On Saturday, a 42-year-old Turkish migrant attacked a 25-year-old Indian national at Berlin’s Ostkreuz and announced that he was going to hunt down Indians. According to a statement issued by the capital’s police, he had previously been “shouting loudly and approaching passers-by seemingly at random”. He then attempted to attack the 25-year-old. “The victim is said to have backed away from the attacks whilst trying to keep the attacker at bay with a cricket bat.”
The Turkish man briefly turned away from him, but then threw him onto the road and struck him several times on the head with his fist. The Federal Police arrested the attacker. “Whilst the facts were being established, the attacker insulted the 25-year-old in Turkish on the basis of his origin,” the statement said. When asked by the JUNGE FREIHEIT newspaper, a spokeswoman was unable to say exactly what the assailant had said, citing tactical reasons relating to the investigation. The authorities’ statement goes on to say that the 42-year-old was taken to a police van, where he said “that he would hunt down Indians”.
In the perpetrator’s rucksack, the emergency services found “an alarm gun along with ammunition and the flag of an extremist organisation”. This was a flag of the Turkish Ülkücü movement – commonly known as the “Grey Wolves” – as first reported by the newspaper BZ and confirmed to the JUNGE FREIHEIT newspaper by a police spokeswoman.
Breaking news: A month after the invasion of Ceuta (up to 80,000 people, on the Ceuta government’s count, pouring into a city of 84,000 inhabitants, with at least 86 confirmed deaths), Pedro Sánchez has finished his holidays. He spent August walled up in a State residence in Lanzarote, where he went diving and watched the August 12 solar eclipse, and did not return to the peninsula until August 24. In Ceuta, meanwhile, the situation has deteriorated: According to local authorities, up to 10,000 illegal migrants are still on site and only a third have been identified, though the interior minister now puts the figure at 5,000; rapes and other crimes are soaring; the Ceuta medical association is warning of epidemic risks while the hospital management, which answers to the health ministry, threatens to sanction doctors if they speak to journalists; illegal migrants occupy the beaches; some have reached the Schengen area; the courts and emergency services are overwhelmed; and residents and local authorities feel helpless. Even the local Socialist Party bitterly reproaches Sánchez for his passivity. For a monolithic organisation totally subservient to its leader, that is more than revealing.
At the international level, the picture is equally dismaying: 22 EU member states signed a joint letter on August 1 against Sánchez’s massive regularisation (1.2 million people eligible for family reunification), terrified at the idea of reproducing another Merkel moment that would have incalculable electoral consequences. Rome and Madrid have reintroduced border controls on each other, Italy from August 1 and Spain from August 8, and are in open conflict, while Washington sharply rebukes the Spanish Government and makes it pay the price of Sánchez’s diplomatic frivolities on NATO and Palestine.
Suicidal empathy, shameless cynicism, ineptitude or capitulation? Beyond the migratory aspects, the invasion of Ceuta has laid bare two aspects that are as crucial as they are neglected: Spain’s extreme vulnerability after eight years of Sánchez government and its extraordinary servility toward Morocco.
Domestically, let us recall that Sánchez rose to power thanks to an improbable coalition that places Spain’s destiny in the hands of those who want to destroy it: The radical Left and Catalan and Basque independents, including the heirs of ETA terrorists. An original sin that is an existential threat to the country. Since 2023, this Frankenstein coalition has been so rickety that the government has not passed a budget since December 2022 and legislates only in dribs and drabs. Sánchez occupies power but does not exercise it; he presides over a country but does not govern it. He solves nothing and, faced with crises, distinguishes himself by staggering nonchalance and an insulting lack of empathy: The national power blackout, floods in Valencia, a railway accident, forest fires. His record is disastrous and his reaction is always the same: Wash his hands of it. Ceuta was no exception: It took the end of his holidays for Sánchez to convene the National Security Council on August 25, something the local government had been demanding from day one.
Moreover, Sánchez is up to his neck in corruption scandals that, like a fragmentation bomb, explode one after another and point the finger at him mercilessly. Bribes, influence peddling, false invoices, dirty tricks against judges and police, murky ties with Venezuela and China. No fewer than a hundred people have been implicated by the justice system, including Sánchez’s wife and brother, his two right-hand men, his attorney general and former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The Spanish Government is brain-dead and hanging by a thread: The particular interests of the parties that support it.
