Anti-Israel protest in Leuven. Belgium. Screengrab youtube
by Giulio Meotti
“I don’t know if the United States will survive in a recognizable form for my generation,” laments the great playwright David Mamet, the screenwriter of The Untouchables and other film classics, who has written an essay worth memorizing, titled: “This is a time of terrifying change.”
I know that Europe will not survive in a recognizable form for my generation. It is already happening.
Once I stopped for a local beer, the famous Stella Artois, in Leuven’s splendid square, the Oude Markt. What a postcard: magnificent buildings dating back to the seventeenth century, the grand architecture of Flemish Brabant, outdoor cafés, tree-lined avenues, civic order.
At the time, Leuven even had a white left-wing mayor, one of those who had traded class struggle for the intoxication of power but who still practiced “old Europe.”
Now the mayor of Leuven is named Mohamed Ridouani. He is still on the left, but he is Muslim, and he has just banned the UEFA Europa League match between the Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise and the Israeli side Hapoel Be’er Sheva, citing “security reasons.”
“We cannot guarantee security,” the mayor declared.
It does not matter that a third of the Israeli team is made up of Arabs (how many Arab teams have Jewish players?).
Meanwhile, the Belgian flight attendants’ union does not want to fly to Israel. They invoke “ethical reasons.”
Brussels Airlines’ African network includes 18 sub-Saharan destinations: dictatorships with leaders in power for decades, military juntas, and sham elections. Burkina Faso: military junta after coups. Burundi: authoritarian regime. Cameroon: Paul Biya in power for 40 years. Guinea: military junta. Uganda: Yoweri Museveni in power for decades.
Do you think the good Belgians have a problem flying to those countries and to every Islamic country? No, because the Caliphate has already arrived.
They also canceled the soccer match between Belgium and Israel in Brussels. There too it was “simply impossible” to guarantee security. Then Israeli frisbee athletes were driven out of Ghent, which excluded them from an international tournament over “security problems.”
“If we look at what is happening in Belgium, there is reason to fear the emergence of an emirate in the heart of a contrite Europe, blinded by guilt and cowardice,” wrote the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud, author of The Meursault Investigation (Bompiani).
The Caliphate does not arrive with black flags on the cathedrals. It arrives through liberal institutions that call “inclusion” what is, in reality, a permanent negotiation of their own principles.
“Soon a Belgian Caliphate,” comments the courageous Moroccan-Belgian Fadila Maaroufi.
All that’s left is to toast with another Stella Artois to the end of Europe?
When the mayor of the capital Brussels advertises “Salaam Cola,” the halal Coca-Cola, the Caliphate has arrived.
When an imam goes to Parliament to recites the Quran, the Caliphate has arrived.
When the mayor of the capital says that “all the mosques in my city are in the hands of Salafists,” the Caliphate has arrived.
When there is a reenactment of October 7 with terrorists dressed in keffiyehs and military clothes simulating deadly attacks, the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can found a party that wants to impose sharia, the Caliphate has arrived.
But it is above all from what you can NO longer do that you understand.
When you can no longer organize a conference of conservative intellectuals and the mayor sends the police like his private militia to bar the doors, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can no longer celebrate Christmas and Easter at school, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can no longer walk through certain neighborhoods without a veil or in revealing clothes, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you are sentenced to six months in prison for displaying a banner that says “Stop Islamization” as “incitement to hatred,” be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can no longer talk in school about the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, or Voltaire mocking Turkish culture, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can no longer organize museum tributes to massacred cartoonists, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can no longer go into the largest bookstore and order a book critical of multiculturalism, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When Jews abandon certain neighborhoods and cities, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
When you can no longer walk around wearing a kippah, be certain: the Caliphate has arrived.
Sofiane Belasri, 41, assaulted the 16-year-old after approaching her while with she was with a group of friends | CITY OF LONDON POLICE
An Algerian migrant who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in a London alleyway has been spared jail.
Sofiane Belasri, 41, violated the 16-year-old schoolgirl after approaching her while she was with a group of friends outside Liverpool Street Station in July 2024.
He sat on the steps opposite the station with the group after buying alcohol for them from a nearby shop, before telling the girl she was “beautiful”.
The 41-year-old proceeded to touch the victim’s breasts over her clothes, with the girl quickly telling him she was “gay” and not interested in him.
After he was rejected, the migrant began making sexual comments towards the girl’s friends.
