Father of 16-year-old Swiss girl ‘transitioning’ against her parents’ will ADF International
A Swiss court ruled that the parents of a gender-confused teenage girl have to hand over documents for her legal “sex change.”
The highest court of the Swiss canton of Geneva, the Court of Justice, rejected the parents’ appeal and declared that they had to hand over the documents enabling “gender change” in the official state registry under threat of criminal charges. The court confirmed a lower court ruling.
The now-16-year-old teenage daughter has been separated from her family for over a year by Swiss authorities because the parents objected to her receiving extremelydangerous puberty blockers.
The case has sparked outrage globally. A video of the parents explaining the case has over one million views on X and drew the attention of prominent figures, including Elon Musk, who commented on the story by stating, “This is insane” and “This suicidal mind virus is spreading throughout Western Civilization.”
The father, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Christian human rights organization ADF International: “We are deeply saddened that this nightmare situation continues.”
“Not only has the state separated us from our daughter because we objected to her ‘transition,’ but we are now being threatened with criminal charges if we do not aid in her ‘legal transition’ by handing over legal documents,” he continued.
“The state should not have this power. If this can happen to us, it can happen to other parents. We will not give up trying to protect our daughter and will seek to appeal this decision.”
ADF International lawyer Felix Böllmann, who represents the parents in court, said, “The court has committed a grave injustice in failing to recognize the fundamental rights of these parents to care for their daughter.”
“They have every right to withhold their consent to a so-called ‘sex change,’ given the vulnerable state of the minor concerned and that such a step could pave the way for harmful and potentially irreversible physical ‘transition.’”
“The court should uphold the rights of parents acting in the best interest of their child, instead of weaponizing the law to advance dangerous ideologies that drive a wedge between parents and children and increase the likelihood of psychological and bodily harm,” Böllmann continued.
“Swiss authorities should look to what is happening in the nearby UK, where the country’s High Court has just ruled that a ban on ‘puberty blockers’ is lawful and could soon become permanent,” he noted.
“Switzerland should follow the UK’s example and ultimately restore parental rights.”
ADF International announced that the parents would seek to appeal the ruling and that they have set up a donation site where people can contribute to the parents’ legal fund.
Dutch low-cost airline Transavia has stopped selling vegetarian sausage rolls on board because customers said with their wallets that they preferred eating meat.
Since December 5, 2023, the vegetarian snack, produced by Unilever’s Vegetarian Butcher, replaced the traditional — and popular — sausage roll on the airline’s menu.
But the carrier now claims that the switch to the “sustainable but equally delicious” meat substitute did not fly with passengers, who turned out to prefer the taste of real meat over tofu mixed with beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, thickening agents methylcellulose and carrageenan, seed oils, colouring and artificial flavours.
A Transavia spokesperson stated that the decision to remove the vegetarian variant from the menu was due to the resulting difference in supply and demand.
“We tailor our on-board menu to what our passengers want,” they said.
The airline added it did not believe that reverting to a meat option would significantly impact the environment.
Before switching to vegetarian snacks, the airliner sold 15,000 to 20,000 traditional sausage rolls per month, with these sales collapsing following the switch.
“With the vegetarian variant, we were nowhere near achieving this”, the Transavia representative admitted.
The move is somewhat at odds with the policy of Schiphol Airport, which wants 60 per cent of its food and dairy offerings to be plant-based by 2030 for green agenda reasons.
That means the amount of meat, dairy and egg-based products offered will be significantly reduced.
This policy aligns with initiatives from the previous progressive Dutch government, which advocated for a “protein transition.” It set an ambitious target for 2030: a maximum of 40 per cent of consumed protein should come from animal sources, a goal that several supermarket chains have pledged to support.
Currently, around 60 per cent of the protein consumed is of animal origin.
The public prosecutor of Montbéliard, Paul-Edouard Lallois, announced that a 12-year-old boy was found guilty of glorifying acts of terrorism on Wednesday. Since December 2023, the boy, who had ‘significant predispositions’, had recorded more than 1700 videos of propaganda or massacres of a jihadist nature. He also exchanged them via several encrypted messengers.
