Tower Gardens in Skegness, Lincolnshire, where the alleged rape took place, Colin Babb / Tower Gardens – Skegness / CC BY-SA 2.0
Police charged a 33-year-old asylum seeker with the rape of a woman in Skegness, Lincolnshire.
The man is understood to have arrived in the UK just 40 days earlier after crossing the Channel in a dinghy.
The victim says she was dragged into bushes by a stranger and attacked, The Sun reports.
Lincolnshire Police said: ‘Officers were called to the Tower Gardens area of Skegness just after 10.40pm on Friday, June 9 to a report of a sexual assault.’
At a magistrates court hearing today, the defendant was denied bail and is awaiting his first crown court appearance.
Investigators are said to be working to determine whether he had any prior convictions before his arrival in the UK.
Describing the claims as ‘hugely shocking’, Skegness MP Matt Warman said it ‘understandably raised a number of significant concerns’.
However, he added: ‘I would ask that people resist the understandable desire to speculate on this case.’
Lincs Police said its investigation remains ongoing and specialist officers are working with the victim.
Investigators are appealing for witnesses or anyone who was in the Tower Gardens area of Skegness between 10pm and 11pm on Friday, June 9, who may have information that will assist in its inquiries to get in touch.
Anyone with information that may assist with Lincolnshire Police’s investigation is advised to contact them on 101 or email force.control@lincs.police.uk, quoting incident 560 9/6/23.
On Wednesday, June 28, the Swedish Police granted permission to one Salwan Momika to burn the Quran during a protest outside a mosque in Stockholm’s main mosque ahead of Eid-Al-Adha. This comes after a court in Sweden overturned the police ban on Quran-burning protests.
If the protest goes ahead as planned outside the main mosque on Sodermalm island in the city centre, it will be the first public act of its kind in Sweden since Rasmus Paludan, the Danish-Swedish leader of the Danish far-right political party Hard Line sparked outrage in Turkey and other Muslim countries in January by burning a translated copy of the Koran near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. Following the protest, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would not support Sweden’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
Turkey, a NATO member, is utilizing its right to hold the applications under particular circumstances, including deporting critics of its President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and labelling Kurds as terrorists.
Swedish police grants permission for Quran burning protest outside a mosque in Stockholm (Image via Twitter)
Two subsequent requests for protests involving Qur’an burnings were denied by police, one by a private individual and the other by an organisation, outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in Stockholm in February. The appeals court ruled in June that the police were wrong to ban the protests, stating that “the order and security problems” mentioned by the police did not have “a sufficiently clear connection to the planned event or its immediate vicinity.”
The police wrote in their permit for Wednesday’s demonstration that while it “may have foreign policy consequences,” the security risks and consequences associated with a Quran burning were not of such a nature that the application should be denied.
According to Stockholm police, only two people were anticipated to attend the protest, including its organiser, Salwan Momika (37), who a recent newspaper interview identified himself as an Iraqi refugee seeking to ban the Quran.
“I want to protest in front of the large mosque in Stockholm, and I want to express my opinion about the Qur’an… I will tear up the Qur’an and burn it,” Salwan Momika wrote in his application seeking permission for a Quran-burning protest.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson stated on Wednesday that Sweden still is interested in joining NATO before or during the organization’s summit in Vilnius next month.
Past incidents of Quran burning and aftermath
There have been several such incidents in the past of Quran burning that led to violence from pro-Islamic groups. In April 2022, the frenzied mob went on a rampage in the Swedish town of Linköping after Danish anti-immigration party Stram Kurs announced to burn a copy of the Quran the following day.
Amidst the ‘Allahu Akbar’ chants, the masked men attacked police vehicles and set them ablaze. According to independent researcher Hugo Kamman, a total of 4 police officers were injured during the attack. Two people have been arrested so far in connection to the case.
In July 2022, two women rammed into an anti-Islamic group leader’s vehicle, which turned upside down. The video had gone viral on social media platforms. As per reports, the woman allegedly attacked the man, identified as Lars Thorsen, after he burnt copies of the Quran. The incident occurred around 3 PM when Thorsen was driving toward Norway’s capital, Oslo, on July 2. Thorsen is the leader of the anti-Islamisation group ‘Stop the Islamisation of Norway’ (SIAN).
