Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in Paris. When I spontaneously bought a train ticket to Paris in the early 1970s and travelled to Paris with virtually no luggage, I found accommodation in this street. Why spontaneously? I was allowed to enter the upper school of a grammar school in Gelsenkirchen-Buer and was placed in an advanced French course against my will, even though I had hardly any knowledge of French from my old school. So I bought a train ticket and off I went to Paris, I didn’t need a hotel because I knew the so-called clochards who slept under bridges over the Seine from movies. After arriving at the Gare du Nord, I went straight there. On the way there, I met a Swiss man who had found accommodation in a shared flat that was partly unoccupied because the students living there were on their summer holidays. I was allowed to stay there for free and got to know and love Paris and the French language. In addition to the obligatory disgruntled Madame concierge of our house, the famous singer and actor Serge Reggiani also lived in this street. Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis was the epitome of France for me at the time. Today the street is a kebab shithole (I learnt this painfully from google maps) and is dying like everything that was once beautiful.
Month: April 2025
Trans Lobby Suffers Major Defeat + Are FEMINISTS To Blame for Gender Ideology?
On today’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson speak with Caroline Ffiske, long-standing activist against gender ideology and co-founder of Conservatives for Women (CfW) in 2019 to fight the impact of ‘gender ideology’ on government policy and the Conservative Party.
Voluntary Remigration: Sweden Offers Migrants $61K Incentive to Leave Europe
Sweden’s center-right coalition government—supported by the national-conservative Sweden Democrats—is set to roll out a sweeping new plan that will dramatically increase financial incentives for migrants who voluntarily leave the country, marking one of the most generous “return grant” programs in Europe.
Unveiled on Wednesday, the proposed policy would offer up to SEK 600,000 ($61,134) to migrant families who choose to repatriate or resettle outside the European Union and select neighboring countries.
Individual adults could receive SEK 350,000 ($35,974), while couples may qualify for up to SEK 500,000 ($50,933). Families would also be eligible for an additional SEK 25,000 ($2,490) per child under 18, capped at the SEK 600,000 total.
“This is about giving people who feel excluded or who haven’t found a place in Swedish society the opportunity for a dignified return and a new beginning elsewhere,” Migration Minister Johan Forssell said in a statement to the Swedish TT news agency. “But this won’t be a free ticket. If they return to Sweden, they’ll be required to pay the money back.”
The plan comes in response to the country’s ongoing challenges with migrant integration, particularly for those with permanent residency who remain outside the workforce or social mainstream.
Migrants—primarily from Islamic countries—not only rely on Sweden’s generous welfare system at disproportionately high rates compared to native-born Swedes, but are also significantly overrepresented in violent crime statistics.
Speaking about the policy, Ludvig Aspling, migration policy spokesperson for the Swedish Democrats, said:
“Today, there are a large number of people who immigrated to Sweden but who for various reasons have failed to become part of the Swedish community despite being here for a long time. Our starting point is that in this case, it is best to return to your home country, as long-term exclusion entails very high costs for society. Financial support for this purpose can increase both the incentives for return and the opportunities for re-establishment upon returning home.”
The new grant would replace the current, far smaller scheme, which offers a maximum of SEK 40,000 (€3,903) per family—an amount that saw negligible uptake, with only one migrant accepting the offer in all of 2023.
To discourage fraud or exploitation, the proposal includes “extensive control measures,” Forssell emphasized. Only migrants relocating outside the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland will be eligible. Additionally, authorities will track recipients to ensure they don’t attempt to return and keep the funds.
Designing the program has proven complex, with government officials working to prevent abuse while also addressing concerns that the initiative could incentivize migration just to qualify for payouts.
“We’ve closed those loopholes,” Forssell said. “This is not an open invitation.”
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Justice, Minister for Migration Johan Forssell declared:
“Voluntary return creates opportunities for the individual to make a fresh start in life and can lead to the economy and the labor force growing in another country. These may be people who, for various reasons, feel that they have not found their place or become sufficiently integrated into Swedish society and long for home. Then it is reasonable to provide financial assistance so that they can establish themselves in their home country.”
If approved by Sweden’s parliament, the measure is expected to take effect on January 1, 2026.
