The farmer’s daughter, who was run over at a roadblock in Ariège on Tuesday the 23rd of January, has also died, https://www.fdesouche.com/
French farmers in tractors and trucks expanded their roadblocks, resulting in numerous traffic jams and a fatal accident, as unions urged the Government to address their demands for lower costs and regulation.
“We won’t lift the roadblocks as long as the Prime Minister does not make very concrete announcements … The time of talking is over, action is needed,” said Arnaud Gaillot, head of the Jeunes Agriculteurs’ (Young Farmers’) union on January 23.
Police said one woman was killed and two others were seriously injured as a car hit a roadblock in the Southwestern Ariege region on the same day.
The growing outrage, which has spilled over from neighbouring countries, comes as campaigning for European elections 2024 gains pace.
The protests mark the first major challenge for President Emmanuel Macron’s new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
Hours after union officials met Attal on the evening of January 22, new convoys of tractors set out in the night to block roads, including the A7 motorway in Southern France.
“Fed up with environment taxes” read a slogan sprayed in pink on a slurry tank blocking the highway in a picture published by French media.
“In this moment of high tension, I call on everyone to stay calm and reasonable,” Arnaud Rousseau, head of the FNSEA farmers’ union, told RMC radio.
French farmers are also protesting against price pressure from retailers determined to bring down food inflation, and against tightening environmental regulation – grievances that have triggered protests across Europe.
“We’re prepared for anything, we’ve got nothing to lose,” said Josep Perez, a protester interviewed by BFM TV at a roadblock in the Southwestern fruit-growing region around Agen, where traffic on the A62 motorway had been disrupted since yesterday.
Protesters in Agen’s city centre were shown throwing kiwi fruit at the local prefect’s office in footage posted on social media.
Macron is wary of farmers’ growing support for the hard-right ahead of the European Parliament elections in June.
Farming policy has always been a sensitive issue in France, the European Union’s biggest agricultural producer, where thousands of independent producers of meat, dairy, wine and other produce have a record of staging disruptive protests.
The Government has put an agriculture bill on hold, saying it wants to hear from farming representatives before including additional measures to support the sector.
When first talks with union officials on the evening of January 22 yielded no solid results, farmers across the country said they would stage more protests this week.
Pro-Constitucionalist march in Barcelona in 2017 “Recuperem el seny” (Let’s recover the common sense), Wikimedia Commons, HazteOir.org, CC-BY-SA-2.0
Spain’s government has boasted that it has a report certifying the constitutionality of its planned amnesty for Catalan separatists but has yet to produce the report to the public.
The planned amnesty, which would pardon politicians who took part in the illegal 2017 independence referendum in Catalonia, has been at the center of a bitter national controversy since Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez returned to power in November. Separatist parties demanded the measure in return for propping up Sánchez’s minority government.
Last week, the opposition center-right Partido Popular announced that it had a report drafted by the three lawyers assigned to the Congressional Justice Commission, questioning whether the government’s planned amnesty is compatible with the Spanish constitution.
Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister María Jesús Montero countered with the claim that the Executive has other reports prepared by “jurists with at least the same prestige that others have” verifying the constitutionality of the move. She did not, though, provide any names and the government has not released any of the supposed reports to journalists, despite their requests.
Spain’s constitution does not contain any provisions for a region to hold an independence referendum. Many of the organisers of the 2017 Catalonia referendum were therefore convicted of sedition. Some fled the country, including the region’s president at the time, Carles Puigdemont, who has lived in exile in Belgium ever since.
Many politicians and lawyers now question whether a law pardoning the organisers would itself be constitutional.
There have even been suspicions about the president of the Constitutional Court himself, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, since, for months, neither the government nor Conde-Pumpido’s circle have denied reports that he advised the socialists in the drafting of their amnesty law proposal.
While boasting of the support of legal experts, various government ministers have continued to state that, in any case, the final word on the law’s constitutionality belongs to the Constitutional Court, demonstrating confidence that they will have the support of the court when the day comes.
Indeed the socialists hawk their arguments in favor of the amnesty anywhere they can, including a party convention over the weekend in which high ranking members proclaimed that the amnesty, which will cover crimes as wide as vandalism and embezzlement, is a “fundamental tool” for the “total reunion” between Catalonia and the rest of Spain and that it is “fully constitutional.”