During an almost four-hour closed hearing before the juvenile court judge, he admitted that he was interested in Islam and then came across Discord and Telegram-like chat channels. ‘He was able to participate in discussions that could be categorised as radical Islamism and told us several times that he had been recruited,’ said the public prosecutor, who had announced the initiation of proceedings against the child at the beginning of July. Due to his young age, the boy, who lives in Sochaux (Doubs), could not be placed under judicial supervision since then. He is therefore subject to provisional educational measures before the criminal sanction is pronounced. This will take place in seven months‘ time,’ explained the public prosecutor.
The boy, who is separated from his family, is currently being accommodated in a community juvenile justice centre, where he is being looked after and receiving educational measures. His parents, against whom no charges have been brought, live separately. The minor lived with his mother and other siblings. As an inconspicuous, introverted child, he had not attracted any attention either at school or outside of school, ‘neither as an accused nor as a victim’, as the magistrate explained. His internet activities attracted the attention of the investigators. Le Figaro
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The assault on free speech is ramping up in Europe: German YouTuber “Shlomo Finkelstein“ has been imprisoned for “hate speech” and “blasphemy,” as his co-host Kasper revealed Monday. Shlomo faces one year in prison in Germany’s Stasi state for criticizing Islam and mass migration.
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STREAMER SHLOMO FINKELSTEIN WAS SENTENCED TO PRIS0N FOR POLITICALLY INCORRECT MEMES.
HIS CRlME: Satirical comedy mostly mocking Islam with “offensive” caricatures.
German YouTuber “Shlomo Finkelstein“, whose real name is Aron P. (28), was arrested at 3 pm on August 13 on the street in Frankfurt on the Oder on the Polish border, Apollo News reported. Aron had become active as an Islam-critical YouTuber after Islamic terrorists massacred the editorial staff of French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” on January 7, 2015, killing 12. Aron was shocked at the seeming acquiescence of the mainstream media in the West, who blamed the victims, and at state-funded Islamic YouTubers seemingly justifying the massacre.
He started the YouTube channel “The Vulgar Analysis,” whose opening credits included images of a Koran being barbecued wrapped in bacon, blown up, and micturated on, as a statement for free speech. He uses the image of English pundit Samuel Johnson as an avatar and adopted the mock-Jewish moniker “Shlomo Finkelstein“ to troll Nazis who were stalking him over his outspoken pro-Israel stance.
Aron P. has had over 30 YouTube channels suspended. His channel became one of the most successful conservative YouTube channels in Germany, with 80.000 subscribers at its peak. He was stalked at his home and doxxed by Soros NGO Amadeu Antonio Foundation and “Der Spiegel” journalists. German prosecutors began investigating Aron in 2019 instead of the stalkers who were endangering his life, seeing as he made many enemies among radical Muslims, as Gateway Pundit reported.
He began a successful YouTube format every Sunday at 6 pm local time (12 pm Eastern) with fellow YouTuber Kasper (“IdiotWatch”), which featured interviews with Trump adviser Jason Miller and leading AfD candidate Björn Höcke, among others. Shlomo also writes a column in German on Kraut-zone.de.
In 2020, he was given a suspended sentence for “hate speech,” “blasphemy,” and “using illegal symbols” (i.e. parodying the Nazis). Aron was not present at his trial. He says he found out about the proceedings against him from the media, Apollo News reported. The Cologne prosecutors’ office claimed they had followed proper procedures to summon Aron P.
According to Apollo News, Aron P. is charged in ten cases, mainly with the crime of “insulting religious communities.” Eight of them involve the Koran-burning image above.
According to online reports, the prosecutor who ordered Aron’s arrest is Turk-German Sinan Sengöz.
“According to the verdict, the YouTuber is said to have broken the law a total of eight times by “the display of a Quran burning on a grill,” “scenes in which pork is depicted on a burning Koran,” sequences in which “a burning Koran is extinguished with a liquid – which is supposed to represent urine” or similar representations,” Apollo News reported.
A 67-year-old man has been jailed after making derogatory remarks about Islam and chanting “you’re not English any more” at police during a London demonstration last month.
