A German court has heard a DNA test after a 12-year-old girl had an abortion, allegedly revealing her own father had impregnated her.
A 40-year-old man identified only as Eritrean migrant Tesfalem A. in line with local law allegedly abused his own 12-year-old daughter in July 2023, causing her to become pregnant, a court in Giessen, Germany has heard. Both father and daughter are reported by Germany’s Die Welt to have been living together ” in a collective accommodation for refugees” in Friedberg at the time of the crime.
This came to the attention of the police when the child was admitted to hospital for abdominal pains and found to be five months pregnant. The pregnancy was aborted “at the family’s request” — given the mother is said to have “little contact” with either, who would have made this request other than the father is not stated — but given the young age of the would-have-been mother, a DNA test was performed and police called.
DNA samples were taken from over 50 male residents of the migrant accommodation to find a culprit and the father is alleged to have initially refused to be tested. But once a match was found it became clear, the court heard, that the father Tesfalem A. was the father.
The daughter, who was 12-years old at the time of the alleged offence and who is now 13, said to be “severely traumatised”, suffering “dissociative behaviour”, and is “reserved”, and is understood to have never discussed what happened.
In his defence, the father — who has been in custody since February 2024 — said while he was “sorry from the bottom of my heard”, he nevertheless claimed to have absolutely no memory of the alleged rape. Instead, he says, he had spent the day drinking beer with a friend and was black-out drunk. The judge retorted, Hessenschau reports, that the defendant had never mentioned having been drunk at any point of the investigation up to that point, and that similar claims of alcohol-related memory loss had been made in other similar cases.
The girl has been taken into protective custody, has been receiving therapy, and is said to be making progress. The next hearing for the case is set for November.
The recent sex allegations against Iñigo Errejón, a prominent member of Spain’s far-left Sumar party, have opened a Pandora’s box, revealing the stark hypocrisy underlying claims of moral superiority often espoused by the political Left. Many women have come forward with allegations of Errejón’s sexual harassment and abuse. That Errejón behaved despicably toward women was hardly a secret among Sumar’s ranks, but this time it has turned out to be just too public to sweep under the rug. Last week, Errejón left his political life behind, and a storm was unleashed against him and his party.
This scandal serves as a potent reminder that the progressive ideals of equality and justice frequently mask a deeper reality: a troubling tendency toward moral corruption and deception within the very movements that profess to champion social issues such as women’s rights. For years, the Left has appointed itself the ‘guardian’ of progressive values, portraying its leaders as paragons of virtue who champion the rights of marginalised groups.
Iñigo Errejón’s case, however, brings into question this self-proclaimed moral high ground. How can a political faction that prides itself on advocating for women’s rights and social justice reconcile its rhetoric with the alleged actions of one of its own? The irony is palpable: those who preach about the importance of accountability and respect often fail to uphold these very principles in their own ranks. The good old Matthew 7:3-5: “Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?”.
The Left’s narrative suggests that it is a bastion of equality and compassion, yet time and again, we witness a disconnect between their proclaimed values and the reality on the ground—e.g., the recent corruption and child prostitution scandals in the then-socialist-run regional governments in Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
The response to Errejón’s allegations highlights a culture of complicity that is all too common among progressive politicians. Instead of confronting misconduct head-on, there is a tendency to protect their own, revealing a willingness to overlook or dismiss serious accusations in favor of preserving political alliances and power. On the “Errejón affaire,” for instance, Sumar founder Yolanda Díaz has recently admitted that she knew of a case of one woman claiming a sexual assault by Errejón as far back as June of 2023, and she did virtually nothing about it in response. In fact, she appointed Errejón, by then an MP, as Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress.
This hypocrisy is not just about one individual; it is emblematic of a broader issue within the progressive Left. The reliance on moral superiority as a political strategy has resulted in a façade that, when cracked, exposes a troubling reality: many who seek to lead social change are themselves entangled in the very issues they claim to combat.
This scandal forces us to reconsider the credibility of a movement that often resorts to rhetoric over genuine accountability. For Errejón’s case is not an exception. Let us recall that Juan Carlos Monedero, a founder of the far-left Podemos party, faces similar allegations. Pablo Iglesias, another founder of the same party, was also accused of texting—referring to the journalist Mariló Montero—that he would “whip her until she bled”. In 2016, Mariló Montero decided to file a complaint at the Institute of Women against Pablo Iglesias for the comments. Iglesias, Monedero—and now Errejón. That’s a full house of alleged sexual harassment and possible abuse. So much for a women-loving organisation.
