Month: August 2025

A violent stabbing in a newly inaugurated supposedly protected zone at a crime hotspot in Vienna has rocked locals and officials alike.

On August 2, a 26-year old Syrian man was stabbed and seriously injured on the Yppenplatz square in Ottakring, Vienna’s 16^th district. The area has a high migrant population and a high level of crime. The attack happened during a brawl between 10 to 15 people.

Police officers found the victim on the ground, with several gashes to his arms and head, at around 10pm. A bloodied knife with a 30-centimetre blade was recovered nearby.

Despite a police manhunt, the alleged perpetrator escaped. The suspect was, though, later identified as a 32-year-old Syrian who was arrested when he visited hospital to have his own wounds treated.

Police spokesman Markus Dittrich said: “We found the seriously injured man and were able to secure a bloody knife. The alleged perpetrator and his companions fled.

“An immediate search was unsuccessful. But now the investigation has led to success. A 32-year-old compatriot of the victim was arrested.”

The motive for the stabbing was unclear.

The attack shocked Vienna less than a day after the much-touted “protected zone and weapons-free zone” around the notorious square had been inaugurated by city officials.

The weapons-free zone encompasses the square and five adjacent blocks. It is officially forbidden to enter the area “with weapons or dangerous objects”.

Police have started patrolling the area more often, including at night.

In addition, a playground in the square had been designated a “protected zone” where police officers could legally tell people to leave if they suspected nefarious activity.

“Vienna has no tolerance for violence,” Social Democrat city mayor Michael Ludwig had said.

“In public spaces in particular, security creates trust. Our aim is to strengthen both the subjective feeling of security and the objective security situation in the long term. With this measure, we are sending a clear signal that weapons have no place in public spaces.”

Dittrich said although it was the police’s goal to prevent crimes such as the latest stabbing, “it is obvious that this cannot be achieved flawlessly”.

On social media, the City of Vienna has since been ridiculed for instituting an apparently toothless measure.

Right-wing activist Martin Sellner wrote in a post on X: “Instead of finally tackling the root causes – illegal migration, failed integration, and parallel societies – the focus remains on ineffective symbolic politics.

“The problem is not the knife, but the imported structures of violence.”

Michael Oberlechner, leader of the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Vienna’s 16^th district, said: “The brutal knife attack confirms once again that placebos such as weapon-free zones are completely ineffective.”

In 2025, almost 1,000 knife attacks were recorded in Vienna – averaging three per day. These included 177 robberies, 24 cases of grievous bodily harm and eight murders.

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A 45-year-old Afghan national has been arrested in Perugia on suspicion of aggravated rape, kidnapping, and inflicting multiple injuries on a 21-year-old female student.

The young woman, who, according to Rai News, was in the Umbrian capital to study, claims she was held against her will, raped for hours, and violently assaulted inside an abandoned bar in the city center.

A video she recorded during part of the assault has been seized by police and was instrumental in identifying the suspect.

According to investigators, the incident occurred on the evening of July 19. Il Giornale reported how the victim had been approached by the man with a casual excuse and engaged in a brief conversation, during which he claimed he was planning to open a restaurant. He then invited her to see the site, described as a former bar undergoing renovation, located along the route she was taking home.

Reassured by the man’s friendly demeanor, the young woman accepted the invitation. Once inside the premises, the conversation continued, with the man even suggesting the possibility of a future job once the restaurant opened.

However, when the woman tried to leave, she found the entrance locked. She was then allegedly groped, thrown to the ground, and had her mouth covered to prevent her from screaming. The man is then accused of subjecting her to repeated sexual assaults over the course of several hours, until she managed to escape at dawn.

The victim waited several days before reporting the assault to police until her mother had flown to Italy. She later went to the Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, where doctors documented injuries expected to take 30 days to heal.

The investigation took a decisive turn when police reviewed video footage taken by the victim during the attack.

On Monday morning, the suspect was arrested following an order issued by the Perugia Prosecutor’s Office.