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A Tunisian migrant armed with a knife threatened to kill passers-by in the French city of Toulouse and, according to a witness who understands Arabic, the perpetrator said he wanted to “kill a dirty Frenchman.” The 22-year-old suspect, Daddis B., was quickly arrested by police thanks to surveillance systems in the area.
According to a police source, Daddis B. threatened four people with a knife, including three teenagers close to a local restaurant on the corner of Boulevard de Strasbourg and Rue Bayard where they witnessed a particularly violent scene at around 12:45 p.m. on Thursday.
“He was saying strange, disjointed things, he was really weird, we didn’t understand everything, but we understood that he wanted to kill people,” says a witness to the scene, well aware that he could have been one of the victims.
“He threw a bottle at a woman’s head,” added another local.
Photographs of the arrest were published on social media, showing the suspect face down on the ground with police forces gathered around him.
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Witnesses quickly came to the aid of those being attacked, making the knife-wielding suspect run away, according to French newspaper La Dépeche. As the suspect fled, he continued to tell the people nearby he would kill them. He also stated he wanted to “kill a dirty Frenchman,” according to a witness who understands Arabic.
No injuries were reported.
The 22-year-old man, who already has committed a number of offenses, is said to have repeated his death threats at the police station as well. Investigations are continuing in an attempt to understand what led this man to commit these acts. Witnesses will continue to be interviewed as well.
Alcohol consumption at the 2024 Paris Olympics will be restricted to special VIP areas only, a report Tuesday confirmed, meaning the elites can happily quaff Champagne while those in the cheap seats will be forced to look on and sip water.
Thanks to an edict called Elvin’s Law which began in 1991, alcohol sales have long been banned to the general public in France’s sports stadiums.
Exceptions are allowed, but a spokesperson for the Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games told Reuters they didn’t seek one, citing the sheer number of events across two-plus weeks.
“Paris 2024 will be organizing more than 700 competition sessions over 15 days of competition,” the spokesperson said.
Fans in VIP sections, however, will be allowed to imbibe as much and as often as they please.
They won’t be subject to the restrictions, thanks to a loophole that permits alcohol distribution in specially catered hospitality areas.
“It is the strict application of French law that allows catering services that include the provision of alcohol to operate in hospitality areas as they are governed by a separate law on catering,” the spokesperson told the outlet.
Le Parisienreports VIPs in some sections will be greeted with a champagne service on arrival and provided access to bars serving wine and beer for the duration.
Beer and wine was available at the London 2012 Olympics and at Rio 2016 but at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, which were held in 2021 and went ahead with no spectators, alcohol sales were prohibited.
While Olympics fans next year will be forced to look on in envy rugby followers can feel much more satisfied.
Organizers of the 2023 Rugby World Cup later this year in France have already negotiated an exemption for the event which means there will be ample amounts of all alcoholic drinking choices inside the grounds for rugby fans around the country.
London mayor Sadiq Khan suffered the ignominy of having his bold claim that London was “built by migrants” revised by a Twitter Community Note.
In a tweet posted on June 21 to commemorate “Refugee Week,” the Labour politician suggested the U.K. capital was constructed by migrants and refugees, and called on Londoners to stand against the “hostile, draconian and immoral immigration policies” adopted by other European nations.
“We must show more compassion towards those fleeing their country for a safer life,” he added.
The tweet in question has since become subject to a Twitter Community Note, a new system introduced under U.S. billionaire Elon Musk’s ownership of the platform that allows contributors to provide further context to misleading tweets.
This city was built by migrants. By refugees.
In the face of hostile, draconian and immoral immigration policies across Europe, we must all show more compassion towards those fleeing their country for a safer life. #RefugeeWeek
The revision states: “The city of London was founded around the year 50 AD. It was built up over nearly 2,000 years by people we today call the English. It was not built by migrants/refugees, but by those native to the British isles.”
Khan’s post received widespread criticism across social media with many Brits taking issue with the claim.
