Rob Jetten, Arlington National Cemetery, PD US, Wikimedia Commons
Protests are spreading across the Netherlands over a law forcing municipalities to accept quotas of asylum seekers.
Prime Minister Rob Jetten has responded by condemning “intimidation, violence, and vandalism” during the demonstrations, but his remarks drew criticism for failing to address why many residents are protesting in the first place.
NieuwRechts columnist Sander Sassen said the PM’s “nauseating” comments featured “not a word about understanding the legitimate concerns of the residents,” and asked:
Is their safety not a priority? Where do you think that resistance and that popular fury come from?
Earlier this month, women marched through the town of Apeldoorn to protest plans for a new asylum centre. One participant said she had attended “for safety,” and described facing “whistling, shouting,” and other intimidating behaviour in public.
In 2024 alone, officials registered 16,200 incidents of verbal threats, self-harm, physical aggression, and violence at migrant reception sites—an increase of 21% on 2023’s figure. NieuwRechtsreports that while most cases involved property crimes, more serious violence remains a recurring problem.
PVV leader Geert Wilders is calling on municipalities to take legal action against the asylum distribution law.
Jetten has announced his intention to “crack down hard on people who think they can get their way through violence or intimidation. Because they make it impossible for residents to make their voices heard in a normal way.”
Wilders later responded that the PM “has zero understanding of millions of citizens who are utterly fed up,” adding: “The resistance will only grow as a result.”
I love my European kinsmen, but I don’t love their smug and uppity attitudes. We get it, they have better food and prettier cities; they’ve been entrusted as the custodians of Western civilization, culture, art, and history (which they’ve done a horrible job at); and they’ve always had less crime, unlike the U.S. with our “gun culture” that’s just so…unenlightened.
But that was the situation before they decided to commit suicide and open their doors to violent hordes of 7th-century savages. Modern Europeans weren’t preserving Western excellence, they were merely riding its coattails—and everything continues to crumble in fantastic fashion.
Remix News reported today that an elderly couple in Spain were brutally physically assaulted by a North African migrant when the wife asked him to turn down his music, which he was, in a moment of peak stereotype, “blasting” in a public elevator. Like the misogynist Islamist he is, he became enraged, because she was a woman who “cannot give [him] orders.” At this point the husband stepped in to defend his wife, so the migrant shoved the woman to the ground, breaking her collarbone, then choked out the husband. (Both husband and wife suffered severe injuries.) The suspect was known to police for his violent history and was quickly arrested, though he was promptly released after appearing before a judge.
Then, we head north into the U.K., and see this, in Sadiq Khan’s London:
Earlier this morning over at Burgess Park.
A machete fight in broad daylight.@SadiqKhan will demonise law-abiding Brits who hold different views whilst lawlessness carries on in London.
Today we're off to Lee Green, SE London, where a familiar sight unfolds, as masked-up machete wielding idiots try to kill each other in public. pic.twitter.com/sPOqzGAhc6
— upside down world (@upside_dow2032) May 19, 2026
I wonder if the Europeans are wishing they had the ability to keep and bear arms right about now? Don’t bring fists to a machete fight, and don’t bring a machete to a gun fight.
When I was in my last year of college at the University of Arizona, I ended up getting a job as a paralegal at a local law office. I sat next to a young woman named Deborah, who was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. (I presume she had been granted admission to the U.S. as an asylum seeker, along with much of her family.)
Anyway, one day at work, she was preoccupied with the state of things back home as the country’s long-time dictator Joseph Kabila, who was supposed to be permitting elections to happen, was reneging on that agreement. Reports were coming out of the DRC that soldiers were going door-to-door looking for political opposition and murdering them—these reports turned out to be true, as we learned the following year:
‘State agents’ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carried out 1,176 extrajudicial killings last year, according to a report published by the United Nations mission in the central African country.
The report says at least 89 women and 213 children were among the dead. The number of extrajudicial killings had tripled over the past two years, and Congolese armed forces were responsible for 64% of the total, the UN said.
Now, I already knew the answer, but I was hoping to make a point, so I asked Deborah: “Don’t the people there have guns?”
