A planned march through the city center was banned by municipal authorities, a group of counter-protesters was wheeled in protected by police, and soon the chaos unfolded.
🇳🇱 Clashes broke out in the streets of The Hague, Netherlands, as police confronted protesters during a nationalist demonstration.
Mounted police and tear gas were used to disperse the crowd, while some protesters threw flares at officers.
The Associated Press report is a masterpiece in Globalist framing of events:
“Dutch riot police dispersed several hundred far-right protesters in The Hague on Saturday after violence erupted and local authorities banned a planned march in the city against immigration and asylum policies.
Police officers made several arrests after some protesters started throwing fireworks and other projectiles at them.
Justice Minister David van Weel called on X for an ‘extremely firm’ response to what he described as ‘disgusting scenes’ at the protest. He said that demonstrators made Nazi salutes, chanted antisemitic slogans, attacked police and threw fireworks at riot officers.”
Young second-generation migrants tried to attack a remigration protest in The Hague but were chased away momentarily by Dutch riot police.
Bloomberg analyses the event, and completely bypasses the real issues:
“The rise of the far right, fueled by structural problems such as inequality and distrust in institutions, has become a headache for European policymakers in recent years. Like other European countries, the Netherlands has experienced a fragmentation of the political center, with fringe groups increasingly sowing chaos and fueling discord.
The riots follow a turbulent week in the country. On Tuesday, the official opening of parliament was disrupted by the sabotage of rail lines and roadside fires, plunging parts of the country into chaos. Some of these actions have been linked to farmers angry over proposed legislation to curb nitrogen emissions.”
They say nothing about the fact that citizens reject the Globalist policies emanating from Brussels and Strasbourg, such as unchecked mass migration – as protesters at The Hague – and ‘net zero’ lunacy – as the farmers.
VIDEO: Chaotic scenes in The Hague this afternoon after authorities blocked a march by nationalist protesters. Dozens of arrests and injuries. #Netherlands 🇳🇱 #DenHaag#EU 🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/dIiVpbHqmA
Before we part ways, they try to frame the nationalist protesters as animals and terrorists. But take a look at what an Eritrean mob did in The Hague a couple of years ago.
These are the terrorists.
BREAKING:
Massive riots have started in The Hague in the Netherlands.
A large mob of Eritrean migrants has broken into the Opera House building and are throwing bricks and rocks at police officers.
Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe has alleged that campaigners for his Restore Britain party came under attack by supposed anti-racist protesters while leafleting for the upcoming special by-election to replace former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the House of Commons.
Lowe said that while campaigning for London-based lawyer Tyler Johnson in the London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras on Saturday for next month’s election, members of his party’s campaign team were attacked, resulting in a campaigner being hospitalised. The Great Yarmouth MP added that police were involved.
According to London’s Daily Telegraph, Restore said that their campaigner was accosted with scalding hot coffee.
The leftist Stand Up to Racism group said that Lowe and Restore were “trying to play victim”. The group has denied attacking members of the Restore campaign team, but said that they “confronted” alleged “neo-Nazi Restore activists”.
“Racists and fascists aren’t welcome in Camden, or anywhere else. We will and a confront fascists wherever they appear,” the group said in a statement.
At the time of this reporting, the Metropolitan Police have yet to confirm any details of the incident. At present, neither Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch nor Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham have commented on the alleged attack.
However, the incident did draw condemnation from leading figures from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, including Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf, who has infamously clashed with Lowe, including by accusing his former ally of threatening him with violence while Lowe was still a member of Reform. Lowe denied the allegations.
🚨BREAKING: far right Restore Britain including fascist Patrick McGinnis have been chased out of Camden by Stand Up to Racism locals as they tried to leaflet for the Holborn & St Pancras by election#standuptoracismpic.twitter.com/NslATUM31k
Nevertheless, Yusuf said on Saturday: ” If a political party cannot deliver leaflets in a parliamentary by-election without a crazed mob attacking them, we do not have a democracy.
“Make no mistake, these far left mobs – and the foreign actors funding them – will face an almighty reckoning under a Reform government.”
Prominent Reform supporter, Professor Matt Goodwin added: “Left-wing extremists routinely harass, abuse, and attack patriots and yet Westminster says nothing.”
