A trans-identified male was invited to speak in Northern Ireland’s parliament on “gender-based violence” and “LGBT youth education” following the brutal murders of four women in the country in just six weeks.
Northern Ireland has recently been shaken by a spate of murders involving female victims who, in many cases, had appealed to the police for help prior to their deaths. The most recent, Mary Ward, was a 22-year-old mother who was found dead in her south Belfast home on October 1. Ward is the 24th woman killed in the small country since 2020 according to Belfast and Lisburn Women’s Aid, and the fourth woman killed since August.
But women’s rights advocates are expressing outrage after the matter was raised in Stormont by a trans activist who has previously called for males to be allowed to enter women’s shelters.
Alexa Moore, a male who identifies as a “woman,” was invited by the education committee this week to speak on an inquiry into relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools. Alongside Moore, Sophie Nelson from HERe NI, a Belfast-based community organization and registered charity for lesbian and bisexual women, also gave evidence.
But during the meeting, Nelson spoke about the recent killings, stating: “We have an epidemic here of gender-based violence and the prevention of this needs to start in school.”
Notably, Moore has previously made controversial social media posts describing women critical of gender ideology as “fascists” for seeking to uphold women’s single-sex spaces. The concerning tweets were circulated on X today by popular gender critical user @ripx4nutmeg, sparking debate and discussion from users.
Since August, four women have been murdered by men in Northern Ireland. Stormont invited a speaker to explain how preventing violence against women starts in school. That speaker was a cross-dressing man who repeatedly abuses women online and refers to himself as a 'doll' pic.twitter.com/22YLAiC9v7
“What an insult. How can anyone take a cross dressing mans input seriously when talking about male violence against women? Shame on whoever organised it,” one user replied.
Moore, who describes himself as a “women’s sector lobbyist,” works as a policy, campaigns and communications manager with The Rainbow Project – a non-profit organization that promotes LGBT ideology and activism in Northern Ireland.
He has regularly been featured as a guest for women’s events, including during International Women’s Day, when he was featured on a panel of “young women” to discuss “inspiring inclusion.” He was also allegedly involved in an International Women’s Day march where he led the crowd to chant “trans rights are women’s rights.”
1. Centering a MAN. 2. Being shills for Mermaids, which is a danger to children and is being investigated by the charity commission? pic.twitter.com/vATGInFaR1
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development, a self-described “feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movement,” also had Moore speak on the Women’s Policy Group’s 5-Pillar Feminist Economic Recovery Plan, which targeted how austerity and cuts to public spending, has been shown to “hit women the hardest.”
This is not the first time a trans-identified male has sparked backlash for being chosen to speak on women’s rights following an incident of femicide.
In December, the University of Toronto in Canada invited a trans-identified male to speak at a memorial ceremony dedicated to the women who lost their lives during the École Polytechnique massacre. Despite the event being dedicated to the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, the speech instead focused on “addressing transmisogyny.”
The year prior, Fae Johnstone, another trans-identified male, gave a keynote address at Durham College in North Oshawa, Ontario, during the 33rd anniversary of the massacre.
A murder investigation is underway in Mulhouse after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found in a flat on Friday in October 11. The main suspect is her mother, who has been arrested. She was known to the secret service for radicalisation and had psychiatric problems.
A ‘murder by a relative’ investigation was opened in Mulhouse after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found with stab wounds on Friday October 11. France Bleu Alsace learnt of this from the Mulhouse public prosecutor’s office, confirming a report in the newspaper L’Alsace. Her mother was immediately arrested as she was found at her daughter’s bedside who had a deep wound on her neck. Due to the mental state of the mother, questioning has not yet been possible. The mother has mental health problems. She is therefore being cared for by the psychiatric department of the hospital centre in Rouffach. Her name is already known to the judiciary. He has appeared in the intelligence service’s files for Islamic radicalisation since 2019. Her 19-year-old daughter was no longer at school and was reported by her school in 2019. She was mentored by a juvenile court judge who was supposed to get her out of this very rigorous view of Islam. ‘She had developed well and followed the programme,’ explains the public prosecutor’s office in Mulhouse.France Bleu
The victim had a deep wound on his neck, ‘bordering on decapitation’. Jean-François Assal described ‘a gesture of extreme violence in the vertebral part of the body’, adding that ‘the force exerted on the neck was great’. The autopsy confirmed that the young woman’s throat had been cut and that she had 16 wounds, including defensive wounds indicating attempted resistance.
