’s Fiat 500, and according to court documents, was taken to “a dirt path on the so-called Portell de la Serreta road, a rural area located near the Fontcalent prison.”
There, they took the torso, poured gasoline on it, and set it on fire. Their goal was to hide their fingerprints and other evidence. The other parts of the body, the limbs and the head, were deposited at different locations within a mile of each other.
The pair then used the victim’s bank card to withdraw a total of 820 euros in cash. The apartment itself was described as being in a “lamentable state of dirtiness, full of garbage and without the slightest hygiene.”
The convicted individuals admitted that they dismembered the corpse “with the intention of avoiding problems after having found him dead.”
However, they denied having ended the victim’s life, claiming instead that he had died from a heatstroke. They also admitted to carrying out the money withdrawals with the victim’s bank book.
However, the court determined, based on all the evidence, that the two had ended the man’s life.
The sentence consists of 12 years for homicide plus 1 year, 9 months, and 1 day for the continued fraud offense. The verdict is not final and may be appealed to the higher court of the Valencian Community.
The right-wing Vox party in this Barcelona-area town said an immigrant from North Africa’s Maghreb region sexually assaulted a minor under the age of 15 during the local patron saint festival. The right-wing party is using the incident to once again call for the deportation of criminal immigrants.
In a statement released July 8, the VOX municipal group in Polinyà said the assault occurred during the town’s annual festivities. Spokesperson Siquem Cobacho criticized the local council’s security management and urged stricter immigration controls.
Cobacho said that despite measures introduced by Mayor Javi Silva, including promises of greater police presenc, “the women and girls of our municipality are increasingly afraid to go out alone to enjoy the festivals in their town.”
The party condemned what it described as the city council’s silence on the incident and demanded an immediate official statement.
“We are still waiting for the statement from the City Council denouncing these events. When do you plan to react?” Cobacho said.
Cobacho linked the assault to regional immigration and security policies. He said that according to available data, 91 percent of sexual assaults and rapes in Catalonia are committed by foreigners, a situation he attributed to the government of regional President Salvador Illa and his coalition partners.
Overall, in Spain, foreigners commit 500 percent more rapes than Spaniards, 400 percent more murders, according to available data.
Vox Polinyà argued that temporary measures are insufficient and called for a fundamental shift in security policy.
“The only real solution is mass deportations,” the statement said. “We do not want more prisons or more arrests; we demand the expulsion of all criminal immigrants. At VOX we are clear: order, security and deportations.”
The statement did not provide further details about the alleged assault or any police investigation.
In Saint-Juvat, in the Côtes-d’Armor region of France, 56-year-old Hervé agreed to host a family of four illegal migrants from the African country of Mauritius in the summer of 2025. It turned into a major mistake, with Hervé now homeless and unable access the home he had put years of renovation work into.
Hervé, who had spent years restoring a historic French guest house in a quiet rural community with the dream of creating an affordable haven for travelers and those in need, now finds himself displaced after inviting the family to stay. The situation has spiraled into threats, property damage, legal battles, and his own homelessness.
Hervé acquired the former inn at auction in 2019. Over the next five years, he poured time, effort, and resources into restoring the building, envisioning it as both his home and a welcoming space. His plan was simple yet ambitious: offer low-cost stays to campers, tourists, and temporary residents who might otherwise struggle to find affordable lodging in the area, according to French outlet La Depeche.
This was not his first time extending a helping hand. Hervé had previously welcomed various individuals facing difficulties into his property.
“I believe opening your door to others is something fundamental,” he said, reflecting a personal philosophy of openness.
In the summer of 2025, a couple with two young daughters approached Hervé seeking permission to pitch a tent in his garden for the coming winter. The family, of Mauritian origin and reportedly in an irregular administrative situation in France, faced the prospect of spending the cold months outdoors.
Touched by their vulnerability, particularly the children, Hervé could volunteered to allow them to live on his property
“Children sleeping in a tent during winter and still having to go to school — that’s terrible,” he later explained. He then even let them stay in the guesthouse under short-term arrangement at a very favorable rental rate.
On Oct. 6, 2025, the parties signed a two-month lease, renewable once. The initial period of cohabitation appeared to go smoothly. Hervé even helped enroll the youngest daughter, who was still a minor, at the lycée hôtelier in nearby Dinard, giving the family a semblance of stability.
By early 2026, tensions began to surface. Reports describe increasing nighttime disturbances, unfounded accusations of theft against Hervé, and claims that electricity bills had been tampered with or falsified. The situation escalated dramatically in January 2026.
According to accounts, the father of the family was caught manipulating the electricity meter. When confronted, he allegedly threatened Hervé directly, saying: “I’m going to smash your face in.”
“The mask falls,” he told Actu as it became clear that the family could be dangerous.
He decided against renewing the lease, citing among other issues the family’s failure to provide proof of insurance. Matters worsened when the couple allegedly damaged his car by breaking a rearview mirror. Hervé filed a complaint with the authorities. Following advice from gendarmes, who recommended he not remain alone on the property, he called his brother for support and ultimately left the guest house.
On one morning shortly after, he returned to find the house smeared with mud, an apparent act of vandalism.
On Feb. 1, 2026, Hervé issued a formal legal notice demanding that the family vacate the premises. The family did not comply.
As the eviction proceedings moved through the courts, Hervé made a startling discovery: the same couple had previously been subject to eviction proceedings from another property around July 2025. Those earlier issues reportedly involved unpaid rent, verbal violence, and threats of death.
The current legal process has proven painfully slow. As of July 2026 – nearly six months after the formal notice – the family remains in the guest house. Hearings have been missed or postponed at the family’s request, and Hervé has been unable to regain possession of his home. He has described the situation as “unmanageable” and is now considering selling the property he spent half a decade restoring.
France has seen even worse cases in the past, including migrants who ended up killing their host family, which Remix News has covered multiples times in the past (here, here, here, and here). The cases often featured left-wing and altruistic people who offer their homes to migrants who either end up violently killing them or squatting their apartments.
A dead newborn was discovered on Wednesday morning in a residential complex in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The mother is believed to be a 14-year-old girl from a Roma family who allegedly gave birth to the child in an eighth-floor apartment and then threw the newborn out a the window.
The 14-year-old has been taken into police custody, according to sources who spoke with German news outlet Nius.
The fire department was alerted around 9:37 a.m. to a high-rise residential area on Réaumurstrasse in the Thermometersiedlung district. Witnesses had found the lifeless infant in the courtyard of a residential block and called the emergency services. Rescue workers and a doctor could do nothing more than confirm the baby’s death.
The baby’s umbilical cord was still attached. According to police, the newborn was only a few hours old, and at most, just one day old.
🇩🇪🔴JUST IN: German police declared a "mass casualty incident" after a 40-person brawl broke out between Roma families in the tiny German town of Mockrehna.
The participants battled with fists, shovels, baseball bats, and even a bicycle.
The 14-year-old girl is said to have initially believed she was getting her period but she then gave birth to the child in an eighth-floor apartment and then threw the newborn out of the window.
A Berlin homicide squad is now investigating the potential murder case, with evidence being secured, and witnesses questioned. Investigators reportedly also searched the trash bins around the residential complex.
Police spokesperson Florian Nath said on site: “We assume that the child was born only recently.” He added: “It was only several hours old, at most one day old.” A police spokeswoman told the Tagesspiegel.
The body was taken to the forensic medicine institute. An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death, and a death investigation has been opened. Police are urgently searching for the mother, who may be in a state of psychological distress.
“At the moment we still have no concrete lead,” Nath stated. He described the investigation as “very stressful for everyone involved.”
A 29-year-old mother with a six-month-old baby said: “It’s impossible to understand. There are so many ways to give a child away safely. There are baby hatches, you can leave it with the fire department, a neighbor, or the police at the door. And even if it had been stillborn, I would still call the fire department.”
Young residents in the area reacted with horror: “That’s sick. You don’t have to throw a baby somewhere — you can also put it up for adoption. Don’t the parents have a heart?”
A 16-year-old boy with a Turkish migration background flew into a violent rage in court on Wednesday after a German-Turkish family was sentenced for the manslaughter of a 56-year-old relative during a knife attack over an inheritance dispute in Gelsenkirchen, one of the most diverse cities in Germany.
The youth, who had been found guilty of delivering the fatal knife wound, was ordered to serve seven years in juvenile detention. As soon as the sentence was announced, he leaped from his seat and yelled, “I will kill you all.”
Several court police officers immediately rushed in and removed the struggling youth from the courtroom.
While the teenager was being removed, his mother — sentenced to ten years in prison — suddenly collapsed on the courtroom floor. His sister, who received three and a half years in prison, began hyperventilating. Paramedics were called to assist both women.
The dramatic scenes unfolded shortly after the panel of judges delivered its ruling in the packed courtroom, according to German public media WDR.
The Essen Regional Court convicted the group of manslaughter and aggravated assault. The father received the stiffest penalty of twelve years behind bars. Two other male relatives were sentenced to nine and seven years respectively.
The mother was sentenced to ten years in prison, while the 16-year-old was ordered to serve seven years in juvenile detention. His sister received three and a half years in prison. The family had hoped the court would accept claims of self-defense or impose lighter penalties, but those arguments were rejected. The rulings remain subject to appeal.
Prior to the violence, the household had been marked by repeated arguments, threats, and physical confrontations tied to the inheritance disagreement.
Imane El Hamzaoui, a politician in the far-left party France Unbowed, has delivered a racist speech defaming everything about France before mass immigration. Now, right-wing politician Éric Zemmour has responded to her with a sharp rebuttal.
“We all know that the word ‘France’ carries within it slavery, colonialism, racism, and white supremacy,” said El Hamzaoui. Referring to the France before mass immigration as “Eternal France,”, she said that “Eternal France is a fable. The latter is a fable, not a true past. It is the tale of an imaginary community defined by lineage that never truly existed, whereas New France stems from today’s concrete realities.”
El Hamzaoui refers to this old France, which featured an almost entirely homogenous White population that built France into a cultural, technological, and artistic powerhouse over the course of thousands of years, as “racist” and “colonial” and a mere “fable.” Her comments came at a summer political university organized by a decolonial group in Gennevilliers near Paris, which went viral and triggered intense political backlash.
🇫🇷🔴 This far-left French politician really doesn't like the "old" France, the one filled with White people.
"We all know that the word 'France' carries within it slavery, colonialism, racism, and white supremacy."
“New France sounds like the death knell of France, or more precisely, of their France. The one they enjoy exclusively, which is their sole claim to glory, and where rights are measured by the depth of family roots in soil. They have every reason to be afraid, and we must acknowledge their lucidity and foresight: their cries are the sighs of those who see their hegemony fading away.”
In contrast, she defines “New France” as grounded in present-day realities, including a massive and growing immigrant population.
Éric Zemmour, president of the Reconquest party, posted a direct, eloquent rebuttal on X, quoting and dismantling El Hamzaoui’s argument point by point. His response referenced fables by La Fontaine, French cultural heritage, and France’s historical greatness, almost of which was built by ethnic French people over the course of hundreds of years.
“If Eternal France were a fable, you would not present yourself to us dressed and made up in the Western style, but covered from head to toe in a shapeless sack, hiding your eyes and your hair.
If Eternal France were a fable, it would be a fable by La Fontaine: elegance, clarity, finesse, refinement of manners, sweetness of life, irony, banter, insolence, without forgetting the inspiration drawn from Greek and Roman Antiquity, Christian morality and compassion.
If Eternal France were a fable, you would not say it in this French language which is the most accomplished expression of the genius of its people, and which you handle without spoiling it with words like ‘wallah’ and other ‘wesh’ that usually grate on our ears. I am grateful to you for that.
You recognize a certain lucidity and clairvoyance in me. I recognize a certain frankness in you. You have set the scene: ‘everything will be played out between them and us,’ you say. Yes, everything will be played out between Eternal France and the New France.
Eternal France which is the emanation of this French people which exists, like it or not, for more than a thousand years, and the New France which is only the semantic dressing of an Islamized, Africanized, Orientalized France.”
Zemmour also issue a warning to El Hamzaoui, writing: “Do not sell the bear’s skin before having killed it: Eternal France has not said its last word. Eternal France will prevail against all those who want to enslave it. La Fontaine would have made a fable of it.”
Zemmour was far from the only critic of El Hamzaoui, Various accounts quickly drew accusations of anti-French sentiment, promoting “great replacement,” and racial division. Outlets such as Le Journal du Dimanche reported on July 8, 2026, that the speech had provoked a major outcry on the right, with commentators viewing it as a candid admission of France Unbowed’s transformative agenda.
Of course, fears over the Great Replacement are real and not relegated to a right-wing fringe. Polling shows that 60 percent of voters believe France is witnessing “a replacement of the French population by non-European populations.”
While it may seem obvious to some that there are Europeans of European origin who constitute an indigenous population that has inhabited Europe for millennia, there are many on the left who want to deny that these groups even exist. In an appearance on French television, French MEP Marion Maréchal defended the view that there are not only French people of French origin, but that they also have a right to be defended.
“I don’t understand why anyone would feel embarrassed to say that there are also French people of French origin. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t French people of other origins,” she said during her appearance on a BFMTV panel.
Referencing her own family, she said: “I’m talking about my great-grandparents. These French people are the ones who built France, through pain, tears and hardship. I come from a family of fishermen, farmers and farm workers. These were people who had 11 to 14 children. I have two great-grandfathers who were at Verdun in World War I. They have the right to exist, we have the right to respect them, we have the right to talk about them.”
🇫🇷🔴"There are French people of French origin…These French people are the ones who built France, through pain, tears and hardship. I come from a family of fishermen, farmers and farm workers," said French MEP @MarionMarechal.
Notably, she said that while other French people of foreign origin have had their own accomplishments, ethnic French people have “the right not to be systematically reduced to a people — I’m sorry to put it so crudely — of bastards, colonists, collaborators and slavers, who are told all day long that it was immigration that brought them civilization, and who are told to accept that they will be outnumbered and that their culture will disappear.”
The debate centers around whether groups like Germans, French, English, and others constitute ethnic groups or whether this term is entirely determined by a passport. For some, the question is whether these native groups actually even exist, with some leftist revisionists and far-left activists claiming they do not.
An important element of many left-wing ideologies — the promotion and protection of indigenous ethnic groups — would falter if they acknowledged that European peoples can also be categorized as “indigenous.” For these critics, acknowledging that White people in Europe may fall into this category would open up all uncomfortable narratives that the left does not want to entertain regarding mass immigration.
Many on the left claim instead that anyone with a passport can declare that they are German, French, or English from one day to the next, and that the argument can go no further. There simply are no native ethnic groups within these European nations, only passport holders.
What Maréchal posits is that there is a middle ground of sorts. While someone can obtain French citizenship, this does not mean they are an ethnic French person. Saying otherwise is a direct assault on the fact that ethnic Europeans do exist, they embody a people and culture that has sometimes existed for well over a thousand years, and these people deserve recognition and political representation.
She also notes that people who are “French” in France are routinely demonized, and told by proponents of multiculturalism that even if they do exist, they possess no culture worth preserving or celebrating.
“Because with the promotion of multiculturalism all day long, we explain that these [French] people, who are the bearers of this reference culture to which the others are supposed to assimilate, ultimately their culture in the midst of all the others is worth no more. And I say, that’s what I’m trying to embody in this story,” said the French MEP.
Maréchal is in particular concerned about France Unbowed, the party led by, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who she said has “an unquenchable hatred of the native French.”
Mélenchon has notably openly promoted the Great Replacement, saying: ““In our country, one person in four has a foreign grandparent. 40% of the population speaks at least two languages. We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better! May the young generation be the great replacement for the old generation.”
🇫🇷🚨 French far-left leader calls for the Great Replacement
Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “France is destined to be a Creole (mixed Black and French) nation and so much the better! Let the young generation do the replacement of the old… Each generation is a new people!" pic.twitter.com/uLgOMlMXs5
Maréchal points out what the ideological elite of the West do not want to admit, that in each European nation there is an indigenous people, who built up their respective countries century after century. They fought and died for their countries, worked in dire conditions at sea, on farms, and in factories. They bled, they wept, and they saw disaster and triumph.
Of course, there were “great minds” and artists of European ancestry who created architectural marvels, painted masterpieces, invented groundbreaking medicines, wrote literature that will live through the ages, and dreamed up many of the technological innovations that power the modern world. It is also true, the vast majority never reached such lofty heights, but collectively, these different European peoples built the nations that migrants across the world now want to live in, even while many continue to harbor resentment against these White Europeans.
🇫🇷🔴French feminist activist Mila is being prosecuted for "racist insults" for saying many North Africans are inbred and many have "quite ugly faces."
Her post from 2024 read: "I've noticed that many people with a background of inbreeding have very small foreheads. A huge part… pic.twitter.com/3ITmvabUlD
It is also notable that Europe remains a bastion of human rights, even if there are still shortcomings, while many areas of the world still feature rampant abuse against women and children, patriarchies, rampant violence and corruption, and even millions of modern-day slaves. At the same time, Europe and the United States continue to fuel much of the world’s innovation. That does not mean that continents like Africa, which still feature extremely high poverty and despair, should be denigrated. However, it also means that European peoples can be proud of their culture, achievements, and what many consider to be the best societies in the world to live in, just as other peoples across the world are proud of their own cultures and people.
"The Muslim world is responsible for only 0.1% of original scientific discoveries, even though it represents a quarter of the world's population."
Ferghane Azihar, author of "Islam Against Modernity," cites Islamic Development Bank data.
To deny that there are French people of French origin should be treated as a vulgar lie, along with similar claims about the rest of Europe, but instead, this belief is exactly what the ruling ideology demands. If these “European people” are even acknowledged, it is only in the most negative terms: colonialists, slavers, privileged, etc. Meanwhile, people who came to Europe just in the last decades, or even in just the last year, are celebrated by the left for their cultures, many of which indeed feature centuries of slavery, a lack of human rights, a lack of democracy, and hardline, anti-progressive regimes.
A German woman, Milena Danielle, recorded a video while she was being harassed by a male, whom she said was following her inside a mall near the German discount drugstore chain DM. Danielle posted the video on TikTok, saying that the man was told multiple times to leave her alone. In the end, she confronted him.
“So guys, some random dude saw me outside just now. Then I went into the DM store because guys usually never go in there. And he’s following me, following me past all the shelves. And now he’s waiting outside the store again for me to come out,” she said. “And now I’m losing my mind. I already told him politely, or rather impolitely and firmly, that I have absolutely no interest.”
🇩🇪🔴"What do you want? F**k off… You make a woman feel so uncomfortable with this kind of bullshit."
A German girl says she told a male following her multiple times to leave her alone.
"And now, he's waiting outside the store again for me to come out. And now, I'm losing my… pic.twitter.com/k8QggXOFpS
She then confronts the man, who she briefly films from afar.
“What do you want? Fuck off. Look, I just told you to fuck off,” she said to the man. “I just told you that I’m not interested. Look, you’ve been following me this whole time.”
The man denies that he is following her and calls her “delusional.”
🇫🇷"There is a problem of massive, uncontrolled immigration. We know that today, 62% of sexual assaults on public transport in the Ile-de-France region are committed by foreigners."
“I’m not in the mood for this bullshit, it’s been 10 minutes. Seriously. Everyone should see this, that behavior is completely unacceptable. You make a woman feel so uncomfortable with this kind of bullshit you do, it’s so sick,”
The video is similar to many other videos in recent years, in which women armed with smartphones are able to record men who harass them.
🇩🇪❕ "You walk corner of the street. I talk in the name of God!"
A Muslim migrant harasses two young women in Berlin, calling them prostitutes because they are wearing Western clothing. pic.twitter.com/r877E0N4tY
Although the man has not been identified, he appears to have a darker skin tone, indicating he could have a foreign background. Numerous videos across Germany have shown foreigners harassing German women, with Remix News attempting to document some of the most egregious cases.
🇩🇪 "If I don't have sex, as a man, I feel unwell."
Shocking footage of a migrant in Germany harassing a woman walking through Eschenheimer Anlage in Frankfurt.
He refuses to take 'No' for an answer when he demands sex, and a passerby steps in and calls the police. pic.twitter.com/wilfwVNKHX
🇩🇪"Please stop touching me… You’re touching me and I don’t want that."
A migrant male sexually assaults a young woman on a German train, while criticizing her piercing, saying it is for prostitutes who "do everything. Sucking, swallowing."
A thief stole this young German woman's phone and then told her, "in a mixture of English and German, that he would only give it to me if I had sex with him."
This woman was assaulted in Berlin's famed Görlitzer Park, where migrants gang… pic.twitter.com/R3FevgjfPT
Prague’s public transport operator has found itself in hot water with human rights groups after rolling out special vehicles to mark the 90th anniversary of the city’s first trolleybuses. The campaign features eye-catching purple-and-white buses and a tram carrying the slogan “I identify as a trolleybus!”
The stickers appeared in mid-May as part of DPP’s promotional visuals shared on social media. Two buses and one tram now operate with the eye-catching design and provocative wording. While the company presents the effort as a light-hearted celebration of the shift toward emission-free electric trolleybus services, critics argue the phrasing crosses a line.
Human rights organizations that support transgender and non-binary people have condemned the slogan.
“But attacks are not only directed against trans and non-binary people. It is a broader effort to discredit the entire younger generation, who are concerned with their identity and refuse to be pushed into the pre-prepared boxes set out for them by their parents or society,“ stated the Prague Pride association, according to Czech news outlet Idnes.cz.
DPP defends the campaign as harmless personification
DPP spokesperson Daniel Šabík rejected suggestions that the slogan targets any group of people. He described it as a deliberate advertising exaggeration meant to give human traits to vehicles.
“Part of the visual ‘bus in the design of the trolleybus’ and the related slogan is the personification or anthropomorphization of means of transport, which receive human characteristics in a certain form of advertising exaggeration,” Šabík told Qult magazine. “It is a visual and sloganic abbreviation in the highly positive spirit of the transformation of the diesel bus service used so far into a modern, locally emission-free trolleybus service. This is in no way a comment on the personal identity of any group of people.”
Prague Pride association pushes back
The Prague Pride association disagreed sharply. In a statement, the group said the slogan spreads the misconception that individuals identify as objects and contributes to efforts aimed at discrediting human rights discussions more broadly.
“But attacks are not only directed against trans and non-binary people,” the association stated. “It is a broader effort to discredit the entire younger generation, who are concerned with their identity and refuse to be pushed into the pre-prepared boxes set out for them by their parents or society.”
The controversy has also reached Prague’s political leadership. Zdeněk Hřib, chairman of the Pirates party and former deputy mayor responsible for transport, called the marketing choice inappropriate.
“I consider this marketing slogan inappropriate and I will draw this to the attention of the DPP marketing department,” Hřib said.
Current deputy mayor for transport Jaromír Beránek, a fellow Pirate, has expressed agreement with Hřib’s assessment. The Prague municipality is expected to raise the issue directly with DPP’s marketing team.
A 23-year-old man from Dortmund suffered serious injuries late Sunday night after a confrontation in the city center escalated into a physical fight and the theft of his Smart car. A video of the incident shows the victim slamming into a traffic bollard at high speed with the video labeled: GTA 6 Dortmund.
Despite substantial property damage, a stolen car, and a severely injured victim, the suspect has already been released by the court system.
🇩🇪 He tried to stop the suspect from stealing his car but the victim had his body rammed into a traffic bollard at high speed during a rampage in the German city of Dortmund.
The victim is expected to survive but has suffered from serious injuries.
According to police, the incident began around midnight near Hansastrasse and Kampstrasse when the 29-year-old spat on the hood of the younger man’s Smart vehicle. The act triggered a physical altercation. During the scuffle, the 29-year-old climbed into the Smart and drove off.
The 23-year-old pursued the stolen car to Amiens Square. There, he caught up with the vehicle and tried to force the driver out. In the struggle, he was dragged along the ground and slammed into a traffic bollard. He was seriously injured but his life is not in danger.
The suspect continued driving across Amiens Square toward Freistuhl. On Max-von-Grün-Platz, he repeatedly struck barrier posts, traffic signs, and the chairs and tables of an already closed outdoor restaurant.
Thanks to a rapid search, officers located the abandoned Smart on Hansastrasse. The vehicle had collided with a parked car.
Police have secured the suspect’s driver’s license and the Smart car. The Dortmund police traffic accident investigation team is handling the case. No details have yet been released about the total extent of the property damage.
In a verdict that has sent shockwaves through French politics, the Paris Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for misusing European Parliament funds but eased key penalties in a way that technically keeps her eligible to run for president in 2027.
The ruling, however, imposes significant personal and practical constraints, including an electronic ankle bracelet, that could still keep the National Rally (RN) leader from the campaign trail.
The court sentenced Le Pen to three years in prison — two years suspended and one year to be served under house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. She was also fined €100,000.
Her ban on holding public office was reduced from five years to approximately 45 months, with 30 months suspended. Since she has already served part of the original ban following the March 2025 first-instance ruling, the remaining active period does not bar her from the April 2027 presidential election on paper.
The conviction stems from a long-running investigation into the alleged creation of fictitious parliamentary assistant posts between 2004 and 2016. Prosecutors argued that EU funds intended for European Parliament staff were diverted to pay individuals working for the National Front, which has since been relabeled as the National Rally, in France, amounting to millions of euros in misused public money. Le Pen, who has consistently denied wrongdoing and described the proceedings as politically motivated, was convicted for playing a central role.
The appeal court largely confirmed the lower court’s findings on guilt while moderating the punishment, a move that has fueled debate over whether the judiciary is unduly influencing electoral outcomes.
Notably, Le Pen has been convicted at a time when both she and Jordan Bardella, also of the National Rally, are predicted to win national elections in 2027 regardless of which one runs. Now, Bardella is alsofacing threats of a criminal trial.
Despite the formal green light for 2027, Le Pen faces a major obstacle: the one-year electronic monitoring period. She has previously stated unequivocally that she would not mount a presidential campaign while wearing an ankle bracelet, arguing that the restrictions would make effective campaigning impossible.