French farmers have vowed to continue their tractor protests “for as long as necessary” while laying the blame for growing rural anger at the feet of the European Union’s green agenda and the globalist government of President Emmanuel Macron.
Building off the momentum of the political gains from farmers in the Netherlands last year and the recent uprisings seen across Germany — not to mention decades of tractor protests already seen in France — French farmers said that they plan to continue shutting down motorways with their tractors at least until the end of the week and maybe even longer if the government fails to heed their demands.
Near Toulouse, hundreds of farmers have been blocking a highway in both directions since last Thursday afternoon, while similar protests have been staged across the country.
Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the FNSEA agricultural union said according to Le Figaro: “I can tell you that from today and throughout the week and for as long as it is necessary, a certain number of actions will be carried out.”
“The anger that is being expressed is not new… what farmers want is to restore a form of dignity to their profession, it is to talk about the questions of income and competitiveness. That is the whole subject of the daily exercise of the profession: how with the over-administration and the European variations of a certain number of rules, we are no longer in line with what is happening,” he continued.
Principally, the farmers are calling for their way of life to be respected by elites in Paris and Brussels. However, in terms of concrete measures, they have called for a reduction in onerous green regulations from the EU and from their government, which recently raised taxes on agricultural fuel.
The French farmers have also expressed anger over unfair competition, with food produced with cheaper labour and lax standards undercutting their prices, including from Ukraine, which the EU gave tarriff-free access to the single market last year. This has been further compounded by a lack of enforcement of laws surrounding the annual negotiation of prices between large supermarket chains and farmers.
While recently installed French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has promised to make announcements on initial changes to agricultural policy within the week, it is unclear if the government will be able to restore trust with rural communities ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections in June, in which farming is set to become a key political issue throughout the bloc.
As has been the case in the Netherlands and in Germany, the populist right in France has aligned itself with the farmer protest movement. The President of National Rally, Jordan Bardella, said that his party is the champion of the farmers while visiting wine growers over the weekend. In contrast, Bardella said: “Macron’s Europe wants the death of our agriculture”.
Bardella declared that the farmers’ anger is a “cry of a French people who do not want to die, who are attached to their social model, who are attached to their countryside, to their rural life.”
The National Rally leader said that going into the EU Parliament elections, his party would advocate for the renegotiation or the withdrawal of trade deals to protect French farmers and vowed to end the inheritance tax for farmers, saying that the government should seek to incentivise young people going into the quickly ageing profession, saying: “A young person who wants to become a farmer is part of the lineage of those who made our country.”
A Scottish trans-identified pedophile who abducted and sexually abused an 11 year-old girl is seeking to have his 20-year prison sentence reduced on the basis that he was “living as a woman” before committing the crime, and claiming that the prosecution placed “too much weight” on his transgender identity.
Andrew George Miller, who identifies as a “woman” named Amy George, was handed a 28-year extended sentence last October, comprising 20 years behind bars and a further eight in the community under supervision, after pleading guilty to the chilling abduction and sexual assault of a young girl.
BREAKING: A Scottish butcher has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the chilling abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl.
Andrew Miller, who also goes by the name Amy George, was wearing prosthetic breasts at the time of his arrest.https://t.co/mBZJKZ2EMw
Miller was initially arrested in February in connection with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl who he abducted “while dressed in female clothing,” according to the Edinburgh High Court.
On February 5, 2023, Miller approached the girl and offered her a drive home while wearing women’s clothes. After winning the victim’s trust, Miller took her to his own residence and confined her in his bedroom, where he repeatedly sexually abused her over a 27-hour period.
The child asked to be allowed to go home, at which point Miller told the girl he intended to keep her in captivity and that he was her “new family.” According to court records, Miller exposed his genitals to the victim and forced her to watch pornography and “fetish videos.”
Police Scotland announced that the girl had been found on February 7 in the village of Gattonside, and she was promptly returned to her family. Later that same day, law enforcement announced Miller’s arrest in connection to the girl’s disappearance. The girl had managed to locate a landline telephone while Miller slept and called the police.
Officers arrived on the scene quickly, where they found Miller wearing a bra with silicone breasts, women’s underwear, and tights. CCTV footage later recovered by law enforcement showed Miller abducting the girl. Upon further investigation, police also found that Miller had been in possession of horrific child sexual abuse materials.
eriod of eight years.
