Clément Baur, who went unnoticed by the police for years thanks to his language skills and underground life, is accused of planning a terrorist attack in Marseille in April 2017 together with Mahiedine Merabet, who was detected by the intelligence services at the last moment. The trial of the suspected jihadists begins on Thursday in Paris.
A few days before the first round of the 2017 presidential elections, in which Emmanuel Macron was expected to win, the duo of suspected jihadists identified Marine Le Pen’s meeting in Marseille Cathedral on April 19 as a potential target to achieve a “coup d’éclat” and avenge “the children of Syria” who had died under the bombardments of the international coalition, of which France is also a member. They also did research in bars and a gay sauna in the town of Phokéenne. According to the indictment, Clément Baur and Mahiedine Merabet appeared ready to carry out a bloodbath, which the two people involved have since denied.
However, in their flat they stored a submachine gun, handguns, a cache of ammunition and, most importantly, an impressive amount (3.5 kg) of ready-to-use TATP, a powerful explosive used by the suicide bombers in the attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016. Apart from the material issues, the speech also shows a terrible determination. On April 12, Merabet sent a bellicose message to the Islamic State via the encrypted messenger Telegram. It promised that an “operation” would take place “soon”. (…) Le Parisien
#Terrorisme Le procès des terroristes djihadistes présumés, Clément Baur et Mahiedine Merabet, suspectés d'avoir visé le meeting de la candidate à la présidentielle, Marine Le Pen, à Marseille en avril 2017, s’ouvre ce jeudi à Paris. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/XJKPbL578I
Cases of Muslim youths changing their names to trap Hindu girls keep appearing almost every day. A similar case has come to light from Vadodara, where a school dance teacher named Sheru Pathan started messaging students of class 8th and 9th of the school on Instagram by concealing his identity and started saying inappropriate things. Reportedly, he was using the name Shiv, and he was contacting only Hindu girls even when there are girls from other religions in the class.
Recently, a video was going viral on social media in which a person says his name is Sheru Pathan. He apologises in the video by admitting to the wrong thing he did in front of the camera. Sheru Pathan posed to be a Hindu dance teacher named Shiv and targeted Hindu girls in the school and followed them on Instagram after which he sent them obscene messages. He made this confession after Bajrang Dal workers in the area caught him.
વડોદરાની એક શાળામાં શેરું પઠાણ પોતાની ઓળખ છુપાવીને કોરિયોગ્રાફર તરીકે જોડાયો. બાદમાં શાળાની નાની નાની છોકરીઓને ઇન્સ્ટાગ્રામ પર મેસેજ કરીને હેરાન કરવા લાગ્યો. વાત બજરંગદળ પાસે પહોંચતા તેમણે આને રંગે હાથે પકડ્યો અને મેથીપાક આપ્યો. બાદમાં તેણે પોતાનો ગુન્હો કબુલયો. pic.twitter.com/Adf3nbJJB2
In the video, Sheru Pathan is heard saying, “My name is Sheru Pathan. I went to a school as a dance teacher, where I messaged some Hindu girls, after which the Bajrang Dal people caught me. They have taught me a lesson. So from today, I will not message any Hindu girl. At the same time, I apologize to everyone.”
After noticing the viral video, the OpIndia team tried to check the veracity of the incident during which we came in contact with Ketan Trivedi, a Bajrang Dal activist from Vadodara. He not only confirmed the incident but also gave information that was really disturbing.
Sheru Pathan only Hindu girls in the class 8th and 9th
Sheru Pathan posed to be a Hindu while approaching the school for a temporary appointment as a dance teacher for the annual cultural festival of the school. A lady teacher in the school appointed him by reference through someone. It is notable that as this appointment was temporary only for the annual festival, stringent scrutiny and identity verification were not carried out by the school. Sheru Pathan told his name to be Shiv.
In an exclusive conversation with OpIndia, Ketan Trivedi said, “A choreographer was appointed by the school for a school event who used to teach dance to school girls. Sheru Pathan had joined this place by hiding his identity.”