“And now, after Ann Widdecombe, we hear that patriotic activists have been assaulted on London’s streets. If this was the other way around we would never hear the end of it.
“There should be NO place for political violence and harassment in our democracy. We shall wait for Labour and Green politicians to condemn the violence but I suspect we will be waiting a very long time.”
For his part, Restore Britain party leader Rupert Lowe called on the media and political establishment to “ease off on their rhetoric” about his party, arguing that by referring to Restore as Nazis is “evidently riling up these wild mobs.”
“Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, should be physically attacked in the street for peacefully campaigning. This has to end,” he said.
Challenge our ideas, criticise our policies, debate us on our platform,” Lowe urged. “Pushing for mass deportations is mainstream politics, backed by millions and millions of Brits. That is NOT ‘nazism’.”
Germany is turning ‘AfD blue’, and the establishment is going crazy.
In the run-up to tomorrow’s regional votes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin, the German establishment is frantically trying to find ways to keep the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from scoring new electoral victories after Saxony.
The much-maligned right-wing party has surged to 30% in national polls, clearing 10 full points over the ruling CDU, a situation that has led failing Chancellor Friedrich Merz to fight for his political future while his own party plots to oust him.
Merz now has polls showing that 78% of voters reject him – a historical record.
In many ways, the Pomerania and Berlin elections are in the spotlight as a gauge of the strength of the AfD.
In the meantime, MSM reports that Friedrich Merz’s days may be numbered, among a growing revolt from within his party.
“The surging AfD is hoping Sunday’s state election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will be the final nail in the coffin of Mr. Merz’s chancellorship.
It risks marking the worst result in history for the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with the party at risk of failing to reach the 5 per cent threshold needed to enter state parliament for the first time.”
At this point, the polls suggest CDU will take just 6 percent of the vote in the eastern state, and could easily slip below the 5 percent threshold, and fail to even enter state parliament.
For 80 years, the CDU prided itself on being the absolute reference in German conservatism – but now, there’s only Globalism left.
“Rumors swirl that CDU party chiefs could order Mr. Merz to resign by the end of this weekend depending on the results in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the state election in Berlin, also occurring this Sunday.”
Merz cancelled his UN General Assembly appearance scheduled to remain in Berlin and avoid a party mutiny.
🇩🇪 Politico: Merz could resign
The German chancellor could step down after elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin.
Merz’s support has fallen to 14%, his alliance to 18%, while the AfD, which advocates cooperation with Russia, has risen to 29%.
“The chancellor has convened a high-stakes meeting of his party’s leadership on Sunday at 5 p.m., which will coincide with the state election exit polls at 6 p.m. At that meeting, Merz reportedly wants to ask his party allies whether they still back him and his reform plans. If not, he wants to urge them to put forward the name of a potential successor.
By seeking the confrontation, Merz will try to exploit a weakness of his critics: There is no clear consensus on who should take over.
[…] However, should the elections Sunday be a total disaster for Merz’ conservatives — the party could even miss the 5% hurdle to enter parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, for the first time in any state election — frustration within the CDU/CSU could boil over and lead to broad calls for Merz to resign.
The showdown does not necessarily have to happen Sunday but could follow within the next days or weeks. Should Merz accept that fate, he could inform German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of his intention to step down. Steinmeier would then most likely ask him to remain in office in a caretaker function until a new chancellor is elected by parliament.”
A German politician who represents the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is being investigated by the state for incitement to hatred, defamation, and dissemination of personal data after a pro-pedophile activist filed a criminal complaint against her for social media posts denouncing “LGBTQ propaganda” and pro-pedophile activism. One activist who reported Vanessa Behrendt to police over her social media posts runs an online support group for “minor-attracted people,” or MAPs, and campaigns for pedophilia to be legally recognized as a protected characteristic.
In October 2024, Behrendt, the AfD’s family policy spokesperson, published a controversial opinion to her official X account, which has since racked up over 1 million views.