“You can’t campaign under these conditions,” she previously said about an ankle bracelet. “Can you campaign without going out in the evening to meet your voters at rallies? That would be another way of preventing me from standing as a candidate.”
This creates a dilemma for the National Rally. as Le Pen remains a towering figure in the party she transformed from a fringe movement into France’s leading political force. Yet, the bracelet requirement could force her to step aside, opening the door for her protégé, Bardella, who has already emerged as a strong contender in internal and polling dynamics.
Le Pen has indicated she intends to pursue further appeals, potentially to the Court of Cassation. However, she will likely have to make a decision long before a verdict from that court arrives.
If she runs, she most certainly would rely on the “lawfare” argument to voters, arguing that she is the target of widespread efforts to keep her out of power. With many voters fed up with the French establishment, and there are many, this could prove a compelling argument.
However, the practical implications of campaigning are severely limited due to her electronic bracelet, as she has already noted.
In the end, Tuesday’s ruling did not deliver a knockout blow to Le Pen’s political ambitions, but there will be serious decisions to be made for both her and her party in the future, as the most pivotal election, perhaps in decades, arrives in 2027.
Regardless of her decision, a poignant pre-verdict message posted on X the day before the ruling from Le Pen’s niece, Marion Maréchal, may highlight the fact that Le Pen is unlikely to go gently into the night. Maréchal expressed unwavering support and noted that Le Pen told her that “fear is a feeling that is foreign to me.”
“A few hours before the verdict, in this vigil of arms, I wanted to write you these few words.
‘Fear is a feeling that is foreign to me,’ you said a few days ago, when you were questioned about the upcoming verdict. In doing so, you bore witness to the tenacity that earns you the respect of your supporters, the dogged pursuit of our adversaries, but also the confidence of millions of French people.
Those who hope to eliminate you from the political arena, those who imagine that a conviction would prevent you from continuing to fight for the French, are making a poor calculation. I have been one of the privileged witnesses to your resilience in the face of trials, whether political or personal. I know that, whatever the judges’ decision, nothing will stop for you tomorrow, quite simply because we will need you in the difficult years ahead.
They have undoubtedly forgotten that our family and our fight were forged in decades of fierce struggles. No, the Le Pens have never needed a parliamentary mandate to defend our country and our people.”
Chère Marine,
À quelques heures du jugement, dans cette veillée d’armes, je tenais à t’écrire ces quelques mots.
« La peur est un sentiment qui m’est étranger », disais-tu il y a quelques jours, alors qu’on t’interrogeait sur le jugement à venir. Tu témoignais ainsi de la… pic.twitter.com/woJ6iSn1kD
A German court has ordered a 23-year-old Lebanese nursing trainee placed in a psychiatric hospital indefinitely after ruling that he strangled a 91-year-old patient to death in a Chemnitz nursing home.
Mouemen A. killed Klara Liane M. at noon on Jan. 18 in the woman’s room by strangling her with part of her pajamas, the court found at the end of security proceedings. The court determined there was no doubt that the Lebanese man had killed the woman but he could not be held criminally responsible because of his mental illness.
The court found that voices in his head forced the man to murder the woman because he suffers from schizophrenia. The mental disorder developed while the nursing trainee was still living in Lebanon. Schizophrenia then developed further in Germany as well, according to German outlet Tag24.
“They had felt persecuted and developed delusions,” said Judge Janko Ehrlich, 53, while explaining his verdict.
Due to the illness, Ehrlich told the Lebanese man: “You can’t help it.”
Remix News reported on the story earlier this month, where Senior Public Prosecutor Ingrid Burghart confirmed that the suspect has made no statement about the alleged crime. Some German media outlets are reporting that the victim was strangled with her own pajamas, while others say that her swimsuit was used as a ligature.
Now, it has been determined that Mouemen A. will be permanently placed in a psychiatric hospital and it is possible that the killer could also be deported during this time.
It remains unclear what kind of screening and hiring policies allowed for a man with a history of mental illness to obtain employment working with vulnerable elderly patients.
The Spanish city of Madrid has delivered a stark confirmation of long-standing suspicions about unaccompanied foreign immigrants claiming to be minors. When this group undergoes rigorous medical age verification, 70 percent turn out to be adults over 18.
This is not a handful of isolated incidents but a systemic pattern that has become the norm in Spain’s capital. The findings, detailed in official data and reported by Spanish outlet El Debate, underscore a growing “farce” in the handling of unaccompanied minor claims across the country.
In 2024, authorities in the Madrid region opened 848 age-determination proceedings for individuals claiming to be unaccompanied foreign minors — a sharp increase from 482 the previous year. More than half of these cases were never checked because the claimants abandoned the process before completing the key medical test, which is a wrist X-ray for bone age assessment.
Of the 378 individuals who underwent the test, only 112 were confirmed as minors, while 266 were determined to be adults — approximately 70 percent.
The number of detected frauds tripled compared to the prior year. Since 2018, Madrid has handled more than 11,000 unaccompanied foreign minors in its protection system. In 2024 alone, 2,442 new young people entered the system. The regional government has already filed 29 police complaints after its own checks revealed adults improperly placed in minor-protection facilities.
Nationally, the Fiscalía General del Estado reported 7,562 pre-procedural age-determination cases in 2024. Of these, 2,457 concluded the individuals were adults, while many others either abandoned proceedings or received the benefit of the doubt.
Real benefits for fraud
As Remix News has reported in the past, claiming minor status grants significant advantages under Spanish and EU rules, including placement in specialized protection centers with housing, education, healthcare, and legal safeguards.
There is also significantly greater difficulty in deportation; and, in many cases, pathways to family reunification or residence permits unavailable to adults. Many claimants disappear from centers once age verification begins, avoiding confirmation of their true age.
Similar fraud seen across Europe
This Madrid revelation is far from unique. Remix News has extensively covered parallel cases of age fraud by migrants claiming unaccompanied minor status throughout Europe, often involving the same nationalities, notably Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Afghans.
France has seen some of the starkest figures. In the Marne department, bone analyses of 240 individuals claiming to be unaccompanied minors found that 80 percent (192 people) were actually adults.
A separate 2019 experiment by the Paris prosecutor’s office examined 154 formally identified “minors” and found 91.6 percent (141) were adults via medical exams. Prosecutors noted that adults were systematically exploiting the protective regime established for minors under a 1945 law.
Belgium reported comparable results. A study of data from Justice Minister Koen Geens showed that of 4,563 migrants declaring themselves minors, authorities doubted 2,546 claims. Age tests on a sample revealed that 73.7 percent were over 18. Flemish MP Tom Van Grieken stated bluntly: “Asylum seekers guilty of age fraud should be denied the right to asylum.”
Sweden recorded an even higher rate: health authorities found 84 percent of tested “child migrants” were actually 18 or older. In Germany, forensic examinations in Münster showed around 40 percent of examined “unaccompanied minor refugees” were demonstrably adults, with many sharing suspicious January 1 birthdates — a common indicator of fabricated identities.
Remix News has also documented specific incidents in Spain itself that align with this pattern. In one Madrid case reported in October 2025, a Moroccan man accused of raping a 14-year-old girl claimed to be 17; age verification determined he was likely 23, with 14 prior convictions, leading to his case being transferred to adult court.
A European Parliament fact-finding mission to Spain’s Canary Islands similarly found that roughly half of unaccompanied minors there were actually adults, highlighting failures in age assessment amid high illegal arrivals.
An issue across Europe
Across Europe, the incentive structure remains largely unchanged, with minor status providing immediate protection and resources while adult status often leads to faster removal proceedings. Medical tests, such as bone density, dental, or wrist X-rays, are imperfect but consistently reveal high fraud rates when applied. Some countries are reacting with stricter testing, but often left-wing parties want to ban such tests altogether.
The Madrid Fiscalía’s 2024 data adds Spain to the growing list of European jurisdictions where official statistics confirm that the “unaccompanied minor” category is being heavily exploited. With over 11,000 cases handled in Madrid alone since 2018 and frauds tripling in a single year, the scale suggests the problem is not anecdotal but structural.
As European governments grapple with migration pressures, these consistent findings from across Europe show a reality that is not going away. Without adequate and robust testing age verification and meaningful consequences for fraud, the EU system will continue to reward deception from Europe’s rapidly growing illegal migrant population.
The father of African migrant Lamin Saidilly, the 22-year-old accused of stabbing a 55-year-old Italian man 20 times in front of a bar on Via Capecelatro in Milan on Saturday morning, has broken his silence on national television. He expressed total disbelief and describing his son as a peaceful young man who had never caused trouble.
Speaking by phone during the Italian news program 4 di Sera, the father said: “My son is good, kind and nice. He never had any problems and had never done anything like it.”
He repeated the sentiment moments later: “Are you having any problems? No, he’s good, kind, nice. He never had any problems. I don’t know why he made this mess.”
The violent incident was caught on surveillance video, showing Saidilly stabbing the victim at random. Police say that after his arrest, Saidilly told them: “I had fun, once I get out I’ll do it again.”
🇮🇹🇬🇧 JUST IN: The African man who randomly stabbed a 55-year-old Italian man 20 times from behind in Milan has been identified as Lamin Saidilly.
Now, we know more about this violent immigrant's criminal past. In November 2023, Saidilly stabbed and robbed a 25-year-old outside a… pic.twitter.com/VK7GwnM5ax
The father stressed that his son was born and raised in Italy and had always behaved well: “He was born here in Italy, he never made a mess, he never did anything.”
He also addressed the victim and his family directly: “I apologize for what happened to the family of the victim.”
Saidilly has a history of violence
Despite the father’s claims, there are media reports that Saidilly has a history of violence. According to investigators, Saidilly’s recent history includes time spent in prison in England. Multiple reports link the 22-year-old suspect to a serious violent incident in Leeds, UK, in late 2023, where he stabbed a 25-year-old and then robbed him. The victim suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital. However, Italian investigators are still looking to establish the exact details of his past criminal history and whether the UK offense was committed by someone with the same name.
Saidilly returned to Italy at the end of 2025 and moved in with his father in Conegliano Veneto in the Treviso province. There he worked for several months as a warehouse employee at a well-known local food company.
Relations with his father deteriorated after Saidilly reportedly refused to contribute to household expenses despite having a job. Following an argument, his father allegedly asked him to leave the house. Saidilly then traveled to Milan, arriving on June 23. He stayed in various hotels, always paying his bills and causing no disturbances, until he vanished from records on June 30.
Prosecutor Elio Ramondini, who is coordinating the investigation through the General Prevention Office of the State Police, has activated international judicial cooperation channels to establish exactly how long Saidilly was detained in Britain and the exact nature of the offenses he committed.
Court appearance and lawyer’s statements
When questioned yesterday by Investigating Judge Luigi Iannelli at San Vittore prison, Saidilly exercised his right to remain silent. His lawyer, Simona Brambilla, spoke to journalists after the hearing, according to Italian news outlet Imolaoggi.
“It was his choice,” Brambilla said of her client’s silence. She described the 22-year-old as “very shaken” and added that he “doesn’t remember anything until he found himself in the police car.”
The lawyer specifically denied that Saidilly remembers uttering the phrase attributed to him after the attack — “I had fun, once I get out I’ll do it again.”
She portrayed him as “a very lost and confused boy” who chose not to request house arrest or any other alternative measure “also to avoid putting his father in difficulty.”
Brambilla stated she is “not aware of him having been treated for mental problems.” Regarding reports of a stabbing committed in England a few years ago, she said she “could say absolutely nothing” because of lawyer-client confidentiality. Efforts have already been issued to clarify the matter.
The defense lawyer also revealed that her client described his decision to leave Conegliano and travel to Milan as “a journey of self-discovery.” When asked whether Saidilly had any message for the man he allegedly stabbed, Brambilla replied: “He didn’t even have words to defend himself.”
The lawyer confirmed that the young man was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the attack.
The parents, who live in Conegliano Veneto, are described as deeply shocked. According to Brambilla, they repeatedly asked her for proof of what had happened, saying they “would never have expected something like this.”
The judge is expected to issue an order in the coming days on the validation of the arrest and the application of pre-trial detention. The defense considers continued imprisonment the most likely outcome.
The investigation remains ongoing as authorities work to reconstruct the precise sequence of events and determine the full extent of Lamin Saidilly’s responsibilities.
Zbigniew Bogucki, head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland, has been placed on the “enemies of Ukraine” list maintained by the Ukrainian organization Myrotvorets. In response, Bogucki rejected the label while reaffirming his opposition to “Banderism,” which
“I am not an enemy of Ukraine, but I am an enemy of Banderism,” Bogucki stated.
Banderism refers to the radical Ukrainian nationalist ideology and movement associated with Stepan Bandera, who is accused of slaughtering tens of thousands of Poles during the Second World War.
The decision to include Bogucki on the notorious list follows his speech last week in the Sejm during debate on the presidential draft amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance. In that address, Bogucki described the crimes committed in Volhynia and “Eastern Lesser Poland” as genocide. Myrotvorets cited his use of the term “Eastern Lesser Poland” among the reasons for the listing, according to Polish outlet Do Rzeczy.
According to the organization, the grounds for adding Bogucki were: “threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” “participation in acts of humanitarian aggression against Ukraine,” and “manipulation of information of social importance in order to incite hatred of Poles towards Ukrainians and to discord between nationalities and religions”.
Bogucki’s statement on X
In a post published on the X platform, Bogucki clarified his position. He pledged continued support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression and assistance to Ukrainian citizens, while declaring that he would keep describing OUN and UPA activists responsible for crimes against civilians as criminals and would oppose their glorification.
“I am not an enemy of Ukraine. I am, however, an enemy of Banderism,” he emphasized. “I am also an enemy of Putin’s Russia. However, to understand this, some in Ukraine would have to stand in the historical truth and in the truth of current events and heal from anti-Polonism.”
Ukraińska organizacja pozarządowa o nazwie „Myrotworeć” (Centrum Badań Oznak Przestępstw Przeciwko Bezpieczeństwu Narodowemu Ukrainy, Pokoju, Bezpieczeństwu Ludzkości i Międzynarodowemu Ładowi Prawnemu) uznała mnie za „wroga Ukrainy” i „zagrożenie dla suwerenności i… pic.twitter.com/z47t0M20WN
— Zbigniew Bogucki🇵🇱 (@BoguckiZbigniew) July 6, 2026
Myrotvorets and previous Polish entries
Myrotvorets is a Ukrainian non-governmental organization that has operated since 2014 a publicly accessible database of individuals whom its creators consider threats to Ukraine’s security.
Other Polish politicians previously added to the list include Sławomir Mentzen, Krzysztof Bosak and Grzegorz Braun. The organization’s practice of publishing personal data has been criticized by human rights organizations.
The list has also been criticized as a “kill list,” which means those added to it are considered potentially valuable targets for assassination.
In the women-only nudist section of the Marzilibad swimming pool, several women reported the presence of a 27-year-old bearded trans person, whom the media described as a woman who had “visible male characteristics.” However, once this individual was ejected from the area due to the discomfort of the women, the city government was quick to react in support of the trans person.
The incident took place on a Sunday evening in late June 2026 within the “Paradiesli,” a physically separated voluntary nude-bathing zone reserved exclusively for women along the Aare River. Multiple Swiss media reports and the city’s official statements indicated that several female patrons felt disturbed by the presence of the individual, who was described as possessing visible male physical characteristics, including a beard and body hair.
The confrontation began when pool staff approached the individual and requested that they vacate the women’s section. Following a refusal, a security and prevention team attempted to mediate the dispute but failed to de-escalate the situation as tensions rose among the surrounding bathers. Consequently, facility management contacted the police for assistance.
When the individual remained uncooperative and refused to leave, staff invoked house rules to order the individual to leave the entire facility. The individual actively resisted the order, while some nearby bathers reportedly supported the trans person and interfered with the police operation. During the ensuing confrontation, one female police officer sustained minor injuries. The individual was subsequently handcuffed, transported to a police station for further verification, and later released.
Bern authorities release apology
The following day, Bern’s Directorate for Education, Social Affairs and Sport released a statement expressing regret over the decision to involve law enforcement and remove the patron. The city explicitly apologized to the individual, stating that the eviction “proved to be incorrect in retrospect” and resulted from a “misjudgment” amid the tense atmosphere.
The directorate’s statement clarified the exact access policy for the restricted area, noting that “All persons who identify as women and live as such are granted access to the voluntary nude area… the official gender stated in an ID document applies.”
Since the individual is a Bern resident registered as female on official documents, the bearded trans woman met the criteria established under the city’s internal guidelines, which had been developed with input from both the Sports Office and the Gender Equality Office.
In response to the event, city authorities announced plans to improve communication by creating a public guide explaining access rules and providing additional training for pool staff on handling gender-specific spaces in a queer-sensitive manner.
Cantonal police firmly defended their actions during the incident, noting that officers responded directly to the pool operator’s explicit request to enforce house rules.
A senior security official criticized the city administration for appearing to shift blame onto the responding officers, highlighting the injuries sustained by the female officer during the struggle. “What should the police do if called because women feel harassed?” the official asked. “Do nothing?”
The episode has intensified an ongoing debate across Switzerland regarding access to single-sex spaces, particularly in settings involving nudity or vulnerability. Critics argue that policies prioritizing self-identification and legal gender markers can undermine the fundamental purpose of women-only areas when individuals with male physical traits are present. However, the prevailing legal approach appears to be heading in another direction, setting the stage for an ideological and cultural clash for years to come.
In Bern, the matter has already reached the city council, with various political groups proposing solutions ranging from clearer signage to potential policy reviews, including at the Marzilibad swimming area.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) held its federal party conference in Erfurt amid a large-scale police operation and numerous counter-demonstrations organized primarily by left-wing groups. However, left-wing attacks targeting journalists in two separate incidents are now raising questions about press freedom in Germany. Both assaults were caught on film.
The main incident shows three journalists from Apollo News being chased down and kicked in the head repeatedly. All three journalists were transported to the hospital for treatment. During the incident, Der Spiegel reported that bottles and paint cans were also being thrown in the area near the targeted journalists.
🔴 Drei Reporter von Apollo News wurden in Erfurt aus einer Antifa-Demo heraus gejagt und zusammengeschlagen.
Als sie die Demonstration filmten wurden sie von ca. einem Dutzend Personen verfolgt und zu Boden geschlagen, als sie am Boden lagen wurde immer wieder nachgetreten… pic.twitter.com/yICrfMvtXo
The assault only ended with the arrival of police. Paramedics treated the journalists on site for head wounds, abrasions, and bruises.
In a second incident, Junge Freiheit journalist Vadim Derksen was attacked by a masked left-wing supporter and had his phone stolen.He was later able to recover it. According to the police, some suspects have already been identified and investigations have begun.
Antifa Angriff auf unsere Journalisten in Anwesenheit vom »Widersetzen« Organisator Suraj Mailitafi und Marcant. Mit einem Faustschlag ins Gesicht und auf die Hand wird das Handy entrissen und geklaut. Zuvor versicherte man uns, dass wir hier sicher seien. pic.twitter.com/iqUafTdZDU
Police have also announced an investigation into the incidents.
Im bisherigen Einsatzverlauf kam es zu Angriffen auf Medienvertreterinnen und Medienvertreter. Zu den bislang bekannt gewordenen Vorfällen haben wir umgehend Ermittlungen aufgenommen.
👉 Angriffe auf Journalistinnen und Journalisten werden von uns konsequent verfolgt.
Welt newspaper has reacted to the assaults against journalists.
“The silence of left-wing NGOs and public service media regarding this attack on press freedom is a scandal,” wrote the paper.
“The scenes are shocking – not only because of their brutality, but because they strike at a cornerstone of democracy. Anyone who hunts down journalists, beats them up and attacks people is directly attacking press freedom. It doesn’t matter which medium the affected individuals work for. Freedom of the press applies not only to favorable reporting, but especially to journalists whose questions or perspectives are rejected. Anyone who abandons this principle leaves the ground of democratic debate,” the paper continued.
Welt also noted that the public media either avoided reporting on the attacks or wrote only the briefest of notes.
“The Tagesschau only mentioned the attacks in one sentence; they did not appear at all in the ‘heute journal’ of ZDF. An attack on colleagues should deserve more attention, regardless of the medium involved,” the report continues. “The silence is all the more irritating. Neither Luisa Neubauer nor Fridays for Future, the Jusos, the Green Youth, the Left Youth Solid or Grandma’s Against the Right have publicly condemned the attacks so far.”
Not all parties, however, were silent about the attacks.
“Anyone who uses violence against journalists is attacking democracy. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are central pillars of a free society,” said the domestic policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Alexander Throm (CDU), to Bild newspaper.
Large-scale police operation
Far-left plans to block the AfD congress from proceeding were unsuccessful. Thuringian police deployed several thousand officers from across Germany, including federal forces, to secure the event and manage over 30 registered counter-protests involving blockades.
Police reported that the operation was overwhelmingly peaceful overall, with up to 31,000 participants across various assemblies, including a major German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) event with around 15,000 attendees and blockades involving approximately 10,000 people. However, authorities documented 65 criminal offenses, primarily property damage, bodily harm, and violations of assembly laws, along with 13 administrative offenses. Eleven police officers sustained minor injuries.
In one incident, a group of around 250 individuals attempted to break through police lines in the Frienstedt area, prompting investigations into suspected breach of the peace. Police seized four Bluetooth speakers intended to disrupt the conference and several drones flown in a prohibited zone. Thuringian police leadership noted that force was applied where necessary.
Interior Minister and police leadership have stated that investigations into the criminal offenses, including those against journalists, are ongoing and will be pursued consistently.
A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, with part suspended, for the kidnapping, beating, and humiliation of his 17-year-old sister in Firminy last May. His 21-year-old cousin received a fully suspended one-year sentence for failing to assist a person in danger.
The case, heard on July 1 before the criminal court in Saint-Étienne, involved an hours-long “punitive expedition” triggered by the brother’s disapproval of his sister’s relationship with a boy he deemed unacceptable.
What followed was a night of terror. According to court evidence and contemporaneous reporting, the ordeal began around 11 p.m. on May 16, 2026. The 17-year-old victim had just parked her car near the SNCF train station in Firminy when her brother and cousin confronted her. The brother demanded her phone and, upon discovering photos of boys, flew into a rage.
The brother then struck her, pulled her hair, and forced her into the trunk of a car. The pair stopped to collect rope, a shovel, and a pickaxe before driving her to an isolated wooded area near a river between Firminy and Saint-Just-Malmont in Haute-Loire.
There, they tied her hands and feet behind her back. The brother beat her, interrogated her about the relationship, dug a hole resembling a grave, and threatened to leave her in it overnight. He then dragged her to the river and held her head underwater for long minutes.
The men later returned her to their mother’s apartment in Firminy, where the brother cut approximately 40 centimeters of her hair as further humiliation before locking her inside and leaving with his cousin, according to Le Progrès.
The victim escaped the following morning, sought refuge in a nearby bakery, called her father, and together they reported the assault to police. The attack lasted more than two to three hours.
During the hearing, the brother — who arrived in court handcuffed — acknowledged his actions and expressed regret.
“I had time to reflect in detention. I am here before you to take responsibility,” he told the court. “I have no right to correct her. She is a person in her own right. She has the right to have a boyfriend, friends, to go out — as long as they are acceptable people.”
The cousin also admitted guilt on the non-assistance charge.
“I ask for forgiveness from my cousin and my aunt,” he said. “I recognize the failure to assist a person in danger. I lacked lucidity and courage. I was afraid the violence would turn against me. I tried to calm him verbally. I had never seen him like that. It was someone else. I should have done more. I regret it.”
Both men have prior convictions: the brother for violence in 2024 and the cousin for property damage in 2025.
The brother’s lawyer, Charlotte Dupuy, described a “explosive cocktail” of unaddressed family trauma and argued the acts were intended to intimidate rather than cause serious harm. She requested a sentence allowing for semi-liberty so her client could receive treatment, work, and reintegrate.
The cousin’s lawyer, Ludivine Buisson, portrayed him as a young man caught up in a family drama beyond his control who repeatedly tried to intervene.
“If he hadn’t been there, what would have happened? Maybe the same thing, maybe worse,” she argued. “At every moment he tried to do something, either with words or with gestures. Fortunately he was there.”
The victim’s lawyer, Annick Sadurni, called the case “totally surreal and inadmissible.”
Her brother tried to impose his will on his own sister through force and violence, leading his sister to believe she was going to die and causing significant physical and psychological harm. She said her brother betrayed her. She has demanded nothing, including money.
Prosecutor Pauline Gervais described an “organized and premeditated punitive expedition” and requested four years in prison for the brother and ten months (five suspended) for the cousin.
The court convicted the brother of kidnapping, assault, and death threats, sentencing him to 30 months in prison, of which 12 months were suspended with probation. He remained in custody, and six months of a prior suspended sentence were revoked, meaning he faces roughly two years of effective imprisonment.The cousin was convicted of failure to assist a person in danger and received a 12-month suspended sentence with probation.
The mother of the victim was present in court and visibly emotional. No names have been published to protect the identity of the minor victim. Local media, including Le Progrès and Midi Libre, reported extensively on the incident in May and the sentencing this week. The case has sparked discussion online about family dynamics and violence. Meanwhile, the victim is said to be focused on recovery following the betrayal by her own brother.
The case has been described as a “honor crime” as typically seen in many Middle Eastern and North African countries, but the nationality of the two convicted youths has not been released, which means internet users are only speculating.
Polish Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak is publicly raising alarms over emerging Ukrainian digital influence operations targeting Poland, categorizing them as a highly coordinated foreign campaign. The warning comes at a time of severe crisis between Poland and Ukraine following disputes over historical military figures dating back to the Second World War.
The Confederation party leader argued that the ongoing Ukrainian internet activity represents a distinct phase of communication that goes beyond the typical revisionism often seen in regional historical debates.
