Evonik will cut 3,200 jobs worldwide between 2027 and 2029, 2,150 of them in Germany, the specialty chemicals group confirmed on Tuesday after a strategy meeting of its executive and supervisory boards.
The figures match a plan first set out in June under the “tailor Made” programme.
About 2,800 posts are already due to go by the end of 2026.
Taken together, the two waves remove close to 6,000 roles. Evonik employed 31,053 people at the end of 2025, almost 900 fewer than a year earlier.
Interim chief executive Claus Rettig said the board, the supervisory board and employee representatives shared one view: “We are in a structural and economic crisis in our industry.”
“We will use this polycrisis to change old structures and position ourselves better.”
Growth, the company said, looks stronger in Asia and the Americas, where further investment is under review.
The six large German production sites will each be given a narrower role. The share price rose by almost 5 per cent.
The next phase is meant to run without compulsory redundancies: Vacant posts will not be refilled, staff will be offered early retirement, and voluntary exits will be paid.
Evonik did not put a figure on the cost of the new round.
The first programme, which cut 2,800 jobs for about €400 million a year in savings, cost some €250 million.
Rettig said the latest one would “probably be more expensive”.
The company is also leaving businesses it no longer wants.
Global polyester, with about €150 million of annual sales and years of losses, will stop in 2027.
Witten, which employs 266 people, will close; Marl will lose 45 jobs and Shanghai 35.
Smaller plants in Hamburg and Bitterfeld, together about 90 staff, are also to shut.
Evonik plans to sell Oxeno and Syneqt, which together employ about 4,300 people.
Talks with investors on Oxeno are under way; a Syneqt sale process is due to start in 2027.
If those units leave the group as well as the job cuts land, the payroll could be about 10,000 smaller than at the start of the overhaul.
The German chemical giant’s sales was €14.1 billion in 2025, 7 per cent lower than the year before.
German chemicals have been under pressure from high energy costs, weak European demand and Asian competition.
The chemicals union IG BCE has already said that one savings programme after another creates no prospects. The industry association VCI has spoken of no “sense of departure” for German chemicals as a whole.
In Germany, the chemical and pharmaceutical industry is currently the third largest industrial sector with over 476,000 employees.
More than 2,200 pro-lifers gathered on Saturday for the Swiss March for Life, defying hostility from local officials as well as an estimated 200 masked cyclists who attempted to disrupt and terrorize the event.
EWTN News reports that an estimated 2,200 pro-lifers, accompanied by a police presence to ensure security, rallied under the theme of “Together for Life,” advocating legal protection for the voiceless preborn as well as for fathers to step up to their responsibilities both to their children and the babies’ mothers.
Far-left saboteurs attempted to undermine the demonstration with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins, and otherwise blocking the route at multiple points. “The police repeatedly asked them to leave before resorting to the water cannons,” SWI adds. “However, the counter-demonstrators reappeared at several points along the route.”
For years, Zurich officials have kept the event out of the city center, relegating it to the outer commercial and residential district of Oerlikon. Officials have claimed this is to minimize such disruptions, but pro-lifers argue they are held to a double-standard that effectively gives violent agitators power to decide who is welcome in the public square.
A 30-year-old Tunisian man charged with raping a jogger in a public park outside Turin has failed to appear at his latest court hearing and can no longer be located more than two years after the attack, Italian court officials reported.
The defendant, who has not been publicly named, missed a Sept. 17 hearing at a Turin court, where he is accused of sexual violence in the June 29, 2024, assault and rape in Luserna San Giovanni.
Italian media outlet Turino Today indicates that the man may have already left Piedmont and returned to Tunisia but his current whereabouts are unknown.
According to the prosecution’s account presented in court, the 40-year-old woman was running in a municipal park in late afternoon when a man grabbed her from behind. The struggle quickly turned violent. Prosecutors say he sexually assaulted her and fell onto her during the fight, fracturing her legs. She bit his arm through a red T-shirt. He then fled.
A carabinieri officer who responded testified that the woman could not stand.
