Month: March 2023

by Giulio Meotti

“It was the week before Xmas, midday on a mild, almost hot Monday, and the muezzins of West London were chanting the glory of Allah and how there was no God but Him…”. Thus opens “1985”, the prophetic novel by Anthony Burgess, the author of “A Clockwork Orange”. He wrote it in 1978 and it looks like the portrait of Europe in 2023…

The Islamic call to prayer (Adhan) is now resounding in Stockholm, reports Samnytt news. The Adhan was recorded in the capital. In Sweden, three mosques have received permission from the authorities to use loudspeakers to broadcast prayers in Botkyrka, Karlskrona and Växjö. But no permits for Muslim prayer calls have been issued in Stockholm. Despite this, Swedes in the capital have repeatedly witnessed the Adhan being imposed on non-Muslims.

Sweden had 8 percent Muslims in 2016. In 2050 it will have 11 percent Muslims if immigration stops completely, but up to 21 percent if it remains “normal”, and 31 percent if it continues at the same pace of the last years.

And further on? According to an academic analysis by Professor Kyösti Tarvainen, in just over a generation Muslims will be the majority in Sweden.

Not bad for the country that boasted of being “the least religious in the West”. There was the transition of an entire people from Christianity to atheism. A Gallup poll said that only in China are there more atheists than in Sweden. David Thurfjell in a book called it “Det Gudlösa Folket”. The people without God. Speaking with Dagen, theologian Alan Hirsch said: “Christianity is decaying throughout the Western world and here it can die out in a generation”.

In a conversation this week with the Tribune Juive, the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, author of the great novel “2084”, says: “Islam is today the second religion in Europe, but undoubtedly the first in terms of number of practitioners. I see Islam establishing itself in the West and it has imprinted powerful evolutions which little by little change the internal structure of the West. Laxity and the art of retreat are in place and have formed the minds of people to the point that we no longer even know whether a mortar shell in broad daylight in Paris is incivility, barbarism or jihadism. Europe is falling apart and is on a slope, absorbing blow by blow without being able to respond. But Europe would be too stupid not to understand that the weak have no future in the world to come and that globalization is not peace and prosperity for all as it naively believed, but a battleground between the strong”.

And a clash of religions. Or a new replacement theory.

How can you not feel a certain thrill reading an investigation by the Belgian newspaper La Libre last week? “Out of 97 parishes in the Brussels Region, there are only 12 priests under the age of 60”. 36 out of 110 churches in Brussels are set to close in the face of declining numbers of faithful. “Even the basilica of Koekelberg (Sacred Heart) is today affected by the absence of a priest”. This week’s RTL informs us: “Only one in 40 Belgians attends a church – or 2.5 percent of the population – compared to one in two in the 1960s. The average age in churches is (very) high, a marriage out of 10, three out of 10 baptisms and four out of ten burials are Catholic, most of the churches risk closing and some buildings have already been transformed into hotels, cultural centres, shops or discotheques. Is this the end of Catholics?”.

Then, for contrast, you have to read another Belgian journalistic investigation of magazine Le Vif: “Of the 65 mosques in Brussels, according to the Belgian Muslim Executive, 10 are large enough to regularly accommodate 1,000 people. They are financed by the faithful, foreign states (the Turkish Diyanet, the Saudi Islamic World League), Middle Eastern foundations or private individuals, but also parareligious activities that generate considerable income. In some large Brussels mosques, collections for the construction of a new mosque have been able to bring in up to 150,000 euros during the Ramadan period”.

One day the future masters of Belgium will change the name of dozens of cities, such as, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Josse, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Jette-Saint-Pierre, Saint-Job and the underground stations (Sainte -Catherine, Saint-Guidon).

Anthony Burgess was a real writer and he saw a weakened West. “The church I attended as a child in Manchester has since been deconsecrated” Burgess said in 1991. “Now it is a mosque. I am not a philosopher, I am not a priest. What does the Pope say? He says nothing. Not a word on the demographic problem. Perhaps the weakness of the West is the death of Christianity or perhaps the death of liberalism: I don’t know”.

How sad, this new Europe!

Replacement theory is alive in the Islamic takeover of Europe | ערוץ 7 (israelnationalnews.com)

The upstart populist pro-farmer party FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB) shook the foundations of politics in the Netherlands overnight, securing a significant victory in Wednesday’s provincial elections on the back of growing resentment against the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his plans to introduce Great Reset-style environmental policies.

