Month: January 2024

Upper school pupils at a comprehensive school in Neuss attempted to enforce ultra-strict Islamic rules and behaved like a “Sharia police force”. They rejected democracy and put fellow pupils under pressure.

The BILD newspaper has now learnt from fellow pupils how the Islamists exerted pressure on the school. It is a frightening incident that took place in the heart of Germany.

Around a year ago, several pupils at the Nordstadt comprehensive school in Neuss (North Rhine-Westphalia) behaved in a visibly different way. The pupils noticed several classmates gathering on the school grounds for an Islamic prayer.

Some young men from this group left the school before the end of lessons on Friday to attend a Friday prayer in a mosque. “There was a clear instruction from the teachers that they were not allowed to do this,” one pupil told BILD.

Even when Muslim teachers were called in and explained to the pupils (led by a 19-year-old ringleader from class 12) that they could postpone their Friday prayers, as this was permitted by the religion, this had no effect.
A short time later, these pupils demanded a prayer room. There were complaints from other pupils that they were being pressurised into observing Islamic rules. According to witnesses, the group did not even stop at Muslim teachers in the school. They were also admonished for not complying with Islamic rules.

At school, it was subsequently observed that the number of strictly dressed girls increased.

Several pupils apparently followed the group’s instructions out of fear. Some non-Muslim pupils converted to Islam. The group then demanded that gender-segregated events take place at school and during swimming lessons.
But that was not all: “During the lessons, you could see how the seating arrangements in the classes changed,” said one pupil. “The pupils were seated separately by gender, with the boys sitting at the front of the class and the girls relegated to the back. When approached, the female pupils no longer looked the male teachers in the face.”

When the school responded, the members of the Islamist group rejected the German legal system. According to Focus magazine, the group is said to have spoken of stoning as a punishment for offences. However, this account is contradicted by the Düsseldorf district government.

Following these discussions, the school called in the state security service, which is now investigating.

Scharia an Schule in Neuss? Schüler konvertierten bereits zum Islam | Regional | BILD.de

By Monica Showalter

What kind of dictator-wannabes are turning up at Davos these days?

It shouldn’t be surprising that one of them is European Union Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen, a German bureaucrat with big ambitions for what you are to be allowed to read.

According to UnHerd:

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today declared that “misinformation and disinformation” are greater threats to the global business community than war and climate change.

“For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is not conflict or climate,” she said in her speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. “It is disinformation and misinformation, followed closely by polarisation within our societies.”

The solution, according to von der Leyen, is for businesses and governments to collaborate to quash disinformation. “Many of the solutions lie not only in countries working together but, crucially, on businesses and governments, businesses and democracies working together,” she said. “While governments hold many of the levers to deal with the great challenges of our time, business have [sic] the innovation, the technology, the talents to deliver the solutions we need to fight threats like climate change or industrial-scale disinformation.”

She didn’t say what that disinformation she’s so upset about might be, but a good guess might just be in her history as a German bureaucrat, making secret phone calls with pharmaceutical companies and then lying about it when Germans filed the equivalent of Freedom of Information Act inquiries trying to find out just what she was up to.

According to her Wikipedia page, which cites sources:

In April 2021, The New York Times reported that von der Leyen had exchanged electronic correspondence with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla negotiating terms of sale of the COVID-19 vaccine to the EU.^[169] Emily O’Reilly, the European Ombudsman, accused von der Leyen of “maladministration” for failure to disclose that correspondence upon a FOI request, and for claiming that the messages had disappeared, and for further claiming that the vaccine line item of the EU’s budget was confidential.^[170][171]

von der Leyen took a personal role in negotiating the largest vaccine deal for the EU. If fully exercised, the deal is estimated to be worth around €35 billion and would cover the purchase of 900 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, with an additional 900 million doses available for purchase. Millions of COVID vaccines are currently unused and awaiting disposal in warehouses throughout the EU. Negotiators are trying to persuade Pfizer to make a compromise in order to halt or cancel some of those deliveries, with little success.^[172]

So yeah, she’s been in bed with Big Pharma over the COVID vaccines for awhile, dishonestly hiding her role, which is very much in character given that Wikipedia also cited sources pointing out that she plagiarized her medical thesis and critics said she got away with it through political connections.

