Month: October 2026

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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The French Government has drawn up a ministerial circular that would allow authorities to cut social welfare benefits for people convicted of looting and rioting during the urban unrest that began on October 17.

Jointly drafted by justice minister Gérald Darmanin and housing minister Vincent Jeanbrun, the directive aims to deduct the estimated financial gains derived from selling stolen goods directly from state assistance payments.

The aim of a separate “rioter pays” bill is to establish a “new joint and several civil liability”, which would make it possible to impose collective fines on all participants in a violent action, Journal du Dimanche reported.

The reductions would apply across several core welfare schemes, including the revenu de solidarité active (RSA), France’s basic income support, housing benefits (APL), family allowances and unemployment insurance.

“Rioters, looters, thieves: Social benefits are over!” Jeanbrun said on X on October 19.

Under the planned mechanism, welfare bodies would treat the estimated proceeds from fenced or stolen goods as undeclared income, reducing monthly benefit disbursements accordingly. The justice ministry said the aim was to deduct illegal income of any kind.

The circular reflects the government’s broader effort to target the financial incentives surrounding street unrest and the informal economy.

The justice ministry has indicated that the deduction framework is also intended to apply to other illicit operations, including narcotics distribution, contraband tobacco and the sale of counterfeit goods.

Under French law, the benefit cuts would only apply to individuals who have been convicted in court, rather than suspects facing initial police custody. The ministerial circular is expected to be signed and issued to welfare agencies in the coming days.

The administrative measure dovetails with a wider “rioter pays” bill that the French Senate is due to debate on October 27. The Government presented the text in the Council of Ministers on September 16 and brought the timetable forward after the latest unrest.

That proposal seeks to introduce collective civil liability for individuals taking part in violent assemblies, compelling participants to cover public and commercial repair costs. It would also lift the rule that housing benefit and family allowances cannot be seized.

A law of April 10, 2019 already set out a “rioter pays” principle, though it has been little used because those responsible are rarely identified.

The ministerial clampdown follows the violence and looting that began on October 17, which left at least 3,000 commercial premises damaged or ransacked across several French cities, according to a government count published on October 19.

Business federations and government assessments estimate the direct physical damage and stock losses at hundreds of millions of euros. Carrefour chief executive Alexandre Bompard, who heads the FCD retail federation, gave that estimate on October 18.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said affected businesses could place staff on State-funded short-time working from October 20. A national riot insurance fund written into the 2026 budget law has yet to take effect, pending European Commission approval and a government decree.

French insurers are braced for claims expected to rival the €793 million in insured losses France Assureurs recorded after the riots of June and July 2023.

More than 2,400 people had been arrested by October 19.

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A 21-year-old German Erasmus student reported being raped by two men in the early hours of Oct. 15 while walking home from a night out in the NoLo neighborhood, police said. She told police she believed the men were likely North African.

The woman told investigators that she was attacked from behind near Parco Trotter, around the intersection of Via Crespi and Via Giacosa, shortly before 5:00 a.m. She said the men restrained her, prevented her from screaming or escaping, and assaulted her in a secluded spot before fleeing.

“He attacked me from behind and knocked me to the ground. Then he took off my pants,” said the victim.

An Italian couple visiting the city on vacation encountered her distressed and in shock. She told them in English that two men had attacked her from behind and raped her. The pair called emergency services. Carabinieri and medical responders arrived, noted bruising, and took her first to a hospital and then to the Mangiagalli clinic, which specializes in sexual-violence cases. She received medical examinations and psychological support.

The student, in Milan through the European Erasmus exchange program, had spent the evening in a local club before heading toward her student housing. According to Italian news outlet Il Giornale, she may have crossed paths with one of the men earlier that night.

After the rape, her parents arrived from Germany.

Investigators are reviewing public and private surveillance footage from the area, which captured two male figures near the scene around the time of the reported assault, along with cell-phone data and other technical evidence.

No suspects have been publicly identified or arrested. One Italian newspaper, Il Giorno MIlano, described an attacker pulling down her pants after throwing her to the ground and then briefly pretending to comfort her when passersby appeared nearby.

Descriptions varied slightly across reports, including references to olive skin and an age range of roughly 30 to 40 for one man.

Remix News has covered a number of stories involving German tourists being victimized in Italy by Middle-Eastern males over the last year, including a 17-year-old German student who said she was raped by a Turkish man just last month. In addition, a German woman was beheaded near Florence earlier this year, with Italian police arresting a North African suspect.

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French police have arrested a 40-year-old far-left extremist in connection with the devastating arson attack on Limoges Town Hall during nationwide riots on Saturday, 17 October. The suspect, reportedly already flagged as a national security threat, was detained on Tuesday, 20 October, as France’s anti-terrorism investigators joined the investigation into the destruction of the historic building.

The man was arrested at approximately 6:15am by officers from the elite RAID unit in Val-d’Issoire, around 50 kilometres from Limoges. According to Le Parisien, police sources described him as an ‘ultra-left activist’ already on France’s so-called ‘fiche S’ security watchlist and known to authorities for violence against police and other public officials. Limoges prosecutor Émilie Abrantes confirmed the arrest, and the suspect was placed in police custody for questioning.

BREAKING:

The arsonist of Limoges city hall has been detained

He is a 40-year-old far-left Antifa activist on France’s national security watch list for his ties to radical ultra-left extremist movements.