“People, what the fuck happened?” exclaimed the frank-talking, half-Irish leader of the BBB, Caroline van der Plas in a victory speech on Wednesday evening as her party, which was formed just three years ago, saw the most gains of any party in the elections that will determine the makeup of the Dutch senate.

The BoerBurgerBeweging (FarmerCitizenMovement) dominated voting in rural areas of the country largely as a result of anger towards the government’s plans to impose EU-driven regulations on farming, particularly the use of nitrogen fertilisers, which many farmers have warned will put them out of business.

At the time of this reporting, BBB is expected to pick up an astonishing 16 seats in the 75-seat Senate, after previously holding zero. With 94 per cent of the vote counted, turnout is projected to have been around  57.5 per cent, the highest since the 1980s.

Commenting on the shock results, the chairman of the Agriculture and Horticultural Organization Netherlands (LTO), Sjaak van der Tak said that it was “an important profit for our farmers and the vital countryside,” adding: “Voters gave the cabinet and therefore the coalition a huge blow and that requires a real change of course with finding support for the big plans, such as nitrogen.”

Meanwhile, the leader of the CDA party — a member of the current governing coalition, Wopke Hoekstra said: “The Hague, including us, has insufficiently understood what is going on in our country. There’s a huge gap, we all have to care.”

The driving factor for the groundswell of support for the pro-farming party was opposition to the government’s plans to implement mandated cuts on the use of nitrogen fertilisers by as much as 70 per cent in some areas of the country by the end of the decade, with 92 per cent of BBB voters citing the policy as a motivating factor for their vote.

The elections, which also will determine the makeup of the provincial governments, could see the BBB take power in the very regions that the government is trying to impose its green agenda, potentially spelling more problems for the globalist governing coalition, which saw its total number of seats fall from 32 to 24. This puts the government’s ability to pass legislation in jeopardy, given that 38 votes are required in the senate to pass bills.

Polls found that over three-quarters of BBB voters believe that provincial governments should have the power to enact distinct policies from the national government, compared to 58 per cent among all voters.

The stunning loss for Rutte, who is the country’s longest-serving prime minister, may even throw his ability to retain power into doubt, with questions already being raised in Dutch media if he will step down and the possibility of Caroline van der Plas becoming the next prime minister. Prime Minister Rutte only has the confidence of less than a quarter has the confidence of less than a quarter of BBB voters, while enjoying just over a third of the confidence of the voting public as a whole.

Van der Plas, herself, questioned Rutte’s continued rule, asking: “How can you continue to govern if you have so little support?” While she said that she is not currently planning on making a move to become the next Dutch PM, she said she will think about it, coyly stating: “Yes, what if?”

Despite the trouncing in last night’s elections, the government’s minister for nature and nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal signaled on Thursday morning that the controversial nitrogen policy will continue to be on the agenda because the government believes it is mandated to push it through under EU law. 

In response, the BBB leader Van der Plas said that her comments were “complete bullshit” and that “everything can change, if you want.”

The imposition of the anti-farmer green agenda by the EU has also recently sparked political chaos in Belgium, the seat of power for the bloc, with the Flemish coalition government facing a potential breakdown over similar attempts to restrict nitrogen fertilisers in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.

Belgium also saw mass tractor protests last month in a similar vein to the farmer protest movement that sprung up last summer in The Netherlands, which saw farmers enacting blockades of key infrastructure as well as blocking highways with burning bales of hay and piles of tyres to demonstrate their frustration over the government’s attack on their industry and way of life.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/16/great-reset-revolt-pro-farmer-party-gains-major-victory-against-eu-green-agenda-in-dutch-elections/

As the Dutch head to the polls today for midterm provincial elections, the populist farmer protests that have shaken the country over the last year could not only be the undoing of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, but also mark a major turning point against the Green Revolution in the EU.

Just this week, an estimated 10,000 farmers and anti-establishment demonstrators gathered in The Hague against Dutch government plans to enforce strict environmental standards on farmers, a move that many say will not only bankrupt them but also lead to a dramatic increase in food prices.

The protest was, of course, tied to provincial elections set to take place today, and politicians opposed to the government’s plan were in attendance. Not only are farmers turning to populist parties such as the Party for Freedom and the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), there is also a growing number of Dutch citizens taking an anti-establishment view on migration, green energy policy, and agriculture — just to name a few key issues.

“The issue of the elections is that this government should step down. They are killing our farmers. They are killing off fishermen, companies that have been active for generations. And in the end, nothing is left because of the so-called nitrogen problem in the Netherlands,” said Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom.