The victim’s mother, who was found sitting on the bed muttering prayers, was arrested. ‘Although she is French, was born in France and studied in France, she refused to communicate in any language other than Arabic,’ said the prosecutor.
Jean-François Assal explained that the mother of the family had ‘dedicated her life to religion’, while her daughter, who had dropped out of school for several years, had been under the supervision of a juvenile court judge who had tried to remove her from her mother’s rigorous influence Actu17
Around 100 British left-wing activists are being funded to campaign for Kamala Harris in swing states, leading to allegations of election interference and even American electoral law being broken.
A social media post by the Director of Operations of the UK’s governing party, Labour, recruiting “Labour Party staff” for campaigning in North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia has caused concern. The message from Labour’s Sofia Patel promised paid-for accommodation for those taking up the offer. She wrote, in the now-deleted post:
I have nearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina – we will sort your housing. Email me on labourforkamala@gmail.com if you’re interested. Thanks!
NBC15 News notes Patel has previously campaigned in the U.S. for the Hillary Clinton 2016 effort.
Some have expressed concern the group may have been breaking U.S. law, including Elon Musk and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recommended UK politicians would probably be better off back in Britain, fixing the country’s many problems rather than trying to interfere abroad. She stated: “You are breaking [Federal Election Commission] laws. Foreign nationals are not allowed to be involved in anyway in U.S. elections. Please go back to the UK and fix your own mass immigration problems that are ruining your country.”
As it is, under U.S. Federal Election Commission rules foreign nationals are allowed to volunteer on political campaigns but can’t be paid a salary, donate money, spend money on the campaign’s behalf, or take leadership (“decision-making”) roles. So whether these laws have been obeyed will have to be determined by the FEC, but influential Westminster gossip blog Guido Fawkesstates its understanding that the trips to America for Labour staffers being paid for by the Democrat Party and they are campaigning “in their own time”, which would be legal.
Nevertheless, as Brexit leader Nigel Farage points out, having the UK governing party’s Director of Operations organise the volunteers doesn’t come without the possibility of unintended consequences for a government which has been trying to build bridges with the Trump campaign in case he’s the next President. Mr Farage said: “This is direct election interference by the governing Labour Party, and particularly stupid if Trump wins. Who is paying for all of this?”.
Mr Farage himself has campaigned on behalf of his friend President Trump, but clearly in the minds of some the scale of the organised effort to ship left-wing activists from the UK to the U.S. puts the move in a different category. Senator Tom Cotton said the arrival of Labour activists was “yet another reason to vote for president Trump” while former Breitbart editor Dr Sebastian Gorka decried the development.
Last month, it was reported byThe Washington Post that senior Labour-linked strategists were advising the Kamala Harris campaign how to “earn back disaffected voters and run a winning campaign from the center left”.
Bad Griesbach is another scenic Bavarian town with an exploding foreigner population.Wikimedia Commons , Aconcagua (talk), CC-BY-SA-3.0
One mayor has rebelled in Bavaria by refusing to back down and accommodate refugees, but apparently his left-wing deputy mayor has already betrayed him.
In the town of Bad Griesbach, a mayor told the district administration he will not accept any refugees. The district wants him to take in 35 Ukrainian refugees into the small town, but the mayor, Jürgen Fundke, who belongs to the Non-Partisan Voters’ Association, refuses to register any of them.
Fundke has made the move despite threats from the supervisory authority. District Administrator Raimund Kneidinger, of the Christian Socialist Union (CSU), issued an official order to take them in by Wednesday. The order was delivered to him personally.
Instead of bowing down, the mayor simply said he will not do it, telling Bayerischer Rundfunk that he believes he has the upper legal hand. “What do they want to do? Do they want to suspend me? They can’t and aren’t allowed to. I’ve spoken to a lawyer,” said Fundke.