David Notley, of Buckhurst Hill in Essex, was jailed by the Inner London Crown Court this week for 20 months after pleading guilty to causing religiously aggravated distress and taking part in violent disorder, the BBC reports.
The court heard that Notley had joined in with the crowd to chant “you’re not English anymore” at police officers outside Whitehall and sang “Who the f*** is Allah?”
During the alleged “far-right” demonstration, which was organised hastily in the wake of the mass stabbing that left three young girls dead in Southport, 121 people were arrested amid an outbreak of violence.
The broadcaster reported that bottles and cans were thrown at police during the demonstration.
While it was not alleged that Notley directly engaged in attacks on police, prosecutor Alex Agbamu told the court that he had confronted police with a “fighting pose” and had helped push another protestor towards police, which “precipitated a physical confrontation involving the police [and] demonstrators.”
According to Essex Live, the 67-year-old claimed that he did not engage in violence towards police and denied intentionally pushing anyone. He said that he was already in London at the time of the demonstration and was “swept up” in the protest.
Judge Freya Newbery said that the protest “caused serious disruption” and had a “serious detrimental impact on the community at the heart of our parliamentary democracy.” She also informed the court that Notley was previously jailed in 2009 for drug smuggling and that his involvement in the protest had violated his license release conditions.
Notley is among over 1,000 people so far arrested in connection with the widespread unrest and riots that broke out across the UK since the Southport stabbings.
A prominent LGBT activist recently arrested on 37 charges related to the sexual abuse of children used his influential role in the community to groom a teen girl into transgenderism and BDSM. Reduxx has documented a social media trail which shows that Pride in Surrey founder Stephen Ireland began interacting with the girl online when she was as young as 16 years old and assisted her to transition into a “boy” and “leatherpup.”
On August 14, Ireland, along with one of the volunteers from his organization, David Sutton, were both arrested and jointly charged with 15 offenses, including conspiracy to kidnap a child and conspiracy to sexually assault a child.
Ireland was separately charged with an additional 22 offenses, including the rape of a child, the sexual assault of a child, and six counts of making indecent photographs of children. In all cases, the victim is said to be under the age of 13. His colleague, David Sutton, 26, was charged with an additional 7 similarly serious offenses.
Though details of the alleged offenses have not been released while the case continues to be investigated, Reduxx located disturbing interactions between Ireland and a then-underage girl who will be referred to as “Julie” in order to protect her identity.
Their interactions were conducted through both his personal account and his Pride in Surrey account. The two referred to each other as “bro,” and exchanged jokes about urine fetishism. Their earliest interactions date to 2018, when Julie was just 16. At that time she had begun counting down the days until the first Pride in Surrey event.
“We hope you will [attend]. Everyone is welcome,” the Pride in Surrey account replied to the 16 year-old girl.
“Do I get petted tho [sic]?” Julie asked, and Pride in Surrey remarked, “Only if you’re good.”
In one photo taken at the first Pride event in August 2019, Julie, then 17, can be seen attending while dressed in fetish gear associated with the “leather pup” community – a sexual subculture most commonly practiced by gay males. The subculture involves bondage and sexually submissive partners roleplaying as dogs. In the photo, Ireland is holding a lead fastened around her neck while Julie squats on the ground.
According to posts made to her social media account, Julie “started questioning” her “gender and sexuality” from the age of 11 years old and began attending Pride events in 2017, when she was 15. By the age of 16, she was involved in the “pup” fetish community.
“These Prides have helped me to understand myself and be open and proud of multiple aspects of my personality – being pansexual, transgender, and a pup,” Julie stated in July 2019 in a lengthy social media post she wrote “explaining why Pride in Surrey is so important” to her.
“For the last few months, I have been helping Pride in Surrey to organize the youth zone at the first ever Surrey Pride… I have made so much progress thanks to the Pride in Surrey team.”
Ireland appears to have taken a special interest in Julie, spending her 18th birthday with her celebrating with fetish gear and a cake. Julie had been volunteering as a representative for Pride in Surrey since she was 17 – a move she credits with her decision to begin taking testosterone, undergo a double mastectomy, and ultimately, a hysterectomy.
