Martin Blessing, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s personal representative for investment promotion and former Commerzbank CEO, has stated that foreign investors are far more concerned by left-wing debates on expropriation and property rights than by rising support for the AfD.
In an interview with Handelsblatt, Blessing said: “Investors react far more sensitively to debates about interventions in property rights, such as expropriation demands in the housing market, than to high poll ratings for the AfD.”
He noted that discussions with international investors barely mention possible AfD successes in upcoming state elections in eastern Germany.
Blessing, appointed by Merz in September 2025 to attract foreign capital, added that many investors view Germany more positively than Germans do themselves.
He pointed to Austria, where the FPÖ participates in several state governments “without the economic situation having deteriorated as a result”.
The investment envoy highlighted the upcoming Berlin state election, where demands for expropriations of large housing companies by The Left (Die Linke) and parts of the Greens continue to feature prominently.
Such debates, he argued, create greater uncertainty for investors than AfD polling strength.
Blessing’s comments come as Germany struggles to attract foreign direct investment amid high energy costs, bureaucracy and political polarisation.
They also challenge the narrative that the AfD represents the main risk factor for the German economy and worry about the extreme exclusion of the party, causing more left-leaning dominance.
Chancellor Merz’s government continues to rule out any cooperation with the AfD while pursuing policies aimed at improving Germany’s attractiveness as an investment location.
Thaïs d’Escufon Screenshot of a video on @ThaisEscufon on X, June 15, 2026
French activist and online commentator Thaïs d’Escufon says she could face prison for saying immigration is the number one threat to French women. In an X video posted on her page, she argues that her case demonstrates the shrinking space for free expression in France.
The case stems from statements she made on BFM TV in 2023, during a discussion about a rape involving an illegal immigrant. d’Escufon, who was herself the victim of a home invasion and sexual assault two years earlier at the hands of a Tunisian migrant, said during the segment that “The main danger for women is immigrant men, Africans, blacks, and Arabs.”
DILCRAH (the Interministerial Delegation to Fight Against Racism, Antisemitism, and Anti-LGBT Hate) filed a complaint after that TV appearance, leading to prosecution.
The Tribunal Judiciaire (criminal court) of Paris has scheduled the announcement of the verdict for Thursday, June 18. Prosecutors have requested a sentence of up to one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros for “incitement to racial hatred.”
According to d’Escufon, one of the central reasons she has become a target of legal action is her outspoken criticism of immigration. Referring to a media clip at the center of the controversy, she stated that “the main danger for women in France is men” and specifically “immigrant men.” She argues that expressing such views has brought years of legal, social, and financial consequences.
Speaking about her experience, d’Escufon described her six years of activism as marked by media controversy, account suspensions, legal proceedings, and what she sees as systematic efforts to silence dissenting opinions. “Freedom of expression doesn’t exist,” she said.
D’Escufon says her public profile grew significantly after she became a spokesperson for the anti-immigration Génération Identitaire (GI) movement and began appearing in television debates and media interviews. GI was dissolved by President Macron in 2021, a decision confirmed by the Council of State (France’s highest administrative court), with the justification that it constituted a threat to public order, provoked hatred and discrimination, and undermined republican values and public safety.
As a young female activist speaking on immigration and national identity, she quickly attracted national attention. That attention, she claims, was followed by a wave of censorship. Social media platforms repeatedly suspended her accounts, eventually removing her from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other mainstream networks.
D’Escufon said multiple banks also refused to provide her with banking services, without giving any clear explanations. During one attempt to open an account, she says a warning message concerning her public profile appeared on a bank employee’s computer screen, leading her to believe that her political activism had made her effectively blacklisted.
In addition to social media bans and banking difficulties, d’Escufon says she has faced several legal proceedings because of her political statements. She has already received a six-month suspended prison sentence and a €3,000 fine in one case, while continuing to pursue appeals through the courts.
Throughout her testimony, she argues that the pressure placed upon her is not merely political disagreement but a broader effort to isolate critics of immigration. “They are trying to kill us socially and economically,” she said.
Chapel of Sainte-Anne-des-Rochers in Brittany, France, following the fire. Wikimedia Commons,Syced, CC-Zero
Two major fires struck a chapel in Brittany and a cathedral cloister in southwestern France, causing extensive damage to the historic Catholic heritage sites.