Regarding the various legal threats he is facing, Fundke said, “I don’t even read them. Maybe I’ll read about it at Christmas.” Instead, Fundke says his city cannot bear any more foreigners. Already 2,300 people in the small town of 9,750 residents are now foreigners.
He notes that kindergartens and schools are “bursting apart.”
Due to Fundke’s refusal, the Ukrainians cannot enter the town, as they have no official place of residence. The district office accuses Fundke of partaking in “illegal” behavior.
Bad Griesbach already has 90 Ukrainians, and just in September, 140 migrants from various other countries were placed inside an empty hotel. The town already has the highest proportion of Ukrainian refugees in the entire district.
However, the district administration may have already found a loophole. The deputy mayor of the town, Georg Greil, of the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD), said he will sign the order and register the Ukrainians.
If it goes through, it will be another case of the CSU working with the left to ensure mass migration, despite their tough talk against migration in recent months.
Fundke’s political group, the Non-Partisan Voters’ Association, states: “We are politically independent and unaffiliated. We represent the interests of our citizens and not party political ideologies.”
The battle comes at a time when Bavaria is struggling with an influx of migrants across the German state. Although controlled by the CSU, which claims to be against illegal migration, Bavaria’s government is forcing German cities, towns and municipalities to take ever greater shares of migrants. In one location, for instance, a luxury lakeside property is being built for migrants, which will cost €6 million.
Professional pool player Chris ‘Harriet’ Haynes, who identifies as transgender YouTube/Screenshot
The entry of trans-identified males into female sports has led to some truly surreal scenes.
This past weekend, for example, the Miniseries of the Ultimate Pool Group was held in the U.K. As Reduxx reported: “On the women’s side, 64 entrants entered the competition, including two trans-identified males – Harriet Haynes, formerly Chris, and Lucy Smith. By the time of the semi-finals, Haynes and Smith ended up playing off against each other, meaning that there was an all male semi-final in a women’s sport.”
It isn’t just happening in pool, either. The Flying Bats FC, a soccer team based in Sydney, Australia, broke headlines around the world earlier this year after it was discovered that five of the women’s players…were actually trans-identifying males. Complaints were made by both club officials and parents, to no avail.
In August, the Daily Mailreported that “the team have capped off an undefeated season in the Women’s Premier League competition which they have won all 16 of their regular season matches while scoring 65 goals and conceding just four in the process by winning the grand final.”
Six of the victories “won” by the Flying Bats were due to other teams simply forfeiting games, including the two semi-final games, despite the fact that the sport’s governing bodies warned soccer clubs that they would be “punished if they forfeited their games against the Bats” over the trans-identifying players. In response to backlash, club president Jennifer Peden told the press:
As a club, the Flying Bats FC stand strongly for inclusion, and pride ourselves on safe, respectful and fair play, the promotion of a supportive community for LGBTQIA+ players, officials and supporters, and the significant physical, social and mental health benefits that participation in sport brings, especially to marginalised members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We are a club that values our cisgender and transgender players equally. We strongly support the Australian Human Rights Commission’s guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people in sport.
This despite the fact that the Flying Bats have been accused of injuring some female players. There isn’t much recourse for the female players who have seen their sport invaded by men; in the recent ruling Tickle v. Giggle, an Australian court announced that “sex is not confined to being a biological concept.” “Roxanne Tickle,” a man who identifies as a woman, had sued the “Giggle for Girls” app and founder Sall Grover over their female-only membership policy. The Federal Court of Australia ruled that Tickle was unlawfully discriminated against.
There are few women’s leagues not currently under siege by trans activists. A trans-identified man competed in a female Paralympics event. A man competed in the Canadian Powerlifting Union (although he was suspended for a while after threatening women who voiced disagreement with his participation). In Washington in July, teams with trans-identified males won all three of the top spots in a women’s bike race. Another male nabbed first prize in a female bicycle tournament – two years in a row. Female rugby players from Alberta, Canada, expressed fear when a male was permitted to join their team.
The Ultimate Pool Group competition, at least, turned out well. Harriet Haynes, the trans-identified male, ended up heading into the finals and playing against Welsh woman Kirsty-Lee Davies. At first, Haynes was winning, leading five frames to two. He only needed one more to win when what was described as a “phenomenal” comeback, Davies won four frames in a row and won the match.