“People are fed up with it. You will see tens of thousands of people negatively impacted by the policies of the government. We want our country back. We want the Netherlands to be put first again,” he added.

Wilders has reason for optimism. Although Rutte’s party leads in the polls, its support has been substantially diminished in the fractured Dutch political landscape. One of the key factors at play is the BBB party, which was formed in 2019 and has only one MP, but polling suggests it will dramatically transform the Dutch political landscape. The party is set to be the second-largest or even the largest party in Wednesday’s vote and appears to be a lock to be the largest party in five rural provinces.

The regional elections have an outsized effect on Dutch politics because provincial governments determine who sits in the Dutch senate, and without their backing, bills cannot become law. That means national laws in the Netherlands are tied to the provincial governments.

Today’s election will bring provincial councils into power, and in late May, these same councils will elect the 75 members of the upper house. Polling shows that Rutte’s government coalition is likely to fall short of a majority, meaning he will need votes from the right or the left to pass laws and run the government. Analysts predict this may be impossible due to growing polarization in the Dutch political scene.

The BBB is not the only party growing in popularity, with Wilders’ party also rising in the polls along with other conservative parties, such as the new JA21.

Protesters remain opposed to the government’s plans to buy out farmers and reduce livestock numbers to cut emissions in half by 2030. The government argues that it must enact the plan to meet environmental requirements dictated by Brussels, while skeptics contend the farmers’ land will be bought up by real estate developers and other special interests.

Wilders, while speaking to protesters gathered in The Hague, asked attendees to channel their anger into enacting change at the ballot box.

”In the Netherlands of (Sigrid) Kaag (Dutch Finance Minister and leader of the D66 party) and (Mark) Rutte (Dutch Prime Minister and leader of the VVD party), the Dutch people are in last place. And I’m fed up with that. Are you fed up with that too? Then we will change that together next Wednesday. Then, we will return the Netherlands to the Dutch people on Wednesday,” said Wilders. “You are the engine of this beautiful country. Without farmers and without fishermen, the Netherlands is no longer the Netherlands.”

Police blocked an unknown number of tractors from arriving at the protest, citing “safety” concerns. Only two were allowed to attend, but the move reflects the powerful symbolism the tractor has come to represent for the burgeoning protest movement.

“No farmer in Holland will survive. If the corrupt politicians stay in power in Holland, it’s over. So, the (election) is important for all the farmers in the Netherlands,” said Bob De Jong, a farmer from North Brabant Province, while speaking with the Associated Press.

Another protester, 61-year-old Sylvia Smits, said, “Everything is falling apart and farmers are being bought out. They have to sell their properties. They want us (to accept) digital currency, so no cash money.

There’s a shortage of food. Many people do not have enough money to eat every day. And it’s really horrible. The Netherlands, Holland, was once a very, very rich country. But now we are falling apart.”

https://rmx.news/article/they-are-killing-our-farmers-dutch-midterm-elections-could-see-farmers-emerge-victorious-and-pm-rutte-lose-power/

Two events within 72 hours last week demonstrate the Catholic Church’s rapid capitulation to gender ideology — and its ensuing journey toward theological and moral bankruptcy.

On March 10, German bishops who will participate in an upcoming international synod overwhelmingly adopted a resolution to allow blessing same-sex unions in their own dioceses, and encouraged their fellow German bishops to imitate them. Of the assembly’s 202 bishops, 176 approved the resolution, 14 opposed it and 12 abstained.

The resolution directly challenges papal authority. In 2021, as FrontPage Magazine reported, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s highest theological body, ruledagainst a similar request from the same bishops. The CDF concluded that the church had no authority to bless same-sex unions, since both Scripture and the Catholic catechism considered them sinful.

Pope Francis supported that decision. He even described gender theory as “one of the most dangerous forms of ideological colonization,” in an interview March 10 with the Argentine daily La Nacion.

However, one of Francis’ recent appointments shows that the pope probably has no interest in pressing the issue.

On March 7, as FrontPage Magazine reported, Francis appointed Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a fellow Jesuit, to the pope’s group of close advisors, the Council of Cardinals. Hollerich rejects historic teaching that defines homosexual behavior as sinful, as he said last year in an interview with a German Catholic news agency.