He then asked whether the girls would perform oral sex on him in a nearby alleyway in exchange for buying them vapes.
The 41-year-old was finally arrested after one member of the group went to Bishopsgate Police Station to report his behaviour.
Reading out a victim impact statement to the court, prosecutor Wajahat Sherwani said: “Even though it was quite some time ago she feels cautious going out in London at night.”
Derek Barry, defending, described Belasri’s actions as an “out of character incident” – despite having five previous convictions for offences such as theft and criminal damage.
Following his last conviction, the 41-year-old failed to complete the unpaid work he was ordered to do with five previous convictions including theft and criminal damage.
Mr Barry said: “He seems to have started off well and then tailed off and it is disappointing.
“He started off well and then perhaps did the ostrich and put his head in the sand and thought there would be no repercussions.”
Southwark Crown Court heard the Algerian national’s right to remain in Britain expired in 2017 and he had unsuccessfully attempted to renew it.
After being convicted of sexual assault and sexual touching, Belasri was sentenced to two years in prison suspended for two years.
The 41-year-old was also prohibited from approaching a female under 18 in a public place – unless it is as a result of his employment or in an emergency situation – for 10 years.
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years, ordered to complete 15 sessions of a cognitive-behavioural programme and a 20 hour rehabilitation activity requirement.
Police confirmed they have launched a review into the sentence handed down to the 41-year-old.
Mr Recorder Margia Mostafa, sentencing, said: “The facts of the matter is you were taking advantage of a young girl who was drunk.
“I take the view that you were attracted to the victim and offered to give the group money to buy alcohol.
“Having seen how drunk she was you decided to buy more alcohol for her in order to facilitate this offence.
“You realised that she was drunk and young and thought you would take advantage of her.”
Mr Mostafa added: “Even though the incident happened a few years ago it still affects the girl deeply. She is cautious, especially cautious when she is in London.
“She feels very anxious around older people and in the presence of older men.
“This incident has shaped how she feels when she is out late and makes her much more careful about where she is going. That is the impact on her.”
A 35-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday, September 8, at the Church of Saint-Rémi in Forbach (Moselle), where, according to the newspaper JDD, he had entered the building shouting “Allah akbar”. Several witnesses stated that he was looking for the parish priest, who was not present at the time of the incident.
The police arrested him inside the building. He was armed with a knife at the time. The man is a foreign national and is legally resident in France. He is known to the Criminal Records Authority (TAJ), but not to the regional intelligence services in connection with radicalisation.
He was taken into police custody. The investigation has been handed over to the criminal investigation department.
People join the March for Life UK at Parliament Square on September 5, 2026 in London. Screengrab youtube
A 17-year-old Christian activist and commentator was arrested Saturday after retrieving a banner icon of Christ that was snatched from him and a fan of his.
Gregory Moffitt, a conservative content creator known as “Young Bob,” explained that he was standing with a fan who asked to have a picture taken with him at the UK March for Life. The pair held up Moffitt’s banner icon of Jesus Christ as they posed for a photo.
Video footage posted to X shows Moffitt’s fan taking ahold of and lowering the sign of a nearby pro-abortion counterprotester, who was waving the sign up and down very close to him. Another counterprotester then snatched away the icon of Christ, and Moffitt proceeded to go after the thief, knocking down a nearby pro-abortion woman as he sought to retrieve the banner.
Video shows police officers shortly after pried Moffitt away from the scene and escorted him away from the crowd. As the young activist later explained in an interview, he was arrested on the charge of causing an affray, which is contained in section three of the Public Order Act.
“I’m trying to defend the icon of Christ, the Second Eternal Person of the Trinity, the Son,” Moffitt explained after his arrest. “May the Holy Spirit be with you all,” he said after he was escorted into a police vehicle.
Afterward, Moffitt shared that he was held for “hours” at Charing Cross station and was later released after the police decided not to press charges.
“Young Bob” told Dan Wootton, host of the show “Outspoken,” that he believes the police knew who he was beforehand and were waiting for an excuse to arrest him.
“I could hear the whisper of a police officer talking on the radio saying, ‘Whatever you do, get this man arrested,’” Moffitt told Wootton.
This was Moffitt’s second arrest at the March for Life UK.
“In fact, some of the arresting officers were going on about my online profile and how it’d made them look,” he added.
Moffitt shared that the last time he was arrested at the UK March for Life, the police addressed him as “Young Bob,” indicating that they were familiar with his online presence.