The man lost; the woman won. Of course, she shouldn’t have had to play him in the first place, and who knows how the competition would have unfolded if men had not been permitted to play. But still, a victory.
Female inmates at the women’s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota have come forward to report disturbing behavior from the trans-identified males housed at their facility. Former inmate Rebeca Warmbo alerted Reduxx to the situation and has been communicating with women inside Shakopee, who reveal the male transfers are making them feel “unsafe” and “scared” for their lives.
“I have been able to speak to numerous women inside the prison and there is a significant increase in fear and anxiety. They have told me about being harassed, intimidated, and even sexually harassed,” Warmbo told Reduxx in an exclusive interview.
Disturbingly, Warmbo also revealed that rumors have been circulating regarding the male inmates striking up “deals” with some female inmates to impregnate them in order to sue the state for financial compensation.
Former inmate Rebeca Warmbo is advocating for the women incarcerated at MCF-Shakopee.
“There is talk of some women in the prison agreeing to have sex with these men to get pregnant and sue the DOC and the state,” Warmbo says. “This has caused a climate of terror inside the prison, as they are forced to shower in an open area without locked doors and they can hear them talk about sexual things they want to do to the women.”
One inmate whom Warmbo has been in touch with sent a handwritten letter expressing that the men in the prison have caused her to be “scared, uncomfortable, and unsafe.” She also says the presence of the males in close quarters have been triggering her PTSD.
“I feel like there are some here not for the right reasons. They are having sex in bathrooms, [we are] finding cum in bottles, and people are touching themselves under the table,” the note reads. “I really wish legislation would take this [seriously] and change this.”
A handwritten letter from a female inmate provided to Reduxx.
As Reduxx reported last month, a total of five male convicts have been transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023. Two of the men who are now being held at MCF-Shakopee are sexual predators serving sentences related to the abuse of children.
The prison policy was altered following a June 2022 lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate.
The discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men. In order to aid their legal fight to have violent men placed into the women’s prison, Gender Justice was granted nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.
Lusk was arrested on two drug-related felonies, but was ultimately only convicted on one after striking a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to first degree possession of a controlled substance, and was sentenced to 98 months in prison. Lusk had also had a previous felony conviction for first-degree robbery. The defendant fact sheet lists Lusk’s gender as “male,” though he had changed his legal name the year prior.
“I was uneasy when Lusk lived on my wing because [he] still had [his] male anatomy, was built like a line backer, had a horrible temper, and would verbalize that [he] ‘still had a working unit,’” one woman, known as Janice, told Reduxx. “Thankfully [he] was discharged this past year.”
Minnesota has agreed to transfer a male inmate to a women's prison for the first time in the state's history in order to settle a "discrimination" lawsuit.
Christina Lusk claimed to have experienced sexual harassment and "misgendering" in a men's prison.https://t.co/17hrGUNJ1H
“I definitely have my concerns and opinions about the male inmates being admitted into our facility, but like most inmates there is a fear of speaking up or voicing those concerns because of potential retaliation, or because people will think you are being discriminatory or judgemental,” said Janice.
“He would tell his family that if he was a woman, and had boobs, then they had to put him in a female prison,” said Lusk’s ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“He said that he was going to make sure he made money out of the whole ordeal, he said ‘I’m going to become a woman and complain to make sure they give me money and move me,’” she added. “When we were married he wasn’t doing anything like that, or even after we were divorced. I think he’s a big fat liar.”
Janice currently shares a unit with Elijah Thomas Berryman, 26, who was first arrested in April 2022 and accused of sexually abusing a minor multiple times. He pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in March of this year, and according to the Minnesota DOC website, is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the women’s prison.
According to Janice, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, Berryman has been “ranting and raving,” talking to himself in both a masculine and feminine voice.
“[Berryman] definitely has some mental health issues. I live kitty corner from him and he is extremely loud when he is talking to himself in his room at all hours of the day and night,” Janice said. “He talks like he is talking to someone and on one occasion when he was ranting and raving in his room, he was saying ‘You’re the one who got us locked up,’ and on another he was saying he was going to ‘fuck their ass,’ which is extremely disturbing and triggering for me.”