“The rainbow flag stands for: The machinations of pedophile lobby groups, the endangerment of children through LGBTQ propaganda, the harassment of toddlers with transsexuality, the legal ‘cuddling’ and ‘wrestling’ of foreign men with kindergarten children (‘Original Play’), and the treatment of gender identity disorders with puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and transgender surgeries,” Behrendt wrote. She followed her message with an image of the German flag, stating that its colors represented the country, while the Pride flag, she said, did not.
Her comments drew significant backlash, and are included in criminal complaints that have been filed against her. The investigation, which is ongoing, was confirmed by Behrendt in a March 2025 post that has remained as her pinned post on her X account.
“Because I have expressed critical views on rainbow ideology, the Göttingen Public Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating me,” Behrendt announced last year.
But among accusations of incitement to hatred for comparing the Pride flag to “the machinations of pedophile lobby groups,” the politician is also facing charges related to the dissemination of an individual’s name and address, a crime which is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.
This charge was lodged against Behrendt by a pro-pedophile MAP activist who had been sharing his information on various pedophile activism forums and websites. Florian V., who was identified by Behrendt, is a 39-year-old man who uses an avatar of a young girl waving a ‘MAP’ flag on social media. Under the moniker ‘Consuela,’ he operates several websites and forums dedicated to pedophilia activism.
V. has stated that he is sexually attracted to girls aged “0 to 12.”
In a now-deleted post made by Behrendt to X on February 11, 2025, she wrote: “This pedophile with the angelic face has, according to his own statements, filed a complaint against me because I am so evil and incite hatred against pedophiles. Florian V. from Norderstedt. Perhaps someone would like to inform him what one thinks of his demands.”
One forum run by V., mapsupport.de, is hosted by Mastodon and currently has over 300 participants. “We are a safe space for queer people and paraphilias,” reads the group’s description. “We welcome every sexual minority, transidentity, kink, fetish, radqueer, or anything else.”
According to information publicly posted on mapsupport.de, the forum is owned and operated by Florian V. of Hamburg, Germany.
Child safeguarding advocates who monitor MAP activism taking place on Mastodon’s decentralized servers have told Reduxx that V. decided to go public in 2024 by posting selfies and even creating videos of himself that he uploaded to YouTube – which have now been deleted. Therefore, his own public posts would have served as a primary source of information for Behrendt’s claims which are being considered as “defamation.”
Florian V.
One source, who chose to remain anonymous, provided Reduxx with a photo of V. taken by himself at Rathaus Norderstedt (City Hall of Norderstedt). In the photo, V. is proudly wearing a T-shirt featuring a depiction of the “pedobear,” which originated as a meme on 4chan to mock those who expressed a sexual interest in children. Over time, however, the symbol has been adopted by some members of the MAP community as a means of self-expression.
V. has repeatedly boasted online of filing two reports against Behrendt, both on his blog and on Mastodon. In June of last year in a post he made to a MAP support community announcing his criminal complaints.
“In November, December, and January a female politician of the far-right political party AfD used Twitter to spew hate speech against me and other German MAPs by calling us child molesters. I went to the police and pressed charges against her,” V. wrote.
“In February [2025] she decided to make the worst mistake of her life. She made a Twitter post, posting my data she stole from somewhere and called for violence against me (I had 152 people posting death threats). I filed more charges.”
According to V’s. MAP activism blog, Behrendt became aware of one of V.’s pro-pedophile websites, wir-sind-auch-menschen.de, and filed a criminal complaint against the site operators.
The complaint was dismissed, and Behrendt took to X to denounce the website, stating that she intended to make a “declaration of war against all those who believe they can make pedophilia socially acceptable.”
The website’s name translates to “We are also human,” and denounces the “stigma of pedophilia”. While the site does not explicitly advocate for adult-minor sexual contact, it does argue for the decriminalization of “materials where no children are harmed,” including AI-generated child pornography, as well as “drawings, animations, or fictional stories,” and the sale of sex dolls made in the likeness of children. Currently, Section 184l of the German criminal code prohibits the sale, acquisition, and possession of “sex dolls with a childlike appearance.”
“The social condemnation of sexual acts with children must not extend to materials where no children are harmed. A pedophilic inclination cannot be changed, therefore pedophiles must find a way to deal with it – ideally one that respects the rights of others and is also healthy for themselves. It is important that pedophiles have access to such options and that not every option is criminalized,” the website states.