“I was among the first to intervene,” the officer told the court. “I remember that the woman could not stay on her feet because of the fractures to her legs. I supported her while we waited for the ambulance.”
Police found the suspect after patrol officers noticed a man walking with his partner with a wound resembling a bite mark, leading the officers to suspect that the man may have been the rape suspect. Officers said he appeared nervous. At his home, he broke down in tears, showed the bite marks and handed over the clothing he said he had worn during the attack, including the red shirt the victim had described. Taken to the station, he confessed to the crimes in the case.
In court, the victim’s husband said that the rape and assault dramatically changed life for his wife, him, and their children.
“For at least a year, she could only walk on crutches. She suffered so much,” he said.
The woman’s sister told the court: “I was informed by phone of what had happened. My sister is a rock, but nothing is the same for her anymore. The same goes for us: these are things that mark you, there is no going back.”
The first judge did not impose pretrial detention on the suspect. Reporting on the ruling, the judge cited the man’s cooperation, the fact that he was not arrested in the act, the absence of a prior criminal record, and a finding that there was no concrete flight risk.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe long ago described the business model of the Chinese Communist Party as “Rob, Replicate, Replace.” They steal the technology and know-how for a product, copy it, then flood it back into the marketplace at a far lower price, thereby putting the product’s original manufacturers out of business. In Belgium, flagship Belgian semiconductor company BelGaN was bought by the Chinese regime, robbed of its intellectual property, technology and know-how for the benefit of a “mirror company” in China, and then eliminated in Belgium. Screengrab youtube
Even if Chinese technological theft is less frequent in Europe than in the United States —there is far less technology to steal from Europe than from the US — it is nevertheless all too present.
The practice follows what the current director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, long ago called the business model of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): “Rob, Replicate, Replace.” They steal the technology and know-how for a product, copy it, then flood it back into the marketplace at a far lower price, thereby putting the product’s original manufacturers out of business. When the CCP believes its hold on the market share has been consolidated into something resembling a monopoly, the prices go back up.
Watch out! The same will be true for computer chips.
Currently, the German car industry is being potentially demolished with this practice by Chinese electric vehicles. Only US President Donald J. Trump is saving America’s car industry by banning Chinese vehicles as well as by offering financial incentives to anyone planning to manufacture cars — or just about anything else — in the US.
In Belgium, for instance, BelGaN, a flagship Belgian semiconductor company, was bought by the Chinese regime, robbed of its intellectual property, technology and know-how for the benefit of a “mirror company” in China, and then eliminated in Belgium.
The BelGaN site in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, dates back to 1983, when it operated under the name Mietec and was regarded as one of the flagships of Flanders’ “third industrial revolution.” It subsequently came under AMI Semiconductor and then ON Semiconductor (ONSEMI). In 2021-2022, ONSEMI, Belgium’s last industrial-scale chip manufacturing facility, was sold to BelGaN for approximately $13.6 million.
BelGaN Group BV, incorporated on September 30, 2021, was a joint venture between Rockley Management (HK) Ltd and Wuxi Group Ltd, two companies registered in China. That should have set off alarm bells among the Belgian authorities, notoriously among the most naïve and credulous in Europe.
Belgium, however, did not bring an interfederal foreign-investment screening mechanism into force until July 1, 2023. Meanwhile, the acquisition of the plant had been completed in February 2022. Today, semiconductors are explicitly listed among the strategic technologies subject to screening… a bit late.
Rockley Management (HK) Limited forms part of a technological and financial network long active between the United Kingdom and China. The Hong Kong company is linked to brothers Andrew and Robert Rickman, central figures in the Rockley Group, based in Oxford and also established in Shanghai. The group developed several semiconductor investments in China, notably through a Rockley China Fund and stakes in Chinese technology companies. Andrew Rickman was also appointed an honorary professor at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, which comes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Rockley Management was therefore not an isolated Hong Kong vehicle but part of a technology-investment network already deeply connected to the Chinese ecosystem.