She scoffed at me, turned up her nose, and said, “Absolutely not, that would be just so…uncivilized.” Mind you, as her kinsmen were being slaughtered in their Kinchasa homes by democidal killers, and the country was set to suffer another period of unchecked violence.
I was the boorish yokel—so pathetically American (barf!) clinging to my guns like some inbred oaf—for even suggesting that the people exercise a right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Deborah could ride in on her high horse—because she was living in a world where the Second Amendment existed.
I like to think the Europeans are a little more discerning than someone like Deborah and are realizing that guns don’t make for an impolite society but a polite one—though how they can reverse course, I’m not sure.
A Yorkshire mother is suing an all-girls school for “secretly” admitting a male student. She discovered that a boy was a member of the school when she overheard a conversation between her teenage daughter and a friend who noted that she had known a student “when she was a boy.”
Joanne Donoghue, 46, attended the all-girls Beverley High School in East Yorkshire herself; she enjoyed her experience so much that she taught at the school for a time and enrolled her three daughters there.
According to an exclusive report in TheTimes, she attempted to get both the school administration and the council of the East Riding of Yorkshire (which supervises admissions to the school) to answer questions about the admission of a trans-identifying male for a year to no avail, stating that her requests were “shut down.”
In fact, when she first approached the school, the administration simply insisted that the school remained single sex.
“This month, she instructed lawyers to send a pre-action letter threatening to lodge a High Court claim for a judicial review against the local authority,” the Timesreported.
“The correspondence, seen by The Times, alleges that the council has unlawfully adopted a ‘secret’ policy to admit biological boys who identified as transgender girls to at least Beverley High School. It argues that the effect of this alleged policy means that parents in the local area ‘cannot make an informed decision about whether to send their children to the school.’”
Donoghue’s letter states that the policy of permitting any male “who identifies as a girl” to enroll in the school constitutes discrimination against girls, especially because the school is not set up to provide private spaces (changerooms or bathrooms) for trans-identifying males.
The U.K. has seen multiple incidents of sexual assaults in “gender-neutral” bathrooms, and there have been reports of girls being “traumatized” and skipping school after being forced to share private facilities with males.
“Teenage girls have particularly acute needs for privacy and dignity,” Donoghue’s letter states. “During the secondary school years, as they begin to menstruate and their bodies change, it is vital that girls can trust that they are in environments that safeguard their privacy and dignity.”
Thus far, Donoghue’s letter has received no response. The Times noted that John Dunning, the chair of governors of the school, has “declined to comment” and a spokeswoman for the East Riding of Yorkshire council merely said that they “are working to understand the issues, and we will respond in due course.” That is code for “we’re talking to our lawyers to find out if we’re screwed or you are.”
“I loved being at that school as I’d had an awful experience with boys when I was at primary school with behaviour that turned quite nasty at times,” Donoghue told the Times. “I just absolutely flourished there. I learnt how to be myself, how to be independent, how to be confident. I was free to be myself without worrying about what boys were doing.”
“The fact it is single sex is important to me,” she said. “We know that there’s evidence that girls do better academically in Stem subjects, for example, when they’re in an all-female environment. The questions I wanted answering were how many biological boys are there at the school and what risk assessments have been done to protect the dignity, privacy and safety of my daughter and other girls in the school.”
“At every opportunity I was shut down. We’re an all-girls school, we can’t discuss pupils with you for GDPR reasons and we have obligations under the Equality Act. That’s all they kept saying. It felt like there was a complete disregard for parents and parental rights.”
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled last year that “sex” under the Equality Act 2010 means “biological sex” rather than gender identity. The ruling has resulted is a massive course correction across the U.K., including Girl Guides announcing that all trans-identifying males must leave the organization by fall.
Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state? Certainly, the ailing condition of the United Kingdom, now just two years away from marking the 80th birthday of its National Health Service, suggests as much. In addition to being the over-lauded moral heart of the UK, the NHS is the UK’s largest employer. The usual response to demands for an end to unlimited immigration to Britain runs: But without immigrants, how will the NHS survive? The future of the NHS, rather than that of the people it was invented to serve, is now the defining issue of British politics.