DNA extracted from the victim reportedly matched the suspect.

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A Christian preacher has said he has experienced “two-tier policing and censorship” after being threatened with arrest while addressing the public.

Pastor Dia Moodley is considering taking legal action against Avon and Somerset Police after he claims he was assaulted by Muslim bystanders who objected to his peaceful preaching and then being threatened with arrest by police.

Since 2020, the Christian from Bristol has been the subject of repeated enforcement action by Avon and Somerset Police over his street preaching, which includes comparisons between Christianity and Islam.

He expressed that while he believes policing is a vital job, he has experienced “two-tier policing and censorship”.

Moodley said: “I just want the police to uphold the fundamental human right of freedom of expression for preachers like me, and to properly investigate crime against me and people like me.”

“My case is evidence of the severe free speech crisis in the UK. Britain has a proud history of protecting free speech. But this right is undoubtedly under serious threat today.”

“This is a clear example of two-tier policing and was effectively victim-blaming. This should not occur in a free and democratic society.”

While preaching in March this year, a number of Muslim men took offence at Moodley’s preaching, with one man threatening to stab him and another attempting to punch his wife, according to the pastor.

He told the People’s Channel that the experience was “extremely intimidating” and that the police response was “appalling”.

Moodley described the bystanders attempting to forcibly take his Quran, which he had been holding in his hand, pushing him off his ladder, pinning him to the floor, and claiming the Quran was their book, not his.

He claimed police officers told him on two separate occasions that he would be arrested for a breach of the peace, despite considering himself the victim.

Moodley said that the man who had threatened to stab him continued to make threats in the presence of the officers and was not arrested.

The preacher added: “There are many brave and reasonable police officers, but this pattern of targeting peaceful street preachers like myself must stop. Everyone’s right to free speech must be protected in this country.”

“This desire of authorities to protect certain groups from offence clearly does not extend to Christians.”

“Two-tier policing, which targets Christian expression, exists in the UK, because authorities want to prevent certain groups from being offended—even by speech which is peaceful and lawful, like mine.”

Avon and Somerset Police said: “Officers attended a public disturbance in Broadmead, Bristol, on March 22, 2025, in which a preacher reported he had been threatened.”

They added: “A crowd of people gathered and was dispersed by officers, and the preacher was advised to stop and leave the area as a precaution.

“An investigation has since been carried out and a man, in his 20s, attended a voluntary police interview in July, after which it was decided no further action would be taken.

“This was communicated to the preacher on July 22, as well as their rights to submit a victim’s right to review (VRR) if not satisfied with the decision.

“The following day, they submitted a VRR, which was assessed by a Chief Inspector, who determined on July 27 the case should be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider a charging decision. The process is ongoing and therefore this remains a live police investigation”.

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The body of an eviscerated man with his throat slit open has been found in a sports ground in France. 

The gruesome discovery was made on Monday morning in the small village of Pont-de-Metz in northern France on the sports ground by a person who had been out on a walk. 

The corpse of the unnamed man was splayed out in a cross position, French newspaper Le Parisien reports. 

Initial investigations have determined that the victim is a 32-year-old man. 

The Amiens public prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation for what they believe to have been an ‘intentional homicide’. 

It comes just days after the dead body of a young woman was found in rural France. 

Floriane Roux, 31, was reported missing on July 23 before her corpse was uncovered by a police dog on July 28. 

It was hidden in thick undergrowth in the village of Paunat, in the Dordogne department, east of Bordeaux.

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Former Manchester United soccer star Antonio Valencia helped convince a man who wanted to jump off a bridge not to take his own life.

Valencia stepped in to stop a man from committing suicide on a bridge in his home country of Ecuador. The former Manchester United captain revealed on social media that he spotted the young man when he was preparing to jump off a bridge. He shared a video on Instagram that shows himself and several police officers in conversation with the individual standing on the edge of the bridge.