Obok prymitywnego negowania i usprawiedliwiania ludobójstwa Polaków na x widoczna jest także operacja ukraińskiego wpływu informacyjnego, mająca na celu kontrowanie polskiej narracji ws. OUN-UPA. Ukraińscy liderzy opinii pracujący na różnych kierunkach opublikowali w ostatnich…
— Krzysztof Bosak 🇵🇱 (@krzysztofbosak) July 6, 2026
The escalation began when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree honoring the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) by naming an elite Special Operations Forces unit after them. The decision sparked widespread outrage across Warsaw due to the UPA’s historical role in the World War II Volhynia massacres, which Poland officially recognizes as a genocide against Polish civilians.
In a swift countermove, Polish President Karol Nawrocki officially stripped the Ukrainian leader of Poland’s highest state honor, the Order of the White Eagle, prompting Zelensky to return the physical decoration to Warsaw.
Now, both countries are trading blows and the diplomatic damage is growing.
“In addition to the primitive denial and justification of the genocide of Poles in Volhynia, an operation of Ukrainian information influence is also visible online, aimed at countering the Polish narrative regarding the OUN-UPA,” Bosak stated.
Amid this diplomatic fallout, an increasing volume of nationalist content has emerged across online networks. A notable portion of these digital manifestos, attributed to Ukrainian nationalist circles, has begun suggesting future retaliation against Poland once Ukraine’s current conflict with Russia concludes.
According to Bosak, this digital push relies on a strategic manipulation of history designed to neutralize Poland’s standing on wartime accountability.
He said that these operations, which highlight improper Polish actions during the Second World War, will not improve the situation for Ukraine.
“All these ‘Polish sins,’ taken together or individually, will neither cover up the topic of OUN-UPA nor change their assessment. Nor will they cause problems for Poland, because in Poland we have no issue with criticizing what is wrong. On the other hand, this kind of online ‘offensive’ exposes Kyiv’s intentions and mobilizes and unites Poles, which can already be observed in the online debates,” wrote Bosak.
The specific historical counterarguments deployed in these online networks frequently reference historical instances of Polish-on-Ukrainian violence. Bosak noted that the digital campaigns heavily emphasize regional historical tragedies, specifically pointing to the twentieth-century pogroms in Kielce and Wąsosz, systemic violence directed against the Ukrainian minority during the Second Polish Republic, and contemporary Polish historical literature that highlights dark chapters within the wartime Home Army.
The Polish lawmaker firmly believes that these online initiatives are not organic, but rather constitute highly organized, pre-planned actions. He described the current dynamic as a deliberate double-voiced strategy coordinated out of Kyiv. While official channels within the Ukrainian government attempt to publicly defuse the diplomatic spat and smooth over relations, a covert layer of influence operations actively works on social platforms to disseminate sharp accusations against Warsaw, a tactic the authorities in Kyiv evidently believe functions to their geopolitical advantage.
However, Bosak maintains that this strategy will ultimately prove counterproductive for Ukraine’s long-term diplomatic objectives in Europe.
A suspect voluntarily surrendered to police on the morning of July 3 in connection with the beating death of an off-duty Swedish police officer. The suspect was subsequently charged and appeared in a preliminary hearing at the Copenhagen District Court in Vestre Fængsel.
The off-duty officer, identified as 32-year-old father of two Christian Zedig, died in a group assault at a public World Cup fan zone in Copenhagen. The victim, from Eksjö, Sweden, was attacked on the evening of June 30 during a large-screen broadcast of the Norway vs. Ivory Coast match on Islands Brygge.
According to eyewitness accounts reported by the Danish outlet Ekstra Bladet, a group of seven to eight young men arrived at the venue and began provoking Norwegian and Swedish supporters. The situation escalated rapidly after Norway scored to take a 2-1 lead.
One of the individuals punched a supporter wearing a Swedish national team jersey in the head, causing him to fall to the ground. Several others then kicked the victim while he was down before fleeing the scene.
A witness described the attack as “very violent,” noting that the group appeared to have come specifically to cause trouble rather than watch the match.
The screening continued briefly before being halted entirely. Emergency services provided first aid at the scene, and Zedig was rushed by ambulance to a hospital with severe, life-threatening injuries. He ultimately succumbed to those injuries on July 3.
Zedig was a devoted football supporter who had traveled to Copenhagen with friends to watch the tournament, including an upcoming Sweden vs. France match.
His wife publicly expressed the profound shock of the loss, stating that their lives were “turned upside down” in a matter of seconds and that he never got to see the Sweden-France match.
The Swedish police union in Region Öst confirmed Zedig’s death on July 3, and a memorial service was held at his local station. Union chair Åsa Bergman stated that colleagues had received the news of a fellow officer’s passing.
Copenhagen Police responded immediately to the incident at the public viewing area. Authorities quickly identified a primary suspect and released his photograph to the public, which was widely shared across social media. It is unclear whether this is the same suspect who turned himself in to the police.
The investigation remains ongoing as police continue to search for the additional individuals involved in the confrontation.
The older sister of Christian has also posted on social media, writing: “My beautiful and thoroughly good-hearted brother. How will we make it without you with us? Who gave them the right to take you away from us? The grief is never-ending.”
Posts from the victim’s social media account were also shared online, where he is seen with his family and friends.
For the first time in European history, an EU party alliance could be outright banned in the European Parliament, which would mark a major blow to democracy and rule of law.
The Europe of Sovereign Nations Group (ESN), which includes nine right-wing European parties, has been relentlessly attacked by the EU establishment since its founding in 2024. The ESN’s largest party member, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has also been the target of efforts for an outright ban at the national level in Germany. While left-wing and establishment parties are struggling to implement a ban on the AfD in Germany, at the European federal level, democratic checks and balances and the rule of law are far weaker.
Now, the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) is seeking to de-register the ESN, which would strip it of all its funding and de facto lead to the end of the party.
German MEP Alexander Sell of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is a founding member of the ESN and has since become the president of the Sovereignty Foundation (SF), the foundation formally associated with the ESN. He said he is speaking as the president of the SF and discussed the efforts his party is taking to fight this de-registration, how much of the APPF’s actions are an extension of the political warfare being waged against the AfD at the national level, and even touches on his own personal motivations for participating in politics as an AfD member despite the massive degree of personal attacks and even physical threats.
There is a lot of discussion about your party facing a potential ban from this European watchdog [Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF)], but how realistic is it that your party will actually be banned in the near future?
It’s a realistic scenario because the authority — the European Authority for Political Parties and Foundations (APPF) — has the power to de-register parties. They register European parties and they also have the authority to de-register a European party, and that is what they are planning to do.They have a couple of accusations against us. They have a 300-page dossier on our party.
So they will start the investigation, but they will give us the chance to answer the accusations. And then they have the authority to ban our party.
And do you have any idea of what the political leanings of the people in this watchdog are? Does your party view a negative outcome as already a foregone conclusion?
Well, there are some indications that this is a political maneuver, because the director of this authority, [Pascal Schonard,] is German and he used to work for the CDU. He was a member of Klaus Welle’s cabinet. For almost a decade, Klaus Welle was Secretary-General of the European People’s Party and the EPP–ED group in the European Parliament.
So I think there are political intentions behind this attempt to de-register our party. But still, I don’t think it is 100% guaranteed, because in the end you have to acknowledge that on the European level there are many parties like ours. There is a shift to the right all over Europe.You have governments — for example in Italy, the Czech Republic or Slovakia — that are led by patriotic forces. So I don’t think it will be that easy.
The majorities in the European Parliament are also shifting to the right because that is what voters want.They want patriotic, realistic and more free-market-oriented policies, and that is what we are seeing on the European level. We want to get rid of bureaucracy, we want to get rid of climate policy, we want to secure our borders — and we have majorities for that.
So I think this attempt to ban our party will not be easy, because European voters are demanding something else.I mean, you have to take into account that the AfD is the strongest political party in Germany, polling at around 29%, which is a large margin ahead of the CDU. So I think it will be very controversial to ban our European party.
But what real checks and balances are there if they move forward with a ban? Would you appeal?
Yes, we will appeal the decision by the authority. Definitely. And I think we have good reasons to appeal, because what they are accusing us of is that we are not respecting European values. Well, I don’t agree with that. We are very democratic — the AfD is very democratic. Our partner parties from other countries are very democratic. We would never come up with the idea of banning political competition. That is not how we work. We are working for democratic majorities.
So I think we are respecting European values of democracy in a more serious manner than other parties. Also, talking about the rule of law: we have always criticised the European Union for breaking its own laws. For example, in the attempt to rescue the euro and in the migration crisis, they violated the laws that the EU itself had decided on — and that is what we have criticised from the beginning.
So I would say that we are actually the defenders of the rule of law within the European Union, and those are the arguments we will bring forward in court if we have to appeal the decision by the European authorities.
So, during this appeal process, would your grouping be banned right away or would it continue to exist during the appeal?
The authority has the right to ban or de-register a party. So from the moment the authority takes a decision, our party is banned.
The efforts at EU level almost seem to mirror what is happening in Germany itself. Do you feel that this is simply an extension of what is already happening in Germany?
Yes, definitely. I think this is the easier route for them than banning the AfD at national level. There is less attention on the European political party, and in Germany they would need a decision by the Constitutional Court, which is harder to obtain than a decision by the APPF. So I think they chose to attack us at the European level.
There is also still no money for an AfD political foundation, even though this is normally standard for any political party of our size in the Bundestag, right?
Talking about the political foundations, just to give you an idea of the amounts involved: around 700 million euros per year is distributed to the political foundations of the CDU, SPD, the Greens, the liberals and the Communist party (editor’s note: Left Party).
These are incredible figures. They use that money, for example, to recruit in the universities. That is something we are not able to do, because they are denying us those funds and they keep changing the rules on how to obtain the money. It used to be available after two terms in parliament, and they changed it. They are still denying us that money, which puts us at a huge disadvantage, because we would have access to 60 to 70 million euros that we could use for scholarships in universities or to fund research.It is a really important instrument in the political debate, and we are being denied it on an unlawful basis.
That is the situation. You have to understand: they are still talking about banning the most successful party in Germany, according to the polls. We are the strongest party in the polls by a large margin, and the losing parties are seriously considering prohibiting our party and calling it “protecting democracy” while actually prohibiting democracy. That is the situation in Germany.
I think it is an unprecedented case, and it shows that true democracy is still not very well established in Germany, unfortunately.
[Chancellor Friedrich] Merz has already said that he did not want to ban the AfD because it “stinks of attacking a political rival.” There would also be electoral consequences for the CDU, since knocking out the AfD could create a huge vacuum that the left would fill. The CDU could then be sidelined. Do you think it is realistic that the CDU will go along with this?
I think at national level they will not, because there is also international attention on this case. The Americans and others around the world are watching what is happening in Germany. It would be a huge scandal, and I think it would seriously weaken Friedrich Merz’s position internationally if he ended up abolishing democracy in Germany. So I don’t think they will go that far.
But at European level it is a different story. I think the CDU itself — or at least a majority within the CDU delegation in the European Parliament — would very much go along with it. On the other hand, I see that the EPP is not united on this.
You have to remember that some members of the EPP, such as Forza Italia and the Partido Popular in Spain, are already in coalition with right-wing parties — members of the Patriots for Europe or the ECR. So the so-called cordon sanitaire, the firewall as it is called in Germany, is not working at European level.
I think the same will apply to this decision to ban us: they will not have all their EPP members on side. Many of them, especially outside Germany, realize that voters want different policies and that we are driving these new policies. They understand that cooperation will eventually be necessary — and they are already seeing this in Italy, Spain and France.
You had the deportation regulation, where a French MEP worked together with one of our MEPs. So to go so far as to prohibit, for the first time in history, a European political party would create tensions inside the EPP — and rightly so. I hope there are still some democrats left within the EPP.
The APPF even cited the term “remigration” as a basis for this ban. But this term is also being used by the Patriots for Europe grouping. How long before that party is targeted in the same way?
Well, we could talk about a lot of comments. If you look at the left, the way they talk about Israel and the right of the state of Israel to exist, you could also argue that this goes against the idea of human dignity. The same applies to slogans like “From the river to the sea.” It is not as if accusations could not also be made against other parties.
These terms are so vague that you could find something against almost any party. They researched statements by members of our national member parties long before we even founded the ESN. So they are holding us responsible for comments made years ago, when the ESN did not even exist.It is the same for all the other European parties — including the EPP and the Social Democrats.
You will always find some member somewhere, perhaps in Spain or Slovakia, who has said something that could be argued to go against “European values.” It is simply a question of resources. This authority has the resources to produce a 300-page dossier, and we do not. But it would be easy to produce a similar report on any other European political party.
I understand that your grouping wants to give its members freedom of speech and that there are probably differing views among the parties in your grouping. But how much can this watchdog punish the entire party for comments made in the past by individual politicians?
Well, that is exactly what we are doing. I do accept that, as a European political party — and this is also in our statutes — we have to ensure that our national member parties adhere to so-called European values. I also share these values: the rule of law, democracy and respect for human dignity.I think we need better methods to ensure we can sanction members who contradict these values, so that our national parties respect them.
That is what we are doing. We changed our statutes last Friday at a general assembly. For example, we expanded the board. Until now we did not have a representative from each member party on the board. Now we will have representatives of every national member party on the ESN board. So if something controversial is said or published in one of our member states, we will have a contact person we can talk to — someone who is also responsible for taking corrective measures.
We have implemented these changes because we recognize our responsibility for all our national member parties, and the new structure will allow us to intervene more effectively when necessary.
Just a personal question. AfD members and politicians face a constant stream of attacks, and this potential ban could be seen as an extension of that. In Eastern Europe, even parties considered more right-wing operate in a more right-leaning environment without a large Antifa scene that wants to set your car on fire. As an AfD politician, how do you deal with the psychological pressure of facing extremely high levels of personal attacks and even the threat of physical attacks on an almost constant basis?
One of the main characteristics of the German mindset is conformism — a conformism that can even extend to violence against non-conformists. That is what we are seeing now. They burn our cars, they attack our houses. They try to debank us. We are still looking for a bank account for the foundation.
For foreigners it is sometimes hard to understand how this can happen in Germany. Germany is a very conformist society: you are not supposed to step out of line. The AfD is stepping out of line because too many things are going wrong in Germany. It started with migration, well, actually it started with the euro crisis, I recently saw figures from UBS in Switzerland on average wealth distribution in Europe. Germany is behind Greece and far behind Spain, Italy and France — yet we remain the biggest net contributor to the European Union, even though we are significantly poorer than those countries.
If you travel to Italy, Spain or France, you can see there is more wealth there. But people are not allowed to say this.
The same applies to migration. The problems are obvious if you look at German cities, but we are not allowed to point them out. This is due to the very strong conformism in Germany. You are supposed to support the European Union, open borders and migration. You are supposed to support Ukraine against Russia. It is very hard for Germans to object to any of this.
This differentiates us from countries like France, which has a history of revolution, or the Anglo-Saxon world, which has a tradition of healthy mistrust towards government. Germans have very high trust in their government. They do not dare to criticize those in power.
That is one of the reasons I can live with the attacks and the social ostracism. I am convinced that we have the better arguments. People are suffering, and eventually the suffering will become so great that they will realize they have been betrayed by their government. They will understand that we were right from the beginning — and we are already seeing this in the polls.
In some eastern German states we are polling at around 42%, at least above 40%.This is also because East Germans have already experienced one government collapsing. They saw socialism fail and they saw that all the propaganda produced by the socialist regime was a lie. That is why they do not believe the propaganda of the current German government, and they are voting for the opposition — which is us.
A “white march” is planned for Sunday, July 5, in honor of 17-year-old Louis, who was beaten to death by at least five multicultural thugs in the French city of Narbonne. Louis’ mother said this was no time for mourning, “but a time for war.”
His aunt has also spoken to the media, calling for justice while describing the horror of Louis’ death and the indifference of the perpetrators, who filmed themselves laughing as he died.
The march, which is organized by the family, will be held at 11:00 a.m. at the Narbonne City Hall square and proceeds to the construction site where Louis was beaten to death. The mother is expected to speak there in honor of Louis.
She has already expressed her rage at the death of her son, telling Le Journal du Dimanche, “This is not the time for mourning, it is the time for war.”
She has called for the perpetrators to be tried as adults, revisions to juvenile justice laws, and emphasized that Louis should be the last victim. She has described repeated warnings to social services about risks to her son. He had been placed in an ASE foster home at the family’s request and had ADHD and other challenges.
The march has been described as a “dernière marche” (last march) or “marche blanche” (white/silent vigil-style march) in homage to Louis, with the explicit goal that he be the last such victim. The family has invited parents from across France, residents, and politicians from all political spectrums to attend.
Meanwhile, the aunt of Louis has already appeared on CNews where she spoke passionately about the family’s grief and the callousness of the perpetrators, who beat the terrified 17-year-old victim to death.
“Because when you see these kids, who are in the middle of killing my nephew, filming themselves and laughing… it means they think they’re untouchable. They need to understand now that we’re going to deal with them, and that it’s over. You can’t laugh over a young person’s dead body,” she said.
🇫🇷🔴"They filmed themselves again over Louis as he lay in his blood, laughing. They think nothing will happen to them."
Louis was murdered by 5 multicultural thugs in Narbonne, who beat him to death on video. Now, Louis' aunt speaks to the press for the first time.
“A half an hour later, they returned to the scene. They filmed themselves again over Louis as he lay in his blood, laughing. They think nothing will happen to them,” she stated.
And I got a piece of confidential information from a female lawyer—not directly, but she was court-appointed and dealt with the police custody of one of Louis’ murderers. She came out crying after seeing the videos, and especially after seeing the behavior of her client, who basically found it normal and was even quite proud of himself. This is what politicians need to do: make it clear that…”
She said she even learned that the thugs’ own defense lawyers are horrified by their own clients.
“And I got a piece of confidential information from a female lawyer—not directly, but she was court-appointed and dealt with the police custody of one of Louis’ murderers. She came out crying after seeing the videos, and especially after seeing the behavior of her client, who basically found it normal and was even quite proud of himself.”
Two videos showed the vicious attack inside a construction site in the city of Narbonne.
The attackers filmed the brutal beating, which took place on the night of June 19-20 at a construction site, according to French news outlet L’Indépendant. The video shows them repeatedly stomping on the head of Louis with full force.
In a second clip, one of the youths lies next to Louis, while he is unconscious and struggling for breath, and the suspect smiles for the camera in a mocking fashion.
The video audio also reveals the youths screaming curses at Louis and mocking him as they beat him to death.
Louis was found unconscious with severe facial and head injuries, along with bruises across his body. He was placed in an induced coma and died three days later.
Investigators are still trying to determine what the motive was behind the attack but initial reports expect it was a targeted ambush attack based on revenge.
Louis lived in a foster home where he was placed by Child Protective Services.
Since Louis’ death, videos of the attackers have made their way on to social media, which show them on TikTok handling guns, dealing and taking drugs, huffing nitrous oxide, and drinking hard liquor.
Another video has also emerged. On June 12, they also knocked Louis unconscious, approximately a week before they reportedly murdered him.
A nationwide day of mourning was declared in Kyiv after Russia unleashed what officials are calling the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital so far this year — a strike so severe that it has reignited President Volodymyr Zelensky’s long-running appeal for Ukraine to build its own air defense industry rather than continue relying on a thin and increasingly strained pipeline of Western-supplied missiles.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko announced the mourning period in honor of the victims of Thursday’s assault, which combined missiles and drones in one of the most intense bombardments the capital has endured. Flags across the city have been lowered to half-mast, and all entertainment events have been canceled. Ukrainska Pravda, reporting shortly after the strike, put the toll at more than a dozen dead and many more wounded, with rescue crews still combing through rubble as the report went out.
WATCH ON FULL: Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/1teaPJkrnf
That toll has since climbed sharply. According to the Hungarian Telegraph Office, citing updated figures, at least 27 people have been confirmed dead and more than 90 wounded. The scale of the assault itself helps explain why: the Ukrainian Air Force says Russia launched 570 separate air assets at the country overnight, including some 500 drones — a saturation strategy designed to overwhelm what air defenses Ukraine has left.
The Ukrainian Red Cross reported on X that one of its own humanitarian warehouses in Kyiv was destroyed in the strike, releasing images of the building’s gutted interior.
The organization said 320,000 pieces of aid equipment, worth more than half a billion forints, were lost in the attack — a blow the Red Cross said “affects disaster response and humanitarian operations throughout Ukraine.”
Kyiv authorities say roughly 52,000 residents, including 4,500 children, spent the night sheltering in the city’s metro stations as the bombardment continued overhead.
Zelensky: air defense missiles are Ukraine’s bottleneck
The attack came as no surprise to Ukraine’s leadership. Zelensky had already cut short an official visit to Ireland and flown home after receiving intelligence that a major strike was imminent — reportedly the culmination of preparations Russian President Vladimir Putin had been making for some time, with officials warning further attacks could come with little notice.
In a video address Thursday evening, before the strike fully unfolded, Zelensky renewed a demand he has made with increasing urgency in recent months: that Ukraine must begin manufacturing its own Patriot-type air defense systems domestically. He said Ukraine can no longer count on the current supply arrangement to keep pace with Russian bombardment.
That arrangement has become an acute vulnerability. Western partners have supplied Ukraine with American-made Patriot batteries and German IRIS-T systems, among other platforms, but the interceptor missiles those systems fire are both costly and scarce. The shortage has only deepened as the parallel conflict in Iran diverts global attention and hardware away from Ukraine’s needs.
Zelensky’s stated hope is that Washington will grant Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot missiles itself — a shift that would ease Kyiv’s dependence on allocations from other countries’ stockpiles and give it a sustainable, domestic source of interceptors.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense underscored the stakes in a statement, identifying the interception of incoming ballistic missiles as one of the country’s central challenges precisely because of this shortfall in anti-aircraft ordnance. In the meantime, Kyiv is working the diplomatic channels it has: Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said the government has approached nearly 40 partner nations, asking them to release Patriot missiles from their existing stockpiles this month, with Ukraine promising pre-agreed replacement deliveries once its own supply — or production — catches up.
As Giorgia Meloni faces a reelection battle in 2027, the centrist opposition is no longer the biggest threat to her political dominance. The danger comes from the nationalist right in the form of General Roberto Vannacci, claims the pro-EU outlet Euractiv.
The paper acknowledges that Meloni campaigned on right-wing values, but once she was in power, she was forced to take a more centrist approach internationally due to economic interests. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen already threatened right before she came to power that the EU had “tools” to make sure Italy took the course that Brussels desired.
Apparently, this threat worked to a large degree, with Meloni mostly toeing the line. However, “that balancing act has created an opening for critics who argue she has compromised too much,” writes Euractiv.
As Meloni seeks to defend her track record, Vannacci argues that she no longer represents Italy’s nationalist right. In an interview with Euractiv, Vannacci portrayed his movement as one of the last uncompromising defenders of national sovereignty.
“We are the only ones who still defend sovereignty without hesitation,” he stated.
Vannacci served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he led the elite Folgore Parachute Brigade. In 2020, he retired from combat duty and then worked as the defense attaché at the Italian embassy in Moscow. Vannacci is vehemently opposed to the EU, skeptical of military support for Ukraine and openly criticizes what he calls “normalization” among European conservative parties.
Vannacci was previously a member of the League party and a European Parliament representative, but broke away from Matteo Salvini’s party and formed a new movement.
Vannacci presents himself as one of Europe’s last “credible” right-wing politicians and attacks parties that he considers mainstream conservative parties across Europe. Among that list, he includes Meloni and Jordan Bardella, president of the French National Rally. He describes them as the “watered down right-wing.” Notably, besides Meloni, the National Rally has come under fire for its sharp criticism of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the German party’s promotion of remigration.
“The normalization process pushed by the National Rally in France won’t work,” Vannacci said. “I still hope they will win the next French elections, but I have my doubts. Right-wing forces must remain true to their identity, not dilute themselves.”
As for remigration, Vannacci fully backs the concept, which he says has a deeper meaning than mere deportations.
“Remigration is not only about returns,” he told Euractiv. “It is about the right of native peoples to defend their civilization and their culture against exogenous groups.”
“We want Italians to live in Italy, just as we want every country to remain the home of its native people,” he said.
The Futuro Nazionale movement, which he recently launched, currently enjoys over 5 percent support in opinion polls, ahead of the populist League party. The party is inching towards the centrist Forza Italia party in the polling.
This flanking action from the right-wing has become a growing problem for Meloni as elections approach. The Italian MEP has suggested that the future of the prime minister will eventually depend on his political movement.
“Meloni will need Italians who want real change,” he said. “Today we represent this.”
However, when asked if he would join a coalition with Meloni, he said he had “never spoken about pacts.”
After leaving the League party, Vannacci — then a member of the Patriots for Europe — transferred in February to the European Sovereign Nations (ESN) faction at the EU level, a group of right-wing parties that includes the AfD.
France was gripped by chaos on Thursday, July 2, 2026, as an exceptional sale of discounted air conditioners at Lidl descended into long lines, emptied shelves, and physical fights between customers nationwide. The retailer had put 200,000 units up for sale — nowhere near enough to meet demand as yet another heatwave looms next week following a record-breaking heatwave just last week.
Videos of the various incidents went viral across social media.
In Lyon, a youth was seen ripping an air conditioner from a woman while they tussled on the ground. He then proceeded to push her back multiple times.
🇫🇷🔴A multicultural youth steals an air conditioner from a woman in a Lidl supermarket in Lyon, France.
Lidl launched a sale of 200,000 air conditioners as yet another heatwave looms for France.
Demand was far higher and mass brawls were seen across France in the discount… pic.twitter.com/ChcNOjOiUM
Overall, the situation was quite chaotic in numerous locations.
“Lidl France deplores the incidents that occurred in its stores,” the retailer told AFP in response, acknowledging that its employees “had to manage tensions, in a sometimes difficult climate.” The company attributed the shortages to “the sales cycle of [its] products,” explaining: “Products ordered one year in advance and arrive on Thursdays in our supermarkets, always at a fixed price.”
The chain had also tried to defuse tension with humor on social media, responding to a post about a fight over a Lidl air conditioner with a meme referencing Game of Thrones. But the levity didn’t stop clashes from breaking out at multiple Lidl locations across the country, including in Rennes and Nanterre.