On January 19, the appeal court in Edinburgh was told that Miller had lived as a woman for six years prior to committing the sadistic crime, and that he is now supporting other trans prisoners — factors which he argued ought to be considered in his bid to have his “excessive” sentence reduced.
Defense attorney Victoria Dow told the court on Friday that Miller lived as a woman “for many years,” and his “transgender identity had been a factor throughout his life.”
“Too much weight has been attached to that factor. It is clear the appellant has experienced psychological difficulties throughout his life. This is his first offense for such a serious matter,” Dow told the court.
Andrew Miller as ‘Amy George.’ Source: Facebook
“Prior to the offense he was struggling to cope with a number of factors in his life. He was soothed by the feeling of control… No criminal justice social work report was carried out. There simply wasn’t one. The headline sentence was excessive.”
During sentencing last fall, presiding judge Lord Arthurson commented on Miller’s “nauseating” depravity.
“Dressed and presenting as a female, you offered the child a lift, drove past the area of her home, took her into your house and removed her phone. You assaulted her on arrival, carried her into the bedroom, removed her lower clothing and immediately commenced her ordeal of deplorable penetrative sexual offending. You made her wear tights, in keeping with your long standing perverted fetishistic interests,” the judge said.
Lord Arthurson further questioned whether the victim would have trusted him had he not altered his appearance to resemble a woman.
“One only has to ask oneself the simple question: would an 11 year old girl have willingly entered your car had you presented as a man? The answer is that obviously she would not. Your intentions were wicked and predatory, and clearly involved a substantial component of planning.”
In his defense, Miller claimed that the abduction and sexual abuse of the child was a “game,” and argued that he had acted in a “motherly way” towards the young girl. The Risk Management Authority, in an assessment report, noted that Miller appeared to place responsibility for his sexual offending on the victim.
During the course of the investigation, it was revealed that Miller had ten previous convictions, but that he had “never before received a custodial or even a community‑based sentence.” In addition to pleading guilty to the charges of abduction and sexual abuse of a minor, Miller also admitted to the possession of multiple indecent images of children, including media depicting the anal rape of a young child. He curated his sick collection over the course of 19 years.
Reduxx has previously located two Facebook profiles belonging to Miller, one of which utilizes a “female” identity under the name “Amy George.” Miller appears to have operated the accounts simultaneously, posting on both his “male” and “female” identified accounts regularly.
In January of this year, Miller made a post on his “male” account alluding to the debacle surrounding Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act.
“Silly Billys [sic] in Westminster… Never mess with Scottish Transgender Issues,” Miller wrote just days after the UK Government moved to block a piece of Scottish legislation which sought to significantly relax the requirements for individuals to change their legal sex in Scotland.
In January of 2020, Miller posted on teaching children to explore their identities.
“That simple question that we ask ourselves… who am I? Deliver that same question to your children. Let them be themselves. Guide them, but not with boundaries. Teach them, but not with misguided morals. Love them and let them know and feel that they are loved, because that is the greatest gift of all,” Miller posted as “Amy George.”
All over Europe, the Globalist-Liberal governments are under relentless pressure, faring very poorly at the polls in the run-up to the European Parliament elections.
Plagued by unchecked mass migration, crippling insane environmental policies, economic stagnation and a general decay of the quality of life, voters are flocking to conservative and right wing parties that have been denouncing these issues and rejecting these policies for years.
But perhaps nowhere in the old continent does a right-wing party generate so much hope and so much fear as the case of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the official ‘bogeyman’ for the unelected Brussels bureaucrats and the world’s MSM in general.
Now Alice Weidel, leader of the poll-topping party, has come out and said that Britain was ‘dead right’ to leave the European Union and that Germany should in fact hold its own ‘Dexit’ vote!
Panic in Brussels.
Weidel said she would push for a referendum on EU membership if AfD came to power and could not secure reforms to curb overreach by the European Commission.
On Wednesday afternoon, January 17, the priest of the Saint-Joseph church appeared at the police station in the 8th arrondissement of Paris to file a complaint of violence and intentional damage to property. The priest explained to the police that the main door of his church had been broken down at around 8am that morning by a man who was in the parish when he arrived, according to police sources who told Valeurs actuelles. The priest explained that the man had been acting aggressively for some time.
