Month: October 2026

German Federal Police recorded 98,026 crimes at train stations and on trains in the first half of 2026, with foreign nationals substantially overrepresented among identified suspects in violent, property and sexual offenses relative to their share of the population. In the crime of sexual offenses, foreigners represented 53 percent of suspects.

The figures, provided by the Interior Ministry in response to a parliamentary inquiry from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) group, exclude high-volume offenses such as fare evasion. They include roughly 14,000 violent crimes, 1,104 sexual offenses, about 24,000 property crimes, approximately 16,000 cases of property damage, nearly 4,500 drug offenses, and 796 weapons offenses, according to German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.

For sexual offenses, 53 percent of known suspects were non-German, with Syrians, Poles and Afghans again ranking highest.

Among suspects of known nationality in violent crimes, 5,596 were German citizens and 4,631 were non-German, meaning foreign nationals accounted for about 45 percent of identified suspects. The most frequent non-German nationalities were Syrian (581), Polish (575), Ukrainian (439) and Afghan (351).

In property crimes, non-Germans made up 56.4 percent of known suspects, ,948 versus 5,283 Germans, led by Poles, Ukrainians and Romanians.

Foreign nationals make up roughly 15 percent of Germany’s population of about 83 million, according to federal statistics. The share of non-German suspects in these categories is therefore several times higher than their population proportion.

Similar overrepresentation has appeared in prior years’ data for stations and trains, including elevated rates in knife-related and sexual offenses.

In 44 cases of people being pushed onto the tracks, 16 of the 25 suspects with known nationality were foreign nationals. Knife attacks totaled 141 at stations and 54 on trains. Attacks on Federal Police officers and railway staff also featured notable shares of non-German suspects among those identified.

The stations with the highest overall crime counts included Cologne Central Station (2,664), Hamburg (2,662) and Frankfurt (2,226). For violent crimes, Leipzig recorded the most (397), followed by Hanover and Frankfurt.

AfD lawmaker Martin Hess called the numbers a “security policy declaration of bankruptcy” by the government, highlighting the prominence of Syrian suspects in violence and sexual offenses and arguing that stations and trains were being turned into areas of fear.

It is important to note that for all German suspects, there is no information available out their migration background. In many cases, it has been discovered through the analysis of first names of these suspects that at least half of them have foreign names, such as in the category of gang rape.

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Dr. Stoner will see you now. Sorry, Dr. Stoner is actually not available. Would you like to see Dr. Beheader instead? Also, we have Dr. Hasan Chop Off Arm on staff here at the NHS where socialized medicine offers you the highest standards of Pakistani medicine.

The designer of a controversial ‘Palestine poppy’ is an Oxford-educated NHS paediatrician who has written books for teenagers on Islam that justify stoning.

Abdul Qader Ismail, 41, from Birmingham, describes himself as a ‘middle-aged, cake-baking, horror movie-watching, British-Pakistani, Muslim’ father-of-two.

Who likes moonlight walks on the beach and stoning infidels.

Dr Ismail’s series of books, entitled An Introduction to Challenging Topics for Muslim Teens, covers concepts such as stoning and homosexuality for a readership of older children. It is available for sale via Amazon and Waterstones, published by Islamic publishing house Invitation Publishing.

I remember when Amazon banned the Confederate flag, but apparently stoning people is okay.

In the first volume, Dr Ismail suggests punishments such as stoning are justified because they prevent Muslims from engaging in forbidden acts and ultimately ‘mov[ing] away from Islam’.

This way they can run really fast from Islam… assuming they can outrun stones.

The Spectator reports that Dr Ismail is a member of the Green Party and that he sponsored the controversial ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion at the party conference. It has since emerged that the motion’s proposer, Lubna Speitan, was described in US court documents as the ‘friend’ of a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist and once said she would be ‘happily labelled an “anti-Semitic Hamas terrorist”‘.

I don’t know. If your medical system depends on importing doctors who justify stoning people to death, maybe something has gone wrong along the way.

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The U.K.’s National Health Service has taken another step toward purging transgender ideology from hospitals.

According to new guidance published on October 15, trans-identifying patients will now be placed in hospital wards that accord to their sex rather than their self-professed “gender identity.”

This is a direct reversal of NHS England’s 2019 guidance, which formally instructed hospitals to place trans-identifying patients in wards that accorded to their “gender identity” rather than their sex. This reversal was not voluntary; the new guidance makes it crystal clear that the NHS was forced to make the changes based on the court rulings:

The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone in Britain from discrimination based on 9 protected characteristics. To support providers of single-sex services, including NHS organisations, to interpret the Equality Act, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued a revised Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations. In line with the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers, which clarified the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010, the code of practice says that single-sex services, such as hospital accommodation, should be provided on the basis of “biological sex.”