Additionally, V.’s political advocacy site calls for recognizing pedophilia as a protected characteristic.
“The General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) protects people from discrimination based on their sexual identity. However, although undoubtedly a part of sexual identity, pedophilia is not considered to be included,” V. writes. “The justification given is that, unlike other sexual identities, pedophilia is a crime when acted upon. In our opinion, however, this is not a valid argument, as sexual identity is not about actions, but about who someone is and how they feel. A sexual orientation alone does not make anyone a danger.”
In a blog post made by V. in January 2025, he informed his supporters that he had made criminal complaints against Behrendt on allegations of defamation, false accusations, falsely reporting a crime, and incitement to hatred.
“We live in a society and time that is now characterized by hatred and incitement by right-wing populist parties such as the AfD and their politicians, who constantly sow and spread hatred and incitement against people because of their origin, skin color, sexual orientation, gender, disability and other characteristics, and think they can get away with it because of their political status,” V. wrote.
“In a democratic society, freedom of expression is an important right; however, this excludes hatred, incitement, and false claims,” he continued. “No one should have to tolerate being publicly defamed to a significant degree by others because of who or what they are. This is extremely damaging to the reputation of all those affected, especially those who have been working for many years to educate the public about pedophilia. Ms. Behrendt will now also experience that freedom of expression has its limits where it causes enormous harm to others. The complaint, along with all evidence, will be submitted to the public prosecutor’s office today and will hopefully lead to a swift trial and conviction, while also demonstrating that no one has to tolerate hatred and incitement.”
Earlier this month, the Göttingen public prosecutor’s office filed charges against Behrendt for “inflammatory online posts,” with the court now weighing whether she may be guilty of defamation.
According to NDR (North German Broadcasting), judges are considering prosecuting Behrendt for defamation in four out of seven reported cases, while in one case, “there is also sufficient suspicion of a crime involving the dangerous dissemination of personal data.”
On his personal blog, V. shared the news with his supporters while again boasting that the situation faced by Behrendt “concerns two complaints filed by me.”
Florian V., known online as ‘Consuela,’ posted a photo of a plush doll made in the likeness of his pedophilia advocacy avatar.
“Through a campaign lasting over three months, she publicly labeled the website operators and other members of the site as “child abusers” on her social media channels. She also reported the website to the state parliament, which responded and even filed a criminal complaint, knowing full well that no crime had been committed,” V. said.
“When all of this proved unsuccessful, Ms. Behrendt continued her hate speech in various hate media outlets, such as Apollo News, Kelle News, Nius, and Hallo Meinung, among others, in the form of news articles and videos. I am refraining from providing links, as I do not wish to offer such ideologies a platform. Ultimately, I felt compelled to report these crimes.”
Behrendt has expressed her intention to oppose the charges against her. The matter will go to trial, according to NDR, at the Helmstedt District Court.
“In the tweets in question, I formulated my political criticism clearly and pointedly,” Behrendt stated. “I neither called for violence nor announced any specific criminal offenses. I stand by my posts and consider them protected by freedom of expression. In a democracy, sharp, provocative criticism must also be possible.”
For his part, V. has repeatedly indicated that he would like to see the full force of the law used against critics of pro-pedophilia activism.
“I would like to see more people, especially those on social media, but also media professionals and politicians, pay attention to what they write and stop using the word ‘pedophilia’ or ‘pedophiles’ in a negative context, with criminal offenses for their choice of words – thereby stigmatizing hundreds of thousands of people in a marginalized group, some of whom, like me, have been fighting for years for our right to a life without discrimination,” he wrote to his blog in March 2025.
Member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, and AfD colleague Götz Frömming responded to Behrendt‘s post on X regarding the charges against her by noting that the city of Göttingen, where the Central Office for Combating Hate Crime on the Internet is located, has a played a role in the disturbing history pro-pedophilia advocacy in Germany. Reports released by Hildesheim University in 2020 and 2024 named Göttingen, and specifically the University of Göttingen’s Pädagogisches Seminar, as an early intellectual and social hub for academic theories of “emancipatory pedagogy”.
These academic origins, or Ursprungsknotenpunkt according to the reports, would ultimately provide a foundation for a decades-long government-funded project which saw foster children rehomed with pedophiles.