And yet the most alarming aspect is the Spanish prime minister’s extraordinary servility toward Morocco. After a violation of territorial sovereignty that the Moroccan authorities at the very least allowed to happen, and while Rabat uses the crisis to advance its expansionist agenda, Sánchez and his government praise Morocco’s “loyalty and reliability”, thank it for its cooperation and, in the interior minister’s words, recall that this kind of invasion, you see, is “just one of those things that happen”. With the exception of the defence minister, Margarita Robles, neither Sánchez nor anyone else has recalled that Ceuta and Melilla are as Spanish and European as Seville and Valencia. Why such apathy?
The Spanish Government’s political precariousness has not gone unnoticed by Morocco, a “loyal neighbour” that sniffed out Sánchez’s amateurism early enough to trap him as far back as 2021. In April 2021, Sánchez received the Polisario Front leader, Brahim Ghali, without informing Rabat, so that he could receive treatment in a Spanish hospital. Moroccan services detected the trip, the diplomatic crisis was served, and it ended a month later with the orchestrated invasion of… Ceuta on May 17-18 by “only” 10,000 illegal migrants and the wiretapping of several members of the Spanish government, including Sánchez, with the Pegasus software. “What does Sánchez owe Morocco?” Melilla President Juan José Imbroda asked again on August 3. That is the question millions of Spaniards are asking themselves, because since his phone was hacked, Sánchez has behaved like a vassal of Mohammed VI. In particular, he made an about-face on Western Sahara and endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan on a whim, in a private letter leaked by the Moroccan Royal Cabinet, changing Spain’s diplomatic position of half a century without any counterpart, not even a few assurances on Ceuta and Melilla. Geostrategic madness or blackmail? Given the corruption surrounding Sánchez and his unsavoury circles, Moroccan intelligence probably had an embarrassment of riches with which to blackmail him. Does it still do so? Hard to say, but in the meantime, in yet another gesture of submission, the Spanish interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, decorated Abdellatif Hammouchi, who heads both Morocco’s internal intelligence service and its national police, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Guardia Civil in November 2025. And on August 27 a Spanish minister, Félix Bolaños, accused the opposition of being “disrespectful” to Morocco. Stockholm syndrome?
The problem is that through Sánchez it is all of Spain that is trapped: The EU distrusts it, it is on the Trump administration’s blacklist, and it appears to be at the mercy of a much poorer, autocratic neighbour whose youth is desperate, to be sure, but which is confident, cunning and emboldened by its proximity to Washington. Moreover, Rabat notes that its provocations go unanswered and takes advantage of the passivity of a Spain that is hostage to its own prime minister. Latest episode: The Moroccan minister of Islamic affairs, Ahmed Toufiq, allowed himself to demand the “liberation” of Ceuta and Melilla in front of Mohammed VI on August 24 without Madrid reacting.
Checkmate? To put it more directly: Will Morocco dare to stage another “Green March” as in 1975 while Franco was dying? That is the real question. The July 30-31 invasion of Ceuta could well have been a dress rehearsal, and Sánchez’s infamous passivity the definitive signal that such madness is conceivable. Madness, because one does not change 500-year-old borders without triggering a geopolitical earthquake, and an invasion of Ceuta and Melilla would be a frontal attack on the territorial integrity of the European Union. Could Spain, moreover, count on the European Union and NATO as Denmark could when Trump was eyeing Greenland? That would still require Sánchez to request it, which he curiously refrains from doing while Morocco keeps advancing its pawns.
In the meantime, thousands of illegal migrants are still in Ceuta, the atmosphere is poisonous, residents are at the end of their tether with the school year due to start in September, the situation is bogged down, tension is at its peak, the government only gesticulates and dares speak of “normality”; in Congress on August 25 the defence minister said the intelligence services had passed on warnings before the mass entry, while the interior minister denied any such alert existed. One month later, Ceuta is sinking into chaos: The crisis is not over; it has barely begun. But let us be reassured: After finally setting up a national steering committee, Sánchez went off on holiday again, this time to Andorra, before agreeing to explain himself to Congress on September 3.
