Month: July 2025

A Moroccan national has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to leave France after launching a knife attack on his migrant roommate during an argument over alcohol, a court in Libourne heard on Thursday, July 24.

The incident occurred on the evening of Friday, June 27, on Rue du Port-Coiffé in Libourne.

Emergency services responded to reports of a stabbing and found the victim sitting on the ground, severely injured and “bathing in his own blood,” the presiding judge summarized to the Court. The victim had suffered deep wounds to his back, neck, hip, and forearms, requiring hospital treatment and a 12-day work incapacity order.

As reported by Sud Ouest, the attacker, a 26-year-old Moroccan man who lived in the same squatted apartment as the victim, also sustained injuries, including a broken nose.

The defendant initially denied the attack in court, stating, “Everything I heard is false.” However, forensic evidence contradicted his claims. A bloodied kitchen knife bearing his fingerprints was discovered on top of a wardrobe in his room. He claimed the blood was from cutting vegetables the previous day, an explanation the court did not accept.

The confrontation began when the defendant placed beer in a fridge located in the victim’s room. The victim objected, saying alcohol was “haram” and therefore forbidden in Islam. The altercation quickly escalated. “They banned me from drinking alcohol because it’s haram,” the defendant told the Court. He then admitted to a fight but denied using a knife, insisting, “He started it. I didn’t hit him with a knife.”

The Court heard that the pair were among 16 migrants living in a cramped 65-square-meter apartment, each paying between €100 and €300 in rent. The defense argued that the overcrowded conditions and lack of amenities led to tensions that were deliberately exploited by a local slum landlord under investigation for human trafficking.

The fridge had allegedly been moved into the victim’s room to provoke conflict and make space for new tenants, the defense claimed.

Despite rejecting the more serious charge of attempted murder, the court found the defendant guilty of aggravated assault with a weapon. In addition to the prison sentence and deportation order, he was banned from re-entering France for 10 years and prohibited from possessing a weapon for five years.

The victim’s lawyer described the scene as “a horror film” and said his client remained deeply traumatized and afraid to return to Libourne.

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Five women who were sexually assaulted as children by Asian gangs in the UK have accused police officers in Rotherham of also allegedly abusing them during that period.

Britain’s notorious “grooming gang” scandal has continued to fester after five victims talked to the BBC to testify about additional alleged abuse by officers who were involved in the investigation of the cases.

One victim alleged she was raped when she was 12 years old by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He allegedly threatened to hand her back to her abusers if she did not comply.

“In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [by a police officer] was a lot easier than multiple rapes [by the gang] and I think he knew that,” she told the BBC on July 29.

Another victim who said she was raped by hundreds of Pakistani men over several years, testified that two police officers also allegedly participated.

She alleged one officer tracked her down and picked her up in a police car repeatedly.

“He knew where we used to hang out, he would request either oral sex or rape us in the back of the police car,” she alleged to the BBC.

He allegedly would contact the grooming gang directly to threaten her when she refused. She said she preferred the abuse by one over that by many men.

She recounted that after a grooming gang forced her into an illegal abortion, a youth worker reached out to social services and the police on her behalf. Her trust was shattered, though, when one of the officers allegedly involved in her abuse appeared to conduct her interview.

A few days later, the same officer allegedly ripped her statement up in front of her and threw it in the bin, she said, and no further action was taken.

One of the women was said to have witnessed a police officer allegedly having sex with girls in exchange for money and drugs.

Three of the women said they were also allegedly beaten up by police officers as young girls.

The witnesses, who were part of a group of more than a dozen other women, have made their allegations as part of a class action lawsuit against the SYP.

Another group of women prepared similar statements but decided not to follow through, as many said they had lost all confidence in the British judiciary.

South Yorkshire Police has said it now has a dedicated team of detectives working on the cases, who are pursuing all lines of inquiry.

At least 1,400 children were abused by men in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 – a landmark report by Professor Alexis Jay found in 2014.

Jay told the BBC on July 29 she believed the criminal investigation should be run by an independent police force or His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.

