A 25-year-old Tunisian migrant charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls in the center of the northern Italian coastal city of Oneglia in December 2022 remained free until his trial began this week. However, when he was supposed to stand trial, authorities declared him untraceable and ordered police to locate him.
The defendant, described in court records and local reporting as homeless, faces charges of sexual violence aggravated by the age of one minor victim and of harassment or disturbance of multiple victims. The case was heard by Massimiliano Botti at the Tribunal of Imperia on Nov. 4. The defendant, represented by attorney Katia La Corte, did not show up to his court date and the court was informed that he has been missing since 2024, according to Italian newspaper Imperia Post.
Prosecutors say during the incident, the man approached two girls then aged 15 and 18 in central Oneglia. He allegedly lifted the younger girl’s dress and touched her bare thighs, then groped the 18-year-old’s breasts and stomach despite her screaming in protest.
In separate incidents around Piazza Dante, Via Vieusseux and Via Bonfante, he is also accused of exposing his penis to two girls in one case and an18-year-old in the other.
Despite the string of sexual assaults, authorities did not issue any preventative detention measures against the man which could have prevented him from disappearing. While the court has ordered to police to find the man, his foreign and homeless status make location extremely difficult.
France’s national blood service said hackers accessed control systems overnight on Monday and raised temperatures and defrosting thresholds to “very high levels” at three cold stores holding vital blood products for over a million patients.
No group has claimed responsibility and no motive has been established.
The Établissement Français du Sang (EFS), which collects, tests, prepares and distributes blood, plasma and platelets to more than 1,900 hospitals and supports over a million patients a year, confirmed the incident. It comes amid a wider wave of cyber-attacks on commercial refrigeration systems across Europe that have driven temperatures as high as 50C (122F) and caused millions of euros in food spoilage.
Retailers in Italy, Germany, Romania and the UK were also hit recently, following disruptions the previous day in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden. Last month, similar attacks affected cooling units in as many as 700 French supermarkets. A regional branch of Crédit Mutuel bank also reported a cyber-attack last week.
A cyber security company Claroty hacked such systems in August 2026 to “warn” the industry that any external hacker could read those public advisories and scan the internet for facilities that failed to install their fix. Unpatched vulnerabilities in internet-connected software can allow remote takeover.
Claroty is an Israeli-founded industrial cybersecurity firm that published the refrigeration vulnerabilities exploited in the recent European cyberattacks.
France’s national blood service said hackers accessed control systems overnight on Monday and raised temperatures and defrosting thresholds to “very high levels” heating samples to 110°C from -30°C at three cold stores holding vital blood products. Alarm systems enabled technicians to intervene before most products were compromised.
French President Emmanuel Macron has plunged to his lowest level of public confidence on record, with 13 per cent of citizens expressing trust in his leadership, according to the latest political barometer by pollster Elabe for Les Échos published on November 5.
The four-point drop over the past month, and 11 points since August, pushes Macron below the previous historical floor for an incumbent Élysée occupant, underscoring voter fatigue and institutional paralysis as France heads towards the final stretch of his second term.
According to Elabe’s findings, more than eight in 10 respondents (82 per cent) state that they do not trust the head of state to address France’s problems effectively, with 60 per cent registering “no confidence at all”.
The poll of 1,004 adults was conducted on November 3-4.
The erosion spans almost every demographic, hitting working-class households (11 per cent) and younger voters especially hard. Trust among 18 to 24-year-olds has fallen seven points to 18 per cent amid rising fuel prices and recurring union mobilisations over purchasing power, as well as protests by secondary-school pupils.
Confidence holds up best among managers (25 per cent), although it has also fallen there, by three points.
The slump also breaks the previous record low of 14 per cent set by former Socialist president François Hollande in November 2016, as well as Macron’s own previous low of 14 per cent in October 2025. Weeks after his 2016 low, on December 1, Hollande announced he would not seek re-election.