Compounding this issue is the increasingly problematic presumption of innocence for women and a corresponding presumption of guilt for men in cases of alleged misconduct. The rhetoric of “believe all women,” popularized in feminist movements like Spain’s International Women’s Day protests, has perilous implications. When accusations are made, the immediate assumption of guilt placed upon men undermines the principle of due process and fosters an environment where men are often seen as guilty until proven innocent. This setting now claims the reputation and public life of Errejón even if he were to prove his innocence—something that seems far-fetched as he has publicly stated that he is a sex addict and that he behaved abusively toward women. Innocent or guilty, it is yet another example of how a public figure’s reputation can be irrevocably tarnished based on unverified claims. It is time for a reality check.
In the wake of the Errejón scandal, the Left must grapple with its own shortcomings, as Spanish voters recognize that moral superiority should not be a shield for hypocrisy and that the Left is merely a vessel of empty slogans.
An Oklahoma man who identifies as non-binary and genderqueer has been arrested on charges related to the possession of child pornography. Cody Dillon Emerson, 38, who also uses the name Cody Finkelstein on social media, claimed that he had downloaded the images of girls being sexually abused because he was “curious about being a female.”
Emerson, also known by his alias “Mercury,” was first apprehended on October 10 at the bar where he worked in Tulsa. According to an arrest report obtained by Reduxx, the investigation into Emerson began after he was linked to a Google account which had been used to stash 600 child sexual abuse images.
Cody Dillon Emerson. Photo Courtesy Tulsa County.
Emerson told the officer that he had lost access to the account after it had been flagged by Google, but admitted that his Android cellphone would have been automatically syncing his files to the Google Photos cloud.
After being cuffed, Emerson admitted to knowingly downloading child sexual abuse material, and informed officers of a laptop and an external hard drive at his residence where additional abuse images were being stored.
Disturbingly, Emerson stated he sought out child sexual abuse materials of girls as young as 9 because he was “curious about being a female and it sexually stimulated him.”
From the arrest report obtained by Reduxx.
Emerson was booked at the David L. Moss jail on charges of aggravated child pornography possession and has been assigned a public defender with his preliminary hearing scheduled for November 12.
On his social media, Emerson stated he used “they/them” pronouns, and posted a pride flag indicating he identified as genderqueer, pansexual, and non-binary. He also shared an infographic on the “transgender umbrella” explaining the “binary” and “non-binary” identities of transgenderism.
In some recent posts, Emerson referred to himself as a “girl” and appeared to have begun wearing makeup.
While the impact Emerson’s gender identity will have on his case is yet to be seen, Oklahoma has been a battleground on gender identity laws since Governor Kevin Stitt issued an executive order banning sex marker changes on birth certificates in 2021. In June, a US Appeals Court revived a challenge to the law which, if successful, would enable transgender-identified individuals in the state of Oklahoma to falsify their birth sex.
Berlin police are seeking an unidentified man who they tried to subject to a stop and search on the platform at Neukölln S-Bahn (mass rapid transit railway) on Wednesday afternoon, but who resisted and managed to escape.
The man fled by jumping across the tracks, it is reported, but officers managed to grab onto his pack, which he released to get away. On inspection, it was discovered he had been carrying explosives in the bag.
Bomb squad officers discovered a drinks bottle wrapped in wire containing 500g (17½ ounces) of TATP explosives, along with a further quantity of cables and a believed stolen-in-2022 Polish citizen identity card.
TATP is highly unstable and prone to exploding if handled roughly, suggesting the suspect in this case fleeing on foot and dropping a bag containing the explosive without it setting off was a lucky escape for pursuing officers and the wider public. What was said to be an attempted terror attack by a Ukrainian extremist in France earlier this year was averted, apparently at the last moment, after the would-be alleged perpetrator accidentally blew himself up in an airport hotel room, it was reported at the time.
…the explosive was of the ‘TATP’ (Triacetone-Triperoxide) type made with acetone, favoured by terrorists in Europe because the ingredients are widely and legally available. The downside is TATP is extremely unstable and consequently dangerous to handle, and even a small disturbance can cause it to explode, leading to terror groups like the Islamic State naming it “Mother of Satan”.