Naturally, she responds to European hesitancy towards inadequately tested vaccines in a very German way:

In December 2021 the former doctor expressed her concern that one-third of the European population still are not vaccinated. She said that “EU nations should open a debate around making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory because too many people still refuse to get shots voluntarily.”^[168]

Opening a debate, not on whether the vaccine is any good, which is what is driving the public’s vaccine “hesitancy,” but on how to force the questionable product onto unwilling people whether they like it or not. That’s what passes for ‘debate’ in her mind.

Should it surprise anyone that now she wants to control which information you are allowed to read?

Turns out there’s a recent report on RealClearInvestigations by Lee Fang about how Moderna, one of the Big Pharma COVID vaccine makers, had a big operation going about how to shut down Twitter tweets from various critics of their vaccine and their corporate profits. The claimed they were just shutting down “disinformation” but they were a flaming censorship operation of frankly questionable legality.

They got respected doctors such as Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya shadowbanned after he cited a study on COVID vaccines for kids that Moderna didn’t like. They also worked to censor the speech of major investigative journalists such as Alex Berenson and Michael Shellenberger, for reporting things that went against their “narrative.”

According to Fang’s report at RealClearInvestigations:

 A series of internal company reports and communications reviewed by RealClearInvestigations show that Moderna has worked with former law enforcement and public health officials and a drug industry-funded non-governmental organization called The Public Good Projects (PGP) to confront the “root cause of vaccine hesitancy” by rapidly identifying and “shutting down misinformation.”

Part of this effort includes providing talking points to some 45,000 healthcare professionals “on how to respond when vaccine misinformation goes mainstream.” PGP and Moderna have created a new partnership, called the “Infodemic Training Program,” to prepare health care workers to respond to alleged vaccine-related misinformation.

The company has also used artificial intelligence to monitor millions of global online conversations to shape the contours of vaccine-related discussion. The internal files — shorthanded here as the Moderna Reports — show high-profile vaccine critics were closely monitored, particularly skeptics in independent media, including Michael Shellenberger, Russell Brand, and Alex Berenson. PGP, which was funded by a $1,275,000 donation from the Biotechnology and Innovation Organization, a lobby group representing Pfizer and Moderna, has identified alleged vaccine misinformation and helped facilitate the removal of content from Twitter, among other social media platforms, throughout 2021 and 2022.

They also “flagged” Robert Kennedy, Jr., successfully getting Twitter’s gnomes to do their dirty work to silence him. They “flagged” former Fox News host Megan Kelly after she tweeted that she regretted getting her COVID boosters.  The gamy details of that report are hideous examples of violations of the First Amendment and corporate malfeasance.

As for this von der Leyen speech being delivered on the floor of the World Economic Forum WEF), it’s fairly ominous as it suggests a political-corporatist machine turning to shut down free speech globally with Ursula the Davos Witch the perfect instrument for this mission.

As Olivia Murray noted from her January 15 blog on the WEF, they have claimed that “disinformation” is their primary concern, even moreso than global warming, which is their usual default position. 

According to von der Leyen’s Wikipedia page, von der Leyen has been a member of the Board of Trustes of the World Economic Forum since 2016. She wasn’t just some wild character at the Davos forum talking out of turn.

She in fact was highly involved in a lot of this corporate-state conniving with Big Pharma in the past in some of her previous bureaucratic work.

