Month: January 2024

A 42-year-old soldier who recently announced his gender transition is slamming the Spanish Army for putting up obstacles to his use of the female changing rooms. Francisco Javier L. G., first began changing his legal documents in the spring of 2023 following the enactment of Spain’s controversial Trans Law.

Francisco has boldly stated that he has no intention of changing his name or undergoing any alterations to his body, noting in a recent interview that he is fine with his overtly masculine appearance.

“I like my body, I am happy with it and I do not intend to change it,” he said, adding that the only measures he is taking to complete his “transition” to “female” is altering his gender marker on legal documents.

“I am happy with my body and I [am sexually attracted to] women, but I realized some things and I felt like a woman. For example, I’m a beautician, and I feel better talking to women than men,” Francisco said. “When the new [trans] law came out, I asked my daughter if she minded if I became a woman. She’s 10-years-old, and told me she didn’t mind. Then I made the decision to do it.”

Months prior to his change in “identity,” Francisco participated in a TV program called First Dates, a show aimed at helping people find love. At one point during the show, the question “what turns you on the most?” was posed to participants, to which Francisco replied “I like long hair and high heels. I have a high heel shoe fetish. I love high heels.” He goes on to imply that he enjoyed wearing high heels himself.

In March of 2023, Spain dramatically relaxed its requirements for changing such documents, striking down a requirement that the individual provide medical reports demonstrating they had gender dysphoria or were undergoing cross-sex hormone therapy. The only formalities Francisco had to complete were the presentation of his documents at the Civil Registry, and waiting for a cursory three-month period.

Francisco has been in the military since 1999 and is stationed in the southern city of Seville where he is a heavy machinery mechanic. He is currently on medical leave due to a shoulder injury. But he has stated that his “problems” began after he informed his superiors of his legal gender transition and desire to use the women’s changing room.

“I could not continue using a locker room contrary to my gender, so I requested the use of the locker room that corresponded to my gender, which I understand should be a female locker room, since I am a woman,” the soldier tells Diario de Sevilla.

But Francisco says he was told he could not use the women’s facilities due to space issues, with the women’s area being 110% over capacity. Dissatisfied with the response, Francisco continued to pursue the issue.

The Army then sent him a summons to attend a meeting with the intention of resolving the case, where officials agreed that he could not use the male facilities as it was incompatible with his “new gender.” He was also told that an expansion was underway to increase the side of the women’s locker room area, and that he will eventually be allowed to use the women’s facilities.

Until then, he was offered the women’s senior command locker rooms on a pre-determined schedule, giving him access to the area within certain times of the day.

But Francisco believes the accommodation measures are neither fair nor right, and claims that he is being discriminated against on the basis of his transgender status.

“If a judge has declared me a woman, what does an army lawyer have to say about it?” he said to media.

In statements made yesterday to Diario de Sevilla, Francisco explained that he is pursuing avenues for possible legal action against the Army for failing to properly facilitate his gender transition.

Spain’s Ministry of Defense does not currently have any guidance on how to best adhere to the trans law, which was enacted last February, and is currently dealing with cases on an individualized basis. But both Francisco’s demands, and the Army’s attempt to accommodate him, have sparked backlash from Spanish women’s rights advocates.

On X (formerly Twitter), Ana Pollán, a well-known feminist activist, sarcastically detailed Francisco’s case.

“This woman named Francisco is not committing any fraud of law. She has scrupulously complied with all the formalities provided for in the trans law and there are no legal reasons to deny her rights. This is what happens when intellectual indigents legislate.”

https://reduxx.info/spain-male-soldier-claims-he-is-being-discriminated-against-after-being-prevented-from-using-female-changing-rooms/

A Sudanese migrant convicted of attempting to kidnap three minors in separate incidents has been jailed in France after claiming he just wanted to “have fun” with children.

Bakri I., 35, was sentenced to just 18 months in prison following a hearing at the Évry-Courcouronnes criminal court on Tuesday.

He was charged with three separate attempted kidnaps for incidents that occurred during a 12-day window in November and December last year.

On Nov. 23, the Sudanese national was spotted attempting to lead an 8-year-old boy by the hand away from a playground in Corbeil-Essonnes. The mother of the child witnessed the incident and intervened, dragging her son away from the man.

