Month: January 2024

A five-year-old girl who was stabbed outside her school in Dublin will need to ‘relearn everything’ due to the severity of her injuries, the child’s family have said.

The youngster was attacked along with two other children, a little boy and girl, as well as a woman who worked a creche worker in Parnell Square, Dublin on November 23.

French-Algerian Riad Bouchaker, 50, appeared in court last month charged with the attempted murder of three children and assault of a care worker which sparked riots across the Irish capital.

The little girl has spent several weeks in paediatric intensive care, with her family yesterday explaining she had now entered the third phase of her recovery. 

Through a message on a GoFundMe page, which has raised £55,000, her loved ones said she left the children’s ward in December.

They wrote: ‘Hi everyone, our darling girl has now entered the 3rd phase of her recovery. 

‘This will be the longest as she will relearn everything as a result of her injury.

‘She has done really well thus far and the medical team is very happy with her improvement. 

‘Once again, she is so strong and we are proud to be by her side supporting her, guiding her, and, above all, loving her every step of the way.’

The catastrophic stabbing triggered Riots in Dublin city centre with authorities saying it had been led by far-right individuals with strong anti-immigration views, who believed the attacker was a migrant. 

Around 500 thugs fought running battles with riot cops, looted shops and torched a double-decker bus in anger over the attack.

Pictures from the Irish capital at the time showed council workers removing the wrecks of burned-out buses and cars in a major clean up operation which was condemned by the Irish government.

The incident put pressure on the government and Garda Commissioner about safety and policing in Ireland.

Bouchaker of no fixed address, is further charged with three counts of assault causing harm and the possession and production of a 36cm kitchen knife.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12937023/Girl-five-stabbed-horrific-Dublin-attack-relearn-suffering-catastrophic-injury-say-parents-fundraiser-hits-55-000.html

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is tipped to lose her job as President Emmanuel Macron promises what looks like another Government reshuffle.

It comes after the French Parliament passed a divisive immigration bill before Christmas, the latest in a long line of political controversies.

Macron cancelled the first scheduled Cabinet meeting for 2024. Instead, he stated he would begin the year with a “meeting with the nation”.

The declarations have caused rumours to swirl about a wide-ranging reshuffle of current ministers.

A visit by Borne to the Elysée Palace, the French President’s residence, on January 6 caused many to wonder if she was going to be kicked out.

While the President’s team insisted that the meeting was only to discuss weather problems in the North of France, it lasted well over an hour and fuelled speculation in French media.

Macron has not set a date or even fully described what he means by a “meeting with the nation”. Some believe he intends a straightforward national address, while others think he might trigger a cross-party conference to try to find consensus, or new allies, for his minority Government.

France24, reported one advisor going so far as to say “a new prime minister” could be on the cards as soon as January 8.

Other commentators, including Le Figaro journalist Guillaume Tabard, said Borne is going nowhere. Macron is no fan of sharing his power since “the idea of a double-headed executive is nonsense in his eyes”, he said.

Since Borne does not command much popularity and has little of her own political support base, it makes her the perfect prime minister for Macron, say observers.

Since the last French parliamentary elections in 2022, the country has seen a number of ministers resign or lose their positions.

A reshuffle in the summer last year was seen as Macron trying bring his administration “back to school” and refresh his Cabinet.

That followed months of rioting and a very tight win in a vote of no confidence in the French Government.

Rumours also circulated then that Borne would be thrown to the wolves; they proved false.

In Parliament, Macron is supported by a coalition of his liberalist Renaissance party (formerly La Republique en Marche) and other smaller centrist parties.

It is outnumbered by a combined opposition on its political Right and Left, making it difficult to pass legislation.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/01/french-pm-in-firing-line-as-macron-reshuffle-looks-on-the-cards/

A Moroccan national was arrested last week on suspicion of raping the 12-year-old granddaughter of his neighbor at their home in the Spanish city of Zaragoza.

An investigation was launched by the Family and Women’s Care Unit (UFAM) of the National Police into the incident which allegedly took place on June 1, 2022, but has only recently come to light.

Spanish news outlet El Caso reported how the 48-year-old suspect entered his neighbor’s home in the Valdefierro district of the city while their granddaughter was visiting. The 12-year-old had been left in the house alone whilst her grandmother walked the dog.