The proposed payouts would place Sweden at the top of the list among European nations offering similar return programs. For comparison, Germany offers around $2,000, France $2,800, Norway $1,400, and Denmark just over $15,000.
While supporters argue the program could help ease the strain on public services and offer struggling migrants a viable exit, critics warn it risks turning Sweden into a revolving door if not rigorously enforced.
Still, the Tidö coalition insists the plan strikes the right balance between generosity and accountability.
“This is a fresh start for those who want one,” Forssell said, “but Sweden must also protect the integrity of its immigration system.”
As Germans face housing crisis, thousands of office buildings are being converted for migrants
There have never been as many vacant office spaces in Germany as there are now, writes NIUS, bemoaning that these spaces could be used to solve a major crisis: the lack of affordable housing across Germany.
Around 152,000 additional apartments with an average size of 70 square meters could be created in Germany’s seven most important cities if offices were redesigned accordingly, claims a study by the real estate consultant Bulwiengesa on behalf of Berlin Hyp.
Due to the Covid crisis that impacted businesses, followed by general economic stagnation, office vacancy rates have been spiking. Meanwhile, Germany faces a shortage of some 800,000 apartments.
As pointed out by NIUS, there is the issue of converting offices into residential spaces. Germany currently has some 20,000 building regulations. “These, along with rising interest rates and construction and material costs, are responsible for making construction comparatively expensive,” says Alexander Fieback of Bulwiengesa.
New permits, complex retrofitting of plumbing and balconies, different fire and sound insulation requirements, and new staircases are just some of the things that must have to be addressed — not to mention converting the normally grandiose entrances of office buildings into ground-floor apartments. All the above often also mandates structural retrofits.
Nevertheless, money is being spent to overcome these challenges in the name of housing more migrants, at taxpayers’ expense.
The Berlin Senate, for example, is planning large-scale accommodations for asylum seekers to live permanently in one building where the owner had offered offices for €25.80 per square meter; according to the Berliner Morgenpost, the State Office for Refugees is paying €40 per square meter.
Other examples include €165 million in Kreuzberg (1,500 people, 10-year lease); €143 million in Lichtenberg (1,200 people, rental period 10 years); and €118 million in Westend (950 people, rental period 10 years).
As Germans face housing crisis, thousands of office buildings are being converted for migrants
Gaza Activists Threaten “Guerrilla Warfare” Against Jews on Italy’s Liberation Day
Italy is bracing for antisemitic violence on Friday as pro-Palestine protesters attempt to rewrite history, misappropriating the 80th Festa della Liberazione—or, Liberation Day, marking the end of Nazi Germany’s occupation of the country—as their own day of Palestinian Resistance.
In Rome, protesters are “threatening” Jewish people, and are even prepared for “guerrilla warfare against the Jewish community” at Porta San Paolo, according to Il Giornale. The paper accuses the Left of bending the celebrations to “political ends,” turning the day into “just another parade to march against the government and Israel.”
In Milan, too, activists from The Young Palestinians group will meet early to fulfil their “strong demand to lead the procession”—in other words, to completely take over the march and divert it from its actual meaning. The entitled demonstrators stressed:
We want and need to be at the front, as a living and current expression of the Resistance.
Any other position, they say, “would be an attempt to silence the true meaning of this day.”
The Young Palestinians—or, Giovani Palestinesi—last year took to the streets in Rome to ‘reaffirm’ that “October 7th, 2023, is the date of a revolution,” which gives a flavour of their moral compasses.
I giovani palestinesi scenderanno in piazza a Roma per ribadire che «il 7 ottobre 2023 è la data di una rivoluzione». Tutto normale? pic.twitter.com/k2fUPH6W1P
— Marco Fattorini (@MarcoFattorini) September 3, 2024
The group is reportedly made up of Palestinian students and Italian sympathisers who have been linked to antisemitic attacks as well as violence against the police.
Gaza activists are also expected to launch demonstrations in other cities across Europe.
‘There is no god but Allah’ – uproar over Ramadan festival at Vienna City Hall
Photo: Screenshot / ServusTV Ont
‘There is no God but Allah’ – this was projected onto the wall under the official logo of the City of Vienna at the Ramadan festival in Vienna City Hall. In the front row: Vienna’s SPÖ Mayor Michael Ludwig with senior representatives of the Islamic faith community.