The political fallout extends across the executive. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has likewise seen confidence erode to 17 per cent, down two points and his lowest level so far, reflecting the government’s struggle to push through its austerity-tinged budget while facing a fractious National Assembly with no clear working majority.
Macron’s own base has shrunk too: 36 per cent of those who backed him in the first round in 2022 now trust him, down seven points.
Meanwhile, National Rally figures Jordan Bardella (33 per cent) and Marine Le Pen (35 per cent) continue to command the highest favourability ratings nationally, though Bardella has slipped to his lowest level since April 2024. This is cementing the sense of political transition ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
A Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam was broken into by at least 100 protesters on Friday morning. The protesters flew a “Fuck AI” banner and chanted “free Palestine” among other leftist slogans.
Around 100 protesters made it onto the construction site, located just on the outskirts of the Dutch capital, according to a report by Reuters.
Some of the protesters reportedly scaled a crane to display a “Fuck AI” banner, while others unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site. They also chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “Free Palestine.”
The protest against the erection of three nearly 280 feet data center towers was co-organized by members of the Geef Tegengas group, a report by The Verge.
Opposition to the facility arrives more than a year after Amsterdam imposed a ban on additional data centers until 2030, which itself followed a temporary stop announced in late 2023.
The new data center will reportedly have Microsoft as its sole tenant, and and is continuing under plans dating back to 2016, prior to the ban. The facility, being built by British developer Pure Data Centres, has also found ways around some regulations according to critics.
The protest in Amsterdam comes as voters in the U.S. also pushed back against the growth of data centers. Nonetheless, AI facilities are still proliferating across the United States, drawing opposition from residents concerned about the consequences for their communities.
As Breitbart News reported, recent polling shows strong majority of Americans oppose AI data centers being constructed in their local area. In the midterm elections, 40 out of 41 data center moratoriums or restrictions passed across the country.
In the first half of this year alone, opponents of AI data center construction have blocked or delayed a record number of projects worth nearly $130 billion.
In Georgia, meanwhile, the state has been struggling to meet the growing water demands of AI data centers, as Atlanta planners have urged operators to prioritize community needs and reduce consumption — even as water usage varies widely across facilities.
Last month, Microsoft scrapped the UK’s largest data center project, after after local electricity officials revealed the site would not be connected to power until the 2030s, the Verge noted.
The software giant has been the target of additional protests beyond the incident in Amsterdam — specifically involving former employees.
Last year, employees disrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary party to protest the company’s technology being deployed in Israel’s war against Hamas, resulting in 18 people being arrested.
Around that same time, a Microsoft employee interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote speech at the company’s Build developer conference. Separately, the software giant also ended up firing two employees who had occupied its president’s office in protest.
A female inmate at a women’s prison in Colorado has filed a legal complaint against the Department of Corrections (CDOC) arguing that the placement of trans-identified male convicts in the facility violates women’s constitutional rights. Meshel Sirio first lodged her complaint in October 2025 after convicted killer James Keith Sack was transferred into the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DWCF). Sack now goes by the name Je T’Amour A. Sack and is listed as a female in CDOC records.
The lawsuit states that there are currently 18 known men who have been transferred in to the women’s facility, “including men who have been convicted of brutally violent crimes against women.” The trans-identified male transfers are “routinely kept in cells and other intimate spaces with women prisoners.”
“Sirio must share all of the common spaces at DWCF, such as dayrooms, with men. The only place she can escape being in the presence of men is in her cell and then only during those times a man has not been assigned to share her cell. When a man is assigned to Sirio’s cell, there is literally no place in all of DWCF that Sirio can isolate herself from men, some of whom, have a history of brutal violence against women.”
“While she uses the toilet and shower, Sirio must endure listening to the slapping sounds and groans men make while they masturbate… The men walk in front of Sirio in their underwear or robes, and she can clearly see the outline of their erect penises.”
“On information and belief, men have impregnated women at DWCF… [and] staff has helped at least two of these women to obtain induced abortions… one of the women inmates who became pregnant while at DWCF remains pregnant at this time.”