“I believe that this is wrong,” Hollerich said. “But I also believe that we are thinking ahead here in teaching. As the Pope has said in the past, this can lead to a doctrinal change. Because I believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this doctrine is no longer correct. I believe that it is time for us to make a fundamental revision of doctrine.” (Emphasis added)

Note well those italicized words. They indicate the pope’s true attitude toward gender theory. They also express the pope’s ultimate strategy: doctrinal change through theological osmosis, history and revelation be damned.

Should Hollerich, the German bishops and their allies succeed, the Catholic Church not only will devastate its theological credibility. It will land squarely on the side of LGBTQ activists who demand that children be exposed to their all-encompassing ideology, especially concerning transgender identity, regardless of parental concerns.

That possibility is frightening, given the Catholic Church’s pathetic record on clerical sex abuse.

FrontPage Magazine explored the issue in depth in “The Catholic Church’s LGBTQ Odyssey” recently and “The Catholic Church: Crossroads on Same-Sex Marriage” in December. Several points from those stories prove salient.

First, the catechism, following biblical injunctions, condemns homosexual behavior: “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. … Under no circumstances can they be approved.”

In the Bible, Leviticus listed homosexuality among other sexual behaviors considered “detestable.” Jesus defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Paul, a former Pharisee, described homosexual acts as “shameful” and practicing homosexuals as unable to “inherit the Kingdom of God.”

Second, despite his public rhetoric, Francis promotes figures who endorse homosexuality and the LGBTQ agenda. One is the Rev. James Martin, a fellow Jesuit who serves as one of the pope’s communications advisors. Martin routinely uses his influence, especially on social media, to advocate gender theory. Another is Cardinal Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, who commissioned a homoerotic painting for his cathedral.

The problems go far beyond theology or personnel. Martin used Twitter in 2021 to oppose a pastoral letter from Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Va. that condemned gender ideology.

“The worst kind of marginalization, the worst kind of discrimination and the worst kind of hatred is to claim that someone doesn’t exist,” Martin tweeted. ‘No one “is” transgender,’ says the Diocese of Arlington. Transgender people exist and are beloved children of God.”

In February 2022, Martin tweeted opposition to a legal opinion from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who stated that hormone treatments and sex-change surgeries constituted child abuse under state law. But instead of disagreeing openly, Martin hid behind opposition from the Texas Pediatric Society. The next month, Martin used the same technique by posting an article from the Idaho Statesman to express opposition to a proposed state law banning sex-change surgeries for children.

If Francis believes gender theory is “ideological colonization,” why is Martin still a papal advisor?

Paglia went even farther. As president of the Pontifical Council for the Family in 2016, he approved a sex-education program for teens that Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons, a Catholic psychiatrist, called “the most dangerous threat to Catholic youth that I have seen over the past 40 years.”

Consider Fitzgibbons’ ensuing comments in light of the increasing number of drag shows for children.

“In a culture in which youth are bombarded by pornography, I was particularly shocked by the images contained in this new sex education program, some of which are clearly pornographic,” Fitzgibbons wrote. “My immediate professional reaction was that this obscene or pornographic approach abuses youth psychologically and spiritually.

“As a professional who has treated both priest perpetrators and the victims of the abuse crisis in the Church, what I found particularly troubling was that the pornographic images in this program are similar to those used by adult sexual predators of adolescents.”

Nevertheless, when the council disbanded, Francis moved Paglia to his current position.

Not all Catholics want to go gently into that dark night of catastrophe. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former head of the CDF, called Hollerich and his fellow prelates to account last year for supporting LGBTQ ideology.

Müller described gender theory as “totally idiotic because its Neo-Gnostic mythology is absolutely against human nature, not only in a biological sense, but also in a philosophical one,” he told the National Catholic Register. The cardinal added that blessing same-sex unions was “absolutely a blasphemy” because it represents a “negation of the constitution of human beings as man and woman, and there can be no blessing,” he said.

Müller also called activists committed to doctrinal revisionism “materialists” who “want to keep the name ‘Catholic,’ to stay in the institution and take the money, but they won’t accept the teaching of the word of God,” he said.

For Hollerich, the word of God matters less than the spirit of the age.

“We have to position ourselves in a completely different way,” he said. “We have a great change in civilization. We are in Year Zero of the digital age. And this will have such serious changes that we will perish if we do not position ourselves differently. We cannot give the answers of the past to the questions of tomorrow.

“The change in civilization we are experiencing today is the biggest change since the invention of the wheel. The Church has always moved with the times and has always adapted. Today we have to be faster. Otherwise, we lose touch and can no longer be understood.”