“So these people obviously know me from my online platform and tried to get me arrested because they know I’m a right-winger,” he told Wootton. In fact, Moffitt has a “case file” on the leftist “Hate not Hope” site, indicating he is on the radar of at least some liberals.
“I’ve never seen such a crazy, angry and violent protest than the pro-abortionists,” Moffitt said. “They disturbed a Catholic Mass. They were shouting at Christian clergymen. And by and large, aside from a few controversial figures such as myself, the March for Life is incredibly peaceful, it’s completely devoid of any political discourse. It’s just Christian people protesting for the sanctity of life.”
He called the “desecration” of the icon of Christ a “clear act of Christophobia.”
The outlet The Yarn said the video footage alone of the incident is “enough to raise serious questions about (the) priorities” of the UK justice system. Britain keeps creating the conditions for public distrust and then acting surprised when people stop trusting the institutions enforcing the rules.”
“Young Bob” rose to prominence through interviews on Speaker’s Corner and while campaigning for Disciples for Christ, a UK-based activist group.
The creator of the campaign to raise British and English flags across the country to protest against illegal migrants being housed in hotels at taxpayer expense has been charged with 14 criminal offences, including using “threatening, abusive or insulting words”.
Thames Valley Police said on Sunday evening that Ryan Bridge, 45, of Blackwell has been charged with 14 offences relating to alleged incidents between January 31 and March 31 of this year in Oxfordshire.
According to GB News, Bridge was the founder of the Operation Raise the Colours campaign, which began last year in opposition to the government policy of taking alleged asylum seekers and placing them in hotels across the country at taxpayer expense.
The police force said that Bridge was charged with seven counts of using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress and three counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of, or provoke, unlawful violence.
He was also charged with two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress, one count of racially aggravated fear of violence, and one count of common assault.
Thames Valley Police said that they had decided to submit the case to the Crown Prosecution Service following a review of the evidence, witness statements, and video footage.
It comes as the left-wing-run Birmingham city council that they plan on spending around £2.6 million to remove British and English flags from the streets of the UK’s second city.
According to the Daily Telegraph, around 20,000 flags were raised by members of the public on street infrastructure as a part of the Raise the Colours campaign.
The decision to spend millions removing the national flags comes despite the Birmingham currently being in around £3.5 billion in debt, the most of any local government in Britain.
Meanwhile, in Oxfordshire — where the campaign begun — secured an injunction in July to bar anyone from attaching flags to lampposts or to pain the flag on the road.
Those who breach the injunction against raising the flag face potential prison sentences, fines, or even having assets seized, the BBC reported.
The Liberal Democrat leader of the Oxfordshire City Council, Tim Bearder, said at the time: “This is a welcome judgement. We’re very pleased with the result… This sets a legal precedent and will hopefully deter people in not just Oxfordshire but around the country from partaking in this criminal activity.”
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister-President Hendrik Wüst wants the first steps towards an AfD ban.Photo: rmx
Senior Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician Hendrik Wüst has called for the first concrete step towards examining a possible ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), following the party’s historic election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany.
Wüst, the premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, is one of the CDU’s most prominent figures and is widely regarded as a potential future challenger to Chancellor Friedrich Merz. His intervention came on September 7, one day after the Saxony-Anhalt election, where the AfD won 43.8 per cent and the CDU 17.2 per cent on a record turnout of 77.8 per cent.
The AfD more than doubled its 2021 score and the CDU more than halved its own.
Speaking at a public event in Berlin on September 7, moderated by the political economist Maja Göpel, Wüst called for a joint federal and state working group to examine the AfD and the possible legal consequences. As reported by Welt on September 8, he stressed that the process should not begin with a predetermined objective:
“Not with the politically predetermined goal that you now have to examine a ban, but to examine this party and the possible legal consequences. That could be a ban, but it could also be something else.”
Wüst added that if the examination concluded that the AfD could legally be banned, proceedings should follow “step by step”. He said he believed no CDU politician had publicly called for such a group before.
Speaking separately to German press agency dpa, he warned against rushing, saying a ban could only be a last resort, that the review had to be open-ended and that the group should bring in the domestic intelligence service and constitutional lawyers.
Germany faces another state election on September 20 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the country’s northeast, where the latest Infratest dimap poll, published on September 3, puts the AfD at 35 per cent, ahead of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at 32 per cent. The CDU is polling at 8 per cent, which would be its worst result in the state since 1990.
