BBC Claims French Riots Were ‘Mostly Peaceful’ While Showing Country on Fire

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In an apparent attempt at a CNN impression, the BBC said the riots that swept France over the weekend were “mostly peaceful”.

Social media users were quick to mock the British public broadcaster for “doing the thing” after a report from Paris correspondent and former professional rugby player, James Waterhouse, said in a televised report that the supposed protests over education and cost of living concerns were “mostly peaceful” as footage of rioters setting cars on fire and attacking police played in the background.

Waterhouse claimed that the protests were hijacked by an “opportunistic minority who came in and sought to rob and cause carnage”.

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However, the French government largely contradicted this account, with Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez saying on Saturday evening that the violence started “right from the beginning” of the demonstrations, unlike other protests where opportunists typically wait until the end to engage in violence.

The riots saw at least 2,400 people arrested, over 1,000 police and firefighters injured, the mass looting of more than 3,000 businesses, and arson attacks on government buildings, including the fire that largely destroyed the historic 143-year-old City Hall in Limoges.

The seeming attempt to downplay the destruction by the BBC drew comparisons to an infamous 2020 report from CNN, in which a correspondent standing in front of a building set ablaze by Black Lives Matter rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was captioned with the chyron: “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting.”

Commenting on the public broadcaster’s report, Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice said: “The BBC is broken. Calling the riots in France ‘mostly peaceful’ tells you everything you need to know. Reform will scrap the TV licence fee.”

Not to be outdone, the BBC’s primary private competitor, Sky News, seemingly sought to tie the riots to so-called “far-right” activists abroad posting clips of the mayhem online.

In a report published on Sunday, Sky’s Tom Cheshire said: “A lot of these protests are taking place in multicultural cities. This is a broad alliance across the left, united especially by economic discontent. That, in turn, is amplified online by far-right activists like Tommy Robinson.

“These are French protests, but they want to turn this into a European, even a civilizational issue. Just as we see the far-left black co-opting protests started by students, the far right has the wider tactic of using shocking scenes to amplify division by making immigration the sole focus.”

In a report published on Sunday, Sky’s Tom Cheshire said: “A lot of these protests are taking place in multicultural cities. This is a broad alliance across the left, united especially by economic discontent. That, in turn, is amplified online by far-right activists like Tommy Robinson.

“These are French protests, but they want to turn this into a European, even a civilizational issue. Just as we see the far-left black co-opting protests started by students, the far right has the wider tactic of using shocking scenes to amplify division by making immigration the sole focus.”

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While some, including President Emmanuel Macron, have attempted to draw a distinction between supposed peaceful protesters and the rioters, others have said that they should not be seen as separate, arguing that they are two sides of the same coin.

French Member of European Parliament Marion Maréchal told broadcaster BFMTV that she now equates “peaceful protesters” with “rioters”, “because they marched behind [LFI presidential candidate] Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and because he has never condemned this violence and encourages it.”

Maréchal said that she refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of the protest, which was claimed to be about educational funding or the cost of living, but which prominently featured Antifa slogans or ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards).

She said that to the far-left, violence is not “collateral damage” but rather a feature of the “struggle”, saying: “It’s doctrinal, when Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself says that everything must be confrontational, when [LFI mayor of Saint-Denis] Bally Bagayoko says that violence can be legitimate.”

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France: Arab and Black youths make throat-slitting gesture while Spanish journalist reports on French riots

A Spanish public television correspondent was forced to cut short a live report from the French capital Saturday night after several Arab and Black men approached her and made threatening gestures, including one simulating a throat-slitting motion, as nationwide protests turned violent, stores were looted, and historic buildings burned to the ground.

The female TVE journalist, wearing a protective helmet and holding a microphone bearing the network’s logo, was reporting from a Paris street on official figures when the Arab and Black men appeared behind her in video of the broadcast.