On June 12, two separate fires severely damaged the Sainte-Anne Chapel in Trégastel, Brittany, and the former cloister of Condom Cathedral in Gers within hours of one another. The incidents resulted in the destruction of large sections of the historic buildings and the loss of archival material. Investigations into the causes are ongoing.
“For the moment, we are above all very sad,” Trégastel Mayor Annie Macé said, according to a report by Tribune Chrétienne, summarizing local reaction to the loss.
The first fire broke out in the early afternoon at the Sainte-Anne-des-Rochers Chapel in Trégastel, located in the Côtes-d’Armor department of Brittany. The blaze rapidly spread through the roof of the 17th century building, causing extensive damage. Approximately 75 percent of the roof was destroyed, with part of the timber framework collapsing during the fire.
Thirty-two firefighters from several emergency centers in the region responded to the incident. They fought the fire for more than an hour using four hoses, including one mounted on an aerial ladder. Fire crews remained on site into the evening to extinguish remaining hotspots beneath the debris.
Despite the scale of the damage, all artwork and liturgical objects housed inside the chapel were successfully removed and preserved. Firefighters evacuated statues, including three protected as historic monuments, before municipal services took custody of the rescued items.
The chapel, built in 1635 and dedicated to Saint Anne, patroness of Brittany, already suffered structural defects. The building had been closed to the public since March 2026 over concerns about the condition of its timber framework.
Several witnesses reported different observations concerning the possible origin of the fire. Some suggested that flames first appeared on one side of the building, while others pointed to the belfry. Authorities have not reached any conclusion, and a gendarmerie investigation has been opened to determine the exact circumstances of the incident.
Later the same day, another major fire struck the media library housed within the former cloister of the Cathedral of Condom in the Gers department of southwestern France.
During the initial stages of the fire, flames reportedly rose more than 23 feet into the air, causing significant damage to the cathedral complex and resulting in the destruction of part of the city’s archival holdings. Among the losses were historic volumes dating back to the 16th century.
The two fires occurred independently of one another, and no connection between the incidents has been reported. In both cases, investigators are still working to establish the causes of the fires.
The events have drawn attention to the condition of religious heritage sites across France. Local officials, preservation associations, and heritage specialists have for years expressed concern about the maintenance challenges facing many churches, chapels, and other historic religious buildings, particularly in smaller municipalities where restoration costs can exceed available resources.
French heritage advocate Stéphane Bern recently called for greater support for rural religious monuments. “One finds €900 million for Notre-Dame, but one cannot find the first €1,000 for the churches of our countryside. An emergency plan must be implemented to save the religious heritage of rural France,” he said.
Once, Americans could always count on a warm welcome in Normandy. Even when the rest of France turned its back on them, at least the locals remembered who had liberated them in 1944 – and at a horrendous cost in soldiers’ deaths.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaking from Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy where he attended the D-Day commemorations, said:
“On these beaches we saved the West. Today, European beaches are being stormed by various dangerous ideologies: on the beaches of Spain, Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive. Will the European capitals act against this invasion, or is it already too late?”
In November, the U.S. State Department had warned that “mass immigration represents an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.”
In his speech at the Munich Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delved deeper into the issue: “We opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass immigration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.”
Then Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student from Southampton, England, was murdered by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a British Sikh, with the English police not believing him when he said he had been stabbed.
Then Belfast descended into chaos after a Sudanese refugee tried to behead an Irishman in the street.
The United States, which has its own border and identity problems, at least retains the instincts of a nation. It has understood that uncontrolled immigration erodes the social contract, shatters the sense of belonging, and sets the stage for conflicts that no “diversity is our strength” rhetoric can quell.
Europe, on the other hand, considers any border control a return to 1933. It is lethal moral blackmail.
Europe is surrendering to the intellectual stupidity of people like Annie Ernaux, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who, wearing the inevitable Palestinian Arab keffiyeh, campaigned for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pro-Islamic left, saying from Saint-Denis: “The city of dead and living kings. The time of kings was one of privileges of birth. It was the time of women being absolute property of men.”
Poor fool: what does she think will happen to women under sharia?
Shortly before that, there was yet another sack of Paris on the pretext of a PSG victory.
Scenes of riots, chain destructions, cars set on fire, hundreds injured – including law enforcement – and one dead. A foretaste of what cities will be like when the latent civil war we are living in moves to the hot phase.