Alan Zhou (also known as Alan Zhen Zhou or Zhou Zhen) an experienced industry executive, was appointed CEO of BelGaN. The stated goal was to transform its plant into a foundry for 6- and 8-inch gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor wafers, create a “GaN Valley” in Belgium and align the company with the European Chips Act.
GaN technology makes it possible to produce electronic components that are smaller, more energy-efficient and capable of operating at higher frequencies than comparable silicon-based devices. Its applications are numerous: electric vehicles, chargers, solar-power systems, data centers, aerospace and space systems, and military applications such as radar and electronic warfare.
Approximately 400 to 440 employees were retained.
Creation of a “Mirror Company” in China
A few months after BelGaN was acquired, a new Chinese company called Fuzhou GaGu Semiconductor Co. (福州镓谷半导体有限公司) — also known as Gankool, GaNkool and Gancool — was created in the Fuzhou development zone, Fujian Province. It produces exactly the same GaN technology, under the same conditions, using the same machines and processes. Fuzhou GaGu Semiconductor is financed by a purely Chinese investment fund, “partnering,” as all businesses are required to do, with the Chinese government.
The timing is important. On February 8, 2022, ONSEMI finalized the sale of its Oudenaarde plant to BelGaN Group BV. On July 20, 2022, Fuzhou GaGu Semiconductor was incorporated in Fuzhou.
This timing demonstrates the existence of an overall plan from the very first Chinese move toward BelGaN. One does not improvise a semiconductor company, its model, methods and technology, in a matter of months. The timing also reveals the Chinese regime’s feeling of impunity when confronted with naïve Belgium, or most likely anyone else who complies.
The Principal Suspect: H.L.
H.L., whom several public sources have identified as probably the GaN specialist Hu Liang (梁琥), is a 52-year-old Belgian-Chinese national residing in Leuven. Around August 2022, H.L. took up a senior research position at BelGaN.
Before joining BelGaN H.L. had previously worked at the Belgian nonprofit research and development organization Imec (“the chip lab of the world“), where he headed its epitaxy activities – the process of placing crystalline layers of foundation on which to build semiconductor devices. Chinese publications simultaneously present him as general manager, CTO and chief scientist of Fuzhou GaGu Semiconductor. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office and most Belgian media outlets continue to identify him only by the initials H.L.
In March 2023, H.L. was presented as a director of Fuzhou GaGu Semiconductor at a conference in China, alongside Alan Zhou. His LinkedIn profile mentioned only BelGaN.
There was still no reaction from the Belgian authorities, even though all the elements of the “transfer” were plainly in place.
When one speaks of the principal suspect, what must obviously be understood is the linchpin of the totalitarian Chinese Communist regime. The West needs to be reminded, relentlessly, that there is no Chinese government, only the Chinese Communist Party. Likewise, every Chinese company is merely one of the estimated 100 million faces of the CCP, whose members make up roughly 7% of China’s population. The real “suspect” in the entire affair is, and always has been, the CCP, whose economic development model rests on one simple principle: the constant, systematic and unrelenting theft of Western intellectual property. How much of that is on us for letting them?
Financial Difficulties, Bankruptcy and Sale of Assets
In 2023, BelGaN recorded a net loss of €8.3 million on revenue of €55 million. Meanwhile, the company was unable to raise enough financing for its planned conversion from conventional silicon-chip production to GaN manufacturing, which required substantial new capital investment.
The Flemish government examined the company’s Chinese links – a review that likely contributed to the decision not to provide rescue subsidies. Put differently, when the Flemish government realized that a Flemish company had become Chinese, it stopped subsidizing it.
BelGaN was declared bankrupt on July 31, 2024, and more than 400 employees lost their jobs.
As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, BelGaN’s assets were divided into approximately 1,800 auction lots — individual machines or groups of equipment and other factory assets — and sold online by court-appointed liquidators to raise money for creditors. The auction generated approximately €23 million, with Chinese companies acquiring roughly one-third of the assets, including about €8.5 million worth of high-tech equipment. Other buyers came from Germany, the United States and elsewhere. Some of the machinery bound for China required export licenses because of potentially military or defense-related applications.