During the broadcast, she stated: “According to figures just released by the Minister of the Interior, some 550,000 people have taken to the streets across France and around 400 people have been arrested.” 

Then, the youths crowded the screen with one Black male raising his arms and drawing a finger across his throat towards the camera.  He also gave the middle finger and made shooting motions.

The correspondent continued briefly, noting fires nearby, firefighters responding and the difficulty of maintaining the connection amid the disorder, before the live feed was interrupted.

The episode occurred during a day of demonstrations that began weeks earlier as student protests devolved into mass rioting with thousands of arrests, numerous schools set on fire in arson attacks, and even over 60 teachers and school staff suffering injuries.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez put the nationwide turnout at about 550,000, including 110,000 in Paris. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said more than 1,200 people were detained and condemned the “unacceptable levels of violence.” Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire later said entire streets had been devastated.

Violence included clashes with riot police using tear gas and water cannons, looting, and arson. The city hall in Limoges was set ablaze, with its roof collapsing in video footage; similar attacks or defacement targeted buildings in Marseille and Lyon. Authorities reported dozens of injured officers.

TVE had not issued a detailed public statement on the specific interruption in available reports as of early Sunday. The network’s correspondent was among those working amid the disorder that continued into the night.

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State funding for Spanish unions nearly quadruples as membership falls to record low

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Direct state subsidies to Spain’s major trade union federations have multiplied nearly fourfold under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, even as trade union membership nationwide falls to historic lows, according to data from the Finance Ministry reported by Spanish daily ABC.

Annual direct allocations to the country’s two largest union organisations, the General Workers’ Union (UGT) and the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), have risen from €8.8 million under the previous government of Mariano Rajoy to €32 million now.

That rise came in stages. The Ministry of Labour, run by Yolanda Díaz since January 2020, lifted the line to €13.88 million in 2021 and held it at €17 million between 2022 and 2024, before awarding €32 million for 2025, a figure carried over into the 2026 allocation.

Between 2018 and 2025, total public funds allocated to both federations, alongside their territorial branches and linked foundations, exceeded €569 million.

Overall public funding to the two major unions grew by 34 per cent during this period, rising from €69.6 million in 2018 to €93.7 million in 2025.

In addition to millions of direct (extra) cash subsidies, UGT and CCOO currently enjoy the free use of 58 State-owned buildings (33 assigned to CCOO and 25 to UGT) under the 1986 Accumulated Union Assets Act, which handed the property of the Franco-era vertical syndicate to the organisations that replaced it.

The real estate portfolio, covering more than 22,800 square metres, carries an estimated market value exceeding €200 million.

The Spanish state covers the associated property taxes known as IBI, amounting to at least €700,000 annually, as well as capital expenditure.

In 2021, the Ministry of Labour allocated €100 million in European recovery funds toward energy**-**efficiency renovations across 42 union headquarters.

The surge in financial backing contrasts with union membership trends across Spain.

According to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), union density in Spain fell to 12.5 per cent of salaried employees in 2023, down from 16.7 per cent in 2012, ABC reported.

This places Spanish union representation below the EU average and well behind European counterparts such as Italy (30 per cent) and Sweden (62.3 per cent).

Membership is not the only measure of the federations’ reach. Agreements they sign are extended by law across entire sectors, leaving collective bargaining coverage in Spain close to 80 per cent of employees, among the highest in the OECD.

The financial reliance of UGT and CCOO on the state has fuelled ongoing debate in Madrid regarding their political independence.

Opponents point to the close alignment between union leadership and the ruling coalition, noting that neither federation called a general strike between November 14, 2012 and this year.

The funding for the two federations comes on top of the corruption allegations and investigations that have been plaguing the Sánchez government since 2024.

Now, for the first time in 14 years, UGT and CCOO have called a general strike for November 11, two days before campaigning opens for the general election Sánchez called on October 5 after losing a parliamentary vote on housing. Spaniards go to the polls on November 29.

