A French family has been left so traumatized by a home invasion and an attempted kidnapping of their 8-year-old daughter that they are selling their home and moving away.
In the harrowing case in Brétigny-sur-Orge, which occurred on April 21, an Algerian migrant conducted a home invasion of the family house armed with a pitchfork. Inside, he exposed his genitals to the family, demanded to leave with the small girl, and told the parents: “Give me the girl or I’ll kill you.”
The suspect, in his 20s and with multiple identities, was arrested on April 21, but his trial only started this week in Evry Criminal Court. A judge has ordered the trial postponed pending for a hearing from a psychiatric expert after the defendant claimed to “hear voices.”
The Algerian has been in France for a year and had an open deportation order. In the past, a psychiatrist had already determined that the man’s “intelligence is impaired” and that his “very dangerous.”
The mother, Johanna, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, spoke with French newspaper Le Parisien.
She said that on Easter Monday, the day of the incident, the man broke in.
“It was early in the morning, we were asleep. We heard a noise. We thought it was our neighbors doing work on the fence. But the noises seemed too close. I ran downstairs and saw the shutters open and a hand. I screamed,” she told Le Parisien.
The Algerian man tried to enter the house by lifting up the metal shutter, but without success.
“He was in front of the window with a pitchfork he’d taken from the garden. He stared at me for a long time, so I went back upstairs to call the police,” Johanna continued. “I took a picture of him; our daughter had woken up and was next to me. I told her to hide.”
The Algerian then ran to another window and smashed it hard with the pitchfork, shattering the glass, at which point the man entered the house.
“My daughter and I were hiding upstairs in the bedroom. My partner stayed in the hallway to find out what he wanted… My partner told me to get away. I threw cushions out the window to break our fall.” said Johanna.
The man then ripped off his sweater and pulled down his pants, revealing his penis. He then began masturbating right in front of Johanna’s partner. He picked up the pitchfork and started screaming, “I’m going to kll you.”
He then yelled: “Give me the little girl, or I’ll kill you.”
The mother then grabbed her daughter and jumped out of the second story to the yard below. The woman’s partner then grabbed the family dog and jumped out the window as well, resulting in an injured ankle that left the man unable to attend work for two days.
Police officers arrived on scene shortly thereafter and arrested the Algerian inside the family’s bathroom.
“Since then, we’ve only gone back to collect our things and show the house to the real estate agent,” Johanna sighs. “It’s traumatic. At the slightest noise, I jump. And my daughter is scared. We had started work to restart a business. Now, we’re back at my parents’ house, starting from scratch, all ecause of him.”
Given the man’s potential psychiatric evaluation, it is possible he will not serve any prison time. Many defendants in Europe realize that claiming psychiatric illness is the ticket to a more lenient sentence and the ability to avoid jail by being placed in a psychiatric institution.
Remix News has long documented instances of foreigners participating in home invasions across France, including raping the victims in numerous cases, and in others, even committing assaults and murders.
In the Sinai’s austere embrace, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, the world’s oldest monastic community, burns with 1.500 years of Christian faith and Hellenic heritage. Egypt’s courts have decided to extinguish this holy flame, seizing its lands. This is no legal matter. It is an assault on Europe’s soul. And so far, it is also an Athens and EU betrayal.
The Greek Orthodox Saint Catherine’s is no relic. Founded by Emperor Justinian I, it was built between 548 and 565 AD on the site where Moses beheld the Burning Bush. The monastery holds manuscripts -Greek, Syriac, Arabic- comprising a library second only to the Vatican. Its ancient icons radiate divinity. Protected by Muhammad’s Ashtiname, a writ granting protection and signed with Mohammad’s palm print in 623 AD, it stands as a sacred trust, hallowed on the site where Moses met God.
Egypt’s museum plan kills this legacy, reducing a living treasure to a tourist trap. On May 28, 2025, an Ismailia court ruled the monastery’s lands are state property, deeming its monks squatters despite Ottoman-era records. This echoes the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda, persisting under Egyptian President el-Sisi’s secularist façade. Egypt’s “world heritage” claim shows theft as tourism.