Hearing a commotion in the kitchen, the young girl went downstairs to see who she thought was her grandmother returning but instead found her neighbor.

The suspect was accused of grabbing the girl’s arms and touching her breasts and bottom before undressing her and trying to kiss her.

The victim managed to escape her attacker and fled into the living room, but was soon apprehended once more and pushed against the sofa before being raped. It is alleged the man penetrated her vaginally until he ejaculated.

After the attack, the minor is said to have showered and found that she was suffering vaginal bleeding. She also claimed her attacker attempted to re-enter the home the following day but she managed to escape.

The victim held her silence about the attack for a year and a half before confessing it to her older sister on Dec. 29 last year on the condition that she kept it a secret.

However, the pair came face to face with the man on New Year’s Day during a visit to their grandmother’s house, prompting the victim’s sister to confront him angrily which drew the attention of other family members.

After disclosing the incident to their parents, the victim was accompanied to the police station where she eventually filed a report.

The Moroccan national was subsequently arrested on suspicion of rape but was released during the investigation subject to a 200-meter restraining order from the girl.

https://rmx.news/crime/moroccan-national-arrested-on-suspicion-of-raping-12-year-old-girl-during-visit-to-her-grandmothers-house/

How many times must European citizens be ‘gaslighted’? When will people be sufficiently tired of the lies and deceptions of our metropolitan and ruling elites that they will demand a change—not just of their elected representatives but of governments and entire political regimes?

Last month, on December 10th, on another continent, the world watched in amazement as Javier Milei was inaugurated as president of Argentina. That event marked an end of decades of corrupt Peronism and its derivatives—and the Milei presidency now promises a departure from policies that have rewarded the country’s arrogant and inefficient bureaucracies for too long. He will usher in a return to common sense policies that put the Argentinean people first.

Can’t we in Europe have the same kind of fundamental political change? Isn’t it time for European citizens to also demand a return to common sense policies that seek the good of all, that seek first to safeguard and protect citizens, and elevate those who have struggled for generations to support their families, rather than rewarding millions of newcomers who have neither the respect nor the understanding of the European value system or way of life?

On January 4th, just a few days ago, our Paris editor reported on the release of a damning report by the French Court of Audit on the financial costs of illegal immigration to the French Republic: €1.8 billion. That number is itself shocking, as are all the examples of mismanagement, lack of enforcement, and insufficient resources. But what is even more astonishing is the fact that the release of the report—originally December 13th—was intentionally delayed by the Court’s first president until after contentious parliamentary debate on a new immigration law was concluded and the votes were cast.

Such are the machinations and deceptions of those who run our countries. Despite the occasional lip-service paid to ‘democracy,’ ‘openness,’ the ‘rule of law,’ and ‘transparency,’ the truth is that those who govern—not just France but elsewhere, too—have something other than the good of their citizens in mind. So afraid is the European political class of speaking honestly about the challenges of immigration—and so slavishly bound are they to some abstract sense of social justice, wokery, and anti-racism—that they are willing to sacrifice their own citizens. It’s an outright scandal.

In our first editorial of the year, we identified our 2024 priorities—for our reporting, our commentary and analysis, and our other activities. Three of these areas involve the ‘transversal’ issue of immigration: seeking a stronger Europe, protecting our European way of life, and strengthening European democracy. In each of these areas, immigration is a challenge. And in each of these areas, our current leaders have failed European citizens. If the French government’s self-serving decision to hide the true costs of immigration from the people are seen as the rule not the exception, then Europe, our way of life, and democracy itself are all in danger.

It’s worth underscoring that the costs of immigration are not just fiscal but are also societal and civilizational—in terms of people’s safety and security. Case after case of aggravated assault, robbery, and sexual violence has been under-reported by the mainstream media—again, for fear of alarming people or contributing to ‘societal unrest.’ But the media’s job is to report the truth. People have a right to know what is happening—so they may make informed decisions and participate in their democracies. As it is, the people are being gaslighted by both the media and their governments.

It is time for something to change dramatically. How long must the hard-working European citizens and taxpayers abide by the lies and subterfuge of government officials? Something is very wrong in today’s Europe—and it is up to the voters to do something about it come June. The future of the continent lies in the balance.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/punto-e-basta/

It isn’t just a massive political challenge for Rishi Sunak: most of Europe is also struggling to curb illegal immigration.