Just ten days later on Dec. 3, Bakri I. was again caught grabbing two 4-year-old twins by the hands at a market in the same town. Their mother and nearby vendors were alerted to the danger when they heard the children screaming for help and scared the assailant, who was reportedly visibly drunk, causing him to run from the scene.

Two days later, the man accosted and snatched a 2-year-old girl at the checkout of an Action store while her childminder was paying for her goods. The incident was caught on CCTV and used as evidence during the court hearing.

“I was shopping with a friend. I take my bank card out to pay and there he tries to take Mia. I hear screaming. My friend grabs him and he runs off,” the childminder told the court.

However, seemingly undeterred, the man again attempts to abduct the same child in a nearby store where the childminder had gone to locate a security guard.

“There, I met him again and he tried a second time to take her from my arms, saying ‘She’s my daughter,’” the young woman testified.

The event led to the arrest of Bakri I. who was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention.

When faced with accusations of abduction, the Sudanese migrant told the authorities he had “no intention” of “stealing” the children.

“Do you think I would have wanted to steal them in front of everyone, in a store like that?” he told the court through an interpreter.

He revealed that he is an alcoholic and claimed that he is “happy” when he is drunk and wants to play with children.

“I want to have fun with children, I touch their hands to pass the time. I don’t have a job. Afterward, I leave,” he added.

Following examination by an expert psychiatrist, the court heard how Bakri I. suffered from “severe alcoholism against a background of emotional and social isolation” and said it was plausible that his alcohol intake would have led to “behavioral disinhibition”.

The court also heard how the migrant had arrived in France from Sudan in 2016 and had been institutionalized in 2021.

In mitigation, Bakri I.’s defense counsel insisted there was “no evil connotation” in his client’s actions and that he merely wanted to “play with the children.”

Despite the argument that the man had “no malignant or perverse intention,” he was sentenced to an 18-month custodial sentence, six further months of probation, and ordered to compensate the victims for three counts of attempted kidnap.

https://rmx.news/crime/serial-attempted-kidnapper-jailed-in-france-despite-defense-claiming-he-just-wanted-to-have-fun-with-children/

In a bid to reinvigorate his mandate, and following the change of prime minister, French President Emmanuel Macron gave a press conference on Tuesday, January 16th in which he presented his priorities for the months ahead. His speech, however, was a scattershot series of announcements, characterised by proposed measures unlikely to make an impact.

Although Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to remain at the helm of France for another three-and-a-half years, there is already an end-of-reign atmosphere in the country, which the president is trying to ward off. The cabinet reshuffle at the beginning of January was intended to inject a little energy into a political life that had run dry.

At the lengthy press conference, the president announced the top priorities—but only vague plans—for his remaining term of office: economic growth, health, and education.

Macron intends to push through a new law designed to stimulate economic growth by simplifying standards and regulations while relaxing the minimum obligations placed on companies. His aim is “to put boldness and energy back into the system” and “to give greater freedom to those who do, who dare, who work.” 

The man who, in years gone by, championed the ‘start-up nation,’ intends to return to the same frame of mind as when, as François Hollande’s Minister for the Economy in 2015, he had a law passed in his name, characterised by such emblematic measures as allowing the possibility of Sunday working. 

Macron also announced a €2 billion tax cut for the middle classes by 2025, while signalling his intent to achieve full employment by 2027, in particular by tightening access to unemployment insurance.

Education is another of Macron’s priorities. His proposals on education are a hodgepodge of measures, many of which recycle old promises that were never fulfilled. Announcing that he wants to “rearm civic education” in schools, a series of familiar measures have resurfaced.

For example, he proposes experimenting with a “single outfit”—to avoid the overly connotative word ‘uniform’—which could be rolled out to all schools by 2026. Likewise, the return of civics classes was in the speech—a measure already announced by Pap Ndiaye but never implemented. The president also spoke in favour of a graduation ceremony, instituted as a “republican rite of unity, pride and recognition to make Republicans at the same time as transmitting knowledge.”

Finally, Macron announced that he wanted to introduce drama classes at secondary school, provoking jeers on social media since his wife, Brigitte Macron, is none other than his former drama teacher (whom he met when he was fourteen and she was nearly forty).

The President’s insistence on educational issues can be explained by the fact that he knows he is expected to address this sensitive issue. Gabriel Attal’s express passage to the Ministry of National Education, followed by his quick departure to become prime minister, has sharpened the public’s focus on this institution. 