Any Greek leader should be roaring. Saint Catherine’s ties Greece to Byzantium, from Constantinople to Alexandria, in lands where it was first brought by Alexander the Great -exactly where Christianity first took root. Mitsotakis is failing to defending this legacy. His assurances from el-Sisi’s May 7 Athens visit are dust. His envoys to Cairo are too little too late.
“Well of Moses”, where Moses is said to have met his future wife, Zipporah. Wikimedia Commons, CosMapi,CC-BY-SA-4.0
Whispers of betrayal grow louder. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports claim that Mitsotakis traded silence on Saint Catherine’s for a €5 billion energy deal with Egypt. If true, this barter of heritage for profit is a new low, turning duty into a chip.
Greece’s failure is consistent. The Turkish reconversion of the ancient Christian churches Hagia Sophia and Chora Church from museums back into mosques, alongside Middle Eastern Christian genocides, went unanswered. The EU’s silence is damning too. Brussels, loud on human rights, mumbles about “monitoring.” Having ignored Christian slaughter in Syria and Iraq, Europe risks cultural erasure. This assaults the West’s roots.
The Orthodox Church resists. Archbishop Ieronymos II calls the ruling a “violent infringement,” evoking Constantinople’s 1453 fall. “I refuse to accept another Fall,” he declared. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I pleads for Egypt’s honour. The monks, closing their gates, pray amidst icons, channelling Orthodoxy’s mystic core: God in a lamp’s flicker.
Orthodoxy sees the divine where Moses received the Law. Saint Catherine’s is irreplaceable. Greece must demand Egypt’s reversal, using EU leverage and Cairo ties. Mitsotakis must act with a nation’s ferocity, not platitudes. Brussels must enforce UNESCO’s mandate, which protects the site as a religious institution.
Egypt claims the ruling “consolidates” the monastery’s status, denying confiscation. Yet the court’s decision -declaring state ownership- contradicts this. The monks’ right to “use” is hollow when their 15-century tenure is questioned. This legal deception, tied to tourism megaprojects, threatens to evict the monastic community.
The monks appeal to Christian Churches and monotheistic faiths globally, from Rome to Jerusalem. Their fight is ours. Saint Catherine’s is humanity’s, its library holding unique wisdom, including the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest bible in the world. Its interfaith legacy is a beacon. To let it fall is to let fanaticism win.
This is a reckoning. Will faith and identity cower before Islamist aggressiveness and economic lures? The EU must act, not hide behind bureaucratic murmurs. As monks pray within ancient walls, Byzantine ghosts watch. Will Greece reclaim its duty? Will Europe defend its heritage? The seizure of Saint Catherine’s tests the West’s soul.
Six years ago Greta Thunberg, the environmental icon who had seduced everyone (the Pope, Macron, the media, the UN), sailed towards America. Greta sailed with Pierre Casiraghi’s catamaran “Malizia II” towards the Climate Action Summit in New York.
Casiraghi is the younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover and the grandson of King Ranier and Grace Kelly of Monaco and on the management committee of the Yacht Club, very rich in sponsors: Rolex, Credit Suisse, Hermès, the luxury group LVMH and BMW, known for its cars of a not exactly eco-friendly range.
So six years ago, Greta, the hypocritical climate amazon, set sail for New York with a multimillion-dollar team, while the transfer of her entourage (as well as the return flight of the entire team) took place on CO2-emitting scheduled flights.
Now the Swedish preacher has set off on a sea voyage again: Greta has set sail from Catania, Italy, on the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s sailing ship “Madleen” as part of a naval protest against the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Supporting her were our members of Italia left.
Meanwhile, in the United States, an Egyptian threw a Molotov cocktail at a peaceful demonstration in favor of Israeli hostages. He shouted “Free Palestine” while burning a Holocaust survivor. This was ten days after a couple leaving the Washington D.C. Jewish Museum was murdered by another Jew-hater shouting “Free Palesine.”
Also on board with Greta are the famous French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan and the actor Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones” and “The Three-Body Problem”), who is lending himself to this cynical propaganda stunt cloaked in “humanitarian” commitment.
Rima Hassan said that Hamas did not kill the Bibas brothers, after having started her career in the “Advisory Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” of the French giant L’Oréal (which then kicked her out for her anti-Semitism).