But the cult of relativism continues to rage in institutional circles. Same ritual. Same emptiness. The leaders talk. The streets burn. These two realities will never meet. There is a word for what these European people are experiencing. That word is abandonment.
-A system in which political leaders – “leaders” here is a figure of speech – massively import a foreign population with a culture that cannot assimilate and without asking themselves whether the graft will take.
-A system that installs these populations in already fragile neighborhoods and calls it integration.
-A system that moves undesirables from country to country, from Paris to Belfast, stamping documents along the way.
And when the pressure cooker explodes, the same system brings out its “experts” and “columnists” to explain that the real violence is that of the person who snapped, not the violence that made them snap.
The Italian Foreign Ministry has explicitly issued travel warnings against going to Afghanistan and Sudan, yet it allows young, cocky men from those very nations to enter Italy.
For Europe all that remains is the choice between a dignified defense – repatriations, stopping the boats, ending migrant welfare, assimilation or return – of our own home, or being resigned to becoming a minority in lands built by our ancestors.
Out of all the countries affected by the suicidal Globalist policies allowing for unchecked mass migration, former liberal paradise Sweden may have been the society that changed most drastically.
And now, there is an understanding that the avalanche of robbery, murder, and rape – as catastrophic as it is – is not the only problem assailing their culture.
The basic bad behavior of migrants and the unwillingness to assimilate are fraying the Swedish social fabric just as much.
So, yesterday (15), the Swedish parliament approved a law allowing authorities to revoke immigrants’ residency permits based on bad behavior.
This can mean ‘having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work, or links to extremist organizations.’
🇸🇪 Sweden has passed a "good behavior" law allowing migrants to be deported over non-criminal conduct such as tax debts or extremist links.
This will allow the Swedish government the power to revoke residence permits and deport legal immigrants without a specific criminal… pic.twitter.com/tcCBS9QGa0
“The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration rules by the right-wing government and its support party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election in September.
The law has been criticized by the opposition and human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken on behavior that has not been deemed criminal.
‘The good behavior law leaves people in uncertainty about what actions or expressions can be used against them’, Stockholm-based group Civil Rights Defenders said in a statement. It undermines the rule of law and the principle of equality before the law.”
SWEDEN JUST DREW THE LINE
Sweden is doing it. Finally.
Parliament has just passed a law that lets the state revoke residence permits for bad behavior. And here is the part that matters – the behavior does not have to be criminal.
“The government, which won the 2022 election on a promise to reduce immigration and crack down on crime, has said that people who misbehave or commit crimes are not welcome in Sweden.
The Migration Agency is tasked with reviewing the permits and the decisions can be appealed to a migration court.
‘Anyone who doesn’t make the effort to do the right thing shouldn’t be able to count on staying’, Minister of Migration Johan Forssell said when he proposed the bill in March.”
British tyranny is so repulsive that the British people owe it to themselves to overthrow their government masters. It has been two-hundred-fifty years since America’s Declaration of Independence recognized the Crown system as a threat to Americans’ lives and liberties. English-speaking peoples still suffering under the British yoke should follow suit.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a near-total ban on social media for children under sixteen years old. Ten of the most popular social media platforms are now age-restricted, with the toxic-leftist Bluesky platform a notable exception. The government claims to be “protecting children” from online harm. That’s a lie. If the British government cared about protecting British children, government ministers and police forces would not have covered up Islamic rape gangs targeting children for three-plus decades. The British government would not censor online reporting of foreigners murdering young Brits. The British government has systematically chosen to sacrifice the United Kingdom’s children.
This online “safety” measure must be understood, then, as a ruse meant to expand the government’s control over online information. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada have similar surveillance systems in place — all ostensibly erected to “protect the children” but designed, in reality, to control the speech of citizens. In these countries, the only way to communicate with other citizens on social media platforms is to prove your age by proving your identity. Mandatory digital identification systems are disguised as child welfare checks. The Brits and their Commonwealth vassals have built a surveillance system to monitor citizens’ thoughts, censor unapproved speech, and promote official propaganda.
Tyrant Starmer is pushing this online surveillance infrastructure while citizens in the U.K. are protesting and rioting against the British government’s murderous mass immigration policies — which have invited foreign rapists and killers to overrun the kingdom and slaughter citizens.