Investigation, Arrest and Charges
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Federal Judicial Police of East Flanders are now investigating the matter as part of the bankruptcy case. H.L. was arrested on May 10, 2026, at Zaventem Airport as he was preparing to board a flight to Beijing. He remains in pretrial detention at Oudenaarde Prison.
The charges against H.L. are serious: espionage, participation in a criminal organization, misuse of corporate assets, unlawful disclosure of trade secrets and bankruptcy-related offenses. The prosecutor’s office states that there are serious, precise and consistent indications of unlawful transfers abroad of specialized intellectual property and trade secrets relating to the production of GaN chips.
Alan Zhou, BelGaN’s last CEO and a Chinese national, is currently being sought by Belgian authorities. According to Belgian media, Zhou played a decisive role in transferring BelGaN’s intellectual property, technology and know-how to Fuzhou GaGu Semiconductor. This is plausible, to say the least, given that he was the CEO of BelGaN from its inception until its bankruptcy.
H.L.’s lawyer, Dimitri de Beco, denies all the allegations against his client and stresses the presumption of innocence. He argues that, even if the facts were established, they would not amount to espionage but possibly instead to the unlawful disclosure of trade secrets.
Technological and Strategic Stakes
Belgium’s State Security Service, in its “Intelligence Report 2025,” describes a Chinese strategy using “mirror companies” that it calls “copy to China”:
“Chinese firms invest in Belgian companies, research centres or spin-offs – preferably small entities developing promising technologies but facing funding challenges – to gain access to specific technologies. They then establish a ‘copy to China’ company in China to produce the same technology on a larger scale. The original parent company is subsequently sold, ideally at a profit.”
The investigation is ongoing. No conviction has been handed down to date.
Power couple surrounded by grift allegations and prosecutions
It’s reckoning time in Madrid.
Few heads of government anywhere in the world are so surrounded by corruption scandals, investigations, and prosecutions as Spain’s Pedro Sánchez.
By now, his brother, many of his top aides, his predecessor, and even his wife are all allegedly involved in wrongdoing.
Yesterday (21), it arose that the Spanish Prime Minister’s wife, Begoña Gómez, will have to stand trial on charges of influence peddling and embezzlement.
“Investigating Judge Juan Carlos Peinado on Monday ordered Gómez and Cristina Álvarez, her aide at La Moncloa, the prime minister’s office, to face trial after Madrid’s Provincial Court cleared the way in July, Spanish media reported.
The case centers on accusations that Gómez used her relationship to advance her career and co-direct a program at Madrid’s Complutense University, while also using public resources and government staff for private interests. Gómez denies wrongdoing.”
“The proceedings are the latest in a scandal-riddled year for Socialist leader Sánchez. Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero recently faced questions over a €53-million pandemic bailout, while Socialist heavyweight Santos Cerdán was investigated in a public-contract kickback probe involving former minister José Luis Ábalos. Both men deny wrongdoing.”
“Gómez must face trial because Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who oversaw the criminal investigation, found ‘reasonable indications of criminal conduct’, according to a decision filed Monday. These indications are strong enough for a jury to have to decide whether crimes were committed, Peinado said.
The scandal involving Gómez has rocked Spanish politics for more than two years, with the government and Sánchez repeatedly denying any wrongdoing and saying that the investigation is part of a broader political attack against him and his administration. The premier and his Socialist Party have been facing mounting troubles with a series of criminal probes undermining his support among voters.”
“Peinado said Gómez took advantage of her high-profile position to secure a post at a university in Madrid and then having used the post to channel public funds into a software development project.
Gómez is accused of misappropriation of public funds for having a personal assistant, paid by the government, help with tasks related to her private activities. The aide will also stand trial.”
Demographics is this force that counts heads, issues passports, fills ballot boxes, renames festivals and even changes the color of political majorities from Sweden to Germany.
The right in power in Sweden has governed well – very well, in fact.
Swedish streets, for the first time after ten years of neglect, have stopped resembling a battlefield.
The war between migrant gangs has eased.