In Nanterre, around a hundred people gathered according to BFMTV. A line began forming at 7:30 a.m. even though the store didn’t open until 8:30 a.m. The news outlet described that the doors then “collapsed” under pressure from the crowd trying to make their way into the store. It further noted that “fights broke out between several people over the ten air conditions that were available.”
A similar scene played out in Paris, where crowd were largely good-natured, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP), though altercations still broke out among customers trying to cut ahead.
In Hazebrouck, in northern France, journalists from La Voix du Nord reported that there were only four air conditioning units available for around 60 customers. Le Parisien documented similar crowd scenes at several Lidl stores across the Île-de-France region, while Ouest-France reported that police also had to intervene in Trélazé and near Angers, where the situation escalated as soon as one store opened.
The Lidl frenzy is just the latest flashpoint in a broader rush on fans and air conditioners across France and neighboring countries as the country braces for another heatwave forecast by Météo France. Many residents are eager to avoid a repeat of the extreme heat seen at the end of June — and lines had already been forming at stores selling air conditioners, fans, and even survival or cooling blankets in Meudon in the preceding weeks.
Belgium saw a nearly identical episode at Aldi, where a promotional sale of air conditioners priced at 145 euros similarly spiraled into disorder, with customers wrestling units out of each other’s hands.
Other major French retailers have faced the same surge in demand. Fnac Darty CEO Enrique Martinez told BFM Business that “people were waiting outside the stores from 4 a.m.” during the heatwave, and that “some came to blows.” He added that “the teams worked hard to serve everyone and bring in as much equipment as possible” from warehouses.
At Leclerc, the numbers tell a similar story. “We sold 700,000 fans and coolers in three weeks” — an increase of almost 200 percent, Michel-Édouard Leclerc said Thursday on TF1. “We sold nearly 60,000 air conditioners, that’s also more than 35 percent [more].” He added: “We still have some left. Now it’s distribution problems to take into account population movements with ‘departures on vacation.’”
A 45-year-old man, identified as Fatih Khan G. and described as Turkish, shot and killed six employees at a youth welfare facility in Stade on Monday. New details reveal that 65-year-old Sylvia S. of Bremen was behind the wheel of the getaway car, with the woman working as a “migration consultant” for a nationwide advocacy organization within Germany’s migration policy sector, according to Nius news outlet.
The vehicle used to flee the mass shooting was a Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé with nearly 400 horsepower. The vehicle was registered in Sylvia S.’s name on May 26, 2026, about five weeks before the shooting that rocked the nation.
🇩🇪🔴BREAKING: The perpetrator who shot and killed 6 people was born in Germany but has Turkish roots.
Police say the motive was a custody battle over his baby.
All the deceased were employees of the Youth Welfare Office in Stade. According to NDR, the father is said to be from… pic.twitter.com/HE40NhPFJM
Sylvia S.’s organization “advises on issues such as family reunification, residency rights, and naturalization, and describes itself as representing the interests of migrant families and opposing racism,” according to Nius.
Settling migrants, advocating for migrants, and “fighting” racism are massive industries in Germany awash in taxpayer money. Sylvia’s organization was no different. For 2025 and 2026 alone, the organization received nearly €900,000 in taxpayer funding through the federal NGO program “Demokratie leben!” (“Democracy Live!”).
The entire shooting, which killed six youth welfare office employees, was over a custody dispute regarding Fatih Khan G.’s three-month-old baby. Sylvia S. has now told authorities she is the godmother of the three-month-old baby at the center of a custody battle.
In early April, the infant was treated first at Hannover Medical School and later at a children’s hospital on suspicion of shaken baby syndrome. That prompted an investigation into the father — one that, investigators now say, was already open and ongoing before the shooting took place.
Three days before the attack, Sylvia S. reportedly sent a roughly 20-page letter, titled “Chronicle of a Nightmare,” to several media outlets, according to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) and RTL. In it, she raised objections to what she described as contradictions, inconsistencies, and inadequate medical documentation in the case. She argued that the baby’s injuries were not the result of shaking but of an accidental collision in bed. She also claimed that the father had struck his head against the infant’s while half asleep.
According to the letter, the father, who Sylvia would later drive away from the shooting, allegedly went so far as to try to block the child’s emergency surgery through police intervention.
Doctors subsequently filed a complaint against him due to aggressive behavior. The youth welfare office ultimately took the baby into protective custody. A family court later allowed the child to return to the mother, but only at the facility in Stade, not in Hanover.
On Monday, there was supposed to be a protective custody hearing in Stade and Sylvia S. drove the father to the appointment. According to investigators, he suddenly pulled out a firearm he had brought with him and opened fire on staff. Five victims died at the scene; a sixth later succumbed to injuries in the hospital. Investigators have since described the attack as an “extremely cold-blooded act of violence.”
After the shooting, the father and Sylvia S. fled together in the Mercedes. Several kilometers from the crime scene, a tire on the getaway car blew out on the B73 highway, allowing emergency responders to catch up with the vehicle and arrest both occupants.
The German outlet t-online reported that a second woman was also taken into custody in connection with the case, but there are conflicting reports on whether this second female existed.
Prosecutors did not seek pretrial detention for either of the two women, and both were subsequently released from police custody. Sylvia S. was questioned before her release. The shooter remains in pretrial detention.
It remains unclear if Sylvia S. was aware the shooting would take place and if she was aiding him in fleeing the scene. Authorities say they are withholding further details from the public for investigative and tactical reasons, as well as to protect the victims and their families.
A homeless man born in the African country of Mali has been arrested after sexually assaulting five elderly female patients, all in their 80s, at a hospital in Villepinte, France, in the multicultural Seine-Saint-Denis department. The case follows a wave of similar attacks in France and other countries involving foreigners and elderly victims.
According to police sources, the five women — all born between 1936 and 1940 — were approached by the man in the hallways of the Robert-Ballanger intercommunal hospital center during the night of June 27 into June 28.
The women reported that he exposed his genitals and began molesting and groping the women.
Security services were alerted by a doctor at the hospital, who linked a series of reports from nursing staff to the suspicious behavior of an individual who had already been spotted wandering the hallways.
According to French news outlet Actu Niort, hospital staff had first flagged the man to police as early as 12:20 p.m. after a health manager noticed him wandering the corridors. The suspect had reportedly been treated in the emergency room overnight and was supposed to have left the hospital by 5:30 a.m., but was instead found still roaming the premises the next day.
🇫🇷🔴A French journalist says there is a shocking pattern of foreigners raping elderly women in France.
Just this week, a Moroccan migrant was arrested for raping and torturing a 74-year-old woman in Romainville with a telescopic baton.
Police arrived and arrested the African suspect without resistance. He remains in police custody as investigators work to determine the full scope of the assaults and whether he has a prior criminal record.
According to Actu Niort, the victims are considering filing formal complaints.
French political activist Thaïs d’Escufon wrote on X, “In France, a horrific phenomenon is rising: Sexually frustrated immigrants are now preying on our grandmothers. On June 27, five 80+ yo women were assaulted at a hospital by a 44yo Malian man. We must protect the most vulnerable of our people. Let’s stop taking in these ticking time bombs and send them back where they came from!”
In France, a horrific phenomenon is rising:
Sexually frustrated immigrants are now preying on our grandmothers.
On June 27, five 80+ yo women were assaulted at a hospital by a 44yo Malian man.
We must protect the most vulnerable of our people.
She pointed to a Moroccan migrant who was arrested for raping and torturing a 74-year-old woman in Romainville with a telescopic baton.
“She’s raped, a 74-year-old woman, it’s unimaginable. And it happens again and again,” said d’Ornellas.
“Our job is to bear witness to reality. And that’s why some people are at war with us, they don’t want us to show this reality. If we don’t talk about it, no one will.”
Just earlier this month, a Moroccan migrant snuck into an Ibiza hospital in Spain and sexually assaulted a 69-year-old terminally ill cancer patient, which led the hospital to radically change its security policy.
Boulevard Voltaire, which covered this latest case in Villepinte, also situated it within a wider pattern of sexual violence in French healthcare settings.
According to surveys conducted separately by the National Council of the Order of Physicians (CNOM) and the National Order of Nurses (ONI) in September and December 2024, 54 percent of female doctors say they have experienced “sexist and sexual” violence at the hospital.
Patients, the outlet noted, are similarly vulnerable — often emotionally or physically fragile, or even unconscious, making them easy targets for predators.
Boulevard Voltaire was unable to obtain a comment from the hospital. The outlet raised the question of whether a “culture of silence” surrounds such cases, citing the account of a woman named Christina, whose 50-year-old daughter — who has Down syndrome and early-stage Alzheimer’s — was allegedly sexually abused by another patient in the geriatric ward of Sainte-Périne-Rossini hospital in Paris’s 16th arrondissement in July 2023.
A beautiful kaleidoscope of 118 diverse nationalities killing, trafficking women, dealing drugs, and wreaking havoc across Europe? This might not be exactly what the European Union had in mind when it repeated the mantra that “diversity is our strength,” but it is the reality it will have to deal with.
Europe is facing an organized crime landscape more sophisticated, transnational, and resilient than ever before — one that Europol says now resembles a network of “corporations of crime” rather than traditional street gangs. Albanian, Turkish, Moroccan, Balkan and many other foreign gangs dominate drug trafficking, extortion, human smuggling, and street violence.
In its latest report, “Decoding the EU’s Most Threatening Criminal Networks: Issue 2 — The Blueprint of Criminal Opportunism,” Europol identified 731 active criminal networks operating across EU territory, comprising more than 400,000 members from 118 different nationalities. That figure represents a fivefold increase from just two years ago, according to Austrian outlet exxpress — though the jump reflects a shift in Europol’s methodology as much as raw growth in criminal numbers.
The networks are far from static. Of the 821 networks identified in Europol’s first assessment in 2024, 76 percent no longer rank among the bloc’s most threatening groups, but Europol’s leadership was quick to warn against reading that as a victory.
“It reflects merely what the member states are observing in their investigations,” acting Europol Deputy Director Jürgen Ebner said at the Brussels press conference, according to German-language reporting. In other words: dismantled networks are simply being replaced. A core of 198 of the original networks has persisted, while 533 entirely new or newly detected groups have taken their place — bringing the total back up to 731.
“All crime is fueled online, accelerated by AI and technology,” Ebner said. According to him, these networks rely on significant financial resources, increasingly sophisticated methods, and high levels of corruption, functioning as interconnected international cells within the EU and beyond.
Crime hiding in plain sight
Perhaps the most alarming finding: 85 percent of the most threatening networks now use legitimate business structures to mask their activities, according to Europol, which blurs the line between the legal economy and organized crime almost beyond recognition.
European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner framed the scale of the problem bluntly. “We’re not talking about street gangs,” he said at the press conference, “but about real multinational crime syndicates.” According to Brunner, criminal organizations increasingly identify profitable markets, invest resources strategically, and expand operations wherever financial opportunity exists — just like legitimate multinational businesses. Lawyers, accountants, and real estate professionals are deliberately recruited to funnel illicit profits into the legal economy.
Drug trafficking remains the dominant criminal market, anchored by cocaine and synthetic drugs, with one in five of the most threatening networks tied directly to Latin America. But the networks’ reach extends into cybercrime, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, fraud, organized property crime, and money laundering — and increasingly into recruiting children. According to Europol, 6 percent of the identified networks actively recruit children between the ages of 8 and 17 for high-risk tasks ranging from drug deliveries to extreme violence.
France’s DZ Mafia: a case study in the new criminal model
Nowhere is this evolution clearer than in France, where the rise of the so-called “DZ Mafia” — a network born out of Marseille’s drug-trafficking underworld — illustrates exactly the kind of decentralized, adaptive, and transnational criminal enterprise Europol describes.
🇫🇷 Marseilles. France
The French port city is now a major narcotics hub for Europe.
Last year, a 15-year-old was stabbed 50 times and burned alive in the drug violence as murders hit record highs.
Unlike the hierarchical mafias of the past, the DZ Mafia does not control drug production, which remains in the hands of Latin American cartels, nor does it control the drugs’ importation into Europe, which is handled by the Dutch-based Mocro Mafia and Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta. Instead, it operates as a wholesaler — forming alliances with both groups to secure the best shipments arriving in Europe, according to reporting on the network’s structure.
That partnership allowed the DZ Mafia to expand its footprint from Marseille into Avignon, Sète, Valence, and eventually Lyon, Poitiers, Dijon, and even Rennes in Brittany.
When the group needed fast cash to finance a violent turf war in 2024, it diversified into extortion, targeting shops, nightclubs, rappers, and influencers — a shift that led to arson attacks and personal violence against victims who refused to pay. Even with senior figures like leader Amine O., who has nicknamed himself “Escobar” after the Colombian cartel boss, now behind bars, French authorities say the network’s command structure continues to direct operations from prison.
Dismantling networks, not just arresting individuals
Europol’s message is that arrests alone will not solve the problem. When a top criminal target is taken off the street, demand and profit opportunities remain in place, allowing someone else to step in immediately.
“Our goal is not just to arrest individuals, but to dismantle criminal networks, target their command structures and deprive them of their assets and profits,” said Themistos Arnaoutis, the Cypriot police chief.
To meet the threat, Europol is calling for tighter coordination across major European logistics hubs, including through mechanisms like the Port Alliance — a public-private partnership launched in 2024 to combat criminal infiltration of European ports and drug trafficking routes. The agency also wants stronger cross-border police cooperation, greater investment in neutralizing criminal digital infrastructure, and more aggressive monitoring of financial flows to claw back illicit assets.
The European Commission is already moving to back that up with resources: alongside the report’s release, it proposed expanding Europol’s mandate and doubling the agency’s budget to €3 billion under the EU’s 2028–2034 financial framework — part of what Brunner called a “European law enforcement package” designed to close the loopholes criminals have been exploiting.
“The strength of criminal networks lies in their ability to operate across borders,” Arnaoutis said. “Our strength must therefore lie in our ability to work beyond these.”
A Dutch left-wing politician with a Turkish background is blaming “men” after a 13-year-old girl was raped in a bush by an asylum seeker in her city Alkmaar, which has turned into a major scandal in the city. The asylum seeker made international headlines when he told the young victim in court he wanted to marry the victim to “make things right.”
Council member Kivilcim Pinar, who was born and raised in the Turkish city of Istanbul and belongs to the left-wing Party for the Animals (PvdD), called the discussion about the rape “ridiculous” and argued that sex crimes are not confined to one group. “White, black, young, old — they’re all guilty of sex offenses. In Alkmaar we’ve specifically fought against all violence against women: it’s simply a men’s problem,” he said.
His statement has been labeled “paradoxical,” as he claims in one sentence that sex crimes should not be generalized to one group and then labels an entire group, men, as the problem.
The case first became an international headline when reports emerged that the man offered to marry the girl during his court trial, saying: “If I can make it right, I want to do it. I’d like to marry her.” The statement reportedly drew considerable astonishment in the courtroom at the time.
Was the case hidden from the public?
The fact that nobody in the public or even the city council was informed about the rape for nearly a year has also become a scandal in the city. The rape reportedly occurred in 2025 but nobody in the public or city council learned anything about it until the first court date this month, June 2026.
Mayor Anja Schouten from Alkmaar claimed during an emergency debate that she could not inform the municipal council earlier last year about the rape of a 13-year-old girl at the Bolwerk, according to Headliner.nl. She further stated that there was no legal basis at that time to actively warn council or residents about the rape by the asylum seeker, because there were no direct public order problems or broad unrest.
That view is being challenged by the city council, who say that the mayor could have made that decision in consultation with law enforcement. Some are even claiming she tried to sweep the rape under the rug.
The case remains a political flashpoint in Alkmaar, a town already engaged in an ongoing debate over safety around its asylum center. Opposition parties OPA and BAS pushed for the emergency debate to demand clarity on what Mayor Anja Schouten and the city council knew, when they knew it, and why the council was not informed before the case became public through media reports rather than through the city government.
According to news outlet Streekradio Alkmaar, “It shocked several Alkmaar parties that they had to read about this incident in the newspaper. They called the mayor to account during the emergency debate.”
“We are surprised that we did not receive active information about the case. Not even after the article in the newspaper. We do get memos about CCTV, building closures, about football, about King’s Day. Is this a conscious choice or not? The council does not want to be dependent on the press to learn of such events,” said OPA’s Tamara Vermeulen.
Another politician, Pien Bijl from the BAS party, stated: “I am disappointed. We are the highest administrative body. We only get information about exploded ATMs, but not when a 13-year-old girl is raped?”
The city council in the city had held an emergency debate Monday evening over the case, which has stirred outrage in the community. A man identified only as T.N., a resident of the local asylum center, is suspected by the Public Prosecution Service of raping a 13-year-old girl in the bushes near the facility.
🇳🇱"We just want to fight for the safety of our girls… These girl cycle home, also in their shorts."
After Dutch police beat anti-immigration protesters in Loosdrecht, mothers have come on to the streets with their sons and daughters to protest.
Prosecutors have demanded a four-year prison sentence, with a court ruling expected on July 7.
“A very serious sexual offense,” the public prosecutor told the Noordhollands Dagblad. “A vulnerable girl, who was in a difficult period of her life. Things didn’t go well at school and at home. She had run away and was looking for a place to sleep, had nowhere to go. She came into contact with the suspect, who had no problem raping her.”
🇳🇱🔴"Are you here to beat up children?"
During anti-asylum center demonstrations in Apeldoorn, a woman challenges Dutch police.
"If you take off that uniform, you are also just a citizen. Yes, and your wife is too, and your children are too."
According to prosecutors, the girl repeatedly told police she did not want to have sex with the man, that it hurt, and that he continued anyway. DNA matching the suspect was found on the girl. In an unusual defense, T.N. claimed his DNA could have ended up on her because her finger had touched his, and he reportedly questioned in court why the judges would believe such a young girl, claiming she knew nothing and understood nothing about sex.
During the hearing, the girl’s mother addressed the suspect directly and emotionally, saying his actions had damaged their lives. The victim has reportedly requested €12,000 in damages and, according to reports, continues to struggle with psychological problems.
Asylum center remains a concern
OPA council member Tamara Vermeulen directly linked the case to safety concerns around the asylum center.
“People don’t feel safe because of the asylum center. It looks like the mayor is sweeping it under the rug just to keep things quiet,” she said.
🇳🇱Two Dutch girls are slapped and beaten by another girl in the town of IJmuiden, with Dutch social media users saying the suspect has a clear accent.
The suspect is wearing a motorcycle helmet in the first video, but in the second, her face is clear. pic.twitter.com/XiRd6XuzvB
Yesterday, National Rally leader Jordan Bardella wrote of police raids targeting communications providers that worked with his party, as well as an upcoming judicial investigation targeting him for a job he did 12 years ago. All of these actions are being taken in the lead up to French national elections next year, where Bardella is shown to be leading in polls to become the next president of the country.
“Since early this morning, searches have been underway at the offices and personal residences of communication providers who have worked with us,” wrote Bardella on X.
“At the same time, Le Canard enchaîné also informs us of the upcoming opening of a judicial investigation concerning me, following a complaint from a militant association, regarding a job I held for a few months at the European Parliament… nearly twelve years ago,” he continued.
He then noted that these actions are being taken before elections, writing: “As always, judicial proceedings herald the electoral calendar. We have nothing to reproach ourselves for, and we will demonstrate it.”
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday it is “currently carrying out investigative measures in France and other European countries as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of European funds by a former political group in the European Parliament between 2019 and 2024.” This is a clear reference to the Identity and Democracy group.
Now, the National Rally is being targeted once again over alleged embezzlement of European funds.
🇫🇷🇪🇺The EU is using each crisis – immigration, Covid-19, and now the war in Ukraine – to seize more and more power, says Marine Le Pen.
"My deep feeling is that the EU systematically uses crises to advance its agenda and to assume powers and competences that the treaties have… pic.twitter.com/tX2XwINDT4
Le Monde, which first revealed the information, reported that the searches are taking place as part of an investigation opened in July 2025, following a report from the European Parliament’s financial affairs directorate.
The RN calls the timing “troubling”
According to Philippe Ballard, an RN deputy for Oise and party spokesperson, the complaint originated with a “militant association.”
Speaking to france info, he said: “There are many [associations] who sue us, which they never win anyway.” He added: “We will let justice take its course. But we are calm. We will show that we are, once again, completely innocent.”
🇫🇷🇪🇸Free movement in Europe's Schengen should only be for EU citizens, not migrants, says French political leader @J_Bardella after Spain's far-left government decided to legalize up to 800,000 migrants.
RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy, for his part, told BFMTV that he found it “disturbing that one week before Marine Le Pen’s court deliberations, this affair resurfaces.” The Paris Court of Appeal is set to rule on July 7 on whether to uphold Marine Le Pen’s ineligibility in the European parliamentary assistants affair.
Notably, Bardella is leading in many polls to become the country’s next president. The question now is whether the establishment is going to wield the courts against Bardella as well, potentially eliminating him from the ballot entirely before he can even run.
As Remix News reported earlier, many in Brussels fear a Bardella versus Jean-Luc Mélenchon matchup, which could throw the EU establishment into chaos regardless of who wins. Notably, polling shows that Bardella would crush Mélenchon in a head-to-head runoff matchup.
The simultaneous expiration of emergency fuel subsidies across Europe has triggered a coordinated wave of dramatic price spikes at the pump. In countries like Poland, Germany and Spain, motorists woke up to a harsh new economic reality as temporary government relief programs officially ended, causing fuel taxes to snap back to their standard, higher rates.
On the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, fuel prices at gas stations in Poland went up sharply. Conservative Law and Justice (PiS) politicians ironically write about a “holiday gift” from the government.
As of July 1, subsidies ended and maximum fuel prices ceased to apply, with VAT rate on fuel returning to 23 percent. Just after midnight, photos from gas stations appeared on social media showing drastic price increases, even by one złoty for diesel.
“From the very beginning, the government has made it clear that the Fuel Price Below package is temporary, due to the situation in the Middle East, oil prices have skyrocketed to as much as $115-116 per barrel. Today it is $70,” said Finance Minister Andrzej Domański on Tuesday on Polsat News.
Asked how much fuel prices would increase on Wednesday, the head of the Ministry of Finance replied that the changes would be “different at different stations.” He estimated that “an average of 30-40 groszy can be assumed.” In turn, Reflex analysts said that the prices of gasoline and diesel fuel could increase by 40-60 groszy per liter.
Fuel prices are up sharply. A wave of comments “Midnight has struck, the CPN package is being withdrawn and price increases are being made at stations. Quite noticeable, as you can see. Photos from a moment ago from Grochów, before and after midnight,” wrote Jakub Wiech via the X platform.
“You have a holiday gift from the Civic Coalition. Oil at $73, dollar at 3.7 PLN – with similar parameters in our times, fuel was 5.60,” said Daniel Obajtek, former CEO of Orlen and current PiS MEP.
“A holiday gift from Donald Tusk for Polish families,” wrote Michał Dworczyk from Law and Justice on X.
Mirroring the abrupt transition in Poland, drivers across the border in Germany faced a remarkably similar fiscal shock. On July 1, Germany’s federally subsidized “fuel discount” expired as scheduled, forcing the reinstatement of standard energy taxes on gasoline and diesel.
The temporary tax cut had originally been introduced in May to cushion households and power-hungry manufacturers from a massive energy shock triggered by conflict in the Middle East and supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. For two months, the emergency program effectively lowered the energy tax burden by approximately 17 cents per liter for both gas and diesel.
However, the German government firmly rejected calls to extend the multi-billion euro subsidy into the summer. Parliamentary leadership noted that while the tax break successfully insulated consumers during the peak of the crisis, continuing the program was no longer financially viable given rigid national debt limits.
The resulting pivot back to standard taxation immediately sent retail prices surging at German stations. Even before the official midnight deadline, heavy lines formed at pumps nationwide as motorists scrambled to fill their tanks, anticipating price hikes that market analysts warn could approach near-record daily jumps once the full tax increase is absorbed.
In response to the sudden spike, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has pledged strict oversight, warning major oil companies and station operators against using the tax transition to mask unjustified price gouging during the summer holiday rush.
Other countries also saw jumps, including Spain, which had significantly slashed the standard Value-Added Tax (VAT) on transport fuels down to 10 percent. This officially expired on June 30. Starting today, July 1, the VAT snapped back to its standard 21 percent, instantly triggering price jumps at Spanish pumps identical to the shift seen in Poland and Germany.
Two Syrian men are now under arrest for allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl at Munich nightclub, with the case reportedly happening in early June.
Two nightclub employees are being lauded for helping catch the perpetrators.
According to police, the woman and the two men met at the club, located in a basement on Arnulfstrasse. A short time later, the Syrian pair allegedly persuaded the teenager to accompany them to an unlocked room on the first floor of the building complex. There, police say, they harassed and raped her despite her putting up a fight.
When a friend of the girl alerted the police, a large police operation was launched to track down the two Syrians, however, a club employee played an instrumental role in locating them. She said she saw them while she was walking home from the club, according to BR news outlet.
“We drove there very quickly and were able to arrest the two suspects near the scene of the crime,” the spokesman said.
In a bathing area in the Swiss city of Lucerne, an 18-year-old African asylum seeker went on a rampage and molested several women on June 28.
“He grabbed my ass. I told him to stop,” said one of his victims, 18-year-old girl Laura C., who was in the Nordpol bathing area next to the Reuss River.
The young woman, who has Spanish and Swiss citizenship and who lives in Lucerne, said that the man, who is from Guinea, approached her at around 2:30 p.m.
“He did stupid things and made us mad,” said Laura C. to Swiss outlet Blick. “I felt uncomfortable, and I told him to leave.” She then went into the water with a friend, but the African followed her in.
“I made room for him there. But then he came to me very close and grabbed my ass with his hand.”
Laura’s friend then picked up a stone and yelled for the man to go away.
Although the man left, Laura said he came back into the water and “did stupid things again.” They left for their spot on the shore but “he came and continued to rant and rave.”