“I will forever adore Pride in Surrey,” Julie wrote in September of 2023, “especially given a lot of the crew are my second family. They’ve seen me start testosterone and have top surgery… I love being part of the team.”
In October of 2020, just after her twentieth birthday, Julie posted a photo of herself holding testosterone gel and announced she had begun taking the synthetic male hormone. In 2023, she underwent a double mastectomy, and at the end of that year, had a full hysterectomy. Currently, her social media account is filled with pornographic content of herself.
In March of 2024 she revealed that she had to undergo emergency surgery. “My organs literally fell out of my body and I was in agony… is this just the severity of it all hitting me? Or am I weak?”
During an interview filmed for Pride in Surrey with Ireland and colleague Jordan Gray, a trans-identified male comedian with whom Ireland has worked in the past, Ireland makes a point to mention that fetishes are a part of the Pride experience, and defends the involvement of minors in the BDSM “pup” community.
In the interaction Gray explains how, in his experience, “children inherently understand everything.”
“I’ve spoken to four and five year-olds about the transgender thing, and they’re so unphased. They understand it on a spiritual level, and they’re fine with it,” Gray says. The transgender comedian prompted outcry in 2022 after he stripped naked on a live television program and played a keyboard with his penis.
“Children are innocent, they don’t know,” Ireland replies. “It’s like when people complain about pups and kink individuals being at Pride because of kids. It’s like, hang on a minute, they’re not doing anything untoward outright, they’re marching… they were there at the Stonewall riot right at the beginning. These kids don’t know what’s going on. They only know if you’re telling them that this is wrong, this is disgusting, this is bad,” Ireland states, as Gray nods in agreement.
Ireland has repeatedly mocked and harassed women who criticize gender identity ideology as “TERFs,” an acronym which stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” and is frequently used to call for violence or social punishment. Among those Ireland has targeted are JK Rowling, as well as Surrey Police and Crime CommissionerLisa Townsend. He had also issued a threat warning “TERFs” away from attending any Pride in Surrey events.
The sorting hat has decided…. @JK_Rowling "House of TERF" #SorryNotSorry This is not HATE, this is FACT! JK Rowling has clearly expressed a view that is Transphobic, Intersexist and inconsiderate of the LGBTQ+ community who stand together in solidarity. SHAME ON YOU! pic.twitter.com/h0hWOS2ryz
— Stephen A Ireland (He/Him) (@StephenAIreland) June 7, 2020
As previously reported by Reduxx, Ireland’s LGBT organization was responsible for arranging the annual Pride festivities, which included activities for children and youth. As a result of his activism, Ireland garnered the support of Surrey Police, who regularly attended events he organized in cars outfitted with rainbow decals.
On June 6, shortly before Ireland was arrested on numerous child sexual abuse charges, Surrey Police visited local school Woking High with his organization to take part in “Pride engagement” work. The force would have already been aware of the charges prepared to be pressed against Ireland at this time.
Ireland was also involved in organizations which promoted the concept of gender identity to children as young as 3 years old, and encouraged parents to initiate a regime of puberty-halting drugs on their children.
Ireland worked alongside leading LGBT activist Peter Tatchell, with whom he has attended events and has praised as an “inspiration.” Tatchell has been widely regarded as a pedophile sympathizer by many, and, as previously reported by Reduxx, Tatchell has an unsettling history of downplaying the harms of child sexual abuse.
Jimmy Saville is dead so what are they going go to do get cctv footage from BBC in the 60s and 70s? – Let the man R.I.P will you…
— Stephen A Ireland (He/Him) (@StephenAIreland) October 2, 2012
Tatchell’s own organization, the Peter Tatchell Foundation, also works closely with the London Metropolitan Police in order to establish “collaboration and cooperation”, and last February, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gaydio Pride Awards in Manchester.
In 2012, Ireland posted a disturbing remark to his social media defending notorious child sexual abuser Jimmy Savile, who is thought to have sexually abused as many as 500 young girls during his lifetime.