Is anyone on the left feeling ashamed?
Israel prevented Rima Hassan from entering the country. A trip to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and the government put her back on the first plane to Paris, where she was able to continue the Intifada between the Sciences Po amphitheater and the banlieue of Saint Denis.
Greta’s Sweden has just launched an investigation into the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ecologists in France have long been infiltrated by Islamists. A few days ago it came out that the chief of staff of an environmentalist mayor is the director of a Koranic school. In Strasbourg, the mayor (feminist, woke and ecologist) Jeanne Barseghian has just had her picture taken with a map that does not mark Israel and surrounded by Islamists in keffiyehs.
In Belgium, the Greens are accused of being “the relay of political Islam”. The vice-president of the Greens, Rajae Maouane, is accused of anti-Semitism.
A candidate for the English Green Party, Mothin Ali, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” after being elected to Leeds city council.
Green Party candidate Kefentse Dennis praised a “pro-Palestine” demonstration that interrupted a Holocaust memorial march. In Auschwitz. After all, Gaza is the new Auschwitz, to hear these clowns who have not noticed who started the violence in Gaza in 2023 and in Germany in 1941.
In Scotland, the Greens kick out party members who attack Hamas and Hezbollah.
In Germany, the Green-linked foundation, Heinrich Böll, sponsors conferences with Hamas terrorists.
The mayor of Strasbourg himself has arranged for 2.5 million euros to be funded for the construction of a huge Turkish mosque at the behest of Green Mayor Jeanne Barseghian. With 44 meters of minarets, 28 domes, a prayer room for 3,000 worshippers and another outdoor space for 2,500 people, it aims to be “the largest mosque in Europe.” And where else but Strasbourg, home to one of the two wings of the European Parliament, the city of the Cathedral of Our Lady and whose National Library houses one of the first copies of the Gutenberg Bible from 1455?
In Mannheim, where police officer Rouven Laur was stabbed to death by Afghan Islamist and asylum seeker Sulaiman Ataee on May 31, a year ago, and Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger was seriously injured, Greta said in front of 700 protesters: “F*** Germany! F*** Israel!”.
In Germany, Greta is classified by the police as “potentially violent” after she was caught with a keffiyeh around her neck shouting “crush Zionism” and marching under the slogan “Sinwar we will not let you die.”
The Swedish useful idiot of this new flotilla wants to stage a violation of the blockade of Gaza, which is intended to prevent armed support for Hamas. (Gazans are free to leave via airports and food does not enter by boat either, ed.)
Journalist and Middle East expert Tobias Huch predicts with a certain irony on X that Hamas could increase the number of hostages: “Greta is sailing towards Gaza. I hope Israel lets this ship of clowns dock. No controls, let it sail and then they can do what they want. After 24 hours, the clowns will leave or Hamas will have new hostages.”
If he were alive, Vittorio Arrigoni would be on board with Greta and Rima. He made no secret of how he despised the Israelis and had himself photographed with the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh. Too bad Arrigoni was tortured, strangled and killed in Gaza – not by the Israelis he despised, but by a group of those Islamic fanatic jihadists that these useful idiots defend so much. The death of the Italian pacifist was the first murder of a foreigner in Gaza since the Islamic movement took power in 2007.
The former head of the political spy agency in Germany that is now targeting the populist AfD party has warned the Berlin intelligence community has been “weaponised” to target right-wing movements in the country.
Shortly after having its best-ever result in an election and surging to the top of the polls, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced that it determined that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is a “right-wing extremist” organisation. The move, which is currently under judicial review before coming into effect, would pave the way for the intel agency to surveil party communications and use informants to monitor party operations.
Hans Georg Maaßen (Maassen), the ex-president of the BfV, told the European Conservative that he believes the spy agency he formerly ran either did so under direct order from then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, whom the agency reported to, or its current president Thomas Haldenwang, made the move based on political considerations.
He said that “under minister Faeser and president Haldenwang, the BfV has been weaponised to attack political rivals in an unscrupulous way. This damages its public reputation and undermines its core mission.”