The unions have framed the 24-hour stoppage around housing costs and pay, arguing that wages have risen by about 28 per cent over the past decade while purchase prices per square metre have climbed about 80 per cent and rents about 87 per cent.

The protest initiative was originally launched by smaller, grassroots labour and tenant organisations which have gained ground amid declining membership for traditional federations. The CGT has joined the call, with backing from the regional unions CIG, ELA and LAB and from the tenants’ organisation Sindicato de Inquilinas.

Three other federations, CSIF, USO and FETICO, have refused to take part, describing the action as political, and the employers’ confederation CEOE has questioned whether the demands are labour matters at all.

Under the previous government, the major unions were much more active. They called a general strike on March 29, 2012, barely three months after Rajoy took office, and a second on November 14 that year.

Unai Sordo, general secretary of CCOO, told Spanish radio station COPE on October 6 that the public money they received was “distributed among all organisations according to their representativeness and represent less than 10 per cent of the budget of CCOO”.

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There is a ‘Palestinian State’ already – in the Rive Gauche

This is the first time in the history of humanity that countries voluntarily let foreign armies enter their territory, fed them, provided lodging, and financed them. When these begin to wage wars against the population, they barely react.
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The French images of these hours are not the chronicle of a protest. They are the recording of a collapse.

October 17th 2026 was not an explosion, but a decomposition: the precise moment when the rumblings from the streets swept away that facade of hypocritical language which the administration uses as a convenient lexicon to mask the reality of the wounds inflicted on it.

A Spanish journalist is broadcasting live from the French streets when a group surrounds her and makes the throat-slitting gesture.

Meanwhile, France Strategy, the body of the French Presidency of the Council, has published a shocking study.

There are 25 cities in France where the rate of extra-European young people is between 70 and 79 percent.

60 French cities have a rate of 0-18-year-olds of extra-European origin equal to or higher than 50 percent. Like Marseille.

“Last point to keep in mind,” writes Le Figaro. “The grandchildren of immigrants, the third generation, are not considered.” In summary, concludes Le Figaro, “the symbolic threshold of 50 percent has already been exceeded in about sixty cities and in hundreds of neighborhoods.”

The dream of the Great Replacement, unlike ’68, does not smell of mothballs.

This is the first time in the history of humanity that countries voluntarily let foreign armies enter their territory. Then they feed them, provide them with lodging and finance them. When these begin to wage wars against the population-in which they loot, rob, set fire, kill and rape-they simply watch, even complacently.

There has never been such a thing in the history of humanity. For such a degree of betrayal there is not even a term. Until now no one could have imagined it.

The town hall of Limoges collapses after the fire.

The tourism office of Lyon is set on fire.

In Marseille the town hall is assaulted with the cry of “it’s the Revolution, we take the Bastille.” Inside, the bust of Marianne is knocked down.

The West had built its cities on the distinction between those who belong and those who are guests, on the law that applies to all and on respect for the symbols that precede opinions. When one introduces a mass that shares neither the law nor the symbols and refuses to recognize it, the result is not integration.

The new barbarians no longer arrive with armies. They arrive as “residents.”

A situation that pushed the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut to compare Paris to Beirut. Once upon a time, Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East.” Today Paris is the “Beirut of Europe.”

In Bordeaux, it was learned at the end of the day that the RAID had been activated to restore order. Remember that the RAID is an elite unit whose mission is anti-terrorism. We have come to this point.

What does all this resemble? An insurrection. It is not social anger: it is an incandescent, blind anger, a desire for carnage.

I don’t understand what Emmanuel Macron is doing, apart from singing at the Céline Dion concert in Paris.

What are the conditions of civil war?

Deep crisis of legitimacy.

Social tensions.

Political adversary considered an enemy.

Groups ready to employ violence.

Disintegration of the forces of order.

Propaganda.

Triggering factor.