The African then stole a little boy’s bicycle and her friend’s beer as he became more erratic.
She and others responded by holding him down until police arrived at the scene.
Laura said the man was clearly intoxicated and likely on drugs. However, instead of being arrested for his actions, he was taken to the hospital and released just hours later. Laura said she was just one of the women harassed by the man, with other reports indicating a mother and her daughter were also victimized.
He then returned to the swimming area and harassed Laura and her friends once again. The police arrived again and banned the man from the swimming area.
🇩🇪🔴A German woman says "it's a disaster" for women in swimming pools across Germany. She now dreams of her childhood before a certain "clientele" made German swimming pools "just awful."
Laura C. said she filed a complaint for sexual harassment against the man.
“It was the first time I ever saw this man,” said Laura C., who added that “the police should not have let him free again.”
Now, she says she is afraid to go out alone due to the incident.
“I want to get out with a clear conscience and not think about things like that,” she stated. “It’s a free public space, and one should have respect for other people.”
Laura said she plans to contact a victim support center and tells other women to watch out for themselves.
A video of a German woman describing a “certain clientele” who she says has ruined German swimming pools has gone viral. In the video, she speaks of her childhood memories of a time when swimming pools were carefree and peaceful. Now, she says she fears for her own personal safety and her belongings.
In the video, she describes going to the Kombibad Gropiusstadt in the multicultural Berlin neighborhood in Neukölln after many years of refusing to go back and how this turned into a mistake.
“I was just at a public swimming pool in Berlin with my son, specifically the Gropiusstadt outdoor pool— some of you might know it. In my childhood, it was such a beautiful swimming pool. I used to love going there, and the older I got, the worse it became. Today was actually my very first time back there in probably, let’s say, about six years..I only went today for my son’s sake because he really wanted to go there today,” she said.
🇩🇪🔴A German woman says "it's a disaster" for women in swimming pools across Germany. She now dreams of her childhood before a certain "clientele" made German swimming pools "just awful."
“Yeah, today just confirmed for me once again why I stopped going there. The clientele there is just awful. It’s bad, and especially as a woman, it’s a disaster. I just sat on my blanket with my clothes on, because you don’t even want to take off your clothes into a bikini there, sunbathe, or go into the water.”
Although she does not specifically describe the “clientele,” Neukölln is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Germany. Furthermore, the specific swimming pool she describes, Kombibad Gropiusstadt, has had problems with foreign youth for years, including a major brawl caught on video. The situation in Berlin, in general, has been one of violence and sexual assaults for years. A heavy police presence is now common in the city’s most problematic swimming pools.
More importantly, the data shows that foreigners are overwhelmingly those most responsible for the chaos and feelings of insecurity in German swimming pools.
In Germany overall, 64.6 percent of identified suspects in sexual assaults at swimming pools and bathing areas in 2024 were non-German citizens, according to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) data for 2024.
The German woman also notes that it is becoming increasingly crowded at the swimming pools in the country, which is a major challenge to the feelings of security and peace that were once present even in cities like Berlin. Due to mass immigration, Germany’s population is soaring year after year, with public spaces burdened and swimming pools becoming overcrowded. At the same time, Germans are fast becoming a minority in their own country.
“As with all swimming pools in Germany It is so insanely overcrowded. I mean, we went early, so it wasn’t overcrowded yet, but at some point, it got so packed. And you’re also just afraid to leave your things behind on the blanket, because it’s completely normal now that you have to worry about everything getting stolen. It’s just sad. It’s sad that this is Berlin, and that it’s generally like this in Germany now,” she stated.
🇩🇪🔴A major police operation was launched in Germany at the Bochum-Werne outdoor pool after a mass brawl broke out involving at least 30 participants.
Police evacuated the entire swimming pool.
Authorities have not provided details on the nationalities of those involved.
Her comments come after a series of security incidents in Germany in the last week, including an Afghan suspect who sexually assaulted four underage girls.
🇩🇪JUST IN: An Afghan migrant was arrested for a mass groping attack and attempted rape against 4 underage girls at a German swimming pool.
He has already been released by a judge.
At least four girls aged 12 to 14 were victims of sexual assaults last Saturday afternoon at a… pic.twitter.com/b60K7NUVQj
Other women have also complained about the conditions in German swimming pools over the years.
🇩🇪 "I was at the outdoor pool in Zeitz (Germany) yesterday. What can I say?"
"The obvious migrant guests there, who are perhaps from Syria, Afghanistan or whatever, were always romping around in the children’s pools. The men were lying around in the children’s pools, sitting on… pic.twitter.com/Muih5UqhQv
A punishing heatwave sweeping across Europe has pushed Hungary to its hottest temperature ever recorded, while also driving the country’s summer electricity consumption to a new high — part of a wider pattern of broken records stretching from Germany to the Mediterranean.
Hungary breaks its all-time heat record
On Tuesday, the national absolute heat record was broken in Hungary, the meteorological service HungaroMet announced. The previous hottest day had been recorded in 2007, when temperatures reached 40.7 degrees Celsius (105.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in Budapest and 41.9 degrees in Kiskunhalas.
On Tuesday, however, 41.0 degrees were measured in the capital and 42.0 degrees in Szécsény. Temperatures could climb even higher in these areas, as the heat did not subside during the day, and more precise data may follow. Prime Minister Péter Magyar also responded to the news, promising an announcement on his social media page about the records.
Electricity consumption hits a summer high
The heat has also strained the power grid. The load on Hungary’s electricity network reached its highest point of the summer on Friday, June 26, surpassing last summer’s consumption peak — though the absolute summer record set in 2024 has not yet been broken, the grid operator Mavir announced Monday in response to an MTI inquiry.
According to Mavir data, Friday saw the year’s highest summer gross peak system load during a roughly 15-minute window around 7:15 p.m., reaching 6,788 megawatts (MW), with an average daily temperature of 29.1 degrees Celsius. Last year’s summer peak was also measured on June 26, when the maximum reached 6,766 MW at an average daily temperature of 30.3 degrees.
Hungary’s absolute summer peak to date was registered on July 16, 2024, when system load hit 7,036 MW. Winter consumption peaks are generally higher, though the summer peak has occasionally exceeded the winter maximum — in 2015, for example, the summer peak was 6,457 MW versus a winter peak of 6,447 MW. The highest value ever measured in Hungary came on Jan. 13 of this year, when system load reached 8,182 MW, Mavir said.
Germany shatters its all-time national record — twice
Hungary is far from alone. In Germany, the heatwave broke the country’s all-time national temperature record on consecutive days.
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), 41.7 degrees Celsius were recorded at the Neißemünde-Coschen station in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg on Sunday at 3:10 p.m. — the highest since measurements began in the 19th century. That broke a record set only the day before in Möckern-Drewitz, Saxony-Anhalt, while the night leading into Sunday was also the warmest on record.
The extreme heat has caused real damage
On several motorways, including parts of the A2, the asphalt buckled, and a section of the A2 near Burg in Saxony-Anhalt had to be closed for heat damage before reopening. Earlier in the heatwave, a preliminary national record of 41.3°C had been reached near Saarbrücken on Friday, before Germany’s weather service issued extreme heat warnings for nearly the entire country and urged people to conserve water.
Europe cooks
The records were not confined to Germany and Hungary. From late May 2026 onward, Europe was struck by severe heatwaves, with temperature records broken in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
In France, Météo-France said June 23 was the country’s hottest day since measurements began in 1947, with temperatures reaching 44.3°C. The U.K., meanwhile, broke its June temperature record on three consecutive days.
The human toll has been severe, with more than 1,300 deaths reported across Europe as temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the continent. However, many of these deaths were due to drowning. In Germany alone over the weekend, there were 28 drowning deaths as people flocked to lakes and rivers to cool off, with every single victim a male.
When the socialist-communist government of Pedro Sánchez first announced he was going to begin the mass legalization of migrants in his country, his government claimed this would amount to 500,000 people. Now, twice as many people are being legalized than first claimed, and importantly for the rest of Europe, those migrants now have the right to freely move through the Schengen zone.
In April, the socialist-communist government in Madrid first issue the decree, giving illegal migrants three months to submit their application.
According to the New York Times, more than 1 million applications had already been submitted by illegal immigrants.
Vox party leader Santiago Abascal has accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of taking the long-term move of naturalizing millions of foreigners to give himself and left-wing parties an electoral advantage in upcoming elections.
“Pedro Sánchez is willing to rob us of the next general elections by manipulating the census and handing out Spanish nationality,” wrote Abascal. “And it is necessary for us to mobilize to prevent him, after everything he has stolen, from also stealing the elections from us.”
Pedro Sánchez está dispuesto a robarnos las próximas elecciones generales manipulando el censo y regalando la nacionalidad española.
Nos alegramos de que la denuncia de Santiago Abascal haya sido escuchada.
Across Europe, conservative and right-wing politicians are reacting with shock to the huge legalization numbers Spain is now reporting.
“The decision to legalize them means that they will be able to move and settle freely in any place in Europe. Left-wing governments are bringing about the collapse of the Schengen Area and mocking the safety of Europeans. Not only does Spain, under the Migration Pact and in full accordance with the law, have the power to offload illegal immigrants to other countries, but it is also legalizing their stay,” wrote Polish MEP Anna Bryłka.
Premier Hiszpanii Pedro Sanchez poinformował, że ponad milion imigrantów złożyło wniosek o zalegalizowanie pobytu w Hiszpanii.
Decyzja o ich legalizacji oznacza, że będą oni mogli nieskrępowanie poruszać się i osiedlać w dowolnym miejscu w Europie. Rządy lewicy doprowadzają do… https://t.co/KfAXPP7qL8
Sánchez has also been accused of passing the law with no democratic legitimacy. He announced that the Council of Ministers approved the decree initiating the implementation of this decision into the state legal order. Notably, this mass legalization was never formally voted in by parliament. Instead, Sánchez forced through an emergency decree.
The politician marketed the decree by talking about people who are in Spain in an “irregular situation” and noted that “again, I feel proud to be Spanish.”
Calls to the European Commission demanding the immediate removal of Spain from the Schengen Area have been met with silence. Illegal arrivals enter Europe through this country every day.
As predicted and warned by both the Spanish opposition and many other political and media outlets, it turns out that there are many more newcomers willing to legalize their stay than the Spanish authorities announced.
The program on legalization of status stems from a citizens’ initiative from 2024, which was supported by over 700,000 people. The measure was also supported by hundreds of organizations that describe themselves as humanitarian, along with business groups and the Catholic Church. To count on approval of the application, the newcomer must have been in Spain for at least five months and have no criminal record.
A 16-year-old girl has been allegedly raped inside a toilet facility in the city center of Stuttgart, which is located in southwestern Germany.
The teenager reportedly left a party at midnight on Saturday night when she was targeted by two dark-skinned men who began following her. While she was fleeing from them, she fell down.
The men then attacked her and dragged her into a toilet facility, according to police. The girl was reportedly raped inside, according to the police report, which was also posted on X.
#Mitte Zwei Unbekannte haben in der Nacht zum Samstag zwischen 1 Uhr und 2 Uhr in einer Toilettenanlage am Charlottenplatz eine 16-Jährige vergewaltigt. Die Männer hatten sie zunächst vom Akademiegarten aus verfolgt, geschlagen und dann vergewaltigt. Eure #Polizei#Stuttgartpic.twitter.com/0YmEDN1BAO
The girl then contacted a violence clinic in the Stuttgart hospital, where she went to document her injuries in a legal manner. A police spokesperson confirmed the girl traveled to the clinic and made a police report.
Police are now searching for witnesses to the crime.
The suspects are described as between 25 and 30 years old and both have dark skin. One is between 1.80 and 1.90 meters tall (6’2″) and had curly hair and a beard. He was wearing a T-shirt and jeans.
The second suspect is approximately 1.70 meters tall and thin. He had dark hair and a tattoo on one calf. He was wearing a Gucci hat, a blue T-shirt and jeans.
🇩🇪🔴A German woman says "it's a disaster" for women in swimming pools across Germany. She now dreams of her childhood before a certain "clientele" made German swimming pools "just awful."
Notably, German public media outlet SWR declined to provide a description of the perpetrators, a pattern documentecd in the past with various public media outlets, which often hide the description of non-White perpetrators or refuse to disclose the nationality of suspects.
Conservative critics have noted that this refusal to provide descriptions fails to provide the public with a clear picture of who was responsible for a crime and could also impede police efforts to arrest suspects.
Numerous other publications, including Welt, Junge Freiheit, and Bild, all provided a clear description of the perpetrators, which was based on the original police report.
After Morocco knocked the Dutch national football team out of the World Cup, rioting broke out this morning in The Hague, with dramatic footage showing Dutch motorcycle police fleeing from Moroccan supporters. Police also deployed water cannons to control the crowd and at least a dozen people were reportedly arrested.
The video of the Dutch police fleeing prompted a sharp reaction from anti-immigration political leader Geert Wilders, who wrote: “Sweep those streets clean and ship the riffraff with their families off to Morocco. This is our country. Get lost!”
Moroccans gathered in the streets, blocking traffic, and chanting with Moroccan flags. Some supporters danced on car roofs. Many of them are Dutch citizens and second- and even third-generation citizens.
Police regrouped and conducted baton charges, deployed water cannons, and made targeted arrests. A spokesperson said that water cannons were deployed after police were targeted with stones and fireworks.
JUST IN: Dutch police use batons on migrants celebrating Morocco's win over the Dutch national team in the World Cup
Dozens of arrests reported in The Hague after rioting broke out. Water cannons have also been deployed.
With the Moroccan football team advancing in the World Cup, police across Europe are likely to be nervous about upcoming football games involving the North African team.
In previous years, Moroccan victories at football sporting events have led to mayhem and mass riots. In fact, it was already in 2022 that Wilders was urging mass deportations in reactions to major riots following victories of the Moroccan national team.
An African migrant from the country of Guinea has been arrested for stabbing and killing a 19-year-old man with a knife blow to the neck in the city of Fréjus. Authorities had planned to issue a ruling on his deportation order (QQTF) on the same day that the stabbing attack occurred.
The tragedy took place during the night from Saturday, June 27, to Sunday, June 28. Suffering from a very serious neck injury, the young man, originally from Fréjus, could not be revived by rescue workers.
Three other young men were also injured during the stabbing attack and taken to the hospital, according to French news outlet Nice Matin.
The perpetrator, a Guinean, had filed an appeal against his deportation order. This appeal was due to be examined on the same day as the stabbing spree by the local administrative court.
France has struggled to deport migrants who have been ordered to leave the country. For example, only 0.2 percent of Algerian migrants who are ordered to leave the country ever return home.
Six people were killed in a shooting at a youth welfare facility in Stade, Lower Saxony, on Monday, with dramatic video from the scene showing the aftermath of the shooting. The 45-year-old suspect reportedly has German and Turkish citizenship, and both his parents were born in Turkey.
Five victims died at the scene, and a sixth later succumbed to serious injuries in hospital that evening. Although initial reports indicated that there were injured victims, police report that there are no injured parties and everyone who was shot was also killed. According to police, the background to the attack was the man’s custody battle over his three-month-old baby. A custody appointment had been scheduled for the same day of the shooting, Monday.
🇩🇪🔴BREAKING: The perpetrator who shot and killed 6 people was born in Germany but has Turkish roots.
Police say the motive was a custody battle over his baby.
All the deceased were employees of the Youth Welfare Office in Stade. According to NDR, the father is said to be from… pic.twitter.com/HE40NhPFJM
So far, all the people killed in the incident were employees of the youth welfare office at Dankersstraße, which included four women and two men. The facility was designed to offer women and their children safety and protection. All news reports indicate that the mother and the child remained unharmed during the mass shooting.
The suspect was known to the police but not as a violent offender, but according to permit information, he was not legally in possession of a gun. Investigators are working to understand how he gained access to a firearm.
According to NDR and WDR news outlets, the alleged perpetrator belongs to the large Miri clan from Hanover, which is known for criminal activities.
Since the man was born in Germany and has German citizenship, these six murders will likely be recorded as “German” crimes in the crime statistics.
An eyewitness told Focus Online that a woman and a young man had allegedly tried to flee the scene by car. A police officer shouted: “Stop, stand still.” When the car kept moving, several officers opened fire, with at least 10 to 15 shots fired.
Two other women were taken in for police questioning, one of them the child’s 34-year-old mother. The 65-year-old driver of the car was also still being questioned.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz addressed the shooting on X: “The news from Stade shakes us to the core. Many people who wanted to help and protect have lost their lives or been injured. My compassion goes out to the victims and their loved ones. I thank the police officers for their swift response.”
Die Nachricht aus Stade erschüttert bis ins Mark. Viele Menschen, die helfen und schützen wollten, haben ihr Leben verloren oder wurden verletzt. Mein Mitgefühl gilt den Opfern und ihren Angehörigen. Ich danke den Polizisten und Polizistinnen für ihren schnellen Einsatz.
— Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (@bundeskanzler) June 29, 2026
A large-scale police operation was launched in Stade, Lower Saxony, on Monday after a suspect opened fire at a youth welfare facility, meant to be a safe space for mothers and their children. The suspect killed at least five people, confirmed a police spokesman. At least two people have been arrested, including the suspected shooter.
At approximately 1:45 p.m., police announced that five adults had been killed and several other victims injured in the city. Police labeled it a “homicide in a youth welfare institution.”
Initial findings indicate that several shots were fired in the Dankersstraße area.
An eyewitness told Focus Online that a woman and a young man had allegedly tried to flee the scene by car. A police officer shouted: “Stop, stand still.” When the car kept moving, several officers opened fire — at least 10 to 15 shots, according to the witness.
Numerous chaplains have since arrived at the youth welfare facility, located not far from the Stade police station. The motive behind the bloodshed remains entirely unclear. Police say there is currently no danger to the public.
So far, no information has been released about the suspect or a possible motive in the case.
Denmark’s government, led by the center-left Social Democrats, has once again announced plans to pursue a nationwide ban on the public broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer via loudspeakers. This now amounts to the third time the center-left government is trying to ban the call to prayer.
Immigration and Integration Minister Morten Bødskov stated that the government is investigating a legal framework to prohibit amplified calls to prayer from mosques.
“The call to prayer should not ring out above the Danish rooftops. It has no place in Denmark; one should not wonder if one is in a suburb of Islamabad when walking around the country,” he told the press.
However, this is the third attempt by the ruling party, with previous efforts in 2020 and 2025 failing to pass. Will the third time be a charm?
One of the major hurdles is that Danish law protects religious freedom, and any blanket national ban on amplified calls to prayer has raised concerns about violating the rights of Muslims. The government needed to investigate whether such a prohibition could withstand legal scrutiny when balanced against residents’ rights to a quiet environment. Past efforts stalled during this review process without advancing to enforceable legislation.
Furthermore, many areas of the country have already banned the call to prayer, such as the biggest city, Copenhagen. These areas have achieved this through existing local noise bylaws or municipal regulations, reducing the urgency for a sweeping national law. This has historically made a new nationwide framework harder to justify or pass.
One attempt to ban the call to prayer was also reportedly interrupted by parliamentary elections, which led to a shift in government priorities at the time.
Denmark is arguably the Scandinavian nation most hostile to mass immigration, with the left-wing parties there considered to have right-wing policies on the issue. However, parties to the right, which call for remigration and even stricter action, argue that legal migration, including from Third World and Muslim countries, has been steadily increasing under the left-wing Social Democrat government.
The current immigration minister, Bødskov, is actually considered “softer” on immigration than his predecessors, such as Rasmus Stoklund and Kaare Dybvad Bek, who were known for their harsher rhetoric against mass immigration. His tough public statements are often viewed as necessary political positioning to align with the party’s established tough stance towards immigration under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, rather than his personal views on the subject.
Nevertheless, it remains unclear how far Bødskov is willing to go or if this announcement is more political posturing. The Danish government is reviewing legality, including compatibility with religious freedom protections in the constitution. The current effort would move beyond local noise regulations to a national prohibition, but no final bill has been introduced yet, and implementation details, such as the exact scope and potential penalties, are still at the discussion phase.
While this renewed push builds on Denmark’s stricter immigration and integration policies, including a recent ban on Islamic full-face veils like the niqab and burqa, it remains to be seen if the government can pull this new proposal off.
Germany’s Verena Brunschweiger, a self-described “radical feminist,” is promoting the slogan: “My lineage ends with me.” She says she hopes to encourage people, especially White people, to stop having children.
She claims that Western pro-natalists only want to “control women, and keep refugees out.”
The article on her views, from Australian broadcaster news.com.au, is entitled: “‘My bloodline ends with me’: Why feminist ‘childfree icon’ wants fewer ‘white babies’ and more refugees”
The report quoted her as saying: “We have a proud slogan, ‘My bloodline ends with me.’ I think this is a responsible choice.”
Brunschweiger said that Europeans are to blame for the poor quality of life in Africa, and she would invite the entire world to Europe.
🇩🇪German feminist Verena Brunschweiger promotes the slogan “My lineage ends with me.”
She calls for people, especially White people, to stop having children.
She claims that Western pro-natalists only want to “control women, and keep refugees out."
“So I would take all immigrants and refugees in because we ruined the world, so to speak.”
“We produce the climate change which makes life in Africa, for instance, miserable and horrible. So of course, why not invite [them] if they want to come?”
She said that in her home country, “populist nonsense” is being promoted by the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
In einem neuen Interview verkündet die kinderlose Verena Brunschweiger stolz, dass ihre Blutlinie mit ihr endet und das sei die verantwortungsvolle Entscheidung. Sie fordert weniger ‚weiße Babys‘ im Westen und attackiert Elon Musk sowie alle, die mehr Nachwuchs wollen, um die… pic.twitter.com/5Y7q3rpb2g
She claimed the party wants Germans to have more babies so “they can say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, dear refugees, go back and drown or die or starve or whatever, because we have so many of our own people and we have to care for them first.”
“They say we need our own kids because German white kids are better than other kids who immigrate into the country,” she added.
“All the white people go, ‘Wouldn’t it be so horrible if we lost the white people, the white majority?’ They always want white women to have more babies to in order to be able to say, ‘Oh, stay the way we are, we are already full,’” she added.
She says Western countries have a moral duty to accept refugees.
“Because we produce all the climate change and all those things which make them leave [their] country,” she said.
Despite immigrants producing children at a much higher rate than White people, especially African migrants, she dismisses any argument against restricting immigration.
She said that she “of course” targets Whites specifically to stop having children.
“My focus, and that’s what drives the AfD nuts, is we have to cut back our numbers,” she said.
After the beating death of 17-year-old Louis, a French victim who was killed on film by at least five multicultural youths in the city of Narbonne, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel has posted a tribute to him before French President Emmanuel Macron has mentioned a single word about Louis’ tragic death.
French social media has been awash in posts and tributes to Louis since the video of his death was first published, but France’s leader has made no mention of the youth, much to the outrage of the French right. Instead, Weidel posted a simple message attached to a video of Louis playing guitar, which his family had released in tribute.
Two videos showed the vicious attack inside a construction site in the city of Narbonne.
The attackers filmed the brutal beating, which took place on the night from June 19 to June 20 at a construction site, according to French news outlet L’Indépendant. The video shows them repeatedly stomping on the head of Louis with full force.
In a second clip, one of the youths lies next to Louis, while he is unconscious and struggling for breath, and the suspect smiles for the camera in a mocking fashion.
The video audio also shows the youths screaming curses at Louis and mocking him as they beat him to death.
Louis was found unconscious with severe facial and head injuries, along with bruises across his body. He was placed in an induced coma and died three days later.
Investigators are still trying to determine what the motive was behind the attack but initial reports expect it was a targeted ambush attack based on revenge.
Louis lived in a foster home where he was placed by Child Protective Services.
Since Louis’ death, videos of the attackers have made their way on to social media, which show them on TikTok handling guns, dealing and taking drugs, huffing nitrous oxide, and drinking hard liquor.
Another video has also emerged. On June 12, they also knocked Louis unconscious, approximately a week before they reportedly murdered him.
His beating death may have been tied to reports that he went to the police and made a report about this attack.
A number of politicians have commented on the case in France.
“Louis, 17 years old, was lynched to death with unimaginable violence, filmed by his gleeful assailants, left to agonize through an entire night, and found lifeless on a construction site in Narbonne,” said the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez addressed the case, denying a proven racist motive per the prosecutor and criticizing “exploitation by the extreme right.”
French commentator Arthur de Watrigant said during an appearance on the Europe1 television network that Emmanuel Macron refuses to react to the Louis affair because Macron “no longer has any credibility in domestic politics, and that he knows it.”
Europe1, commenting on the issue, wrote: “Emmanuel Macron remains silent. No public reaction, no press release, no leaks. But at the same time, the head of state reacted promptly on Twitter after the earthquake that struck Caracas.”
Watrigant said that Macron is sticking to foreign policy because “he thinks he still has a little credibility in foreign policy. He wants to end his sad double mandate solely on questions of international politics. So he will only comment on what is happening abroad.”
It remains unclear if Macron ever plans to address the case. However, it is important to note that he addressed the death of 17-year-old Nahel on June 28, 2023, a day after the shooting, during a visit to Marseille. Police shot and killed Nahel as he attempted to speed away while driving a rented Mercedes without a license.
Macron called the killing “inexplicable” and “inexcusable.”
“A teenager was killed. That is inexplicable and unforgivable… Nothing, nothing justifies the death of a young person.”
Mass riots ensued after Nahel was killed, turning large parts of Paris into a warzone, including 5,000 vehicles set on fire.
🇫🇷🔴 The mother of Nahel Merzouk, who died in 2023 after being shot by a French police officer, says she wishes the officer received the "death penalty."
17-year-old Nahel was driving a rented Mercedes without a license at the time of the shooting.
Nahel was “known to police,” particularly for resisting arrest. Just the weekend before, he had been charged with resisting arrest an astounding five times.
According to information leaked to Europe 1, his police file (TAJ) included 15 criminal records, including driving without insurance and using fake license plates.