However, the actual issue has been the NHS’s multigenerational removal of the interlinked values of social cohesion and of personal responsibility. For example: In Scotland in 2023, 2,555 youngsters, aged 16-18, were paid £643,381 for minding family members who themselves were entitled to benefits. What was once a familial duty is now a transaction between the state and groups of relatives, with the government funding everybody, including the various medics supervising the treatment, the civil servants authorising it, and other civil servants compiling the statistics. That’s weird enough, but not as weird as the extrapolated outcome. Some 24 million people in the UK, or 34 per cent of the population, live on benefits, nearly ten million of whom are of working age. These numbers do not include the uncountable numbers of NHS employees and civil servants who administer or assess and report on the various schemes.
So, why work? Good question, when as “of right” such services are “free” as an expression of “equality”. These meaningless terms – equality, free and natural right – have become a deadly curse on British society, especially when joined by those other ghouls at the UK’s deathbed, namely transgenderism, multiculturalism, diversityism, equityism, inclusivism, environmentalism, and God help us, even BLMism, each with its own version of the blood-sucking leeches of medieval quackery.
BLM, sigh, is back in the picture courtesy of the millionaire and deeply unfunny comedian Sir Lenny Henry, who is leading a campaign for the British to pay £18 trillion (€20.7 trillion) in compensation to the descendants of African slaves. These are, like Henry, though brown, usually called black, which is rather like saying that maroon is in fact navy blue. Henry’s preposterous claim ignores the fact that the African slave-trade was the invention of Africans, who captured and enslaved millions of other Africans, whom they sold to Arab states and into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It was the Royal Navy that ended the latter, not Africans. Around the same time, the 1840s, a million Irish people died in the Great Famine, and another million were displaced. One of these was my great-great-grandfather, who joined the Royal Navy and served on antislavery duties in the Atlantic. Far from the Irish getting compensation for the Famine today, the descendants of their survivors (such as myself) are now apparently meant to compensate the millionaire knightly spiv, that sleezy grifter Henry.
What made his insensate greed possible is the mass immigration that has transformed Britain. Contrary to the multicultural paradise that was imagined by Britain’s political elites and its ever-burgeoning race-relations industry, the result has not been a happy emulsion of different peoples and cultures. How could it be? Immigrants often had trouble finding any British people to assimilate with, as the incomers rapidly colonised entire areas where few natives remained. Many British cities soon resembled post-war East European camps for displaced peoples, where there were almost no natives, just competing strangers, embodied by that hellish dystopia named Slough, a multi-ethnic wasteland composed of abandoned garages, broken windows, cars on bricks, strange headgear, derelict shops, dogshit and litter.
The dogmas of multiculturalism mean that other cultures must be as respected as those of the natives, which is why the British welfare state freely subsidises all the polygamous unions of those Muslim males who were prudent enough to harvest a few wives on their journey to Britain. In many cities and towns – Birmingham, Leicester, Blackburn, Bradford – white people are in the minority. There are now 24 clinics in England that specialise in coping with the aftermath of female genital mutilation, which is illegal in Britain, but in effect tolerated through – no surprises here – passive police neglect. So too was the mass rape of white working class girls by Pakistani men, with possibly 100,000 victims. Though that particular epidemic has been somewhat curtailed in recent years, it was hardly at the initiative of the present Prime Minister Starmer, who himself exhibited perfectly splendid passive neglect on the subject when he was Director of Public Prosecutions (for which job he was, quite naturally, awarded a knighthood).
His deplorable record as Prime Minister since his election two years ago appears to have cleared the way for a handpicked successor, Andy Burnham. to be recruited from the mayoralty of Manchester to succeed him at Number 10. But Starmer, Burnham and the latter’s rival Streeting, all bear the mark of Cain: They want to re-unite the UK with the EU, if Burnham only equivocally so, which is the equivalent of scrambling off the keeling deck of the Titanic and managing to book the last seat on the Hindenburg.
Yes, Britain today is governed by idiots, but that is not the sole reason why it is in trouble. Throughout this century, its political agenda has been obdurately centrist, with seven prime ministers refusing to tackle the monstrosity that is the NHS, failing to deal with illegal immigration which itself is caused by a profligate welfare state, while remaining dedicated to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2050. This latter project is not merely a delusion concocted by the deranged Marxist fantastist, Ed Miliband, but a certain failure. For what will the outcome be if Net Zero is reached (it won’t be) and global warming continues? Why wouldn’t it? Russia, China and India are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere like industrial-scale fire-extinguishers dealing with a raging wildfire in the cumulonimbus. What possible difference can wet little Britian make, whatever it does?