Normally when police discover eexplosives, they are taken outside of the city to be destroyed. In this case because TATP is so unstable, the device was taken toa nearby city park, buried, and then detonated on Wednesday night. The blast could reportedly be heard through Berlin.
Police said in their statement that ” It is still unclear why the man was carrying explosives. The ongoing investigations – in particular the search measures to identify and arrest the escaped man with the evaluation of video recordings – are ongoing”.
The area has become infamous to a certain degree recently, however, as migrant riots took place on New Year’s Eve into 2023, with widespread damage across the area. The way Germany responded to these events became a scandal itself, as broadcasters were accused of trying to cover up the violence, with the immigration background to the riots subject played down in reports.
A small village in Brandenburg, Petersdorf, will receive 500 migrants despite having only 600 residents, and local residents are outraged, alienated, and feel helpless. It is a story happening across Germany and is likely to only fuel anti-immigrant resentment.
Petersdorf is situated next to Bad Saarow, a spa town, and is known for attracting Berliners for the weekend for its thermal baths, restaurants and beautiful views of the local lake, the Scharmützelsee,
However, just outside the town in an old army barracks, which the local district is planning to convert into a home for hundreds of migrants. It is the type of story that conservative critics say is further evidence of the Great Replacement, which describes the ongoing demographic replacement of Europeans in their native lands by non-Western immigrants. While the left describes it as a “conspiracy theory,” the right states it is an irrefutable fact supported by data, and in many ways, illustrated clearly by these types of cases.
The barracks are a four-story building that can house 300 men, but they are set to be expanded, including with the installation of residential “containers.” Construction teams are already at work and are set to soon finish. In total, the accommodations will house 500 migrants. The plans for the construction are moving forward despite the local council unanimously voting against expansion plans a year ago.
Once the men are settled, there will be nearly as many migrants as residents. The German government is running out of spaces in the cities, but there is never an end to more newcomers, which has led to a push in small towns and rural areas. Over the years, German newspaper Welt reports that many other small towns have undergone a similar fate, including Upahl, Dabel, Seeth, and Bernkastel-Kues, and “there was trouble every time.”
In many cases, there is little offered in terms of planning for how social services and infrastructure will cope with the newcomers, including even the removal of sewage. Once again, this is the case for Bad Saarow and Petersdorf. The local mayor of Petersdorf, Thomas Schoppe, told the local paper Märkische Oderzeitung that the containers were already being built “while the local council was still discussing it.”
Schoppe said, “We were totally betrayed.”
Within the town, voters are also angered, while others are simply disappointed. Brandenburg, where the village is located, notably swung hard to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in recent state elections, giving the party nearly 30 percent of the vote. Residents told a Welt reporter that they have no idea how buses, daycare centers, and other infrastructure will cope with the sudden influx of migrants.
According to Welt, “still others don’t want any foreigners in the neighborhood at all.”
Although the local council rejected the entire plan to house 500 migrants, they are still powerless to stop it. Paragraph 246 of the Building Code has been used in many such cases. It allows for the construction of emergency refugee accommodations as quickly as possible, a rule that was first created at the beginning of the migrant crisis and is renewed every three years.
Although it is possible to take action against this code, Katja Kaiser, head of the department for youth, social affairs and culture in the Oder-Spree district claims “it is a fairly formalistic procedure” in which there are few options to take action, because consent from the municipality or town is not actually required.
The AfD has already pointed to the case as yet another example of how mass immigration is reshaping communities. The Oder-Spree branch of the party wrote:
“Shock for Petersdorf and Bad Saarow. These are gigantic numbers that reflect the extent of migration: more than 8 million foreigners migrated to Germany since 2005, according to the Federal Statistical Office… Especially cruel is once again a case right here in the district of Oder-Spree. In Petersdorf, located between Fürstenwalde and Bad Saarow, container villages are created. In total, 500 migrants are to be housed in the middle of the forest on the site of a former barracks at Fuchsbau. That would double the population. Locals say, ‘This has nothing to do with democracy anymore.’”
Ireland has brought a new Hate Crime Bill into law but leading Irish gay and feminist advocates have said the new legislation was sloppily drafted and “threatens free speech and places our rights at risk”.
The Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act, which Irish President Michael D Higgins signed into law on October 29, defined gender as “the gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses as the person’s preferred gender or with which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female”.
Annaïg Birdy, co-founder of Not All Gays, told Brussels Signal: “Many lesbian, gay and bisexual citizens are concerned that this rushed and poorly defined legislation will undermine our rights and the clarity of legal protections moving forward.”
During debate on the bill in the Seanad (upper house), Senator Sharon Keogan spent 25 minutes reading a list of 72 genders which, under the bill, would gain legal status under law.
“Embedding these vague, self-declared identities into law,” said Birdy, “will inevitably erode protections for those with clear, observable characteristics, such as same-sex attracted individuals and women who rely on single-sex spaces for their safety and privacy.
“It will most certainly impact equality legislation,” she added, because “without a clear definition of sex, there can be no clear definition and therefore protections for same-sex attraction”.
While most European Union countries had transposed a 2008 EU hate-crime regulation into their domestic laws before the regulation’s deadline of November 28, 2010, Ireland did not.
Instead it, like Bulgaria and Estonia, had still failed to do this 14 years later, with each facing possible fines from the European Commission.
“Ireland is one of the last EU countries to implement hate crime legislation. This is why the European Union has opened infringement procedures against Ireland,” Berta Quiñonero from the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) told Brussels Signal.
In 2022 INAR together with Ireland’s Coalition Against Hate Crime “released a communication expressing our frustration about the lack of members of the LGBTI+ community during the drafting of the Bill,” Quiñonero said.
Additionally, while there were five elements of EU hate crime regulation that Ireland needed to transpose into national law, the act only successfully managed to do so with one of those.
The EU criticised Ireland, along with Bulgaria and Estonia, for lacking legislation relating to crimes aggravated by hatred.
With the new hate crimes law in effect, Irish prosecutors could now add “aggravated by hatred” on to existing crimes such as “assault”.
While Ireland had now done one of its five bits of homework, there were, though, four other shortcomings in Irish law the EU also identified.
While it paid a great deal of attention to gender, Ireland’s Hate Crime Act did nothing to address these problems.
The act also included a definition of hate, which critics said was vague and could justify a crackdown on free expression, even though the EU had never required member states to define hate in national law. Most did not.
Among glaring defects in Irish criminal law that remained, according to the EU, was the lack of an offence of “incitement to violence”. A second was “incitement to hatred” against an individual.
While Irish law (under the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, 1989) addressed inciting hatred against groups of people, it did nothing to outlaw incitement to hatred against individuals.
The version of the legislation that passed the Dáil (lower house) included offences for both but justice minister Helen McEntee amended the legislation in the Seanad Éireann – the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature) to remove these references after they drew criticism.
A third shortcoming, said the EU, was an offence of “incitement to discrimination”, which other member states had included in their criminal law (Spain, for instance, against both groups and individuals) but Ireland did not.
A fourth shortcoming in Irish criminal law identified by the EU, that still remained was lack of an offence for defaming people on account of their religion or ethnicity.
Critics also noted the rushed way the Irish Government pushed through the legislation, just before a general election, which it planned to hold before the end of 2024. Independent TD Mattie McGrath called the law a “half-baked vanity project”.
The government originally scheduled the final vote for 10.10pm on 23rd October 23, which Birdy called “an unusually late hour for such a contentious issue”.
It was among five bills rushed through the Dáil in under six hours on the evening of October 23. The process normally takes several weeks.
Curtailing the debate in the Seanad “has further eroded any real semblance of thorough democratic process,” Birdy added.
The rushed legislation, “while being pushed in the name of protecting ‘LGBTQI’ people, will instead censor debate on critical issues within the extended acronym — debates and issues that the majority of politicians, as heterosexuals, may not be fully aware of”, she said.
“Let the record show that I, for one, as a lesbian and women’s rights defender, said ‘no’,” Birdy concluded.
Well, how did this happen? How does a sitting president refer to half of the country as garbage? Was it a slip of the tongue or was he trying to sabotage VP Harris’s closing speech? Your guess is as good as mine, but the White House is in full cleanup mode. Let’s check the story:
The White House and its media allies ran a coverup for President Biden after he maligned former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” — going so far as to edit an official transcript of his remarks, to the outrage of conservatives and other critics who called out “flat out lying” by Democrats and their allies.