He further said that Sheru used to remember the names of the girls in classes 8 and 9 who came to learn dance and later followed them on Instagram and then sent messages to them. Initially, he used to start talking by sending different reels. Later he used to harass girls by saying obscene things in chats.
When one of these girls told this to her brother, he contacted the Bajrang Dal. The Bajrang Dal activists then went to the school and caught this dance teacher and the whole thing was revealed. Bajrang Dal activists checked his mobile phone and found that he was harassing at least 10 girls across Instagram, all of whom were studying in classes 8th and 9th.
Ketan Trivedi sent the photos of those messages to OpIndia. Many of the messages are very obscene, so we have added only selective photos here. It can also be clearly seen how Sheru Pathan was harassing the girls by messaging them against their wishes. Not only this, but he was also making inappropriate discussions like ‘Do you like me?’ which the girls are also seen resisting in those chats.
The shocking thing that came to light in this whole sequence was that Sheru Pathan was harassing only Hindu girls by messaging them. There was no conversation with any Muslim girls on his entire phone.
Sheru Pathan was already accused of misbehaving with a 15-year-old girl
When the matter reached the Bajrang Dal, the activists of the organization inquired and it came to light that his real name was Sheru Pathan and he lived in Manjalpur in Vadodara. In the investigation, Bajrang Dal members found that 3 years ago, the same Sheru Pathan was beaten by the public for one such act. He was then running the Nawab dance classes in Manjalpur. Once he was molesting a 15-year-old girl by locking the classes inside when the people around him caught him red-handed and beat him.
In an exclusive conversation with OpIndia, Ketan Trivedi of Bajrang Dal said, “This is an eye-opening case. Every parent must take care of this. Every parent should inquire from time to time so that no one harasses their daughter in this way, otherwise, due to such anti-social elements, the life of the girls can be spoiled.”
The population of the Netherlands increased to more than 17.8 million last year and is expected to grow at twice the rate of 2022 in the year ahead, according to estimates published by Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
The Dutch population grew by almost 227,000 last year, with the increase almost entirely attributable to mass migration, Dutch broadsheet De Telegraaf reported.
More than a quarter of new arrivals came from Ukraine, while the number of migrants originating from Asia and the Middle East, including Syria, Turkey, and India, all increased compared to previous years.
“In recent years, population growth has mainly been due to foreign net migration. In 2022, slightly over 400,000 people immigrated to the Netherlands,” CBS stated. “Foreign net migration will also be driving population growth in the future, according to the forecast,” it added.
The Netherlands is already one of the most crowded countries in the European Union by population density, second only to Malta.
The Dutch government’s stats agency revealed earlier this month that 15 percent of the current population were born outside of the country, and 12 percent have at least one parent who are foreign-born, resulting in more than 1 in 4 people residing in the Netherlands either being a foreign national or a first-generation migrant.
In its long-term projections, CBS expects the Dutch population to cross the 18 million mark in 2024, hit 19 million by 2034, and reach 20.7 million inhabitants by 2070.
It also estimates the country will see an aging population in the decades to come. Over a quarter of the population is expected to be of retirement age by 2040, and the number of over-80s should almost double in the next 20 years from 900,000 at the end 2022 to 1.7 million by 2043.
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By Olivia Murray
Does the name “Emily Oster” ring a bell? It likely does, given the fact her “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” piece in The Atlantic went viral a few months back, especially among those fashioned into second class citizens by the “pandemic.”
Now, Oster has an echo. Alena Buyx is a professor and the chair of the German Ethics Council (a body of unelected bureaucrats advising the German government), and she recently granted an interview with Die Zeit in which she suggested that accountability should be off the table; the Council and its members were ‘just following science.’ Sounds a lot like “just following orders” if you ask me.
For a bit of context, read the excerpt below from a piece posted to the Eugyppius Substack yesterday:
The German Ethics Council is an independent advisory body which has existed in some form since 2001, and which has a mandate to advise the government especially on matters of bioethics. It met its first serious test during the Corona era, when the entire political and bureaucratic leadership decided that the best way to respond to SARS-2 would be to commit massive human rights violations. Naturally, the Ethics Council not only failed to oppose these extraordinary policies, but supported them wherever possible.