The suit also alleges at least one instance of male violence against an unnamed female inmate occurred, but does not offer specific details.
Sirio’s lawsuit states that she was made to share a cell with two convicted trans-identified male killers: Sack in 2024, and Devin Downey in 2025.
“Mr. Sack—a man convicted of the brutal murder of a woman—now claims to be a woman, and CDOC has placed him in the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DWCF), where real women, including Sirio, have been forced to share their cell and other living spaces with him. For reasons that should be obvious, this is egregiously unconstitutional and must stop.”
The lawsuit is currently active and ongoing.
James Keith Sack, aka “Je T’Amour”, published a dating profile which states that he is “looking for companionship with males or females”.
According to court documents, on November 1, 2009, police were called to Sack’s home. When they arrived, they found him naked and lying on top of his wife, surrounded by a pool of blood. In his hand was a ten-inch filet knife which he had used to kill 26 year-old Yesenia Avila. According to prosecutors, he stabbed his wife to death because she was considering leaving him. Sack, who was 38 at the time, ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 36 years in prison.
The lawsuit cites the Colorado Female Inmate Protection Statute (CFIPS), which states “male and female prisoners, except husband and wife, shall not be put or kept in the same room.”
“Locking men and women together at DWCF is abusive to the women inmates. Not only is this a blatant violation of the CFIPS, but it also creates an unreasonable risk of harm to which Defendants have been deliberately indifferent.”
In what may be a first in a lawsuit filed by a female inmate against gender identity policies, Sirio’s complaint directly references and challenges the world’s leading transgender medicine lobby group, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). WPATH guidelines regarding the treatment of “gender dysphoria” form the basis for which violent male criminals are being transferred to women’s prisons internationally.
The complaint refers to WPATH as “an extremist political advocacy group posing as a healthcare organization” and cites a recent Supreme Court ruling which allowed states to ban “transgender healthcare” for minors, including surgeries and puberty-halting drugs. Sirio challenges the authority of WPATH’s protocols which ultimately led to men being transferred into the DWCF while quoting Justice Thomas: “Recent revelations suggest that WPATH, long considered a standard bearer in treating pediatric gender dysphoria . . . bases its guidance on insufficient evidence and allows politics to influence its medical conclusions.”
Sirio’s complaint further alleges she was made to share a cell with another man at DWCF. Devin Downey was sentenced to 42 years in prison in February 2013 for a conviction of second-degree murder.
The killing was said to be motivated by revenge for what Downey framed as an attempted sexual assault.
Downey told detectives that Pedro Solis-Astorga approached him from behind in a wooded area of Fountain Creek Park while he and another man, William Baros, were smoking marijuana. Solis-Astorga allegedly had one hand down his pants, asked Downey’s name, and reached out as if to touch his shoulder. Downey framed this as an attempted sexual assault.
Downey admitted to at least two prior consensual homosexual encounters at the same park. A witness told police he believed Downey might be a prostitute. The park was described as a known meeting place for gay sexual encounters.
Baros shot the man once, then handed the gun to Downey. Downey said Solis-Astorga turned and ran. Fearing they would get into trouble if the man escaped, Downey shot him several more times in the back. Solis-Astorga’s body was found the next morning.
Sirio’s lawsuit states that she lives in fear, both of the men at DWCF, and of retaliation against her by prison staff for complaining about the situation. “Prior to being incarcerated, Sirio was a victim of violence perpetrated by men,” reads the complaint. “As a survivor of such violence, being locked up together with several men traumatizes her. She lives in constant anxiety and fear for her physical and emotional safety. She fears violence, sexual assault, and harassment. She lives in constant dread that she will be required to share a cell with a man again.”
The new probe focuses specifically on EU funding tranches allocated to overhaul signalling, communications and emergency safety mechanisms along the Madrid–Seville line.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched a second criminal investigation into suspected fraud involving European Union funds earmarked for the modernisation and safety systems of Spain’s Madrid–Seville high-speed rail corridor.