The Minnesota Department of Corrections has allowed at least FIVE male inmates to transfer to a women's prison, including two sex offenders.
One of the transfers is serving a 36-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 6-year-old girls.https://t.co/PvZXyphlim
“I definitely live more on edge or hyper alert because many of us have been sexually assaulted by men in our past and now we are being housed together,” she added, while emphasizing that Berryman “still has male anatomy.”
“In our hallway is where our shower is located, I can not lock the door when I am taking a shower, which had never really given me anxiety until I had a male inmate living on my hallway.”
Another male inmate currently detained in MCF-Shakopee is Sean Windingland, 35, who is serving a 36-year sentence for child sexual abuse. Windingland sexually assaulted two 6-year-old relatives and posted videos of the abuse and grooming on pornography and pro-pedophile websites.
One woman who shares a unit with Windingland expressed her disgust with seeing him “happy” to be incarcerated with women.
“I personally do not like to see the grin on Sean Windingland’s face every day. He is in my unit and laughs and smiles all the time. Because he is here, he is safe and he has female companionship,” a female inmate said. In order to protect her identity, the pseudonym Amber is being used for the inmate.
“Yet, he had sex with his own daughters, sold the video on a predator’s website, and is looking at a lot of years here. It makes me sick that he is here. He is happy and how is this fair? His actions here clearly show he is a predator himself. Women with half a brain and a gut can tell that he is no good,” Amber added. “We have women who are butch but you don’t see them shipping them to men’s prisons. Why is it the other way around?”
Last month, a woman formerly employed at the Minnesota Department of Corrections came forward to tell Minnesota’s Alpha News that she had resigned from her post in protest of the new policy allowing men who claim a transgender status to be transferred into the female prison estate. Alicia Beckmann, who worked as a GED instructor at MCF-Shakopee, said the policy which prioritizes “gender identity” over biological sex creates an “unsafe” environment.
“You bring in biological males who are violent, who would be housed at a custody level four facility. I just believe we’re re-victimizing some of these women, re-traumatizing them. They are incarcerated, however, they all have a past and a lot of their past includes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. I think allowing men to live amongst these women is traumatizing and it’s also unsafe for staff,” she added.
The new transgender inmate policy, which was revised in April last year and came into effect at the beginning of April 2024, established an Agency Gender Identity Committee in order to identify and make placement recommendations for “incarcerated people who are transgender” or “gender diverse”.
The document cites as an authority the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a lobbying group that Reduxx has repeatedly connected with sex offenders and sexologists sympathetic to pedophiles. Former WPATH president Eli Coleman has for many years been in a leadership role at the University of Minnesota’s Sexual and Gender Health department.
Last July, the University of Minnesota’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health presented Governor Tim Walz with a Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award for his “outstanding efforts in protecting gender-affirming health care.”
In May, a report titled “2024 Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota” declared that the policy allowing violent male convicts into Shakopee was a “policy win” for women.
The research was compiled as a cooperative effort between the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
The Dutch public has increased their meat consumption despite a government attempt to impose a top-down “protein shift” towards no-meat meals.
New research by the Netherlands Meat Country trade association has found that there was a slight increase in meat-eating over the last two years, with consumption rising from 94 per cent in 2022 to 95 per cent in 2024.
Meanwhile, 69 per cent of Dutch people believed the Netherlands should keep the meat sector strong for the future. This number had increased from 61 per cent in 2022 and 67 per cent in 2021.
The trade body sent the results of the 2,500-person survey to the Dutch parliament on October 15.
The increased support for meat consumption came despite intense campaigning from the previous government aimed at making Dutch people transition towards a more plant-based diet.
According to the survey, fewer and fewer people are making meat purchases when taking into consideration sustainability or the environment, with price instead being the main factor determining their purchasing decisions.
The figures aligned with a Central Bureau of Statistics report earlier this year, revealing only 5 per cent of Dutch people did not eat meat.
A larger share, 22 per cent, however, had a meat or fish-free main meal at least three days a week, the statistics office found.
“The vast majority of the Dutch population still eats meat, showing that meat continues to play a central role in many people’s diets,” the trade body said.