From Giorgia Meloni in Italy to Sunak in Westminster, political leaders are struggling to come up with a robust solution to this growing crisis.

That includes in Spain, which saw a huge growth in illegal immigration during the whole of 2023.

In fact, the scale of these arrivals almost doubled compared to the year before, underlining the massive increase in numbers now coming to Europe.

According to the official data in Spain, as 2023 came to an end 57,000 illegal migrants got to Spain.

In fact the actual number was an eye-watering 56,852 people arriving illegally in the country, many of them coming via small boats – a very similar picture to that of England which has seen crossings from France.

The Canary Islands saw a whopping 154 per cent increase in these illegal arrivals year-on-year, with almost 40,000 people arriving in 2023.

Overall, the increase that Spain saw last year amounted to a big 82 per cent surge, reflecting the huge challenge now facing the Spanish Government.

Spain seems to be increasingly divided with the socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez re-elected – but only with the support of the far-left and Catalan separatists.

The conservative Popular Party actually won the most votes at the last Spanish General Election, but the coalition of socialist-supporting parties meant that Pedro Sanchez remained in post as PM.

But when you look ahead to the next European Elections you can see how the verdict from voters in Spain has shifted since 2019.

A Sigma Dos poll found the conservative Popular Party once again leading Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) by 9 points, 38 per cent to 29 per cent.

That represents a dramatic change since the 2019 Euro Election result in Spain, with the conservatives up a whopping 18 points and the socialists down by 4.

Meanwhile the nationalist, Eurosceptic Vox party is now in third place. Only founded in 2013, the party has seen it’s support double since the last European Election and is now on 12 per cent.

And in fourth is the left-wing Sumar party who are now on 10 per cent, in fourth place.

So with illegal immigration into Spain surging it looks like the next Euro Election could, as we’re seeing across the continent, see a victory for more conservative and Eurosceptic forces.

Spain’s political volte-face looms: Europe voter backlash as illegal immigration doubles (gbnews.com)

German farmers initiated a week-long nationwide protest by blocking roads with tractors, protesting against proposed agricultural subsidy cuts. Tractor convoys, adorned with banners reading “No farmers, no food, no future,” caused traffic jams across the country. Farmers, fearing bankruptcy due to the end of tax breaks, vowed to block major routes. The protests coincide with a train drivers’ strike, potentially disrupting roads and railways. Despite last-minute government modifications to subsidy cuts, farmers, led by Joachim Rukwied, head of the German farmers’ association DBV, persisted with protests, urging public support while cautioning against far-right exploitation of the situation.

Adel, a French footballer with 780,000 followers who adheres to strict Islam, explains that his wife must not have “male friends”, “[must] not express herself on social networks” and must not wear “tight clothes”.

Between two football videos, a Muslim influencer explained to his 780,000 TikTok subscribers the rules his future wife must abide by. In the video published on Saturday entitled “My wife won’t be allowed”, Adel Sidi Yakoub, a player for Entente Sportive Pays d’Uzes in the Gard department, lists five bans that he considers “very appropriate”.

« Ma femme n’aura pas le droit » : un footballeur musulman de l'Entente Sportive Pays d'Uzes (30), influenceur sur TikTok avec 780.000 abonnés, liste ses règles pour sa future épouse https://t.co/fMi53z3m8V pic.twitter.com/Hs0G1z46uZ

— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) January 8, 2024

« Ma femme n’aura pas le droit » : un footballeur musulman de l’Entente Sportive Pays d’Uzes (30), influenceur sur TikTok avec 780.000 abonnés, liste ses règles pour sa future épouse – Fdesouche

Pro-Palestinian protests since the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel have cost the British taxpayer over £20 million in policing expenses, a government review has found.

A review conducted by the UK Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, Lord Walney, has found that over £20 million has been spent on policing anti-Israel protests over the past three months alone.

The costs were driven in large part by persistent protests in London. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist told parliament last month that between October 7th and December 8th, the Met had spent £17 million to cover the protests, according to The Telegraph.