He is said to have harassed him in the past to get into the building despite his refusal. The police eventually arrested the offender, who was taken into police custody. As he did not appear to be in full possession of his mental faculties, he underwent a medical examination and was then taken to the psychiatric ward of the police prefecture (IPPP).
French police suspect that an 11-month-old baby who was found dead in a bucket was force-fed by his mother in what is being described as an African custom. The resident of Mantes-la-Ville, a western suburb of Paris, was charged with “excessively force feeding” her child, who was found suffocated and inside a bucket when emergency services arrived.
The newborn was originally found on Nov. 25, with emergency services noting that the mother had been feeding him inside the bathroom. Emergency services arrived and the child was found already deceased.
However, the woman was only taken into police custody on Jan. 16 after an investigation was opened into manslaughter, with the mother denying the charges. However, the autopsy results found the child had been force-fed.
Investigators are alleging that the mother partook in a West African cultural practice of force-feeding children, and that the investigation determined the mother had a history of locking herself in the bathroom with her children and forcing food on the young infant, according to French publication Le Parisien.
The practice has been widely documented. For example, Deutsche Welle wrote, “Force-feeding infants is a deeply rooted cultural practice in many African countries, including Kenya, Malawi and Nigeria. Health experts warn that it is dangerous and can even cause a child to die.”
“In African societies, parents and caregivers will tell you that the practice of pushing too much food into the mouth of a baby or toddler is deeply rooted in their culture,” Deutsche Welle writes.
Those who practice force-feeding believe it makes their child more “robust” and healthy; however, researchers have shown that it can lead to acute malnutrition, obesity, and other health issues.
Critics of mass immigration from North Africa, Africa and the Middle East into the West have long pointed out that there are vastly different cultural norms and standards that newcomers bring with them. In most cases, issues such as honor killings, forced marriages, and genital mutilation are of top concern, but other lesser-known practices, such as force-feeding, also highlight the vast differences between Europeans and other groups.
Daniel Guenther, hoto by Gerd Seidel (Rob Irgendwer), cc-by-sa 3.0
Schleswig-Holstein Minister-President Daniel Günther of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) supports banning the anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)—Germany’s second most popular party and the CDU’s principal competitor—declaring that allowing citizens to vote for the party must not be tolerated.
The comments, from the executive who has governed Germany’s northernmost state since 2017 alongside the left-liberal Green party, came during an interview with Cicero, a Berlin-based political and cultural magazine, that was published over the weekend.
His statements about a potential ban come despite opinion polls indicating that nearly half of all German citizens (47%) would find it acceptable if the AfD were to become coalition partners in future state-level governments.
Günther’s anti-democratic comments astonished the interviewer, Daniel Gräber, who mentioned on X that he was “quite amazed by [the CDU politician’s] understanding of democracy.”
Germany’s established globalist ‘democrats’ on the left and the right, as Günther calls them, must “now assume their responsibility and change course vis-à-vis the AfD.”
“We have accepted for far too long that a not insignificant proportion of our population wants to express their protest by voting for the AfD. We must not tolerate people voting for such a party out of protest.” he insisted.
The AfD, Günther claimed in the magazine interview, is “dangerous in its structures, large parts of the AfD want to eliminate our democracy.” For this reason, the CDU minister-president expressed that he has “great sympathy for a [AfD] ban procedure to be initiated,” which ought to be “carefully prepared by the federal government.”
“A defensive democracy must use its instruments,” he insisted, and that means “fighting parties that are unconstitutional with all the means of the constitutional state.”
Gräber, the chief editor in Cicero magazine’s economics section, pushed back slightly, asking the minister-president if it “is democratic if government parties want to ban an opposition party that, according to election surveys, has over 30% in some federal states.”
The CDU politician replied: “If a party has an anti-constitutional orientation, if it is extremist and therefore rejects our free and democratic basic order and wants to actively and militantly implement this stance, then I think a debate about banning it is right.”
In comments given to The European Conservative about the latest call to ban the AfD, Bavarian MP Petr Bystron, who serves as the foreign policy spokesman for the party, didn’t mince words. “The last German chancellor who banned a democratic party was Adolf Hitler. All of those who are now trying to ban the AfD are following in his footsteps,” he said.
Günther is only the latest establishment figure to express support for banning the AfD, following others like President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), SPD co-leader Saskia Asken, and CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz.