The AfD’s rise is not confined to the states. In the ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll published on September 3, it emerged as Germany’s strongest political force with 27 per cent, ahead of the CDU/CSU at 21 per cent. The same survey put satisfaction with the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition at 15 per cent.
This has prompted some political observers to view calls for an AfD ban not only as a constitutional question, but also as an attempt by the CDU to eliminate a political competitor it has so far been unable to defeat at the ballot box.
Harald Martenstein, a journalist and columnist who spent years at Die Zeit and now writes for Bild, has argued against an AfD ban. He put the criticism bluntly in a speech at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg on February 13, 2026: “You know that you are not preventing a Fourth Reich, but merely seeking to eliminate your political competition.”
Germany’s Basic Law explicitly provides for party bans. Under Article 21, parties seeking to undermine or abolish the free democratic basic order can be declared unconstitutional.
Only the Federal Constitutional Court can impose such a ban. Applications can be submitted by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, the federal government or the Bundesrat, the chamber representing the 16 states.
The CDU itself therefore cannot file a case. Wüst, as head of the North Rhine-Westphalia government, sits in the Bundesrat himself and could press for a move there.
The threshold is deliberately high. The court would have to establish not merely that the AfD is extremist, but that it actively seeks to undermine or abolish the free democratic basic order.
Even a lower hurdle has proved hard to clear. On February 26, 2026, the Cologne Administrative Court barred the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from classifying the AfD as a confirmed extremist organisation until the main proceedings conclude, ruling that the evidence submitted did not support the designation.
Wüst’s proposed working group would therefore collect and assess evidence before any formal application.
Merz has meanwhile drawn a clear line against cooperation with the AfD, describing himself and his party as deeply shocked and calling the outcome the CDU’s heaviest election defeat in decades. But the scale of the AfD’s advance is exposing growing tensions within the party.
While Merz insists on political separation, figures such as Wüst are pushing for a more forceful response. Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Markus Söder said the AfD should instead be confronted on policy, arguing a purely formal debate about the “firewall” did not help.
Both of the last two Labour prime ministers were complicit in the Muslim rape gangs that ravaged the United Kingdom and extracted a toll of as many as 250,000 girls and women. Former PM Keir Starmer headed the Crown Prosecution Service, which failed to act, and current PM Andy Burnham, served as the mayor of Greater Manchester where much of this rape jihad was taking place.
As the mass invasion of the UK by Muslim migrants continues, along with the subsequent rapes, the Burnham regime is… attacking Israel.
Burnham’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivered a screed falsely accusing Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ and imposing a boycott on Jewish agricultural products from Judea and Samaria, known by some as the West Bank. In addition to a ban on importing fruits and vegetables from Jewish areas in Judea and Samaria, Miliband, who has no problem with Chinese imports made in slave labor camps, also warned that arms licenses would be suspended and that the Burnham regime would take” action against specific companies and individuals who provide services such as construction, infrastructure, financing, or real estate” for Jewish communities.
No similar action is being contemplated against Arab Muslim settlements. Obviously. Meanwhile, Muslim sex grooming gangs continue to prey on women and girls and migrants from Afghanistan continue to invade the UK.
The mother of a disabled woman is outraged after a rape complaint was dismissed against 40-year-old Moroccan man serving as the daughter’s caregiver in a care facility near the French city of Toulouse. In addition, prosecutors dismissed the sexual assault allegations involving two other disabled female victims at the same facility.
The mother, Nathalie Muet, is openly publicizing a case in where she says her 23-year-old quadriplegic daughter, Mayline, was raped at an Association for the Protection of Disabled Children (ASEI) center in Ramonville-Saint-Agne.
Speaking to French newspaper La Dépêche, she called the decision “incomprehensible.”
The rape complaint was first filed on Mayline’s behalf in July 2025 and was dismissed on Aug. 1. Muet is now speaking up about the dismissal and exploring different legal options, including an appeal, after prosecutors dropped the case.
🇪🇸Within 24 hours, Noelia Castillo Ramos will be euthanized in Spain.
In 2022, Noelia suffered a gang rape in a supervised care center.
This completely shattered her life. She attempted suicide, jumping from a 5-story building, which left her a paraplegic.
The mother points to what she says is clear evidence that requires a criminal trial. In fact, Mayline is not the only woman who has filed a criminal complaint. The Moroccan was indicted in a total of three cases involving the sexual assault of young women, including Mayline.
