The European cities suffering the most robberies are Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, according to statistics published by Eurostat and the UK police.
In the latest survey covering 2022, Paris ranked first, experiencing 611 such crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Barcelona with 398 thefts and Brussels with 381.
Other French cities appearing on the list included Seine-Saint-Denis (349 per 100,000), Bouches-du-Rhône (207 per 100,000) and Rhône (201 per 100,000) inhabitants.
In Belgium, Liège (215 per 100,000) and Charleroi (201 per 100,000) were also in the top 10. The UK was represented by the West Midlands region (259) and London (257).
There was a notably higher incidence of robberies in Western European metropolitan areas compared to Eastern Europe.
Belgium, Spain, England and Wales were the countries that recorded the highest rates of robberies in Europe, followed by Sweden, France, Portugal and Luxembourg.
These seven countries have significantly more robberies compared to other European countries.
At the lower end, Sweden recorded 62 and Germany 46 per 100,000 inhabitants, ranking them sixth and seventh, respectively.
Eurostat data was based on official police figures from each country and only reported robberies were included so the actual rate could be higher in some areas.
According to the data compiler, a robbery is defined as the act of stealing using physical force, a weapon or a threat, as in cases of mugging or armed theft.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez refused to answer more than two questions on Tuesday from the judge heading a judicial investigation into alleged corruption and influence peddling by his wife, Begoña Gómez. He then filed a lawsuit against the judge for alleged malfeasance.
Sánchez was called as a witness in the investigation but used his right under Spanish law to not testify against his spouse.
Gómez’s lawyer, former interior minister Antonio Camacho, who was present for the judge’s interview with Sánchez, told reporters Sánchez’s testimony lasted two minutes and that Judge Juan Carlos Peinado asked him two questions—whether he was related to any of the people under investigation and whether he wanted to testify. Sánchez replied that he was Gómez’s husband and that he did not want to testify.
Also present for Sánchez’s interview with Peinado were representatives of the prosecutor and a lawyer for VOX, which has joined in the complaint against Gómez under the legal figure of “the people’s accusation.”
Gómez, too, has declined to testify, leaning into Spanish law. Several other witnesses have been called in the case, including a close business associate of Gómez and an administrator from the Complutense University where Gómez is officially employed.
Sánchez has repeatedly denied the accusations against Gómez, calling them a mudslinging campaign designed by the “far-right.” Gómez has not made any public statements on the matter.
Under Spanish law, witnesses who also hold certain public offices have the privilege of not having to appear in court but rather can request the judge come to their office to gather testimony. Sánchez had requested to be able to testify in writing but the two judges refused the request and instead, the judge of the investigative court, Juan Carlos Peinado, went to the presidential palace, La Moncloa, to collect Sánchez’s testimony.
Nevertheless, just minutes after Sánchez declined to testify, the state attorney’s office filed a lawsuit against Peinado for alleged malfeasance. Specifically, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Sánchez as prime minister, a caveat that allows him to use the state’s highest attorney, and for the judge’s refusal to allow the premier to testify in writing.
This is the first time in Spain’s history that a prime minister has filed a lawsuit against a judge.
“This lawsuit is intended to respect the independence of the judiciary, but also to defend it from the practices of those who operate for political motives and outside the law,” government spokesperson Pilar Alegria said.
But analysts have pointed out that the suit turned the office of the state attorney from an organ designed to protect and advise the government in the interests of citizens into one at the behest of the personal interests of the current president. In other words, ‘Sánchez is the state.’
Besides this new lawsuit, Peinado has faced threats against himself and his family since opening the investigation into Gómez.
In yet another degrading development for the financially bankrupt Pakistan, several Gulf countries have expressed concerns regarding Pakistani expats and the Pakistani labour force which might have serious ramifications for many citizens of the country. The information was disclosed at a Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis meeting.
As per reports, Secretary Dr Arshad for Overseas Pakistanis informed the group that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have raised reservations over many issues pertaining to Pakistanis living abroad.
The revelation comes months after the government told the same council in September 2023 that the majority of Pakistanis departing the nation are beggars. The official had stated that beggars from Pakistan go under the pretence of ziarat, or pilgrimages, to Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most tourists with Umrah permits enter Saudi Arabia and engage in begging afterwards. 90% of the beggars who were arrested, per the secretary, were Pakistanis.
