Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) has spoken out about the alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old Syrian, who, according to the police, killed 20-year-old Philippos T. in Bad Oeynhausen. Faeser showed sympathy for the perpetrator and did not comment on the victim or the bereaved.
“Today is a very bad day when we have to discuss the murder of a teenager. Where the perpetrator is a refugee who has been living in refugee accommodation for eight years. Who knows nothing else. And I believe that we need to talk much more about this form of unsuccessful social integration,” said Faeser at the SPD parliamentary group’s Municipal Conference 2024.
Faeser’s statement also contradicts previous findings, reports the newspaper Die Welt. A spokesperson for the town of Bad Oeynhausen had stated that the Syrian had never lived in municipal accommodation.
The crime took place on Sunday in the spa gardens of Bad Oeynhausen. Philippos was on his way home from his sister’s graduation party with another young man.
A 20-year-old Greek-German man, Phillipos Tsanis, died in a German hospital after a brutal attack by a group of youths, sparking outrage and fear among the local community. Relatives believe the attack was motivated by religious hatred, alleging similar incidents have targeted Christians in the area.
Tsanis was walking home from a graduation ceremony with a friend when they were confronted by a group of ten individuals. According to the victim’s father, who spoke to MEGA news, the confrontation quickly escalated into violence, with the attackers targeting Tsanis despite pleas from the young men to be left alone.
“They beat him to death,” the grieving father told reporters, “all 10 people were kicking him in the head.”
Witnesses say that even after Tsanis fell unconscious, one assailant continued to deliver blows to his head and body. He was rushed to the hospital with severe head injuries, Tsanis was placed on life support but succumbed to his injuries on Monday.
A relative who spoke to Alpha news outlet claimed the attackers filmed the assault, further alleging that the perpetrators targeted Tsanis and his friend because they were wearing crosses.
“The sickest thing is that they put them on video and brag about what they do,” the relative stated, adding that this attack mirrors other incidents targeting Christians in the area, including the deaths of a 26-year-old man and a policeman.
The Syrian suspect Mwafak A.
Adding to the family’s grief, a photo of Tsanis hospitalized with visible injuries has been circulated online. Tsanis’ mother, speaking to Alpha, shared her heartbreak: “The doctors tried to do everything to save the child. Everyone was praying for him to get well, but in the end God wanted to take him.”
According to BILD’s information, the alleged main perpetrator is an 18-year-old Syrian who lives in an asylum home in the center of the spa town and whose family came to Germany in 2016. “Focus” reports that the family moved from Pforzheim to Bad Oeynhausen in 2021. The Syrian is said to be known to the police for property offenses.
Late on Wednesday afternoon, the police in Bad Oeynhausen arrested the 18-year-old. The public prosecutor’s office in Bielefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia) is investigating on suspicion of manslaughter in conjunction with grievous bodily harm.
He is to be brought before the judge today.
A police report obtained by WELT reconstructs the brutality of the act.
Philippos Tsanis, whose nationality is listed as German-Greek-Polish, left the high school graduation party at the Kaiserpalais in the Kurpark in Bad Oeynhausen (Minden-Lübbecke district) around 1:30 am with two acquaintances.
On the way, the three young men were involved in a “dispute” with a group of about ten. The background is still unclear. The police hope to gain new insights from the testimony of Philippos’ companions.
The main suspect is said to have attacked Philippos. This caused him to fall backwards and hit his head on the ground.
The suspect’s companions allegedly tried in vain to pull him off Philippos Tsanis. The attacker, in his frenzy of violence, only stopped after many more blows and immediately turned to the 19-year-old friend of Philippos Tsanis.
He was slightly injured in the face during the attack and had to be treated as an outpatient in a hospital. His friend Philippos Tsanis, on the other hand, suffered severe multiple head injuries. He died on Tuesday in the hospital.
“He just wanted to have fun at the high school graduation party with his sister and his friends,” says father Dimitris Tsanis to BILD. And further: “His life was just beginning. The violence has to stop. Something like this can happen to any child – and no father and no mother should have to go through something like this.”
Meanwhile, the police are searching for the group of up to ten young men who were with the suspect. The police description: “Male, Southern European, about 19-20 years old, some wearing Adidas tracksuits.”
Globalist poster boy and former Rothschild banker, French President Emmanuel Macron is a political survival expert, and during seven years in power his ‘escape artist’ powers saw him through multiple crisis, from Yellow Jackets season of marches, to the racial riots, to the major political unrest caused by his dictatorial change of pension plans bypassing the Legislative, to the long mobilization of French farmers against his Globalist inane policies.
But now, at long last, it does seem that the snap elections he called will usher in his demise as an effective leader, and he is to serve the remainder of his second term – until 2027 – as a lame duck President.
And the Globalist MSM is feeling the blow, with a multitude of articles just about everywhere about Macron’s downfall.