Eugyppius goes on to aptly describe Buyx as “highly conscientious, deeply conformist, mildly intelligent, and totally bereft of all originality and independence of thought” and from the interview, gleaned that Buyx “decided that it would be better not to blame anyone for the hell that the Corona brigade has put all of us through.”
When the interviewer asks Buyx if politicians should apologize for the destruction, Buyx responds with:
May I start with the Ethics Council? We’ve clearly been self-critical and named our mistakes. Self criticism like this is a form of apologetic openness….
Yet, it’s still not an apology.
Buyx then goes on, and asserts:
There is a deep, comprehensive need to deal with this pandemic. And apparently also find someone to blame.
Um, yes Alena, when tyrannical regimes become so oppressive they commit crimes against humanity, heads need to roll. People lost everything. Their lives were destroyed.
Then, Buyx discusses the public’s “insatiable” need to “find culprits” — actions have consequences, and the little people generally frown upon totalitarianism. Buyx says:
But there is something insatiable about this need to find culprits, which sometimes seems to be more about revenge, about seeking propitiation. A search for culprits driven by revenge and anger is dangerously easy, and so it’s not a solution, it doesn’t help at all.
There is a need for much more learning and honest, serious retrospection, there is an obligation to do that, and that’s what is happening. It’s about learning from what didn’t go well and looking to the future with new recommendations. All this should remain constructive… no one would benefit from public flagellation now.
What I find particularly interesting is that Buyx emphasizes the need to “learn” from the mistakes — hasn’t this woman ever heard of the Nuremberg Trials? Has she ever read an actual history book?
Declaring the desire to “learn” and move on from mistakes is nothing more than a malicious attempt to sidestep accountability. There are no shortage of historical examples which show tyranny is tyrannical. How stupid does she think we are?
Bureaucrats like Buyx can never understand, because being societal leeches, their livelihoods are secure. Public flagellation is the least we can rightfully demand.
As Selwyn Duke noted, “Forgiveness does not obviate punishment.” Only “unconditional surrender” and “punishment” will do.
A teenager laughing during the tribute to Samuel Paty. A family man accusing his English teacher of racism. The famous Mohammed cartoons making a comeback.
This explosive cocktail led to a 45-year-old man and a teacher appearing before the Versailles Criminal Court on Tuesday January 3, 2023.
On October 17 last year, the pupils of the Collège Debussy in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) were called to a minute’s silence at around 10 am. Sixty seconds in honour of Samuel Paty, the teacher who was murdered on October 16, 2020. About ten kilometres away.
At the appointed time, the teachers open the classroom doors and ask the pupils to be quiet. Some ask: Why? In her 5th grade class, the teacher answers that Samuel Paty was killed because he showed Mohammed cartoons. “He had no right to do that,” interjects a 12-year-old pupil. The minute begins. The young adolescent starts laughing. She is sent straight to her guidance counsellor.
Everything goes off the rails when the girl’s father interferes. The teenager distorts the narrative of events. She even claims that her teacher is racist and discriminatory towards “Arabs and blacks”. When they raise their hands, they are not quizzed”. She would also indoctrinate the class.
I think there was a complete misunderstanding. My daughter told me that her teacher had railed against her. And she didn’t tell me things. I interpreted it as a form of racism and discrimination against North Africans. This communication was not meant to harm the teacher or the college. It was a letter from a father who needed help in the face of his daughter crying.
👉 Les gagnants de notre concours international de caricatures #MullahsGetOut 👉 Reportage avec les mutazilites, ceux qui veulent réformer l'islam 👉 La révolution iranienne va-t-elle inspirer le Moyen-Orient ?
Iran warned France on Wednesday it would respond after “insulting” cartoons depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The weekly had published dozens of cartoons on the same day ridiculing the highest religious and political figure in the Islamic republic.