But whether it’s global warming or ‘disinformation’ or whatever beauty-queen world-peace cause they claim to champion this year, the aim is anything but beautiful. In fact it’s exactly the same no matter what they pick — to separate free people from their rights and power — whether it is in forcing them to eat bugs, which was big at their conference about a year ago, or in depriving them of their rights to free speech. They want power for themselves by taking power from you, and they’ll latch onto any issue they can think of to get it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/ursula_the_davos_witch_urges_suppression_of_free_speech.html

CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A serial sex offender who identifies as transgender has been released to a halfway house in Ontario after having been detained for part of his sentence at the Milton-Vanier Centre for Women. Patrick Pearsall, who also uses the names Tara Pearsall and Passion-Star Royale, was released after being convicted for preying on young girls online by impersonating a paramedic, which afforded him the opportunity to perform vaginal exams on unsuspecting victims.

A repeat offender, Pearsall has 33 convictions related to breach of parole, failure to appear and non-compliance under the Sex Offender Registry. He has repeatedly been classified by authorities as “highly likely” to reoffend, and most likely sexually, while never expressing remorse for his crimes.

Over the past two decades, Pearsall has been convicted on charges related to instances of sexual assault by deception, and nearly all of his victims are underage girls or young women.

Documents were first shared to X by Canadian women’s rights activist Heather Mason which revealed that the decision by the parole board to release Pearsall went into effect on December 20, 2023. A statement from the parole board notes that Pearsall presents a “high risk to reoffend violently or sexually within women’s correctional institutions.”

Patrick, aka Tara Pearsall, aka Passion-Star Royale – a dangerous sex offender with a ten-year long-term supervision order, is released on statutory release to a men's halfway house in Ontario.

He attempted to be released to the women's halfway houses but was denied because they… pic.twitter.com/cRsB23YgMn

— Heather Mason 🇨🇦 (@Mason134211f) January 16, 2024

“Even within correctional institutions, you have demonstrated a pattern of problematic institutional adjustment, including a recent allegation of sexual assault against a prisoner at [redacted] institution which resulted in your transfer to another institution; despite the allegation, the Board notes you were not charged. You have also received misconducts for being verbally aggressive with correctional staff,” the report states.

The Board also emphasized that Pearsall’s intention to undergo “gender surgery” would not lessen his risk to women and girls.

“Without personal change, which you have shown resistance to (most especially in the area of sexual offending), your risk to women and girls remains largely unmitigated.”

The convicted sex offender first declared a transgender status in 2015 while in custody for the first time on charges of sexual assault. He began calling himself Tara, taking the name of his former wife — who, on one occasion, told the court she’d married the man when she was 17 and he was 40. “He told me he was a doctor and a priest.”

In 2018, Pearsall was handed a fixed ten-year sentence following conviction for two sexual assaults, and was placed on the Sex Offender Registry. Three years prior, he had begun declaring a female identity, and was therefore sent to serve his sentence at the Milton-Vanier Centre for Women.

According to The Star, Pearsall had admitted to cellmates and other individuals that he preferred being incarcerated in a women’s facility because it meant doing “easier time.” Pearsall, a convicted rapist, had not undergone genital surgery and retained his male anatomy when he was placed in the women’s correctional center.

Pearsall has been diagnosed with factitious disorder, a mental disorder defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as involving the falsification of physical or psychological signs of symptoms. In previous decades, and in some cases, presently, Pearsall has claimed to be HIV positive, diabetic, and a sufferer of chronic leukemia.

A habitual liar, Pearsall has also claimed to be a member of the British royal family, as well as a member of the Hells Angels gang.

During interviews with an appointed forensic psychiatrist, Pearsall claimed to have identified as a female from the age of 5, stating that he wore clothing regarded as being for girls throughout his young childhood, and that he had been sexually abused by his father as a punishment for his actions.

“I was a girl trapped in a boy’s body,” Pearsall has said, according to a 108-page report by the psychiatrist.

In 2018, Canadian journalist Rosie DiManno described how Pearsall appeared in court the year prior facing charges of sexual assault against two women, one of whom was a teenager, while wearing “women’s clothing, wearing makeup, perhaps the ugliest woman I’ve ever seen.”

