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A failed legal battle to stop asylum seekers being housed at The Bell Hotel in Epping has cost the council £566,000, it has been revealed.

The Conservative-led Epping Forest District Council lost its court battle in November, though last week announced it would challenge the High Court ruling that had rejected its attempt.

During the original case last year, Mr Justice Mould dismissed the claim, saying in a judgment that it is “not a case in which it is just and convenient for this court to grant an injunction”.

By February 2026, costs and legal fees had reached a whopping £566,000. The figure represents more than 2.5 per cent of the council’s 2026/27 financial year budget, the BBC reports.

Somani Hotels Ltd, which owns the establishment, was accused by the council’s lawyers of breaching planning laws by housing asylum seekers.

But as part of the monstrous legal bill, Somani Hotels Ltd was awarded £95,000.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood also received £66,000.

An Epping Forest District Council spokeswoman said it was “completely unfair” to award the funds to the Home Secretary, given that it was her policies “that led to the appalling incidents,” she said.

“[Legal action] was not taken against the Home Office, despite their wholly unsuitable use of the hotel for asylum seeker accommodation.

“This was demonstrated by a number of serious offences committed by its occupants last year.”

The facility became the centre of multiple heated and intense protests in 2025, after Ethiopian migrant Hadush Kebatu sexually assaulted a woman and a 14-year-old schoolgirl mere days after being housed there.

Kebatu was found guilty on two counts of sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, inciting a child into sexual activity, and harassment without violence and sentenced to 12 months behind bars. He was ultimately deported back to Ethiopia.

Another small boat migrant, Mohammed Sharwarq, was jailed for 16 weeks after assaulting a cleaner, a head chef and two residents at the same hotel.

On Thursday, the council continued to grow the enormous bill by challenging the decision. At the Court of Appeal hearing in London, their legal team argued there was a “compelling reason” to allow the challenge of the hotel’s use to proceed.

The spokeswoman said the council is continuing to contest this decision “in the interests of local residents” of Epping.

William Yarwood, media campaign manager at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, told GB News: “Taxpayers will be furious that more than half a million pounds has been burned in a legal battle that should never have been necessary in the first place.

“As long as illegal migrants are allowed to remain in the country rather than being detained and deported swiftly, councils will keep being dragged into costly disputes like this.

“The only way to stop these spiralling bills is to enforce the law, remove those here illegally and end the need for hotel accommodation altogether.”

Jon Whitehouse, leader of the council’s Liberal Democrat group, believes the Tory council had been “reckless” in its spending, accusing it of throwing money at the courts rather than “going through the normal planning enforcement process”.

“This legal action has dragged on for months, cost hard-pressed local residents a fortune, and we still have no clear outcome,” he said.

“Even if successful, the taxpayer will be landed with an enormous bill.”

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Tuesday, lunchtime, aboard the bus from Cremona to Spinadesco: a holiday for some, the third day of fasting in Ramadan for Muslims. However, the atmosphere becomes tense when a fight breaks out between three young girls at the back of the bus. The reason? A sandwich. Nothing unusual, except that two of them, minors and Muslims, ask the third to stop eating: ‘We don’t eat, it’s Ramadan.’ The young woman refused to obey, and amid insults and heated arguments, the situation escalated. Words turned into physical violence. A blow was struck, the passengers became agitated and the driver intervened.

The 52-year-old bus driver knows the route well, but not the cause of the incident. He parked the bus, opened the doors and asked the three people to get off. But that’s not the end of the story. The two Muslim women didn’t like being disturbed and attacked him violently. They scratched him, broke his glasses, mocked him and then fled. ‘It all started at 1:20 p.m.,’ says the driver, “when these three started arguing in the back of the bus. I opened the doors and called the police. I asked them to get off, but it was as if I didn’t exist: they kept shouting and pushing each other, all because of this sandwich. This was followed by the assault, which left him with physical and other lasting effects. Visibly exhausted, the man finished his shift, but back at the depot, he decided to seek treatment at the hospital and file a complaint.

The driver is blunt: ‘It’s always the same people, minors and nationals from non-EU countries.’ The emergency report is clear: ‘Post-traumatic facial pain, five-day prognosis and two days’ sick leave.’ This incident is yet another part of the broader debate on integration and cultural friction, which is creating increasing tension.