The Hamburg Regional Court has sentenced a 34-year-old Afghan migrant to two years’ probation for rape and several counts of aggravated assault against his former partner, an 18-year-old girl. German social media accounts have already sharply criticized the sentence, arguing it is another example of lenient sentencing in the face of serious crimes.
While the defendant initially admitted only to striking her with his hand, he ultimately confessed to the remaining charges. The court convicted him of four counts of assault, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of rape. As a condition of his probation, he must pay an additional €3,000 in compensation after paying another €2,000 in damages to the victim before the verdict.
Judge Malte Wellhausen detailed that the six offenses occurred between autumn 2016 and spring 2018. The trial faced substantial procedural delays, leading the court to count four months of the sentence of the Afghan man, who works in IT, as already served.
The court found the Afghan man physically assaulted his former girlfriend on five separate occasions, including an incident where he used a leather belt and another instance where he choked her to the point of respiratory distress. The rape took place in October 2016, approximately ten years ago.
The defendant first met the18-year-old high school graduate from Lower Saxony through an online platform. Physical abuse began only months after their initial meeting, starting when he struck her face. When the young woman reacted with fear and tears, the defendant remarked, “That wasn’t even hard.”
Routine physical assaults followed over minor issues, as well as disputes stemming from the victim’s parents opposing her relationship with the Afghan-born defendant.
The sexual assault occurred in his bedroom while both were in bed, leaving the victim with physical pain and bleeding. Despite the nature of the assault, she did not initially identify the incident as rape. Over the following months, the physical abuse persisted, including the incident involving the leather belt while the woman reportedly blamed herself for the incidents, according to German newspaper Welt.
In August 2017, after overhearing her covertly speaking with a friend on the phone, the defendant struck her face, causing her nose to bleed, and choked her violently by the neck. Rather than reaching out for assistance, the victim suffered severe distress, blamed herself, and engaged in self-harm.
During a subsequent trip to the United States, the defendant proposed to her, and she accepted out of fear. She eventually managed to break away from the relationship in 2018 by relocating her life to Denmark.
The criminal investigation began after the woman noticed a missing person report that featured a photograph of a garden in the Poppenbüttel district of Hamburg, where she had previously resided with the defendant. Concerned for the safety of the woman shown in the report, she eventually spoke with police officers and detailed the abuse she had endured, prompting authorities to open a criminal case.
Judicial findings later confirmed that the disappearance of the other woman was entirely unrelated to the defendant. Authorities proceeded with the investigation despite the victim’s reluctance to participate from Denmark. Further delays arose due to pandemic border closures and the illness of an expert witness, pushing the formal filing of charges to 2024.
The victim in the case tried to avoid the trial altogether and only joined in for video testimony after facing potential prosecution. The court ultimately found her account credible due to its memory detail and complete lack of malicious intent toward the accused.
Defense lawyer Claudia Krüger was positive about the ruling, calling it “a judgment with a sense of proportion. I am very satisfied.“
While the defense had argued for a suspended sentence, prosecutors had requested a prison term of three years and two months. The defense won out but the sentence is subject to appeal.
On social networks, some Muslim influencers are calling for the abandonment of classics of French literature deemed incompatible with their religious values. In their place, they promote a “halal” literature that is free of what contradicts the principles of Islam.
Do religious regulations after eating and finance now gain ground in culture? On social media, some Muslim influencers openly claim a new way to choose their readings. Sometimes dressed in the full veil, they advise their community against certain great classics of French literature, which are considered incompatible with their religious beliefs.
One of them explains that some books “trivialize deception and romanticize violence. In fact, it normalizes absolutely everything that contradicts my values. That’s not what I want to read as a Muslim.”
Focus on “halal romance”
Among the books concerned: Boule de Suif, by Guy de Maupassant.It tells the story of a prostitute during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A narrative that is considered problematic by some readers because of topics that are considered incompatible with the codes of Islam.
The asserted principle is simple: to privilege stories whose romantic relationships respect religious aspects.