Notably, the recent statement is related to a far more problematic issue as it exposes the fairly “inappropriate” conduct of Pakistanis living in the United Arab Emirates, including recording videos in front of females in Dubai. Secretary Dr Arshad informed the committee on 30th July that between 200,000 and 300,000 Pakistanis return from their travels overseas, out of an annual total of 0.6 to 0.8 million. 96% of all travellers go to countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), according to their disclosure.
‘50% of crimes in the UAE are committed by Pakistanis’
The committee was briefed by the officials regarding the issues other countries have with Pakistan. They remarked that the country has a quota of 1.6 million people, but it has been exceeded to 1.8 million by the UAE. They mentioned that Pakistanis spend a year in Malaysia and then get arrested for extending their stay. According to the officials, there have also been slips in Iraq, though the precise number is unknown.
Senator Nasir Abbas stated that Bangladeshis are getting more jobs than Pakistanis. He dubbed Pakistanis as “helpless” in Iraq since they are used as cheap labour. He unveiled that they are treated like “prisoners” in Iraq. The senator added that labour is needed for the ongoing development projects in Iraq. The foreign officials responded by stating that there are multiple grievances from Pakistanis living in Iraq.
The officials informed the committee members that 0.4 million Pakistanis visit Saudi Arabia annually, out of the 2 million who now live there. The officials confirmed that Pakistanis had been asked not to send “beggars and sick people” by the KSA authorities. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is now modern, they highlighted, emphasizing development and technology. The officials from the overseas ministry asserted that Pakistanis leaving the country are “unskilled” and that their people aren’t receiving the same training. “People from other nations are replacing ours,” they reported.
They additionally stressed how important it is to address Pakistanis’ attitudes toward their jobs, work ethics and their involvement in criminal activities. They underlined that 50% of all crimes committed in the UAE are committed by Pakistanis. According to the officials, countries are looking elsewhere and are “suspicious” of Pakistanis. Giving more information, they pointed out that 96% of the 600,000–800,000 individuals who travel overseas do so to the Middle East. “Sensible people search for opportunities and go abroad.”
Pakistani workforce’s future
The ministry voiced fears for the future of Pakistani workers hoping to find employment in the UAE by noting that Gulf governments are now turning to African labourers because their labour is even less expensive than that of Pakistani expatriates. Furthermore, they underscored other work-related ethical issues that Pakistanis face, as conveyed by the GCC nations. Kuwait has lodged complaints about Pakistani nurses’ reluctance to carry out specific job-related tasks, placing the responsibility for routine tasks like helping a patient sit up on ward boys. The nurses not only wish to leave the country after just six months but also refuse to learn the language.
According to representatives of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis, Qatar has shown dissatisfaction with Pakistani labourers’ refusal to wear safety helmets. On the other hand, KSA has insisted that it will only hire individuals who have successfully passed the examination administered by their respective authority, the National Center for Human Resources Development (Takamul).
The authorities, in response to questions on the steps the government is taking to solve the urgent issues, announced that the ministry is collecting information on new and open positions across international borders. They added that Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister, has formed a cabinet committee to handle immigration-related issues. They claimed, “We want people to think that these (Pakistani) people are skilled.”
Recent events, such as the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-America protests here and in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, as well as the “Last Supper” Olympic debacle, make it increasingly obvious that the radical left’s intolerance is not just of the political right, but of the entire Western social structure and its Judeo-Christian ethic.
The history of Western civilization is essentially that of mostly the Caucasian peoples. Their Indo-European forbears migrated out of Asia ostensibly in search of something better. They migrated to harsher northern climes where they exerted their innovative potential to prosper. The vast majority of mankind’s’ civil and technical advances have been generated by the progeny of these Caucasians and adopted globally by all races. Their goal was not to willfully and malevolently subjugate others, but to advance themselves.
But the radical left, in its vengeful and disingenuous newspeak, prefers to define their accomplishments in terms of “white supremacy.” Whites, now and in the past, have advanced solely by subjugating and oppressing people of color. Currently, whites constitute only 16% – 18% of the global population, and have never constituted anything approaching a majority. It is difficult to imagine how so few could have managed to deter the progress of the multitudes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
This increasingly manifest revenge of the globally “victimized” and “oppressed” is goaded into action by opportunistic, power seeking leftists whose concept of globalization is not a naturally evolving ethnic blending, but a hostile takeover of the ultimate oppressor – Western society. China and the Middle East smile in approval. Our Democrat party is O.K. with it, too.