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The High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) on Monday ordered the city’s authorities to “immediately” begin creating a registry of conscientious objectors to abortions, following a years-long refusal by Madrid’s local government to comply with its creation.

In 2023, Spanish leftist lawmakers introduced a series of reforms to the nation’s existing abortion law that, among several other equally questionable changes, called upon the mandatory creation of a registry of healthcare professionals who exercise conscientious objection to performing abortions.

Several local governments of the nation’s autonomous communities (states) refused to comply with the registry in the following years — which prompted socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to formally demand that Madrid and other communities comply with the registry in October 2025.

Weeks later, in November 2025, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, President of the Community of Madrid reiterated Madrid’s refusal to create a “list of doctors” in Madrid who refuse to perform abortions, stressing, “I’m not going to make a list of doctors. Never. Never,” and reportedly proclaiming, “go abort somewhere else.”

“I will not force a doctor in the Community of Madrid to act against their conscience and freedom. I will never blacklist doctors,”  Díaz Ayuso reportedly said in October.

At press time, Madrid remains as the sole region in Spain that has not complied with the registry according to the outlet El Español after Aragón, Asturias, and Baleares complied with Sánchez’s October request. The Spanish Health Ministry brought the matter of Madrid’s refusal to courts.

Local outlets reported that TSJM, Madrid’s highest court, issued an injunction in favor of the Ministry on Monday, ordering the Madrid government to “immediately begin” the administrative process towards creating the local registry of conscientious objectors to abortions.
The court specified that, although the ruling does not entail the immediate creation of the registry, it imposes the obligation to initiate the necessary administrative procedures for its preparation and approval.

“The obligations — legal and agreed upon — that have not been fulfilled to date by the defendant Administration are clear, precise, and specific,” the court order reportedly read.
Madrid government sources reportedly affirmed to El Español that the court’s order “does not change anything,” asserting that the court only “accepts the injunction” and but “has not yet entered into the merits of the case.” The source claimed that the Madrid government will appeal the court’s injunction.

“The Community of Madrid is already complying with the guarantee of the right to conscientious objection for doctors and with the provision of voluntary termination of pregnancy services,” the sources reportedly said.
“Legal victory for abortion rights,” Spanish Health Minister Mónica García celebrated through social media.
“The courts rule in favor of the Ministry of Health and compel Ayuso to guarantee abortion in the public health system,” she continued. “It was the only region that refused, referring 99 percent of cases to the private sector. That’s over now.”

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The Jews see themselves as the ‘chosen people’. They speak of the ‘promised land’. The next country Israel wants to invade is Turkey. Israel is a country that ‘invades other countries, mistreats and kills locals’. Israel has ‘the largest reservoir of donor organs’ and ‘breeds’ ‘baby-eating agents who kidnap children worldwide’.
What sounds like anti-Semitic conspiracy ideology from neo-Nazis or Islamist fanatics comes from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), more specifically from its Mannheim branch. The author is local politician Melek Hirvali Cizer in a Facebook post. Until this weekend, Cizer was a member of the executive committee of the Mannheim-Feudenheim local branch of the SPD, is active in the Working Group of Social Democratic Women and is a member of the district advisory board in Feudenheim.

She wrote her post last Friday – and a second one with the same agenda and no less crude. ‘What is Israel?’ she asks, continuing: ‘Europe owes these attacks’ – meaning the Israeli-American military strike against the mullah regime in Iran – ‘the mass influx of refugees who are being deliberately manoeuvred into the EU.’

And further, somewhat confused: ‘How long do they think this will work? Since when do paedophiles and baby eaters care about the good of others? Spain is probably not in the Epstein files and will not be blackmailed!’ Here, Cizer repeats her insinuation about ‘baby-eating’ Jews. At the end, she refers to the Spanish protest against the US and Israel and obviously insinuates that Spain cannot be blackmailed because it does not appear in the files on the Jeffrey Epstein abuse complex.
One of the two posts is no longer available in its original form, while the other has been heavily abridged. Cizer received mostly harsh criticism for the posts. One comment said, ‘You have no idea about reality, you spout utter nonsense and everything you say represents the depths of the Middle Ages.’ Cizer replied: ‘What is happening now is worse than in the Middle Ages. … Mullah in Iran is being fought as the evil devil and the next one is supposed to be Erdo.’
The SPD tried to smooth things over this weekend. When asked by the newspaper WELT, the federal executive committee referred to the Baden-Württemberg regional association and did not answer any questions. The Baden-Württemberg regional association referred to the Mannheim district association and also did not comment on the matter. The chairman of the Mannheim district association, Stefan Fulst-Blei, a member of the state parliament, then spoke on its behalf.