One of the key pieces of evidence the mother cites is the medical report. The report notes the absence of traumatic injuries, while specifying that the genital examination was incomplete and that “the hymen could not be visualized.” However, the medical expert considered the exam “compatible with acts of anal penetration,” as reported by the mother.
The mother of a disabled woman is outraged after a rape complaint was dismissed against 40-year-old Moroccan man serving as the daughter’s caregiver in a care facility near the French city of Toulouse. In addition, prosecutors dismissed the sexual assault allegations involving two other disabled female victims at the same facility.
The mother, Nathalie Muet, is openly publicizing a case in where she says her 23-year-old quadriplegic daughter, Mayline, was raped at an Association for the Protection of Disabled Children (ASEI) center in Ramonville-Saint-Agne.
Speaking to French newspaper La Dépêche, she called the decision “incomprehensible.”
The rape complaint was first filed on Mayline’s behalf in July 2025 and was dismissed on Aug. 1. Muet is now speaking up about the dismissal and exploring different legal options, including an appeal, after prosecutors dropped the case.
The mother points to what she says is clear evidence that requires a criminal trial. In fact, Mayline is not the only woman who has filed a criminal complaint. The Moroccan was indicted in a total of three cases involving the sexual assault of young women, including Mayline.
One of the key pieces of evidence the mother cites is the medical report. The report notes the absence of traumatic injuries, while specifying that the genital examination was incomplete and that “the hymen could not be visualized.” However, the medical expert considered the exam “compatible with acts of anal penetration,” as reported by the mother.
However, there is additional evidence, according to the mother. She says Mayline herself was terrified to go back to the facility due to the rape.
“She was screaming and didn’t want to go back to that center again,” Nathalie Muet said to French newspaper Midi Libre, adding that she gathered information from her daughter, despite Mayline’s significant communication difficulties, about what she allegedly suffered.
The mother stated that it was not just one incident either, but that Mayline was the victim of “repeated” sexual touching by the caregiver.
The accused man was dismissed from his post and placed in pre-trial detention. He was released at the end of 2025 and denies any accusation of rape. In Mayline’s case, as in two other similar cases, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office concluded after more than a year of proceedings that the offenses were not sufficiently constituted.
For Nathalie Muet, the medical report’s conclusions justify further investigation.
“There is still evidence to be found and educators who may not have said everything,” she said.
Mayline left ASEI in 2025 for another specialized care facility in Gratentour.
The home of Australian pastor Andrew Sedra was reportedly attacked by multiple LGBT activists, who issued threats against the family members, including their newborn son.
The pastor’s X account posted security footage of the attackers, saying they cut off power to the home and tried to gain entry.
“On Thursday night, 4 left-wing activists including 2 hooded individuals came to our home after our address was leaked publicly online,” the post said.
“They threatened to kill us and destroy us, they cut out the electricity from our home and attempted to break in. They knew our whole family by name, including our newborn baby, mentioning him continuously.”
Warning: This video contains explicit language that may be offensive to some viewers.
🚨The SEDRAS ATTACKED by 4 left wing LGBTQ activists in their home. 🏳️🌈
On Thursday night, 4 left-wing activists including 2 hooded individuals came to our home after our address was leaked publicly online. They threatened to kill us and destroy us, they cut out the electricity… pic.twitter.com/P4OZ296lw8
Sedra and his wife, Noleen Sedra, are associated with Echo Church, a Pentecostal church movement.
Both speak against homosexuality, as well as other pressing issues like abortion and the rise of Islam in the West.
Other family members, such as brothers Martin Sedra and John Sedra, and sister-in-law Noleen Sedra, received verbal threats from the activists.
The Sedra brothers come from a Coptic background, and their family faced persecution in their native Egypt.
Andrew Sedra’s account noted that the threats included invectives like “I will f***ing kill you,” “I will take you motherf***ers down,” and “I know where you live and I’ll be at your doorstep every night.”
An ongoing lawsuit against Correctional Service Canada (CSC) has forced the federal government to admit that female inmates have been raped by at least two trans-identified male transfers since the implementation of a gender identity housing policy in 2017. Despite the official admission, the Attorney General of Canada claims, in a statement of defense, that housing violent male convicts in women’s prisons “does not infringe the rights guaranteed to cisgender women inmates.”