And finally the West’s oppressive control over the fortunes of others is in jeapardy. With world population doubling in the past 50 years from 4 to 8 billion, and with declining birth rates in Western societies, they see the white population in decline and take delight in the prospect that global dominance by the white supremacists is waning and will eventually come to an end.
And what a different world it will be in the hands of the prospective heirs to the kingdom! Just look at the great strides Latin America has made in achieving global egalitarianism. And the enlightenment of the Muslim world has been breathtaking. The explosion of productive, liberal democracies in Africa is also a miracle to behold. China clearly has everyone’s best interests at heart. And India, as soon as it gets over being burdened by multicultural intolerance and dysfunctionality, will also be there to lead the way.
Once those white supremacists fade out of the picture, global prospects seem bright indeed.
Three young men were indicted by an anti-terrorism judge at the end of May on suspicion of involvement in a plan to kidnap and murder two Roma people, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned on Wednesday July 31 from sources close to the case. Their plan was discovered by investigators when they were tracing the thread of another violent plan.
Aged 18, they are suspected of having participated in the planned kidnapping and murder of a father and son belonging to the Gypsy community ‘using the codes of jihadist propaganda’, according to a police summary obtained by AFP. They are also accused of having planned to plant an Islamic State flag on a castle and burn down a gendarmerie. They were charged with criminal terrorist association and placed under judicial supervision at the end of May.
The case, which has now been split into two parts, began with the identity check of an 18-year-old outside a CBD supermarket, who was subsequently arrested in July 2023. The investigators discovered the existence of a group on SnapChat where he and other men were discussing the idea of attacking an employee of this shop, whom they nicknamed ‘the Christian’ because he broadcast videos on the theme of religion. (…) Le Monde
(…) Since his arrest, charges have been brought against five other men, the same sources reported. One man, who is already in custody, was being monitored by police with a listening device, one of the sources said. Investigators found out that he was apparently pursuing another violent plan targeting Roma. He exchanged information with the recently arrested suspects, who were friends from his village in the Gard department, according to another source familiar with the case. In addition to his charge in connection with the ‘ Christian ’, he was also charged in winter in connection with this second part, according to a source familiar with the case. His lawyer, attorney Orly Rezlan, declined to comment.
At the end of May, one of the young people in police custody under court supervision said that he had been ‘terrorised’ by the man who allegedly wanted to kill ‘gypsies’ by ‘quoting the Quran’ and distributing videos of it. His lawyer, Ilyacine Maallaoui, declined to comment. Emanuel de Dinechin, another defence lawyer, said: ‘The investigating judge has a lot of work ahead of him to distinguish the profiles in this case. Le Figaro
Translation: 🇵🇹Guimarães- ⚡⚡July 31, 2024- Destruction of a national monument.⚡⚡. Cross of Christ of the São Lázaro Standard * vandalised and destroyed. *https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padr%C3%A3o_de_D._Jo%C3%A3o_I Residents suspect that the criminal act was committed by Asian immigrants. 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇧🇩
Riots broke out in the English seaside town of Southport on Tuesday after the gruesome mass stabbing, allegedly by a migrant-heritage teen that left three children dead.
Merseyside Police announced that a “major incident” had been declared after riots saw 39 police officers injured, 27 of whom were hospitalised after violence erupted during a protest over the attack on a children’s ‘Taylor Swift’ dance party in Southport on Monday that left three young girls dead and a further ten people injured.
The force said that officers sustained bone fractures, lacerations, a suspected broken nose, and a concussion during the mayhem outside a local mosque, which saw people throw bricks, bottles, and other makeshift missiles at the police and law enforcement vehicles set on fire.
As a result, Merseyside Police put in place a 24-hour Section 60 Order to give officers the right to stop and search anyone in the area without the need to demonstrate a cause.
The force also instituted a Section 34 Order, which gives officers “the power to seize any item, including vehicles, used in the commission of anti-social behaviour”. It also allows for police to arrest anyone returning to the area who had been instructed by police to leave.