Moreover, in every single metric, Britain is failing. There has been institutional decay in both government programmes and in the private sector. The drip-drip-drips of incompetence and corruption have fed into personal behaviour. Shoplifting, fare-dodging, traffic-light violations, pub-brawls and dangerous speeding, are now not just normal, but actually normative. Yes, recently there has been slight economic growth, but not enough to match the increase in population as more unskilled alien monoglots pour in, and aided by helpful, government-supplied interpreters, avail of the wantonly generous welfare state. Eighty years on, some euthanasia – a touch of cold steel, perhaps? – is now surely called for.
Saib Adnan Al-Qadi, pictured right, has been held responsible for a number of deaths in a Norwegian hospital, including a horrific case where he connected a woman’s colon to her vagina.
Surgeon Saib Adnan Al-Qadi poses a risk to patient safety after a series of deadly incidents at Sørlandet Hospital in Arendal and will now be restricted in his duties. This was the conclusion of the Norwegian Health Authority after several patients lost their lives, and others suffered extensive injuries.
Information from NRK, cited by Rabulisten, revealed that the surgeon, among other things, connected a woman’s colon to her vagina, so that she later had stool exit through her vagina.
Another patient died after the surgeon operated without having properly read the patient’s medical record beforehand.
Saib Adnan Al-Qadi was reportedly born in Libya and trained in Bulgaria, according to documents from the State Administrator in Agder. This data also revealed that despite not being a specialist in gastrosurgery, Al-Qadi worked as a consultant at the gastrosurgery section at Sørlandet Hospital. He did hold Norwegian authorization as a general surgeon dating back to December 2012.
Profiles for the surgeon on both LinkedIn and Facebook do not appear to have been updated for years, with the LinkedIn profile indicating he was last a general surgeon at a hospital in Denmark, citing exrtensive experience in colon surgery of all things.
The Norwegian Health Inspectorate reviewed a total of seven serious patient cases. Two patients died after stomach operations. Several others had to undergo reoperation at Oslo University Hospital after extensive malpractice.
In one of the most grotesque cases, Al-Qadi operated on a woman who was to have her stoma reversed. Three months later, it was discovered that he had connected her colon to her vagina. The state administrator writes that he chose to operate despite the high risk, and that afterwards he appeared uncaring and tried to blame the patient and relatives.
In another case, he placed the wrong bowel passage during an operation, which led to intestinal torsion and emergency reoperation. The state administrator concluded that he did not listen to colleagues and handled the situation irresponsibly.
The documents also show that the State Administrator had clear issues with Al-Qadi’s attitude and lack of self-criticism, with one assessment stating that he instead directed criticism at the nurses.
The Norwegian Health Authority has therefore decided that Al-Qadi can no longer work as a consultant or have independent responsibility for surgical patients. He may only operate under the close supervision of an approved specialist and must work in a subordinate position if he is to continue as a doctor.
Sørlandet Hospital has previously been involved in several serious scandals surrounding malpractice. In 2022, the hospital was fined 1 million kroner (€93,000) following the so-called “Flekkefjord case”, where a surgeon worked as a consultant in orthopedics for 11 years without being a trained orthopedic surgeon. Several patients were operated on incorrectly, and several died.
CEO Nina Mevold publicly apologized to patients and relatives when the new cases became known. She later resigned after intense pressure from employees and union representatives.
The 21-year-old victim was allegedly attacked opposite the four-star Grand Hotel | GOOGLE STREET VIEW
A Syrian man has been charged after a woman was allegedly raped on Brighton Beach earlier this month.
The 21-year-old victim was reportedly attacked opposite the four-star Grand Hotel at around 2am on May 3.
Sussex Police received a report of the alleged attack the following morning. A man was then arrested on suspicion of rape on May 14, and remanded into custody.
Bilal Alkadour, 35, has now been charged with sexual assault, assault by penetration and rape of a woman aged 16 years or over in relation to the incident.
The Syrian national, of Cromwell Road in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on May 16 and remains in custody.
Alkadour is expected to appear before Lewes Crown Court on June 15.
