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Spain has registered sharp increases in its most serious violent crimes since Pedro Sánchez became Prime Minister in June 2018, according to official figures.

Data from the Crime Statistics Portal of Spain’s Ministry of the Interior showed completed homicides and murders rose 31 per cent between 2018 and 2025. Attempted homicides and murders increased 78 per cent over the same period.

Reported rapes went up 96 per cent. The number of cases recorded by police has almost doubled in seven years.

The trend has continued into 2026. Reported rapes in the first half of this year were 3.5 per cent higher than in the same period of 2025, according to the ministry’s latest quarterly balance, published in September.

Over the same six months, total crime rose 0.5 per cent and all offences against sexual freedom 4 per cent. Kidnappings increased 17.5 per cent, from 51 to 60 cases.

In 2025 alone, Spain’s police forces recorded 376 completed homicides and murders, 1,413 attempts and 5,363 sexual assaults involving penetration, the legal category that covers rape, according to the annual crime balance.

Compared with 2024, completed killings rose 7.7 per cent and rapes 2.8 per cent. Kidnappings increased 9.6 per cent and drug trafficking offences 5.5 per cent, the ministry said when it released the figures on February 20, 2026.

Overall recorded crime has moved far less. Total offences grew 0.8 per cent in 2025, largely because of online fraud, while conventional crime was broadly flat.

The 2018 baseline covers a year Sánchez shared with his predecessor, Mariano Rajoy of the conservative People’s Party (PP), who was ousted in a no-confidence vote that June. Fernando Grande-Marlaska has been Interior Minister throughout Sánchez’s time in office.

The gap between attempted and completed killings has widened. In 2025 police recorded almost four attempted homicides for every one that ended in death, against fewer than three in 2018.

Criminologists have long argued that better emergency medicine holds down murder figures because victims who once would have died now survive serious wounds.

A 2002 study led by US sociologist Anthony Harris, published in the journal Homicide Studies, concluded that advances in trauma care had substantially reduced the lethality of violent assault in the US since 1960.

On that reading, the steeper rise in attempts may give a more accurate picture of the growth in serious violence in Spain than the completed homicide figure alone.

The rape statistics also require care. Organic Law 10/2022, known as the “only yes means yes” law and promoted by the Sánchez Government, abolished the distinction between sexual abuse and sexual assault in the Spanish Penal Code.

Since it came into force in October 2022, all non-consensual penetration has been recorded as sexual assault.

The law became one of the most controversial of Sánchez’s tenure after courts used it to cut the sentences of hundreds of convicted sex offenders. Sánchez apologised to victims in April 2023 and parliament amended the text that month.

Some Spanish media have reported that rapes tripled under Sánchez. That calculation compares the 1,700 sexual assaults with penetration recorded in 2018 with the 5,363 of 2025.

It leaves out the 1,044 cases of sexual abuse with penetration that police registered in 2018, which would now fall into the same category, according to the ministry’s 2018 report on sexual offences. Once both are counted, the increase is close to double rather than triple.

The ministry has repeatedly linked the rise in sexual offences to awareness campaigns. In its 2025 balance, it said the increase should be seen partly as the result of active policies to reduce social tolerance of such crimes.

According to the ministry, those policies have made victims more willing to report attacks to police and reduced under-reporting.

Sánchez himself has defended his record on public security. At his end-of-season press conference in July 2025, he described Spain as “almost the safest country in the world”.

Police unions have contested that view. Jupol, the largest union in the National Police, said the 2025 data dismantled what it called the triumphalist discourse of Grande-Marlaska.

The PP, now Spain’s main opposition party, announced on February 22, 2026 that it would launch an audit in the Senate of the minister’s management of the ministry.

Cuca Gamarra, the PP’s deputy secretary for institutional regeneration, cited rising kidnappings, drug trafficking and rapes among her party’s concerns.

Earlier this year, the ministry’s first-quarter balance for 2026 showed completed homicides and murders up 10.6 per cent year on year.

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A U.K. Parliamentary Committee is currently examining a proposed government bill that would ban “conversion therapy” and could criminalize anyone who opposes transgender ideology.

The Joint Committee on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill, consisting of six MPs from the House of Lords and six from the House of Commons, has been tasked with examining the conversion therapy bill proposed by the left-wing Labor government and is currently taking in suggestions from the public.