For several years, local police officers were regular attendees of Pride in Surrey events, and from their official social media account, encouraged citizens to follow Ireland’s activist group. In 2021, Ireland was invited to speak at an LGBT History Month Seminar hosted by Surrey Police. In February of 2024, Pride in Surrey also shortlisted Surrey Police for a Community Champion Award. The page listing the event has since been scrubbed, but was viewed by Reduxx prior to its deletion.
Surrey Police are calling for anyone with information into the ongoing investigation to get in touch by quoting ref PR/45240080974 using the live chat on its website, the online reporting tool, or calling 101. Individuals who wish not to speak directly to police can report information to Crimestoppers anonymously by calling 0800 555 111.
A salutary tale for our times. An Englishman who the judge condemned as a “keyboard warrior” has been jailed for three years for posts he made on Twitter/X during the recent UK riots. When Wayne O’Rourke from Lincoln first appeared in court, the BBC reported that prosecutors alleged his posts contained “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric.”
Yes, you read that correctly: the police arrested the idiotic O’Rourke because they decided his online words were not only anti-Muslim, but also “anti-establishment.” Amid all the soul-searching chatter about the causes and consequences of the brief outburst of unrest in UK towns and cities, that should stand out as a warning for the future.
Of course the 35-year-old was not eventually convicted of writing that “Starmer has basically said it’s us against them. Hold the line,” because using “anti-establishment rhetoric” is not yet formally a crime. He was convicted instead of publishing written material likely to stir up racial hatred, after falsely claiming that the three young girls whose murder in Southport preceded the unrest were killed in a terrorist attack by a Muslim.
Nonetheless, the state’s careful coupling of “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric” in court is a new political landmark. It captures the way in which the authorities, from Keir Starmer’s Labour government downwards, are exploiting the thuggish antics of a few ‘far-right’ rioters to try to outlaw any criticism of the Westminster elites’ disastrous policies on everything from mass immigration to law and order.
By equating anti-migrant and anti-establishment feeling, they have somehow twisted the public’s anger over the brutal murder of three working class girls in Southport to tar the working classes as racist ‘Islamophobes’ who must be censored if not incarcerated.
The last Democracy Watchwarned that, although the riots might be over, the political “Counter-riot has only just begun.” “The UK establishment,” as I put it, “is interested not just in clearing the streets of rioters, but clearing the political battlefield of opposition views.” That counter-riot has spread even faster and more furiously than we might have imagined.
Since the short-lived unrest, which included localised clashes with police and a few reprehensible attacks on migrant hostels and mosques, well over a thousand people have been arrested. Many of them have been charged and fast-tracked through the courts and into jail with a speed we did not think our broken justice system capable of achieving.
Nobody would argue against those guilty of violent crimes being properly punished and imprisoned. However, some of the severe sentences handed down for relatively minor offences make it look as if the courts are settling political scores rather than upholding criminal justice.
It is not a stretch to see these cases as a form of show trials. No, we are not talking about the sort of merciless political frame-ups practised by the authoritarian regimes of history, and there are no death sentences at the end. Yet these are show trials, in the sense of turning the courts into a theatre for a show, a morality play, intended to make an example of the guilty and re-educate the public as to what they can or cannot do and say.
Top government sources have toldThe Times of London that Prime Minister Starmer, himself a former director of public prosecutions, “directly intervened” to ensure that the prosecutors and courts cracked down fast and hard.
“He leaned really heavily on the justice system,” said one official. “He knew from experience that people needed to see the system working to amplify the political message that rioting would not be tolerated. Prosecutions and sentences needed to be very visible.”
Yes, in the name of defeating the ‘far-Right,’ criminal trials are now being used “to amplify the political message” to the rest of us. This is British democracy in 2024.