Attal was replaced by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, criticised for being unsuitable for the job and for having chosen to send her children to a private Catholic school. As this controversy escalated, Emmanuel Macron ostensibly supported his new minister, calling for her individual choice for her children to be respected, but sending out a clear message that he intends to get personally involved in educational matters. Such intervention could absorb political pressure and compensate for any shortcomings of the incumbent education minister.

The last issue to attract the President’s attention during the press conference was health and the birth rate. The latest published demographic figures for France show a dramatic fall in live births, dropping below the 700,000 mark for the first time since 1946. To halt this precipitous decline, the president has announced two measures: the creation of birth leave to replace the current parental leave scheme, and a “plan to combat infertility.” 

But these media-orchestrated measures only partially address the needs of families who would like to expand but lack childcare facilities, housing, and purchasing power. In a political paradox, at a time when the government is announcing that it wants to encourage the birth rate, the new Health Minister Catherine Vautrin announced an increase in abortion fees to encourage doctors to carry out abortions—proof of the current government’s inability to think in terms of family and culture of life.

Nonetheless, some feminist associations criticised Macron’s “pro-natalist” rhetoric as “profoundly contrary to women’s autonomy and a worrying political and social step backwards.”

At the end of the conference, the press endorsed the idea that Emmanuel Macron’s speech had become “right-wing.” The Left condemned his plan as “reactionary,” “old-fashioned” and “paternalistic.” On the Right, Rassemblement National criticised it as a hollow intervention dominated by an anti-RN obsession, while sovereignist MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan deplored “unfair” decisions.

In fact, if there is anything even mildly ‘right wing’ in Macron’s action plan for the end of his five-year term, it is limited to a vague encouragement of entrepreneurial freedom, a framework for social benefits, and consideration of the birth rate in ways that have yet to be debated.

In addition to this presidential address, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will deliver a general policy speech to members of parliament on January 30th.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/macrons-relaunch-press-conference-fall-flat/

For 24 years, Roger Daltrey, singer for classic British rock band The Who, headed Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual charity shows, weaponizing his star power to assemble some of the greatest musicians in the world to raise money and awareness for the worthy cause.

Known for holding strong and unapologetic opinions, Daltrey is doing the media rounds as he wraps up his quarter of a century on the frontlines combating the terrible disease.

And wouldn’t you know, as he comes to the end of his hugely successful 24-year stewardship, an interview finds him ‘in typically skeptical form’, mincing no words.

Louder reported:

“Daltrey – whose sister died from breast cancer aged just 32 – expresses reservations about the scientific establishment’s approach to finding a cure for the disease.

‘I don’t think they’ll ever find a cure for cancer’, says Daltrey. ‘I don’t think they want to find a cure. I’m being cynical here, but scientists look after the science but they also look after themselves.

You do imagine if they did find a cure tomorrow it would be fabulous for the country, but there’d be an awful lot of scientists out of work. You might think I’m being cynical, but I do think that’.”

The Who’s Roger Daltrey Blasts Scientists and Big Pharma: ‘They Don’t Want to Find a Cure for Cancer’ via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/cH0MFKZqEy

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) January 17, 2024

By Olivia Murray

Klaus Schwab summoned the demons for the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering, and now Davos’s sex workers are all booked up, at least according to a new report from the Swiss paper 20 Minuten; read below, translated from the original language:

WEF escort Mia May: ‘12 hours cost 2,000 francs’

The example of the escort app ‘Titt4Tat’ shows how popular escort services are during the WEF. Some women even find a new job in Davos.

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But anyone who wants to book an escort via ‘T4T’ in the Davos region, or even in eastern Switzerland, will be disappointed: ‘All local service providers are completely booked during the WEF week,’ confirms owner B. Konrad. The explanation: People kept to themselves in Davos, their partners mostly stayed at home. In addition, alcohol and parties contribute to the high demand for his service, according to the co-founder.

And these are the people who promote themselves as the “moral” and “virtuous” leaders of the world, just wanting what is best for humanity and all the underprivileged people. Give me a break.