Cizer’s posts were ‘beyond the pale’ and ‘completely unacceptable’. They had nothing to do with legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Her Facebook posts had spread throughout the SPD over the weekend and caused outrage, according to Fulst-Blei. He had spoken to her himself and had been ‘very clear’ about his position. Cizer had realised that her comments were unacceptable and had resigned from all her offices and positions. She had informed the mayor of Mannheim of her resignation from the Feudenberg district advisory board by email.

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From March 2 to 5, major U.K. adoption agencies sponsored “LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week,” spearheaded by the LGBT group “New Family Social.” The chosen theme was “Now is the time.”

“Coram, one of the early pioneers of LGBTQ+ adoption, welcomes enquiries from anyone in the [so-called] LGBTQ+ community who is thinking about adoption, and encourages them to make an enquiry or come along to one of our free adoption information sessions,” the U.K. adoption and fostering organization announced on its website.

“The number of children waiting to be adopted has increased by 45% in England over the past three years,” Coram stated. “Over 3,000 children in England are currently waiting to be matched with an adoptive family, with 1,500 of these children waiting for 18 months or more. In 2025, one in five adoptions in England were to same-gender couples.”

To introduce the idea of “alternative families” to children, Coram offers a number of children’s books, including Dad David, Baba Chris and ME, Is It True You Have Two Mums?, and Josh and Jaz Have Three Mums.

Diagrama Foundation, a not-for-profit fostering and adoption organization, also urged people to “celebrate diverse families and encourage more same-sex couples to explore fostering and adoption.” Kate Patel, head of adoption and fostering, stated: “Approximately 20%, that’s 1 in 5 of all adoptions in England are by same-sex couples.”

“At Diagrama, we welcome applications from same-sex couples and want to reassure them that love, commitment, and stability are what matter most to children in need of a home. There are no barriers to forming a family because you are in a same sex relationship.”

Several other adoption organizations promoted the initiative as well, including Adopt Coast to Coast, Buckinghamshire Adoption Service, One Adoption North and Humber, Adoption Matters, and others.

Since 2010, it has been illegal to “discriminate” against homosexuals with regard to adoption – that is, to prioritize homes with both a mother and a father – and U.K. adoption agencies actively promote the placement of children in “alternative families.” In fact, the Metro UK published a column by Daniel Wood last December titled “I thought adoption was impossible as a single, gay man – I was wrong.”

“From the very first call, Adoption Matters never questioned my suitability to adopt based on my being single, male, and gay,” Wood wrote. “Their team offered a safe and caring space to talk openly, and I found the whole process overwhelmingly supportive.” Wood adopted a little boy named Freddie.

The promotion of homosexual adoption in the U.K. comes despite the utterly horrifying case last year of two “married” homosexual British men brutally abusing and killing a one-year-old baby who they were in the process of adopting. Similar cases have tragically been reported in recent years.

It was once taken for granted that children need both mothers and fathers. With the cultural success of the LGBT movement, this basic fact has been aggressively rejected – to the grave detriment of children. Millions of dollars are now spent on rebutting the idea that being motherless or fatherless is a tragedy, and even single homosexual men are permitted to acquire children, with the bold assertion being that the children in question will lose nothing by not having a mother.

Katy Faust, the founder of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us, launched the “Greater Than” campaign earlier this year to reestablish these basic facts, marshaling a “coalition of parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens who are willing to state the self-evident but costly truth: children need, deserve, and have a right to their mother and father.”

“Children need, deserve, and have a right to both. Adoption and foster care are for children,” Faust noted on the “Greater Than” website. “They are the clients, not adults. Whenever possible children should be placed with a married mother and father, so they can receive the benefits that come from a male and female parent.”