According to the local Liverpool Echo newspaper, police suspect that the riots were encouraged by the English Defence League (EDL), an organisation that has been disbanded for nearly a decade and whose founder, Tommy Robinson, left the country prior to this week’s attack. Many legacy media outlets and political figures characterised the protests on Tuesday as “far-right”.
Leading the condemnation was Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who pledged to bring down the “full force of the law” on those involved in the riots.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper branded the outbreak of violence as a “a total disgrace,” saying: “It is so appalling to now see those same police facing violent attacks from thugs on the streets who have no respect for a grieving community.”
But some were quick to note the difference in the Home Secretary’s tone following the Southport riots to during Roma riots in Leeds just five days earlier, in which she did not refer to the rioters as “thugs” but merely “individuals.” Lord Goldsmith, a former government minister, opined it was right to be strong on disorder but said Cooper’s statement “couldn’t contrast more starkly with Home Office Ministers’ reactions to the Manchester riots where violent thugs demanded instant justice ‘or else’ & where Ministers bent over backwards to explain that they ‘understood’ the anger.”
He asked: “Why has the Home Office response to these two events been so different? Can they not see how this feeds the narrative of a two tier approach and drives people to the far right? It is extraordinarily shortsighted and unwise”.
A large group of mostly men are persistently pelting a mosque with objects. Armed police have now arrived. pic.twitter.com/zNLwmizTW9
Others were very keen to see ulterior motives. Former Scottish First Minister, Humza Yousaf, said people who protest against the killings of children don’t actually care about children. He said: “Attacking mosques and chanting Islamaphobic abuse. Let’s not pretend the far-right care one jot about children murdered in Southport. These thugs are scum who are exploiting the killing of children for their own bigoted ends. This is what happens when you appease the far-right.”
Following the mass stabbing the day prior, Yousaf, Scotland’s first Muslim leader, said: “Simply awful. Our only response to the evil we witnessed in Southport yesterday should be an outpouring of grief for the children and adults killed in such a senseless attack. If you use such a horrific tragedy to fuel bigotry, then you are the worst of humanity.”
‘How Many More Children’? Prime Minister Heckled at Scene of Mass-Stabbing of Young Girlshttps://t.co/WLzU1aba8a
I have many fears about Canada’s euthanasia regime. I am afraid that the activists at Dying with Dignity will succeed in explicitly expanding eligibility to children, the disabled, and those suffering from mental illness. I am afraid that families will one day be powerless to stop their mentally suffering loved ones from obtaining a lethal injection, and that the force of the state will stop them from intervening. I am afraid that Canada’s radical leftist judiciary will strike down attempts to limit our euthanasia regime.
But what I am most often afraid of is that we will become numb to the steady conveyer belt of horror stories that arrive almost weekly now – that the sheer volume of these stories will eventually cease to shock us, and that we will accept them as the norm not because we morally approve but because, like our tacit acceptance of abortion until birth, we simply become used to this new status quo.
For example, on July 19 I interviewed Roger Foley, a Canadian with disabilities, for LifeSiteNews. He explained how medical professionals have consistently brought up assisted suicide as an option for him, even when he has admitted that he feels suicidal. On July 10, I covered the story of Tracy Polewczuk, a woman who suffers from spina bifida. She was offered assisted suicide twice, and like Foley, explained that the pro-active offering of a lethal injection profoundly impacted her. They are not the only ones – we have been hearing these stories for years. They leak out of our medical institutions like blood seeping under a clinic door.
Heather Hancock, a Canadian with cerebral palsy, wrote an op-ed for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition revealing that a nurse in Alberta told her “to do the right thing and consider MAiD,” Canada’s assisted suicide program. She, too, has been encouraged to accept medicalized killing multiple times. Since the legalization of assisted suicide, she wrote, there has been a change in how she is treated:
In [the] hospital, I discovered a change in the attitudes of nurses, doctors, orderlies, and therapists. There was a subtle undercurrent that was almost tangible. I had nurses neglecting me, forcing me to try and walk while they stood at a distance and watched with arms crossed. It was evident the medical staff preferred not to treat me.