The proposal was published in June and seeks to criminalize the use of “emotional pressure” on an individual in a way that causes them to believe they do or do not have a particular “sexual orientation” or “transgender identity.” Those convicted of an offense could face a fine, up to five years’ imprisonment, or both.

The Christian Institute reports that during a parliamentary session of the committee on October 29, Helen Joyce of the anti-transgender ideology organization Sex Matters pointed to a recent study done by the group with the help of 30 medical professionals, which concluded that the bill would have “a serious chilling effect” on their work.

Criminal lawyer Dennis Kavanagh warned that the government would introduce a bill “that says that there’s one area, and one area only, of medical practice where you could get prosecuted if you put a foot wrong. That won’t be a chilling effect, that’ll be a deep freeze.”

The barrister further warned that the bill conflicted directly with the European Convention on Human Rights, describing it as “incomprehensible” and arguing that it undermined parental rights, restricted freedom of speech, and discriminated against those who uphold biological reality.

Professor Ilias Trispiotis, an advocate for the bill and member of the Ban Conversion Practices Coalition, told the Committee that prayer intended to change someone’s sexual orientation could fall within the scope of the proposed legislation, provided it was directed at an identifiable individual and met the bill’s threshold for harm. Asked whether this could include someone approaching a pastor for prayer over concerns about their sexuality, he said the matter would depend on the context, intent and effects of the prayer.

Simon Calvert, deputy director of The Christian Institute, called on everyone who values freedom of speech, religious liberty and parental rights to submit evidence to the Westminster Committee.

The committee reviewing the government’s anti-conversion therapy bill is inviting public submissions by 5 p.m. on Monday, November 16. The Christian Institute offers guidance to those who wish to submit their suggestions in England and Wales as well as Scotland.

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“My loyalty and allegiance will be to the truth and the Sharia”

The Islamic Labour Party of Ireland has launched. Its constitution is, for some reason, in Arabic, instead of Gaelic, but lays out a mission of “reforming the country economically and socially from an Islamic perspective”, limits its leaders, who will be described as ‘sheikhs’ to candidates who are “Muslim, male, adult, and of sound mind” and “preference will be given to candidates with knowledge of Islamic law, eloquence, and proficiency in both Arabic and English.”

Associate members must be “a Muslim and of age” so apparently women are allowed. Members joining the party must swear the following oath.

“I swear by Allah that my work will be purely for Allah and in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and that I will abide by the party’s constitution, regulations and instructions, and that I will perform the tasks entrusted to me with honesty and sincerity, and that I will adhere to Islamic ethics in dealing, and that I will give precedence to the public interest over the private interest, and that I will seek, in my words and actions, the face of Allah and His pleasure, and that my loyalty and allegiance will be to the truth and the Sharia and not to the party, and that I will not divulge secrets and trusts.”

The rest reads, appropriately enough, like a mix of Communist Party doctrine and Islamic doctrine.

“​Breach of Party Security (Organizational Treason): Any affiliate who creates factions (wings or blocs) within the Party, establishes independent relations with other parties, or criticizes and defames the Party from the outside shall have their action deemed organizational treason. They shall be immediately referred to the “Security and Discipline Committee” for deterrent measures.​Article (14): Repentance and Review (Rehabilitation)​In the event that a member commits ideological or organizational violations that do not amount to treason against the Party, the door for “Repentance and Review” (Rehabilitation) shall be opened for them before the Sharia and Disciplinary Committee to correct their course and commit to the Party’s regulations.”

Most of the site is empty, but there is a Shadow Government section.

Shadow Government

Based on the circular issued by the Secretary-General of the Islamic Party for Action and Youth dated the fifth of Jumada al-Ula, 1448, regarding the formation of a shadow government tasked with developing the necessary plans and strategies for managing the country, the following conditions are stipulated:

All ministers belong to the Islamic Labor and Youth Party

Nothing to see here. What Ireland needs now is more Muslim mass migration so that this thing can be a viable proposition.

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British comedian, actor, and television host Russell Brand has been found guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison on Monday, 9 November.