Democrats went into damage-control mode Tuesday night due to the president’s trash talk, claiming that Biden hadn’t intended to demonize his party’s political opponents just seven days before voters head to the polls.
“The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,’” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
The White House in a transcript of the speech also added an apostrophe to the 81-year-old’s poorly timed criticism less than five days before the 2024 election.
When in doubt use an apostrophe? I guess that the cleanup crew at the White House thinks that we are that stupid. Yes, he didn’t call the Trump supporters “garbage” because they added an apostrophe in the transcript. Why didn’t I think of that?
In the end, this is a president who is now a full victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He got the virus and is behaving the same irrational way that all the others do.
Of course, the problem with a sitting president referring to the other side as garbage is that he may have to send their sons to war. As far as I know, we don’t have a D or R next to the soldiers’ names who may have to tackle Iran or China.
So a bad night for those who want to unite the country. Hard to unite people when you call them garbage for thinking differently. Even if you edit the word by conveniently adding an apostrophe.
‘I’m ready and waiting like to be on tenterhooks’, wrote Mohammad A. (21). The recipient of the message: a member of the terrorist organisation IS. A. wanted to blow himself up in Germany as a suicide bomber for the Islamists. The Syrian is now on trial in Düsseldorf.
Mohammad A. was arrested in April 2024 and has been in custody ever since. He came to Germany in 2021, most recently lived in communal accommodation in Dinslaken (North Rhine-Westphalia) and worked as a car valet. The public prosecutor’s accusation is that the Syrian is alleged to have communicated with members of IS using various internet services. Initially it is said to have been about a car bomb and finally about an explosive belt. From May 2023, A. is said to have received instructions for explosives, including TNT and C4. On the 1st of June 2023, according to the indictment, he replied that he wanted to learn how to make explosives for a car bomb, but that he wanted to practise with a can. To this end, he received internet links with instructions on the necessary substances, such as ammonia, according to the indictment.
On the 24th of June 2023, Mohammad A. is said to have sworn allegiance to IS via the messenger service Telegram at 6.58 pm. The contact is said to have posted at 7.08 p.m.: ‘May Allah accept it from you. According to the indictment, A. communicated with an IS explosives expert and an ‘Ammar’. He is said to have told him that he wanted to get a weapon in order to become a suicide bomber. When asked whether he wanted to commit an attack in ‘’Europe‘’, Mohammad A. is said to have briefly confirmed with ‘’ definitely‘’.
On the 22nd of October 2023, IS is said to have told the accused ‘to use him as an assassin for the association in due course’. But this never happened. Five days later, ‘Ammar’ got in touch for the last time, saying that Mohammad A. was now scheduled as a suicide bomber and that their contact was no longer necessary.
Although the communication was conspiratorial, the chat partners switched from Telegram to encrypted Threema and identified themselves using number codes or symbols, the security authorities were able to read the messages. In April 2024, the investigators took action and arrested Mohammad A. The public was not informed.
If convicted, the car valet faces between one and ten years in prison.
Two teenage girls in Austria have reported being raped by two Algerian migrants in an apartment in Vienna’s Brigittenau district on Austria’s national holiday.
According to a police report, the teens aged just 14 and 15 managed to contact authorities after escaping the apartment, where they say they had been held and abused on the night of Nationalfeiertag which is celebrated on Oct. 26.
According to the Heute news outlet, the incident came to light when the 15-year-old girl called emergency services in the early hours, telling the authorities that she and her 14-year-old friend had been raped.
The police report indicated that the girls encountered two Algerian nationals, aged 31 and 17, earlier in the evening and eventually accompanied them to an acquaintance’s apartment.
Once there, the atmosphere reportedly changed as the girls were intimidated and forced to take drugs. According to a police spokesman, “The 31-year-old is said to have held a gun to the 14-year-old’s head.” Following this, the girls say they were raped by the men.
The teens were able to escape after their attackers fell asleep and quickly contacted authorities.
Police, with support from the Wega special operations unit, arrived at the scene shortly after, arresting the men and recovering a plastic replica pistol discarded in a garbage bag.
The men, who reportedly only recently met the girls, deny the allegations and have not confessed to any wrongdoing.
Currently, both suspects remain in custody with investigations ongoing.