The Russian civil war had practically all the symptoms mentioned above. Inflation and social crisis. Loss of trust in tsarist power. Soldiers mutiny. Political radicalization.

Of course, History never repeats itself, but the same causes produce the same effects.

The silence that now settles over the French streets is no victory; it is the resignation of a people, a people from whom no one even dares to ask what it costs them to remain silent.

Did the French want a “Palestinian State”? Here it is, not in the “West Bank”, but on the Rive Gauche, the southern bank of the Seine in Paris.

It is no longer five minutes to midnight: the bell tower began to ring and then it collapsed.

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Lula Threatens Bolsonaro with Prosecution during Presidential Debate

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It has been two weeks since Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of the right-wing populist Partido Liberal (PL) party defied the odds and polling to win the first round of the Brazilian presidential election. Now, there is only one week before the people of Brazil head to the polls again to ultimately decide who will be the person to lead the executive branch of the country for the next four years.

As part of that process, the two candidates who advanced to the run-off, Bolsonaro and incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) party, took part in a debate on Sunday, 18 October, in São Paulo, Brazil. The event was broadcast by the Band TV network.

The moment that stood out the most did not reflect well on President Lula.

He, visibly unnerved, told his opponent: ‘You think you already won the election?…On the 25th, you are going to lose your immunity. Get ready, because you are going to lose your immunity. And you’re going to have a lot of problems. Because your life has a lot of investigations that will now move forward. If your friends aren’t letting them move, now they will.’

It is quite unusual to have a sitting president of a country threaten their political opponent with prosecution so bluntly. In Brazil, such threats seem even more credible than in most other countries.

Flávio Bolsonaro’s father, former president Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, who was in office from 2019 to 2023, is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for his efforts to overturn the 2022 presidential election results. President Lula himself had already spent over a year in prison between 2018 and 2019 for a corruption case—his original sentence was nine years’ imprisonment, but it was reduced on appeal and ultimately annulled by the Supreme Court of Brazil in 2021, after his sentence was already completed. At that point, he had already served eight years as President, from 2003 to 2011.

The president of Brazil does have pardon power. That means that if Flávio Bolsonaro prevails in the second round, he can issue a presidential pardon to his father. However, under the Brazilian system, the Supreme Court can also override a presidential pardon if it finds that it violates the ‘impersonality and morality’ standards outlined in the Constitution of Brazil. Most experts believe Bolsonaro’s pardon would be overturned by the Supreme Court.

In response to the threat of prosecution live on the debate stage, Senator Bolsonaro responded by bringing up Lula’s own corruption scandal from the past that ended in a one-year prison sentence for him.

Bolsonaro specifically highlighted the element of the criminal case against Lula in which he accepted bribes through donations to his Lula Institute, an organization founded by the president after his first two terms in office.

Eight out of the 36 people who have served as President of Brazil have also been detained or sentenced to prison in a criminal case after leaving office.

Parallel between Lula vs Bolsonaro and Trump vs Clinton Debate

The controversial exchange between President Lula and Senator Bolsonaro is reminiscent of a moment during the second presidential debate between former US secretary of State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump in October 2016.

During that debate, Secretary Clinton told the audience: ‘It is just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,’ to which Trump immediately responded: ‘Because you’d be in jail.’

However, that came across more like a one-line quip—that even drew cheers and laughter from the audience—than an actual threat of prosecution, unlike President Lula’s elaborate threat. Donald Trump ended up winning the 2016 election, and his Department of Justice, in fact, did refrain from seeking a criminal prosecution against Hillary Clinton.

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Germany: What happens when ‘humanoid robots’ start acting like porn addicts

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One of the questions that has gripped journalists, tech lords, and podcasters for the past several years as the AI revolution has ramped up is simple: What will robots do as they become increasingly human?

One answer comes to us from a CBS headline on October 14 that has me checking whether my local Amish community is accepting new members: “German police seize humanoid robot that allegedly groped teen girl, and phones of young men who had it.”