Let me just say this loud and clear: I have never, and I will never, trust anything that comes from unelected bureaucrats who pay no price for being wrong, even more so when they are hypocritical communists shamelessly vocalizing their plans to enslave humanity, queer our children, inject us with poison, steal our property, and feed us bugs (before culling us under “carbon reduction” schemes). In fact, it’s for this very reason that anyone else with even an inkling of awareness also views this group of people as dangerous and adversarial—even the normies who once believed these institutions had even a shred of credibility—which is why Schwab’s acolytes have gathered under the theme of “Rebuilding Trust.” (Uh oh, the people they’re trying to subjugate, abuse, and murder figured out that we’re trying to subjugate, abuse, and murder them, and it is having a detrimental effect on our agenda!)

They’re not off to a very good start if “rebuilding trust” were actually the goal (a fool’s errand if you ask me); isn’t it ironic that while stumping on earning back the trust of the people by day, they immediately give in to their impulses to buy women (who have no doubt been trafficked in the sex industry since they were minors) for sexual purposes at night?

But, I guess now that Jeffrey Epstein is out of the equation, they have to do the dirty work themselves; so arguably, at least this is a step in the right direction, because they’re using adult women instead of children. With Epstein’s Island out of commission, is Davos the new honeypot?

Who woulda thunk that a bunch of amoral people with god complexes and essentially unlimited amounts of money, on a mission to shift more wealth and control from the people and to themselves, would also be purchasing their fellow human beings in a bid to satisfy their perverted ideations?

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

The International Criminal Court should add “ecocide” to its brief alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes to criminalise the side effects of farming, fishing and energy production, a green activist argued during the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Greta Thunberg ally and CEO of Stop Ecocide International Jojo Mehta demanded during a WEF Davos panel dubbed “Where Nature Meets Conflict” on Tuesday that a new international criminal category of “ecocide” to prevent the “mass damage and destruction of nature”.

Mehta, who co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017 alongside the late green legal activist Polly Higgins, said at the globalist World Economic Forum meeting: “What our organisation and other collaborators aim to do is to have this recognised legally as a serious crime because one of the issues that pervades this discussion is that we have a culturally engrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people and property.”

While proponents of the legislation have often pointed to disasters such as oil spills and nuclear meltdowns, Mehta suggested that ecocide could be extended to include necessary functions of humanity such as agriculture and energy production.

“If you are campaigning for human rights, at least you know mass murder, torture all of these things are serious crimes, but there is no equivalent in environmental space. Unlike an international crime like genocide that involves a specific intent, with ecocide what we see is what people are trying to do is business, is to farm, is fish, is produce energy, but what is missing is the awareness and the conscience of the side effects, around the collateral damage that happens with that,” the green activist said.

Mehta argued that creating the criminal category of “ecocide” would “steer” individuals, businesses, and governments around the world in a “healthier direction”, presumably out of concern of facing prosecution at the International Criminal Court and potentially lengthy prison sentences.

The green activist has previously explained: “One can envisage, for example, once the law is in place, that a decision that leads to a new coal mine or a decision that leads to the opening of new fossil fuel projects will potentially have to be really seriously rethought.”

Jojo Mehta, founder of Stop Ecocide Now and an ally of Greta Thunberg, tells a WEF panel about her desire to criminalize the side effects of making money from farming, fishing, and creating energy.https://t.co/aJiaQfZlkb pic.twitter.com/4RQqTRUZsN

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) January 16, 2024

Last year the European Parliament voted in favour of backing draft legislation to recognise “ecocide” as a crime, but it has yet to be voted into EU law.

However, currently 11 nations around the world have codified the concept into their criminal codes including: Vietnam, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, and France.

A further 27 countries, including some EU member states, are actively considering following suit, according to Stop Ecocide International.

A landmark case currently being built by Ukraine, which plans to launch legal proceedings against Russia at the International Criminal Court over enviormental damage as a result of Moscow’s invasion of the country. Activists hope that such a case could bolster the legal grounding for ecocide to be recognised as an international crime.

The concept has drawn pushback, however, with legal experts questioning the ability of prosecutors to be able to determine which individuals are actually to blame for man-made disasters, given that they are often the result of numerous people across international borders. Determining blame for disasters supposedly sparked by allegedly man-made climate change would therefore be even more difficult to prosecute.

Mehta’s arguments at the WEF also drew criticism on social media, with Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts saying: “This is what control freaks do: they invent new words, control the language, and stop debate.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/17/wef-climate-crazies-call-for-new-international-crime-of-ecocide/

by Giulio Meotti

The video comes from Birmingham, 1 and a half million inhabitants, the second largest city in England, 30 percent Islamic. An entire stadium shouting the Islamic takbir, the submission cry of the “infidels”.