Therefore, to maintain hospital accommodation as single sex under the Equality Act 2010, trans people and others with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment should be accommodated in line with their biological sex, while also ensuring that: (i) clinical needs are met, and (ii) privacy, dignity and safety are maintained for all, including other patients sharing that accommodation.

READ: Spanish bishop to LGBT activists: ‘You have much to offer the Church’

Previously, trans-identifying patients could utilize single-sex accommodations that did not accord to their sex, but that, too, has been reversed. NHS staff have now been told that they may only consider alternatives “such as single‑occupancy or mixed-sex facilities with individual lockable rooms” which “can be provided to allow access to facilities in a way that respects privacy and dignity and supports inclusion of all staff.”

After the 2019 guidance implementing gender ideology took effect, nurses faced discipline and even suspension for “misgendering” patients (including, in one particularly egregious instance, a trans-identifying pedophile); for objecting to trans-identifying men in their changerooms; and for saying they felt “unsafe” with trans-identifying males watching them undress. Some nurses who complained were told that they needed “re-education,” and pro-LGBT groups demanded that they become more accepting. Now, those nurses have won.

LGBT groups – which showed zero compassion or understanding for the women expected to share private spaces with visibly male trans-identifying patients or staff – are outraged. According to TransActual and the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance: “Forcing trans patients into the wrong wards is unnecessary and unsafe – this is a policy that places politics above patient care.” The National Survivor User Network: “Trans patients deserve better – to be supported in spaces that align with their gender, to develop trusting relationships with healthcare staff, and to be free from medical discrimination.”

The women who have fought long and hard for this return to sanity, however, were thrilled with the new guidance – although cautious due to the NHS’s previous track record. Bethany Hutchison, a nurse who successfully sued her hospital after a male was permitted to use the female changerooms, called it “clear and necessary guidance” but noted that “the test is now whether NHS trusts will actually follow it.”

Maya Forstater of Sex Matters concurred, calling the guidance “a momentous shift back to reality” while noting that “NHS patient data is a mess, with potentially thousands of trans-identifying people recorded as the opposite sex.”

“This is welcome and long-overdue guidance,” said Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre, which has defended medical personnel persecuted for speaking out. “It has taken a long-fought battle, led by courageous women such as the Darlington nurses, to put biological reality back at the heart of NHS policy. But an important gap remains. The guidance does not give NHS staff the clarity and protection they need over pronoun use.”

“Jennifer Melle was investigated, disciplined and referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council after declining to use female pronouns for a biologically male patient,” Williams noted. “She was eventually cleared, but no nurse should have to endure that ordeal for using biologically accurate language. NHS England must now make clear that healthcare professionals cannot be compelled to use preferred pronouns or penalised for declining to express beliefs about gender identity that they do not hold.”

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In Belgium, protests mirroring the ongoing riots in France began in Liège on October 1 and spread to Mons, Charleroi, and Brussels. By October 9, Liège police had recorded 194 arrests, including 114 minors, and 43 injured officers. The city imposed a ban on gatherings of more than three people.

RTL footage and RTBF reporting documented the presence of RedFox, the secondary school youth movement of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (Parti du Travail de Belgique, or PTB), at the protests. RTBF’s investigation also found far-left activists distributing leaflets. Masked youths who admitted they were not from Liège described a pattern of stirring up the crowd and then inciting destruction.

RedFox’s leader denied that either the PTB or RedFox was responsible for the violence. The Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (Confédération des Syndicats Chrétiens, or CSC) and CGSP Enseignement, the education branch of the General Confederation of Public Services, declared their support for the students.

Georges-Louis Bouchez, chairman of the Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur, or MR), accused the PTB of manipulating students. The far-left collective Bruxelles Dévie (Brussels Deviates) condemned the gathering ban imposed by Liège’s Socialist mayor, Willy Demeyer, as authoritarian.

On October 9, the socialist General Labour Federation of Belgium (Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique, or FGTB) and the CSC held a national demonstration in Brussels against the federal government’s budget plans. The FGTB claimed 50,000 participants, while police counted 30,000. According to the FGTB, the march included many young people, students, and teachers. PTB president Raoul Hedebouw attended the demonstration.

Before and after the march, hundreds of masked youths dressed in black confronted police, throwing sticks, trash bins, glass bottles, and fireworks, even though the FGTB president had urged rioters to stay home. Police counted about a thousand rioters and more than 100 arrests.

Defense Minister Theo Francken accused the PTB of links to the violence at the October 9 march. In an October 12 response, PTB general secretary Peter Mertens wrote that Francken had blamed “Hedebouw’s antifa shock troops.” Mertens said the incidents had nothing to do with the demonstration. He accused the government of trying to criminalize the opposition, citing the Quintin bill, which would allow the executive to act against organizations it considers too radical.