Police recorded 158 shootings in 2025 – still many, but also the lowest figure since comparable statistics have existed (2017) and down from 296 in 2024, with 39 in the first half of 2026 against 205 in the same period of 2022.
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention counted 84 cases of lethal violence in 2025, the lowest since 2012.
Yet after four years of excellent management of the country, the governing coalition still lost its parliamentary majority.
The left-wing opposition has just won by 30,000 votes. At the time of writing, the red-green parties hold 176 seats against 173 for the right-wing bloc.
It is not yet known which government will be formed, but whatever happens the elections have already highlighted a fact that concerns everyone, as Swedish journalist Fredrik Kärrholm explains in The Spectator:
“Immigration is reshaping politics.”
In Sweden’s 2022 elections, 15 percent of those entitled to vote were born abroad. This year, 18 percent. Turnout rose in neighborhoods with a strong immigrant presence, while it fell nationally.
And in an election decided by a few tens of thousands of votes, that matters.
7 out of 10 migrants voted for one of the left-wing parties.
A Novus poll before the elections found that among Muslims, 85 percent intended to vote for the Social Democrats or the Left Party.
More than one voter in six today was born outside Sweden: 1.33 million out of 7.78 million resident citizens of voting age.
In two decades Sweden has caught up with the United States as a world leader in terms of multi-ethnic population — but with everything that entails in the Swedish case, a case of having large numbers of people from cultures less compatible with the West.
The “new Swedes” are not Mexican Catholics, but Somali Salafists.
These figures produce a country in which the ceiling of each political bloc is set as much by demographics as by politics.
In some Swedish neighborhoods with large immigrant communities the results are already striking.
In Rosengård, a large area of Malmö, the Social Democrats and the Left Party together obtained 95.2 percent of the vote! – a result that would have impressed even Saddam and Ceaușescu.
The left breaks through in Rinkeby, Stockholm’s neighborhood with the highest immigration rate, known as “Little Mogadishu” (Somalis are the majority), where 95 percent of the population comes from abroad: Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Turkey, Bosnia…
These figures give new weight to the warning issued by Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson during the last leaders’ debate broadcast by SVT: “These could be the first elections in Sweden in which the Muslim immigration we have had will determine the outcome of the parliamentary vote.”
The Social Democrats understood this in time.
In the last center-right legislature, 200,000 people obtained Swedish citizenship. The majority of those who obtained citizenship come from non-European countries.
With a 30,000-vote difference between the two camps, demographic changes of this kind decide a national vote.
The strategy was developed in 2011 by Terra Nova, a think tank close to the French Socialist Party, which published a report recommending saying “goodbye” to workers and employees in order to address a new electoral majority with the goal of conquering power. 82 pages soberly titled: “Left: which electoral majority?” To win, the left had to turn to a new urban electorate composed of “young people,” “minorities from working-class neighborhoods” and “women”: all united by “progressive values.”
With Socialist Mitterrand no more than 500,000 Muslims voted. Today 5 million vote (the Muslim population in France has reached 10 million!).
With that coalition, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left is aiming for the second round of the 2027 presidential election.
In Berlin, the extreme anti-Israel Left of Die Linke just won and the German capital will have his first Muslim mayor, the very “progressive” Elif Eralp.
On the streets of Berlin-where no Jew can safely walk if they are recognizable as such-left-wing candidates, fully embracing an anti-Israel stance, campaigned in Arabic to win votes by promising to work in Parliament against the Jewish state.
Hatred of Jews, anti-capitalism, Islamism, and contempt for freedom will be the pillars of the future Berlin woke caliphate.
Rosengård, decisive in the Swedish elections, has only a beautiful name: “the rose garden.”
This is where Zlatan Ibrahimović was born; the new police station is fortified because the old building was riddled with bullets; the main school was closed because of social tension; and the UPS delivery service refuses to operate.
A no-go zone. There are a thousand of them in Europe.
Petter Ljunggren, a journalist who wanted to test Jewish life in Sweden, put on a kippah and a Star of David before entering Rosengård. But he had to flee: he would not have come out alive.