Wikipedia: Takbir is a call to glorify Allah. Takbir is the Arabic term for the phrase Allahu Akbar, meaning “Allah is the greatest.”

Already in 2015 Reuters defined Birmingham as the “English Mecca”. And two years later the New York Times wondered why many English jihadists come from Birmingham. Yes, who knows why.

Jews are only 0.1 percent of Birmingham’s population and after the October 7 massacre they are afraid. How can they not be?

In 2021, 140,000 Muslims gathered in prayer on the lawns of Birmingham.

In 2014 there were 40,000.

In 2015 70,000.

In 2016 90,000.

In 2017 100,000.

Numbers matter. Large numbers become civilizations. And it is the numbers that decide the future. And the future, if this continues, can be seen in that video.

Ah, Muslim children in Birmingham have already outnumbered Christian children.

Just as the most sensational attack in history which struck at the heart of the world superpower was dismissed as “imaginative” by the United States before Islamic terrorists perpetrated it on 11 September 2001, so the most sensational military attack which devastated Israel was considered “imaginative” before the Islamic terrorists of Hamas perpetrated it on 7 October 2023, so today Europe makes the fatal mistake of dismissing the project of Islamic conquest of Europe as “imaginative”.

1976 is the year of the “family reunion” in France of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the architect of the institutional construction of the European Union. Giscard d’Estaing had recently expressed regret over the reunion. “The idea of bringing in immigrant families seemed natural at the time. With the massive increase in immigration from Muslim countries, it has instead produced deep divisions in French society.”

It starts with the wife and children, then come the wife’s parents, the other children of the wife’s parents and their children. And so on, in a demographic chain that has become repopulation.

A number? Christopher Caldwell provides it in the latest Compact: “By the middle of the century, a fifth of France will be Islamic.”

Caldwell in an essay for the Claremont Review talks about another country that is generous with family reunification, Sweden:

“The Pew Research Center has predicted that, by 2050, if it receives a moderate amount of immigration, Sweden will be 20 percent Muslim. If it receives high immigration, it will be 30 percent Muslim.”

Family reunification of migrants in Germany will reach a new record this year.

At the end of November alone, the Foreign Ministry, under the leadership of Green politician Annalena Baerbock, issued more than 120,000 visas to non-EU foreigners to enter the Federal Republic. If you add the 300,000 applications registered so far this year, at least another 500,000 foreigners will immigrate to Germany by the end of the year. Last year the number of visas issued was 117,000. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since 2015 almost one million foreigners (around 950,000 people) have received a corresponding residence permit, without them appearing in the asylum statistics.

The former Belgian senator Alain Destexhe talks about the “avalanche effect of family reunification” in Le Figaro. “In Belgium, 50 percent of immigration is linked to family reunification. This type of immigration is, by definition, exponential and, literally, infinite, through the recognition of refugees, fake or gray marriages, the endogamous character of most Turkish and Moroccan marriages, massive fraud, etc. The almost mechanical consequences of family reunification on demography are never explained.”

37.3 percent of Belgian citizens have an immigrant background. In Brussels this percentage is already 82.5 percent, in Antwerp 62 and in Ghent 41, reveals sociologist Jan Hertogen. “Without immigration, Brussels would only have 250,000 inhabitants, Antwerp half of those it has today.”

The Great Replacement does not exist, in fact it is a phantom of the far right, but it is still formidable.

The Journal du dimanche takes us to Brussels: “Islam in the Belgian capital, a city where the Christmas market is called ‘winter pleasures’ so as not to offend anyone, has become physically more discreet, more acceptable. More organized. Brussels, according to the Free University of Louvain, has no fewer than 200 Muslim associations. More than Catholic structures and a little less than football ones.”

On the issues of immigration and terrorism, the most important advisor to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is considered to be György Bakondi. Speaking to Die Welt he says: “It is now a fact, the more people with an Islamic migratory background are present in a European country, the more they spread their political-Islamic opinions, many of which have the aim of infiltrating the electoral system of a country to influence Parliament. The consequence will be that in the future Muslims will constitute the majority in many areas of life.”

Will Europe be able to reverse the trend? It should completely change politics and I don’t know if it has the stomach for it.

Meanwhile, the Great Islamic Hijra is underway and will sweep them all away.