Bot WaPo and Financial Times have articles with the same ‘End of Macronism’ in their headlines.
The Washington Post notes that ‘the once-unthinkable now seems an imminent reality’.
The right is widely expected to become the largest party in France’s parliament.
The National Rally is to emerge with the biggest bloc of seats, followed by rival coalition of the French left, and leaving the party loyal to French President Emmanuel Macron in a distant third place.
“After his party suffered a humiliating defeat in European parliamentary elections at the beginning of this month, the French president took a hubristic gamble: He dissolved parliament, blindsiding some of his closest allies, and called for fresh legislative elections.
[…] Almost immediately, it seemed Macron’s decision to call the election backfired.On one side of the political spectrum, it led to the creation of a left-wing alliance, spanning from the far left to the center-left Socialists to whom Macron once belonged, under a grouping called the New Popular Front. On the other, the traditional center-right party convulsed after its leader sought an alliance with the ascendant National Rally. Both major right and left blocs are certain to outperform Macron’s party, which has almost no chance of establishing a parliamentary majority.”
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Cardinal Raymond Burke criticized the German Synodal Way and the concept of “synodality,” which he said is a “placeholder” for “all kinds of ideologies” during an interview with Pints with Aquinas host Matt Fradd.
“Today we have this terrible situation in Germany with this so-called Synodal Way and in general this whole notion of ‘synodality,’” Cardinal Burke said. “I’ve spoken about this on many occasions that no one can define what synodality is, it isn’t a term that ever existed in the history of the Church, but it seems to be a kind of placeholder in which all kinds of ideologies can enter in and [lead] to the division of the Church.”
“We see this happening in Germany even with regard to the nature of the Church itself and then with regard to questions of morality and doctrine,” the American cardinal told Fradd.
He stressed that the Church today needs a period similar to the Middle Ages, with an “intense, deep doctrinal and liturgical and moral life.”
Less than a month ago, we published an analysis of the double standards of Brussels and the application of the rule of law in dealing with the persecution of conservative media by progressive governments. On May 29th, Slovenian police raided the headquarters of the conservative media outlet Nova24TV and searched the home of its director, Boris Tomašič. Moreover, under the progressive liberal government of Robert Golob, and to the deafening silence of the EU institutions, national television was purged of ‘right-wingers,’—as was also the case in Poland—and turned into a propaganda apparatus at the service of power (although the new progressive leadership has complained bitterly about the shortage of budget). Nevertheless, the European elections have demonstrated the significant loss of support for Golob and his left-wing partners, who suffered a severe defeat at the hands of former prime minister Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS).
During my recent visit to Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, I met up with two good friends and collaborators, veteran journalists Jože Biščak and Bogdan Sajovic, and went to the studios of Nova24TV. After recording a short interview in which we discussed the results of the European elections and the Slovenian conservatives’ lack of sympathy for Ursula von der Leyen, I met with Boris Tomašič. The director of Nova24TV, before it was targeted by Slovenian progressivism, gained notoriety for setting a new world record by hosting the longest talk show on television, a marathon lasting 73 hours, 23 minutes, and 21 seconds. A feat that did not please the left-wing media!
For Tomašič, the persecution launched by the Slovenian government has not only been absurd, but also a complete failure: “Instead of harming us, this ridiculous campaign has won us the support and sympathy of many Slovenians, who do not understand why a party calling itself the ‘Freedom Movement’ seeks to silence political dissidents and, in practice, to end freedom of expression.”
According to Nova24TV’s director, the real aim of the campaign was to intimidate Nova24TV and conservative magazine Demokracija’s subscribers and funders:
After their huge defeat in the European elections, more and more people understand that the left is collapsing and that their policies are an absolute failure. So more and more people are not afraid and will not be intimidated. Of course, we expect that, in view of their poor expectations, the Golob government may take some desperate measures, but we are not afraid of them.
The Kremlin leadership does not seem to like Slovenian conservative media either. On 25 June, Russia blocked access on Russian territory to 81 media outlets from EU member states in retaliation after Brussels imposed sanctions against several Russian media outlets in May. Among the blocked media were the online portals of Nova24TV and Demokracija magazine. Tomašič wrote on X/Twitter that the blockade was “quite a compliment,” noting that, as the only Slovenian media blocked, “apparently we are the only ones in Slovenia who do not support Russian aggression against Ukraine.” Democracija’s editor, Dr. Metod Berlec, stressed that this was proof that Demokracija worries Moscow by reporting “critically, authentically and professionally on the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and other parts of the world. Of course, this also applies to domestic political developments in Europe and Slovenia. In accordance with our old motto: publish what others are silent about.”
Having personally met Slovenian conservative journalists, I am confident that they will not give in to pressure, whether it comes from Ljubljana, Brussels, or Moscow. As Tomašič told me, “we are moving forward.”