Chief Superintendent Adam Hays said: “Detectives have been working tirelessly since this report was received to identify a suspect and gather any available evidence.
“I can confirm we are not currently looking for anybody else in connection with this investigation.”
Speaking on the victim, receiving support from officers, he added: “I would like to thank her for the courage she has shown in reporting this matter and assisting with our enquiries.
“I know this incident will be concerning to the public.
“We will continue to conduct round-the-clock patrols on the seafront while working with our partners to protect the public and safeguard vulnerable people.”
A large majority of Germans say they are “concerned” about the state of the government and see no political options for improvement, yet paradoxically, a plurality says they don’t want the present political settlement, in which the country’s highest-polling party remains locked out of government, to change.
A considerable 84 per cent of Germans say they feel “great or very great” concern about the political “state of affairs” in their country, polling finds, as faith in the government’s ability to find the right answers continues to collapse.
That the answer to Germany’s problems requires more than just a new government was underlined by further findings in the INSA poll, reported by Die Welt, that another large majority, 64 per cent, said they couldn’t see any potential combination of parties forming a new government that could turn things around.
Emphasising that worries about the direction of the country are widespread, just 11 per cent felt only “slight concern” about the national state of affairs.
Separate research by the same pollster in recent weeks suggests this concern about the way politics is being conducted is driving German voters towards anti-establishment parties, such as the right-wing sovereigntist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which advocates tax reform and severely curbing mass migration. The latest INSA polling, which asked who respondents would vote for if there were a federal election this coming weekend, found the AfD the most popular party at 29 per cent, up one per cent in a week.
In second place are the centre-right globalist Christian Democrats on 22 per cent, putting over half the political support in the country behind right-wing parties of varying flavours, which could, at first glance, signal a potential future government. Yet Germany’s mainstream politics runs a so-called firewall against the AfD, a system enforced by social shame and political expedience that forbids all cooperation with the pro-change party.
So, a right-wing coalition government remains impossible, and the INSA polling suggests that, somewhat paradoxically, despite public exhaustion with politics and the recognition that the status quo isn’t working, they want to keep it that way. A plurality of 47 per cent say they want the ‘firewall’ to remain in place, with 41 per cent saying it should go.
Remarkably, the strongest supporters of the firewall are among those who could theoretically benefit most from it, with Christian Democrat voters backing the cordon sanitaire at 67 per cent. Like other European countries where the centre-right globalist and right-wing nationalist parties do not get along, the desire to freeze out the rival may be as much about avoiding social stigma from being associated with what have been labelled the “far right” as about any political consideration.
The INSA poll follows other recent research. As reported earlier this month, 78 per cent of Germans think the Friedrich Merz government has failed to solve the migration problem, and his personal approval rating is plummeting, making Merz one of the least-loved leaders of a major European country.
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Last Friday, an Ipsos poll conducted for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Le Monde, and Cevipof indicated that 45 percent of French voters are now considering voting for the National Rally (RN) in the 2027 elections, meaning the anti-migration party’s candidate is favored to win the presidency.
According to Antoine Bristielle, director of the Foundation’s Opinion Observatory,the poll shows that RN “has managed to unite very different electorates around a common foundation, but that its cohesion remains fragile as soon as one moves away from this foundation.”
The Jean-Jaurès Foundation identifies four main profiles of RN voters, which can be grouped into two categories. The “identity-based liberals” include older, politically engaged voters firmly rooted in the right, as well as the “forgotten France,” which represents “a working-class bloc, more economically vulnerable, marked by a strong sense of abandonment and combining demands for social protection with identity radicalism.”
However, the other two groups are more recent profiles, demonstrating the RN’s expansion to new voters. The “shifting France,” representing those “less politically engaged and still uncertain,” and the “opportunistic radical right.” This latter group of voters, seen as “more affluent, more educated, and highly politically engaged,” is, according to the report, “already largely aligned with the RN’s positions” but may have voted for other right-wing parties in the past.