On TikTok and other platforms, “halal romance” gains visibility. The term refers to sentimental novels in which relationships between characters must remain in line with certain Islamic principles, including the absence of a sexual or romantic relationship before marriage. […]
Readings adapted to the religious environment
This new category of reading is accompanied by recommendations for books that include, for example, arranged marriages or Muslim characters. “Forbidden love, I can’t wait to read it because it’s an arranged marriage. Arranged and Muslim marriage in the same sentence, that’s enough for me to buy it,” says a Tiktokeuse.
For these readers, it is no longer just a question of choosing a literary genre, but of selecting works according to their conformity with a moral and religious framework. This trend is also beginning to structure around specific commercial offerings. A recently launched literary platform is portrayed as “Muslim friendly”, i.e. adapted to Muslim readers.
The work is selected according to certain criteria: the aim is in particular to highlight stories that do not downplay what is considered “sins”.
Some novels also continue in their criticism of French society. In “Nous malgré tout” by Lklmany , France is referred to as a country that is Islamophobic, capitalist and racist. The book also criticizes the principle of secularism and the 2004 law on religious signs in schools.
A logic of cultural separation?
Beyond the editorial phenomenon, some observers see it as a symptom of a broader development: that of a cultural consumption that is thought of according to religious criteria. For the influencers who lead this discourse, classical French literature would be representative of a “white, bourgeois and Parisian” universe far removed from its own cultural identity.
The anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler interprets this development as an example of a logic of cultural and religious separation. “This is an example of the exclusion and isolation of these young people. They have no intention of respecting the rules of liberal democracies. What is important to them is to enforce their own. They do this slowly, gradually, through their consumption. “
According to her, this strategy would be a form of “cultural conquest” aimed at Muslim populations in particular.
“This is an attempt to influence, according to the codes of the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists, generally Islamizing a population that is not yet controlled by these groups,” the anthropologist analyzes.
The Teufelsrad seen at the 2011 Oktoberfest By Psemdel – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16735856
In the lead-up to this year’s Munich Oktoberfest, which runs from September 19 to October 4, a censorship scandal has erupted over four 80-year-old papier-mâché women displayed above the entrance to the famous Teufelsrad, or Devil’s Wheel.
At the centre of the controversy are the four brightly painted women that have stood above the entrance to the Devil’s Wheel for around 80 years. But for the 2026 Oktoberfest, the city administration demanded changes to their appearance.
The four figures depict women in different outfits. One wears a blue dirndl, another a very short green dress, another jeans, while the fourth, a Hawaiian woman, sits barefoot and lightly dressed on top of the attraction.
Three of the figures were apparently considered too revealing by the city. Their necklines were deemed too low and their skirts too short. The depiction was classified as “sexist” by the Office for Women’s Equality.
The operator, Elisabeth Polaczy, was presented with a letter from the Office for Women’s Equality when she submitted her application last autumn. The letter contained suggestions for a “somewhat more diverse Devil’s Wheel.”
The consequence was that the figures were quickly “dressed.” White blouses, tops and long underwear were painted onto them. The woman in the short green dress was given long underwear extending past her knees. Even the Hawaiian woman was given shoes. According to the operator, the equality office considered it discriminatory to depict her barefoot when the other figures were wearing footwear.
The city’s intervention apparently went further. According to Polaczy, it was even suggested that one of the female figures be transformed into a man. That proposal was ultimately not implemented. The four figures remain women, although they now appear considerably more modest than they did previously.
The controversy has also prompted accusations of a double standard in the city’s approach to public displays of sexuality and revealing clothing.
The Munich Pride, the city’s Christopher Street Day celebrations held from June 11 to 28, featured people in every imaginable costume, including some who were half-naked or almost naked, but that clearly did not bother the city’s Office for Women’s Equality and Democracy Unit: they have an issue only with traditional imagery used at the Oktoberfest.
The Munich CSU reacted with outrage. Parliamentary group leader Manuel Pretzl said
Anyone who suddenly declares 80-year-old figures on the Devil’s Wheel to be a problem because bare feet are visible or a figure is not wearing cycling shorts has lost all sense of proportion.
Their skin colors are reported, but not their ethnicity or religion. However, everyone in Germany understands what is left unstated — these are Muslim migrants.More on these pool predators can be found here: “German police arrest large dark-skinned man for sexually assaulting 11-year-old girls,” Remix News, August 19, 2026:
Two different sexual assault targeting young female minors occurred nearly at the same time on Saturday in swimming pools in close proximity to one another, with one of the suspects still on the run.