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Downing Street plays down the possibility of the government deploying one of Britain’s two aircraft carriers to assist the defence of allies and British citizens in the Middle East, over a week after military strikes against Iran began.

Ten days into Operation Epic Fury and the United Kingdom still hasn’t deployed a warship to the Middle East, with air warfare destroyer HMS Dragon still days away from even leaving Britain, and the government now rubbishing the notion of sending an aircraft carrier.

While Downing Street spokesmen were happy to encourage speculation over the weekend on a potential deployment of HMS Prince of Wales — one of Britain’s large, modern supercarrier-size ships — they have now spun on their heels over the matter, deflecting away from the idea. The Portsmouth Evening News, which covers the home of the Royal Navy at the Portsmouth Naval Base, states Downing Street gave clear signals it wasn’t to happen.

The spokesman is reported to have said the decision to move the carrier up from 14 days readiness to sail to five on Saturday was not “linked to the Iranian activity”, and that “there is no decision taken to deploy her”.

More broadly, they claimed the government’s recent deployments to the Middle East had been “significant”: something that would come as a surprise to Britain’s allies in the region which have expressed alarm and dismay at Britain’s failure to deliver on the security they feel they are owed.

The UK has two carriers, the largest ships the Royal Navy has ever operated and some of the largest warships in world history. The first in class, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is now at the tail-end of a scheduled seven month refit in Scotland and may leave dry dock as soon as this month, but is unlikely to be ready to deploy for months after as it works up again after being out of the water since last summer.

Her sister ship, HMS Prince of Wales, has recently returned from an eight month deployment to the Indo-Pacific. While she remains the on-duty carrier, the stresses of the deployment has seen her alongside in Portsmouth for basic maintenance tasks before going to sea again. Parts of Prince of Wales’ flight deck were covered by large marquees and scaffolding in recent weeks but were in the process of being struck down over the weekend in the wake of the ship being put on heightened alert.

British state media the BBC reports that at this stage, according to their government sources, that Prince of Wales is actually to join a forthcoming NATO exercise in the Arctic.

That the Iran strikes came as the UK’s available carrier was being spruced up and re-provisioned at the end of a major deployment was “particularly inconvenient”, retired Royal Navy Commodore Steve Prest told armed forces news network BFBS, while observing there’s so much “hazard and tension” in the world, such an eventuality could have been foreseen.

Cdre. Prest observed the Royal Navy had lost around 1,500 trained sailors in the last year, enough to man ten frigates, and the United Kingdom is in a position where “even if we did have the hulls available, we probably don’t have the sailors to crew them”.

Indeed, even if the left-wing Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer now decided to send an aircraft carrier to the Middle East or eastern Mediterranean, such capital ships are extremely vulnerable without their attendant screen of escorts, and evidently the UK is presently struggling to generate those, too.

After decades of savage cuts to the military, as the government persistently found other priorities to for taxpayers’ money — health and welfare account for a third of the whole national budget — the Royal Navy has a skeleton force of destroyers and frigates. Indeed, of the just six destroyers in commission, not one was available to immediately deploy, and the supposed date of departure for Type-45 air warfare destroyer HMS Dragon continues to slip back.

Various reasons have been proposed for this delay, and the Armed Forces Minister Al Carns has even claimed, incredibly given air defence is the ship’s primary purpose, that the “vessel was being fitted out for a different task. We’ve now completely re-rolled it”, and this was taking time. Dragon spent days at the Portsmouth Upper Harbour Ammunition Facility last week — an isolated artificial island away from Portsmouth city and the dockyard, where the dangerous task of provisioning a ship can happen in comparative safety — and is reportedly back there today.

The Portsmouth Evening News notes no sailing is likely for days, meaning it is unlikely the Royal Navy will have an air warfare ship close to Britain’s allies in need of assistance defending themselves from Iranian drones for over two weeks after the conflict began. In 1982, the Royal Navy was able to pull together an armada of over 100 ships at short notice to retake the Falkland Islands from an Argentinian invasion.

The British newspaper of record The Times reported last week on the sense of outrage among Britain’s allies, who in some cases the UK has arrangements to maintain military bases on their land in return for an understanding over collaborative defence, and in others where large numbers of British expatriates live. There are two British bases on the island of Cyprus, although they are sovereign British territory, rather than being inside the political entity of the nation of Cyprus, and has military bases in Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.