The fresh inquiry follows the deadly October 28 rail collision near Urda in Toledo province, central Spain, which killed 69 people and injured about 180 more, intensifying scrutiny of the state rail manager Railway Infrastructure Administrator (Adif) and the Spanish transport ministry.
As part of the proceedings, delegated European prosecutors and specialist officers from the Civil Guard’s Central Operational Unit (UCO) carried out searches at the Madrid headquarters of Adif, the State Railway Safety Agency (AESF) and Spain’s Court of Auditors (Tribunal de Cuentas).
The EPPO said it had opened the case on its own initiative.
The new probe focuses specifically on EU funding tranches allocated to overhaul signalling, communications and emergency safety mechanisms along the Madrid–Seville line.
While judicial authorities note that fraud inquiries run on a separate legal track from forensic technical inquiries into crash causality, investigators are examining whether diverted funds compromised infrastructure upgrades or led to substandard work on key safety infrastructure.
The development comes just months after the EPPO launched an initial probe on March 20 into maintenance funds for the same high-speed link, following a separate derailment on January 18 near Adamuz in Córdoba province, Andalusia, that claimed 46 lives.
In that earlier case, prosecutors focused on a stretch of track near kilometre 318.7.
Beyond the high-profile deadly accidents, chronic disruptions and severe delays have plagued Spain’s rail network, sparking commuter outrage.
The twin European inquiries add mounting international pressure on Madrid’s rail management.
European scrutiny has deepened as Brussels reviews EU funding for Spanish rail safety drawn from cohesion packages and post-pandemic recovery funds, coinciding with domestic anti-corruption raids that saw former transport minister José Luis Ábalos and senior procurement officials placed under active investigation for rigged public infrastructure tenders.
The EPPO said: “No further details will be made public at this stage.”
Labour’s latest immigration U-turn could in large part be due to lobbying by foreign nationals and taxpayer-funded pro-migration organisations.
Earlier this week, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood rowed back on proposed changes to settlement rules, after previously vowing to extend the Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) qualifying period for lower-paid migrant workers, including care workers, from five to 15 years. As it turns out, this reversal was in large part due to pressure from foreign nationals and migrant-friendly charities.
The Home Office had led a consultation on the government’s proposed changes to ILR, which grants holders the right to live, work and study in Britain without restriction and to claim eligible benefits.
The consultation had sought to gather British public opinion on the issue.
However, it has since been revealed that four in five of the respondents to the government consultation were foreign nationals, and that 38 charitable organisations lobbied politicians and submitted responses to the consultation.
These charities had received a combined £1 billion of British taxpayer money from this Labour government in the past year alone. That means British people have been paying for the pleasure of being ignored by their own government.
Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Shadow Home Secretary, criticised the scandal: “We will listen to one voice and one voice only: The British people.”
This latest disastrous U-turn could see an estimated 280,000 foreign care workers and their dependents secure faster routes to permanent settlement – at an estimated cost of around £10 billion.
The British public never voted for the Boriswave of mass immigration – in fact, they voted for the opposite. And the biggest, most fraudulent and costly part of the Tory Boriswave, the Health and Care visa cohort, is now being given ILR and British passports. This will change Britain beyond recognition.
Yusuf said: “At a time when public services are in crisis. When you struggle to get a GP appointment… When a million young people are out of work. Enough is enough.”
Reform UK won’t allow this betrayal to continue. Reform will reverse the Boriswave and review all ILR citizenship granted by this Labour government – even stripping passports if necessary.
Three-quarters of a sample of suspects brought before French courts following last month’s mass riots bore Arabic–Muslim or African-origin first names, according to an analysis by leading pollster Jérôme Fourquet.
The finding points to mounting indications of significant immigrant-background involvement in the looting and violence that, with the help of the far left, turned France’s protests over education and living costs into weeks of urban chaos.