One of the victims, identified only by her initials, L.M. told the court how she had been invited to stay at the Pearsall home after fleeing an abusive boyfriend and befriending the sexual predator’s wife on social media. During that time she experienced a medical issue and began bleeding vaginally.

Pearsall told the woman he was a certified paramedic, and she agreed to allow him to examine her.

“He feels around inside and then he tells me I’m miscarrying.’’ She told the court that Pearsall gave her two options: either go to the hospital, or he could “f— the baby back into you.’’

However, Pearsall’s history of sexual predation extends back decades. He had previously been convicted in Halifax in 1999 and in London in 2000 on charges of sexually assaulting girls.

The 1999 conviction for sexual assault involved a 24 year-old homeless woman identified as A.B. While claiming to be both a gynecologist and a reverend, Pearsall inserted his fingers into her to ostensibly conduct an examination. At that point, he told the victim that the fetus needed to be “pushed back,” and he suggested that the two engage in intercourse.

In 2008, he sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman, and in 2015, he abused a 17-year-old girl. In both instances, he had posed as medical professional trained to perform gynecological exams on pregnant women.

The 17 year-old victim was a vulnerable teen runaway living in a group home. In what has been a continuous pattern, Pearsall and his then-girlfriend invited the girl to stay at their home. Experiencing issues related to an early-term pregnancy, the victim consented to a medical exam when Pearsall told her he had training. She realized he had lied when he told her she was three months pregnant, as she had only met her boyfriend two months prior.

Another conviction in Nova Scotia was described in the same fashion: a 16 year-old girl, homeless and pregnant, was violated under the pretense of a medical exam, and again, Pearsall offered to have intercourse with the girl to prevent an alleged miscarriage.

Disturbingly, Pearsall has also targeted an intellectually disabled teen whom he began interacting with through Facebook in 2015. According to her parents, the girl functioned at the mental capacity of a 5 year-old. After discovering the messages of a sexual nature sent by Pearsall, the girl’s parents contacted authorities.

Since his declaration of a transgender identity in 2015, Pearsall has begun wearing a wig and taking female hormones. He has not undergone genital surgery, and despite this, was placed in Milton-Vanier Centre for Women among female inmates.

The forensic psychological assessment ordered by the court describes Pearsall as retaining a “substantial risk” of reoffending.

“He has claimed he is planning on going through with castration associated with his wish to have gender reassignment surgery. He has not however had this surgery as of yet. As a result, I must consider his current gender and hormonal status when considering risk management,” the court stated.

“This gentleman has been convicted of a number of sexually motivated sexual offenses. Although he presently appears to be compliant with medication to cause feminization, these effects can be reversed with oral or injectable androgens. Thus, in absence of castration, this gentleman’s risk of sexual reoffending remains substantial.”

https://reduxx.info/canada-transgender-child-sexual-abuser-released-from-womens-prison-into-community/

While Germany slips into deindustrialization, punishes working-class farmers, and faces a growing budget crisis, calls to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are growing stronger and stronger as the party soars in the polls.

However, the idea is so dangerous that intellectuals, politicians, and journalists from across the political spectrum are warning against such an action, which would destroy democracy forever in Germany. One commentator, Harald Martenstein, who routinely writes for the Welt newspaper, arguably the most popular newspaper in the country, has just described it as “one of the stupidest ideas ever:”

“Germany’s deindustrialization is underway, and this has nothing to do with global trends. The government considers its citizens to be indefinitely subject to tribute when it comes to restructuring society. And the growing AfD is to be stopped by banning the party — one of the stupidest ideas ever,” Martenstein writes.

Later in his piece, entitled “A political elite could not show its contempt for the population more clearly,” he argues that the concerns of Germans regarding climate change and immigration are legitimate, and yet, the political establishment, out of a sense of panic, is labeling any opposition as “far right” and “extremist.”

“Demands such as those for regulated migration or for a climate policy that does not allow the country to suffer economic losses have nothing to do with right-wing extremism. They are important to many.