David Greenwood from Switalskis Solicitors told the BBC he did not have confidence that there were not officers who were “burying evidence or just not finding evidence deliberately”, because they may know some of those involved in the allegations.

“I’m sure that the full truth in terms of the level of corruption and the extent of it in Rotherham has yet to come out,” he added.

The Rotherham grooming scandal has come under renewed scrutiny after international attention on the case, in part led by US billionaire Elon Musk.

While the UK Government initially refused to reopen investigations, Prime Minister Keir Starmer bowed to pressure and commissioned an inquiry into the alleged rape gangs.

A recent report by Baroness Louise Casey found that police and council leaders had covered up the scale of Asian grooming gangs because they feared being termed racist.

She found that asylum seekers and foreign nationals have been involved in a “significant proportion” of live police investigations.

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Councils in London are offering asylum seekers discounts on leisure activities including free gym sessions and workout classes.

This includes Richmond council, which allows “sanctuary seekers” in the borough to apply for free leisure card subscriptions, according to its website.

The “Richmond Card” gives them free access to gym sessions, group exercise classes and general swimming lessons in indoor pools across five leisure centres.

The Liberal Democrat-run council says it will accept a letter from the Home Office or an Asylum Application Registration Card as proof of eligibility for those who apply for the leisure card.

People on benefits and carers in the borough only receive a 60 per cent discount off gym and swimming sessions.

A working adult in Richmond can meanwhile be charged up to £52.50 a month to access the fitness suite, classes and swimming at all five leisure centres.

On the council website, it also states the Richmond Card can be used to get discounts on other activities including pilates sessions, French and Spanish lessons and hypnosis sessions to relieve anxiety and stress.

The card also gives access to discounts on paddle boarding and kayaking and can be used in some restaurants.

Kingston council meanwhile offers asylum seekers a discount of up to 50 per cent on leisure activities through an “Active Kingston Card”, as stated on its website.

The card can be used across six leisure centres in the borough.

Discounted activities include badminton, squash, tennis and gym sessions.

The discounts can be accessed by others including registered carers, pensioners and people on benefits.

Labour-run Wandsworth Council similarly offers asylum seekers money off activities including pottery classes and pantomime visits.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp described it as a “slap in the face”.

“It’s an insult to every struggling family in the country. Labour has the wrong priorities,” he wrote to X.

Birmingham City Council – which declared itself effectively bankrupt in 2023 – meanwhile offers asylum seekers discounts on activities including trampolining and martial arts sessions.

The Home Office revealed last week asylum seekers could lose their housing and support if they refuse to move out of hotels “without a valid reason”.

The new “Failure to Travel” policy is aimed at tackling “non-compliance by asylum seekers”.

It will mean those who are moved out of hotels to suitable alternative accommodation must take it.

“This Government is making those necessary decisions to protect the taxpayer and uphold the integrity of our borders, Dame Angela Eagle, minister for border security and asylum, said.

“These reforms to the Failure to Travel policy are another example of this Government’s action to transform the asylum accommodation system and crack down on those who abuse our system, so it operates fairly and saves the taxpayer money.”

The announcement followed a number of recent protests outside asylum hotels.

This includes outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, which has so far led to 23 arrests.

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Manchester police arrested and charged a gardener for possessing an “offensive weapon”, with interrogating officers refusing to accept his tools had a purpose and even asking to have what an allotment garden is explained to them.

35-year-old Theatre worker Samuel Rowe of Manchester, England says he is seeking a legal means to have a police caution removed from his criminal record because he believes it will harm his ability to find work in future after he was arrested and interrogated while gardening in his own garden.

Rowe told The Guardian that he’d walked home from his allotment on a community garden in July with a trug of vegetables and had got to work trimming his domestic garden hedge when officers arrived, pushed him up against the wall of his home, and then bundled him into a police van.

It is stated a member of the public had spotted Rowe walking home while carrying tools and wearing earthen coloured clothes and called the police on him. He told the paper: “I just heard shouting behind me, and then two armed officers shouting at me to drop the knife… And then they turned me around, pushed me up against my house, cuffed me, and then they arrested me, put me in the back of the van.”