“Last night I had an experience that was far from pleasant,” Valencia wrote in his post. “A young man wanted to take his own life from this bridge, and he was very young.”

“I got out of the vehicle and approached him. I didn’t save him, but I did try to talk to him,” he continued.

“Thank God he recognized me, and I tried to give him some words of encouragement. It was very hard.”

“Thank God his family arrived, and he decided not to take his own life. Let’s take care of ourselves, please. Our minds, our hearts, mental health is very important. Let’s take care of all of this, please. Life is very fragile,” the retired soccer star concluded.

Fulham midfielder and former teammate of Valencia, Andreas Pereira, applauded him on Instagram: “Great work, brother. You always try to help others. Good job, bro.”

The Instagram post has earned 47,000 likes so far.

Valencia played for Manchester United between 2009 and 2019 and was the team captain under coach Jose Mourinho. During his stint with the decorated English club, he won two Premier League titles and the Europa League. He retired from professional soccer in 2021.

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More than eight in ten Germans said that they believe people are afraid to express their full opinions amid an increasingly censorious political climate in the country.

A survey published on Monday by the Institute for New Social Responses (INSA) found that 84 per cent of those surveyed believe that fellow citizens are self-censoring their opinions “because they are afraid of consequences.” In contrast, just nine per cent disagreed.

According to the pollster, this belief was shared across the political spectrum, with 77 per cent of supporters of the leftist-progressive Green party agreeing that people self-censor and 92 per cent of voters who back the populist-right Alternative for Germany saying the same.

When asked if they personally have hidden their true thoughts, 54 per cent said that they have had at least one experience when they did not feel able to speak freely. This represented a six-point increase since the pollster asked the same question just eight months ago.

INSA did find a striking divergence among age groups, with two-thirds of those under 30 saying that they do not feel free to express their beliefs, compared to 38 per cent for those over the age of 70, perhaps belying the fact that many young voters are turning away from establishment parties in favour of the AfD on the right and Die Linke on the left.

Although there was a broad consensus across the political spectrum acknowledging that other Germans are likely self-censoring, there was also a clear divide among supporters of various parties on whether they feel the need to hide their thoughts personally.

According to the survey, 76 per cent of AfD supporters reported self-censoring, followed by 69 per cent who support the leftist-populist BSW party, and 65 per cent of Die Linke voters.

In comparison, supporters of establishment parties felt freer to express themselves, with 42 per cent of Social Democrats reporting self-censorship, 41 per cent of Greens, and 47 per cent of Christian Democrats.

Commenting on the results, INSA said: “The topic of freedom of expression has the potential to become just as influential as migration from 2015 and Corona from 2020. Politics as well as the media and society as a whole should take this seriously.

“Only with a good culture of debate and the acceptance of a broad diversity of opinions will the majority of the population be convinced that freedom of expression applies without restriction in our country and that it is also a convincing reason for standing up for and defending this country.”

The issue of free speech in Germany was highlighted earlier this year by U.S. Vice President JD Vance during an address before the Munich Security Conference in February. Vance warned that the greatest threat facing Europe did not come from China or Russia but rather the erosion of liberties “from within”.

Vance also criticised Berlin for enacting a political “firewall” around the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Since his speech, the government has gone even further, with the internal BfV political spy agency branding the party as an “extremist” organisation, a step paving the way to more state surveillance of the party and potentially laying the groundwork for an outright ban.

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A prominent LGBT activist has accused France’s First Lady, Brigitte Macron, of prejudice against transgender people by her pursuing legal action against those claiming she was born male.

Louis‑Georges Tin, founder of the World Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia group,  said in doing so, Macron was “fuelling the stigmatisation of transgender people”.

In a column in the French daily Libération, published on July 31, the LGBT rights activist argued that President Emmanuel Macron’s wife’s transgender theory gained traction because of what he called its anti-trans undertone.

“This affair has caused a great deal of unease in the LGBT community, and rightly so. Because if the rumour has spread, it’s for transphobic reasons – there’s no doubt about that,” he said.