In Germany, the first organized action was a solidarity rally on October 8 in front of the French Embassy at Pariser Platz. It was called by Berlin Insoumise, the local branch of France’s LFI (La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, a far-left political party), and the Neukölln and Mitte chapters of Die Linke (The Left).

Supporters included Linksjugend Solid Neukölln (Left Youth Solid Neukölln), SDS Berlin (Socialist Democratic Students’ Association Berlin), and Klasse Gegen Klasse (Class Against Class). Other supporters were Sozialismus von Unten (Socialism from Below), Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht (Workers’ Power Group), Revolution, and Die Linke’s Palestine-solidarity working group (Klasse Gegen Klasse). The organizers demanded the release of more than 5,000 people arrested in France.

On October 12, about 150 students blockaded the French Gymnasium in Berlin’s Tiergarten district in solidarity with French students. A school in Hamburg was blocked with trash bins days later. On October 16, school strike committees organized another Berlin blockade under the banner “Schulstreik gegen die Wehrpflicht” (“School Strike Against Conscription”). Members of Linksjugend Solid, Klasse Gegen Klasse, and the GEW education union (Education and Science Workers’ Union) were on site.

The October 17 solidarity rally at Kleistpark was called by Linksjugend Solid, Die Linke’s Neukölln and Mitte chapters, and the Berlin branch of LFI. According to the Berliner Zeitung, a member of Linksjugend’s Berlin state board registered the rally.

About 250 people attended, few of them students. Participants carried flags of LFI, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Germany, and the Turkish Workers’ Party (TIP) (Tagesspiegel). Signs read “Mort au Roi” (“Death to the King”), and organizers announced a European day of action for November.

The Berlin police union GdP (Police Trade Union) warned that radical forces, chiefly Linksjugend Solid, could hijack the protests. Calls for French-style protests are circulating on TikTok ahead of anti-conscription demonstrations on October 31.

In both countries, left-wing youth organizations and political parties have participated in or supported the protests. Belgium has seen serious rioting, while Germany so far has seen school blockades and small rallies.

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Six EPR2 reactors—the backbone of France’s energy independence—are stuck in bureaucratic limbo while the European Commission plays its favorite game: strangling national champion

One year of paralysis created by the EU on purpose under the pretext of “competition.” This is not a technical delay. It is a deliberate act of political sabotage.

The facts are stark. France needs these reactors. They represent the only serious path to reliable, low-carbon baseload power at scale. Yet the Commission has refused to green-light the project. Construction has not advanced an inch.

According to reporting in French daily Les Échos, discussions with Brussels have been tense for more than twelve months. Competition officials claim EDF is simply “too big.” One source close to the company put it bluntly: it is not France’s fault that Germany and Italy failed to build operators of comparable size. On the question of state support and possible concessions, the same source observed that the two sides could argue for fifteen hours—or fifteen years.

Another interlocuteur cut to the heart of the matter: the Commission and its services reason purely in commercial market terms and refuse to acknowledge the strategic character of French energy policy.

That last point is decisive. Energy is not a commodity like shoes or smartphones. It is the foundation of industrial power, national security, and social stability. France’s nuclear fleet has for decades given the country a decisive advantage: cheap, dispatchable electricity that does not depend on the weather or on Russian gas. Dispatchable electricity refers to power sources that grid operators can turn on, turn off, or adjust up and down on demand to balance real-time energy supply and demand. Common examples include natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydropower, and battery storage systems.

The EPR2 program is the logical next step—standardized, improved, and designed for serial construction. Therefore, blocking it is not neutral regulation, but the systematic dismantling of a national asset.

Germany’s role is impossible to ignore. Berlin spent years shutting down its own nuclear plants while expanding coal and relying on intermittent renewables. Now, through the mechanisms of the single market and the Commission’s competition directorate, it exerts pressure to prevent France from consolidating a superior model.

The goal is transparent: weaken EDF, raise French electricity costs, and force Paris into the same fragile energy mix that has already damaged German industry. European “solidarity” here means the lowest common denominator—shared vulnerability rather than shared strength.

The Commission’s obsession with market purity is selective and hypocritical. State aid rules are applied with maximum severity against French nuclear while other forms of industrial policy elsewhere receive softer treatment. Strategic autonomy is praised in speeches about batteries, semiconductors, and defense, yet when France tries to secure its own electricity supply, the same officials suddenly discover that size is a problem and that public support distorts competition.

It has no legal foundation because it is ideology dressed up as technocracy.

The deeper issue is sovereignty. An entity that claims the right to decide whether a major European nation may build power plants on its own soil has ceased to be a cooperative framework and has become a mechanism of control. The European project was sold in France as a means of amplifying French influence. In practice it has become a device for diluting it.