At the time of his arrest, Rowe was using a small gardeners’ sickle to cut the hedge and had a sheathed Japanese weeding trowel, known as a Hori Hori, on his belt. Officers are claimed to have refused to believe the trowel was a gardening tool, and in a statement on the arrest referred to it as a “large dagger”, and another item as a “peeling knife”.

The Hori Hori shot to prominence in the United Kingdom last year when it became a mini-viral sensation and was named a must-have Christmas present for keen gardeners, described in a gift guide from December: “…it becomes your most used item – brilliant for weeding, chopping, digging holes for planting, and super comfortable to handle”.

Rowe was interviewed without a lawyer present as officers told him they’d been unable to find one. He reported having been asked some bizarre and probing questions when he was held, stating: “They started asking questions, like if I was autistic or anything like that, asking me whether I’d ever been in the army, whether I told people I was in the army”.

He was asked whether he was planning on “doing something” with what the police claimed were weapons and was required to explain “in very basic terms” what a community garden allotment is.

Eventually, Rowe accepted a caution from police in order to be allowed to go home. He is now worried that will remain on his criminal record and make finding work difficult.

While laws on “offensive weapons” in the United Kingdom are strict, with carrying even very basic items like pepper spray for self defence strictly outlawed, there are very clear exceptions in the legislation for carrying things like knives in public for work. This allows, for instance, a carpenter to carry chisels on his way to a job, or a farmer or fisherman to carry a knife when they have “reasonable grounds or expecting to need a knife while pursuing a lawful activity”.

The UK government also allows a knife to be carried “for religious reasons, such as the kirpan some Sikhs carry” and “as part of any national costume”.

As previously reported, the garden trowel arrest isn’t the only instance of British police going above and beyond the call of duty with questionably dangerous “weapons”. London police faced mockery online and eventually deleted a tweet where they boasted of getting a round-tipped butter knife off the streets. A spokesman said the sheer volume of notifications from the post was distracting officers from their work.

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A Yemeni asylum seeker has avoided jail and deportation despite being caught with child abuse videos.

Osamah Al-Haddad, 26, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photos of children and one count of making a “pseudo-photograph” of a child.

Al-Haddad also gave a thumbs-up to a camera while walking away from Isleworth Crown Court after being sentenced to just 30 weeks in jail, suspended for a year.

The court heard that Al-Haddad arrived in the UK on a student visa, but applied for asylum after claiming that his father was being hunted down by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Any asylum seeker that is sentenced to more than a year in prison can have their status refused and face deportation.

But the Yemeni national was spared over fears that he would be forced to fight for the Houthis if he was forcibly returned to his native country.

John Hunter, defending the 26-year-old in court, said: “The Houthis also asked the defendant where he was because they wanted him to join their army.”

“As a result of that, he then applied for asylum. He is not able to return to Yemen, because of his fear of repercussions for refusing to fight,” he added.

Prosecutor James O’Connell said immigration officials discovered his incriminating material, which included a video of a man having sex with a goat, after Al-Haddad’s phone was searched during an asylum screening.

“The defendant was interviewed and made no comment to questions he was asked,” he said.

While Al-Haddad’s asylum case was under review, Hunter revealed that he has permission to live and work in Plymouth.

He added that he works in a restaurant, pocketing £781 per month, and soon hopes to bring his wife and child to live in the UK.

Al-Haddad claimed that the images were sent to him on WhatsApp by a friend.

Judge Fiona Barrie told the asylum seeker via an Arabic translator: “You are 26 years of age and you pleaded guilty to all offences. The category-A video involves an act of bestiality which is grotesque and is depraved.

“You should do well to remember that this is a real child who has experienced this abuse, and those are significant aggravating factors.

“You claim you have no sexual interest in children and received the images from a WhatsApp group. But I share the concerns of the pre-sentence report which state that you are not entirely honest about that,” she added.