So far, no criminal record has been reported for Louis, but instead of mass riots, nationalists have organized peacefully to protest his death in France. This, however, has garnered enough attention to warrant a response from Macron.
🇫🇷Over 1,000 nationalists gather in Narbonne to demand justice for 17-year-old Louis, who was beaten to death by 5 thugs.
Although Louis was in Child Protective Services, the French state failed him.
The 21-year-old German woman Shalina turned out to have the boyfriend from hell, with the ex moving from talk of suicide after their break up, to outright threats, and then to the tragic murder of Shalina’s mother.
In the early morning of May 19, Shalina’s ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Luca I., murdered Shalina’s 52-year-old mother, Alexandra, in a parking lot while Alexandra was outside walking her dog in Hanau, Hesse.
Shalina said when a neighbor raced to tell her and Shalina arrived to see police and ambulance at the crime scene, she knew immediately who was responsible.
Luca I. was arrested on scene and remains in pre-trial detention for murder, but Shalina’s nightmare has only begun with the passing of her mother.
Shalina said she knew the threat level was already high for the family after she broke up with Luca, as he had first repeatedly threatened to kill himself and then threatened Shalina’s life.
“I’m going to kill myself, I’m going to kill you. Wait. If I ever see you, you’ll regret it,” read one text message.
However, there were countless messages like that, which Luca sent over and over again. Although Shalina secured a restraining order after filing two complaints, she still feared leaving her house for months and only went outside accompanied by her parents.
Despite the police complaints, Shalina said she still felt alone and exposed to Luca.
The day before the murder of her mother, Luca sent one last message, writing: “You will think of me your whole life, and everything that happens now is your fault.”
She even took the message to the police that same day. The police, however, took no action.
Instead, Luca was free to murder her mother. Shalina believes he specifically targeted her by targeting her mother, the person she was closest to.
“He wanted to harm me. He wanted to destroy me,” said Shalina.
The young woman remarked that her mother was the one who wanted to help Luca, even being described as a “second mother.”
“She was like a best friend. She had a huge heart. She also wanted to help my ex-boyfriend. She walked with him for hours and talked to him. She was like a second mother to him,” Shalina said.
Shalina with her mother Alexandra and father Mike from Shalina’s childhood.
Shalina has decided to go public to raise awareness.
“This happens so often. This is not an isolated case. I don’t know how many people like him are still walking around outside and how many more times that will happen. If no one does anything, it won’t stop,” she warned.
Shalina and her mother were not the only victims. The father of the family, Mark, is also in a state of grieving.
He described how he saw his dead wife under a cloth in the parking lot as “an emotional atomic bomb.”
He said his family did everything to stop it, including police reports and restraining orders, but nothing worked.
He, Shalina, and the rest of the family are now fighting for the German political system to take action against stalkers and violent offenders, including electronic ankle bracelets to prevent another tragedy, although even ankle monitors have failed to work in the past.
“We really tried everything that was legally available to us. But law is not law these days. Something always has to happen first,” the father said. He says his deepest wish is now that no other family has to endure what they have.
Police have issued no information about Luca’s background, including whether he has a migration background. Although, users across social media have speculated based on his appearance that he has a foreign background.
An overwhelming number of French people, totaling 83 percent, say they support the deportation of specific categories of foreigners currently residing in France, focusing particularly on delinquents, criminals, or the long-term unemployed, according to a recent CSA survey conducted for Europe 1, CNews, and the JDD.
For young people, 90 percent of them support deporting these categories.
This sentiment shows consistency across genders, with 82 percent of men and 84 percent of women in agreement. Socioeconomic data indicates 84 percent approval among lower socioeconomic groups, 87 percent among the inactive population, and 78 percent among higher socioeconomic professionals.
From a political standpoint, the desire to dismiss foreign delinquents, criminals, or long-term unemployed individuals consistently secures a majority regardless of party alignment. On the left, sixty-nine percent of voters support the idea, which breaks down to sixty-six percent for LFI, seventy-five percent for the PS, and sixty-eight percent for the Greens. The sentiment is markedly stronger on the right, where ninety-six percent of Les Républicains voters favor the implementation of this process, closely followed by National Rally voters at ninety-three percent approval.
Incredibly, tens of thousands of foreigners with criminal records and deportation orders cannot be removed from France, often resulting in tragedy, including rapes and murders.
Regarding immigration in general, polling from Ifop and Odoxa routinely shows that between 60 to 70 percent of French believe there are “already too many foreigners in France” and that “welcoming additional immigrants is not desirable.”
This polling data emerges alongside ongoing political debates on the topic, such as statements from political figures like Eric Zemmour, who previously stated during an appearance on Europe 1: “I am for zero immigration but also for negative immigration.”
He said that legal immigration drastically increases the rate of overall immigration, notably through family reunification policies. He also said during the program: “I think we need to start remigration.”
The European Union famously accepted millions of refugees from other countries at war, the majority of which were military-aged males. Now, those protections will be ending for Ukrainian males who are fleeing conscription in Ukraine.
Magnus Brunner, EU commissioner for internal affairs and migration, announced that the European Commission proposes to extend temporary protection for Ukrainians until March 4, 2028, with the exception of people fleeing military service in Ukraine.
“To ensure this, temporary protection is not to be granted as a rule to newly arriving persons, who are not authorized by the Ukrainian authorities to leave Ukraine in view of their military obligations,” said Brunner. “This is what Ukraine has asked us to do, and this is what we are doing.”
He added that the European Commission’s proposal “takes into account Ukraine’s changing defense and reconstruction needs.”
Already, hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian males have died at the front or been seriously wounded. However, Europe seems increasingly dedicated to funneling even more Ukrainian youth to the frontlines.
While the Ukrainian males already under protection will not have their protection dropped, military-aged males who arrive in the EU in the future will not be granted asylum rights.
🇺🇦During an attempt to forcibly conscript a Ukrainian youth into the army, 3 TCC officers are beaten.
At the same time, Denmark announced yesterday it will be the first country to no longer provide temporary protection to Ukrainian male refugees aged 23 to 60. The portal reminds that under Ukrainian law, men of this age do not have the right to leave the country without a valid reason.
Other Ukrainian groups, such as women, will continue to receive active refugee protections – a clear gender double-standard from the EU.
“Today we are presenting a proposal to extend temporary protection for another year – until March 4, 2028,” the commissioner announced.
As Remix News previously reported, there was one man who predicted much of what has come to pass in the battle in the east of Europe: George Soros.
The billionaire oligarch financier, often portrayed as a humanist, promoted a hard-nosed geopolitical strategy in his 1993 piece entitled “Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO.” In the piece, he outlines how Eastern Europeans could be used as the “manpower” in coming conflicts in an effort to reduce the number of deaths in Western countries, which Soros argues the West would not politically tolerate, unlike the east of Europe.
“The United States would not be called upon to act as the policeman of the world. When it acts, it would act in conjunction with others. Incidentally, the combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO would greatly enhance the military potential of the Partnership because it would reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries, which is the main constraint on their willingness to act. This is a viable alternative to the looming world disorder,” wrote Soros in the article.
Notably, the body bags have piled up in Ukraine to an enormous degree, yet Europe’s chickenhawks want more men sent to the front. The EU’s latest decision to suspend asylum for Ukrainian males means all their talk of “protecting war refugees” turned out to be rather hollow. Cynically, the fact that these refugees are Europeans may play a large role in their decision, since the EU has never rejected asylum protection from those fleeing war for any other ethnic group.
Even to this day with the war over in Syria, European left-wing parties are racing to naturalize these migrants instead of sending them home to rebuild their countries. During the height of the war with Assad, there was also never serious effort to send Syrians back to fight him, either.
Even if the war ends, it remains unclear how many Ukrainian refugees will return to their country. Many of Ukraine’s women have already settled down in Western countries and even found new partners while Ukraine’s young males have been sent to die in waves in the east. Now, it remains unclear whether Ukraine’s population will ever recover, even in the most optimistic scenarios, following the war.
The EU and the business oligarchy running Ukraine also have a plan for that: import the Third World.
Not only are Ukrainians being forced to fight a war many of them no longer want to fight, but once they die, their country could very well be given away to Africans, Asians and Middle Easterners.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he approved a 40-day “influence operation” against Russia, to be carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to the Ukrainian president, the aim of the initiative is to help bring the war to an end, though the specific details have not yet been made public.
Zelensky reported on Telegram that he had consulted with the head of the SBU, who briefed him on a so-called long- and medium-range “sanctions plan” as well as the achievements of the Alpha special operations center on the front. The president emphasized that the service has been particularly effective in defending Ukraine’s front-line positions through the widespread use of drones.
The announcement came with no further explanation of what the 40-day operation actually involves, leaving it unclear whether it constitutes a military, intelligence, or information operation.
In recent months, the SBU has taken an increasingly active role in drone strikes against Russian territory — attacks that have become one of the defining features of the war.
Meanwhile, Russia’s fuel crisis continues to deepen. As a result of oil refineries damaged by Ukrainian strikes, restrictions on gasoline sales have already been introduced in more than 20 regions, with attacks on refinery infrastructure becoming a regular occurrence in recent months.
For now, the details of the “40-day influence operation” remain unknown, raising questions about what effect the new Ukrainian strategy may have on the further course of the war.
Incredibly bloody images and video have been published following an altercation between an Arab migrant and two African migrants, with the Arab migrant reportedly smashing one victim’s head in with a hammer in the Spanish city of Torre Pacheco in the Murcia region of Spain.
The shocking images show the Arab suspect completely covered in blood wielding what appears to be a hammer. He is positioned close to the limp body of an African man, who lies covered in blood on the ground.
Local media reports that a fight broke out between three men of migrant origin: two Senegalese men and one man of Arab or North African origin.
The man of Arab origin allegedly pulled out a hammer and repeatedly struck one of the Senegalese men on the head, leaving him seriously injured on the ground in a pool of blood.
The suspect also attacked the second Senegalese man with a broken glass bottle, causing a neck wound.
The altercation is under investigation and has been linked by sources to a possible robbery, but so far a specific motive has not been firmly determined.
The aggressor was quickly detained on scene by police and a seriously injured Senegalese victim was hospitalized in grave condition at Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca.
Spanish politicians have already reacted to the bloody scenes.
“Not again. Torre Pacheco. The same old thing. But we won’t get used to it. We won’t. The Spanish won’t. They have to be thrown out,” wrote Spanish MEP Jorge Buxadé of the Vox party.
Otra vez. Torre Pacheco. Lo de siempre. Pero no nos acostumbraremos. Nosotros no. Los españoles no. Hay que echarlos. pic.twitter.com/ei4ZK9YgXI
Torre Pacheco has a notable immigrant population, including significant Moroccan and other North African communities, along with others from sub-Saharan Africa. It has experienced recurring issues with street violence, fights, and tensions involving groups of migrant origin.
In July 2025, there were larger-scale disturbances after an assault on an elderly local resident, allegedly by a young man of Moroccan origin, leading to protests, counter-violence, and accusations of racist attacks on immigrants.
Yesterday, Remix News reported that a 10-year-old boy has been charged with the stabbing and attempted rape of a 22-year-old woman in the French city of Saint-Brieuc.
However, updated reporting reveals that investigators believe he is at least 14 years old. Additionally, while his nationality was not previously provided, it was also revealed that he is a Congolese migrant who has been in France for approximately a year.
The incident began when a young woman was exercising in a wooded area of Saint-Brieuc on June 15. Public Prosecutor Julien Wattebled stated that “a male individual approached her and ordered her to undress, which she refused to do.”
The Congolese migrant then stabbed her twice, once in the arm and once in the abdomen, before fleeing, according to French news outlet Le Figaro.
Although first presented to the public as a mere schoolboy, the Saint-Brieuc public prosecutor’s office was suspicoius about the boy’s age, including based on identity documents that were presented. The prosecutor, Julien Wattebled, ordered bone morphology tests, which revealed he was at least 14 years old.
This difference could profoundly influence how the case is tried legally, as those younger than 13 cannot be subject to a criminal sanction or detention, while a minor aged 13 or older can, under certain conditions, be placed in pre-trial detention and face prison sentences.
If this new age is confirmed and retained by the courts, the investigating judge could refer the matter to the liberty and detention judge.
The Congolese migrant is not the only young person arrested for rape in France in recent days. In Villeurbanne, on June 17, in Feyssine Park, a 14-year-old male forcibly dragged a young woman into the bushes and then attempted to rape her. The woman began screaming, which scared off the perpetrator.
He was arrested shortly after the incident, resisted, and injured a police officer. He was initially placed in custody, but later released under judicial supervision, according to Ouest France.
A 21-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested for a mass groping attack and attempted rape against underage girls at a German swimming pool in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
At least four girls aged 12 to 14 were victims of sexual assaults last Saturday afternoon at the swimming pool, where the 21-year-old suspect reportedly groped their buttocks and thighs as well as trying to pull off their bikinis.
In one case, he attempted to penetrate one girl’s vagina with his finger, which police are investigating as a potential rape under the legal definition.
The girls successfully fought the man off before he was arrested by police officers.
The public prosecutor’s office requested an arrest warrant, but the presiding judge suspended it.
Now, the Afghan is free on the streets, with only the condition he not visit any public pools.
German news outlet Tagesschau has reported on the incident has not disclosed that the suspect is an Afghan migrant. This omission fits a pattern at the taxpayer-funded outlet that has been sharply criticized by the right. Other outlets, however, reported his nationality.
In 2023, in the German city of Stuttgart, police arrested a 23-year-old Syrian migrant who is accused of groping several women at an outdoor swimming pool over Pentecost weekend.
In total, seven women, ranging from ages 12 to 18, were sexually assaulted at the swimming pool in three different incidents. Three men in total were taken into custody, including a 23-year-old Syrian migrant.
In Cologne in September 2023, eight foreign nationals were arrested for surrounding and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a swimming pool. The girl managed to break free and alert police, who detained the suspects shortly after.
In 2022, three 12-year-old girls were sexually assaulted in the Kaufbeuren public swimming pool in Bavaria by a group of six older teenagers described as having dark skin and speaking broken German. Police are still looking for the suspects.
The internal report stated, “(We) can confirm a surge in sex crimes at these establishments. In particular rape and the sexual abuse of children in bathing establishments have given us grave cause for concern. The perpetrators are, for the most part, immigrants.”
In 2022, violence in German outdoor swimming pools alarmed the Federal Association of German Swimming Champions (BDS) to such an extent that its president, Peter Harzheim, said he could no longer recommend that families visit such facilities on weekends.
While speaking to Bild TV, Harzheim claimed he would be “acting irresponsibly” if he attended an outdoor pool with his own three grandchildren.
For years, the question of whether the Alternative for Germany (AfD) could be banned has hovered at the edges of German politics, with left-wing parties and even some within the Christian Democrats (CDU) calling for the party’s ban — even if the AfD is the most popular party in the country.
A sweeping new legal report from a left-wing NGO has now thrust that question back to the center, concluding not only that the party is unconstitutional, but that the country’s top court would likely agree.
The 1,500-page analysis was produced by the NGO Society for Civil Rights, or the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) in German, and unveiled in Berlin on Thursday. Compiled over 13 months by an eight-member team of experts — it argues that the AfD violates both the principle of democracy and the concept of human dignity enshrined in Germany’s constitution. The authors did not formally demand a ban, but leave little doubt about where their findings point.
Instead, the report is supposed to serve as the ammunition for a ban.
“The legal report reaches the unequivocal conclusion that the AfD is unconstitutional,” said the GFF’s Bijan Moini, who led the project. An application to outlaw the party would, “in our assessment, likely succeed.”
At the heart of the report is the claim that the AfD, through both its stated aims and the conduct of its supporters, seeks to “undermine the free democratic basic order.” Its political agenda, the summary states, is directed at the “exclusion, vilification, and extensive legal marginalization” of foreigners, Germans with a migration background, Muslims, and other groups.
The report comes at a time when the AfD is flirting with 30 percent in the polls and has increasingly distanced itself from the second-place Christian Democrats (CDU), which is now nine points behind the AfD. As a result, opponents of the AfD are increasingly worried they will be unable to defeat the party through democratic means. Even if the AfD is unable to form a majority, if it secures a large enough voter share, it could make state and even the federal government ungovernable for the establishment and left-wing parties.
One of the report’s central contentions is that the AfD has lost any internal force capable of restraining its so-called most extreme elements.
“An internal party faction that publicly and consistently opposes the radical forces within the AfD no longer exists,” it claims.
Notably, the GFF NGO is funded in part by The European AI & Society Fund and The Digital Freedom Fund (DFF), which are in turn funded by organizations like the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, which is in turn funded by billionaire George Soros. However, the GFF stated that this specific report was entirely funded through private donations.
The GFF argues that while some figures within the party have been expelled, the AfD has yet to expel members the NGO claims are the most problematic, including party leader Alice Weidel, MEP Maximilian Krah, and Saxony-Anhalt’s Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, according to Welt newspaper.
For the report’s authors, the goal is to confirm.that the AfD can indeed be banned legally.
“Until now, there has been no definitive answer to the question of whether the AfD is unconstitutional and could therefore be banned,” the project leader said, adding that the analysis “now finally provides clarity for the political sphere and society at large.”
Is there actual stomach for a ban?
However, as Remix News has written numerous times, a desire to ban the AfD is far different than applying this desire in practice. So far, the CDU has backed away from pursuing a ban against the AfD, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz going so far as to say that it “smacks too much of the elimination of political rivals.”
Specifically, he said, “Working ‘aggressively and militantly’ against the free democratic basic order must be proven. And the burden of proof lies solely with the state. That is a classic task of the executive branch. And I have always internally resisted initiating ban proceedings from within the Bundestag. That smacks too much of political competition elimination to me.”
Under German law, only the Bundestag, the Bundesrat, or the federal government can petition the Federal Constitutional Court to ban a party, and only that court can ultimately rule a party unconstitutional. The SPD, the CDU’s junior coalition party, has been openly calling for a ban, but without the CDU’s support, such an action has no chance of passing in the Bundestag.
Major victory for the AfD in court
Even if it were to pass, the Constitutional Court may reject such a petition. In February of this year, efforts to ban the AfD suffered a major blow when the Cologne Administrative Court decided the powerful domestic spy agency, the Office of the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), could not classify the federal AfD as “confirmed right-wing extremist,” at least until a full ruling was issued. However, the preliminary ruling did not bode well for the BfV and the German establishment, according to a number of legal analysts.
The judiciary stated while there was sufficient evidence that efforts against the free democratic basic order were under way within the AfD, it stated that this designation could not apply to the party as a whole, finding it was not “shaped in a way that would lead to the conclusion — based on its overall character — that there is a fundamental tendency hostile to the constitution.”
A ruling in the main proceedings is still pending, but after this ruling, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) called for a political rather than legal fight, saying the AfD must be “governed away, not banned away.”
At the time, AfD leader Alice Weidel also posted to X: “Not only is the Federal Office of the Protection of the Constitution no longer allowed to classify the AfD as “confirmed right-wing extremist,” but the Cologne Administrative Court has also indirectly thrown a spanner in the works for the ban fanatics with its ruling. A major victory not only for the AfD, but also for democracy and the rule of law!”
Greens jump on the new report
Regardless of the disastrous result for the left following the Cologne decision, this new report signals that those opposed to the AfD are not finished with efforts to ban the party.
The Green Party wasted no time turning the report into a call to arms. Parliamentary co-leaders Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge wrote to their counterparts in the Union, SPD, and Left party, urging them to take up a motion to ban the AfD. They are convinced, their letter states, that “no further warnings are needed and the defense of our democracy cannot be postponed.”
“The AfD and its undisguised rejection of the free democratic basic order cannot be overlooked,” Haßelmann said. “We must now demonstrate the resilience of our democracy and counter its subversion with the necessary determination rooted in the rule of law.”
A 10-year-old boy has been charged with the stabbing and attempted rape of a 22-year-old woman, the prosecutor in Saint-Brieuc announced on Wednesday.
The young woman was exercising in a wooded area of Saint-Brieuc on June 15 “when a male individual approached her and ordered her to undress, which she refused to do,” prosecutor Julien Wattebled said in a press release.
The young boy then stabbed her twice, once in the arm and once in the abdomen, before fleeing, according to French news outlet Le Figaro.
Eight days later, patrolling officers spotted “an individual corresponding in all respects to the report given by the victim,” and discovered a knife matching the one used in the attack.
Due to the suspect being only 10, he was detained for 12 hours, a period renewed once by prosecutors. During questioning, he admitted to being the perpetrator, the Saint-Brieuc prosecutor noted.
On Wednesday, he was charged with attempted murder and attempted rape with a weapon.
Since the law does not allow criminal penalties for children so young, the investigating judge ordered a provisional judicial educational measure (MEJP), barring the boy from leaving his home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and from contacting his victim.
The 10-year-old boy is not the only young person arrested for rape in France in recent days. Villeurbanne. On June 17, in Feyssine Park, a 14-year-old male forcibly dragged a young woman into the bushes and then attempted to rape her. The woman began screaming, which scared off the perpetrator.
He was arrested shortly after the incident, resisted, and injured a police officer. He was initially placed in custody, but later released under judicial supervision, according to Ouest France.
Poles are divided in their assessment of Ukraine’s possible accession to the European Union. However, according to the latest IBRiS poll conducted for Radio ZET, the voices of those opposed to accession dominate.
A total of 35.3 percent of those surveyed voted in favor of Ukraine’s admission to the European Union. Strong support for such a solution was expressed by 8.4 percent of respondents, while 26.9 percent replied “rather yes.”
There are definitely more opponents of Ukraine’s membership in the EU. A total of 59.7 percent of those questioned took a negative position. The answer “probably not” was given by 27.4 percent of respondents, and “definitely not” by as many as 32.3 percent.
Another 5 percent remain undecided — respondents who chose the answer “I don’t know” or “hard to say.”
Among supporters of the ruling coalition, 64 percent support Ukraine’s accession to the EU, while 73 percent of opposition voters say Ukraine should not join.
The study was conducted by the IBRiS Institute for Market and Social Research using computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) on June 12–13, 2026. The survey was conducted on a representative sample of 1,068 adult Poles.
Zelensky canceled his visit to Poland
The two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC), co-organized by Poland and Ukraine, will begin in Gdańsk on Thursday. One of the highlights of the event will be a joint meeting of the Polish and Ukrainian parliaments. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not come to Gdańsk; the Ukrainian delegation will instead be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. It is also known that the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, will not come to Poland.
The Gdańsk conference is being organized in the shadow of sharp tensions between Poland and Ukraine — all due to Zelensky’s decision to name one of the Ukrainian army units after “UPA heroes.” In response, Polish President Karol Nawrocki decided to strip Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle.
A gang of youths have reportedly beaten 17-year-old French youth Louis to death in the French city of Narbonne.
So far, two videos have been released which show the final moments where Louis was still conscious.
The attackers filmed the brutal beating, which took place on the night from June 19 to June 20 at a construction site, according to French news outlet L’Indépendant. The video shows them repeatedly stomping on the head of Louis with full force. In a second clip, one of the youths lays next to Louis, while he is unconscious and struggling for breath, and the suspect smiles for the camera in a mocking fashion. The youth appear to have a darker skin tone in the video and numerous social media account have reported they are “North Africans,” but so far no information has been released about their origin or background. Often, this information is never released by French authorities.
One Youth throws up gang signs and smiles for the camera as Louis lies dying.
The video audio also shows the youths screaming curses at Louis and mocking him as they beat him to death.
Louis was found unconscious with severe facial and head injuries, along with bruises across his body. He was placed in an induced coma and died three days later.
Investigators are still trying to determine what the motive was behind the attack but initial reports expect it was a targeted ambush attack based on revenge.
Louis lived in a foster home where he was placed by Child Protective Services.
Five youth suspects have been arrested and charged with attempted murder, although that charge will likely be upgraded due to the death of Louis. Three of the suspects are minors, which means they receive little to no punishment for their actions if convicted.
A number of journalists, politicians, and commentators have already decried the brutal beating by the youths.
“Louis, 17, beaten to death by a bunch of thugs who ambushed him. Europeans, wake up. War has already begun and we’re counting our dead. Remigration is the kind solution. Those sons of bitches need to go home,” wrote French right-wing activist Thaïs d’Escufon.
Louis, 17, beaten to death by a bunch of thungs who ambushed him.
In another post, she writes: “One of Louis’s immigrant killers takes a selfie next to his dying body. They kill us and laugh about it. Don’t ever let yourself be fooled by their victim rhetoric again. They know exactly what they’re doing. They hate us. Well, I hate them too.”
D’Escufon was convicted this month for saying Black and Arab immigrant men are the main threat to women.
Not only is the German economy sinking but the country’s students, who are supposed to be the country’s future workers, are getting worse every year in terms of educational outcomes. Despite the absolute failure of mass immigration so far, the authors behind the new study are calling for even more immigration.
The report also shows that Germany is pouring more money into education than ever before — and getting less for it. That is the uncomfortable message at the heart of a major new report unveiled in Berlin on Monday by Education Minister Karin Prien titled “Education in Germany 2026.”
The study was prepared by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information for the federal and state governments. Its conclusion is blunt: across the board, German students know less and can do less than their predecessors — even as public and private education spending hit €305 billion in 2025, a staggering 59 percent more than in 2014.
Nowhere is that decline sharper than in math. The report found that a growing share of ninth-graders aiming for at least a secondary school leaving certificate can no longer meet the minimum standards expected of them. In 2012, 16 percent fell short. By 2024, that had climbed to 24 percent — nearly one in four pupils.
Nor is the slide confined to weaker students or struggling schools. The researchers found that average “computer and information-related skills are declining,” and stressed that the erosion of competence spans “all performance levels” — including the Gymnasium, Germany’s most academically selective school type, long considered the engine of the country’s educated elite.
More young people leaving with nothing
At the other end of the spectrum, more students are leaving school with no qualification at all. The share of pupils exiting without a leaving certificate has risen to 8 percent of their age group, up from 6.9 percent in the previous report and 6.2 percent before that. The trend line points in one direction, and it is the wrong one.