What could be read on the wall had nothing to do with the tolerance discussed in the evening’s speeches, analysed the presenter of the ‘Blickwechsel’ programme on ServusTV. SPÖ Mayor Ludwig accepted this sentence unchallenged. After all, almost a quarter of a million Muslims live in Vienna – and the socialist does not want to upset them ahead of the Vienna elections on April 27. He also accepts that the Vienna City Hall will advertise that there is no other God than Alla
In an interview with ServusTV, Ludwig commented on the Allah advert in City Hall:
‘It is the aim of all religious communities to advertise their own faith. And that’s why my goal is for this to be practised in a spirit of togetherness, which is also successful in Vienna.
‘If it weren’t for the prayers in the town hall, where there is no mention of togetherness,’ said the programme creator in the interview’s closing credits. According to Efgani Dönmez, former Green and ÖVP politician, this and more should be taken more seriously than the Mayor of Vienna does. Conservative Islamic forces are gaining more and more influence in politics. He literally told ServusTV:
The Who’s Who of the Islamist scene is represented at this fast-breaking event.
„Es gibt keinen Gott außer Allah“ – Aufregung um Ramadan-Fest im Rathaus – Unzensuriert
Green Party initiative in Berlin: policewomen should soon be allowed to wear headscarves
If the so-called neutrality law is abolished, as the Berlin Greens want, female police officers will be able to do their job in the German capital wearing headscarves. According to a report in the newspaper Berliner Tagesspiegel, the Berlin Green parliamentary group argues in a motion that the Neutrality Act bars women ‘who have decided to wear a headscarf’ from entering the civil service.
The Greens’ motion is now to be debated in the Berlin House of Representatives. Until now, the Neutrality Act has prohibited the wearing of religious symbols and clothing by ‘civil servants employed in the administration of justice, the penal system or the police’ while on duty. Following a number of lawsuits and a judgement by the Federal Constitutional Court, the ban no longer applies to teachers in Berlin, reports the newspaper Die Welt.
https://exxpress.at/news/vorstoss-der-gruenen-polizistinnen-sollen-bald-kopftuch-tragen-duerfen
Video showing Syrian mother attacking German woman with newborn after playground dispute leads to investigation into hate speech
Mobile phone footage has surfaced showing the moments before a violent attack on a German mother holding her 12-day-old infant by another woman, reportedly of Syrian origin, following a children’s dispute on a playground in Kronach, Upper Franconia.
The incident, which occurred on Easter Sunday, has sparked a police investigation involving allegations of dangerous bodily harm and incitement to hatred.
The 20-second video, obtained by NIUS and shared briefly on social media by the father of one of the children at the playground before being taken down, shows the Syrian woman approaching the German mother, who is holding her newborn.
Seconds later, chaos erupts. According to the injured woman and her husband, the confrontation escalated into a physical assault involving multiple family members, leaving several people injured.
A Syrian woman attacks a German mother holding her 12-day-old baby following a dispute at a playground on Easter Sunday. pic.twitter.com/zinOILcUAO
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 23, 2025
The incident is believed to have been triggered by an earlier argument between two children — reportedly a 10-year-old German girl and a 12- to 13-year-old Syrian girl — which then drew in their families. According to police, three mothers and their children became involved in the subsequent altercation. A 36-year-old bystander who tried to intervene was also injured.
“As a result, there was a verbal and then a physical altercation between a total of three mothers and their children. In addition to those involved, a 36-year-old woman also suffered injuries, who intervened to mediate between the families of German and Syrian origin,” the police stated.
Police confirmed that the mother of the 6-year-old boy involved in the initial playground dispute suffered injuries during the clash, as did her newborn, who was taken to the hospital with a suspected concussion.
The father later published the footage on Facebook, writing: “We wish you a happy Easter. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a nice one.” The video went viral and received a number of comments that could be classed in Germany as hate speech, leading to its removal and a statement from the father which read, “We have nothing against foreigners.”
Investigators from the Coburg Criminal Investigation Department seized the father’s phone and launched a probe into possible incitement to hatred under German law. Authorities cited both the content of the video and online reactions as grounds for the investigation.
“Comments and contributions by the account owner are being investigated for incitement to hatred,” said a spokesperson for the Upper Franconia police.