Alongside the suspended prison sentence, Al-Haddad will face a sexual harm prevention order for ten years and must carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

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Caledonia is at a crossroads. The rise of right-wing populist, and in many cases, explicitly nationalist sentiment, that has whipped Europe into a furore amid unchecked mass migration and cultural erosion, has yet to hit the land of Knox, Burns and Wallace with any degree of real force. The country’s governing party, the ironically named Scottish ‘National’ Party (SNP) remains thoroughly wedded to the orthodoxies of liberal multiculturalism like a wartime soldier that refuses to surrender. Recent trends, however, indicate that the SNP’s 18-year hold on power is beginning to fracture as Scottish voters revolt against its failed policies and misguided priorities. 

Unlike almost every other political party in Europe, the SNP continues to not only support mass migration but continually advertises its desire to repeat the English experience by way of throwing open Scotland’s borders were the country to become independent. Mercifully of course, Scotland remains part of Britain and is therefore subject to all immigration restrictions decreed by the central government in Westminster. In London, the prevailing attitude has turned decidedly against such open-border recklessness, as evidenced by Keir Starmer’s recent ‘Island of Strangers’ speech (retroactive retraction notwithstanding). 

Since the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, a political move that was hailed as the “settled will of the Scottish people” following a done-deal referendum campaign, the country has been in the grips of a three-party system, with Labour and the Conservatives boxing against the SNP for political hegemony. 

Spoiler alert: the SNP keeps achieving the knockout win. 

It has done this by cultivating a present and fierce sense of Scottish nationalism and utilising its image as supposedly the only party ‘truly’ representing the interests of Scotland within the governing structure of the British state. It has been incredibly successful thus far. The SNP has governed Scotland for nearly two decades under four First Ministers and has, most of the time, won the majority of Scottish seats at Westminster elections since the millennium. 

Now its days appear to be numbered. A new movement snaps at its heels. A movement shared across the United Kingdom: the omnipresent spectre of Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party that is currently shaking up the political establishment up and down the island has arrived on the banks of Loch Lomond. All the polling suggests Holyrood could be in for a dramatic shock in May 2026, where Reform is set to potentially gain upwards of fifteen seats, with a strong chance to eclipse both the Greens and Liberal Democrats combined. Survation, a polling company well known among Edinburgh politics hawks, recently published polling showing the party coming second. This would bury alive the myth of a ‘liberal and progressive’ Scotland once and for all. The Scottish Parliament by-election in the working class town of Hamilton in June was further evidence that the party is finding itself on fertile ground. Reform achieved third, but on a previously thought impossible 26.1% of the vote. The SNP won 29.4%, coming second, and Labour won on 31.6%. The difference between Reform and Labour was merely 1,500 votes. UKIP under Farage over a decade ago would have done anything for such results in England, let alone Scotland. 

Scotland has kept its status as one of Europe’s last bastions of multiculturalist ubiquity only due to its proportionally much lower level of diversity and mass immigration compared to its thoroughly multicultural, multiethnic and multireligious southern neighbour, effectively allowing Scottish society to support progressive ideology and remain cohesive. However, that is slowly changing. England’s failed experiment with open borders is beginning to have a tangible effect. While Scotland remains overwhelmingly populated by native Scots, ‘central belt’ cities are beginning to feel the impact of a phenomenon increasingly being understood on the British right as ‘Yookayification,’ a term coined by an anonymous X-based cultural commentator known as Kunley Drukpa, who uses it to describe the changing character of Britain in the face of huge demographic shifts. 

Scottish cities increasingly look and feel more diverse, and tensions have escalated due to poor decision-making at the top. A scandal erupted in Glasgow several months ago when the Home Office decided to house a record number of mostly African asylum seekers in the city, and very shortly after groups of foreign men angered local residents by taking photos of children at a play park. The strongest condemnation was led by Reform and its top man in Glasgow, Councillor Thomas Kerr, who called for tighter rules on child public safety and met with local police to raise the issue personally. 

Needless to say, these kind of events cast a growing shadow over Britain’s second largest country. 

Living in Stirling, where I study, I am always reminded of Scotland’s herculean victory against my English ancestors in the fight for freedom and how the spirit of the Scottish people remained utterly unbroken during those many hundreds of years they fought. If Britain continues on its present trajectory of abyss-level economic, social, cultural and demographic decline, Scotland may yet need to breathe new life into that spirit. 