“When I led the BfV, I was constantly under pressure from left-wing parties and the media to place the AfD under surveillance. In 2016, I made it clear: I am not a tool of the governing parties, nor is it the BfV’s job to undermine their political competitors. The agency’s mandate is to protect the constitutional order—not to carry out political vendettas,” he continued.
“In no other Western democracy are political parties monitored by intelligence agencies, because these agencies are part of the executive branch and therefore answer to the government. That creates an obvious conflict of interest. Minister Faeser chose a different path, and in my view, it was purely political. One of the key aims of her tenure was to combat the Right. For her, the AfD was a political enemy. This is a clear case of using domestic intelligence services to suppress opposition,” Georg Maaßen said.
The former BfV chief also called into question the legitimacy of the grounds by which the agency determined that the AfD is a “right-wing extremist” group.
Indeed, a leaked copy of the political spy agency’s decision reviewed by German paper of record Die Welt was found to have relied almost entirely on public comments made by party officials, rather than any damning information unknown to the public.
The political intel agency claimed that the opinions expressed by AfD politicians were “incompatible with human dignity” and claimed that they amounted to “ethnic nationalist, anti-foreign and anti-minority, anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic positions.”
The BfV also accused AfD Thuringia leader Björn Höcke of antisemtism for having criticised the influence of “globalists” and “financial elites” on the German government, which he claimed acted as their “puppets”. However, rather than pointing to the influence of Jewish people, Höcke’s comments only specified “large American corporations and for globalist masterminds.”
Georg Maaßen decried the flimsiness of the supposed evidence against the AfD, saying: “An intelligence agency can only function effectively if it’s trusted—not just by the public, but also by those it relies on for information, such as informants. I genuinely don’t know how the BfV will recover from this crisis.”
While the former German spy chief noted the particular danger of the German system, he expressed concern that such lawfare attempts to block right-wing populists from power was spreading throughout Europe, pointing to the trial against National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in France which seeks to block her from running in the next presidential election, and the barring of Călin Georgescu in Romania.
“I fear that in any country where legal and political conditions permit, secret services will be used to push conservative or right-wing parties out of public life and keep them away from power,” Maaßen warned.
Until very recently, Britain was inhabited almost exclusively by white Europeans. First, the Celts, then the Germanic tribes who became the English, and then the closely related Vikings. Our DNA was more or less settled by 900 AD. A smattering of others came over the next thousand years; Norman descendants of Vikings in 1066, and then a tiny number of Jews, Huguenots, African or Asian individuals associated with Britain’s empire, and even escaped slaves from the USA. But these were few and rapidly assimilated, becoming British and part of our island story.
Our ancestors fought off invaders, invaded other countries, survived plagues, built cathedrals, wrote the Magna Carta, and started the Industrial Revolution. We shared a common language, values, a strong sense of identity, and an even stronger sense of humour and national pride.
What began as a trickle of immigrants in the 1950s became a torrent in the 1990s. Successive governments encouraged mass immigration by saying that there was a labour shortage, and that immigrants would “enrich” our society, take jobs that native Britons didn’t want, and would integrate into the British way of life.
It was all lies.
There was no labour shortage, just a shortage of cheap labour. Mass immigration has driven wages down but caused crime to soar. Integration is discouraged by the insane multiculturalist ideology. Rather than expecting immigrants to become British, we must adapt to them, celebrate diversity, accept different customs, even legal systems, all in the name of multiculturalism.
The people were never asked. There was no democratic mandate, no vote, no debate. It was all imposed on a reluctant people by a malevolent, alien establishment intent on the destruction of national feeling and the nation state. Government policy has been designed accordingly.
Immigration is in the hundreds of thousands. Woke multiculturalism has reached new heights of insanity, where men can become women on a whim. Net zero and punitive levels of taxation are destroying the economy. The result is catastrophic and likely to get worse. Many believe serious violence, even civil war, is inevitable.
In what has come to symbolise multicultural Britain, the scandal of the rape gangs is especially shameful. Vulnerable young white girls, some as young as twelve, many in the ‘care’ of local authorities, were repeatedly raped and worse by gangs of mainly Pakistani Muslim men. This went on for years. People who complained to the authorities were silenced. Fathers who tried to rescue their daughters were arrested. And the whole government, police, and the media establishment, which had long known what was going on, did all they could to cover it up.