A damning new report has raised concerns about the role of Muslim staff associations within British policing, arguing that some networks have become involved in political and policy debates that could conflict with the principle of police impartiality.
The report by Policy Exchange titled “Mixed Messages? Police Impartiality and the National Association of Muslim Police”, examines the NAMP and several force-level Muslim Police Associations.
Its authors argue that staff networks should primarily provide internal support to officers and staff, rather than publicly campaign on contentious political or operational issues.
Among the examples cited is the Metropolitan Police’s Association of Muslim Police, which invited Husam Zomlot, then the Palestinian head of mission in the UK, to address its 2024 annual general meeting.
The report also highlights the activities of Superintendent Hasson Shigdar, a senior West Midlands Police officer and vice-chair of the West Midlands Association of Muslim Police.
Policy Exchange says Shigdar, who is also head of Prevent for the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, has shared material online from organisations commenting on moral as well as legal questions, and has reposted material associated with preacher Bilal Philips.
Policy Exchange also points to NAMP’s 2026 annual general meeting, held at Greater Manchester Police premises, where speakers included a representative of the Muslim Council of Britain and Majid Iqbal, chief executive of the Islamophobia Response Unit.
Both the MCB and Iqbal had previously criticised Greater Manchester Police following the July 2024 Manchester Airport incident, during which a female officer suffered a broken nose. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz was subsequently sentenced to three and a half years in prison for assault.
Both the MCB and Iqbal had previously criticised Greater Manchester Police following the July 2024 Manchester Airport incident, during which a female officer suffered a broken nose. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz was subsequently sentenced to three and a half years in prison for assault.
If networks remain, it proposes strict governance requirements, including limiting their activities to internal support, ending public funding and police-duty time for network activities, and requiring publication of constitutions, accounts, minutes and other information.
Former Equality and Human Rights Commission chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner said staff networks should not stray into contested ideological, religious or political territory.
Meanwhile, former Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism chief Peter Clarke said the report raised important questions about the networks’ influence on policing policy.
Policy Exchange’s authors say the issue extends beyond Muslim staff associations, noting that previous research identified more than 200 police staff networks covering a wide range of demographics.
The report concludes that stronger controls are needed to ensure that staff networks do not create the impression that political campaigning or policy advocacy represents the official position of the police.
NAMP was also under fire in June for labelling Israel a “Zionist terror group”, to which Assistant Chief Constable Jon McAdam of the National Police Chiefs’ Council said: “Some of the views expressed are deeply concerning and do not reflect the values, standards or operational position of British policing.
“We recognise the shock this has caused and are supporting the appropriate formal processes for complaints about its content.
“The NPCC remains committed to tackling antisemitic hate crime, supporting victims and working with trusted community partners, including the Community Security Trust, to protect the safety and confidence of Jewish communities.
“Policing exists to protect all communities. We will continue to uphold that duty with fairness, integrity and respect.”
Assistant Chief Constable Jon McAdam, the NPCC lead for staff support networks, said: “The National Police Chiefs’ Council is clear that policing must be, and be seen to be, impartial, with decisions based on law, evidence, risk and harm rather than the views of any individual, organisation or staff network.
“The role of national staff support networks is to support members of the police workforce and provide valuable insight and challenge, but they do not determine operational policing decisions or policy.
“Policing has already recognised the need for greater consistency in the governance and oversight of national staff networks, which is why we have been consulting on operating principles to govern their activities.
“Those proposals are intended to provide clearer structures and safeguards, not weaken impartiality requirements, and reflect wider recommendations made by HMICFRS regarding consistency and public confidence.
“More broadly, the NPCC is undertaking work to strengthen the relationship between inclusion, fairness and impartiality, recognising that public confidence depends both on listening to staff and communities while maintaining clear operational independence.”
Thousands of Ceuta residents marched towards the city’s border with Morocco on Sunday, demanding stronger frontier enforcement measures and the expulsion of all remaining illegal invaders.