The magazine said the cartoons were part of a competition it launched in December in support of the protests triggered by the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd who was arrested for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
اقدام توهین آمیز و خارج از نزاکت نشریه ای فرانسوی در انتشار کاریکاتور علیه مرجعیت دینی و سیاسی بدون پاسخ قاطع و موثر نخواهد بود. به دولت فرانسه اجازه نمیدهیم پا را از گلیم خود فراتر گذارد.آنها قطعا مسیر اشتباهی را انتخاب کرده اند. پیشتر این نشریه را در فهرست تحریمها قرار دادیم.
— H.Amirabdollahian امیرعبداللهیان (@Amirabdolahian) January 4, 2023
“The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against the religious and political authority will not go without an effective and decisive response,” tweeted Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
“We will not allow the French government to go beyond its bounds. They have definitely chosen the wrong path”.
The French magazine said the contest aimed “to support the struggle of Iranians who are fighting for their freedom”.
Iranian authorities say hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands arrested in what they generally describe as “riots”, and have accused hostile foreign powers and opposition groups of stoking the unrest.
Charlie Hebdo published the caricatures in an special edition to mark the anniversary of a deadly attack on its Paris office on January 7, 2015 by assailants who said they were acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda to avenge the magazine’s decision to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The four Eritreans convicted for aggravated rape. Photos provided by Swedish police and arranged by Swedish news outlet Samnytt.
The four Eritreans who committed aggravated rape against a 40-year-old Swedish woman in Stockholm in June of last year have been sentenced to jail. However, despite the prosecutor’s request, the court decided they will not be deported.
As Remix News previously reported, on the night of June 26, 2022, a 40-year-old intoxicated woman was attacked by four men, all of whom were unknown to her, in Flemingsberg, south of Stockholm. One of the men kicked the woman to the ground in a forest near the train station. He and the other three foreigners then took turns raping her. Afterward, two of the perpetrators brought the woman to Flemingsberg station where they raped her again in an elevator.
Prosecutor Axel Frick at the Södertörn Prosecutor’s Office said at the time that the crimes are serious due to the fact it was a gang rape and the men “showed particular recklessness or brutality” by filming the abuse.
Prosecutor Axel Frick argued that all four rapists should be deported to Eritrea and banned from returning to Sweden for the next 15 years if convicted. However, the court ruled that all the men can stay in Sweden, and authorities will be barred from deporting them for their crime.
Media avoided naming suspects’ foreign origins
When the case was first reported, a number of Swedish outlets, including TT, the Swedish national news agency, claimed that the four suspects were from the Swedish cities and towns of Sandviken, Huddinge, Motala, and Vallentuna. However, Swedish news outlet NyaTider wrote at the time that these news outlets “chose to omit the fact that all of the suspected men come from Eritrea and need an interpreter,” despite police having released that information.
Gang rapists will have sentences automatically reduced by one-third
Samnytt reported that the Södertörn District Court sentenced three of the men to five years and six months in prison for aggravated rape. The fourth man was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for rape. In all cases, one-third of the sentence has been deducted in accordance with common practice. In addition to the prison sentences, the four men must pay damages to the woman.
The two youngest perpetrators, Huluf Kindeya Gebremariam (27) and Seare Measho Redae (29), came to Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Both were granted residence permits that same year. The other two are 33-year-old Haileab Ghebre Weldemichael, who only has a temporary residence permit, and 35-year-old Mihretab Haile Gebrehiwt, who has a permanent residence permit. Both arrived in Sweden in 2014.
The country has faced numerous gang rape cases in recent years, nearly all of them involving foreigners. At the same time, well-known and respected Swedish researchers were prosecuted after they determined that most rapes in the country are committed by foreigners.
In 2018, Expressen reported on this growing trend in Sweden. After an investigation into court cases involving gang rape over the previous two years, the paper found that 43 men had been convicted of the offense. It also determined that 40 of the 43 men with gang rape convictions were either immigrants born abroad or men born in Sweden to immigrant parents.
Furthermore, in 2018, SVT reported that rape statistics in Sweden showed that 58 percent of men with rape or attempted rape convictions over the preceding five years were immigrants born outside the European Union, mainly from North Africa, South Africa, Afghanistan, and the Middle East.
The BBC also reported that in cases where victims did not know their attackers, the proportion of foreign-born men convicted of sexual assault was 80 percent.