The paper cites a source in the UAE who is stated to have reflected: “There was a feeling that the prime minister had to be dragged there… It obviously reflects badly in the eyes of the Gulf Cooperation Council.”

U.S. President Donald Trump has been most excoriating of all, calling Britain a “once great ally” and reflecting it’s now too late to send ships. President Trumps said: “we don’t need them any longer… We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”.

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The organisation of Women’s Day in Paris on Sunday, March 8th, gave rise to an intense political battle between the various movements responsible for championing women’s causes. On the Left, there has long been a refusal to name the real enemies of women; on the Right, attacks are multiplying against those who try to embody another struggle and face hostility from the authorities and violence in the streets.

A parade of various feminist groups is traditionally organised in the streets of Paris on Women’s Day. This year, the right-wing feminist group Collectif Némésis was not given permission to march with the main procession but had to arrange for its own parallel procession after pressure from other organisations.

This is a direct consequence of the assassination of nationalist activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon on February 12th. ‘Anti-fascists’ beat the young man to death while he was protecting members of the Némésis group during a protest against a pro-Palestinian MEP’s visit to a conference at the city’s Institute of Political Science. Since Quentin’s murder, the media and political Left have been pouring all their energy into placing the entire blame for the young man’s death on the shoulders of Collectif Némésis, accused of instigating the rise in street violence, while the small group La Jeune Garde, to which all the suspects involved in Quentin’s death belong, is at the same time benefiting from the authorities’ culpable complacency: a clear process of reversal of guilt.

Ahead of the day of the demonstration, the magazine Valeurs Actuelles obtained a document signed by the minister of the interior, Laurent Nuñez, explicitly expressing his support for left-wing feminist organisations, such as the CGT union and Planned Parenthood, in order to grant their request to ban the right-wing group from the Paris demonstration. In this letter, the minister also seems to raise the possibility of dissolving Collectif Némésis, as requested by the Left a few days earlier in a session of the National Assembly.

The minister explicitly requested that, in the event that a gathering organised by Némésis did take place, it be geographically separated from the main procession, effectively segregating them.

Valeurs Actuelles also obtained another document, this time addressed to prefects—local representatives of the state—asking them to check whether activists from Némésis planned to take part in Women’s Day marches and, if necessary, to ban them: “You will take all necessary measures, including, if necessary, a ban, to prevent this participation,” reads the ‘operational message’ from the ministry.

Collectif Némésis denounces the irresponsibility of the authorities in the face of the constant threats to which its members are subjected. The group’s founder Alice Cordier was threatened with a bullet to the head by Raphaël Arnault, founder of La Jeune Garde. The movement’s spokeswoman, Yona Faedda, had her address and those of her family members posted online but was denied police protection. “This decision gives the impression that it is the victims who are being punished, as is sometimes the case in harassment cases, where the preference is to remove the victims rather than address the underlying problem,” warns Amaury Bucco, a specialist in justice and police issues for Valeurs Actuelles.

Despite this pressure from high places, the Némésis group was able to organise its own demonstration, with an autonomous procession under police protection. Their supporters were there to honour the memory of the many female victims who have made headlines in recent years, having been killed by illegal immigrant attackers, such as 12-year-old Lola or 19-year-old Catholic student Philippine. “Our actions consist of displaying banners, as left-wing associations do,” Alice Cordier reminded the press. “They want to dissolve an association of victims, which denounces violence against women, which represents raped women?” she said indignantly. Cordier explained that she is fighting to ensure that French girls do not suffer the same fate as British girls who were subjected to grooming gangs across the Channel.

European MP Marion Maréchal, president of the Identité-Libertés movement, came to show her support for the Némésis movement, as did Rassemblement National (RN) MP Anne Sicard. “You are courageous; you are fighting for all women who have no voice, for all the forgotten victims, all those whose attackers are silenced so as not to contradict the supposed ‘living together,’” Maréchal said. Thierry Mariani, the RN candidate for mayor of Paris, was also present.