Because little or nothing is happening (on these issues), the AfD is over 30 percent in the east and not far below in the west. The solution to this problem should now be a ban on the AfD. Of all the political ideas I’ve experienced, and I’ve lived a long time, this is one of the stupidest.”

The article itself has generated nearly 3,500 comments, which even by Welt standards is a significant amount. The publication itself is also generally seen as pro-CDU (Christian Democrat) and routinely runs critical pieces on the AfD. Nevertheless, a ban on an entire political party that one in four voters currently say they would choose would shake Germany like an earthquake.

Martenstein touches on a variety of crises the ruling government currently faces, including the recent farmer protests.

“The fact that a person is not yet living at subsistence level apparently automatically makes them legitimate prey. Sure, subsidies can be cut. They are not a basic right. It’s the arbitrariness, the unannounced, sudden grab into their wallets that has made farmers particularly angry. There is no political concept behind the removal of the diesel subsidy, for example, no idea for the future,” he writes.

For some outside Germany, the question arises as to why the left-liberal government is targeting farmers. The answer, very clearly, is a surprise ruling by the country’s top court that their budget scheme is unconstitutional. After the ruling, the government was suddenly short €60 billion in budget money.

“The sole reason for this measure is the government’s urgent need for money. A need that has arisen due to an unconstitutional budget (…) due to government mistakes for which farmers are now expected to bleed. There are too many civil servants as voters, and NGOs close to the government are too close to the government.”

Martenstein goes on to warn that German taxpayers are being bled across the board, writing: “The state no longer sees itself as a service provider. Instead, the population is seen as subjects who are indefinitely subject to the government’s social restructuring plans. Warning to all wallets: Your money is not yours. You only have your money until those at the top need it for their projects.

He then goes on to criticize the government’s labeling of protesters as “right-wing extremist or racist,” a trick he says has been going on for years but is losing its power to persuade. He also said that Agricultural Minister Cem Özdemir’s claims that the farmers had a problem with him because is Turkish is absurd, as the entire protest was sparked by concrete austerity cuts and had nothing to do with Özdemir’s ethnic background.

Martenstein also notes that while employment is at an all-time high, much of it is made up of government workers, while the backbone of Germany, manufacturing, has seen its employment drop from 8.4 million before the coronavirus to 8.1 million, with substantial cuts expected in 2024 as well. The number of entrepreneurs has also fallen dramatically.

Regarding the AfD ban as a solution to all these problems, Martenstein writes: “There is no clearer way for a political elite to say to its population: Screw you all with your worries and wishes. The ban could not be legally implemented before this year’s elections anyway, but the voters’ reaction of defiance is likely to be huge.”

https://rmx.news/economy/afd-ban-one-of-the-stupidest-ideas-ever-but-the-ruling-german-government-is-desperate-warns-welt-commentator/

It has become painfully clear that when the European Union talks about ‘the rule of law,’ what they really mean to enforce is the absolute surrender to the failed Globalist policies emanating from Brussels.

It also becomes apparent how, once you follow the EU’s diktats, no matter how tyrannical you behave, all will be well.

Take Poland, for example. For years, it battled Brussels and was the target of endless recrimination from Brussels.

As soon as Donald Tusk became PM, the EU became blissfully uninvolved and adopted a laissez faire regarding the illegal actions of the Premiere.

Tusk is now in a hard conflict with President Andrzej Duda, politically aligned with the previous ruling party, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS).

Ultra-Globalist European Union Is Covering Up for Liberal Polish PM Tusk’s Illegal Actions – Hungarian MEPs File Official Protest With European Commission via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/rvMNypUXnc

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) January 18, 2024

Half of London’s social housing is occupied by immigrants, 31% of whom arrived here since 1991. Immigrants convicted and sentenced to prison are still entitled to claim “Indefinite Leave to Remain” if they keep out of trouble for 5 years upon release from prison. These are just some of the astonishing facts relating to the nonsensical manner in which immigration policy is conducted in Britain today. On this week’s Deprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Evan Riggs are joined by political commentator Jack Anderton, who has crunched the numbers on the immigrant impact on social housing and public funds.