Brand’s trial began on 12 October. He was facing a total of seven charges: three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault (which was amended to attempted indecent assault during trial). His defence was able to beat two counts of rape and the one count of attempted indecent assault, of which he was found not guilty by the jury, but he was ultimately convicted on the other charges.

The prosecution of Russell Brand has drawn criticism from sceptics from the get-go.

All the alleged criminal conduct the famous entertainer was charged with took place between 1999 and 2009—meaning the most recent event against a criminal jury was 17 years ago.

Therefore, some of the complaining witnesses’ recollections were understandably hazy. For instance, one of the charges Brand was convicted on was a sexual assault charge where the victim could not recall what year it took place. Her testimony states that the event took place in either 2004 or 2005. The jury found that Russell Brand kissed her and touched her breasts and buttocks without her consent in the Choice FM radio station’s studios.

However, there is a reasonable explanation why a jury still believed that Brand had committed such an act.

The comic had not only talked excessively about his extreme sexual appetite and promiscuity at that part of his career, but he is also on camera doing very similar things to women during numerous appearances. One famous example happened on the American late-night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

In February 2013, Brand was featured on the show with singer-actress Katharine McPhee. Brand was still on the set when McPhee walked on for her interview. As she was trying to walk past him, Brand grabbed her by the arm and pushed her towards him. He was then instructed to move out of the chair so McPhee could sit down for the interview, which he refused. The actress then sat on his lap as a joke, but she tried to get up; Brand grabbed her by the waist and pushed her back onto his lap.

The prosecution also presented excerpts from the defendant’s 2007 autobiography My Bookie Wook, in which he claims that he ‘would never have relented until I received my birthright orgasm’.

Brand was acquitted on the earliest charge of rape.

The complaining witness alleged that Brand raped her after she had invited him to her hotel room after a Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, in 1999. She did have photos of Brand in her hotel room from the night of the alleged incident. However, she erroneously described them in her testimony: she claimed the photos showed Brand in his underwear, when in fact he was wearing trousers (although shirtless).

The jury also found Brand not guilty of one count of oral rape. According to the prosecution, Brand and an MTV worker went into a bathroom stall of a bar in London’s Soho district during a party, where Brand orally raped her alleged victim. The way the rape was committed, according to the complainant’s testimony, however, was inconceivable. She told the court that Russell Brand, a 6’2 man, stood on a toilet rim to force his penis in her mouth. Standing on a standard-height toilet, Brand’s penis would have been around 4 feet and a couple of inches off the ground. It would only have been on level with the victim’s mouth if the victim was extremely short (below five feet).

Consequently, the jury found him not guilty on that charge. However, they found him guilty on one count of sexual assault for an act he committed against the same woman. The jury did believe that Brand had grabbed her breast at the same party before the alleged bathroom incident.

The one count of rape Russell Brand was convicted of—which accounts for the bulk of his sentence, nine years out of the ten and a half—was based on the testimony of Complainant #5. The victim was a fan of Brand, who met him after one of his stand-up comedy performances in 2009. The two then went back to her home, where they began to have consensual vaginal sex. Brand then began to penetrate her anally and did not stop even after, according to the victim’s testimony, she begged him to do so.

A text exchange between the perpetrator and the victim was also presented as evidence, in which the victim told Brand that he had ‘treated me like an animal’, to which Brand apologizes in writing multiple times.

Throughout the trial, the prosecution emphasized that the six complainants who came forward to report Brand to the police and testify against him did not know each other and could not coordinate before the trial. However, their experiences still have one major element in common: they all claim that they were motivated to press charges after watching the 2023 documentary by Channel 4 titled In Plain Sight: Dispatches, which is about allegations of sexual misconduct by Brand from five other women—none of whom are the ones who testified at the criminal trial.

The many critics of Russell Brand’s prosecution point out that the left-leaning TV station produced a big-budget documentary about the alleged sex crimes of Brand after the celebrity had pivoted to right-wing political commentary in 2022.

Comparisons Between Russell Brand and Immigrant Sex Offenders’ Sentences

The criticisms of the Russell Brand trial do not end there.

Many are pointing to the discrepancy in sentences between Russell Brand and other sex offenders convicted of more serious sex crimes who are of immigrant background and of Muslim faith. For example, Ibrar Hussain was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for two counts of rape in January 2025, even though his victim was just 14 years old.