The report also lays bare a deepening crisis in Germany’s prized apprenticeship system — a model long admired abroad for funneling young people into skilled trades. Between 2023 and 2025, the number of company-based training places fell by 32,000, while the share of firms offering training at all dropped to just 18.7 percent in 2024, a record low.
This bodes very poorly for the German economy, which is already falling behind countries like China.
The squeeze is especially damaging because demand is rising at the same time supply is falling. As the report put it: “Approximately 95 apprenticeships were available for every 100 people in demand.” With fewer slots than candidates, applicants are left with almost no choice — and German industry is left struggling to secure the skilled workers it depends on.
There were a few bright spots. Traditional vocational schools saw enrollment climb, with 233,000 new students in 2025, many drawn to the healthcare sector. And despite fears that vocational training is losing prestige, a quarter of graduates who qualify for university still choose it instead — a share that has held steady for years, pushing back against the assumption that trade training is becoming an afterthought for academically capable young Germans.
Fewer qualifications, slower starts
Still, the overall picture on professional qualifications is grim.
“Premature contract terminations and failed final exams make it more difficult to secure skilled workers,” the authors wrote, noting that the number of people completing professional qualifications recently sank to a new low of around 492,000.
Even those who do reach university are taking longer to get out. The Bachelor’s/Master’s system was meant to speed students into the workforce by letting them leave after a first degree. Instead, the report found, students now need almost as long to earn the lower-value Bachelor’s as earlier generations took to complete a full Master’s or Diploma — an average of 8.4 semesters, more than four years, up from 7.2 in 2014.
For Prien, the findings point to a problem that begins long before a child ever sets foot in a classroom — and one the school system is failing to fix. “The education gap widens from birth, continues to open until school enrollment, and then does not narrow again over the course of the school years,” the minister said.
The report links education directly to Germany’s demographic crisis, spurred by declining birth rates since 2022 and aging baby boomers retiring. It explicitly states that integrating immigrants into the education system and the labor market is now one of Germany’s most essential avenues for securing skilled workers.
What it does not mention is that countries that have chosen “zero immigration” or close to zero immigration have already fared much better in terms of educational outcomes, including Japan, South Korea, and China, which all vastly outrank Germany in terms of math achievements.
The report also highlights how Germany should import more international students, which it describes as a vital workforce pipeline. It notes that international higher education graduates are increasingly staying in Germany long-term, particularly in heavily strained STEM fields.
Again, many Asian countries have avoided this trend and have far better educational outcomes.
Countries like the United States with the highest rate of immigration have seen their educational systems significantly deteriorate.
Reading scores have decreased in 83 percent of U.S. school districts over the past decade. Math scores have also dropped in roughly 70 percent of school districts. Nationwide, teenagers are performing nearly half a school year behind where their peers were a decade ago.
Meanwhile, anti-immigration Asian countries continue to lead the world in math and other STEM subjects, which is translating into a vast economic advantage over pro-immigration countries in Europe, which now has to resort to protectionist measures to avoid being beaten out by countries like China.
The authors of the study should also pay attention to the teachers, principals, and teachers associations throughout the country that are calling multiculturalism a complete failure. This has been exhaustively documented by Remix News (here, here, here, here, and here).
In fact, the chaos is so complete in the German school system that authorities have forced 41,000 first graders to repeat the first grade, with many of them unable to even speak German.
A swimming pool in Halle that made headlines for refusing entry to anyone who cannot understand German is now under pressure from the city to reverse course, after officials warned the rule could be seen as “xenophobic” and damaging to Halle’s image.
The standoff pits the city administration against Mathias Nobel, the operator of the Heidebad open-air pool, who introduced the policy on safety grounds. Remix News reported just yesterday that Nobel had announced that he would turn away visitors who do not speak enough German to understand the facility’s bathing rules. The decision was not made on a whim either: it followed a weekend incident in which he personally pulled a toddler from a deep section of the lake after the child’s parents failed to understand his warnings.
For Nobel, the episode was proof that a language barrier can be a matter of life and death. For the city, it was a public-relations problem.
City: rule could “damage the city’s reputation”
In its appeal to the pool’s operators, Halle argued that the policy “can be perceived as xenophobic by the public,” and that this “would damage the city’s reputation and violate the contractual duty of good conduct.”
City administration spokesman Drago Bock said Nobel must first exhaust “milder means” before resorting to outright exclusion. Access to the pool, Bock told Bild, must be guaranteed “for the general public,” and the operator must not undermine the public nature of the facility “by imposing blanket bans on entry for entire population groups.”
Operator buried in hate mail and bad reviews
The backlash against Nobel has been intense. After the rescue and the policy that followed, he says he was inundated with hate messages, and his facility was hit with a wave of negative online reviews.
He has remained defiant, rejecting the charge of xenophobia and insisting the rule was never about nationality but about preventing a drowning.
“I bear the responsibility in the pool. When something happens, everyone points at me. Dead is dead,” he said, referring to what could happen if someone died at his pool.
Asked to walk the policy back, Nobel pushed the question back at the city: “What should I take back? That people understand the bathing rules?”
The compromise: signs, pictograms, and QR codes
Despite its sharp criticism, the city says it does take Nobel’s safety concerns seriously — and has proposed an alternative to an outright ban. Under the plan, the pool’s bathing rules and safety instructions would be posted in multiple languages. Pictograms and QR codes placed at the entrance and around the grounds would convey the most important rules visually, in an effort to bridge the language gap without turning anyone away at the gate.
Whether that satisfies Nobel, who frames the issue in stark terms of who answers when a swimmer drowns, remains to be seen.
The man who threw the LGBTQ Pride flags from Budapest’s Elizabeth Bridge into the Danube one by one on Sunday has been identified and detained. The Mayor’s Office, led by Gergely Karácsony, had filed a complaint in the case on suspicion of intentional vandalism.
When contacted about the state of the investigation, the Budapest Police Headquarters said in a statement that investigative work had led them to identify the alleged perpetrator: a 58-year-old man from Mogyoród, who was arrested at his home on the evening of June 22, 2026.
The man admitted to the act and is now saying he is proud of his act and did not need a lawyer during questioning.
“I am proud of what I have done and would do the same tomorrow. I didn’t even ask for a lawyer during the police interrogation. I didn’t need one, because I was just doing what my personal beliefs dictated,” he said.
🇭🇺🏳️🌈LGBT Pride flags were ripped down from the famed Elizabeth Bridge in Budapest and tossed in the river one by one.
The flags were put up right before a Pride Parade scheduled for June 27 in the Hungarian city.
He added: “Hungary is a Christian state with a thousand-year history. Gays don’t bother me, but don’t force the sight of their love on me or anyone else. I am convinced that I have not committed a crime; I believe that rainbow flags have no place on the Elizabeth Bridge.”
The 58-year-old man, who asked not to be named, gave an interview to a news portal, saying he had waited for police at the gate of his country house on Monday night. He believes Pride flags have no place either on the Elizabeth Bridge or on the wall of City Hall, Hungarian outlet Index reports.
“I decided to go into town and take down those flags for the sake of my kids and our children’s future. My intention was not to vandalize. I think the Hungarian flag should have been in that place. When I threw the flag into the water, I made sure not to endanger ship traffic,” said the man from Mogyoród, who drove to Budapest and parked beneath the Elizabeth Bridge.
Police reportedly identified him by his license plate. He said that an hour later he was taken to the District V police station on Szalay Street, from which he was released after questioning.
The flags had been installed on the bridge by the capital’s leadership and disappeared on Sunday, with a perpetrator caught on video tossing them into the river.
A politician of the right-wing Our Homeland party (Mi Hazánk), Előd Novák, announced on Monday that he would cover any “fine for removing the rainbow rags.” In response, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said that no matter what Novák attempts, the rainbow flags would still be flying on the Elizabeth Bridge during the upcoming Pride march.
“We will put these flags back up for Pride. If they are taken down, we will put them back again, and then they will just have to put up with it,” Karácsony said.
A 23-year-old Indian asylum seeker who was arrested for sexually assaulting four 13-year-old girls at a water park near Brescia, Italy, has taken his own life in prison just days after his arrest.
The young man, who had been in Italy for three months and had no prior criminal record, was found dead by penitentiary police during a routine check at the Canton Mombello prison in Brescia. His death came roughly 48 hours after he was arrested for a series of sexual assaults against a group of minors who were at the pool with their families at the time.
Italian police quickly arrived at the scene in Concesio (Brescia)
The initial incident took place on Sunday evening at the Tibidabo water park in Concesio. According to investigators, lifeguards noticed the man around 6:00 p.m. behaving suspiciously in the slide area. He repeatedly approached a group of four 13-year-old girls who were in the water, momentarily out of their parents’ sight, and groped the girls. The girls themselves became alarmed and visibly agitated. The director of the facility had seen the entire incident and later confirmed the sexual assault to the police, according to Italy Today.
The Carabinieri were called immediately. Faced with the girls’ testimony, Italian police arrested the 23-year-old on charges of aggravated sexual assault and took him to Canton Mombello prison.
The girls were later interviewed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office during a protected hearing, in which they described to the magistrate what they had been forced to endure.
The man was held at the Canton Mombello prison, where he took his own life the following night. It remains unclear how he killed himself. The Brescia Public Prosecutor has opened an investigation and an autopsy is being conducted.
On the evening of Thursday, June 18, 2026, tragedy struck when a 37-year-old mother returned from grocery shopping with her 3-month-old son and discovered he had been abducted after leaving him alone in his stroller outside her building in Renningen.
She had left the baby — who has been called Gino in some reports to protect his real identity — alone in his stroller outside their apartment building on Malmsheimer Straße in Renningen while she carried groceries upstairs to the second floor. When she returned shortly afterward, Gino was gone — the stroller remained, but the child had been taken.
🇩🇪🔴A Romanian man was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl from a German water park.
Now, German newspaper Bild described the judge’s decision to sentence him to 4 years and 9 months as “mild.”
The parents reported him missing around 11:30 p.m. Ludwigsburg police launched a major search involving helicopters, drones, and tracker dogs, including cadaver dogs, with up to 40 units deployed. At the same time, firefighters, DRK, THW, and other forces were deployed. The search focused on the area around Renningen and extended to nearby spots like Malmsheim.
On Friday, June 19, around 1:45 p.m., search teams found the lifeless body of an infant near the Rankbach stream, between Renningen and Malmsheim. Police stated it was very likely the missing boy based on circumstances, though formal identification was pending.
The grandmother of Gino said: “My daughter came home from shopping, she had bags with her and wanted to take them up to the 2nd floor.”
An autopsy has not been publicly released and an investigation remains ongoing. Police are trying to ascertain if the suspect may have been following the mother as she walked home or if he or she came upon the child and kidnapped and murdered him by chance.
The investigation is being led by Ludwigsburg Criminal Police under Stuttgart prosecutors. They are probing all angles.
Ukraine is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield, in the air and at sea, while Ukrainian drones have stopped Russia’s ground advance and are causing serious disruptions to Russian logistics, EU Commissioner for Defense and Space Policy Andrius Kubilius said on Tuesday in Brussels.
In his speech launching the European defense and security summit, the commissioner pointed out that Ukrainian drones can paralyze the supply of the Russian army up to 300 kilometers from the front lines.
According to the EU commissioner, Ukraine is no longer just a beneficiary of international subsidies, but also contributes to the protection of other countries.
Kubilius said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is reacting to Ukrainian successes with increasingly desperate attacks. He cited last week’s attack on the Kyiv monastery as an example, which he called an attack on culture, religion and civilization.
According to the commissioner, Russia continues to pose a threat to Europe’s security, and Moscow may be able to test NATO’s Article 5, which establishes collective defense. At the same time, he emphasized that Ukraine’s successes do not mean the end of the war, nor do they mean that Russia is weak.
As he said, Russia is still able to produce weapons and drones in large quantities, so Europe must prepare to strengthen its own defense capabilities.
According to Kubilius, the United States is increasingly encouraging Europe to take greater responsibility for its own security. He emphasized: “Europe must be prepared for the fact that some capabilities of the American forces may be regrouped in other regions, so European defense capacities must be urgently strengthened.”
Kubilius warned that without replenishing American strategic capabilities, Europe’s defenses and deterrent power could be weakened.
“If European countries do not fill these gaps in ability, it could be an open invitation for Russia to test the West’s resolve,” he said.
He added that the necessary resources for this can be available primarily at the national level. He reminded that based on their commitments to NATO, the member states can spend a total of around €7 trillion for defense purposes over the next ten years.
At the same time, the Commissioner stressed the need for these resources to be utilized in a coordinated manner and within a European framework.
He also emphasized that the EU should integrate Ukraine within the framework of a future defense union.
“It would be difficult to understand if we Europeans did not see it as a vital interest to integrate Ukraine’s military power into the European defence system,” he said.
He also noted that the European Commission is expected to present the first proposals for the further integration of the European defense market as early as next week, which include a detailed analysis and ideas for further steps.
Kubilius added that even this year they will propose amendments to defense procurement rules and other market regulations.
A 19-year-old Afghan man, Massoud S., was tried Monday at the Aix-en-Provence court for sexual assault against six goats, one of which died, and a 6-month-old lamb at an educational farm. He has been convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison and a ban from French territory.
Afghan migrant Massoud S. was initially charged with “serious abuse or act of cruelty against a domestic, tame, or captive animal.” He continued to deny the rapes in this case despite DNA evidence and being caught redhanded raping a goat. He even told a court psychologist that anyone who did rape the animals only did it to “not rape a woman” since “a goat could not identify him afterward.”
The sexual assaults occurred between February and April and on top of the DNA evidence, his phone location also had him pinged to the crime scene.
“I don’t know how to explain it,” he told the magistrates regarding the ample evidence against him.
Massoud S. reportedly repeatedly raped the animals, which all belonged to an animal shelter and educational farm “Un moment” in Les Pennes-Mirabeau, near Marseille.
Cassandra Sortino, the owner of the establishment, remains deeply traumatized by the mass rape of her animals by the Afghan man.
“We set up this association to do good, and the animals were in danger in our own structure. We cannot explain it morally,” she testified. “We feel like we failed.”
According to Swiss outlet 20 Minutes, “Representing herself without a lawyer, she searched in vain for an answer to her central question: why?”
The incident began in February when she noticed that there were ligature marks on some of the animals’ legs. A veterinarian discovered injuries to the animals’ genitals and traces of blood.
This was enough evidence for Sortino to install a surveillance camera, where she saw a man sneaking into her property and raping animals. She remained in contact with police, and in April, the Afghan man was finally arrested. At the moment he was apprehended, police discovered the man in the middle of the act of raping the goat, wearing latex gloves, and with his pants down.
Massoud S. claimed that he was in the barn because he missed his train on the night he was arrested to Marseille, where he lives in an asylum seeker center in the city’s 3rd arrondissement.
Massoud S. required a translator during his trial but said he felt “full of shame” when describing his strict religious upbringing. He arrived in France in November 2025 and claims he lost his family during a bombing raid in his home country.
A psychiatrist reported the man suffers from no mental disorders, however, he reportedly said while talking about the rapes: “We make a big deal out of it when they’re just animals,”
“I’m a normal person,” he said when confronted with these statements in court.
He has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for charges reclassified as “abuse leading to death.” He is also banned from French territory and must register into a database for sexual offenders.
The man, who is from a refugee shelter in the nearby town of Anhofen, was arrested after he was caught on surveillance video.
The man broke into the horse farm at 6:45 p.m. while the family was having dinner. They heard the dog barking and then looked on surveillance monitors, where they saw the man in the stable with his pants down on top of one of the animals.
The boyfriend then ran to the stables to chase down the man, but he had already fled the scene. He continued his pursuit of the suspect though and eventually caught him. Police arrived and placed the man under arrest.
In 2023, a 27-year-old suspect was arrested after he was caught on a surveillance camera raping a pony at a stable south of Hamburg. The 18-year-old pony, which is named “Carrie,” was abused by the man at 1 a.m., with footage showing the man calmly walking onto the property and starting to attack the defenseless animal.
Steffi B. released the footage to German newspaper Bild, which posted stills of the perpetrator on its web publication.
The attack happened in Birkenmoor, which is in Harburg, just a few kilometers from the Hamburg city center.
Even the petting zoo at the park has not been safe. In 2017, a Syrian migrant raped a pony there in front of children.
“My babysitter was out with our son in Görlitzer Park. They witnessed the man sexually assault the pony,” one woman told Berliner Morgenpost at the time. The babysitter took a photo of the man as he raped the pony and provided it to police. The migrant was banned from the petting zoo in response, but it is unclear if he was ever charged by police.
Zsolt Bede, a journalist with the pro-Fidesz outlet Vadhajtások, says police raided his home and seized electronic devices belonging to both him and his child. Bede is now describing the case as “political intimidation.”
On a post on X, he documented how eight investigators first showed up to his 75-year-old father’s house and intimidated him. A week passed by, and then the police targeted Bede in a raid.
“They did not present any documents and did not explain what they were looking for. I was not informed of the allegations against me. To this day, I have not been provided with any of the official case documents.
They conducted a search of my home while my 16-year-old son was with me. They traumatized him as well. I was not allowed to call my lawyer, and my son was not allowed to speak with his mother. Moreover, he was not permitted to leave for an important international scout football event he was supposed to attend. He was unlawfully detained.
The authorities seized my phones and laptop, and then they confiscated my son’s devices as well. He has absolutely nothing to do with politics.”
My name is Zsolt Bede. I am a journalist, influencer, and patriotic activist who supports Orbán and Fidesz.
A week ago, eight investigators showed up at the home of my 75-year-old father. They said nothing, provided no contact information, and simply appeared there to intimidate… pic.twitter.com/4KwIvm2gT6
The Vadhajtások employee said officers took 13 devices, including his laptop and phone, along with older devices that are now broken. He added that his child was also barred from leaving and had a laptop and phone confiscated by police. According to Bede, the detectives did not explain why they were carrying out the search.
“The entire residential complex watched as if I were some kind of terrorist while eight police officers searched the vehicle,” he wrote, adding: “The next day, I was required to report to the police headquarters for a five-and-a-half-hour interrogation. The official record stated that I had failed to comply with the authorities, which is a lie. I was fully cooperative.”
The anti-Orban Index media outlet indicated the raid may be connected to media reports that tied theologian Rita Perintfalvi to a pornography film in Vienna. She says that she never appeared in the film and there is no record of her appearing in the film. She said that she believes the investigation was launched over alleged offenses committed against her.
“On June 8, I received a court order in connection with the ongoing private criminal case against Zsolt Bede, which stated that the court had ordered the police to ‘search, seize, examine, and analyze,’” Perintfalvi told the newspaper. “In addition, based on my public complaint, a police investigation is also underway against the operator of Vadhajtások.”
In the past, Viktor Orbán once said of Vadhajtások that, alongside Nemzeti Sport (National Sport), it was his second daily must-read media outlet.
Perintfalvi said she believes the two cases have now converged, which is why police went to Bede’s apartment. Although she has not yet received official confirmation, she said she would later request access to inspect the police data. “I am almost certain that this police operation was carried out on suspicion of crimes committed against me,” she added.
However, if this were true, the house raid against Bede is unusual in a libel case. Newspapers and journalists are often sued in the West for false or misleading claims, but it usually involves a civil suit and not a massive house search.
“These are the times that have arrived in Hungary under Péter Magyar,” warned Bede.
So far, there is no official confirmation about why the house search was conducted.
A brutal heatwave is sweeping across much of Europe, with records already toppling in France and red alerts blanketing multiple countries — and Germany now bracing for what could become its hottest temperature ever recorded.
France smashes records as deaths mount
France is bearing the brunt of the extreme weather, with temperatures climbing as high as 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit). The country recorded its warmest night since measurements began in 1947, averaging 21.6 degrees Celsius overnight.
The highest heat warning level, red — itself a record under the current warning system — has been declared across 54 departments. Schools have been partially closed and exams postponed.
The current heatwave in France is reaching concerning levels. Temperatures are soaring around 40°C in areas like Nantes and Vendée. The country has endured its most stifling, record-breaking night since 1947, with temperatures of 28.7°C. At least 18 lives have been lost due to… pic.twitter.com/YBu9zvbgrE
The human toll is already severe. According to the French government, 40 people, many of them minors, have died in swimming accidents since the heatwave began last Thursday.
Germany heading toward 41 degrees
Germany is now experiencing its own extreme and potentially record-breaking heat. Over the coming days, temperatures are expected to reach 38 to 40 degrees in many areas, with up to 41 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit) possible locally. Even the nights offer little relief, with metropolitan area temperatures expected to hover at 24 to 25 degrees after dark.
The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of severe to extreme heat stress, particularly across the southwestern half of the country, and says no meaningful relief is in sight, with the heatwave expected to last at least the entire week.
One of the worst heatwaves in European history is underway.
If Germany hits 41 degrees, it would put the country within striking distance of its all-time highest temperature record, which was recorded in July 2019 in Tönisvorst and Duisburg-Baerl, which hit 41.2 degrees. The hottest June day on record came on June 30, 2019, when Bernburg in Saxony-Anhalt hit 39.6 degrees.
The German Life Saving Association (DLRG) has urged the public not to underestimate the dangers of swimming, noting that several people have died in swimming accidents in recent days.
The prolonged dry spell is straining water supplies. The Brandenburg Wastewater and Water Association (MAWV) has called on residents in parts of Brandenburg southeast of Berlin to conserve water, warning that consumption threatens to outstrip production capacity. Garden irrigation, pool filling, and washing cars with drinking water should all be avoided.
Spain endures sweltering nights
Spain is also gripped by the heatwave, with temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees. On the coast of Almería in Andalusia, temperatures stayed above 30 degrees for a third consecutive night, even after sunset.
Heat warnings are in effect across large parts of the country, with the highest red alert level declared in some regions. Authorities are urging people to drink enough water, avoid physical exertion, and look out for the most vulnerable. The heat is expected to persist at least through Thursday, with experts linking the increasingly frequent and intense Spanish heatwaves to climate change.
England paralyzed by extreme heat
In England, temperatures of up to 40 degrees have forced many schools to shorten the day or close entirely, while some railway companies have cut services. Parts of southern England are under the red heat warning, the highest level, declared only once before.
According to a politician from the right-wing party Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk), “it is understandable” that a man threw LGBTQ Pride flags off the Elizabeth Bridge in Budapest, Hungary. Video of the man’s actions went viral over the weekend.
“It is understandable if the man in the street responded to the provocation by removing the rainbow rags,” wrote Előd Novák, who said he would pay for any fine the man receives for the action.
Kifizetem a szivárványos rongyok eltávolításáért járó bírságot
Budapest mindenkié! – ezért sem fogadható el, hogy kisajátítsa az Erzsébet hidat egy párt vagy bármilyen politikai mozgalom, mint pl. az LMBTQSTB-lobbi a zászlóival. Érthető, ha a provokációra az utca embere a… pic.twitter.com/jgbKup6SH2
“Budapest belongs to everyone! That is why it is not acceptable for a party or any political movement to appropriate the Elizabeth bridge, such as the LGBTQSTB lobby with its flags. It is understandable if the man on the street responded to the provocation by removing the rainbow rags, although I prefer their place in the trash,” he stated on social media.
In his post, he also admonished Mayor Gergely Karácsony, stating, “he should have spent the Budapest people’s money on potholes, not on homosexual and other deviant propaganda. Despite my complaint, the mayor held the banned Pride Parade last year without punishment. If our compatriot who expresses his opinion should pay a fine for the removal of worthless rags and the restoration of order, I will take over his punishment.”
🇭🇺🏳️🌈LGBT Pride flags were ripped down from the famed Elizabeth Bridge in Budapest and tossed in the river one by one.
The flags were put up right before a Pride Parade scheduled for June 27 in the Hungarian city.
Novák then decried that a Pride Parade will be hosted in Budapest on June 27, which he blamed Mayor Gergely Karácsony for.
Karácsony has filed a police complaint over the man throwing the flags into the Danube River, which was captured on film. Karácsony had the flags put up over the weekend, with a number of conservatives decrying the move.
Under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, LGBT activities were sharply restricted in Hungary, including in education. The Pride Parade was also banned in Budapest by the government, although it still ran without interference. Under Prime Minister Peter Magyar, Hungary is expected to shift to a more pro-LGBT stance.
The Netherlands has carried out the euthanasia of a young child for the first time, under regulations introduced in 2024 that permit the active ending of life for patients aged one to 12. The rules apply to terminally ill children whose suffering is deemed impossible to relieve.
The case has since been referred to the prosecutor’s office. According to Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans, a report on the euthanasia was submitted to a special commission tasked with assessing such cases. The commission reviewed the documentation and interviewed the doctor involved in the procedure before forwarding its opinion to prosecutors, who will ultimately determine whether the doctor acted within the law, according to Dutch outlet NOS.
🇪🇸Within 24 hours, Noelia Castillo Ramos will be euthanized in Spain.
In 2022, Noelia suffered a gang rape in a supervised care center.
This completely shattered her life. She attempted suicide, jumping from a 5-story building, which left her a paraplegic.
Authorities have released no details about the child, including the child’s age, sex, and underlying illness, which all remain unknown.
The Netherlands expanded its euthanasia laws two years ago. Previously, comparable rules applied only to newborns and to children over the age of 12, and even then only under very strict conditions. To qualify, a child must be experiencing suffering that doctors conclude cannot be endured or effectively alleviated, with no realistic prospect of improvement. Parental consent is also required, and the regulations are intended to apply only to children whose death is expected in the near future.
Among the conditions covered are severe congenital defects of the brain, lungs, and heart, as well as serious metabolic diseases.
The expansion of euthanasia rights has been contentious from the outset. Opponents argue chiefly that these are children incapable of expressing their own wishes. Doctors themselves also raised concerns during the debate, with some experts noting that the final assessment of each procedure rests with the prosecutor’s office rather than the medical commission — a structure they say could create fear of criminal liability.
A public swimming pool in Germany has introduced strict new admission rules barring entry to anyone who cannot speak German, with management insisting the policy is essential to guarantee the safety of guests.