Yet another Irish town becomes concerned over newcomers being sent to take over its hotel.

The number of births in France has fallen to its lowest level since the Second World War in a grim indicator of Western demographic collapse.

Figures released this week from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) reported that 678,000 babies were born in France last year, a decline of 48,000 over 2022 and the lowest of any year since 1946.

As with other countries in the West, France has long faced a declining birth rate, falling nearly every year since 2010 when 832,799 babies were born in the country, approximately 20 per cent higher than in 2023. However, according to Insee, the speed of decline has been increasing, with the birth rate standing at 1.68 children per woman in 2023, compared to 1.79 in 2022 and 1.99 in 2013.

A rate of 2.1 babies per woman is typically considered the baseline requirement for a modern nation to maintain its population rate. While France was well below this rate, the population did not in fact decline, given a 6.5 per cent decline in deaths, which stood at 631,000.

This was driven by an increase in life expectancy to 85.7 for women and 80 for men, representing a 0.6-year increase for women and a 0.7 per cent rise for men over 2022. While welcome news, the ageing population will likely put further strain on the pension and healthcare systems, with one in five people in France now being 65 years of age or older and one in ten being 75 or older.

The population, which grew by 0.3 per cent to 68.4 million, also increased due to mass migration, with 183,000 foreigners becoming residents last year. Neo-liberal governments, including in France, have often touted immigration as the solution to demographic decline and as a means to prop up their generous welfare states.

However, there has been growing resistance towards mass migration in France and throughout Europe, given the negative social and economic impacts of importing large populations of foreigners, such as devaluing the cost of labour and increased strains on government as well as the risk of terrorism, with France experiencing two Islamist terror attacks since October.

Amid growing public discontent, President Emmanuel Macron made concessions to Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) to pass immigration reform, which increases the government’s ability to deport illegals and other criminal migrants as well as reducing migration by cutting access to social welfare benefits to foreigners.

This week in a rare press conference held at the Élysée Palace, President Macron addressed the issue of demographics, which he described as the “taboo of the century”. Macron said that his government would seek to introduce a six-month “birth leave” for new parents and announced that “a major plan to combat this scourge” of declining birth rates will be forthcoming.

Rather than seeking to import foreigners to solve their demographic issues, culturally conservative European countries such as Hungary and Poland have introduced pro-family policies to help parents economically.

For example, under the previous Law and Justice (PiS) conservative government, Poland implemented a “maternal pension” to show “gratitude and respect” for women who have raised four or more children. Meanwhile, Hungary has seen success in boosting marriage and birth rates by enacting economic incentives for mothers such as granting lifetime tax exemptions for women who have four or more children.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has argued that governments throughout the West have been engaging in national “suicide” by adopting “Great Replacement” policies, a theory coined by French writer Renaud Camus, who argued that globalist politicians view their people as cogs rather than individual humans and therefore can merely be replaced with mass migration.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/18/demographic-decline-france-sees-lowest-number-of-births-since-wwii/

Liberal and left-wing MEPs are calling for the heads of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

During a topical European Parliament plenary debate on the evening of January 16, in what they described as an effort to combat the “rise of neo-fascism”, members of the Left and Green political Groups demanded that action be taken by the European Union.

Other MEPs claimed the entire discussion was “disingenuous electioneering”, as the Left and centre-left feared losing out to the rise of the populist Right across Europe.

Speaking to Brussels Signal, AfD MEP Gunnar Beck said the Liberal and Left calls were “hyperbolic pathos” and provided “a good example the current climate of political discourse in Germany”.

The issue comes as the populist right-wing AfD party and Giorgia Meloni’s Italian Government have both been hit with controversy.

The Parliament debate was scheduled in response to an annual commemoration in Rome on January 9 of right-wing activists murdered in 1970s, which is routinely attended by Italian neo-fascist groups.