Twist described it as the “greatest period of sustained pressure on the Met since the Olympics in 2012,” saying that the London police force has been forced to devote 28,000 standard officer shifts to policing pro-Palestinian demos in addition to 1,600 shifts contributed to the London effort from other police forces from around the country.

The assistant commissioner went on to reveal that 6,000 hours of officer time has also been devoted to carrying out investigations into some 800 hate crimes associated with the anti-Israel marches in London.

The demonstrations in the British capital have frequently drawn controversy and outrage over the anti-Semitic messages and symbols seen during the rallies, including images appearing to celebrate the Hamas terrorists who used paragliders to stage a murderous rampage at a peace-themed music festival in Southern Israel on October 7th. Under British law, which has many restrictions on speech, it is illegal to display images in support of proscribed terrorist organisations such as Hamas.

In his independent government report, Lord Walney argued that because of the frequency and scale of the pro-Palestinian protests, the activist groups behind the demonstrations should contribute money to fund the expensive policing operations.

The review reportedly stated that “the number of marches being organised around the Israel-Hamas conflict, the scale of these marches, and the behaviour of some protesters means that a great amount of police resource is being directed to these protests”.

“When groups run so many mass protests, the authorities should consider whether organisers should be asked to contribute to policing costs,” Lord Walney continued, adding: “With the repeated incitements and disorder seen at the anti-Israel marches, such as when firecrackers have been thrown at police, I believe that there is an argument that the organisers should cover some of these policing costs.”

Lord Walney, a former Labour Party MP, pointed to the relationship between the police and football clubs, who often contribute financially to subsidise the cost of policing matches, with police recouping £5.5 million last year out of the total £48 million spent on policing matches in England and Wales in 2019.

Although he admitted that forcing activist groups to subsidise their policing costs to hold protests could have a stifling impact on freedom of speech, Lord Walney said: “The right to protest is vital but there are many ways people can make their views known that do not involve hundreds of officers being deployed. If groups insist on frequent large-scale events that require large police teams to control crowds and deal with lawbreaking, it will inevitably damage their ability to fight crime in other areas.”

“When police resources are being pushed to breaking point, it seems reasonable to consider requiring organisers to offset policing costs in the way that has long been commonplace for football matches.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/08/policing-pro-palestinian-protests-cost-uk-taxpayer-over-20-million-since-october/

🔴 « Sur le Coran de la Mecque », 10 jours d’ITT et un coup de couteau.

C’est par ce cri, à ce prix et par ce moyen que s’est déroulée il y a quelques jours une énième agression dirigée contre un jeune Corse de Furiani.
Toute la famille de ce jeune homme a été menacée de mort.… pic.twitter.com/Kgu5OUWLSk

— Palatinu (@PalatinuAssociu) January 7, 2024

Translation: ” On the Koran of Mecca”, 10 days sick leave and a stabbing.

With this reputation, at this price and with this means, an umpteenth attack took place a few days ago against a young Corsican from Furiani.
The entire family of this young man was threatened with death.

The perpetrators of this violent attack and the threats come from a group of young Arab-Muslim men who follow the same pattern as the criminal groups in the French suburbs.
This group of harmful individuals is linked to a more serious criminal group operating in the Paese Novu neighbourhood of Bastia.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Bastia, Pierre Savelli, told Corse Net Infos that this year will be the year of “public tranquillity”. Pace è salute (peace è health).

Corsica is on the advanced path of banlieurisation against a backdrop of unintegrable immigration. We have reached this point. By the servile inaction of a large part of the political class and by the complicit blindness of the territorial majority, which does not cease to consider migration and security issues as forbidden and forbidden issues.

We reject this do-gooder dictatorship. We reject the conformism of language. Corsica is confronted with a constant tension maintained by the massive presence of emigrants who bring forth many elements animated by a profoundly rapacious and revenge-seeking spirit towards native Corsicans and assimilated Europeans. Our youth suffers particularly from this.

Palatinu already pointed out this immense danger during the events in Cannes in August 2023, while the entire Corsican political class turned a blind eye, looked for a multitude of explanations and tried to reduce the whole matter to a simple question of drug trafficking, without ever being able to put the evils into words: Mass immigration, insecurity, logic of conquest.