Third-world barbarism is exploding across Europe. Official Eurostat numbers show that sexual violence offenses in the European Union have doubled over the last decade. Rapes skyrocketed 150%. Knife crimes and murders are off the charts. Foreign nationals who have immigrated into Europe are responsible for roughly fifty percent of violent crime.
Just as the unelected European Commission ruling the continent continues to cover up immigrant crimes and censor citizens’ online discussion of these ongoing threats, the British government is more concerned about punishing native Brits for noticing that they are under attack than repelling violent invaders from Britain’s shores. (If Keir Starmer had been in Winston Churchill’s shoes during the Nazi Blitz, the British government would have surely helped the Germans cover up the bombings while blaming all the destruction on British citizens!)
Starmer’s government spies run a propaganda outfit that controls all public “narratives” regarding immigrant crime against native Brits. The group of spies write and release misleading statements, presented as coming from the families of victims, that are designed to downplay rapes, murders, and other violent incidents. While these spies use propaganda and censorship to cover up serious crimes committed by immigrants, they simultaneously engage in information warfare against British citizens by branding legitimate public concerns over safety as “disinformation,” “far-right racism,” “violence,” and “hate speech.” This spy group in charge of monitoring and shaping the public’s thoughts has flagged “reading Shakespeare, Chaucer or Milton, or books documenting grooming gang scandals as potential indicators of far-Right susceptibility.” The British spies — a veritable Gestapo fabricating public “truth” — plant media stories, steer online discussions, and deploy operatives to disrupt or direct public protests.
The British government claims the power to block “false information” that is “legal but harmful.” On its website, the British government defines “extreme right-wing terrorist ideology” to include the belief that “‘Western culture’ is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups.” British Technology Secretary Liz Kendall claims that it is “illegal” to promote “disorder” on social media. Meanwhile, Starmer’s government tyrants are instructing journalists how to report immigrant attacks on British citizens. These are the actions of dictators who do not care about “protecting the children.”
Surveying the daily violent crime by immigrants and the British government’s ongoing cover-ups, former Prime Minister Liz Truss says there is a government campaign to “undermine the family” and the “nation state.” She says that forced diversity has corrupted the institutions and that government ministers suppress information and attack citizens while protecting barbarians. She concludes that mass migration and government control over information are being used as weapons to destroy Western civilization.
For years, we Americans have watched the evils of globalism expand both at home and abroad in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and most of continental Europe. Branded by its international supporters as some kind of final, utopian stage of human governance, globalism is just another Frankensteinian beast — created from all the worst parts of Marxist-communism, Leninism, Maoism, fascism, Nazism, authoritarianism, oligarchy, corporatism, elitism, and central bank hegemony. Globalism is totalitarianism. Its god is government, although it has created special liturgical rituals regarding an imaginary “climate change” apocalypse meant to scare the world’s peasants into accepting the supremacy of government authority and bureaucrats’ (globalism’s “priests”) centralized power over all economic transactions.
Globalist governments seek total control over the people, and every policy that globalist governments shove down our throats is meant to advance this goal of total control. COVID was not a health emergency. It was a government excuse to roll out digital identifications, mandatory pharmaceutical injections, “vaccine” passports capable of monitoring real-time citizen movements, and online censorship. It was a government program meant to condition citizens to accept that government bureaucrats should be empowered with limitless authorities — including the discretion to regulate church services, close and bankrupt businesses, lockdown citizens in their homes, separate family members from dying loved ones, and quarantine citizens for non-compliance. The “global warming/cooling/climate change/extreme weather” hobgoblin is a government-designed scare tactic identical to the COVID “emergency.” The only difference is that the “global warming” fearmongers have been telling us that we have twelve years left to live for the last century, while the COVID fearmongers told us that we had twelve days to live unless we complied. Manufacturing compliance was and remains globalist governments’ only strategic objective.
Globalism’s ruling elites lust for wealth, power, and total control over the public. Their lust will never be sated. They wish for a small collection of government and economic masters to subjugate as much of the planet’s population as possible as serfs. Globalism is a conquering empire. Its oligarchy of central bank popes, chosen political governors, corporate monarchs, and techno-fascist-brownshirt-bureaucrats are modern-day slavers and colonizers. Instead of putting us in chains and whipping us when we “misbehave,” they put us in a lifetime of debt and prosecute us for expressing opinions contrary to official government orthodoxy.