Europe’s new soundtrack: Takbir! | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

The latest French poll for the European elections confirms the dominance of the Rassemblement National (RN), with an observable change in the age of supporters of the National Right party. Retired people, until now loyal to Emmanuel Macron, are becoming increasingly interested in Marine Le Pen’s and Jordan Bardella’s party.

The change of government and the arrival of Gabriel Attal as prime minister is not yet changing the dynamic of the European elections. The poll conducted by the ELABE institute on January 13th for La Tribune Dimanche confirms a ten-point lead for the Rassemblement National, with 28.5% of voting intentions—well ahead of Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, which only has 18% of voters.

The good results posted by the RN are nothing new, especially as the European elections are generally considered in France to be a ballot with secondary issues, allowing people to express their convictions without calculating the exercise of power, and often very favourable to the Rassemblement National. 

In an already well-established trend, the Rassemblement National remains the leading party among the under-35s. After the poll, the Jeunes Républicains (the youth movement of Les Républicains) boasted on X that they were the leading right-wing party among young people in a post that was strongly criticised for including Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party in the right-wing, but excluding the Rassemblement National.

The notable change revealed by this latest poll is the rise of Marine Le Pen’s party among voters who have traditionally been reluctant to vote for the RN: pensioners and higher socio-professional categories.

The government list, which would be led by new Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné, scores poorly as it struggles to attract voters beyond Emmanuel Macron’s core supporters. It remains the first choice of retired people, but this category is growing among RN voters: 19% of the over-65s now wish to vote RN (compared with 23% for Renaissance).

This increase can be explained by the growing difficulties faced by pensioners in terms of purchasing power, but also by the deterioration in their personal security, as the news of the last few months has been filled with cases of assault and rape of elderly people throughout France.

Another notable change is that 24% of the middle to upper middle classes (who, according to the poll’s criteria, “make ends meet without difficulty”) now plan to vote for the RN, compared with 21% for Renaissance.

Outside the Rassemblement National, the right-wing vote goes first to the Les Républicains party, a list led by François-Xavier Bellamy, who headed the list in previous elections. He polls at around 8.5% but fails to attract support from outside his usual voter base. 

The list led by Marion Maréchal for Reconquête is estimated at around 5%, bearing in mind that a third of Éric Zemmour’s presidential voters said they intended to vote RN in the European elections.

The Left, which chose not to renew the New Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPES) coalition for this election and will therefore present separate lists, received 29% of the total vote. The left-wing bloc therefore fell short of the Rassemblement National, meaning none of the individual left-wing lists have managed to break the symbolic 10% barrier. The France Insoumise party is estimated to have reached a ceiling of 7.5%, paying for its excesses of recent months, particularly on the question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

The interpretation of these figures is always open to question, given the specific stakes involved in the European elections. Very often, the desire to support one’s political camp or to express dissatisfaction with the government takes precedence over strictly European issues. Interest in the ballot remains limited among the French, a majority (61%) of whom are dissatisfied with the way the European Union operates and its action on key issues such as the war in Ukraine, immigration and purchasing power.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/france-retirement-age-voters-favour-rassemblement-national-in-eu-election-polls/

A headteacher, who has been dubbed Britain’s strictest, has slammed a court case after a Muslim pupil brought forward legal action amid a “prayer ban”.

Michaela Community School in Brent has been accused of introducing the “discriminatory” policy which has “fundamentally changed” how the student – who cannot be named – feels “about being a Muslim in this country”.

Legal action was brought against the school after the student claimed the “banning [of] prayer rituals” breached her right to freedom of religion.

According to the school, the rule was first introduced in March last year by its founder and headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh – a former Government social mobility tsar.

But Birbalsingh has hit back, saying her school would “never separate children according to race and religion”.

Writing on social media, she said: “We have a large number of Muslim pupils. Their positive experiences have helped grow the number of Muslim students at the school by 50%. My own grandmother was Muslim.

“But the Governing Body had to take the decision to stop prayer rituals when some people started them, against a backdrop of events including violence, intimidation and appalling racial harassment of our teachers.

“Our decision restored calm and order to the school. We have always been clear to parents and pupils when they apply to Michaela that because of our restrictive building combined with our strict ethos that does not allow children to wander around the school unsupervised, we cannot have a prayer room.”

The hearing on Tuesday hear that the ban was “like somebody saying they don’t feel like I properly belong here”.