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NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo joined Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News to discuss the little-known history of the white Barbary slave trade and explains the hypocrisy of the Left, who are silent about that atrocity as well as the fact that Africans held more slaves than were ever transported across the Atlantic.

Armed resistance against a possible right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) government might be needed, according to Jette Nietzard, co-leader of the youth wing of The Greens party in the country.

Her thinly veiled call for violence caused controversy and Nietzard later said she would not stand for re-election.

Nietzard made her original comments on July 21 during Freitag Salon, a podcast by the public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB).

Regarding a possible government with AfD in it she said: “Would it be intellectual, or perhaps with weapons?

“I don’t want to pigeonhole myself here but I think we as a society should ask ourselves: Are we prepared to hide people again? Are we truly prepared to go somewhere where it matters — to defend a parliament, in the end?”

The journalist interviewing her, Jakob Augstein, asked if she would go against the will of the voters, to which she replied in the affirmative because, she said, it would be “against fascism”.

Later, she went on to tell the weekly newspaper der Freitag: “I truly wonder whether we’re currently missing a moment that, in hindsight, we’ll say: We should have intervened more forcefully.

“How prepared is our civil society, how prepared are our political parties for the possibility that, in 2029, a party that is firmly far-right could govern in Germany?

“What would that actually mean? Would other parties continue to sit in the Bundestag and try to engage with the AfD on substance? Can I still look into a camera with my arms crossed and say how terrible the far right is?” she queried.

“We need to reflect on that – and also on what resistance could look like in such a scenario. Would it be purely intellectual? Or would we have to take up arms?

“I’m not trying to spread panic. I just want us to ask ourselves: Are we ready?”

Die Vorsitzende der grünen Jugendorganisation beschäftigt sich im ÖRR mit der Option, zu den Waffen zu greifen, sollte die AfD Teil einer Regierung werden. Wenn das kein Fall für den Verfassungsschutz ist, was ist es dann? https://t.co/Y8hickToeY pic.twitter.com/imj4zYzSNq

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Nietzard faced backlash over her comments.

As a result, she said she would remain in office as co-chair of the Green Youth wing but would not run again.

She said she would remain a member of The Greens party but was critical of the course it was taking.

Nietzard claimed she was the victim of a right-wing campaign.

“Right-wing media houses simply have a f***ing amount of power,” she claimed and added that The Greens party preferred to fall for the “tone-policing campaigns of some right-wing media houses”.

On Instagram, she said in a video that she had hoped to be a left-wing voice for The Greens.

“My thoughts have not always met with approval from The Greens,” Nietzard said.

“Sometimes I was booed in parliamentary group meetings, sometimes I was yelled at by … top personnel or my resignation was demanded by prime ministers or those who wanted to become one,” she added.

“Honestly, this should not be the everyday life of the Green Youth spokeswoman.

“With constant hostility, good politics simply cannot arise and if the party leadership does not manage to end these hostilities, then I will draw the consequences for my youth association,” Nietzard concluded.

She had already drawn attention in May with an Instagram post showing her in the Bundestag wearing a sweater bearing the slogan “ACAB” (“All Cops Are Bastards”). In response, Baden-Württemberg’s Green Premier Winfried Kretschmann publicly called for her resignation from The Greens party.

She also drew ire when she called the October 7 massacre of Israeli citizens by Hamas terrorists “a military operation”.

Social media users hit out at her on New Year’s Eve, when she posted: “Men who lose their hand in firecrackers can at least no longer hit women.” Nietzard later deleted the post.

She has been co-spokesperson for the Green Youth since October 2024.

Germany’s Green Youth, the youth organisation of the Greens party, has demanded that the country take more migrants from abroad. https://t.co/swhbid2RQg

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In Gelsenkirchen, which is maximally enriched, it becomes abundantly clear how far the adaptation of public institutions to Islamic requirements has already progressed. Several state schools there have completely switched their catering to halal – with no alternative options for the “infidel students”.