At around 3:45 p.m., a dark-skinned male was arrested for sexually assaulting two 11-year-old girls at an outdoor swimming pool in the German city of Untersteinbach. The man allegedly touched their thighs and legs in the water, with pool staff moving in to detain the man until police arrived.
Police have not released the man’s nationality, but he was described in the police report as 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds. Furthermore, they said the man was a 37-year-old with dark skin and was 1.83 meters tall, or 6 feet tall. He has black, curly hair and a “high forehead,” according to the Tag24 news outlet, according to Tag24 news outlet.…
These once “beautiful” swimming pools are now places where Muslim predators seek out young girls for a bit of furtive frottage. Many get away with it, while others, when caught, get a lecture and a slap on the wrist. There are solutions. One is to post policemen at every public pool, at considerable expense. Another is to ban men altogether from these public pools, which deprives law-abiding non-Muslim men of swimming opportunities.
These are temporary fixes. What is needed is a solution not just to these sexual assaults at pools, but to the Muslim wave of sexual assaults and rapes all over the land. And this goes to the heart of the matter, that so far only the Alternative für Deutschland party has made central to its political platform. That is to grasp the nettle of immigration reform, and end altogether the entry of still more Muslims into Germany.
That can be justified on the grounds of public safety. Muslims make up 6.5% of the population in Germany, but close to 30% of the country’s imprisoned criminals, and more than 40% of its rapists. The German government should, at the same time, deport all Muslim migrants convicted of crimes at the conclusion of their imprisonment. It should also, on economic grounds, deport Muslim migrants who have remained on the dole, choosing to live on all the benefits the generous German welfare state provides, and being in no hurry to be gainfully employed. In 2025, benefits for migrants, overwhelmingly Muslim, cost the German state 28.5 billion euros, a colossal sum. This is not sustainable.
None of this can happen, however, as long as Chancellor Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party runs the country. However, all the polls show that the anti-Muslim immigrant party, Alternative für Deutschland, with the redoubtable Alice Weidel at its head, has now pulled ahead of the CDU, and in the next election, may come in first, and then govern by forming a coalition with the center-right CDU.
The other parties have erected a “firewall” (Brandmauer), meaning that they refuse to join a coalition with the AfD, but that opposition appears to be softening as the Muslim migrant problem becomes ever more acute. A few high-profile Islamic attacks in Germany should push the CDU into abandoning that “firewall” and joining a coalition the AfD leads. And then the Muslim migrant problem can at last be tackled.
At least 100 children under the age of 12 have been referred to the Government’s forced marriage unit in the past five years, shocking new Government figures have revealed.
The data, obtained by a freedom of information request, has raised concerns ahead of schools reopening – with one campaigner warning “there will be missing children”.
The total disturbingly includes 27 children under the age of five, Home Office figures obtained by the Press Association revealed.
Forcing someone to marry is a criminal offence across the UK and in 2023 the legal age of marriage was raised from 16 to 18 in England and Wales.
Referrals can be made to the forced marriage unit (FMU), which operates across the UK, by police, social services and education professionals, friends, family members, colleagues or victims themselves who might seek support and guidance.
Dame Jasvinder Sanghera, who ran away from her Derby home aged 14 when faced with the prospect of a forced marriage, said the number of children under the aged of five was “deeply disturbing”.
She added that, in some cases, a child can be “promised to somebody from birth”, with the marriage taking place many years later.
She said: “I know that when schools open in September, there will be missing children.
“The opportunity to identify them was pre-school holidays. Is somebody going to ask where they are, or are they simply just going to go off school roll?
“Or children will come back engaged or even married.”
The data covered the years between 2021 to 2025, but some years were not disclosed due to the very small number of individual involved, which could potentially allow them to be identified.
But the figures show that at least 100 children up to the age of 12 were referred across the five-year period, of which 62 were aged 10 or below, with 27 aged five or under.
The Home Office noted that a referral means some details were provided about an actual, potential or suspected forced marriage, but does not necessarily mean a forced marriage has taken place.