Tin maintained that being transgender was not an insult and that treating it as such via defamation claims was misguided.

“The First Lady’s legal crusade sends the wrong message that being labelled transgender is inherently degrading,” he said.

“By seeking to clear her name, she is contributing, perhaps unwittingly, to reinforcing the idea that this rumour is inherently insulting, and thus perpetuating the stigmatisation of transgender people.”

Citing the Paris Court of Appeal’s ruling in July that overturned convictions against two women accused of libel against Macron, Tin noted that even though the claim was false,  it “cannot be defamatory” since being trans was “neither a crime nor a disgrace”.

His text followed the appeal of Macron in a defamation lawsuit against Delphine Jegousse and Nathalie Rey.

The two women had claimed, in a video published in December 2021, that Macron was a transgender woman born a man, originally called Jean-Michel Trogneux. That is also the name of her real brother, who was a co-plaintiff in the case.

A criminal complaint was filed and in September 2024, the Paris Judicial Court found both women guilty of defamation, fining them and ordering thousands of euros in damages.

But last month, the Paris Court of Appeal overturned the convictions, declaring that the allegations had been made “in good faith” and fell within the bounds of free expression.

Tin stated that condemning the women for defamation could set a bad precedent.

“It would be endorsing the idea that this identity is an insult, opening the door to a dangerous jurisprudence, which would turn trans people into a shameful legal category,” he said.

He warned that Macron’s legal strategy was “not only ineffective” but also “counter‑productive”.

The First Lady has also filed a similar defamation suit against US Conservative commentator Candace Owens, who repeated the claim.

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What better way for a state to show its rejection of free speech than by destroying the lives of those who express even the mildest support for it? In Britain today, this isn’t a theoretical concern but a reality—as shown by the latest developments in the Lucy Connolly case, which some wrongly believe to be over.

The Telegraph revealed on Sunday that a teacher who has dedicated his working life to education was sacked because of a wholly inoffensive social media post. Simon Pearson, 56, said Connolly’s comments—“set fire to all the f*****g [migrant] hotels full of the b******s for all I care,” posted after the Southport knife attack—were “obviously wrong” but that she “should not have been jailed” for them. An opinion likely shared by most Britons.

Pearson was dismissed following an internal investigation prompted by a complaint from a Muslim representative of the National Education Union (NEU), which is supposed to protect workers. The Telegraph cites this probe as having found that Pearson’s posts “had the potential to bring [the institution, Preston College] into disrepute.”

Free Speech Union boss Toby Young also told the paper that while “once upon a time, trade unions used to stick up for workers threatened with the sack for speaking out of turn,”

Now, they side with management and actively try to get workers sacked, including their dues-paying members.

Former Brexit Party MEP and now member of the House of Lords Claire Fox added that such unions “are fast becoming workers’ main enemies.”

If NEU really did this, they should be denounced by all their teacher members. Trade Unions (or at least their progressive, activist leaders) are fast becoming workers' main enemies; grasses who run to bosses or in lockstep with HR managers, enforcers of EDI orthodoxies. Shameful https://t.co/7dnzqgzG9B

— Claire Fox (@Fox_Claire) August 3, 2025

Reform deputy leader Richard Tice described the sacking as “unreal,” adding that “Preston College and NEU should hang their heads in shame.”

Pearson has started legal action and argues that his online posts were expressions of protected philosophical and Christian beliefs.

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An individual wearing a djellaba was arrested on Sunday morning at the Ablon-sur-Seine station (Val-de-Marne), served by the RER C, after attempting to stab a man while shouting ‘Allah Akbar,’ Le Figaro learned from police sources. At around 11 a.m., the man in the djellaba asked two men ‘if they were Muslims,’ our source said.

The first replied yes, while the second chose not to answer. This lack of response apparently angered the man, who repeatedly shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ and attempted to stab him with a box cutter. At the same time, the attacker also struck the victim with a wooden table leg, which he was holding in his other hand.

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