While settlements in what is now called London existed in some capacity beforehand, the invasion of the Roman Empire is widely considered to be the starting point of the city as a trading hub and was named Londinium by the new settlers. The Romans were not economic migrants or refugees, but the largest army in the world at the time of their invasion of Britain.
However, despite the Romans founding the city, London has undergone several rebuilds throughout its long history. The city was frequently attacked during the Viking invasions between the 8th and 11th centuries, and more than a third of the city was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
The rebuild following this devastation was constructed by indigenous Brits with the assistance of English architects including Christopher Wren, who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kensington Palace with the help of fellow Englishman Nicholas Hawksmoor, and the Royal Observatory in Greenwich — the home of Greenwich Mean Time — with assistance from Robert Hooke.
Sadiq Khan has been on an offensive in recent months in relation to his open borders agenda, claiming last month that London needs to welcome even more migrants to fill labor shortages and urging the British government to give him the power to decide how many people can come to the city.
“Devolve to cities like London the powers to have a regional shortage occupation list so I can be in charge of deciding how many people come into London to help our economy,” Khan told the British government during an interview with Channel 4 journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
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Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday hailed the centre right’s victory in regional elections in Molise which saw centre right Forza Italia (FI) member Francesco Roberti get over 60% of the voote and succeed party colleague Donato Toma as governor of the southern region. Meloni said this was “another great success, achieved thanks to the work of the united centre right, which confirms the solidity of the government coalition”. The win followed recent local-election victories for the centre right including taking the long-time leftwing fief of Ancona in Marche for the first time.
Following outrage and accusations of revisionist history, St Paul’s Cathedral has taken down posts that branded — without evidence — British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill as a “white supremacist” and dubiously claimed that Lord Horatio Nelson had a “personal commitment” to slavery.
In a post on its website detailing three prominent state funerals at the 17th-century London Cathedral, St Paul’s declared that despite fending off the Nazis, Sir Winston Churchill was an “unashamed imperialist and white supremacist”.
In the same post, the Cathedral said that British naval hero Horatio Nelson — later 1st Viscount Nelson — said that since his death “aspects of his character and behaviour have been assessed more critically, particularly his personal commitment to the system of slavery.”
The funeral service for Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 30th January 1965.Screen grab youtube
Both claims have been disputed as leftist revisionism and sparked backlash, prompting the Cathedral to remove the passages from its website, the Evening Standardreported.
Sir Winston’s grandson Nicholas Soames said that his family was deeply upset by the “offensive, stupid and ignorant remarks,” and that “even for allowances of some of the sort of more extreme views in the Church of England, this is really going too far.”
Responding to the allegations made against Lord Nelson — the hero of the Battle of Trafalgar against Napoleon — the chairman of the Nelson Society, Chris Brett toldThe Telegraph: “Recent research by the Nelson Society has found little or no evidence that Nelson was personally committed to slavery or the slave trade.
“Indeed their research shows that a private letter to a wealthy Jamaican planter and slave owner, penned in 1805, was altered by the planters after Nelson’s death at Trafalgar, in October 1805, in an effort to use Nelson’s posthumous reputation to influence parliamentary debates on the abolition of the slave trade in 1806.
“Unfortunately those forgeries still influence opinion today and have led, wrongly, to the conclusion that Nelson supported the slave trade.”
After suffering a fatal blow in the naval battle of Trafalgar, Nelson was buried in a crypt in St Paul’s following his state funeral in 1806.
Both Viscount Nelson and Sir Winston have become chief targets for iconoclastic attacks from the left in Britain in recent years, with statues of both war heroes beingvandalised by BLM-inspired activists.
In 2018, the government-funded organisation tasked with protecting heritage, Historic England came under heavy criticism after posting an image depicting a wrecking ball demolishing the famous statue-topped Nelson’s Column in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Not to be outdone, the National Trust placed Sir Winston Churchill’s former home on a BLM-style shame list of “colonialism and slavery“.
Condeming the latest round of historical revisionism, Conservative MP Lee Anderson said: “It is getting ridiculous. Anyone publicising information like this needs to take a long, hard look at themselves and ask themselves why they hate this country so much, its history and its heritage. They are idiots.”