French left-wing leader defends police-killing chants and throws in threats of his own in the final days before France goes to the polls in round one of Emmanuel Macron’s big-risk snap parliamentary elections.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the left-wing leader who is perhaps the most visible face of the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition bringing in the whole spectrum from pro-Europe centrism to full-blooded communists laughed off chants by his supporters at an anti-right wing rally. Making reference to the populist party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella polled to come first in the elections, National Rally (RN), the demonstrators had chanted “A dead cop is one vote less for the RN”.
Mélenchon replied “It’s absurd… but We still have the right to laugh”. He later clarified his point, asserting “Not about the deaths of people, of course”. French broadsheet Le Figaronoted his insouciant reply set off a wave of concern, citing former police union spokesman — and now RN politician — Matthieu Valet who said: “He respects nothing, not even those who died for the [country]. He doesn’t even hide his hatred of the cops anymore”.
Jordan Bardella, the leader of the RN Parliamentary faction who hopes to walk out of this election as Prime Minister, said: “The far left is defending a new right: that of being able to insult our police officers and laugh at their deaths… Mr. Mélenchon and his friends no longer have any moral limits”. President Macron’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin, who banned several “extremist” groups this week, responded to Mélenchon: “the far left once again infamous in the hatred of the police. How can sincere left-wing voters accept this? Spit on the coffin of our police officers and gendarmes for a few votes… [this makes me want to] vomit.”
Mélenchon has also obliquely threatened “resistance” to the result if RN win, and President Emmanuel Macron has outright warned of “civil war” from the outcome of the election that he called. This week, the left-wing leader wrote: “If the RN wins the elections, we will enter into moral and legal resistance… The French cannot say that we did not warn them.”
France will go to the polls on Sunday for the first of two rounds of voting to select their next Parliament. Under the French system, the first round is a knock-out, with the two highest performing candidates for each constituency facing off again a week later with the other challengers eliminated. The system, baked into the French Fifth Republic is praised by some for being particularly hostile to candidates from outside the mainstream, allowing tactical voting in the second round.
As things stand, polling favours Le Pen’s RN, while Mélenchon’s omnibus leftist coalition trails in second. Embarrassingly for French President Emmanuel Macron, who called the election in the wake of his damning performance in Europe-wide elections earlier this month, he is due to scrape in at third place.
If RN is able to command the French Parliament, it seems likely they would be able to install their lead man Bardella as Prime Minister. While it is not novel for France to have an opposed Presidency and government, the degree of ideological separation between the two men is vast and could precipitate a constitutional crisis.
Nine years ago, Michel Houellebecq wrote Submission, one of the most influential novels of modern French literature. As the snap elections in France approach, it is more timely than ever.
Submission not only describes contemporary France in an eerily naturalistic and politically-incorrect manner, but also makes a dystopian prophecy: that the French progressive fixation in favour of Islam and against traditional and national values will one day lead to France becoming an Islamic republic. In 2010, his earlier novel, La Carte et le Territoire, won the prestigious Prix Goncourt.
In a satirical and consistently offensive manner, the enfant terrible of French letters even describes exactly how such a thing will happen. And this is where things get interesting.
In the fictional second round of the 2022 Presidential Elections, writes Houellebecq, Marine le Pen faces a Muslim opponent. With the support of the socialists, the liberals and the Left, France’s Islamist Party sweeps to power. Islamic law is then enforced, women are side-lined from professional and public office posts, universities are shut down and conversion to Islam is encouraged.
What France’s biggest selling and most controversial living author is suggesting is straightforward. French ruling elites hate their nation’s conservative values and ethnic tradition so much that they would prefer to see their country embrace the Sharia, rather than re-establish itself as a European nation-state.
Now of course Submission is fiction. But the year is 2024 and Le Pen’s party is very close to coming to power in the coming legislative elections. And while earlier this week Macron spoke of a “civil war” if the far Right wins, Muslim extremists recently warned that “all hell will break loose” if the National Rally comes to govern France.
Rhetorical and fringe exaggerations, one may hope. Is France in danger of being politically taken over by Islamists? Of course not.
Are liberals, socialists and leftists rallying behind a Muslim party or candidate? No, they are not. Are Islamist values really about to become prevalent in the heart of the EU? Not really. Only bigots could be afraid of such things.
Houellebecq himself has often been accused of bigotry. In fact, he is one of France’s top “love to hate” figures. He is despised, mocked and ridiculed on a regular basis. But perhaps some of what he says must be taken seriously.
On January 7 2015, the day when Submission was published in France, Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly magazine, came out with a front page caricature of the author, making fun of him and his predictions.
On that same day the magazine’s offices were attacked by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, who murdered 12 people and injured 11 others.
One must ask the question raised by Houellebecq: where is the line between fiction and reality?