Ceuta, whose residents are still suffering through the consequences of the massive late July migrant invasion, was the center of the mass gathering.
The local Federation of Neighborhood Associations rallied its members and other residents under the slogan, “S.O.S. Ceuta Invaded,” to march towards the Tarajal border crossing, which connects the Spanish exclave with Morocco and where the main events of the invasion took place nearly two months ago.
Local outlets report that, at the same time, over a hundred members of a Ceuta bikers association also staged a protest, riding together through the city’s streets before gathering at the Juan Carlos I esplanade, located about 1.8 miles away from the border crossing with Morocco.
El Faro de Ceutareports that the bikers’ protest eventually merged with the neighborhood association’s. The joint group marched on foot towards Tarajal, espousing chants against Morocco, referring to the country as a “scoundrel,” and emphasizing that Ceuta belongs to the Caballas, as Ceuta’s inhabitants like to call themselves, reiterating that Ceuta also belongs to Spain.
The group also called upon the European Union to stand with Ceuta, exclaiming, “Europe, listen, Ceuta is your fight.”
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El Pueblo de Ceuta detailed that a representative of the Federation of Neighborhood Associations intended to read a manifesto once the protest arrived at the border crossing — but the person tasked with reading the document was not able to arrive on time due to circumstances unrelated to the event.
Instead, the association shared its text with local outlets. El Pueblo, summarizing the manifesto, explained that the group once again condemned the migrant invasion of the city and the “systematic violation of our borders, which have been colonized by the inaction of others.” The group expressed the fears and concerns of Ceuta’s residents, who feel “abandoned” by the Spanish central government — stressing that their safety and social peace was altered by the invasion.
Speaking on behalf of the people of Ceuta, the neighborhood associations are demanding the immediate reinforcement of the city’s border security, with the permanent and “uncompromising” deployment of all required security forces to ensure absolute Spanish control of the frontier.
Secondly, the group demands the immediate deportation of all invading migrants that still remain in the city nearly two months after the invasion.
Additionally, the protesters demand increased security measures for Ceuta’s streets, insisting that the city is not a “camp,” but their home instead. Lastly, the group demands the immediate cessation of all mass amnesty and regularization processes in Spain, ending policies that can constitute a “call effect” for additional illegal migrants.
“Ceuta has shown extraordinary resilience and composure in the face of this outrage, but the patience of its citizens has its limits. We will not tolerate the normalization of this assault on our sovereignty. We demand security, we demand respect, and we demand that words of institutional support be translated into decisive action to protect our land,” the manifesto reportedly read.
Călin Georgescu, the independent who won the first round of Romania’s 2024 presidential election before the vote was annulled, was stopped in traffic before 7am on Monday near a swimming pool in Otopeni and taken to his house in Mogoșoaia while prosecutors searched it.
Officers of the organised-crime and terrorism directorate (DIICOT) and the national police executed five home-search warrants in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani and Buftea.
Masked officers were filmed at the property. According to news outlet Gandul, €5,000 was found in his house.
Georgescu was then driven to DIICOT headquarters for questioning.
Supporters gathered outside and gendarmes put up barriers.
One man with a telescopic baton was led away. By late morning the agency had not announced a formal arrest or a preventive measure.
The pro-Russian Călin Georgescu, the Kremlin’s Manchurian candidate in Romania’s 2024 presidential election, was taken into custody this morning. He is accused of fraud and of forming an organized criminal group that received more than €1 million from various Russian citizens. pic.twitter.com/72fO5S7o76
The file is fraud with particularly serious consequences, in continued form, and forming an organised criminal group.
DIICOT says that in September 2021 two Romanians, aged 64 and 47, and an Italian aged 56 set up a group, led by the 64-year-old Romanian, which operated in Romania and Britain.
They posed as foreign financiers in Romania and Great Britain, and promised large bank loans in return for cash guarantees.
“Thus, according to the roles assumed, the perpetrators acted by misleading and deceiving some Romanian businessmen regarding the possibility of accessing financing from banking financial institutions abroad, the members of the organised crime group having as their objective to obtain the monetary guarantees deposited by the injured persons for accessing the respective loans,” DIICOT claimed.