Meanwhile, the broader altercation remains under active investigation by the Kronach Police and Coburg CID, with multiple individuals facing scrutiny for suspected dangerous bodily harm and insult.
No arrests are believed to have been made.
Transgender Baby Killer Sues President Trump After Allegedly Being Raped By Transphobic ‘MAGA Patriots’ In Prison
A transgender inmate in Illinois has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, among others, after allegedly being raped in prison. Autumn Cordellioné, born Jonathan Richardson, is claiming that Trump’s “transphobic” rhetoric is responsible for the attack.
Richardson is currently serving 55 years in prison for the brutal 2001 murder of his 11-month-old stepdaughter. As previously reported by Reduxx, Richardson murdered the child while she was in his care while her mother was at work. He was visited by friends the night of the killing who observed he was “acting strangely” and refused to invite them in the house as he normally would.
Despite claiming the little girl was sleeping, Richardson had loud music playing in the home, and his guests noted that he appeared to have a fresh, bleeding tattoo of the child’s name carved into his arm.
Later that night, after his friends left, Richardson went to his neighbor and asked him to call 911, claiming the child was unresponsive. When emergency personnel arrived, they were briefly able to resuscitate the girl, but she died shortly after being rushed to the hospital.
Richardson was interviewed by police, who noted he was “calm and unemotional” during questioning, and his story about what happened to the baby changed dramatically over the course of the two interviews conducted.
At first, Richardson claimed he found the baby unresponsive after doing some household chores. But in the next interview, Richardson said the child was being “fussier than usual” and he attempted to throw her up in the air repeatedly in an effort to calm her down. He said her “head bopped forward and back up in a rough type of a manner,” and that the child continued to cry so he proceeded to shake her aggressively in an effort to calm her down.
During a failed appeals hearing, detectives from the case recounted how Richardson “physically showed” how he had manhandled the girl, getting up out of his chair and demonstrating the action in a rough manner. An autopsy subsequently found that the baby had died of asphyxiation by manual strangulation.
Richardson was booked awaiting a court hearing, and would later tell a prison official “all I know is I killed the little fucking bitch.” He was found guilty of her murder the next year, and sentenced to 55 years in prison, and began identifying as transgender in 2020.
In August of 2023, the American Civil Liberties Union announced they were representing Richardson in a lawsuit demanding that the state of Illinois pay for his desired “gender affirming” cosmetic surgeries. The suit was challenging a recently adopted Illinois state bill which prohibited the spending of state funds on “gender affirming” surgeries for inmates.
“The total ban on gender-affirming surgery violates [his] right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment,” the civil rights group argued in their complaint.
In September of last year, the ACLU won the suit, with federal Judge Richard Young demanding that the Illinois Department of Corrections arrange his taxpayer-funded orchiectomy and a penile inversion as soon as possible, a decision he held up in March this year, even after a clinical psychologist concluded that Richardson was not suffering from gender dysphoria but instead had “attention seeking” personality disorders.
But Richardson’s crusade against the state has not stopped, and Reduxx has now obtained a new lawsuit filed by Richardson in the Southern District of Indiana targeting President Donald Trump and multiple individiauls affiliated with the Indiana Department of Corrections.
In the suit, filed on April 1, Richardson argues that his civil rights have been violated since he was transferred from New Castle Correctional Facility (NCN) to Westville Correctional Facility (WCA), which he describes as being insufficient to his needs. Richardson claims that WCA is “a facility with no security cameras, with no doors on the cells, understaffed, and populated with mostly gang-affiliated prisoners who traffic with correctional staff in the form of drugs, sex and money.”
Richardson alleges that the Department of Correction’s Director of Classification “knowingly” moved him to Westville from New Castle in order to make him a target for abuse, noting the fact that he was a prominent transgender prisoner in the media.
In a number of bizarre recollected quotes, Richardson details that he was allegedly assaulted and raped multiple times over a four day period by 12 gang-affiliated offenders after his transfer. Richardson also alleges that during one rape, the offenders claimed they had been motivated by Trump’s “transphobia.”
“We saw your shit on Fox and Trump was talking about you fagass, dicksucking trannies, he said your [sic] messing up our kids in school with your sex change shit… Trumps [sic] president now and we won’t even get in trouble for fucking you trannies up, we’re patriots and even if you tell on us, Trump will pardon us and probably give us a medal,” Richardson quotes one of the offenders as telling him.