It took brave citizens like Tommy Robinson, Britain’s foremost political prisoner, to bring what has been happening to light. For doing so, he is being relentlessly persecuted.
The murder of three young girls at a dance class by the son of a Rwandan immigrant, recently converted to Islam, resulted in widespread white working-class rioting across the North of England. The government’s response? To lie about the murderer, claim that the riots were instigated by a non-existent ‘far right,’ and launch a ferocious assault on free speech, including jailing people for three years for posting comments it disapproved of.
Britain, like other Globalist-ruled countries in Europe, is no longer a democracy. It is an autocracy being dragged screaming and kicking down the Road to Serfdom by an arrogant elite. The result is alienation, anger, and, increasingly, violence. When the bonds of a nation are weakened, when the cultural glue that holds a society together is mocked and dismantled, tribalism and conflict fill the void. No society in history has survived by endlessly importing people from alien cultures while demonising its own.
We are reaching a breaking point. The Starmer government is positively hated, its ratings are at historic lows. Few trust the government, the media, the judiciary, the police, or any other organ of the State. Some think that the Establishment is trying to provoke violence, so that it can introduce further restrictions on freedom.
Everybody knows the solution: immigration must be drastically reduced; assimilation must be a requirement; British history must be taught with pride; the British people must have the final say over their future, and true democracy restored.
The Establishment will not retreat, but there are glimmers of hope: the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, President Trump’s displeasure at the rise of censorship, and the rising awareness and anger of the British people. We will win in the end, but we need to ensure that there is a nation worth having when we do.
The police officer’s indictment for murder comes just after outrageously lenient sentences handed down by Paris courts to rioters who ransacked Paris following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory in the Champions League final last Saturday.
Let us recall the facts. Merzouk was killed on June 27th, 2023, during a routine check of the vehicle he was driving illegally, after he refused to comply with police orders. The police officer who fired the shot that killed Nahel claimed that the young man drove the car at him, and he therefore opened fire in self-defence. The testimonies of the passengers in the car contradicted this version, claiming that the police officer deliberately shot Nahel.
Initially, the police officer’s version of events was accepted. However, on Tuesday, June 3rd, the Nanterre court announced that he would be held responsible for Nahel’s death and charged with murder.
William Molinié, deputy editor-in-chief for radio station Europe 1 and Le Journal du Dimanche on security issues, has conducted a rigorous analysis of the police officer’s indictment. The officer’s feelings are systematically minimised or even denied in it, Molinié says. The charge of intent to kill is not based on “direct evidence” but on “presumptions of fact”: the use of a “dangerous weapon” and the “location of the wound in a vital part of the body,” implying that the police officer deliberately killed Nahel—even though the investigation established that the trajectory of the shot was deflected by the car.
The court’s decision has sparked controversy among the police officer’s many supporters, who believe that law enforcement officers are being systematically scapegoated. At the time of the riots, a fund was set up to support the policeman, who was placed in pre-trial detention following Nahel’s death and denied visits. The question of establishing a systematic presumption of self-defence in favour of the police in cases of ‘police blunders’ (bavures) has also been raised. A bill to this effect was proposed by the Rassemblement National in December 2024, but was vigorously opposed by the Left on the grounds that it would give the police a “‘licence to kill.” The proposal has not yet been submitted to parliament.
Matthieu Valet, spokesman for the RN and former police officer, expressed his dismay at the announcement of the Nanterre court’s decision, telling Europe 1 that the entire police force is “sickened.”
On May 22, Denmark’s parliament passed a law raising the retirement age from its current 67 to 70. Now, as with any government reform, the law comes with caveats, mainly that the age won’t hit 70 until 2040. Instead, it will rise in steps. In what would seem like a surprise twist, the bill passed with overwhelming support, with almost four-fifths of the parliament voting in favour.
Except, it’s not a surprise: it’s just the beginning of what is going to come across the entirety of Europe over the coming decades.
Flash back to the early 2010s. While all of the West was hit hard by the Great Recession and its long aftermath, one country was hit hardest: Greece. Its financial troubles brought worldwide scrutiny to its relatively low retirement age: you could even retire as early as 55, and some could even retire as early as 50.