« Merci @CordierAlice2, merci au @Coll_Nemesis.
Vous êtes courageuses, vous vous battez pour toutes les femmes qui n’ont pas de voix, pour toutes les victimes oubliées, toutes celles dont on veut taire l’agresseur pour ne pas contredire le prétendu "vivre-ensemble". »#8mars pic.twitter.com/Gzpv4lcz2r

— Marion Maréchal (@MarionMarechal) March 8, 2026

While the women of Némésis saw their right to protest challenged, left-wing feminists marched, carefully selecting their battles. Ahead of Women’s Day, a demonstration in Nancy saw pro-Palestinian ‘feminist’ activists clash with Iranian demonstrators celebrating the Israeli-American offensive against the mullahs’ regime, requiring police intervention.

In the name of a convergence of struggles driven by antisemitism, hatred of the West, and subservience to Islam, calls from “feminists” supporting the Iranian regime could be read on X: “As feminists, we demand the defeat of Israel and the United States, and the withdrawal of imperialist troops from the Middle East!” posted Louise, an activist with Du Pain et des Roses (Bread and Roses), “a collective that fights for the emancipation of all from an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and revolutionary perspective,” on Sunday, March 8th. The slogan “Jews, rapists, murderers” was heard in the official march in Paris on the same day. Several Iranian women’s associations were also troubled by the silence of official feminists regarding the persecution of women by the Khamenei regime.

The essayist Naima M’Faddel, a Franco-Moroccan essayist who is active in the right-wing Les Républicains party and defends a conservative stance on immigration, had these bitter words to say about this lamentable drift: 

There is complete disdain for those who do not fit the category of the “good victim,” the one who would reinforce the overarching narrative of systemic Western patriarchy. …This is how a cause that should unite all women, without hierarchy or ideological sorting, withers away. A cause that does not discriminate among its victims.

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New Culture Forum journalist Ellie Hodges reports on the little-known story of Rachel Reeves’ friendship with an Islamic extremist.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has sharply criticized judicial decisions blocking the detention of migrants transferred to Albania, citing the case of a Moroccan rapist with a long criminal record whom authorities say they cannot detain or deport after he applied for international protection.

Speaking to RTL 102.5, Meloni said some court rulings preventing the continued detention of migrants transferred to Italian processing centers in Albania were “surreal” and undermined public safety.

“I also wonder where the feminists are in the face of these events,” Meloni said during the interview, referring to the case of one of the migrants, Moroccan national Fathallah Ouardi, who had been transferred to Albania but was later returned to Italy after judges refused to validate his detention.

Meloni said the man had a lengthy criminal record. “The record of one of these migrants includes convictions for drug dealing, resisting a public official, conspiracy to commit sexual assault, and gang rape,” she said, as cited by Secolo d’Italia.

According to the prime minister, the court rejected the detention order after the migrant applied for international protection.

“This is someone who entered Italy illegally, started dealing drugs, and gang-raped a woman — we can’t detain him, we can’t send him to Albania, we can’t repatriate him, and we’re almost forced to grant him international protection,” she said, adding that such decisions raise serious questions about the protection of victims and public confidence in the justice system.

“How can we guarantee the safety of citizens like this?” she asked. “These decisions are surreal; they affect not the government’s work but citizens’ rights, first and foremost, the right to safety.”

“What trust can a woman who has been gang-raped have in the system if her rapist can’t even be deported?” she added. “I also wonder where the feminists of ‘Non una di meno’ are on these issues.”

The Italian leader also defended her government’s migration policies, including the controversial use of offshore migrant processing centers in Albania.

“I am determined to do what the citizens have asked me to do: a tough policy on irregular immigration, including with new tools like the centers in Albania,” Meloni said. “Even though some are trying everything they can to prevent it, I am determined on this and am willing to work three times, four times, ten times harder if necessary.”

Remix News provided reporting this week on another Moroccan national accused of raping a 26-year-old woman in Bottanuco in what was a sustained attack over the course of an evening. The suspect was born in 1987 and has accumulated a series of criminal charges and convictions in Italy over more than a decade.

Authorities say he was investigated for drug trafficking between 2014 and 2015 and charged with illegal immigration in 2015. Records also list illegal entry and residence in Trentino in 2016 and theft in 2017.

Court documents further list convictions including resisting a public official and drug trafficking in 2014, as well as participation in sexual assault and gang sexual assault in 2018. A further drug trafficking conviction was recorded in 2025.