Rules written in Brussels, interpreted by officials who view national champions with suspicion, now dictate the tempo of France’s most critical infrastructure. The result is delay, uncertainty, and rising costs—precisely when speed and scale are essential.

France cannot continue treating these constraints as inevitable. Energy policy is not a secondary dossier to be negotiated indefinitely with competition lawyers. It is a core function of the state. Accepting permanent supervision by an institution that prioritizes abstract market theory over concrete national interest is a choice, not a necessity.

That choice has already cost a full year of lost progress. Every additional month of blockage compounds the damage: industrial competitiveness erodes, the nuclear supply chain loses momentum, and the credibility of long-term planning collapses.

The European Union is no longer the solution to continental problems; it has become one of the problems. Its decision-making is suspect, its priorities are skewed toward the interests of Atlanticists, and its institutions display open hostility to any national strategy that threatens the preferred narrative of managed decline.

The blockage of the EPR2 program is a symptom of a larger failure: an organization that cannot deliver energy security, industrial strength, or strategic coherence, yet still demands obedience.

A political construction that systematically undermines the capacity of its strongest members to provide for themselves is not sustainable. It is already showing the cracks—paralysis on critical infrastructure, internal contradictions on energy, and a growing gap between rhetoric and results. France’s interest lies in reclaiming the freedom to act. The alternative is continued subordination to a crumbling edifice that prefers rules over results and theory over power.

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An Islamic terrorist who broke into Britain via small boat has been spotted shopping in King Charles’ local Co-op after being allowed to stay in the country.

Iraqi national Mohammed Yaseen was previously a member of Al-Qaeda and an Islamic State terror cell which routinely carried out large-scale executions.

After being released onto Britain’s streets following a six-month stint in prison, Yaseen has been living at a bail hostel in Windsor, which is just a stone’s throw away from Windsor Castle.

The convicted terrorist was seen leaving a Co-op location near the monarch’s residence last week.

The Iraqi national has since been recalled to prison after breaching good behaviour conditions imposed upon him following his release.

During his trial at Winchester Crown Court for his illegal entry into Britain, prosecutor Steven Molloy described Yaseen as having a “lengthy involvement in terrorism and Islamic extremist ideology”.

During proceedings, jurors heard he had provided a false name to officials at the border to avoid his past being unearthed.

His arrival into Britain came after he served almost five years behind bars in Germany over his membership of Islamic State.

Despite concerns being raised over the threat Yaseen poses to the British public, the Foreign Office reportedly expressed fears he could face “mistreatment” if returned to Iraq.

The Iraqi national has reapplied to remain in Britain, grinding any Home Office attempts to deport him to a halt.

Anger is also brewing the British taxpayer could be forced to fork out up to £500,000 in legal aid to the terrorist should he take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Yaseen’s upkeep at the taxpayer’s expense could cost up to £85,000 as the Home Office forks out for his accommodation, food allowance and monitoring, experts told The Mail on Sunday.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “We are paying through the nose to feed, clothe and house individuals who pose a clear threat.

“If Andy Burnham took this seriously, he would deport this man at once.”

In 2020, a court in Dusseldorf, Germany was told Yaseen had participated in bomb attack which killed US personnel in Iraq.

Jurors also heard the Iraqi national had been deployed by Isis as a security guard for mass executions, stonings and beheadings.

Some of the massacres are said to have seen women and children killed.

The German court also heard Yaseen planted more than a dozen bombs around Ar-Rutbah in western Iraq when he was a teenage member of Al Qaeda.

Yaseen arrived in Germany during the height of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015 and swiftly claimed asylum under Angela Merkel’s watch.

His history of terrorism was not discovered by German authorities, and he worked as a barber in North Rhine-Westphalia.

He was arrested in 2018 alongside three other Iraqi men after police received a tip-off.

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It’s a historic flag of the Islamic conquest of Christians and Jews.

Why do the rioters trashing Paris wave the ‘Palestinian’ flag? Because to them, France is Israel and they’re the ‘Palestinians’ out to destroy it and replace it with their own terrorist state.

The ‘white’ in the ‘Palestinian’ flag represents the Umayyad caliphate which had once invaded France, conquered Narbonne, and genocided its Christian population, until it was thrown back by indigenous Christian resistance at the Battle of Toulouse and the Battle of Tours.

The past Islamic conquest of France is just one of the symbols in the ‘Palestinian’ flag.

The ubiquitous presence of the ‘Palestinian’ flag at riots from New York City to Milan isn’t an expression of solidarity: it’s a statement of genocidal intent for every country where it’s flown. Its colors represent the historic Islamic caliphates which once ethnically cleansed the Middle East.

Every place in the world is just a few million Muslims away from becoming another Israel. And Israel is a symbol of what the mobs intend to do to Europe and every nation they invade.