This was excessive, and Greece’s quick raising of the retirement age amidst that crisis was evidence of that. However, the average age of retirement in Europe is around 61 (America’s comes three years later, at 64). While 61 is obviously more reasonable than 55, it’s still relatively early, especially when one considers Europe’s inverted population pyramid. There is a bulge around those aged 55, a bulge which represents millions of people who will soon be reaching retirement age. Retirement, of course, means you no longer contribute to pension funds; you take from them instead. But because birth rates are plummeting, there are not enough people to contribute to European pension funds in order to keep them solvent: in the decades to come, there will simply be no money in the funds.
This problem of unsustainability was not an inevitability, and was entirely due to the incompetence of Europe’s political leadership.
After World War II, Europe was essentially left in as close to a paradisical state as humanity can get. It was protected by the United States’ military and nuclear umbrella, which meant it did not need to spend money on defence. Instead, it could throw all of its money into pensions, free health care, free colleges, public transportation, and more. It may have behooved Europe’s political leadership instead to set up systems which could remain solvent in the long-term, but re-election seems to have been too enticing.
This European equilibrium could continue only if nothing changed. Unfortunately for Europe, America elected President Donald Trump eight years ago, who – frustrated with their lack of a desire to defend themselves – began demanding more from the old continent when it came to defence spending. While they have started to act, it has been mostly smoke-and-mirrors; the hard choices – to trade social safety nets for defence spending – were apparently too politically toxic. But now they have to weaken the social safety nets — even though the nets aren’t strong enough to hold everyone who needs them.
Bizarrely, in the mid-2010s European leadership seemed to have thought they found a solution: replace the aging native population with mass migration. This has been derided as the “Great Replacement conspiracy theory” by many on the Left and in the press: “Of course there is no plan by establishment leaders to replace their aging populations with migration. Why would you think that?”
Except there is, and we know because they have said it openly and repeatedly. Here’s Angela Merkel – the architect of Europe’s migrant crisis – in 2024: “[Germany’s] lack of manpower makes legal migration essential.” And here’s her successor, Olaf Scholz: “Germany is an immigration country. It’s high time we understand ourselves.”
The bizarre thing about slandering the above as “a conspiracy theory” is that it entirely is in line with what globalists have long desired: a truly global and free market economy, where everything is cheap thanks to an endless supply of low-cost labour.
However, many European populations did not want this. The migrant crisis, on the back of the lingering Great Recession, triggered a massive populist wave which swept from Warsaw to Washington (and just this week, back to Warsaw). Voters in Central Europe reacted to the sudden influx of mass migrants by throwing their support to populist parties. Last year, Austria’s Herbert Kickl came in first place in his country’s elections, and the German AfD is now ranking as the country’s most popular party. In 2022, Italians elected Giorgia Meloni as prime minister, who campaigned on a promise to eject illegal migrants.
The problem for establishmentarians is that this would be enough for them to lose power (indeed, in many places, it already is proving so). But the incoming time bomb of necessary pension reform – raising pensions and, likely, making pay outs smaller – is probably going to wreck the political chances of the establishment parties which have as-of-yet survived the populist wave.
Perhaps they will hope that the bomb goes off while the populists are in charge, allowing the establishment to cast blame on them. But even that hope may be in vain. Populists like Javier Milei in Argentina have bee elected specifically on the promise of fixing establishment failures – and so far, he is proving to be a success.
The tragedy of all this is that, again, it did not need to happen. European leaders did not need to be like kids in a candy shop with their parent’s credit card, buying endlessly and eating ceaselessly. But that’s what they did. Now the stomach ache is coming – and it’s going to be a bad one.
Care homes for children in France have been infiltrated with Islamist networks which prey upon minors and often recruit them into prostitution, drug trafficking and terrorist cells, a report from a top lawyer and former magistrate warned.
Doctor of Law Manon Sieraczek and former investigating magistrate Thierry Froment said that under-funded and under-regulated government child protection facilities in France are key targets for radical Islamists, including those with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Le Figaroreports.
The pair said that judicial protection schemes for minors have effectively abandoned children. Seeking identity and social belonging, many minors in the system are vulnerable to “victim narratives” pushed on social media and subversive Muslims who enter into the system, often through outside Islamic associations.