Do you believe that marriage is an institution recognizing the sacred union between one man and one woman? Do you believe that men and women are biologically different? Do you believe that mass immigration is a threat to national security? Do you believe “multiculturalism” and forced “diversity” destroy excellence, discount merit, and weaken the naturally salubrious bonds of common cultural heritage? Do you believe that every human has a God-given right to self-defense? Do you believe that Christians should remain faithful to their beliefs in both their public and private lives? If so, globalist governments see you as an “extremist,” “right-winger,” “religious fanatic,” “terrorist,” and “enemy of the State.” Your thoughts will be condemned. Your speech will be censored. You will be fined and prosecuted. You will go to prison for your beliefs.
The best way for Americans to fight encroaching globalism over here is to support British patriots in their fight against globalism over there. As Benjamin Franklin persuasively argued, “We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.”
Historian and broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo demolishes the conspiracy theory that Churchill was responsible for the Bengal Famine and deliberately starved Indians.
Chris Elston, better known as “Billboard Chris,” was arrested on Sunday at the Puerta del Sol for peacefully holding signs and discussing the harms of gender ideology with passersby.
The activist, who is known for speaking out against the mutilation of children across the globe, revealed in a series of X posts that he had been arrested and held at a police station for two hours for simply holding signs and discussing the harms of children undergoing puberty blockers, which they can access in Spain as young as 12, and cross-sex hormones, which they can access as young as 16.
He said that police told him that he could not have conversations in public, confiscated his passport and phone, and held him at the police station, where he was fingerprinted and treated like a criminal, before being issued an unspecified fine and released.
Following his release, “Billboard Chris” returned to Puerta del Sol, along with two lawyers, to continue having conversations about the dangers of child sterilization in the public square.
“I was detained by Spanish police for two hours today in Madrid. Taken to the police station, fingerprinted, treated like a criminal because I showed up at the public square to have peaceful conversations about how children are being harmed,” he wrote on X. “Spain has done nothing to stop giving kids puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.”
“To the political authorities in Spain — please start protecting children in your magnificent country from this unscientific craze which is sterilizing children and causing grievous, irreversible harm,” he added.
I was detained by Spanish police for two hours today in Madrid.
Taken to the police station, fingerprinted, treated like a criminal because I showed up at the public square to have peaceful conversations about how children are being harmed.
Over the years, Elston has been targeted by authorities several times across multiple countries for his activism.
In June 2025, Elston and fellow activist Lois McLatchie Miller were arrested by police in Brussels for refusing to discard the signs they had been using to urge members of the European Union (EU) to protect children from the harms of transgender ideology.
Three months earlier, in March, Elston was threatened with arrest, fined $800 (AUD), and forcibly removed by police from a public square in Brisbane, Australia, after having conversations with members of the Australian public about child mutilation. His infringement notice for the incident was later withdrawn by the Brisbane City Council.
“Billboard Chris” said that he plans to release the full, unedited video of his interaction with Spanish police as soon as possible. He also announced on Monday that he plans to take legal action against the Madrid Police for violating his rights.
I will be taking legal action against the police in Madrid.
Upon thorough review of various laws, they have committed numerous infractions while violating my rights, and I will not let this go unchallenged.
In the wake of the murder of an 11-year-old girl that shocked the nation, seven in ten people in France believe that there should be a national referendum to decide whether or not the country should reinstate the death penalty for serious crimes against children.
According to a nationally representative survey of 1,010 adults by the CSA Institute for CNEWS, 68 per cent of French people would back a national referendum over bringing back capital punishment for major crimes against children.
The poll found that women were more in favour of such a referendum than men, with 70 per cent of women in favour, compared to 66 per cent of men.
Intriguingly, younger voters appear more in favour than their elderly counterparts, with 90 per cent of 18-24 year olds in favour, followed by 72 per cent of 50 to 64 year olds, 67 per cent of 35 to 49 year olds, and just 54 per cent of those 65 and over.