The school is opposing the legal challenge and has argued that due to past harassment, proceedings should be held in private.

But, it was ruled that the hearing will be held in public and the school as well as the headteacher can be named.

Sarah Hannett KC, representing the student, told the court that the policy had the “practical effect of only preventing Muslims from praying because their prayer by nature has a ritualised nature rather than being internal”.

According to the barrister, it was “a ban uniquely on Muslim prayer”, stopping pupils from praying “at a time as required by Islam.”

Hannett added that it “wouldn’t prevent a Christian child sitting quietly in the corner of the playground from praying”.

But Birbalsingh slammed the claims as she explained that Jehovah’s Witness, Christian and Hindu families have all raised objections to the school, but believes “we all make our sacrifices so that we can live in harmony”.

Pupils at the school, where around half of the roughly 700 students are Muslim, resorted to praying in the school’s “wet” and “dirty” yard last March, the lawyer told the court.

Students were reportedly using blazers to kneel as they were not permitted to bring in prayer mats.

Jason Coppel KC, for the school trust argued that reporting of the case could “give rise to a real and immediate risk of harm to the headmistress, other members of the school staff (and) potentially pupils at the school.”

The school has been targeted with “threats of violence”, abuse and “false” allegations of Islamophobia, the court heard.

Birbalsingh added: “Multiculturalism can only succeed when we understand that every group must all make sacrifices for the sake of the whole. We allow our children freedoms of all sorts, as long as those freedoms do not threaten the happiness and success of the whole school community.”

The school says it hired a security guard two days before the end of term after the emergency services were called following claims of bombs being placed inside.

Coppel added that staff were left “fearing for their lives”, after glass bottles were thrown over the school railings and a brick was launched through a window.

He said that Birbalsingh was worried coverage of the hearing would cause a “serious risk” of “physical danger to our school community”.

Justice Linden noted the school had received “disgraceful” abuse but concluded: “I do not accept that the evidence, in this case, establishes a risk to the lives or safety of members of the school staff or the school community that would justify holding the hearing in private.”

https://www.gbnews.com/news/britain-strictest-school-katharine-birbalsingh-sued-muslim-pupil-michaela-community

The Mixed Court of Appeal of the Dodecanese, sitting behind closed doors, imposed an 11-year prison sentence on a 25-year-old Pakistani man, a resident of Pigadian Karpathos, who was found guilty of rape and of committing sexual acts with a minor. From the first degree, the mitigating factor of good behaviour after the act was recognised.

As “Dimokratiki” reported, on April 24, 2020, at 9:45 p.m., the crime was reported by the mother of the 11-year-old to the police of Karpathos, and the perpetrator was arrested.

On the same day, the 11-year-old had left her home at 5:30 p.m. and her mother and sister looked for her in the neighborhood. She was spotted coming out of an apartment building located near the house where the Pakistani lives.

The minor confided in her sister that she had met the accused again at his home, who had repeatedly kissed her on the mouth and forced her to perform an indecent act.

It is alleged that he met the minor 10 days beforehand.

The first time, on April 22, 2020, the child was naked from the waist up and the defendant kissed her and groped her on the chest, while also performing a lewd act.

The accused was arrested on April 25, 2020 and confessed to what is attributed to him, claiming that he did not know that she was a minor. In his testimony, he partially retracted what he confessed during preliminary interrogation, denying that he had committed a sexual act with the minor.

More specifically, the defendant, who had been living in Karpathos for two years and worked in a carpentry workshop, said during the preliminary investigation that he saw the child 10 days earlier when he was passing by his house, that he greeted her and they talked.

The next day, April 20, 2020, he invited her to his house and she accepted and on April 22, 2020, after inviting her, she visited him again and then she told him, as she claimed, that she is 20 years old.

The Pakistani denied that he knew that she was a minor, as he also denied the act of rape and only claimed that there were obscenities on his part over the minor’s clothes.

It is noted that witness statements claim that the Pakistani man met the 11-year-old outside of primary school and that the child had informed him that she was a student. It is further alleged that her sister had warned the Pakistani not to approach the child.

It allegedly emerged that when the accused kissed the child in their first meeting, she got scared and left, and that the second time he seduced her by telling her that he wanted to give her a soft drink and that there was another Pakistani in the apartment who left.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/01/17/11-year-prison-sentence-for-the-pakistani-paedophile-of-karpathos-island/