The report cited testimony from two former residents of child care homes, who told the researchers that there was minimal supervision over those they came into contact with, how they used their phones, or where they went. They said that girls were “left to their own devices” and often recruited by pimps.
According to lawyer Michel Amas, there are around 20,000 children currently involved in prostitution, with many having been placed in child protection homes. He remarked that it represents a “pandemic that no one is talking about”.
Boys, on the other hand, frequently fell into organised drug gangs or joined terrorist groups. This has been particularly true for Syrian children imported by the French government as refugees, many of whom only speak Arabic, and with limited resources for interpreters, meaning that the authorities struggle to determine their mental state or if they are experiencing Islamist grooming.
A chief issue raised by the report was that care shelters are often treated as private homes rather than the government institutions they actually are, and therefore, are frequently not held to France’s strict standards on secularism.
This has meant that Islamist groups have been able to effectively infiltrate them and enforce strict Muslim standards on children, including banning young girls from swimming pools, forcing them to wear veils, and even Muslim Brotherhood-aligned figures leading organised prayers in the state-run child care homes.
Another issue the report raises is that child protection homes do not currently cooperate directly with French intelligence, focusing merely on education and prevention. Even still, only five per cent of such care homes have a standard protocol for dealing with radicalisation. With judges for child cases being overwhelmed, the report also found that 70 per cent of reported cases of radicalisation are dismissed with no action.
A specific organisation pointed to by the report was the child-focused Secours Islamique France (SIF), an NGO with alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Relief Worldwide, which has also been accused of being linked to the Brotherhood, allegations which it denies.
It comes in the wake of a major French government report on the decades-long plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate national and EU institutions across Europe, in addition to control migrant Muslim communities through the deployment of trained radicals into key community positions, including in local sports groups, private education, employment assistance firms, and even Muslim dating websites.
This, the French government claimed, was intended to ensure that Muslim populations remained strict adherents of the faith and ultimately to wage a “Western conquest strategy” of imposing Sharia.
The efforts to radicalise Muslim youths have begun to have real-world consequences in France, with Islamist attacks increasingly being waged by teenagers, such as the anti-Semitic assault on Rabbi Emmanuel Engelberg in Orléans in March. A 16-year-old, with a previous history of drug dealing and other offences, was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
In another notable example, two teens were jailed in 2023 in Joué-lès-Tours after being found to have “tested homemade explosives” with the aim of demonstrating their loyalty to the so-called Islamic State.
Meanwhile, a study published last week in Germany found that over a million Muslims with a “migrant background”, which includes migrants and those with at least one foreign-born parent, had a mental state that would be susceptible to radicalisation.
The accusations are growing in the scandal surrounding the Carl Bolle primary school in Berlin’s Moabit district, where Islamist-educated children and young people influence everyday life. Several teachers told the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung about a school climate in which violence, intimidation and religiously motivated marginalisation had gone largely unchallenged for years.
One teacher said that during her four years at the Carl Bolle primary school, she was ‘constantly exposed to some form of violence’. As a woman, she had to reckon with ‘boys making obscene gestures behind you during lessons or even making pornographic noises’. She therefore usually wore trousers or floor-length dresses. Teachers also reported cases of Muslim children refusing to play with Christian children because their fathers had forbidden it. One teacher wanted to paint eggs and decorate windows with her class at Easter. She said: ‘But that was not possible.’ The pupils had shouted ‘haram’. This is ‘forbidden’ according to Islamic law.
Another teacher reported an incident before PE class: a pupil had warned her that a fellow pupil wanted to ‘stab’ him with a knife. She took a butterfly knife from the pupil and reported the incident. However, ‘like all other cases’, this ‘ended up in a file as a report of violence and nothing was done’.