While emancipatory pedagogy originated in the 1960’s as a framework for democratic education and social work, it was expanded upon by pro-pedophile academics who argued that children must be liberated from adult authority, and advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relationships under the guise of liberating the sexuality of minors, which gave rise to concepts of “emancipatory sexual education”.
The notorious Kentler Experiment was a state-sponsored program in West Berlin that systematically placed vulnerable, homeless, or institutionalized children, who were primarily young boys, into the foster care of men known to be active pedophiles. It was named after sexologist, psychologist, and professor of social education at the University of Hanover, Helmut Kentler. With the approval and assistance of the Berlin Senate, at-risk youth were rehomed with self-identified pedophiles beginning in 1969.
Official child welfare agencies in West Berlin actively approved, arranged, and funded the placements. Foster “fathers” received regular, tax-funded maintenance payments and child allowances from the state for housing the boys.
Investigations by University of Hildesheim researchers established that state-approved foster care placements of young boys with pedophilic men continued until approximately 2001. The reports name Klaus Mollenhauer, one of post-war West Germany’s most influential educational theorists, as a close collaborator and personal friend of Helmut Kentler. Mollenhauer completed his doctorate at the Pädagogisches Seminar Göttingen and was a leading architect of “emancipatory pedagogy” (Kritische Pädagogik).
GERMANY: A sociologist with a history of defending pedophilia is now in a leadership role at a prominent "queer” group advocating for "trans kids."
Rüdiger Lautmann, author of "The Lust for Children," argued that kids as young as 4 can consent to sex.https://t.co/8OXKJp26jA
Another leading figure involved in promoting “emancipatory sexual education” and pedophilic relations between adults and minors recently served on the Board of Directors for a “queer” organization promoting the medical transitioning of young children. As recently as 2024, Rüdiger Lautmann was listed as a Secretary for the Berlin chapter of working group SPDqueer, which has advocated for children to be permitted to initiate a “gender change” from the age of seven years old without parental consent.
Lautmann was also involved in a 1979 motion calling for the deletion of Section 176 of the German legal code, which would have effectively eliminated the age of consent. Throughout his career, Lautmann maintained a close relationship with the pro-pedophile sexologist Helmut Kentler.
A Scotland-based “charity” recently held a seminar for third world migrants who were new to the area, teaching them how young is too young when finding a girl (to rape?), and educating them on when they can have sex with children without getting arrested or going to jail. However, it didn’t really go off without a hitch, because the information offered wasn’t even correct, and attendants piped up with their own guesses, leaving everything very confusing:
This is creepy beyond belief
The Mamacita Foundation, a migrant charity, has people go around and tell the migrants at what age they won't be arrested for having sex with children
For clarification, the age of consent in both England and Scotland is 16.
Not aged 12, which the speaker throws out as a potential—no doubt because these men are from Africa, where the age of consent can be 12, could very well think that. (Sudan’s age of consent is 12 as long as the 12-year-old is married; in Niger, the age is 13 and in Yemen, it’s 9.)
And not aged 14, as the lady from somewhere in southeast Asia suggests, which could be expected from someone hailing from southeast Asia—the Pakistani rape gangs, hello! (Bangladesh’s age of consent is 14 while in Laos and Cambodia, it’s 15.)
Fast forward a year, and this is where we’ll be (assuming these future rapists are actually prosecuted).
It's going to be a defence at a rape trial. "I went to lessons and heard someone explain it was 14, I think."
🚨NEW: 19-year-old migrant Gift Ayoola, who directed children as young as 2 into sexual acts on camera and sold the footage, has been jailed for just four years.
There were also extreme pornographic images depciting bestiality.
If you have to teach grown men not to have sex with children, maybe these grown men don’t have a place in our country? I know I know, I’m a “fAr-RiGhT fAsCiSt” aren’t I?
Yeah, I don’t see this little seminar really doing anything about baked in subhuman cultural attitudes and low IQs. That’s the real cause of the rapes, and that’s not going to be addressed by some leftist feminist “love and logic” approach. You can’t be logical with brains incapable of reason.