In August, Wanderwitz—who in 2021 lost a local election to an AfD candidate—announced his intention to bring a motion to ban the opposition party before the Bundestag. To do this, however, he first needs the support of at least 36 MPs, which so far he’s been unable to garner, suggesting there is little to no appetite among German lawmakers to take such a radical, anti-democratic step.
Opposition leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht, who recently founded a new left-wing, sovereigntist party, have sharply criticized calls to ban the AfD. “Banning unpopular parties because they become too strong is incompatible with a free society,” she said in a November interview, adding that she found “fighting a political competitor with unconstitutional ban proposals incompatible with democratic aspirations.”
Poster with the inscription ” Kill an AFD members” at a radical left-wing anti-AfD demonstration – and two police officers walk alongside and do not intervene , screen grab X
Germany’s Government is examining the possibility of banning the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party from receiving State funding.
It comes as the AfD sees record polling across Germany, with up to 24 per cent of the country’s population saying they now support it.
Such success has prompted calls for the party to be banned, with leftist activists insisting that the group poses an “existential threat” to democracy, although such demands have proven controversial.
Ruling MPs have instead floated the idea that the AfD could be “defunded” by the Government over its political views, rather than banned outright.
Officials from both the ruling Greens and Social Democratic Party (SPD) are now backing the move, which is provided for within the German Constitution as a means of combating right-wing parties deemed “too extreme”.
“It is an important element of the ‘defensive State’ to significantly reduce State resources for anti-Constitutional parties,” said SPD MP Johannes Fechner.
Green representative Irene Mihalic also backed defunding the AfD as a possible way of disrupting its growing strength, although she warned such a move would not be “straightforward”.
“Just as with a party ban, the Constitutional bodies are required to carefully weigh up legal steps, taking into account the assessment of the security authorities,” she warned.
The viability of the move will likely become clearer on January 23, with Germany’s Constitutional Court scheduled to issue a final ruling on the Government’s efforts to cut funding for Die Heimat, a far-Right party accused of being linked to neo-Nazism.
Politicians had tried to get it banned outright in 2017 but such efforts were ultimately scuttled after the courts ruled the group was too small to pose a threat to German democracy.
Questions surrounding whether or not State power can be used to crush the AfD have abounded in recent months. That comes amid the group’s record polling spooking many in the country’s mainstream parties.
Fears regarding such growth have been made worse by the release of recent polls, which for the first time include the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice (BSW) party.
While many had hoped the hard-Left “anti-woke” BSW would act as a spoiler for its right-wing rival, recent surveys indicate the AfD has lost little or no support since its launch.
It seems the new party is instead taking the majority of its base from other Left-wing groups, including the SPD.
Speaking about the AfD’s continued growth, the head of the centre-right Christian Democrats Friedrich Merz warned that efforts to label the party “national socialist” have not been productive, seeming to have only alienated its supporters.
“Of course, there are real National Socialists [in] there,” he remarked. “But that doesn’t mean that the voters of this party are all Nazis.
“If we want to win them back for the democratic parties in our country, then we must not insult them,” he added.
Left-wing extremist call for murder at the head of a demonstration – and the good citizen simply marches along …
A report in the newspaper Aachener Zeitung is making the rounds on X. On it you can see: The central protest poster, carried by members of Antifa. It reads in large letters: “Kill AfD members -. Deport Nazis.” Clearly ambiguous? The imperative in the second sentence suggests not.
Blatant homicidal fantasies by fanatical leftists against AfD voters and AfD politicians in capital letters, bourgeois demonstrators behind them, two accompanying policemen walking relaxedly a few metres next to the poster: what a preposterous setting!
The Aachener Zeitung initially reported very favourably on the demonstration, showing the photo with the scandalous poster with the caption: “Broad protest front: In the end, around 10,000 people march through the city on Saturday …” Not a word about the call for violence against AfD members. The picture has since been replaced.
Unbelievable: the police apparently didn’t even take offence at the Antifa poster calling for murder afterwards!
The official police report on the event states: “During the parade on Wilhelmstraße, a so-called smoking pot was ignited – this was reported to the police. The same applies to the sporadic burning of pyrotechnics in Frankenberger Park. Apart from these incidents, the Aachen police accompanied a loud but peaceful march.”