According to CBS, a 16-year-old girl was standing with two teenage friends near a fast-food restaurant on October 10 when “a red-and-gold robot in athletic wear, about 4 feet tall, approaches her from behind,” and then “touches the 16-year-old’s buttocks and repeatedly makes thrusting movements towards her.”

German investigators are attempting to ascertain “whether the robot’s actions were deliberately controlled by two men who apparently livestreamed the incident in the western city of Cologne on social media.” The robot was owned by a 16-year-old boy, who was accompanied by a 19-year-old friend. The police seized both the robot and the smartphones as potential evidence.

The robot costs about 5,000 euros ($5,600), and other footage has surfaced on social media showing the device walking about and making sexually explicit gestures at young women (one of the two boys involved claims that the robot bumped into the girls). The police “also hope to determine whether the robot’s actions were controlled remotely, whether specific movements were programmed, or whether the machine acted on its own.”

German investigators now face the dystopian prospect of trying to figure out whether people can be prosecuted for perpetrating sexual harassment via robot. Robots are obviously not culpable for moral acts, and the question of whether sexual harassment charges can be laid when the perpetrators never actually touched anyone or said anything is new legal territory. No charges have been filed against the suspects as of yet.

According to CBS, “police are investigating the case on suspicion of a sexually motivated insult. Possible violations involving the unauthorized publication of images may also be examined.… The case highlights new challenges for law enforcement agencies as increasingly powerful humanoid robots become more accessible to private individuals, bringing new questions about where responsibility lies when machines are used to commit potentially criminal acts.”

As it turns out, “humanoid robots” taking cues from human beings act like entitled porn addicts. I have frequently wondered: What are large language models (or LLMs) learning from the unfathomable deluge of depraved pornography on the internet? I suspect we’re going to find out.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Calls Out ‘Gangs of Thugs’ Rioting Across Europe

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On Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron finally responded to the Islamo-Marxist riots and, unsurprisingly, he chose to blame his fellow French citizens. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, however, is calling the rioters exactly what they are….thugs.

Originally framed as ‘student’ protests that ignited over so-called crowded classrooms and teacher shortages, the protests expanded to other cities and countries and became violent as Muslim migrants used them as an excuse to take over the streets.

The violence has spread to Italy, Albania and Belgium.

Meloni said on X, “Once again, the women and men of the Law Enforcement Forces have had to face the violence of criminals who, even through organized groups, exploit demonstrations to seek confrontation and sow chaos.”

“To all of them goes my full solidarity and sincere thanks. Because they were there to safeguard the safety of citizens, workers, merchants, and all the people who have the right to live their city without fear and without seeing it laid to waste and set ablaze by gangs of thugs.”

“We stand with you.”

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UK: Yorkshire residents living in fear as asylum centre residents arrested for rape and child sex assault

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Councillors are calling on Labour to immediately close two asylum seeker centres in the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield after residents living near taxpayer-funded accommodation have told GB News they are too scared to go out.

Police have made five arrests at Urban House asylum accommodation in less than a month for alleged rape and child sex assault.

Some residents have said they are selling up to leave the area, and police have started reassurance patrols.

Urban House, opposite Wakefield prison, is one of Yorkshire’s largest asylum processing and dispersal centres and houses hundreds of men, women, and children.

Reform UK Councillor Matthew Caton, the Portfolio Holder for Children & Young People at Wakefield Council, told GB News that he is deeply concerned about the recent criminal allegations.

He said: “Urban House has been operating in various guises since 2007 – it shut down in 2011, we believe, for health and safety and living concerns, and reopened again a few months later as asylum seeker accommodation.”

“The capacity of this place is three hundred or more beds, and the current occupation is between 200 and 260, so it’s a substantial facility. It’s the largest of its type in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. When it comes to a dispersal centre, it should be operating within a two- to three-day window to disperse out of the community.