Respondents also tended to overestimate the prevalence of vegetarianism, pescatarianism, and veganism.
People responding to the survey estimated that 74 per cent of Dutch people did not eat meat. The actual number was only 5 per cent.
The survey found 3 per cent of Dutch people were vegetarian, meaning they did not eat meat but did eat other animal products.
One per cent were pescatarians, who consumed seafood but not meat from land animals.
Meanwhile, 0.6 per cent identified as vegan and abstained from the use of all animal products.
However, many of these three groups also indicated they were not very strict in their diets, saying they occasionally ate meat and fish.
Vegetarians tended more often to be women, in urban areas and with higher education. Politically they were more likely to be left-leaning.
People who did say they ate meat have also taken to doing so more frequently, with the average number of meat-eating days per week for the Dutch increasing from 4.8 days in 2022 to 4.9 days in 2024. At the same time, respondents reported slightly reducing their portion sizes.
Most respondents said they ate meat simply because they enjoyed it. The second most common reason given was to ensure a varied intake of nutrients for a healthy lifestyle.
Almost half of the Dutch population believed meat contained artificial hormones and antibiotics. One in four believed meat contained vaccines.
But Europe, and the Netherlands, both have strict regulations on these points, and meat for consumption in the Netherlands was free from all of these substances. This made for a contrast with the US, where hormones were allowed in meat production.
Over half of Dutch respondents thought meat was better if sourced from animals kept in good conditions.
Local meat was preferred by 35 per cent, while 26 per cent said sustainability was important to them.
The survey also found there was growing public resistance to regulatory interventions in personal food choices, such as the previous government’s attempt to encourage a “protein shift” to non-meat-based diets.
Most respondents indicated it was not up to the government to encourage particular diets based on political or social reasons.
Most people said the meat industry did not get enough recognition and appreciation, while 74 per cent said the media was not objective when reporting on the industry.
Dutch low-cost airline Transavia has stopped selling vegetarian sausage rolls on board because customers said with their wallets that they preferred eating meat. https://t.co/UCH9XDKgOH
Kemi Badenoch is the front runner and favourite choice amongst Tory party members to become the next leader of the Conservative Party. But is she really as right wing as people believe? On this week’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by writer and journalist Georgia Gilholy, contributor to Conservative Home, The Critic, The Spectator etc.
The Trier police headquarters reported that a large contingent of officers had to prevent a planned confrontation “in the area of Trier-Nord” on Monday evening. Shortly after receiving a tip, a patrol found a group of up to 15 cars in the exhibition grounds parking lot, but they moved away when they saw the police car, reports Junge Freiheit.
The police reportedly managed to stop one of the group’s cars and confiscated “several cutting and stabbing weapons, from knives to an iron bar.” Investigations have been launched against the Syrian-born passengers in the vehicle; they have also been banned from staying in the city of Trier.
The responsible police director then declared a special operation and intensified the search for the other potential participants in the planned mass brawl. The Trier police were supported by the criminal investigation department, the surrounding police stations, and the federal police.
According to the police, the reason for the planned mass brawl could have been an argument the day before in which a Syrian “got into a fight” with a group of Lebanese. One Syrian hit on the head with an object by a Lebanese man had to be treated as an outpatient in a hospital.
The reason behind the argument was presumably triggered by “hostility due to the current Middle East conflict,” according to the police statement.
Reports from earlier this month indicated large numbers of fleeing the Israeli conflict with Hezbollah into Syria, including both Syrians and Lebanese. One poster on X called the scenes of Lebanese fleeing to Syria “unbelievable” and a complete “role reversal.”
UNHCR also reported back on Oct. 8 that over 250,000 had fled the violence in Lebanon and taken refuge in Syria, saying that 70 percent were Syrians who had previously fled their own country due to the civil war there to seek refuge in Lebanon.
During this time, Lebanon shut down border crossings to block Syrians fleeing to safety and also prevented aid from getting to them. Prior to this, tensions had already been high between the two peoples due to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon from 1976 until 2005, leaving a legacy of human rights abuses against the Lebanese people. Syria did not even recognize Lebanon as an independent state until 2008.
Now, as migrants have fled violence and abuse in both countries, these people have brought their clashes to the cities of Europe.