That is enough. We, the Corsican nationalists, have resisted for years against Corsica becoming a neighbourhood for rich Parisians on summer holidays. We do not want to accept that today it is turning into a neighbourhood of rapacious, criminal non-Corsicans.

Whilst keeping a sense of proportion and emphasising the exclusively democratic and peaceful nature of our actions, we declare that we fully support this young Corsican and his family, who are valued and loved by all. They belong to us and we stand by their side in the fight against gangs from other countries who want to terrorise and threaten Corsicans.

The crime is said to have occurred on the night of January 5-6 in the car park of a large retail business in Furiani. An 18-year-old man had filed a complaint with the police station in Bastia after being the victim of a violent attack with a stabbing weapon.

(…)

Late on Sunday afternoon, January 7, the organisation Core in Fronte came out in support of the young man. In its press release, the independence movement said that “this attack by a group testifies to the ethnic fragmentation of Corsican society” and “reminds us that there is only one legal community on our land: the Corsican people, whose political rights are still not recognised”. In a context of strong social change in Corsica, as the latest INSEE figures show, these metropolitan and violent behaviours have no place in our country”.

Palatinu, for its part, considers in its statement of support that Corsica is “on the advanced path of banlieurisation against a backdrop of unintegrable immigration”. The Cultural and Identitarian Association also declares that it “fully supports this young Corsican and his family, who are appreciated and loved by all. They belong to us and we stand by their side in the face of all exogenous gangs that allegedly terrorise and threaten Corsicans.” www.corsematin.com

Furiani (20) : un jeune Corse agressé sur un parking à coups de couteau au cri de “sur le Coran de la Mecque” – Fdesouche

Madrid looks like bucking the recent European trend on nuclear energy as Spain’s socialist government confirmed shortly before Christmas that it would begin a total phase-out of nuclear power from 2027, despite opposition claims that the country is not prepared for a post-nuclear future.

In one of the first European countries to embrace nuclear energy, it now accounts for approximately a fifth of Spain’s energy consumption. Despite nuclear’s importance since the 1960s, the Sánchez government is looking to complete its shutdown by 2035. Spain currently has five active nuclear power plants. Their closure on ‘environmental grounds’ is a longstanding goal of the country’s anti-nuclear Left.

Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant on the Portuguese border will be the first power station to shutter in 2027, under the plans of the Spanish government, which has already developed a €20 billion roadmap for clearing up radioactive waste at various sites.

The topic of nuclear power featured heavily in the recent Spanish election cycle as Sánchez’s socialist PSOE party—like most parties on the Left—favours the shutdown. In contrast, right-leaning organisations such as VOX and the Partido Popular oppose the closures and argue that heavily subsidised green technology is unable to make up the energy shortfall.

While the heads of Spain’s energy companies have confirmed that there are no technical hurdles in extending the lifespan of the facilities, the Spanish government has opted to pursue an anti-nuclear strategy hoping that hydrogen fuel could make up the gap in the market. 

Terminating the country’s nuclear reactors has been a 50-year goal of the Spanish Left, with Basque terrorism famously forcing the closure of Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant in 1983 resulting in a national moratorium on new nuclear power plants.

Many energy chiefs have admitted that keeping the nuclear power plants disincentivizes public and private sector investment into the renewable sector. Spain also hopes to shut down its remaining coal power plants by 2030 in tandem with the anti-nuclear push.

The government argues that the Spanish nuclear sector is ageing, costly, and environmentally unfriendly, with the ruling socialists taking a distinctly anti-nuclear stance at an EU level.

The past year has seen Spain rocked by various renewable energy scandals as it continues despite EU and U.S. pressure to import record amounts of Russian gas following a spat with its traditional energy partner Algeria.

Due to the technical characteristics of a nuclear shutdown, Spain has only until 2024 to stop the closures with both the populist VOX party and the conservative Partido Popular arguing that the decision is myopic in light of Europe’s energy woes.

Spain’s anti-nuclear policy shift comes as Germany is lambasted by industry experts for its ideologically motivated decision to kill off its nuclear reactors despite sharply rising prices. Currently, 12 out of 27 EU nations use nuclear energy, with Poland and Estonia the most recent Eastern European countries looking to opt for the energy source (with the financial assistance of the United States).

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/spains-socialist-government-announces-costly-2027-nuclear-shutdown/