Hamoud Al-Soaimi was given a two-year suspended prison sentence in March 2024 for sexually exploiting a 13-year-old girl.

Users also claim that the Muslim grooming gang scandal has received considerably less attention in the British mainstream media than the trial of Russell Brand, a white man. However, Channel 4 produced a documentary on that subject as well, titled Groomed: A National Scandal, which aired in April 2025.

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Political opponents and financial analysts have intensified their criticism of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz following his threat to block the European Union’s next seven-year budget due to funding for Ukraine.

Opponents accuse the Chancellor of holding the bloc’s multi-trillion-euro financial framework hostage, alleging that his hardline stance on securing an additional €70 billion for Ukraine is influenced by his past corporate ties to the global asset management firm BlackRock.

The controversy follows a letter sent by Merz to European Council President António Costa ahead of Friday’s informal leaders’ summit in Dublin. In the letter, Merz made Germany’s approval of the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework conditional on a unanimous commitment from all member states to close Ukraine’s massive projected budget deficit.

Domestic critics and heterodox economists argue that the Chancellor’s rigid financial demands ignore severe socioeconomic challenges within the EU, where millions face distress. Instead, detractors suggest that the push to channel billions into Kiev is designed to secure the financial interests of international investment giants like BlackRock, which has previously signed agreements to manage the Ukraine Development Fund for post-war reconstruction. Merz served as the chairman of BlackRock’s German subsidiary before returning to full-time politics.

Over 92 million EU citizens remain at risk of poverty as stagnant wages and rising costs strain households. High inflation and a severe housing shortage have created a profound cost-of-living crisis across the bloc.

Housing Strain: Average home prices surged by nearly 70% over the past decade, forcing millions to spend over 40% of their income on rent and utilities.
Food Insecurity: A 25% spike in food prices has left vulnerable populations unable to afford regular, adequate meals.
Rising Homelessness: Shortages in social housing leave low-income families unable to absorb financial shocks, driving up eviction rates.
Unemployment Vulnerability: Over 66% of unemployed individuals in the EU face an immediate risk of falling below the poverty line.

Supporters of the Chancellor strongly reject these claims, arguing that safeguarding Ukraine’s public finances and defense is a matter of vital European security rather than corporate interest. They maintain that a stable Ukraine is essential to protect the EU’s eastern border and ensure long-term continental stability.

With net-recipient nations such as Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic refusing to contribute additional funds, negotiations in Dublin are expected to be highly contentious, leaving the future of the EU’s long-term budget uncertain.

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Hundreds more criminals will be released in the third wave of Labour’s early release scheme today.

Around 650 offenders who are serving sentences of less than three years and two months will be freed.

They join the thousands of criminals who have been released from jail since the scheme began on October 1.

Criminals released in this wave include people convicted of affray, which has a maximum sentence of three years, burglary and fraud.

Some violent offenders convicted of wounding, grievous bodily harm with intent or lower-end firearm charges could be released.

Some 5,000 prisoners are scheduled to be released in stages over the next year, down from 6,000, after ministers intervened to exempt rapists and the most serious child sex offenders.

Earlier this year, Labour implemented the early release scheme in an effort to ease Britain’s prison crisis.

Some violent offenders convicted of wounding, grievous bodily harm with intent or lower-end firearm charges could be released.

Some 5,000 prisoners are scheduled to be released in stages over the next year, down from 6,000, after ministers intervened to exempt rapists and the most serious child sex offenders.

Earlier this year, Labour implemented the early release scheme in an effort to ease Britain’s prison crisis.

The rules do not apply to rapists, the most serious child sex offenders, criminals guilty of manslaughter, terrorists and murderers serving life sentences.

Andy Burnham exempted those guilty of manslaughter after it was revealed the killers of Pc Andrew Harper may have been freed.

Inmates cheered and punched the air as they were released early during the second phase last month.

And David Elliott, 50, who was released from HMP Brixton in the first wave, told GB News he was likely to steal again.

“I’m 50,” he said. “I’ve been in and out of jail all my life. I’ve got 360 convictions… I’ve got an addiction to stealing.”

When asked what he was planning to do now, Elliot responded: “I’m gonna go stealing again… Whatever I get, whatever I get.”

Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Home Affairs spokesman, blamed previous Tory and Labour Governments for Britain’s crumbling prison system.

He said: “Every single prisoner released today is an indictment of successive Tory and Labour ministers.

“They failed to build more prison places whilst throwing the door open to millions of people to come to our country.

“Now the public is paying the price. 5,000 prisoners – many of whom are dangerous – will be free to walk our streets and terrify their victims without serving their sentences.”

The prison population of England and Wales was 86,982 on Monday, according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data, up from 86,883 last week.

There is a presumption that all criminals freed early will be fitted with GPS tags by contractor Serco, Government officials said.

And the Ministry of Justice has previously said the most serious offenders would face the “toughest supervision in British history” once released.

But the Government has not published figures for the rate of recall of prisoners to jail for breaching their licence conditions.

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The enormous German unity flag commemorating the 1990 reunification of the East and West parts of the country at the Reichstag was cut down and replaced with the Palestinian colours by “left-wing troublemakers”.

Three men were detained outside the home of the German parliament, the Reichstag, on Sunday morning after a man scaled the 30 meter (100 foot) steel flagpole outside the building to cut down the oversize 60-square-meter (650ft²) national flag — dropping it to the ground — to lash on an equally large Palestinian flag in its place.

A 22-year-old male used what appeared to be a pair of home made pole climbing straps to shimmy his way up to great height around 1115 local time on Sunday morning. The flag cut down was not any normal German flag: the flagpole and the German national colours there at the Reichstag are a memorial to the reunification of the country after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, and the flag has flown there permanently since.

The protester remained up the pole a little more than an hour. Watched by police and the fire brigade, he eventually climbed down himself and was arrested.

German police arrested three people in Berlin today after a man scaled the 30-metre flagpole outside the Reichstag, took down the German "Flag of Unity" and hoisted a Palestinian flag. Two accomplices filmed the climb. All three are suspected of insulting state symbols.… pic.twitter.com/nDnDJ5XuoG

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 8, 2026

The incident is being investigated by the State Security Police of the State Criminal Police Office. The man is being held on suspicion of defamation of the state and its symbols, malicious damage, violation of the Berlin Assembly Freedom Act, and trespass.

Two men supporting the activist on the ground, which Tageschau reports were 20 and 32-years-old, were detained at the scene but later released.

Because the hoist system was damaged by the activist when he cut down the German flag, the fire brigade were not able to immediately put it back in place after they’d removed the protester’s colours. Indeed, the unity flagpole remained bare on Monday, suggesting more involved repairs are necessary.

Authorities at the Reichstag have expressed alarm at the ease with which a protester was able to cross the security fences in the front of the building and scale the 100 foot memorial. German broadsheet Die Welt states the German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt spoke of an act of “planned action by left-wing troublemakers” while German conservative leader Martin Huber decreid the replacement of a symbol of national unity with “a symbol of division and hatred of Israel”.

Parliamentary group leader Thorsten Frei expressed concern about the state of Reichstag security and said: “n light of the increasingly aggressive forms of protest, the question arises whether the current protection is still sufficient… Wouldn’t it be time, given these escalating tensions, to consider reintroducing the restricted zone?”.

Publisher Focus states the three men involved in the flag protest are from campaign group ‘Peacefully Against Genocide’, a pro-Palestine activist front. The group has hitherto been known best for its protests against and sabotage of German defence giant Rheinmetall, which they accuse of selling equipment to the Israeli Armed Forces.

In September, another anti-Rheinmetall group blocked railway lines in Hamburg, Germany to slow the company’s export of equipment by ship through the city’s docks. The company suffered a further misfortune last month when a series of fires broke out at a new tank exporting and drone research facility it is building at Kassel Airport in North Hesse.

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Poland’s left-leaning Tusk government and international media labeled Kraków gunman Michał Oksiński far-right, but prosecutors found no evidence of a right-wing affiliation, while images circulating on X from deleted Facebook accounts attributed to him appear to show him posing with an LGBT Pride flag and mocking the pope.

On Nov. 7, Michał Oksiński, 24, drove a Subaru onto Kraków’s Main Market Square and opened fire at random, killing six people and wounding 15. Police officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański chased him from the square, and both were shot in the exchange of fire. Kulik, hit three times, approached the gunman, fired, and stopped him, then applied a tourniquet to his own arm. The dead included an Austrian woman and a British man. It was Poland’s deadliest shooting since the fall of communism in 1989.