In the complaint, Richardson also quoted his unit team manager and case manager, who are also named defendants in the case, who spoke in a very similar manner to the inmates.
“I’ve seen your case on the news, and I personally don’t think us tax payers should have to pay for your surgery,” said the case manager. “God doesn’t approve of transgenders and gays, so what do you expect to happen, when you dress like a woman and have tits in a male facility?”
Richardson continues by claiming his case manager similarly invoked Trump in a transphobic rant towards him.
“Your [sic] that trans that won a lawsuit, and now us hard working taxpayers have to foot the bill, well there are only two sexes, male and female, and God made you a man, Trump’s putting a stop to all that fag shit,” stated his case manager. “I can’t help you, you reap what you sow,” she allegedly continued.
The actions of the above were “motivated and propagated due to their religious and political views and hatred,” argued Richardson, who suggests they have both violated tort law with their “gross negligence” and disregarded his safety, along with violating his 14th Amendment rights, as they discriminated against him due to his transgender status.
Richardson claimed that because President Trump “has on numerous occasions both as president and as former president spoken about his extremist rhetoric and transphobic hate speech,” he has “emboldened the Defendants and the assailants that brutally assaulted and raped plaintiff, not once, but multiple times, to act on their hate and prejudices, constituting the cause in action and his liability in this case. Therefore, President Trump was negligent due to his alleged knowledge that others may act on his words,” Richardson continued.
The inmate is looking for compensatory damage from the named defendants to the tune of $3.5 million, with punitive damages to be awarded by a jury. This is not the first complaint that Richardson has launched on the grounds of alleged human rights violations.
Last year, he converted to non-denominational Islam and was allegedly denied access to a hijab, and filed a complaint against the prison’s chaplain, Tony Gray, as a result.
If You Can’t Beat It, Fine It: EU Orders Le Pen’s RN To Pay €3.5M
Following the trial that resulted in Marine Le Pen and her party, the Rassemblement National (RN), receiving a severe sentence for misuse of public funds in the European parliamentary assistants affair, the European Parliament is demanding that the French party pay €3.5 million in damages. This demand places the party, which is in a fragile financial position and subject to banking restrictions, in a very delicate situation ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
For Marine Le Pen, the conviction clearly has two objectives: to prevent her from standing and to suffocate her political party. According to her, the financial sentence “jeopardises the future” of her party. “It’s not just about eliminating the presidential candidate. If we can kill the party at the same time, then of course we’re in a good position,” she said ironically when the verdict was handed down.
According to information from BFM TV, the European Parliament, which joined the French judicial investigation as a civil party, is claiming €3.5 million in damages from France’s leading right-wing party. The total damage has been estimated at €4.5 million, but the RN has already paid €1 million during the proceedings. The claimed amount includes legal fees (€80,000), compensation for moral damage (€200,000), and compensation for economic damage (approximately €3.250 million).
In a statement, the European Parliament explained that the amounts claimed for “misuse of public funds” had been wrongfully taken from European taxpayers: “In this sense, European citizens and French taxpayers are just as much victims in this case as the European Parliament.”
Now that the judges have ruled in favour of immediate enforcement of the sentence, the appeal filed by Marine Le Pen does not suspend payment of the amounts claimed. The party has nevertheless requested that the payments be spread out over time.
These payments are in addition to the fines owed to the Treasury at the end of the trial, amounting to €1 million.
The sum to be raised is colossal for a party experiencing significant structural financial difficulties.
Under French electoral law, the RN can count on a significant portion of public funds for its financing, allocated proportional to its results in the first round of legislative elections. However, in the past, this contribution has not always been sufficient to cover all its expenses, and the party has had to resort to borrowing. For many years, however, the RN has faced almost systematic obstruction from French banks in obtaining loans, sometimes forcing it to resort to loans from foreign banks—something for which the French media subsequently criticised it heavily, with a certain degree of bad faith. In September 2023, after ten years, the RN finally managed to pay off a loan from a Czech-Russian bank, which cost it dearly in terms of its political image.
Today, the RN’s financial situation is more stable but remains tense. The party’s current finances allow it to pay the sums demanded, but will obviously hamper its ability to finance its presidential campaign from its own resources.