There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ and that’s the whole point. Communists and Islamists came together and used the ‘decolonization’ movement to create an imaginary counter-state to justify a colonial campaign of genocidal murders, bombings and raids against the indigenous Jewish population. When France retreated from Algeria and allowed the Communist and Islamic terrorist alliance to ethnically cleanse its Christian and Jewish population, the Algerian Arab Muslims moved to France and they are picking up where they left off with riots and rapes.

Why aren’t they waving the Algerian flag, then? Some are, but not all of them are Algerians.

The ‘Palestinian’ flag symbolizes the ability of Muslims to move to any country and then take it over. That’s what makes it a better symbol for what they are doing than any national flag or any flag short of the traditional Islamic battle flag waved by end-stage ISIS and Al Qaeda militias.

There is a grim irony in the ‘Palestinian’ gear at the riots destroying European cities since it was all created by Europeans looking to give Arab Muslims a fake weaponized identity. The ‘Palestinian’ anthem was composed by Mikis Theodorakis, a Greek Communist composer best known for the Zorba the Greek soundtrack, and the ‘Palestinian’ flag is a variation of the Flag of the Arab Revolt created by Mark Sykes, a British politician, to inspire a sense of nationalism in the Arab Muslims fighting the Ottoman Empire. Instead, he created an all-purpose flag of Islamic conquest that is still being used today to conquer his native England.

Marxists complain about British colonialism and then wave a flag created by British colonialism.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement helped create various fake Arab Muslim countries, and the colors of the ‘Palestinian’ flag were supposed to represent three past Islamic caliphates: the Umayyads, who wiped out the Christian strongholds of North Africa and colonized Spain, Abbasids, and the Fatimids, who conquered Jerusalem, but replaced the Ottoman red with the ‘Hashemite’ red.

The British had hoped to use the red to set up the Hashemite puppet dynasty to rule the Arab Muslim world, but the only remaining Hashemite king is on the shaky Jordanian throne. Jordan, along with Sudan and the UAE, uses virtually identical versions of the ‘Palestinian’ flag. The same colors appear in the flags of Kuwait, Syria and Iraq. And even more loosely Egypt.

Fortunately the red in the Palestinian/Arab Revolt Flag also matches the red in the Cuban flag and doubles as the red in Communist flags. Red was also used by the final Umayyad caliph and symbolizes ‘revenge’ in Shiite Islam. The rest of the colors represent the various Arab Islamic caliphates that subjugated the Christian and Jewish populations of the Middle East.

The flag that Mark Sykes unthinkingly created to inspire Arab Muslim jihadis fighting the Ottomans by reminding them of their past conquests is now being waved to conquer Europe.

Arab Muslims understand what the ‘Palestinian’ flag means even if their Marxist allies don’t.

The black in the Flag of the Arab Revolt represented the Abbasid Caliphate. As does the black ISIS flag. The Abbasids and ISIS were both inspired by the Islamic myth of the “black standards out of Khorasan” that were supposed to usher in the final Islamic takeover of the world. The black also dated back to the original battle flag of Mohammed: Islam’s founding warlord.

The ISIS flag and the ‘Palestinian’ flag share a common symbolism. The black color in the PLO flag represents Mohammed’s original conquests, the Abbasid Caliphate’s enslavement and forcible conversion of Christians, and the expectation of ‘end times’ Islamic rule over the world.

Radicals who wave the PLO flag claim that it’s a protest against genocide: it is genocide. The colors of the ‘Palestinian’ flag represent a bloody history of Islamic genocides across 1,000 years. The colors of the ‘Palestinian’ flag are a symbolic litany of past Islamic conquests and the promise of future conquests ending with the subjugation of the entire human race.

The PLO flag may be waved by both radical leftists and Islamists, but its symbolic history promises victory for only one of those movements. The revolution is actually a caliphate.

It’s not about Israel. The whole point of demonizing Israel is to also demonize self-defense against Islam. Pick a target, polarize it, freeze it is also a good trick for international affairs. No one wants to be Israel, and so the mobs get to burn down Paris. And then all of Europe.

They cry about genocide, but the true genocide is symbolized by the genocidal flag they fly.

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In a swift response to an outbreak of French-style youth unrest in Milan, Giorgia Meloni’s government has approved a decree empowering police and prosecutors to pursue rioters, including those under 18.

Following an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers in Rome on Tuesday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced a raft of new policing and judicial powers to confront the multicultural movement, which saw hundreds detained, looting, arson, and attacks on police in central Milan on Saturday and Sunday.

Prime Minister Meloni said that while her government was already planning to introduce legislation targeting youth hoodlums, the new “decree on juvenile security and crime” will allow the measures to be implemented immediately, Italian public wire service ANSA reported.