The teachers report anti-Semitic attitudes among the Muslim pupils. Pupils with behavioural problems and violent behaviour were ‘never expelled from school, not even temporarily suspended’. A former teacher also reported that teachers had already written to the education authority in 2018. She said: ‘But nothing was done about it’ and described the way the responsible authorities dealt with the matter as ‘a complete system failure on the part of the Berlin authorities’.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung had previously reported on the case of the Brazilian teacher Oziel Inácio-Stech. The teacher had been discriminated against by pupils because of his homosexuality. According to the report, he was labelled a ‘disgrace to Islam’, “disgusting” and ‘unclean’, among other things. One pupil said to him: “You gay man, get away from here. Islam is the boss here.” While the staff had supported him in his outing, ‘there was not enough support from the school management’.
According to the report, the staff council advised Inácio-Stech to adapt his pedagogical concept to the ‘initial social conditions’ of the school. According to the minutes, the school management and staff council advised the teacher to ‘protect himself as a homosexual’.
The parents’ association issued a statement saying: ‘We, the parents’ association of the Carl Bolle primary school, are shocked by the reports of discrimination against a teacher on the basis of his sexual orientation.’ Inácio-Stech had been repeatedly bullied by pupils for a year and a half. The statement speaks of ‘elementary problems’: ‘Our children report marginalisation, violence and a lack of respect among the student body.’
According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, Education Senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch (CDU), the head of department responsible for the school, Detlev Thietz, and the school management have so far only communicated internally about the incidents. There have been no public statements to date, although the media have been requesting information for a fortnight.
Spain’s government is facing a political storm after several ministers repeated a false claim that a police officer threatened to bomb prime minister Pedro Sánchez—a story later debunked by the country’s own public broadcaster.
It all began with a fake news story published by media outlets close to the government. They claimed that Juan Vicente Bonilla, a former captain from the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil, had fantasized about “placing a car bomb” under the prime minister’s vehicle. However, as independent media soon revealed, the actual content of the conversation was quite the opposite: the officer had joked that it might be the government itself that would plant a bomb against him in retaliation for the corruption probes he was leading into Sánchez’s wife Begoña Gómez, his brother David Sánchez, and former minister José Luis Ábalos.
The scandal deepened when RTVE, Spain’s public broadcaster, published a report acknowledging that the claim circulated by several outlets was indeed false. Despite this, at least four government ministers—including spokesperson Pilar Alegría and Deputy Prime Minister María Jesús Montero—repeated the false claim, publicly accusing the officer of threatening the prime minister.
The grotesque nature of the case has now spilled over into the international press. British newspaper The Times has devoted several articles to the scandal, pointing out the hypocrisy of a government that for months has been attacking the opposition and critical media, accusing them of spreading fake news and being part of a so-called “mud machine”—only for it to become evident that the real mud machine lies within the government itself and its media allies.
To make matters worse, this smear campaign has occurred in parallel with the leak of recordings in which Leire Díez, a former advisor to the Socialist Party (PSOE) now dubbed “the PSOE’s plumber,” is heard trying to obtain compromising material to discredit Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas, head of UCO’s economic crimes division. In one of the recordings, she is heard saying: “If Balas is dead, even better.” The objective of this operation seems to be to sabotage or discredit the investigations surrounding the prime minister’s innermost circle.
On Wednesday, June 4th, Ms. Díez held a press conference to explain her actions. She argued that the leaks came from a “private sphere” and that part of her role involved “investigative journalism” because, as she claimed, “it is possible to be a Socialist and a journalist.” She announced her voluntary withdrawal from the party.
Corruption that contaminates everything
The main opposition Partido Popular (PP) has demanded the immediate appearance in parliament of Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the head of the Guardia Civil Mercedes González, and Justice Minister Félix Bolaños. According to the opposition, the events amount to a “dirty and mafia-style war” aimed at shielding the executive from the avalanche of corruption investigations looming over it.
Despite the ongoing scandals, regional presidents—both from the Socialist Party and the Popular Party—will meet with the prime minister this Friday. This gathering has been criticized by media close to the PP, especially given that this Sunday, the main opposition party has called for a large protest against the government and its allies under the slogan “Mafia or Democracy.”
The scandal has even sparked outrage among Socialist ranks, such as regional leader Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, who has called for a serious judicial investigation. Beyond the specifics, what lies underneath is a deep institutional crisis, in which the government appears ready to sacrifice the truth, the institutions, and democratic norms to save itself. Why the main opposition party continues to strike political deals with the Socialists amid such revelations is another question altogether.