How mercilessly the Islamization of our schools is progressing is shown to a particularly frightening extent in the highly Islamized Gelsenkirchen. Around 60 percent of the students in Gelsenkirchen have a migration background. In some schools, the proportion is significantly higher. From the coming school year, all students will only be served what Allah and his believers consider halal.

That’s why it says in the best gender language on the homepage of the Erle comprehensive school:

“From the start of the next school year, our new cooperation partner ‘Muttis Küche’ will take over the catering at the Erle comprehensive school and cook fresh food every day at our school. The students will still have the opportunity to choose one of two halal dishes (one of which is vegetarian) that change daily or a dish from the pasta or salad bar on site.”

The Carl Krämer Primary School is similarly in love with Islam. Here, too, only halal-prepared food is served – delivered by “Gourmello”, a provider specializing in Islam-compliant nutrition. There is no alternative for the students. The parents are not asked – the adjustment is tacitly decided.

At the Berger Feld comprehensive school, pork and other “non-permitted” ingredients have also been eliminated for a long time. Although the full halal certification is not officially declared there, the practice speaks a clear language: everything is geared towards Muslim requirements.

As Nius reports, the company ‘Muttis Küche’ of boss Canan Çelebi supplies nine schools in Gelsenkirchen. In addition to the Erle Comprehensive School, these are the Emma Secondary School, the Ückendorf Comprehensive School, the Ricarda-Huch-Gymnasium, the Grillo-Gymnasium, the GSE-Surressestraße, the Leibniz-Gymnasium, the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium and the Max-Planck-Gymnasium.

The social signal effect is clear: in order not to “upset” the growing population group of Muslims, public schools are increasingly submitting to their medieval, religious rules. It is accepted that halal slaughter is associated with considerable animal suffering. In slaughtering without anesthesia, animals’ throats are cut while they are fully conscious. The fact that public schools are committed to this barbaric practice in order to meet Islamic expectations raises questions – not only about animal welfare, but also about the role of these submissive state henchmen.

Anyone who wonders how far a society can still deny and give up on itself will find an answer in Gelsenkirchen: liberal principles are abandoned, religious freedom is interpreted one-sidedly – and in the end there is no peaceful coexistence, but a state of quiet submission to Islam. It is high time to resolutely oppose this development – in the name of neutrality, animal welfare and democratic self-respect.

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A Muslim woman’s home in Apeldoorn-Zuid was targeted in a vigilante-style attack Monday night after she was filmed allegedly stealing a bouquet of funeral flowers from a local cemetery.

The viral footage, reposted with the English translation by Remix News, triggered a wave of public anger that spilled into the street.

🇳🇱💐 "Look at this… Stolen from a grave!"

A man films a fully veiled woman stealing flowers from a cemetery in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn. pic.twitter.com/piZDWnzelV

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In the video, a fully veiled woman and another in Islamic dress are seen attempting to remove flowers from a grave on Oude Beekbergerweg. A man confronts her, saying, “Look at this. Stolen from a grave! There, by the cemetery,” before throwing the bouquet to the ground. The flowers had been placed at the grave of Leffert Veenstra, who had recently passed away.

By Monday evening, tensions had escalated. Groups of young people on scooters gathered near the home of the woman believed to be in the video. Cars drove slowly past, and eggs were thrown at the house.

Police were called to the scene multiple times. “Emotions were running high, and at that point, we decided to focus on restoring peace to the neighborhood,” said police spokesperson Sven Strijbosch, as cited by de Gelderlander. However, more eggs were thrown when officers temporarily left the area.

Around midnight, a woman — reportedly one of the women in the video — was escorted by police from the house to a waiting van as bystanders booed.

“This is a very heavy blow to the entire caravan community,” Peter Palmen, a close friend of the deceased, told local media. Family and friends of Veenstra expressed deep shock and anger over the incident.

Strijbosch urged the public to refrain from further escalation. “The fact is that it’s not a good idea to take matters into your own hands in an intimidating way,” he said.

“We know everyone involved, and we’ll be considering the next steps in the coming days. The call is very clear: Leave this to the police.”

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