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On the surface, it would seem that Europe’s establishmentarians are finally waking up. At the lead is Denmark, which has always been one of the few Social Democrat-run countries to understand the politics around migration. Ahead of their national elections, the country has announced a startling new initiative: Making it easy to deport people.

Or at least, that’s what the headlines said. The reality is much dicier: Copenhagen has decided to make it so anyone who has been sentenced to at least one year in prison eligible for deportation. The new policy does not mean that they will actually be deported, and the Danish government has acknowledged that their new policy may violate European human rights conventions, meaning it may never even get off the ground.

But Denmark’s strategy of keeping new migrants out and putting the façade of deportation on those who are here is, slowly, being co-opted across Europe. The United Kingdom send a fact-finding team to Copenhagen in order to copy their policies. The result? Refugees will have their status reviewed every 30 months, being returned if it is “safe”. Of course, that only will happen if a) the person is still legally a refugee and has not obtained some other status, such as a student visa, b) if their country is deemed “safe,” something any intelligent bureaucrat can get around, and c) if it does not violate a European rights convention.

Belgium’s government, for their part, has even said it would ignore a court ruling which claimed it was illegal to reject refugees who had already been accepted by other counties. But it seems to be only a matter of time before Belgium buckles here, too.

Courts have not only been a problem in Belgium. In Sweden, a court ruled that a 15-year-old who murdered someone for pay could not be deported. Why? Because he had no connection to Somalia, having come from there when he was three. Unlike Belgium, the Swedish government was too cowardly to ignore the ruling.

Still though, European leaders are by and large coming around to the idea that borders should not be completely open. Over ten years after Angela Merkel declared “We can do it,” Brussels is finally figuring out that they actually cannot. This year, the new “Pact on Migration” will go into effect, changing how new migrants are spread around the continent and allowing deportation to “safe” third-party countries.

But the solution proposed is not solving a current day problem – it’s solving a problem from over a decade hence. 

Even ten years ago, closing the borders would not have been enough. In 2015, over 1 million migrants came to Europe by sea alone – meaning in 2016 closing the borders would have been a half-measure. In the decades since, that number has exploded into millions of refugees, asylum seekers, “students,” “workers,” and families of the aforementioned groups.

Spreading new migrants around and allowing sporadic deportations to third countries is a 2015 solution in 2026, and it underlines a serious issue: That Europe’s solutions will not be enough.

Look at the slow pace of deportations in 2026. When Germany deports a single criminal Syrian, it garners headlines. When they deport 20 Afghans to Kabul, it seems as if they have actually done something. Which they have not, of course. There are at least 461,000 Afghan refugees in Germany. Deporting 20 per week would take Germany about 443 years, assuming that the population remains static (it won’t, given their high birth rates).

To actually solve the problem, truly mass deportations – even re-migration — must occur. Europe will need a level of harsh severity it has not had for a very long time.

To start, anyone convicted of a crime should be automatically deported. There should be no year cut-off, nor should there be an appeal. There should be jailtime and then a one-way ticket to the airport (unlike in Spain, where you simply are fined for raping children). To ensure that this swiftness can occur, any populist-right party which takes power should immediately act to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. No action has been taken because of its nomenclature – how could one leave? Don’t you see the sign? It says “human rights”! – and as a result, the ECHR has become something of a supranational constitution, overriding member states’ constitutions as it pleases. Appeals and endless delays turn what should be mind-numbingly simple processes into decades-long sagas; one simple deportation is extended into something which is ultimately never carried out.

There then needs to be a discussion of denaturalisation. The Trump administration has been expanding its efforts here, but as the topic is relatively new, it is still piecemeal. Europeans should not shrink from this. Deportation of only a few sex criminals and murderers will do nothing to stop the cultural replacement which has been ongoing (in Spain – again – schools have been instructed to take special care to create an inclusive experience for students practicing Ramadan).

The populist-right has continued to gain steam through the West as establishmentarians have doubled-down, on the promise of undoing what Brussels has wrought. But if they gain power and then do not change the Western paradigm, they will be rejected by voters. They must be bold and unafraid of action.

There is not an unlimited amount of time to act here. In a decade or so, the fight may become too difficult to carry out to its conclusion. The line must be drawn here. And the ascendent nationalists must be the ones to draw it.

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