While this is a “charity” based in Scotland, it’s clearly not so different from countless organizations in the U.S., which is what brings me to my next point: federal grants for charities need to be entirely eliminated. (I would also suggest that all federal grants need to be eliminated while we’re forty trillion dollars in the hole and climbing, but that’s another topic for another day.)
While we Americans may not have The Mamacita Foundation, we have leftist organizations out the wazoo, facilitating the third world invasion, and the cultural genocide and literal rape of native Americans.
In what world do we justify handing tax dollars over to “charities” like this?
Mohammad Hamed Alshaer is accused of vaginally and anally raping the victim.
Mohammad Hamed Alshaer, who was born in Libya, has been charged with aggravated rape of a woman in her fifties while she was jogging along Ribersborgsstigen in Malmö on July 15.
According to the indictment submitted to Malmö District Court, the 37-year-old Alshaer struck the woman from behind, knocked her over, and dragged her into the bushes. There, he grabbed her neck and mouth, pulled her by the hair, and raped her vaginally and anally. The prosecutor wants the crime classified as rape with particular cruelty, citing exceptional violence, ruthlessness, and brutality.
Witnesses heard screams and thuds and alerted police. Officers arriving at the scene found a man lying half-undressed on top of a woman who was screaming for help.
The woman later told investigators she tried to wriggle free.
“I thought: I don’t accept this. I don’t give up,” she said, according to Swedish public broadcaster SVT. However, SVT and other Swedish outlets did not publish the suspect’s Libyan background and other key details, such as his name. Samnytt has reported on this information.
Alshaer has described the incident in terms similar to the woman’s account, with one major difference: he says the woman “inspired him” to have sex with her. He told police he had not had sex in several years and decided to “give her love.” After his arrest, he reportedly told officers he realized what he had done was wrong, yet he still denied the rape in court.
Alshaer, a Swedish citizen originally from Libya, has a prior conviction that includes sexual assault in a nightclub. However, since he holds Swedish citizenship, he cannot be deported. Despite obtaining citizenship, he requires an Arabic interpreter in court.
He is also charged with violent resistance and minor drug offenses. He denies the rape and the resistance charge but admits to the drug offense.
Salem Rekoub, 28, hauled the woman in her 40s down a side street in Chelsea before attacking her | MET POLICE
An illegal migrant who worked unlawfully as a Deliveroo rider has been jailed for 21 years after raping a semi-conscious woman he dragged off a London street “like a rag doll”.
Salem Rekoub, 28, hauled the woman in her 40s down a side street in Chelsea before attacking her between parked cars in July 2024.
CCTV captured the Algerian national wearing turquoise Deliveroo clothing as he dragged the woman away from public view.
Rekoub was convicted at Isleworth Crown Court of three counts of rape and two counts of assault by penetration, with the judge declaring him a danger to the public.
The victim had been out with friends before becoming unwell on a bus home and collapsing on the pavement after getting off early.
Rekoub, a complete stranger, found her unconscious before pulling her by the arms along a side road and positioning her between two cars.
She drifted in and out of consciousness during the 17-minute ordeal as Rekoub told her: “You need to be quiet.”
The attack left the woman with 33 bruises across her body.
Rekoub then called 999 and fed emergency services what prosecutor Patricia May described as “a pack of lies”.
He claimed the woman had simply drunk too much and gave police a false name while presenting himself as a concerned passerby.
Rekoub then followed his victim’s ambulance to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
CCTV showed him grinning as he walked through corridors and peered into triage rooms while attempting to locate the woman.
When challenged by a hospital worker, he said: “I’m here to find someone.”
The attack was uncovered after the victim managed to tell paramedics what had happened, with Rekoub arrested nine days later.
When challenged by a hospital worker, he said: “I’m here to find someone.”
The attack was uncovered after the victim managed to tell paramedics what had happened, with Rekoub arrested nine days later.
When challenged by a hospital worker, he said: “I’m here to find someone.”
The attack was uncovered after the victim managed to tell paramedics what had happened, with Rekoub arrested nine days later.
Almost two thirds of French voters have said the National Rally (RN) is right to want certain benefits and rights reserved for French citizens, according to a poll published days before Marine Le Pen made the idea the centrepiece of her presidential campaign.