In 2017, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) adopted an interim policy (Bulletin 584: Bill C-16) which allowed male inmates to be housed according to their “gender identity” rather than according to their biological sex. Five years later, in 2022, the CSC finalized its approach and formally enacted the policy titled Commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender Diverse Offenders. The guidelines detail the CSC’s “commitment to meeting the needs of its gender diverse offender population in ways that respect their human rights and ensure their safety and dignity.”
In April 2025, lawyers funded by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms launched a legal challenge on behalf of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR). The non-profit organization has worked to preserve the sex-based rights and protections of women and girls across Canada. The lawsuit argues that allowing trans-identified male inmates to transfer to, and be housed in, the female estate poses a direct risk to female inmates and violates their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“The risks created by transferring a Trans-identifying Male Inmate to a Female Prison are not eliminated or alleviated by drugs (hormones) and/or surgery. Hormone therapy does not guarantee that the Trans-identifying Male Inmate with male genitalia will not have erectile capacity. Neither penectomy (surgical removal of the penis) nor gonadectomy (surgical removal of the testes) change other characteristics indicative of Male criminality including aggression and potential for violence,” reads the claim.
Trans-identified male Steven “Sam” Mehlenbacher
In a statement of defense filed on August 31, lawyers for the Attorney General defended the practice of housing trans-identified male inmates in the female estate: “A gender-diverse offender’s request to be placed in, or transferred to, an institution that better aligns with their gender identity or expression is determined through an individualized assessment that considers the offender’s risks and needs, CSC’s security and operational requirements, and health and safety considerations for the offender, other inmates, and CSC staff at the receiving institution.”
In response to CAWSBAR’s filing, the statement of defense reveals that one inmate was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment in May 2020 after a female inmate filed a complaint.
Reduxx can reveal that the inmate, Steven “Sam” Mehlenbacher, had been transferred to the all-women’s prison Grand Valley Institute (GVI) after sexually assaulting female inmates at the Edmonton Institution for Women (EIW).
As reported by The Toronto Sun, Mehlenbacher began claiming to identify as a woman after his incarceration, some time between 2015 and 2019. A serial offender, Mehlenbacher has accumulated 16 bank robbery convictions. In May 2019 he was transferred to women’s facility GVI from EIW, and by March 2020 he was under investigation for sexual assault.
One former inmate who spoke to the outlet said Mehlenbacher told her he “just wants to get laid.”
“I’ve walked in on him having sex in the gym, in the bathroom making out with someone else and wanting a threesome with me,” the woman said. “Three women needed the morning-after pill.”
Reduxx previously spoke with the victim in the May 2020 ordeal, using the pseudonym of “Emma” to protect her identity. “Why don’t my rights matter? Why doesn’t the CSC care about the trauma I’ve gone through, and why have they put me in a situation where I could become a victim again?” Emma told Reduxx last year.
She was responding to having recently witnessed another sexual assault at GVI committed by a trans-identified male transfer. Frederick Radcliffe, who has been convicted of the rape of teenage girls on several occasions, was accused of sexually predatory behavior and assaults by multiple female inmates last year, and Emma had seen him attack another woman.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
A transgender pedophile currently housed in a women's prison in Canada is under investigation for sexually assaulting two female inmates.
Carissa Marie Radcliffe is serving a rare indeterminate sentence for raping multiple young girls.https://t.co/VLXE2fkHM4
Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI), located in Kitchener, is organized into a campus-style setting with several buildings, or “houses,” where inmates live together. Radcliffe, a convicted pedophile who claims to identify as a transgender woman, was transferred into a housing unit at GVI at the beginning of 2023.
Once officials became aware of the sexual assaults, Radcliffe was removed from House 11, where he had been staying with the women, and placed in a maximum security unit. Officers then began to interview all of the women who had been living in the same house, inquiring as to Radcliffe’s behavior. Some women noted that he had been walking around the housing unit while wearing only a shirt, naked from the waist down and exposing himself to the women.
One woman, “Maria”, came forward with an account of Radcliffe sexually abusing her in. The victim said that Radcliffe pushed her against a wall in an area near the library’s bathroom and forcefully shoved his hands down her pants before engaging in unwanted sexual contact.
Radcliffe had only been staying with the victim in House 11 for two weeks before he assaulted Maria. The dangerous sex offender had previously been living in a housing unit for Indigenous women, but was transferred to House 11 due to his ongoing sexual harassment of the women there.