Dame Jasvinder, who received a damehood for services to the victims of child, forced marriage and honour-based abuse, said the true level of forced marriage is likely to be higher as there is “inevitably going to be a high number of children and adults whose situations never reach statutory services”.
Dr Rakib Ehsan, a social policy analyst, agreed, telling GB News that “many of these cases never reach the statutory services”.
“What this has exposed is the dark underbelly of modern, multicultural Britain,” he told The People’s Channel.
The academic warned against public institutions being afraid to confront issues such as forced marriage.
He said: “What we need to really challenge is the culture within certain public institutions, statutory services, for fear of being accused of racism and being bigoted against certain communities. What they need to do is prioritise their duty of care.”
Dame Jasvinder, a charity founder, said it was the “tactics of perpetrators” to hide behind accusations of racism.
“So they will try to put you on the back foot. ‘This is our culture. This is our religion. You’re being racist’ or whatever, to put you on the back foot, to make you look the other way.”
Encouraging teachers and professionals to report concerns, she added: “Cultural acceptance does not mean accepting the unacceptable.”
Dr Ehsan said “glamour feminism” often focused on how “women are treated in sort of the higher echelons of more glamorous industries” at the expense of more challenging problems.
“But when it comes to the nitty gritty of traditional feminism, challenging issues such as forced marriage, many liberal progressives, they are nowhere to be seen,” he added.
The Home Office said forced marriage is “not a problem specific to one country, religion or culture; there is no archetypal victim or perpetrator, and no 2 cases are the same”.
The figures also show there were nine referrals in 2022 of children aged 12 or under which had no overseas element, with the potential or actual forced marriage taking place entirely within the UK.
The Home Office did not give data for the other years, as there were between zero and five cases in each age group, meaning there was the risk of individuals being identified.
The department also declined to provide the age of the youngest person referred to the unit in the last five calendar years, saying this could potentially lead them to be identified and that disclosure “could potentially deter others coming forward”.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “There is nothing more important than the safety of our children.
“Our strengthened keeping children safe in education guidance provides staff with robust information to help identify different types of abuse and harm – including abusive behaviour such as forced marriage – and clearly sets out what all school staff should know and do, and how to respond to any concerns about a child.
“Our new RSHE (relationships, sex and health education) curriculum will also teach pupils from this September about positive relationships, staying safe, recognising and reporting risks and abuse – with different forms of abuse addressed sensitively and clearly at appropriate ages.”
Australia’s populist One Nation has claimed a major electoral breakthrough in Western Australia, capturing the state seat of Secret Harbor and dealing a major defeat to leftist Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his governing Labor Party.
One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen secured approximately 57 percent of the two-party-preferred vote against Labor’s Georgia Tree.
The result marks an important breakthrough for Pauline Hanson’s party, demonstrating its growing national support.
The by-election was triggered by the midterm retirement of senior Labor Minister Paul Papalia.
One Nation’s Western Australian leader, Rod Caddies, declared victory on Saturday evening, predicting the result would send “shock waves across the entire country.”
“There are no safe Labor seats in this state or in this country any more,” Caddies said.
One Nation can win seats off Labor that the Coalition couldn’t dream of winning. The result in Secret Harbour puts paid do the myth that we only take votes off the coalition. Labor voters on a historic scale swung to One Nation. This was one of WA Labor’s safest seats. pic.twitter.com/XlDsYKR23w
Hanson similarly hailed the result as evidence that her party is becoming a serious electoral force capable of challenging Australia’s two major parties.
“The result in Secret Harbour should be a warning to Labor, we’re coming for more of your seats,” she wrote on X.
“Australians are choosing One Nation as a serious alternative to the tired old uni-party who have destroyed our nations economic prowess.”
One Nation has taken a seat where the Liberals have never been able to challenge Labor.
We are the only party that can take the fight to Anthony Albanese where the Liberal Party never could.
Because Australians are looking for someone who will actually stand up for them.
Former Nationals leader and current One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said the victory demonstrated that the party’s strong polling numbers were translating into actual votes.
“Politics has changed,” Joyce said, arguing that One Nation was increasingly attracting former Labor supporters.
One Nation campaigns on lower immigration, tougher law and order, Australian economic nationalism, opposition to net-zero policies, and resistance to progressive policies on race and gender.