“We have all seen the images of the violence that shocked Milan and other Italian cities over the weekend: shops looted, windows smashed, and law enforcement officers attacked.
These are unacceptable scenes that no one can even think of minimising or justifying, which is why today the Council of Ministers approved a decree with new measures to prevent and combat this violence,” she said.

A new crime of violent participation in a protest was created by the decree, meaning that if you join a demonstration of more than five people in which stones, firecrackers, sticks or other implements are used to endanger the safety of others, you will face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 20,000 euros ($22.5k). If a participant wears a mask or other face covering, injures others, or causes destruction, the penalties will increase.

Meloni said the decree also includes a vandals-pay clause, which she said will follow the “simple principle” of “whoever breaks the law pays, and if the person breaking the law is a minor, their parents pay.”

“How does it work? If the damage is to public property—a bus shelter, a traffic light, a van—the prefect sends the owner a payment order. If the damage is to a private individual—a shop window, a store, a car—the owner goes to the judge and obtains an immediately enforceable injunction,” she explained.

Dozens Arrested After Multicultural Riots Outside of Milan’s Duomo Cathedralhttps://t.co/YsrqQSLjgP

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 18, 2026

Speaking from the Palazzo Chigi, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio added that “to stem this phenomenon that has affected our cities in recent days,” the decree allows for the justice system to presume that minors over the age of 14 have the “capacity to understand and decide” whether or not to engage in public violence and rioting.

Nordio added that the decree will also create a new crime of using a computer or other electronic device to promote the formation of a violent demonstration, with a penalty of between four and 12 years in prison.

In addition to changing the law, the government approved deploying 500 soldiers to Milan to help local police prevent further rioting.

It came after two days of mayhem in the northern Italian city over the weekend, which saw 200 police officers injured during fights with so-called cost-of-living protesters. Over 270 people were detained during the demonstrations, including 220 minors, many of whom hail from migrant communities.

Separately, on Tuesday, 11 minors were placed under house arrest for alleged involvement in the riots and looting and destruction.

The changes to the criminal code were hailed by Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the populist League (Lega) party, Matteo Salvini, who said: “He who errs pays. Because he who smashes a shop window or assaults a sales clerk is not a revolutionary: HE’S A FUCKING IDIOT.”

Salvini said that his party will push for legislation to further strengthen the state, including by allowing the government to strip citizenship or residence permits from migrants who commit crimes and to bar minors from receiving citizenship in Italy if they deal drugs, loot, or vandalise.

Meloni Government to Deploy 500 Soldiers to Support Milan Police Against French-Style Youth Riotershttps://t.co/iuHqwIIbUL

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 19, 2026

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France’s protests began in the second half of September with backing from communist parties, Trotskyist groups, far-left student unions, and labor confederations. The Prime Minister’s office accused La France Insoumise (LFI, “France Unbowed”), Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left party, and its ultra-left proxies of organizing the school blockades. A Paris police intelligence note similarly accused far-left movements of exploiting them.

A Fox News Digital investigation identified 54 organizations connected to the movement, including communist youth groups, Trotskyist parties, unions, Palestine-solidarity groups, and international media outlets. Their involvement ranged from organizing protests to expressing solidarity or amplifying coverage.

Among the organizers, the Union Syndicale Lycéenne (USL, “High School Students’ Union”) has direct ties to LFI. Its president ran on an LFI-led electoral list in Wattrelos. The union supported the New Popular Front (NFP) left alliance in 2024, and members volunteered for LFI deputy Louis Boyard’s campaign. Boyard headed its predecessor, the Union Nationale Lycéenne (UNL, “National High School Union”), from 2018–2019, when it organized school blockades alongside the Yellow Vest protests.

The Union Étudiante (“Student Union”), now France’s largest student union, co-organized national marches and distributed blockade instructions and a mobilization kit. It formed during the April 2023 pension-reform protests, when 17 local sections of the National Union of Students of France (UNEF) split and merged with L’Alternative, a union close to LFI. The president of the rival Federation of General Student Associations (FAGE) described it as a youth political party rather than a student union. Alongside the USL, it called the October 6 “Act III” march.

Founded in 1907, UNEF is France’s oldest student union and also called students into the streets. In 2021, its president acknowledged holding racially restricted meetings for members affected by racism. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer called them racist, and a Republican senator described UNEF as “LFI’s student union”. Mélenchon and approximately 250 former leaders defended UNEF in Le Monde.

Solidaires Étudiant-e-s (“Solidaires Students”) is affiliated with the Solidaires labor confederation. In 2024, anti-terrorism police summoned its members at the Paris graduate school EHESS in an investigation into alleged glorification of terrorism over their public support for the Palestinian struggle.