Immigration, as expected, is a paramount topic for at least three of the four groups. “There are too many immigrants in France” is confirmed by 97 percent of “forgotten France,” 99 percent of “identity-based liberals,” 43 percent of “shifting France,” and 96 percent of “opportunistic radical right.” As to the statement, “Now, I no longer feel as at home as before,” the percentages of support were 96, 98, 72, and 94, respectively.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C, partially visible) with Modena Mayor Massimo Mezzetti talk to first responders at the Baggiovara hospital on May 17, 2026. Massimo Mezzetti on Facebook, May 17, 2026
Italy’s government has warned against dismissing the Modena car-ramming attack as merely the act of a disturbed individual, as the case reignites fierce political debate over immigration, integration, and public security.
Eight people were injured on Saturday after a driver at high speed ploughed his car into pedestrians and cyclists in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena. Four victims remain in serious condition, including a woman who had to have both of her legs amputated.
The suspect, 31-year-old Salim El Koudri, an Italian citizen of Moroccan origin born in Bergamo, attempted to flee the scene before stabbing a passer-by who tried to stop him. He was eventually overpowered by members of the public and arrested.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said investigators had so far found no evidence of links to organised Islamist networks or terrorist groups. However, he insisted it would be wrong to portray the attack simply as the isolated actions of a mentally ill man.
In an interview with the newspaper Il Giornale, Piantedosi said El Koudri had previously been diagnosed with a schizoid personality disorder and had expressed “resentment and dissatisfaction” with his social and professional situation.
Authorities are also examining anti-Christian emails sent by the suspect to his university in 2021, containing insults against Christians and blasphemous language.
“There are no indications of structured Islamist radicalisation,” Piantedosi said, while adding that the assault nevertheless raised “profound questions” about social alienation, integration, and identity among some second-generation immigrants.
The remarks reflect growing concern within Italy’s right-wing governing coalition that failures in integration, combined with psychological instability and exposure to extremist rhetoric online, may create serious security risks even in the absence of formal terrorist connections.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini argued that the case demonstrated the collapse of Italy’s approach to integration. Speaking on Radio 24, Salvini said it was even more alarming that the suspect was educated and socially integrated on paper, rather than marginalised or isolated.
If he drives around with a knife in his car, mows down people at 100 km/h in the center of Modena, and writes “Christian bastards” and praises Allah in Arabic on … Facebook, it is evidently even more serious.
Italianissimo, laureato e perfettamente integrato, non vi pare? Chissà se qualcuno tenterà ancora di minimizzare l’attentato di Modena. Vediamo se tivù e stampa di sinistra censureranno anche queste parole d’amore… Avanti con la proposta di legge della Lega per revocare la… pic.twitter.com/aSGWsEKv7U
increasingly disturbing details are emerging about Salim El Koudri. Hatred towards Christians and strong resentment towards Italians. Reducing his act solely to a mental health problem is proving more and more to be an incorrect oversimplification!
Emergono aspetti sempre più inquietanti su Salim #ElKoudri, l'attentatore di #Modena. Odio verso i cristiani e forte risentimento verso gli italiani. Ridurre il suo gesto solo a un problema di salute mentale risulta sempre di più una semplificazione sbagliata! pic.twitter.com/9cx7OOtZMc
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni cancelled her Cyprus trip to join Italian President Sergio Mattarella visiting the victims in hospital on Sunday, while Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called for greater attention to both mental health and security concerns.
Several politicians within the coalition used the attack to renew calls for stricter immigration controls, including tougher rules on residency permits and family reunification. Members of Salvini’s Lega party argued that residency rights should be revoked more easily for migrants who commit crimes or display signs of dangerous extremism.
The attack once again lays bare the failures of Europe’s migration policies. While this was the first such attack in Italy, car-rammings have become a modus operandi for Islamic terrorists in other parts of the continent.
Many of these perpetrators have been said to suffer from mental illnesses, but the question arises: why are only migrants mad enough to plough into a crowd of people?
Investigators continue to analyse Salim El Koudri’s electronic devices and online activity, while authorities have postponed his formal questioning until Tuesday, May 19th. His lawyer has claimed the suspect was neither religious nor observant, noting that he requested a Bible while in custody rather than Islamic literature.
For many Italians, however, the Modena attack has reinforced fears that Europe remains vulnerable not only to organised terrorism, but also to violent acts carried out by alienated individuals of migrant backgrounds shaped by failed integration, social resentment, and ideological hostility towards Western society.