“In actuality, that’s looking two to three months. In the past, that’s been as much as two to three years. These people are in this facility in our district with very little vetting, very few checks. We have no eyes on them as a council. The Home Office just imposes them on us and into our district.

“So when it comes to safeguarding of children, for instance, we’re absolutely blind in many instances. There are concerns about the direction of travel nationally when it comes to the protection of children.

“We see the information when these people are potentially processing out of the centre, so in my capacity as safeguarding children and young people, how am I meant to protect the children and young people of this district, when I have no idea who’s coming in and out of this facility?”

He added: “When you’ve got undocumented, unvetted people in this facility by the hundred, they [residents] have every right to be concerned.”

In the May local elections, Reform UK won 58 of the 63 seats up for grabs in Wakefield and ended decades of Labour majority rule.

Labour had controlled Wakefield continuously since 1974, but the party was left with just one seat after the council elections.

Reform UK are planning nationally to effectively close down the UK’s asylum system for a full parliamentary term if elected, saying they would reject all new asylum applications and void existing ones, with all claimants marked for deportation.

It said it would make no grants of humanitarian protection or refugee status, and would end legal refugee routes and resettlement schemes.

On a local level, Reform UK-led Wakefield Council has no involvement in the Urban House asylum seeker site, but is urging Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to close it down, along with Cedar Court Hotel as asylum accommodation sites in the city.

Councillor Karl Johnson, Reform UK Leader of Wakefield Council, told GB News that serious criminal allegations at Urban House have raised significant concerns about public and community safety.

“We should not have illegal immigrants in Wakefield, we shouldn’t even have them in the country,” said Cllr Johnson.

“The government is just not listening to the people of this country. This is not just an overnight problem. This started a long time ago. This is a district problem and also a national problem and without a change of national government, I do see this problem getting worse and worse and worse.

“We’ve put something to full council in an emergency motion, asking for the national government to remove these people from Cedar Court and remove them from Urban House and stop this happening. We cannot carry on like this.

“It’s getting to a point of no return. The simple answer is, we’ve got to stop this happening. We need to get rid of illegal immigrants. We just cannot carry on like this. It’s ridiculous. We need to look after our residents and make sure they feel safe in their homes.”

Visitors and residents in Wakefield are also concerned about the Urban House facility and told GB News they have seen a wider decline in the city, with an increase in crime.

Steve Jones said: “Asylum seekers have been housed in Wakefield for a couple of years now, and it has added to the crime. The asylum centre in particular is very bad, and the fact that it is near to the Category A prison doesn’t add to the assurance. The asylum centre should be closed down.”

Lesley Page-Dixon said: “Everybody’s worried about it. I think we’re all worried about that kind of thing, aren’t we? It’s not just for us. It’s for our children and also our grandchildren that live here.”

Terry Siviter said: “It’s definitely not as safe as it was. You could walk into town, but I don’t think I’d walk around here now in certain places.”

Barbara Webster said: “It used to be Yorkshire and now it’s not. It’s foreign people that are around. I’m not against it, but it’s no longer what I call a traditional Yorkshire town. It’s lost the plot.

“But it’s not just Yorkshire, is it? It’s nationwide. I am totally gutted as to how it’s deteriorated, irrespective of all the beautiful streets. It’s lost its character.”

The Home Office have condemned the alleged crimes at Urban House.

A spokesman said: “These allegations are sickening and our thoughts are with the victims. We will not tolerate criminal behaviour. Anyone convicted of a serious sexual offence will have their asylum claim rejected and we will seek to remove them at the first opportunity.

“Strengthened safety measures have been put in place at the site and an increased police presence has immediately been deployed.”

The Home Office added that returns have increased by 52 per cent in the two years up to 30 June 2026.

They stressed that more than 80,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been returned or deported from the UK since the election, and returns are at their highest level in nearly a decade.