Before driving to Kraków, Oksiński shot his father Janusz, 53, his mother Renata, 52, and his sister Magdalena, 21, a painting student at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, in the family flat in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, according to investigators. Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said Oksiński faced a separate murder charge over those killings, bringing the total number killed to nine. Investigators found two AR-15 rifles, two pistols and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his car and on his person. In all, they seized 11 firearms. Oksiński died in hospital on Nov. 9 after three operations.

Hours after the attack, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński, a member of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition, told a press conference in Kraków that “everything indicates” the gunman was fascinated by far-right ideologies and held “very, very radical” views. He also described the gunman as holding “ultranationalistic” views, while saying the claim still had to be verified. Tusk attended the briefing and called the shooting an act of terrorism.

After criticism from conservative lawmakers, Kierwiński said on Nov. 8 that the motive was still under investigation. On Nov. 9, prosecutors told reporters there was no evidence tying the gunman to any particular political orientation. Przemysław Nowak, spokesman for the Prokuratura Krajowa (National Prosecutor’s Office), said investigators who searched the gunman’s room found no obvious symbolism associated with either the far right or the far left, and that it was too early to speak of motive or ideology. The only flag on his wall was a Gadsden flag, which Nowak said is not commonly linked to extremism. Asked what Kierwiński based his statement on, Nowak declined to comment.

Kierwiński had presented no evidence for his far-right claim. Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, citing a Kraków police source, reported that officers found material suggesting the gunman may be ultra-left, including photographs of him posing with flags. Polish tabloid Super Express, citing several sources, reported that investigators found no links to far-right parties or extremist organizations, including in his online activity. Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibała told RMF FM that officers in the uniformed services had called the minister’s suggestion “hasty conclusions.”

Foreign media and the major news agencies repeated Kierwiński’s initial characterization, according to Polish conservative weekly Do Rzeczy. NBC News headlined its report on the “far-right Kraków shooter.” CNN described a “suspect with far-right views.” On Nov. 9, after prosecutors had said they found no evidence of any political motive, the Associated Press still headlined its story “Gunman with far-right views.”

Social media images attributed to the gunman suggested a different political orientation. Images saved from two Facebook accounts attributed to him, which disappeared after the attack, show Ukrainian flags and an LGBT Pride flag. In one, a man identified as Oksiński poses with the Pride flag while wearing a gas mask and a military-style beret. Another post uses what appears to be a picture of the pope to disparage him.

Other photos and posts circulating on X claim to show the gunman marching with left-wing demonstrators behind banners reading “Refugees Welcome” and “Without states, without borders,” and supporting other left-wing causes. Spanish MEP Hermann Tertsch said the gunman had demonstrated for open borders and accused the Tusk government of ordering his accounts deleted. The authenticity and attribution of the circulating social media material remain unverified, and police and prosecutors have not commented on it.

Accounts from people who knew him fit no political label. A former classmate told Polsat News that he wore black nail polish and drew attacks on schools and swastikas in his notebooks. Residents of Ostrowiec told Kanał Zero that he wore uniforms and gas masks. A friend told TVN that he showed no right-wing tendencies.

Under his military-style uniform, the gunman wore a black T-shirt printed with a green emergency-exit figure and the words “uciekłem z morawicy” (“I escaped from Morawica”), according to a photo of the clothing published by Wirtualna Polska. Morawica, near Kielce, is the site of the region’s largest psychiatric hospital, and the phrase is a common Polish joke. There is no evidence he was ever a patient there. The security website Terroryzm.pl had reported that he appeared to wear a Falanga symbol, the green emblem of Poland’s national-radical right. The only green emblem visible in the published clothing photo is the exit sign, though it is unclear whether Terroryzm.pl was referring to the same garment or image.

Prosecutors are treating the attack as terrorism and are examining whether the gunman acted alone. Gibała said that with the gunman dead, his motives may never be fully known.

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Illegal migrant arrivals in Spain’s Canary Islands have overtaken the total for the whole of 2025, with almost two months of the year still to go.