Another student organization, Étudiants Musulmans de France (EMF, “Muslim Students of France”), has Muslim Brotherhood connections, according to the French Interior Ministry’s report. It says EMF was created by the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, now Musulmans de France, which it identifies as the Brotherhood’s French branch. EMF is affiliated with that organization and the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations, described as the youth branch of the Brotherhood-linked Council of European Muslims.

The political parties supporting the movement have their own histories of protest mobilization. During the 2023 riots following the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne accused LFI of exploiting the death.

Trotskyist organizations also urged escalation. Révolution Permanente (“Permanent Revolution”) and its youth wing, Le Poing Levé (“The Raised Fist”), which has been active since 2018, gained prominence during the 2023 pension protests. Both belong to the international Trotskyist Fraction network, led by Argentina’s Socialist Workers’ Party. Anti-terrorism police questioned spokesman Anasse Kazib over four Gaza tweets in an investigation into alleged glorification of terrorism.

Révolution Permanente was expelled in 2021 from the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA, “New Anticapitalist Party”). Founded in 2009 as the successor to the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League, the NPA split in 2022. Philippe Poutou’s faction contested elections under the NFP banner in 2024. On October 7, the NPA called on workers to strike, calling the government the real “casseurs,” or rioters.

On October 3, the Union de la Jeunesse Communiste (“Union of Communist Youth”) urged supporters to expand the high school protests, describing Macron’s governments as bourgeois and committed to a war economy.

The French Communist Party (PCF) and its youth wing, the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France (“Young Communists Movement of France”), also backed the protests. In an October 14 statement, the PCF urged students and workers to unite for the October 17 mobilization and union-led strikes on November 5. It opposed restrictions on gatherings, repression, and a planned €7 billion increase in military spending. Party leader Fabien Roussel had urged support for the October 6 student action, rejecting the government’s accusations against LFI while condemning violence. Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure also pledged to stand with students on October 6.

Connections among these parties extend into antifascist, decolonial, and pro-Palestinian activism. Raphaël Arnault, founder of Lyon’s Jeune Garde Antifasciste (“Young Antifascist Guard”), sits with LFI in the National Assembly. Founded in 2018, the group was dissolved by decree on June 12, 2025. France’s highest administrative court upheld the dissolution on April 30, 2026, finding it trained its members for confrontations.

Eight suspected members were charged in connection with an antisemitic assault on a 15-year-old in 2024. Two of Arnault’s parliamentary aides were arrested in February 2026 in connection with the killing of far-right activist Quentin Deranque.

Jeune Garde’s connections extend to Génération EDR (Espoir, Dignité, Résistance, “Hope, Dignity, Resistance”), an anti-Islamophobia collective founded in March 2025. Its spokespeople include a former Jeune Garde member and members of USL and a popular-education collective. The government is moving to dissolve Génération EDR, alleging violent activism under the guise of fighting Islamophobia.

LFI deputy Danièle Obono has called a “comrade” Houria Bouteldja, co-founder of the Parti des Indigènes de la République (PIR, “Party of the Indigenous of the Republic”). The Interior Ministry’s Muslim Brotherhood report compares PIR’s rhetoric to the Brotherhood’s. In 2015, Bouteldja described Jews as shields for France’s imperialist and Islamophobic policies.

Urgence Palestine (“Palestine Emergency”) was founded the day after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau initiated dissolution proceedings in April 2025, saying the state must target Islamists. The proceedings remained pending in November.

Co-founder Omar Alsoumi was taken into custody that month on suspicion of glorifying terrorism and faced prosecution in 2026. In sworn parliamentary testimony, a journalist said he marched alongside deputies Mathilde Panot, Thomas Portes, and Ersilia Soudais of LFI. LFI and the FSU labor federation signed a statement demanding Alsoumi’s release. LFI MEP Rima Hassan signed the petition against Urgence Palestine’s dissolution, which the NPA also publicly opposed.

Organized labor joined the protests through an education-union coalition comprising the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Unitary Trade Union Federation (FSU), Workers’ Force (FO), French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions (UNSA), SUD unions, and Solidaires. The CGT, Solidaires, and farmers’ union Confédération Paysanne (“Peasant Confederation”) also mobilized for the October 17 demonstrations over student grievances, fuel prices, and living costs.

Led by Sophie Binet, the CGT is one of France’s two largest union confederations. In April 2024, its Nord branch leader, Jean-Paul Delescaut, received a suspended prison sentence of one year for glorifying terrorism over a pro-Palestinian leaflet issued three days after October 7. Mélenchon, Binet, and Roussel signed a petition supporting him. The Toulouse branch of CGT Éduc’action, its education union, co-signed a statement in 2024 with Le Poing Levé, the NPA, and Collectif Palestine Vaincra (“Palestine Will Win Collective”).