When looking at political affiliation, leftist parties were found to be the least in favour of a referendum, with just 35 per cent of Green Party and 40 per cent of Socialist Party backers supporting the measure. However, a majority of members of the Islamo-leftist France Insoumise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon were in favour at 57 per cent. This was slightly below the level recorded for supporters of President Emmanuel Macron’s neo-liberal Renaissance party, 58 per cent of whom would support a referendum.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, those on the right of the French political spectrum were most likely to back a vote on the return of the death penalty for crimes against children. Indeed, 74 per cent of supporters of the centre-right Républicains replied in the affirmative, while 95 per cent of backers of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally expressed support
Return of the Guillotine? Le Pen Hints at Referendum on Death Penalty in France https://t.co/i8jg3XS1Lt
The poll comes amid the fallout from the death of Lyhanna Rameau Bernard, an 11-year-old girl from the small town of Fleurance outside of Toulouse, whose body was found earlier this month in an abandoned grain silo on a nearby farm. A witness claimed to have seen the young girl entering the car of a family friend, Jérôme Barella, a week prior.
Barella was already known to police as a suspected paedophile, with multiple reports against him, including allegations of rape against a 7-year-old, which were dropped in 2022, and another complaint over the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl between 2024 and 2025. Critically, the investigation into the second investigation was still ongoing at the time of Lyhanna’s death.
However, even after nine months of investigations, police had yet to question Barella. Critics of the slow justice system in France have suggested that if he had been made aware that police were investigating him, he may not have been so bold as to allegedly kidnap Lyhanna.
In addition to the multiple reports from children in France made against him, Le Mondereported that Paris’ Office for Minors (Ofmin) had been informed by the U.S. National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) of potential paedophile behaviour on the internet. Yet again, no action was taken before Lyhanna’s death.
The case, which has sparked widespread protests and backlash against the government, has spurred calls for judicial reform in the country, including from former Interior Minister and presidential candidate Bruno Retailleau, who has proposed the creation of “a disciplinary court of the judiciary” that can sanction magistrates for failing to meet their responsibilities.
A photo of the convicted African man (face blurred by Swedish media) and the bedsheet police obtained that was covered in his semen stains, which was admitted at trial as evidence.
An Eritrean care worker in his 30s has been sentenced to four years in prison for raping an 82-year-old woman, though he has avoided deportation due to his integration record in Sweden. Among the evidence obtained was sperm samples the African man left in the elderly woman’s bed.
The vulnerable victim, who suffers from impaired near memory, received home care services from the convicted man. On the night of Nov. 3, 2025, her son contacted the police after she was raped by the Eritrean. In subsequent interrogations, the woman recalled the abuse, describing it as painful and unpleasant, according to Swedish outlet Samnytt.
The investigation revealed that the domestic worker had entered his employer’s office and opened a key cabinet during the night of the crime, despite being off duty at the time. Forensic teams discovered a sperm stain on the woman’s sheets, and a subsequent DNA analysis confirmed it matched the suspect.
🇫🇷🔴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.
The man denied any wrongdoing, but during police questioning, he initially claimed he left the sperm stain during a previous work visit while having phone sex with his girlfriend. He then later changed his story, admitting the girlfriend story was made up but maintaining that he had secretly masturbated during a previous service visit, and ejaculated on the woman’s bed.
He explained his presence at the office on his night off by stating he wanted to spend time with co-workers or prepare for an upcoming shift, adding that he did not remember opening the key cabinet.
The district court rejected his explanation and found it established that he raped the woman. The prosecution argued that the offense should be classified as serious due to the victim’s advanced age, reduced health, and her dependent relationship with the care provider.
However, the court considered a number of alleged mitigating factors, describing the rape as “short-lived and one that occurred without threats or blows.” Ultimately, he was sentenced for rape in the normal degree to four years in prison.
Samnytt revealed that the care company hired the Eritrean man despite multiple entries in his criminal record. He had previously been convicted of theft and petty theft, as well as serious offenses connected to Stockholm’s gang environment. In a 2022 ruling from Svea Court of Appeal, the man was sentenced to two years and two months in prison for aggravated drug offenses and aggravated drunk driving.
The prosecution also requested that the man, an Eritrean national, be deported for life. However, the court refused to deport him. It argued that he arrived in Sweden as a child, lived in Sweden for almost 20 years, spoke fluent Swedish, and had maintained employment in recent years, making the legal threshold for deportation high. The rape of an elderly woman was apparently not enough to cross this threshold.
The district court noted it was a serious crime and also noted his previous convictions, stating that ”there is a clear risk of continued crime.”
Remix News has covered numerous similar stories in recent years involving foreigners raping elderly European women, including 14 such cases in France.