There is no space here to detail the many sentences that have been imposed so as to make the government’s message “very visible.” They range from a child charged with riot in Sunderland, to drunk pensioners jailed for shouting “Who the f**k is Allah?” and chanting “You’re not English anymore” at the police near Downing Street in Whitehall; from a woman locked up for pushing a wheelie bin towards police before falling on her face in Middlesbrough, to a “quiet” 53-year old carer from Cheshire jailed for a single, appalling post—“Blow up the mosques with the adults in them”—to her Facebook community group (which didn’t incite anybody to do anything except report her to the police); from a gay couple imprisoned for “dancing and gesticulating” in front of riot cops in Hartlepool, to a 51-year-old man jailed for violent disorder for “making a nuisance of himself” on a Plymouth protest, despite even the judge suggesting he had committed no offence. There will be many more to come. All unpleasant incidents no doubt, and perhaps they really are all horrible specimens of humanity. But do their cases really live up to the “Anarchy!” headlines?
Let’s be clear, this counter-riot is not just about dealing with public unrest. Starmer’s intervention has also led to police trawling social media, actively fishing for hidden thoughtcrimes. The current director of public prosecutions boasted to the media that special teams of “dedicated police officers” were “scouring social media” for “insulting or abusive” material, which they would “then follow up with arrests.” If insulting or abusive words are now to be put on a par with rioting, they really are going to need bigger prisons to accommodate all the rounded-up social media users.
No doubt some will say Starmer was right to intervene this way, that keeping the people safe should be the government’s priority. The question is, however, which people? The Labour leadership somehow didn’t have such a hardline response to the Black Lives Matter unrest that broke out in Britain after the killing of George Floyd in America. On that occasion, far from “leaning really heavily on the legal system” to act, Starmer and his deputy only leant on a knee in his Westminster office, to show the rioters they had their sympathy.
But unrest in working class communities, of course, is treated differently, branded as ‘far-right’ and racist. The reality gap between the worldview of the political elites and the public is starkly confirmed by the August Ipsos issues poll, conducted straight after the brutal murder of three young girls in Southport ignited riots.
It shows that 34% of the British public—rather more than the 20% of the electorate who voted for Starmer—now say immigration is a big issue for Britain, putting it top of the issues list for the first time since 2016. Even more starkly, the proportion who now see crime as a big issue has shot up to 25%, from just 6% last month.
Little wonder that the political establishment wants to equate public anger about these issues with racism, declare slogans such as ‘Stop the Boats’ to be outside the accepted limits of debate, and in the process deny those millions of people their democratic voice.
Some conservatives may feel rather uncomfortable with being put in the radical, anti-establishment camp today. Yet it’s important to recognise that the ruling leftist establishment—“a group in a society exercising power and influence and resisting change,” just as the traditional establishment once did—is on the other side of the battlelines in everything from the crucial fight for free speech to the wider culture wars.
Anybody who wants to change the direction in which British and European society is heading, and stand up for free speech and democracy, needs to ignore their ‘far-right’ name-calling and declare that we are all anti-establishment now.
History is a nightmare from which Northern Ireland is trying to awake.
The hundreds-of-years-old rift between nationalist Catholics — who want a united Ireland — and Protestant Unionists — who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom — has its origins in the Ulster Plantation when England divvied up land in the northeast of the island to loyal subjects from northern England and Scotland to help mollify the historically quarrelsome region. Most are familiar with the most recent flareup in the region, the 30 years of conflict known as The Troubles, which formally ended in the late nineties, but the conflict continues to smolder, with traditions passing down the tales of turmoil on both sides of the issue.
On August 3 in Belfast, that long-standing tension took a symbolic pause when anti-migration activists gathered across the UK to protest the stabbing deaths of three little girls in Southport, England.
Interestingly, for pro-immigration globalists, the event was an unwelcome détente.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
That day in Belfast, anti-immigration protestors from the Republic of Ireland flew the Irish tricolor flag alongside local loyalists flying the Union Jack flag of the United Kingdom; in fact, the nationalists from the Republic of Ireland at the rally were also said to have been the most virulent. What started as a largely peaceful gathering eventually devolved into attacks on foreign-owned shops and migrant hotels. Later that day, the nationalist flagbearers were seen drinking with loyalists in a downtown pub.
According to a BBC article, one bystander at the protest summed up the gathering of nationalists and loyalists as: “Divided by politics, united by racism.”