But in revising inspired doctrine to do so, the Catholic Church risks destroying itself.

Read Part 1

https://www.frontpagemag.com/gender-ideology-and-the-catholic-church/

A refugee (26) from Afghanistan is on trial for attempted murder in Biel, Switzerland. Out of frustration, he allegedly pushed a young mother with her small children (5, 7) in front of a moving BMW car.

In his opening statement, the prosecutor demanded the full rigour of the law against the accused Afghan. The fact that the mother and the two children (5, 7), who were walking on a pavement in Biel, survived the attack only slightly injured, was pure luck. The asylum seeker had pushed the pedestrians onto the roadway out of frustration and without any warning. It was only thanks to the quick reactions of a BMW driver that the fatal tragedy did not occur. With an emergency stop, he saved the mother and the children.

As a witness in court, the BMW driver was still under the influence of the dramatic events. “I could not swerve at all, a public bus was coming towards me in the opposite lane. The fact that I still made it with the braking is a miracle. I am so grateful,” he said.

The accused arrived in Switzerland with the wave of refugees in 2015, and since then he has lost control of his life and become addicted to alcohol. He had no explanation for his unprovoked attack on the defenceless family, as he explained in Farsi in the dock with the help of an interpreter: “It went badly, I just pushed someone aside.

And he was not a violent person at all. Which may be doubted after the course of the trial so far. After a short interruption of the trial, the trial day had to be called off. During the break, the accused had physically attacked his translator. The Afghan, who is facing a long prison sentence, was led away in handcuffs.

The verdict is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday.

https://exxpress.at/afghane-26-stoesst-mutter-mit-zwei-kleinen-kindern-vor-fahrendes-auto/

A conspicuously small, hooded young man allegedly sprayed nine graffiti with IS slogans on buildings within only two hours, mainly in the railway station area of. St. Pölten. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is investigating.

The sprayer, masked with a balaclava, is said to be only 1.60 metres tall. He was dressed completely in black when he sprayed Islamist-motivated graffiti on walls in the railway station area of St. Pölten on Wednesday evening.

When the unknown man noticed a witness who had observed him doing the damage to property, he fled. According to the police, the slogans sprayed in black or white paint are undoubtedly associated with the so-called Islamic State (IS), which is why the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (LVT) has taken over the investigation.

https://exxpress.at/staatsschutz-ermittelt-gebaeude-in-st-poelten-mit-is-parolen-beschmiert/

Japanese Actress Forced to Apologize for Daring to Suggest That Public Bathrooms Should be “Separated According to One’s Biological Sex” https://t.co/he3bTfURrW

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) March 15, 2023

By Olivia Murray

The scene between Drew Barrymore and Dylan Mulvaney was like something out of an Arthurian legend where Guinevere clasped at the hem of her knight’s tunic, or a film that hearkens back to Hollywood’s earliest era where the gentle housewife fell in line with the 1950s iron-fisted husband:

Women are now getting on their hands and knees to show solidarity with a man who has lived as a woman for less than a year.

Truly the sneakiest trick the patriarchy ever pulled. pic.twitter.com/a9bA1V3oew

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 14, 2023

A woman on her knees, pleading with a man as he sits on his throne of superiority; the spectacle all seemed rather misogynistic if you ask me. (One could reasonably expect a kissing of the signet ring would be next.)

Predictably, this event set conservative outlets abuzz because of its sheer ridiculousness — Barrymore advertises herself as a feminist and advocate for women. However, the text from the tweet above got me thinking: is this switcheroo really the “sneakiest trick the patriarchy ever pulled”? I’d argue it’s not.

Why I find this particular instance of prostration so gross is because it isn’t the first time females have been majorly played by domineering, and legitimately toxic males. Ever wonder how the “right” to murder children in the womb wound up as a rallying cry for women all over the place?

Enter: Bernard Nathanson and Lawrence Lader.

(Nathanson was a notorious abortionist who abandoned the practice when ultrasounds arrived in medical offices in the 1970s; Lader was a high-profile eugenicist known as the “father of the abortion movement.”)

In 1963, Betty Friedan’s most famous work, The Feminine Mystique, was published. Often referred to as the feminist’s “bible” the book laid the foundation for the brothel of feminism we see today — per reporter Jacob Muñoz writing for the Smithsonian Magazine:

Now a classic, Friedan’s book is often credited with kicking off the ‘second wave’ of feminism, which raised critical interest in issues such as…birth control and abortion….