Businessman Răzvan Leu says he transferred more than €1.1 million as a guarantee for a Swiss credit that never arrived.
Judicial sources name Georgescu as one of the three, with businessman Ionel Rusen, who raised money for the 2024 campaign, and Italian Massimiliano Arena.
Some reports also name Georgescu’s wife, Cristela.
Money from this set up reportedly went to Georgescu’s Presidential campaign
The complaint to DIICOT dates from 2024.
This is Georgescu’s third live criminal file.
One, with former mercenary Horațiu Potra and about 20 others, concerns alleged acts against the constitutional order. On September 9, the Bucharest Court of Appeal held a first hearing. Georgescu did not attend, and the next date is 28 September.
The 2024 presidential first round, which he won on an anti-NATO, anti-aid platform, was cancelled by the constitutional court after the intelligence services alleged a Russian-backed online campaign.
The underlying evidence was never laid out in public in a form that settled the argument.
Georgescu remained popular among voters who treated the annulment as a stitch-up.
Many on the sovereigntist right called Monday’s dawn operation political.
George Simion, whose party absorbed much of that electorate, issued a statement on the searches.
“Any of us could be next. Stop the abuses! Romania is a dictatorship!!!!”, he wrote on Facebook.
COMMENT: Irrespective of what “case” prosecutors bring against Mr Georgescu, there is virtually no way to disguise this as anything other than politically motivated intimidation of a presidential candidate to exclude him from the race, writes @GElefteriu. https://t.co/4SFnqyMaQg
Ibrahim Ibrahim, Ferat Koçak, and Issa Remmo celebrate the Muslim conquest of Berlin- Screengrab X
In local Berlin elections on Sunday, the former East German Communist Party “The Left” came out as the strongest party at 25%. At their victory party, they quickly revealed how they are being supported by the Lebanese Remmo criminal clan, and by Palestinian terror organizations.
As the RINO government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz continues its downfall, voters fled to the left and right wings, with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party coming in first in the Baltic state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Gateway reported). Even in the leftist capital Berlin, the AfD also managed to increase its vote to 16%.
However, as voters deserted the legacy parties like Merz’s Christian Democrats, primarily young females made The Left the strongest party in Berlin with promises to defund the police and expropriate real estate corporations. They will now try to form a government with other left-wing parties.
At the Left’s victory party, they soon dropped all compunctions, inviting the head of Berlin’s infamous Lebanese Remmo clan, Issa Remmo, and Ibrahim Ibrahim, head of the United Palestinian National Committee, considered a front organization for terror organizations Hamas and the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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The picture shows Linke’s Turkish Bundestag member Ferat Koçak with the Palestinian Hamas-supporter Ibrahim Ibrahim at Linke’s election night party in the… pic.twitter.com/bPNrjvIYsk
The Left party initially denied that they had been invited and said Issa Remmo had been asked to leave.
“He was not invited and was sent away again,” said mayoral candidate Elif Eralp on ZDF. “We have nothing to do with the mob – we combat it.”
Then Issa Remmo’s son Firas posted a chat he had with far-left pro-Palestinian terror supporter Ferat Koçak, one of the most radical members of The Left and a member of the Bundestag, proving the mobsters presence at the Left’s election party was no fluke: “Greetings and props to your father. When are you in your office so I can come by?”
The thread also showed Koçak asking the mobster’s son to share one of his political speeches criticizing the “Hysterical debate” about criminal Arab clans. “Please ask all your people to share”, Koçak wrote. “Sure, Bro”, Firas Remmo replied.
“We are part of something truly great”, Firas Remmo commented under his post. “We stand together, we stick together, and we fight together for our goals. We are winners. We are doers. We are a team. And together we will accomplish things that would never be possible alone.”
So it looks like the Lebanese mob and Hamas may be running Berlin soon. If they don’t already.
Videos from the election party showed a mostly migrant crowd doing Mideastern victory dances and ululating like Comanches.