On finding out about the banners, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Simon Harris said “Leave our flag alone.”
For John Barry, a Catholic professor at Queens University Belfast writing in New Lines magazine, the provisional alliance was too much as well:
People who wanted the reunification of Ireland, who had traveled from Dublin to express their strong anti-immigrant feelings, were standing shoulder to shoulder with people with anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiments, including a convicted loyalist paramilitary killer, and were later that evening feted as heroes in a local loyalist pub, after the pogroms and violence.
“It strikes me therefore as somewhat of an absurdity that some of those from within unionism and loyalism, who are legitimately concerned about the traditional fabric of areas and communities being eroded, appear to see it as fruitful to make common alliances with those who are aggressively and passionately devoted to Irish nationalism.”
‘This is the best thing that ever happened in this country,’ one protestor from Drogheda, in the Republic, draped in an Irish tricolour told me, ‘Now we can come together against the real enemy.’ Indeed, protestors from the Republic, at the front of the crowd, were by far the most vigorous and aggressive in confronting the counter-protestors on the other side of police lines, themselves seemingly mostly drawn from Northern Ireland’s Catholic community. ‘Look at you all,’ one Dubliner, standing in front of a ‘Coolock Says No’ banner, shouted at the pro-migration protestors, who were waving Palestinian, LGBTQ+ and trade union flags, ‘you don’t even have one fucking tricolour, no Union Jack, nothing from this island.’
Much has been made of the root cause of the anti-migration protests in the UK and Ireland, the incident in late July when the 17-year-old son of a Kenyan immigrant stabbed three little girls to death, injuring others. Before the details of the killer were release, online rumors were rife with accusations that the killer was a Muslim migrant just off the boat.
In fact, he is a natural-born Brit and a Christian — while still one could argue that he is in fact a product of Britain’s immigration policies.
Xenophobia or Common Sense? What the Numbers Say
Despite Brexit and ongoing voter sentiment against unfettered migration, consecutive prime ministers have lacked the political will and follow through to crack down on migration. This has led to an influx of non-UK and non-EU migrants who have proven difficult to assimilate into society, with many bringing hegemonic (e.g., jihadist) and violent beliefs and taboo sexual practices with them from Islamic countries, leading to racial tension, knifings, and other crimes as well as “grooming gangs” that have been systemically molesting young British girls.
The year ending June 2023 saw 1.2 million migrants to the UK. Of those, 968,000 were non-EU nationals.
The Republic of Ireland, known for its lily-white population, quaint rural villages, and great craic, is experiencing similar anti-migration sentiment. For example, the attempt of the Irish government to house so-called asylum seekers in the Coolock suburb of Dublin led to recent anti-migration riots.
In fact, cross-border activities are on the rise. Further anti-migration activities are expected to further culminate in a “Dundalk Says No” rally in the Irish border town of Dundalk.
For the year ending April 2023, the Republic of Ireland saw 141,600 immigrants — a 16-year high — of which 81,100 were from countries other than the UK or EU countries.
Conversely, the numbers for Northern Ireland are surprisingly low.
As Barry also reported in New Lines magazine:
It is plain to see that the riots in Belfast were based on lies, because the focus of the anger was immigration, while Northern Ireland actually has very little: 3.4% of the 1.8 million inhabitants in the north of Ireland belong to ethnic minority groups, and as of March 31 this year, 2,748 people were in receipt of asylum support — the lowest number of any U.K. region and down from 3.030 in March 2024. It’s a nonissue and yet it fueled attacks on people and property.
According to the 2021 census, approximately 6 percent of the population was born outside the UK or Ireland; and 97 percent identified as white.
It Ain’t Much, But It’s Something
Globalist and progressive outrage at the mixing of the flags in Belfast underscores the presence of two different worldviews at work in the UK and Ireland. For one, the liberal elite dismiss the riots as “far-right” racism and hooliganism. For example, an op-ed in the Economist asked how to deal with the uprising. Their conclusion: “Punish the thugs. Stand up for immigration. And improve local services.” And politicians have been calling for summary trials, long sentences, and draconian crackdowns on social media posts, including prison terms.