West Yorkshire Police have increased patrols around Urban House.

Chief Superintendent Stuart Bainbridge, Wakefield district commander, said: “Local officers have reassurance patrols taking place in and around the area and regularly work with the staff at the premises. We are continuing to work closely with the Home Office and the council to address any concerns.”

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Arsenal legend Emmanuel Petit slams French rioters – ‘Go back from where you came’

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Former Arsenal and France legend Emmanuel Petit has released a FURIOUS 3-minute, 43-second video following the riots in France!

Petit slammed the rioters, criticised the French government and directly addressed President Emmanuel Macron.

🗣️ “I love my country. I LOVE ALL FOREIGNERS WHO LOVE MY COUNTRY and who want to integrate.

But everyone else, starting with French people who don’t want France to remain what it is, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!

And those who were born with a French passport, GET OUT! WE DON’T WANT YOU ANYMORE!”

He then turned his attention to France’s political leaders:

“I’m speaking to the political class, starting with our dear President Macron.

Be VERY CAREFUL about what you’re going to do, what you’re going to say and how you’re going to protect honest citizens in France.

Enough is enough. There’s no money for the police, the army, hospitals or schools.

THERE’S NO MONEY FOR ANYONE. EXCEPT FOR YOU, THE POLITICIANS!”

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Will the French Army Have to Be Called Out?

“You are the last bulwark. If you give way, it will be . . . the victory of the barbarians.”
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Italian journalist Giulio Meotti thinks so; the riots are not dying out but spreading, the violence is more intense, and the police, who no longer intimidate, have themselves become the objects of unhinged anger and murderous assaults. More on the reasons why the army may have to be called out to patrol the cities of France can be found here: “France will soon call out the army to stop the barbarians,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, October 13, 2026:

“To the French police officers I say: you are the last bulwark. If you give way, it will be great disorder. It will be the victory of the barbarians. Be proud of your uniform.”

So said Philippe de Villiers, member of the European Parliament and founder of the Puy du Fou theme park in Vendée, which is centred around the history of France.

How much truth in so few words.

Thousands of police officers place their bodies between the horde that sets fire to everything it finds, prevents residents from going down into the streets in safety, and forces thousands of schools to close.

761 police officers and gendarmes injured by stones, firecrackers, and Molotov cocktails.

While England is no longer safe enough to host American warplanes even on its military bases, there is only a police officer standing between civilization and chaos.

In Bordeaux, the barbarians blocked the entrance to the Capucins police station and set it on fire to stop the officers from coming out.

At this moment there is nothing more important in Europe than what is happening in France.

Clémence Guetté, vice-president of the French Parliament and leader of the insurrectionary left, announces: “We will sweep away the old world.”

If the police give way, who will defend this poor old world that they are so eager to sweep away?

The politicians who caused this disaster? For a week, Emmanuel Macron has said nothing.

According to an Elabe poll, 55 percent of the French say they approve of the riots.

Michel Houellebecq had already foreseen this defeat by exhaustion in “Submission”:

“For some months the attitude of the center-left media had changed: violence in the suburbs and interethnic clashes were no longer mentioned at all; the problem was simply ignored; they had even stopped denouncing the ‘Cassandras,’ who for their part had ended up falling silent. People in general seemed to have grown tired of hearing the subject discussed; and, in the circles I frequented, the fatigue seemed to have set in earlier than elsewhere; ‘what must happen will happen’ – that was how the common feeling could be summed up.”

If the police were to give way, only the army would remain, and I am sure few want to see the army take control of Europe’s streets.

Meotti paints an appalling portrait of France today. He now is convinced that the police are not up to the task of suppressing the rioters. The French government, he believes, will have to call out the army. And then what? Will the Muslims be subdued, or will they conduct a guerrilla war in the midst of French cities, against the army and the French civilians who will unavoidably be caught in the crossfire?

I think he may be right. I hope that he is wrong.

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