The Heidebad natural swimming pool in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, now requires visitors to demonstrate German language skills before being allowed in. Managing Director Mathias Nobel defended the rule publicly, explaining that he is responsible for the safety of thousands of swimmers and will not compromise when it comes to protecting children and families.
The facility says that emergency alerts, water-depth warnings, and direct verbal instructions from lifeguards have repeatedly been ignored or misunderstood because of language barriers. In one recent emergency, Nobel, while acting as a lifeguard, had to pull a young child out of deep water due to a language barrier. To reduce these risks, staff will now deny entry to any guest if they determine that essential safety communication cannot be reliably established, according to German media outlet MDR.
Pool management acknowledges that the rule has triggered considerable backlash, but says the public dissatisfaction is being “deliberately accepted in the interest of general safety.”
From the operators’ perspective, dealing with angry patrons is preferable “than an avoidable swimming accident.” The policy is already being actively enforced, and several would-be guests have been turned away at the gate.
The Heidebad is part of a wider trend of European public pools tightening entry requirements in response to regional migration shifts. Last year, an outdoor pool in Porrentruy, located in the Swiss municipality of Pruntrut, initially banned foreigners entirely due to violence, sexual harassment and constant disturbances. Swiss visitors to the pool and employees were generally happy about the move.
The ban came about after ‘French youths with a migration background’ continuously caused problems at the pool and in pool bathrooms, including the sexual harassment of young girls. The situation even sparked international headlines.
However, the Swiss paper 20 Minuten reported a surge in season ticket sales after the ban was put in place.
“It went very well. Citizens have rediscovered the bathing establishment with the peace and quiet that comes with it,” said Lionel Maître, the municipal councilor for tourism and leisure in Porrentruy. “We have seen an increase in season ticket sales as citizens have finally regained the long-awaited sense of security. There have been no problems and no new bathing bans since then.”
The swimming pool has since changed its policy and now charges non-locals double ticket prices. The municipality has also added extra administrative steps for certain visitors. Anyone who is not a local resident and lacks a valid Swiss residence, work, or settlement permit must buy admission online in advance. Visitors without a recognized regional tourist card must also present valid identification at the entrance, and those who fail to do so are refused entry.
Mayor Philippe Eggertswyler publicly backed the new pricing and entry framework, stating that “It’s not about pitting Swiss and foreigners against each other, but about guaranteeing calm.”
The swimming pool may have backed down from its total ban on foreigners due to pressure from the federal government. The Federal Commission against Racism called the blanket exclusion “problematic and irritating.”
A shocking and brutal case of sexual violence has once again rocked Spain. This time, a 21-year-old African man is accused of breaking into the motorhome of a 44-year-old German tourist in the Spanish city of Almería and beating the woman until her face was disfigured.
The African had attempted to rape the woman at knifepoint on June 21 at approximately 5:30 p.m. near the mouth of the Andarax River, which leads to the open ocean. When she resisted, he punched her relentlessly and cut her face open multiple times. He also wielded a stick which he used to beat the woman across the body. Due to the woman’s resistance, the man was unable to achieve penetration.
The woman was only saved after a motorist heard screams and intervened. He found the man half-naked on top of the woman and he began honking his horn to scare the man away, according to Spanish news outlet Diaro del Almeria.
🇪🇸🇩🇪JUST IN: A 21-year-old African man broke into the motorhome of a 44-year-old German tourist and brutally beat the woman until her face was disfigured in Almería, Spain.
The African had attempted to rape the woman at knifepoint. When she resisted, he punched her relentlessly… pic.twitter.com/by8HzEGyYF
The African fled into a nearby bush while the police arrived on scene. The woman was transported to the local hospital in Almería and was treated for severe injuries, as well as examined by a forensics unit.
Meanwhile, police conducted a search of the nearby area and one of the officers found the man hiding in a bush. The suspect raced to the ocean but after about 100 meters, he began to sink in the water and showed signs of drowning.
Five officers stripped to their boxers and raced into the water to save the suspect’s life. On shore, he vomited out water and began breathing again. However, the extremely exhausting ordeal of saving the man’s life left all five officers in need of medical support.
The suspect was also treated in hospital and then charged with assault and sexual assault. It is unclear if the man is of Senegalese or Gambian origin.
Just before the Budapest Pride Parade is set to run on June 27, a man has been filmed tearing down LGBT Pride Flags from the famed Elizabeth Bridge and tossing them into the water over the weekend.
During one video, a man filming screams out, “Good guy,” in support of the man’s actions. As the flag falls off the bridge, he yells: “Bye bye!”
The incident comes approximately two months after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost power following national elections on April 12. Liberal Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony had ordered the LGBT flags displayed on the famous bridge over the weekend.
🇭🇺🏳️🌈LGBT Pride flags were ripped down from the famed Elizabeth Bridge in Budapest and tossed in the river one by one.
The flags were put up right before a Pride Parade scheduled for June 27 in the Hungarian city.
The appearance of the flags on landmarks has been seen as a symbol of the fall of Hungary’s conservative government, which had in the past banned the Pride Parade and taken a number of actions against LGBT ideology and education in Hungarian society and the education system.
The video of the man tossing the flags into the river has produced sharply different reactions on Reddit and other social media platforms. Conservatives are labeling him a “hero” while those on the left say he is a “bigot.”
Budapest’s mayor, Karácsony, said the police are now investigating the incident.
A Tunisian man who was already sentenced for the brutal beating of an elderly pensioner in Varese, Italy, is now facing fresh charges after it emerged that he allegedly raped a woman twice just hours before the attack.
The 44-year-old, who has already been definitively sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for attempted murder of the elderly man, is accused of further acts during a night of violence dating back to Dec. 30, 2023.
According to prosecutors, the Tunisian attacked the 67-year-old pensioner on Corso Moro, who was left bleeding on the ground in the center of Varese. A street cleaner who witnessed the assault came to the elderly man’s aid, recalling: “I saw a man kick a grandpa who was already on the ground.”
The court determined the brutal beating was delivered without warning and was unprovoked. The elderly man was hospitalized with severe injuries. Using surveillance footage and traces of blood found on the attacker’s shoes, police were able to identify and arrest him, according to Il Giorno.
However, authorities are now pursuing charges related to a complaint filed by a female victim, who said she had met the man shortly beforehand at a bar and they went to her home together. She alleges that he then forced her into two sexual encounters over the course of the same night. The accused denies the allegations, which will now be weighed by the Tribunal.
The woman has joined the case as a civil party.
However, these are not the only cases where the 44-year-old Tunisian has been convicted. In recent days, the man was convicted in another case for resisting a public official over an earlier incident on Via Veratti, where he allegedly made serious threats against one of the officers involved in his deportation proceedings.
Two Syrian nationals, 34-year-old Saad A. and 41-year-old Ahmed A., have now been convicted for gang raping a 27-year-old intoxicated woman after dragging her onto the hood of a vehicle and taking turns assaulting the woman.
At the opening of the trial, Saad A. caused a stir in the courtroom by declaring that he felt humiliated having a female interpreter translate for him, but now, a female judge has delivered his prison sentence to him and his accomplice of five years each.
Currently, there is still a third suspect who remains on the run. The trial began in February at the Düsseldorf Regional Court for a case that began in the early morning hours of June 29, 2025 within Düsseldorf’s historic old town district, according to Bild newspaper.
Prosecutors described the brutal assault, which involved the three Syrian men hoisting the heavily intoxicated woman onto the hood of a vehicle around 2:45 a.m. The woman was mostly unresponsive due to the large amount of alcohol she had consumed.
The court found that the rapists were fully aware of their actions and the condition the woman was in when they began taking turns raping her while two of them stood guard in shifts.
While the men were careful about not being caught, some passersby began alarmed when they heard the woman crying out. The court found that Ahmed A. approached these witnesses and told them they all knew the woman and it was fine.
He even told the witnesses: “She needs this.”
The witnesses did not believe his story and Ahmed A. became violent with them, charging them and threatening them with assault. The witnesses did not back down though and rushed the rapists, causing them to run away.
During France’s nationwide music festival, known as “Fête de la Musique,” on Sunday, there were scenes of chaos recorded on a number of streets and 243 arrests made across the country, including 148 in Paris.
However, according to the initial report from the French Interior Ministry, “the situation across the country was under control.”
In scenes recorded and posted to social media numerous vehicles were completely destroyed by twerking multicultural youths, many of whom were dancing on the hood and rooftop of the vehicles.
🇫🇷🔴Youths twerked on destroyed cars in Paris during the Festival of Music (Fête de la Musique) amid scenes of chaos.
Despite 243 arrests nationwide and 148 in Paris alone, the French Interior Ministry reported "the situation across the country was under control."
In addition, police were targeted by firework mortar fire by rampaging youths in various districts of Paris.
Mouvement de foule dans le quartier Saint-Germain lors de la Fête de la Musique 2026 à Paris. Des tirs de mortiers d'artifice ont visé le public et les forces de l'ordre présents sur place.#fetedelamusiquepic.twitter.com/qhOXJBEedd
— CLPRESS / Agence de presse (@CLPRESSFR) June 21, 2026
Two journalists from the French publication Frontières were also attacked while they were covering a demonstration at the festival organized by the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI).
The paper wrote on X: “While covering the demonstration against racism and the concert organized by LFI in Paris, two of our journalists were pursued by about ten Antifas for several hundred meters, resulting in an injury to one of them. A complaint will be filed.”
🚨 Venus couvrir la manifestation contre le racisme puis le concert organisé par LFI à Paris, deux de nos journalistes ont été poursuivis par une dizaine d’Antifas sur plusieurs centaines de mètres, provoquant la blessure de l’un d’entre eux.
Despite what appear to be some clear disturbances captured on video at Fête de la Musique, the interior ministry reported that the security measures were “effective” because “no major incidents were recorded.”
In Paris alone, 4,800 police officers and gendarmes were deployed, supported by 2,500 firefighters, according to the Paris police headquarters.
Due to unrest seen at the Fête de la Musique in the past, police banned the consumption of alcohol in most major cities across France. In some areas like Nanterre and Auch, the festival was canceled entirely, reportedly due to the heatwave which France is currently suffering under, according to Le Figaro.
The deeply unpopular British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, announced his resignation on Monday morning, but despite his upcoming departure, the right may have little to cheer about.
During a speech outside Downing Street, Starmer announced he was stepping down after holding office since July 7, 2024. In that election, his Labour Party won 412 seats, securing a comfortable majority and decimating the Tories, who had governed Britain since 2010.
Starmer revealed on the morning of Monday, June 22, that he had already spoken with King Charles III to inform him of his decision. The Labour Party’s National Executive Committee will now develop a timetable for the election of a new leader, who will also become Prime Minister. He stressed that this process should be completed by the end of the summer holidays. Until then, Starmer will remain at the helm of the British government.
According to Reuters, the main favorite to replace Starmer is the former Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, who won a seat in the House of Commons during the Makerfield constituency by-election in northwest England on June 18, defeating Nigel Farage’s party.
The right now has a challenger
Burnham may pose a grave challenge to Restore Britain and Reform UK, the two main right-wing parties running against the British left.
Under Starmer, multiple polls predicted a strong majority for Reform UK, with some even forecasting a blowout election victory. However, the rise of Restore Britain had already siphoned off a number of voters from Reform UK, narrowing Farage’s lead.
Now, with Starmer gone, some polls show Reform UK barely leading Labour in a general election. A new poll from Politico shows Farage winning 27 percent of the vote versus 20 percent for Labour under Starmer’s current numbers — but when tested against Burnham, Labour’s chances receive a significant boost. Some within Labour even describe Burnham as a “Reform Slayer,” as he polls better against Farage than anyone else in the party.
Nevertheless, the Politico article also describes an uphill battle for Burnham, given how far Labour has fallen out of favour with British voters during Starmer’s rule. Notably, Burnham is described as more left-wing than Starmer, who is categorized as a “centrist.”
Although the Tories are still seen as a formidable election force, they have long since discarded any semblance of right-wing politics. Nevertheless, they are also siphoning voters away from both Restore Britain and Reform UK, retaining voters who might lean personally to the right but still vote Conservative out of habit.
The combined effect of vote-splitting on the right and Burnham leading Labour could deliver a shock upset in favor of Labour, ending Farage’s dream of winning the office of prime minister.
British commentators point out that Starmer’s position has been weakening for months. More than 100 Labour MPs — around a quarter of the parliamentary party in the House of Commons — had publicly stated they wanted the prime minister to resign or set a timetable for his departure.
Labour Party members pointed to a total loss of trust in the head of government and his leadership abilities. The government had recently been rocked by a number of high-profile resignations, including Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Defence Secretary John Healey.
Polling also showed that Labour members overwhelmingly wanted Burnham, nicknamed the “King of the North” after winning three consecutive mayoral terms. He is currently Labour’s most popular politician. His recent victory in the Makerfield seat also bodes poorly for Reform UK and Restore Britain; the constituency is predominantly white and working-class, representing the exact demographic that these two right-wing parties are seeking to win over from Labour.
An elderly Dutch man was beaten so badly by a young migrant male on a BMX bike that the suspect knocked the victim’s dentures out. The incident happened on Feb. 26 in the Dutch city of Deventer but police are only now releasing the footage because they have been unable to apprehend the suspect.
According to police, the elderly man was driving out of a parking lot and did not see the cyclist, who was riding on a sidewalk — not a designated bike path. The elderly man applied the brakes and even rolled down the window to say, “Sorry.” However, the elderly man was not even in the wrong, as the suspect was not supposed to be riding his bicycle on the pavement.
🇳🇱 An elderly Dutch man was beaten so badly by a young man on a BMX bike that the suspect knocked the victim's dentures out.
The incident happened on Feb. 26 in the Dutch city of Deventer but police are only releasing the footage now.
The suspect jumped at the man, striking him multiple times in the face, while screaming at the victim.
The suspect then opened the car door and kicked the victim. He also lifted up his entire bicycle and attempted to strike the elderly man.
Police described the victim as “shocked” by the suspect’s violent reaction. The victim suffered light injuries but also suffered damage to his dentures after they were knocked out of his mouth.
A 20-year-old Afghan attacked two random women on the streets of the German city of Magdeburg, with the attacks occurring just two hours apart. The police and justice system are now being criticized for how they handled the case.
During the first incident, German police immediately released the Afghan after the first brutal beating targeting a 26-year-old woman. The woman was being strangled until she was saved by passersby who intervened. Despite the woman being strangled and suffering visible injuries, the police gave the man a “warning” and released him at around 11:00 a.m.
Just two hours later, at 1:00 p.m., he beat a 21-year-old woman and kicked her while she was on the ground. Once again, witnesses intervened.
“Witnesses were also able to deter the suspect from his attacks in this case and detain him until the police appeared,” the police stated.
Only after this second time did the presiding judge at the Magdeburg District Court issue an arrest warrant. The Afghan has been charged with attempted murder for strangling one of the victims.
Both women were treated at the hospital for their injuries. Police are claiming that they did not arrest the first suspect because they were not aware of the severity of the first victim’s injuries, which they state only became apparent once she was treated at the hospital. Once there, it became clear that the man would be charged with attempted murder. The Afghan is known to police for various other crimes as well.
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has reacted harshly to the incident and has released a statement, stating: “Women can hardly move safely in public spaces anymore, while authorities handle the situation with kid gloves instead of consistently protecting the local population from this imported violence.”
“The AfD demands an end to this naive, lenient justice system and the state’s ineffective, token measures. Foreign violent offenders who disregard our laws and the physical safety of citizens should not be admonished; they should be immediately detained and deported directly to their home countries.”
Police are currently searching for four youths who first harassed a dog owner’s dog without provocation or reason and then turned their sights on the dog owner, beating him into the hospital and breaking his nose.
Although the crime occurred on June 7 on Sternstrasse, the police are only now publishing photos of the suspects since they have been unable to make any arrests.
The man was walking with his dog when he became involved in an argument with the four youths.
“The reason for this was that the teenagers were continuously provoking the injured person’s dog,” an officer told Bild newspaper.
When the dog owner reprimanded the youths, one of them punched him in the face. Then, the other three joined and began pummeling the victim with punches and kicks, resulting in numerous broken bones, including the man’s nasal bone.
The four youths fled from the scene. Police launched an intensive investigation to apprehend the suspects, but so far, they have been unsuccessful.
A Finnish woman who alleged she was gang raped by three men after leaving a Helsinki hospital as a teenager has lost her appeal, with judges once again concluding that the sexual encounters were consensual and ordering her to pay more than €16,000 to cover the defendants’ legal costs.
The case stems from an incident in October 2024, when the then-17-year-old was taken to Malmi Hospital suffering from severe intoxication. During the night, she met three men in the hospital’s emergency department before accompanying them to a wooded area nearby, where sexual intercourse took place.
The case triggered national controversy after the teenager later reported that she had been raped. However, both the Helsinki District Court and now the Helsinki Court of Appeal have ruled that the evidence did not support the allegation.
In its judgment, cited by Iltalehti, the Court of Appeal said extensive surveillance footage, witness testimony, and medical evidence showed the teenager remained capable of making decisions and expressing her wishes despite her intoxication.
The teen had an alcohol blood level of 2.0 per mille, considered to be a very high and dangerous level of intoxication that can result in difficulty walking, severe loss of balance, disorientation, severely clouded judgment, and a high likelihood of experiencing dizziness and nausea.
However, judges noted that camera footage showed her walking independently with the men into the wooded area and behaving in a manner inconsistent with someone unable to consent. The court also pointed to testimony from a doctor who described her as intoxicated but still capable of functioning normally.
As reported by Helsingin Sanomat, one of the key moments examined by the court involved a security guard who interrupted the group in the woods. According to the ruling, the teenager dressed herself and then voluntarily moved with the men to another location, where sexual activity continued.
The court said those actions weighed against claims that she was acting under coercion, fear, or an inability to make decisions. Judges further stated that there was no more likely explanation for the group’s move into the woods than an intention to engage in sexual intercourse.
The appeal judges therefore adopted the same interpretation of events as the district court, which had acquitted the three defendants in April 2025. Prosecutors did not challenge that ruling and chose not to pursue an appeal themselves.
Because the appeal was brought solely by the complainant, the Court of Appeal ordered her to cover the defendants’ legal costs arising from the subsequent proceedings. The amount exceeds €16,000 and will be reimbursed to the state.
The case drew significant public attention across Finland, with supporters organizing fundraising campaigns to help the complainant cover legal and therapy expenses. More than €20,000 was reportedly raised through several initiatives, including a separate appeal that collected €10,000 within a single day.
On Thursday and Friday, French MEP and National Rally chairman Jordan Bardella conducted a high-profile visit to Poland, focusing heavily on European security, national sovereignty, and the ongoing migration challenges facing the continent.
Bardella will most likely become the National Rally candidate in next year’s French presidential election if Marine Le Pen is unable to run for the position. Her fate will be decided following a court ruling to be announced in early July. Bardella engaged with top Polish state officials and right-wing political leaders during his trip.
Earlier on Thursday, Bardella visited the Polish Sejm to coordinate with the right-wing Confederation party. He met directly with prominent Confederation MPs, including Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak. As a joint gesture of historical respect, the politicians also laid flowers together at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Wizyta Jordana Bardelli, przewodniczącego francuskiego Zjednoczenia Narodowego jest kolejnym elementem budowania współpracy pomiędzy naszymi ugrupowaniami 🤝
During a subsequent press conference, Bosak detailed the shared geopolitical stance of both political factions, particularly concerning the expansion of the European Union.
“We jointly express our position to Ukraine’s accession to the EU. We believe that Ukraine does not meet the standards in force in the EU, it creates very serious and completely unfair economic competition for sectors that are very important in our countries,” said Bosak during the conference.
Witold Tumanowicz, vice-chairman of the Confederation club, when asked by DoRzeczy.pl about the purpose of Jordan Bardella’s visit to Poland and his meetings with National Movement politicians, noted that “Jordan Bardella is with us, with the National Movement, in the joint Patriots for Europe faction in the European Parliament.”
According to the Confederation politician, “In this respect, the Polish-French alliance, for example in the context of stopping the disastrous climate policy that is devastating the European economy, or stopping the entire process of the migration pact and migration policy, is something that could be a great opportunity. If Krzysztof Bosak actually held a key position here in Poland and Jordan Bardella in France, then a lot could be fixed.”
Diplomatic talks at the presidential palace
A central pillar of the visit was a working meeting between the French politician and Polish President Karol Nawrocki. The discussion highlighted the growing importance of bilateral ties between Warsaw and Paris regarding the geopolitical layout of the continent.
Reflecting on the encounter, the head of the president’s office, Paweł Szefernaker, wrote: “Poland and France have many common challenges, as well as many opportunities for cooperation. Today in Warsaw, President Karol Nawrocki met with Jordan Bardella – French MEP and chairman of the National Rally. It was a very good conversation about the future of Europe, security and the role of sovereign states in the European community.”
Dziś w Warszawie prezydent Karol Nawrocki spotkał się z @J_Bardella – francuskim europosłem i przewodniczącym Zjednoczenia Narodowego 🇵🇱🤝🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/CwqyuOoJOM
The French leader echoed these positive sentiments, emphasizing the strategic role Poland holds within modern Europe.
“It is an honor to meet the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki. A long friendship unites France and Poland, which share numerous common struggles on the European stage. To build the new European architecture that our people desires, based on power, border protection and economic growth, Poland is today a country that cannot be missed.”
The two politicians also discussed economic growth and cooperation between Poland and France.
Fact-finding mission at Frontex and the Belarusian border
Beyond political offices in Warsaw, Bardella’s itinerary focused heavily on the physical boundaries of the European Union. He began by visiting the headquarters of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, located in the Polish capital. From there, he issued a stark warning regarding geopolitical blackmail and the weaponization of migration.
“Since 2021, the Polish border, the gateway to Europe, has been subjected to unacceptable migration pressure exerted by Belarus, with the consent of the Russian Federation. These destabilization operations are aimed solely at tearing Europe apart from within. We will never accept this blackmail: Frontex must stand alongside Poland to protect our continent,” he said.
On Friday, the focus shifted directly to the frontlines of the migration crisis. Jordan Bardella, alongside Confederation MEP Anna Bryłka and Confederation MP Michał Wawer, traveled directly to the Polish-Belarusian border crossing to observe the security situation firsthand.
The delegation stressed that despite the construction of physical barriers, the pressure from illegal crossings remains a persistent threat, albeit through shifted geographical channels.
“Poland is still a target of illegal migration. The barrier on the border with Belarus limited the possibility of crossing to the Polish side, so the trail was moved through Lithuania and Latvia. From the beginning of 202, the Border Guard handed over over 550 migrants to Lithuania and detained nearly 60 couriers and organizers of the people transfer. Migrants come from Belarus to Lithuania, and from there they try to get to Poland and further to the West. The problem has not disappeared – only the route has changed,” Bryłka pointed out.
Polska nadal jest celem nielegalnej migracji. Zapora na granicy z Białorusią ograniczyła możliwość przejścia na polską stronę, dlatego szlak został przeniesiony przez Litwę i Łotwę.
Od początku 2026 r. Straż Graniczna przekazała Litwie ponad 550 migrantów i zatrzymała blisko 60… pic.twitter.com/1L39JCyInK
Bryłka also leveled sharp criticism at NGO actors operating in the border woodlands, arguing that certain groups are actively compounding the border security dilemma.
“Poland is still under migratory pressure, and alongside smugglers, there are increasingly emerging groups and organizations that, under the banner of ‘humanitarian aid,’ de facto facilitate the functioning of the illegal migration route. The border must be secure. No exceptions,” she added.
The latest annual statistics from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reveal that Germany has the second-highest number of refugees in the world.
Of the 35.6 million international refugees globally, 36 percent reside in six host nations. For the 2025 tracking period, the UN report breaks this group down into 27 million individuals granted protection under the Geneva Convention, 7.2 million holding alternative international protection frameworks, and 1.5 million living under refugee-like circumstances.
Colombia holds the top spot globally with 2.8 million refugees, nearly all of whom arrived from neighboring Venezuela. Germany follows immediately as the second largest host state, accommodating 2.7 million refugees.
Germany would likely hold the top spot, but hundreds of thousands of its refugees have already become citizens, which means they no longer hold refugee status. In addition, many have also received permanent residency status, which also removes their refugee status, according to the UNHCR.
According to agency data, the largest refugee groups in Germany are Ukrainians at 1.2 million, dropping three percent from the prior year, followed by 668,600 Syrians, down 8 percent from 2024, and 288,300 Afghans, an increase of 3 percent.
The statistics here, are therefore misleading to some degree. In fact, there were 4,800 Syrian applications already logged this year, in 2026, which means the number of Syrians is increasing in reality. However, surging naturalizations means many of these Syrians are simply becoming German citizens.
Following Germany, Turkey has 2.4 million refugees, mostly from neighboring Syria, Uganda with 1.9 million, Iran with 1.7 million, Chad with 1.5 million, and Pakistan with 1.3 million.
Unlike Germany, many of the Syrians in Turkey are returning home, leading to a 19 percent drop in 2025.
By the conclusion of 2025, the annual report calculated that 117.8 million individuals were actively displaced by conflict or persecution. This represents a contraction of four percent, or roughly 5.4 million people, compared to the previous year’s metrics.
German right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is demanding that Syrians return home to rebuild their homeland. When former Chancellor Angela Merkel first announced Syrians would be admitted into German territory in 2015, she stated that once there was peace in their country, they would be expected to return home.
That turned out to be a major ploy, with the vast majority of Syrians seeking German citizenship with no plans to resettle in their homeland.
Data shows that Syrians committed 135,000 crimes against Germans over the course of ten years, resulting in a crime every 39 minutes. Their total crimes are much higher when factoring in crimes against other Syrians and other foreign groups.
“In the longer perspective of the next three years, it is the wish of President al-Sharaa that around 80 percent of the Syrians in Germany should go back into their homeland,” said Merz, before adding: “We need a reliable repatriation option, cooperation with Syria.”
Instead, tens of thousands of Syrians are being naturalized every few months, making any return efforts highly unlikely.