Sometimes reality surpasses fiction in a way that is unpredictable or even irrational. As Tom Clancy, another famous novelist, put it, “The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.”
Nobody knows where all these political pressures, these conflicts, will take us. But all of us in France, Europe and the West must realise we may already be in a cultural and demographic death spiral. It needs to be halted. We need to find the way to pull-up out of this deadly plunge, or we may wake up one day and wonder what sort of France, what sort of Europe, we have let be created for us.
A 40-year-old Syrian from Marl was seriously injured outside a mosque on Bergstraße at midday today. According to initial findings, a 71-year-old Turkish man from Marl attacked him at around 12.20 p.m. after he had placed a flag on the mosque and an argument ensued. The alleged attacker initially fled, but was arrested a short time later by the police on Merkurstraße. The 40-year-old had to be hospitalised with a stab wound. The police investigation is still ongoing.
A trans-identified male has been arrested in Olmsted County, Minnesota, in relation to the death of another trans-identified male. Margot Lewis was taken into custody after the body of 35-year-old Liara Tsai was found in his car.
The chilling discovery occurred on June 22 while the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office was responding to a single-vehicle crash on I-90 near the Highway 42 exit. Officers immediately noticed a corpse in the backseat, which was wrapped up tightly in a blood-soaked blanket.
The driver of the car, Margot Lewis, was taken into custody and the body was identified as belonging to Liara Tsai. A warrant was then obtained to search Tsai’s Minneapolis apartment.
Yesterday, Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson held a press conference and revealed that Tsai’s home was a “scene indicating violence,” noting that the victim’s bed and bedding were saturated with blood. There was also a butcher’s cleaver missing from the apartment.
Torgerson also explained that the case and investigation would be complex, as Tsai’s body was found in Olmsted County but the potential murder occurred in Hennepin County.
Margot Lewis
It was also learned that Lewis had flown down to Minnesota from Boston just one day before the killing. Tsai was reportedly aware that Lewis would be coming, telling friends that he would have a guest staying at his home. Lewis and Tsai had been intimate partners in the past.
Since his arrest, Lewis has refused to cooperate with the police, taking a “vow of silence” and using sign language to communicate instead. He has allegedly assaulted police officers while in custody, physically lashing out when asked to speak with investigators.
Lewis has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder, with felony interference with a dead body. He is being held on $1.5 million dollar bail, which was increased from $1 million just today.
Both Lewis and Tsai are being referred to as “women” in news reports, with some even referring to Tsai as a “female.” But many activist groups are suggesting Tsai’s death was the result of transphobia, ignoring the fact that Lewis is also transgender.
GLAAD, which bills itself as “the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization,” issued a statement yesterday on Tsai’s death, subtly framing the incident as being a hate crime. Included on the page about Tsai was comment from OutFront Minnesota, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.
“LGBTQ+ individuals experience violence all too frequently—even here in Minnesota; and we commit ourselves to the work of ensuring that all our communities can live full and authentic lives,” the statement reads.
The Trevor Project similarly posted in honor of Tsai, noting that he volunteered as a member with their crisis intervention team. While the Instagram-based post did not explicitly suggest any potential motive behind the killing, users quickly jumped to assume it had been a hate crime, with some expressing hesitancy over openly identifying as transgender in fear of being the victim of an imminent hate-motivated murder.
One user, @kennishaents, racked up over 13,000 ‘likes’ on an X post classifying Tsai’s murder as a “hate crime” motivated by “transphobia.” The user’s retraction clarifying it was not a transphobic hate crime attracted significantly less attention.
TW Transphobia, hate crime, murder
Liara, a beautiful soul, fantastic DJ, and all around great woman, had her life taken from her. She had just moved from Iowa City to Minneapolis to be in a safer state for trans rights. I'm so sorry this happened Liara. pic.twitter.com/CbG2sjpXGZ
Another user who identifies as an author reacted to the news, writing: “This is why transphobes shouldn’t exist.”
This morning I woke up to the tragic news of the murder of Liara Kaylee Tsai, an activist for the Trevor Project. Instead of showing solidarity, or indeed shut up, some people are advocating for newspapers to misgender and deadname her. This is why transphobes shouldn't exist. 💔 pic.twitter.com/OlYoXd5bjV
— Chiara C. Rizzarda (she/her) (@CrShelidon) June 27, 2024
While trans activists often claim there is an ongoing “genocide” occurring against transgender people, portraying their community as living in fear, there have been exceedingly few murders of transgender people where hate was a confirmed motive.
Every year, the Human Rights Campaign releases a list documenting “fatal violence against the transgender community” across the United States. While the list is often categorized under their “hate crimes” tag on the organization’s website, the vast majority of the murders have nothing to do with the victim’s gender identity. The most common motive behind the murders is intimate partner violence, with others being related to random crime, the sex trade, or drugs.