Fourquet, director of the opinion department at polling institute Ifop, examined national and local newspaper accounts of expedited court hearings following the 17 October riots. Of the 70 cases in which sufficient biographical information was available, 75 per cent had first names he classified as Arabic–Muslim or African in origin. He described the result as showing ‘very strong overrepresentation’.
Similar concerns had already emerged in neighbouring Italy and Germany. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said around half of the 330 people stopped or arrested during October’s riots were of immigrant background. In Frankfurt, Hesse Interior Minister Roman Poseck described the groups involved in looting on 31 October as predominantly migrant in character.
The French findings have also exposed a growing split within the political establishment. Former prime minister and 2027 presidential contender Édouard Philippe said on 1 November that footage of the pillaging showed significant numbers of young French citizens of immigrant background. Far-left presidential candidate and one of the main political forces behind the riots, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, condemned his remarks as racist, while Republican leader Bruno Retailleau cited Fourquet’s research in support.
National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, meanwhile, blamed the violence on an alliance between far-left agitators and delinquent groups from the suburbs, accusing LFI and Antifa militants of fuelling the unrest. She explicitly linked the riots to decades of ‘uncontrolled immigration’, judicial leniency and political failures under successive French governments, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of losing control of the country.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said this week that 70 per cent of those convicted were French nationals. That does not, however, contradict Fourquet’s findings, as many of the looters and vandals were considered to be second- or third-generation immigrants.
Choko was allegedly killed in a hit-and-run attack by a Bangladeshi migrant.
A 30-year-old man of Bangladeshi origin has been identified and arrested after allegedly killing a 3-month-old dachshund puppy named Choko with an electric scooter in a park in the Italian city of Mestre, local police said Thursday.
The man, who was riding the scooter with a second person, faces charges of killing an animal, failure to render assistance, and multiple traffic violations, including operating without a helmet or license plate and carrying a passenger.
He faces up to three years in prison and a fine under Italian law for killing the woman’s puppy.
The incident occurred Monday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. in a park between Via Costa and Via Aleardi. The puppy, named Choko, was on a leash and was playing with a stick. At that point, the Bangladeshi struck the dog’s leash, sharply yanking the puppy, and then the rear wheel struck the dog’s neck. The female owner was also knocked to the ground with her dog.
Immediately afterward, the riders sped away from the scene without stopping to render aid.
Witnesses aided the owner and took her and the injured puppy to a veterinary clinic but Choko was already dead by the time they arrived.
The owner later said, “Choko for me was everything, and they killed her.”
🇮🇹🔴Police are hunting for a suspect in Rome who r@ped the cat Rosi, who remains in critical condition.
Rosi's veterinarian has given an update on her status, which is improving but she is on her eighth day of hospitalization at the CVS veterinary clinic. Her situation remains… pic.twitter.com/INR2hgpeXH
Remarkably, she had adopted the puppy about a month earlier in an effort to overcome a fear of walking outside after she was assaulted in Mestre last year outside a cinema. Her father was also assaulted, strangled and robbed of his watch in the street in 2024. The nationalities of the suspects in both cases have not been released.
Police identified the Bangladeshi driver within hours after reviewing surveillance footage and reconstructing the scooter’s route. The dog owner had initially described the two riders as appearing North African based on their skin tone but said she was providing the detail only to help with identification. Later, police determined the main suspect was actually Bangladeshi.
Venice Mayor Simone Venturini condemned the incident and said the municipality is examining whether to join the case as a civil party. He also said controls on electric scooters would be increased.
“I express my firmest condemnation for what happened in Mestre. An episode that arouses deep indignation, not only for the loss of little Choko, but also for the behavior of the person who hit him and left without providing help. I therefore extend all my closeness to the young owner for the pain she is experiencing,” he stated.
He also wrote on X that the suspects had been apprehended without mentioning their nationalities.
Italy has recently seen violence against animals from migrants in a broad range of cases, including instances where migrants were filmed killing and eating animals.