Police figures reported by Spanish newspaper La Gaceta on November 9 put arrivals between November 1 and 7 at 5,330 people on 56 boats. Added to the 13,327 recorded by Spain’s interior ministry up to October 31, that brought the 2026 tally to 18,657, against 17,788 for all of last year.

The threshold was crossed on November 7, after 311 days. As recently as August 15, arrivals to the islands were running 60 per cent below 2025 levels.

If the pace of the second half of October held until December 31, the archipelago could close the year with more than 30,000 arrivals, according to the newspaper’s projections. A slower rate would still leave the total well above that of 2025.

A figure above 30,000 would exceed the 31,678 arrivals of the 2006 cayuco crisis and would be topped only by 2023 and 2024. The record of 46,843 was set in 2024.

Boats were also more crowded. La Gaceta said 216 vessels had reached the islands by November 7, compared with 263 in the whole of 2025, with an average of 86 people on board against 68 last year.

Large wooden cayucos carrying up to 270 people set out from Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. A parallel route used inflatable boats launched from coastline under Moroccan control.

Most landed on El Hierro, an island of about 12,000 residents. Its island council declared an emergency after more than 8,000 arrivals in five weeks, with council president Alpidio Armas saying there were not enough means to move people on to Tenerife and Gran Canaria.

Canary Islands President Fernando Clavijo described the situation on El Hierro as unsustainable. On November 6 he wrote to European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, asking Brussels to activate EU solidarity mechanisms and call an emergency meeting.

Clavijo said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had agreed to convene the Interministerial Commission on Immigration on November 10. He also sought urgent meetings with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and with Brunner.

Across Spain, the interior ministry recorded 32,942 illegal entries up to October 31, 8.9 per cent more than in the same period of 2025. That figure excluded the invasion of Ceuta on July 30 and 31, when tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco into the city.

The rise ran against the trend in the rest of the European Union, where the EU border agency Frontex has reported sharp falls in crossings this year.

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A Syrian asylum seeker convicted of raping a 16-year-old in a Munich asylum center was released after just six weeks of pre-trial detention and then went on to gang-rape a woman. The case is drawing yet another round of outrage over how German prosecutors balance detention rules against victim protection and public safety in cases involving migrants.

On Feb. 25, 2025, Ahmad A., who was 25 at the time, allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in a Munich asylum accommodation. He was arrested and placed in pre-trial detention, but the victim was too traumatized to undergo questioning by an investigating judge on two occasions.

Since authorities deemed her statement a central piece of evidence, Munich prosecutors applied to suspend the detention order. As a result, just 40 days later, on April 8, 2025, Ahmad A. was released, according to Bild newspaper.

Prosecutors cited the principle requiring accelerated proceedings in detention cases and indicated they could no longer hold the man in custody. Ahmad A. was allowed to walk free on the conditions that he report to police twice a week and avoid contact with the victim and a witness.

Roughly three months later, on the evening of July 15, 2025, a 29-year-old woman asked Ahmad A. for a cigarette in the area of Kolumbusplatz. Two of Ahmad A.’s friends were also present: 31-year-old Yemeni Haidar A. and 27-year-old Yemeni Mousa H.

The woman accompanied the group to a gas station to buy beer and chips when, according to prosecutors, the men then brought her to a secluded area near the Wittelsbacher Bridge near the Isar River and began attacking her.

The woman screamed and repeatedly yelled, “No,” in English while the three men took turns gang raping her.

The men then tried to take her to one of their apartments. She escaped by dropping a water bottle to distract them and ran to a nearby group of people, at which point the three suspects fled.

All three men were arrested in September 2025 and are currently on trial in Munich.

In November 2025, Ahmad A. was also convicted of the rape of the 16-year-old girl in February. He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for that offense.

He continues to deny the second rape allegation, arguing the second encounter under the bridge was consensual.

On X, commentators have pointed out a consistent pattern of migrants being released from pre-trial detention only to go on to commit serious crimes.

“Apart from the fact that Merz had promised before the elections that exactly such perpetrators as Ahmad A. would be taken into indefinite deportation detention, it defies common sense that an accused of rape who came to Germany as an asylum seeker is released back onto the population after a short time in pretrial detention, even before the trial took place,” wrote German journalist Yvonne Kussmann.

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