SUD Éducation, part of Solidaires, condemned both Hamas’s October 7 massacres and Israeli killings of civilians while describing the situation as colonial since 1948. It also signed the statement defending Solidaires students summoned by anti-terrorism police.

The wider list includes environmental, parents’, and civil-rights organizations whose histories provide context but do not, by themselves, establish responsibility for the current unrest. The radical environmental movement Les Soulèvements de la Terre (“Earth Uprisings”) was founded in 2021 at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes protest camp. The government dissolved it following the 2023 Sainte-Soline clashes over farm reservoirs. The Council of State annulled the dissolution as disproportionate, although it found the group had incited violence against property.

The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH, “Human Rights League”) deployed observers at Sainte-Soline. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin subsequently suggested reviewing its public subsidy funding. Citizenship Minister Sonia Backès criticized it for defending the CCIF, the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, dissolved by the government as Islamist. She also accused the LDH of spreading a false claim that gendarmes had blocked emergency care at Sainte-Soline.

Other organizations identified include France’s largest public-school parents’ federation, the Fédération des Conseils de Parents d’Élèves (“Federation of Parents’ Councils”), and the Mouvement Contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples (“Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples”). SOS Racisme also has longstanding Socialist connections. Founded in 1984 by Julien Dray and Harlem Désir, it emerged from a political trajectory an academic study traces from Trotskyism into the Socialist Party, which Désir later led.

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by Stefano Gennarini 

In his visit to once-Christian France, Pope Leo XIV condemned assisted suicide as “false compassion,” as countries around the world debate and pass laws allowing the elimination of its older citizens at the hands of doctors. The United Nations is now venturing into this debate with an agenda to create a legally binding treaty to establish and enforce the rights of the world’s elderly populations, the unsuspecting and vulnerable in our society.

The U.N. has established the “Intergovernmental Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons” (IGWG) to develop and discuss a treaty that would, among other things, shield government-sanctioned euthanasia programs.

France recently legalized euthanasia, and has been heavily criticized for not adopting sufficient safeguards for disabled, elderly, or mentally impaired individuals. The European Centre for Law & Justice, which took legal action to prevent France’s law from taking effect, said the Act creates a right to die, and thus also, a license to kill. The Labor government in the United Kingdom tried to pass a euthanasia law last year, but it failed last month after disability advocates raised concerns.

The “death with dignity” campaign is targeting the global aging population, suggesting that taking one’s life is a dignified option and a way not to burden families. Some countries are simply looking for options to rid the state of the costly care for the elderly.

European Union-backed groups have promoted an international right to assisted suicide and government-sanctioned euthanasia programs.

In the Working Group’s first session held in July, a representative from the Centre for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP) suggested that the new treaty must guard against risks of institutionalization, a family member making substitute decisions, involuntary medications with psychiatric drugs, or involuntary treatment “alleged to be in our best interests,” and ageism.

Does this include governments forcing physicians to help take the life of the elderly?

Countries where euthanasia is already legal, including Canada, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands, are increasingly coming under fire for allowing assisted suicide for children as well as the elderly and disabled persons. Persons only diagnosed with depression are opting for death.

Canada originally passed its “Medical Aid in Dying” (MAID) law in 2016. In 2024, MAID accounted for 5.1% of all deaths in Canada with 16,499 reported cases. In 2021, 2.2% of the total number receiving assistance in dying were individuals “whose natural deaths were not reasonably foreseeable.”

In Belgium, for example, minors can request voluntary euthanasia under certain conditions as long as they have the “capacity for discernment“ and do so while being conscious.

In the first IGWG session, most government representatives focused on protections against discrimination and neglect. Non-governmental groups funded by the European Union, like the National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) Network, called for the treaty to include “the right to die with dignity.” They also said the treaty should include an “intersectional approach” and protect obligations related to “sexual and reproductive rights,” as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion. Why are seniors concerned about reproductive rights?

The World Health Organization does not oppose assisted suicide, but rather promotes euphemistic “death with dignity” plans. Even though it is the same term used by euthanasia advocates, WHO says “death with dignity” refers to palliative care to help manage pain in all contexts regardless of the legal status of euthanasia.

Some disability rights groups are not focused on the dangers of including ambiguous “death with dignity” provisions in the new treaty.

“Where medical assistance in dying exists, eligibility must rest on the fact that the person is dying, never on disability or old age,” said Inclusion Canada, a human rights group for the disabled.

The new treaty has been discussed as a possibility for close to two decades, and the IGWG is scheduled to have its next session in Geneva in October 2026, with a zero draft anticipated in November 2027.

Let’s hope the IGWG follows the adage displayed on their website and honors the true dignity of the elderly: “No society can or should ignore the wisdom, creativity and experience that older people bring. Older people must be better protected for the unique human rights challenges they face.”

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