Some 64 per cent agreed with that proposition in the Ipsos bva-CESI barometer for La Tribune Dimanche, published on September 12. The survey questioned 1,000 people online on September 9-10.
Some 56 per cent considered the party less extreme than in the past, against 50 per cent when Ipsos last tested the question in April 2017, and 53 per cent said it could restore order in the country, up from 42 per cent.
Half said the RN had the best proposals on immigration or Islam and 48 per cent judged it ready to govern.
Doubts have not disappeared. Some 66 per cent agreed that people around Le Pen still defended extremist ideas, though that figure was 78 per cent in 2017.
Some 49 per cent described the party as a real danger to democracy, against 62 per cent nine years ago, and 52 per cent said an RN government would weaken French influence inside the European Union.
Le Pen returned to her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, northern France, on September 13 for the first major speech of her fourth presidential bid. She described national priority as a natural and just right and presented it as her first social measure.
The principle would apply to social housing, with French citizens given preference in the allocation of publicly funded homes. She also promised to repeal the SRU law, which obliges mayors to reserve part of their housing stock for social units, and to scrap planning and environmental rules she blamed for the shortage of homes.
Any such preference would run into the EU’s ban on discrimination on grounds of nationality between citizens of member states.
Le Pen is standing again after the Paris Court of Appeal upheld her conviction for misusing European Parliament funds on July 7 but reduced her period of ineligibility, restoring her right to contest the election. Surveys since then have shown her leading in every scenario tested.
The RN said it would open its campaign formally in Orléans on October 25. The first round is due on April 18, 2027.
The same barometer recorded immigration as a leading personal concern for 31 per cent of respondents, four points higher than in July and 63 per cent among RN sympathisers. Purchasing power came first on 54 per cent.
President Emmanuel Macron registered 16 per cent of favourable opinions, the lowest of his time in office. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu stood at 20 per cent.
If we were to listen to the Socialist PM of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, we’d think that the situation in the North African enclave of Ceuta is ‘mostly resolved’ – but that is very far from the truth.
Today, shocking images arise, showing thousands of invaders running around the town as Spanish police attempted to dismantle their filthy ramshackle beach camps.
Two things stand out from these videos: first, the number of migrants in Ceuta is still much larger than the island economy can support.
Secondly, it’s clear that the police have no control over the situation.
“The migrants, the majority of whom had traveled to the Spanish territory from Morocco, had been sleeping rough on beaches for weeks, waiting to be relocated to an official camp in the port area.
The crowds reportedly became impatient when only a few officials arrived to facilitate the move, and began running towards the new camp just before 7am on Friday.”
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Spanish police began moving hundreds of migrants from beaches in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta to temporary facilities at the city's port, sparking tension as migrants vied for limited spots at the new location https://t.co/uSGcXe6m7Mpic.twitter.com/TWI01CwIG6
Unsurprisingly, there was not enough space in the new camp for the myriad of migrants, and that led to a stampede.
Los migrantes protagonizan altercados en un intento por asegurarse una de las 1.700 nuevas plazas en el campamento del puerto de Ceuta: en el traslado se han vivido momentos de tensión pic.twitter.com/6T5qSOYKn6
“According to El Pais, tensions heightened as more officers arrived, and a crush ensued as the migrants tried to reach the designated route.
Police fired shots into the air, used tear gas and struck several people in an attempt to control the crowds. Approximately 150 officers assisted, walking groups on the 1km journey from Benítez and El Trampolín beaches to the port camp.”
Ceuta : Thousands of migrants stampede toward the port, terrified of missing one of the last 1,700 spots in the new camp. Chaos. Warning shots fired 💥 pic.twitter.com/VnjFhnd6GL
“Two migrants were arrested this morning – with one accused of slashing a teenager with a blade. The other was detained on suspicion of burglary.
Police said the alleged stabbing ordeal took place at 3am after receiving reports of an assault near the Trampolin settlement. The suspect has been accused of cutting a young man’s face with a knife.”
Spanish police have moved hundreds of migrants from beaches in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta to temporary facilities, over a month after 72,000 people crossed into the city from Morocco in an unprecedented border rush. pic.twitter.com/npXqvsFQ32