In a press release sent out before the latest debate, German Green MEP Terry Reintke condemned her fellow Germans in the AfD for what she said was their “frontal attack on democracy”.

She added that the party was launching “attacks on our political system, on governments, on the LGBTQI community and on migrants.

“The right-wing extremists will not stop at anyone who thinks differently, loves differently, looks differently, speaks differently,” she said.

Alongside Tino Chrupalla, the AfD is chaired by Alice Weidel, who is in a civil partnership with a Sri Lankan woman.

Reintke pointed to a series of mass demonstrations against the hard-right in Germany on January 14, saying it “shows that the AfD does not represent the supposed ‘silent majority’ and that an increasing number of people are standing up against a party that despises humanity”.

Beck disagreed and said the German Government spends more than “€1 billion … to fight alleged right-wing extremism”.

He added that “part of this money is used to fund regular demonstrations against us by Antifa [anti-facists] and other similar groups”.

“Conveniently, Ms Reintke ignores that not thousands but many tens of thousands of ordinary farmers and citizens have in recent years taken to the streets to protest against the Government’s Corona lockdowns, their current policy and their foreign policy. They did so without funding,” he said.

Berlin has recently found itself blockaded by German farmers protesting against the Green and Social Democrat coalition Government.

Given, Beck claimed, that polling has shown 80 per cent of Europeans are against mass immigration, he added that his “party gives a voice to those people”.

“We are defending democracy but within the framework of law.”

With almost a quarter of Germans saying they will vote for AfD, questions are arising in Germany among governmental parties and their supporters over banning the party.

In the most recent episode, German politicians were told via a one-million-strong public petition to strip AfD heavyweight Björn Höcke of his fundamental rights to vote and participation in politics.

Reintke also condemned the Meloni Government for what she said was its “silence” on the neo-fascist event in Rome nine days ago, saying it was “clear proof that democracy in the EU is increasingly under threat.”

Despite the apparently important issues in the plenary debate, the chamber seemed relatively empty.

Nicola Procaccini, an MEP for Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party, noted that the “members who wanted this debate are not here”.

She said: “I think that shows what’s really important for these ‘champagne anti-fascists’. It’s more important for them to get to their dinner rather than be here.”

Procaccini and other Italian MEPs on the Right questioned why the neo-fascist commemoration was being brought up this year, since it had occurred annually under Italian governments of all political persuasions for some 40 years.

Paolo Borchia, an MEP for the Lega group, said the whole issue “sounded like broken record” and that the Parliament’s majority had its “priorities in the wrong place”.

Instead of having a “balanced debate” on the violent history of Italy in the 1970s, he said the “plenary room was being used for an hour – just for electoral purposes”.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/01/bring-us-their-heads-green-meps-drag-afd-italy-into-neofascism-debate/

On Thursday the 18th of January 2024, a 19-year-old man will stand trial in Quimper (Finistère) accused of publicly glorifying an act of terrorism.

The events date back to the 14th of October 2022. The young man from Egypt attended the vocational school in Pleyben (Centre-Finistère) and took part in the memorial service for the murdered teacher Samuel Paty. When he asked the teacher about the term “terrorism”, he said: “That’s normal, I would do the same if you insult the prophet”.

A year and a half later, he is awaiting sentencing, while his trial took place on 23 November 2023. At the trial, the public prosecutor at the time, Jean-Luc Lennon, demanded a four-month suspended prison sentence and a one-year ban from entering France.

Christophe Lepetitcorps, the presiding judge, finally announced the sentence: eight months’ suspended imprisonment and inclusion in the file for terrorist offenders. Ouest France

Pleyben (29) : “c’est normal, moi aussi je ferais ça si on insultait le Prophète”. Un lycéen égyptien qui avait troublé un hommage à Samuel Paty en 2022 écope de 8 mois de prison avec sursis pour apologie du terrorisme mais peut rester en France – Fdesouche