Meanwhile, the largely working-class anti-immigration protestors are fed up with being labelled racist thugs when all they want, arguably, are good jobs and safe neighborhoods and kids. The people of Northern Ireland have enough to deal with. Still reeling from 30 years of The Troubles, many are trying to do whatever they can to integrate the Catholic nationalist and Protestant loyalist communities to keep the nightmare of history at bay. Of course, violence and hooliganism are tough to defend — and we’re not defending them here. But if speaking out against migration brings the two sides together, so be it. Trying to make the best of the situation instead of outright dismissing the participants are racist thugs might be a move in the right direction.
In the ongoing drug war, a police officer is said to have passed on secret information to dealers for money. The officer is apparently deeply involved in criminal circles. He is even alleged to have maintained contacts with Islamists.
Early on Monday morning, an explosive device detonated in front of an apartment block in Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen harbour (photo). The Cologne investigation team Sattla (Arabic name for narcotics) and the public prosecutor’s office are currently investigating connections to the smouldering drug war between a Dutch drug network and the Cologne underworld.
In recent weeks, there have been one explosive attack after another: including the current case, ten homemade explosive devices have detonated in front of the houses and flats of drug gangs on the Rhine since June 25.
‘The modus operandi seems similar, but nothing more can be said yet,’ senior public prosecutor Ulrich Bremer told FOCUS online.
The clashes were triggered by the theft of 350 kilograms of cannabis from a warehouse in Hürth on June 25. Since then, the drugs, worth 1.5 million euros, have been missing. A drug gang from Kalk/Mülheim is also involved in the conflict with the so-called Dutch Mocro Mafia (Dutch slang term for Moroccans). Several suspects are already in custody. The drug dealer Aymen G. from Kalk, who is now in custody, is also alleged to have bribed a police inspector. The probationary officer Mohamed L. (name changed), 25, is said to have repeatedly searched the police data systems for all criminal information about the dealer, according to the investigators’ enquiries. This emerges from the analysis of seized mobile phone chats of the German-Moroccan patrolman.
According to information from FOCUS online, the inspector demanded 50 euros per person for further information taken from the police computer. That was a lot of money, but it was also a lot of information, Mohamed L. explained to the German-Algerian dealer. When Aymen G. refused to pay, the police commissioner threatened him with trouble.
The chat partners got to know each other during joint visits to a mosque. The police officer Mohamed L. is considered a devout Muslim. The police inspector is suspected of having gained deep insights into the drug war through his contact in the Cologne drug milieu.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, Mohamed L. is also alleged to have obtained information on the investigation status of two other members of the Cologne drug gang. The prosecutors came to this conclusion when they checked the police data platforms. Every enquiry made by a police officer is documented there.
This confirmed the suspicion that Mohamed L. had leaked secrets in favour of a Cologne drug gang – at the time of the attacks in Cologne, Engelskirchen, Duisburg and Düsseldorf.
During the search in his flat on July 6, the prospective officer made some brief statements. L. surmised that he had apparently been taken advantage of by the drug dealer. His defence lawyer Christoph Arnold did not want to comment on the allegations when asked.
The investigations against the inspector were triggered by tapped phone calls. The drug dealer Aymen G. had bragged about his contact with a police officer. The dealer claims to have recorded a video with the latter in which he listed all the backgrounds and people involved in the drug war.
The public prosecutor’s office then initiated proceedings for obstruction of justice in office because the police commissioner had not passed on this information from the video to the responsible investigators. Although the ominous clip has not yet been found, the investigation is still ongoing. The compromising bribery chats with the drug dealer from Kalk were then found on the confiscated mobile phones.
According to information from FOCUS online, the investigation of the police officer’s two confiscated mobile phones revealed another incredible suspicion: the accused officer apparently had contacts in the Islamist scene.
Mohamed L. is said to have used the police search and case processing platform Viva on behalf of his brother, who has come to the attention of the state security services for money laundering and terror financing. Presumably, according to the allegation, the inspector wanted to check the suspicious situation against his brother in order to warn him.