In 2018, she was asked by a doctor at Victoria General Hospital if she’d ever considered assisted suicide. In 2019, at the same hospital, she was offered assisted suicide once again. To escape the medical system in British Columbia, Hancock moved to a town on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. After a fall, she was taken to the hospital in Medicine Hat, where during a three-week stay, a nurse came to her bed and advised her to opt for assisted suicide. “If I were you, I would take it in a heartbeat,” the nurse said. “You’re not living, you’re existing.” Hancock was horrified and told the nurse she would never choose assisted suicide and that her “life has value and no human being has a right to say otherwise.”
Stories like those of Foley, Polewczuk, Hancock, and many others should be deeply disturbing to us – they are indicative of a human rights crisis that has grown at a breathtaking pace over the past few years. Suffering, sick, and disabled Canadians are constantly being offered assisted suicide when they are at their most vulnerable, while Dying with Dignity activists and euthanasia advocates such as Dr. Ellen Wiebe claim that all is well in Canada’s killing regime. Because the truth is so horrible, many people prefer to listen to these reassuring voices. The alternative is to recognize that Canadians are being bullied into lethal injections in places of care.
Despite all this, the Canadian press is now campaigning to see the last safe spaces for the suffering removed. A key goal of the euthanasia activists is to force all institutions – religious or not – to offer and conduct lethal injections on site. First suicide became a “right”; offering it has become an obligation. And so we get stories with titles like this, from CTV: “A B.C. woman turned to MAID for peace. Her family says her death was undignified, traumatic.” The parents and doctor of a woman who died by euthanasia are suing both Providence Health Care and the B.C. government because she had to transfer out of St. Paul’s Hospital to get a lethal injection.
The CBC followed that story with another report focused on Providence Health Care: “Providence Health reveals 19 patients were forced to transfer this year due to its MAID policy.” Notice the framing of the story – no patient was “forced” to do anything. Some hospitals don’t kill people, and so if you are seeking a lethal injection, you must transfer elsewhere. The CBC chose not to speak to disability advocates or others who could have highlighted the extreme importance of euthanasia-free places – instead, they spoke with University of Ottawa professor Daphne Gilbert, who worked with Dying with Dignity Canada on a legal challenge to force hospitals to offer it on-site. “Dying with Dignity” is described, absurdly, as a “human-rights charity.”
Canada’s journalists should, at this point, know how disastrous legal euthanasia has been. They have reported many of the abuses; they have surely read coverage of the abuses published right across the anglosphere. But they have not learned their lesson. Once again, they are doing the bidding of Canada’s euthanasia activists and exploiting the pain of the dying to force killing into the last safe places in the country.
A manhunt is underway for an Algerian national suspected of murdering a 40-year-old Spanish man after the victim was found lying on a tram line in Valencia with his throat slit.
Emergency responders were dispatched to the crime scene on the Moreras bridge at around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday after two witnesses reported seeing a man have his throat cut with a large knife by the suspect.
Las Provincias reported that the police believed the alleged perpetrator to be a man of Algerian origin, while a second Black man is also being sought in connection with the gruesome murder.
The 40-year-old victim has been named as José P. He is understood to have first been stabbed in the neck following a dispute between the victim and his attackers.
Spanish media reported how youths gathered and took photographs of the “practically decapitated body” which went viral on WhatsApp. Police then cordoned off the area and prevented traffic from crossing the bridge as investigations were carried out.
The attacker is believed to have fled on foot and discarded his bloodied shirt outside the Fomesa company in the city near to where the attack took place.
Despite attempts by police officers, including those in plain clothes, to apprehend the suspect, they were unsuccessful after a 2.5-hour search.
The body was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia for an autopsy, and a murder investigation is ongoing by the homicide division of the National Police.
As was only reported on July the 30th, last Sunday ( July the 28th) at around 11.55 a.m., a 24-year-old Afghan caused a considerable disturbance during the service of the Catholic St. Maximilian Kolbe parish in the Harburg St. Maria church (photo) in the south of Hamburg.
The young man had tied a Palestinian flag around his neck and then displayed it on his back. Eyewitnesses reported that the young man then walked through the nave towards the priest and stood there. He was then asked to leave the church by church staff, which he complied with. At the door, however, he continued to cause a disturbance by playing loud music on a speaker at the open entrance.
When the police arrived with several patrol cars, the man initially fled, according to a police spokesperson. He was later stopped by police officers who clarified his identity. He was then released from police custody. The authorities are now investigating the man on suspicion of disturbing the practice of religion, according to a police spokesperson.