Despite multiple reports of predatory and disturbing behavior, the CSC has now acknowledged that Radcliffe was charged with two counts of sexual assault for one instance in 2024.
Radcliffe, who now calls himself Carissa Maria, has a lengthy criminal history and is a convicted child sexual abuser. He was declared a Dangerous Offender in 2010, a designation which requires him to remain incarcerated until the parole board says he is no longer a risk to the public.
In 2017, Radcliffe, still using the name Frederick, appealed his 2009 conviction and his 2010 indeterminate sentence. The judge dismissed both appeals. It was around this time that Radcliffe began identifying as “transgender” and changed his name and pronouns. Soon after, he was transferred in to Edmonton Institution for Women (EIW).
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
A transgender baby rapist currently housed at a women's prison in Canada brutally assaulted a female inmate after she called him a "pedophile."
The female inmate was then punished with segregation despite suffering from broken ribs.https://t.co/BdbihlLGtN
Also mentioned in the statement of defense is a 2018 incident involving Adam Laboucan, who is Canada’s youngest dangerous offender, and who was handed a rare indeterminate sentence after being convicted of the violent rape of a 3-month-old infant. Sometime in 2018, Laboucan began to identify as transgender and changed his name to Tara Desousa. It was around this time that Laboucan was transferred into the Fraser Valley Institution for Women (FVI) in Abbotsford, which features a unit for mothers and infants.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Laboucan has been observed leering at and making aggressive remarks towards the children at the FVI Mother-Child unit, leading to anger and concern from the female inmates.
In 2018, soon after he was transferred into FVI, a female inmate responded to Laboucan’s disturbing behavior by defending another woman and her baby, demanding that he desist in his threatening conduct and calling him a “pedophile.”
It was at that point that Laboucan “picked her up, threw her, and then charged at her once she was on the ground and continued the assault.” After prison guards intervened, the female inmate who had been attacked was punished by being placed in segregation for “inciting” his assault against her. This is despite the fact that she had suffered from multiple fractured ribs.
The CSC submitted charges against both inmates. But, in the statement of defense it is implied that the investigation into the matter was dropped upon the discovery that the assault occurred after the female inmate referred to the convicted pedophile as a “pedophile”.
Legal counsel for Attorney General Sean Fraser further claimed in the statement that the policy of housing violent males in women’s prisons “does not infringe the rights guaranteed to cisgender women inmates,” and said allegations of harm “relating to the placement and transfer of gender diverse offenders into women’s institutions are vague, lack specificity and are insufficiently connected to CD 100.”
Incredibly, the statement of defense also asserted that the use of the term “female”, as seen in the Justice Centre’s original filing, “risks mischaracterizing or misgendering gender diverse inmates,” and the Attorney General’s counsel insisted on using the term “cisgender women” instead.
It further clarifies that the CSC has never had a policy of housing inmates according to sex, and asserts that the CSC “had the implicit authority to place inmates according to gender identity prior to the introduction” of the 2017 interim guidelines.
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Speaking with Reduxx, female inmate advocate and founding member of CAWSBAR Heather Mason highlighted the “double standard” involved in putting women at risk in order to ensure the safety of trans-identified male inmates.
“The CSC is saying that putting trans-identifying male inmates into women’s prisons does not infringe the rights of women, while at the same time acknowledging sexual assault complaints that resulted in criminal charges. How do those two things make sense together?”
She continued: “These women are in your custody. They cannot leave. They cannot choose who they are locked up with. It is your job to keep them safe and rehabilitate them. Prison is their punishment. Being sexually assaulted by a male inmate is not supposed to be part of their sentence. So if a woman can be sexually assaulted by a male inmate CSC chose to put in a women’s prison and the government still says her rights are not being infringed, then what does count as an infringement?”
“If f the risk of sexual assault is relevant when deciding where a male inmate should be housed, why does that same risk suddenly stop mattering when it is female inmates who are being sexually assaulted?” Mason said. “We are told that trans-identifying male inmates are not safe in men’s prisons and need to be protected from sexual violence. Fine. Then why does that concern disappear when it is women who are at risk of sexual violence?”
“You cannot say the risk of rape matters when the person at risk is male, but then say women’s rights are not being infringed when women are sexually assaulted by male inmates placed in their prisons. That is the double standard. The violence problem started in men’s prisons, but instead of dealing with it there, the risk created by these transfers has been offloaded onto women.”