The result was also a bruising one for the establishment Liberal Party, which finished a distant third with just 17 percent of the primary vote.
Liberal frontbencher Jonno Duniam conceded the party had suffered a bad result.
“That is not a good outcome for my party, and it’s one that we need to look hard at and rectify,” Duniam said.
The result gives One Nation a notable foothold in Western Australia and bolsters its hopes of taking further seats in the future.
An independent research project has tied members of infamous child rape grooming gangs in Britain to criminal networks operating throughout the country, suggesting a link between the sexual exploitation of often young white working-class girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men and organised crime groups operating in the United Kingdom.
Launched online this week, the “Network Map” has identified at least 150 criminals or organised crime groups to groom child rapists after compiling publicly available police and court records, in conjunction with interviews from survivors and information from campaigners and journalists.
In an attempt to provide the public with a fuller picture than previously provided by police and previous reports on the nature of grooming gangs, the project has published links between over a thousand grooming gang child predators and drug networks, family members of various organised crime groups, and even “notable individuals” such as councillors and police officers with alleged mob ties.
The project claimed to have demonstrated that such connections were critical in the effort to traffic grooming gang victims across the country. While some ties were bound to exist, given that grooming gangs often coerced their underage victims by plying them with alcohol and getting them addicted to drugs, the scale of the connections has not been laid out.
Hence, the researchers involved in the Network Map have requested that their identities remain anonymous, for fear of retribution for exposing criminality up and down Britain.
In addition to tying grooming gang members to specific criminals or their associates, the project also identified specific routes by which organised crime groups trafficked young girls throughout the country, notably including multiple routes in and out of London.
Long rumoured as a potential uncovered hub of grooming gang activity, London is set to be the subject of the impending statutory inquiry alongside grooming hubs such as Bradford and Oldham.
The inquiry was reluctantly launched by the previous government of Sir Keir Starmer in the wake of a report last year by Baroness Louise Casey, which found that it was the case that Pakistani Muslim men were significantly overrepresented among grooming gang offenders and that they appeared to have specifically targeted white British girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Casey review also confirmed assertions of previous inquiries that police and local officials had downplayed or directly covered up the exploits of grooming gangs out of politically correct concerns, including fearing being labelled as racist or sparking ethnic tensions.
Pakistani heritage London Mayor Sadiq Khan has publicly attempted to claim that the city he governs does not have an issue with grooming gangs. However, he has admitted that the British capital does suffer from other organised crime, including so-called “county lines” drug trafficking groups.
Should the statutory inquiry unveil grooming gang operations in London, it would likely prove politically damaging to Khan, who faces an upcoming re-election race in 2028. Both Khan and recently installed Prime Minister Andy Burnham — who previously served as Mayor of Manchester — have faced accusations from campaigners of covering up grooming in their cities.
The suspect during his livestream and posing with a Palestinian flag. Photo: X screenshot
A migrant attacked and injured four people with a knife in Amsterdam whilst livestreaming the incident online. It is reported that, for unknown reasons, an argument had previously broken out between the suspect and his subsequent victims. In the video footage, some of the victims can reportedly be heard shouting “Don’t touch us” several times. The suspect is then said to have replied that he was not afraid to take on six or seven men. “You’re all getting knocked to the ground.” The victims, as well as the suspect, who also sustained injuries, were taken to hospital following the incident. The 43-year-old suspect is believed to be an influencer named Angelo Bryson. He became known for his pro-Palestinian content and is said to have recently converted to Islam.
🇳🇱 3 people were stabbed near Amsterdam's largest railway station today, while the attacker livestreaming the assault.
Another day, another stabbing in Europe that will be dismissed as a rare, isolated incident by politicians
Bryson is of Curaçaoan origin. He is said to have recently posted a photo showing him with Stephan van Baarle, a politician from the Dutch migrant party Denk. Following the incident, Bryson’s supporters spread the claim online that the victims had been “white racists” and had verbally attacked him beforehand.
Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) : un TikToker musculation, se mettant en scène près de passants dans une gare, se dit harcelé par des hommes qu'il décrit comme ivres… L'influenceur sort un couteau et les attaque, le tout en directhttps://t.co/zFlpykc11Jpic.twitter.com/YLSsL5MXDg
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