However, what Muñoz failed to mention though, is how exactly Friedan came to adopt the notion that women’s “liberation” would come only once they threw off the chains of motherhood, slaughtering their babies at the altar of choice…a couple of White, leftist, men!

Rosemary Oelrich Bottcher, once the president of the national organization Feminists for Life penned a report titled: “Men Launched the Movement to Legalize Abortion” — from the text:

[Bernard] Nathanson was, by his own admission, not much of a feminist.

…

In 1967…he met Larry Lader, a ‘disciple’ of Margaret Sanger, at a dinner party. Lader wasn’t, Nathanson has explained, much of a feminist either; he was dedicated to removing all obstacles to abortion — legal, social, and moral — because he was convinced that abortion was an essential component in solving the looming problems of overpopulation and, as his 1971 book title proclaimed, ‘Breeding Ourselves to Death.’

…

Nathanson and Lader tenaciously lobbied state legislatures…to repeal nearly all prohibitions against abortion. Nathanson later admitted that they resorted to some rather unscrupulous tactics.

…

But their efforts were not very successful until Lader had a brilliant idea: linking legal abortion to the burgeoning feminist movement.

Now, here’s the clincher:

The first edition of Betty Friedan’s seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, did not even mention abortion. Legalizing abortion was not on the newborn NOW’s list of issues. In his 1979 book Aborting America, Dr. Nathanson recalled Lader saying, ‘If we’re going to move abortion out of the books and into the streets, we’re going to have to recruit the feminists. Friedan has got to put her troops into this thing — while she still has control of them.’

The intersection of programmable ladies and imperious, cunning men? Well, apparently biological women groveling to biological men who are appropriating all things feminine, and cold-blooded baby murder.

Of abortion Lader once said:

Once sex had been detached from pregnancy, Women’s Liberation could construct its own ethics on the ash-heap of puritan morality.

That “ash-heap of puritan morality” — kind of like traditional roles between the masculine and the feminine, right? Or, how about the truth that God cannot err? Barrymore’s embarrassing display just shows that women took the bait (again) hook, line, and sinker. Seems like we need to send the leftists to Sunday school to read Genesis chapter three, and read slowly.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/drew_barrymore_the_feminist_prostrated_before_an_enthroned_man_in_a_dress_is_a_sight_to_behold.html

Walid E. has been arrested for the rape and robbery of a 96-year-old French woman, an ordeal that lasted two hours inside her apartment in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine).

Although the incident happened on Feb. 13, the man’s name has only now been released. Police say Walid E. broke into the elderly woman’s apartment and stole her valuables, but before leaving, raped the woman.

Arrested on March 6, Walid E. was indicted for aggravated rape in the case. He now faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

The suspect is well-known to the police, as he was investigated for sexual offenses against a minor inside the same building.

Laetitia, the mother of 14-year-old Kellya, said that her daughter became involved in a romantic relationship with the alleged attacker, who was 18 years old at the time.

Aujourd'hui, la mère de Kellya espère que le calvaire d'Huguette permettra à la justice de prendre (enfin) conscience du danger que représente Walid E.
Elle aimerait qu'il soit enfin jugé pour ce qu'il a fait subir à sa fille.
Son témoignage sur @Cnews: pic.twitter.com/5OoYclDGxJ

— Amaury Bucco (@AmauryBucco) March 14, 2023

“At the time of his incarceration, we discovered that our daughter had been the victim of violence, rape and acts of barbarism on the part of this man,” Laetitia told CNews. Her daughter also tried to end her life over her involvement with the man.

The mother said that Walid E. had also beaten her daughter when she refused to hand over the mother’s bank card details.

“Since I’m Jewish, he thought I was rich. This is a typical case of the prejudices that are rampant among some young people from the suburbs,” said Laetitia.

“In the same way, he considered my daughter to be a ‘whore’, probably because she was not veiled,” she added.

Although no information has been released about Walid E.’s nationality, Walid is a common Arabic name.

The family filed a complaint, but the file was closed without further action in 2021. Laetitia said that she now regrets that the justice system did not pursue the matter, especially in light of the alleged rape of the elderly woman inside the building.

“These women and men of justice, I had warned them that he was dangerous, very dangerous,” said the mother.

France saw a dramatic increase in rape, drug use and physical assault across France in 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that at least half of all crimes are committed by foreigners in Paris.

https://rmx.news/crime/france-walid-e-accused-of-raping-and-robbing-96-year-old-french-woman-already-known-to-police/