He also has a history of police records for “violence against a person…

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 20, 2026

The investigation, initially opened for ‘destruction of property by dangerous means as part of an organized group’, has also been referred to France’s Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT). Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Monday that the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office was considering whether to take over the case.

The arrest comes three days after masked far-left militants set fire to Limoges’s 143-year-old town hall, a 19th-century architectural landmark and symbol of French republican heritage. The blaze destroyed its roof, caused the collapse of its 43-metre bell tower and devastated much of the interior. Haute-Vienne prefect Maurice Barate described the destruction as a ‘heritage catastrophe’.

Limoges Mayor Guillaume Guérin, a member of the centre-right Republicans, accused organized ultra-left militants of deliberately targeting the building. Speaking to Le Monde on Sunday, he said around 500–600 far-left activists had infiltrated a demonstration of around 5,000 people. The attackers arrived equipped with mortars and a 200-kilogram battering ram, while anarchist, Palestinian and New Anticapitalist Party flags were visible among the militants.

‘The ultra-left organized the logistics. They had prepared their attack and knew how to get inside,’ Guérin said. He also criticized serious failures in the police response, claiming that national police had exhausted their riot-control ammunition and left the town hall unprotected for approximately an hour. Municipal employees reportedly received death threats as rioters forced their way inside.

The destruction of Limoges Town Hall was among the many symbolic attacks during Saturday’s nationwide far-left unrest, which also saw masked militants storm the Paris headquarters of three conservative media outlets, CNews, Europe 1 and Le Journal du Dimanche. In Marseille, rioters vandalized city hall and toppled a bust of Marianne, the female personification of the French Republic, while other public buildings were attacked across the country.

The riots marked another escalation in weeks of violent protests that began in September over deteriorating school conditions in immigrant-heavy districts before being taken over by Antifa and far-left groups, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed (LFI) party. More than 2,400 people were arrested during the weekend unrest, while nearly 1,000 police officers and gendarmes were injured.

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A group of transgender police officers in Spain has filed a complaint against the Civil Guard in Ceuta, alleging they were subject to discrimination after being arrested and charged with a specific domestic violence-related crime that only males can commit. Five officers, all of whom are men who identify as women, claim they should not have been charged with “gender based violence” because they had changed their legal sex marker to “female.”

In 2004, Spain introduced the “Organic Law 1/2004 on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence” to address the nation’s skyrocketing rates of violence against women. The law established specialized courts, stronger criminal penalties in certain cases, and increased protections and support for female victims who were financially or physically vulnerable.

While general domestic violence legislation still exists and can be applied in all cases, the 2004 law introduced specific “gender based violence” charges that could only be applied in cases where a male had abused his female partner, or abused their children when the abuse was explicitly intended to harm or hurt the woman.

On October 18, a group of five transgender police officers in Ceuta filed a complaint against the Civil Guard alleging they had been the victims of discrimination after being arrested and charged with “gender based violence” after being ar abusing their female partners. According to The Objective, the men claim the charges did not apply in their case because they were legally female.

The main case in the complaint concerns a transgender police officer named David Osuna, who was arrested and charged with gender-based violence after being reported to police by his partner for an incident of alleged abuse involving their youngest child. Osuna claims that his case should have been treated as general domestic violence, specifically as a female abusing another female, because he had legally changed his sex and identified as a “woman.” As a result, the complaint claims that Osuna’s rights had been violated by the Civil Guard treating him and charging him as a male.

The complaint requests an investigation into potential criminal or disciplinary liability on the part of the charging officers involved, as well as clarification of the criteria applied when a person under investigation is legally registered as female.

Osuna, along with the other trans-identified male police officers involves in the complaint, are members of the Non-Normative Trans Police Union, or Trans No Normativos (TNN). The organization predominantly consists of officers with “traditionally masculine appearances and male names” who identify as “women” and have changed their legal sex marker to “female.” Most of the men involved identify as “lesbians.”

Some trans rights activist groups have condemned TNN as a “fraudulent” trans group, and asserted that they are simply males attempting to exploit Spain’s Trans Law (Ley Trans). The law, passed on February 16, 2024, granted anyone over the age of 16 the right to change the gender reflected on their official documents without any social or medical proof of transitioning. While women’s rights advocates expressed concern with the result the law would have on males being given access to women’s spaces, including domestic violence shelters and prisons, the law went into effect on May 2 of that year.

However, TNN spokesperson Daniel Gallardo has maintained that they are not committing fraud and that criticism of the organization constitutes “transphobia” or “trans-exclusionary hatred.”

Despite having previously championed the law, the FELGTBI+, a Spanish LGBT+ activist organization, has reportedly asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office to take action against TNN and its members for allegedly “pretending to be trans in a grotesque manner.” However, the group did not specify what laws TNN had broken or whether any revisions to the Trans Law were required to prevent these alleged cases of “trans fraud.”

Since the law went into effect, there have been multiple reported cases involving violent men seeking lower criminal penalties after changing their legal sex marker.

As reported by Reduxx in 2022, a man in Spain who physically abused his female partner for refusing to participate in his sexual fetishes managed to avoid charges of gender-based violence by legally changing his identification to “female” and adopting a woman’s name. Because the gender-based violence law did not apply, he was not removed from the home and the victim was unable to secure safe housing.

In another case from 2024, a former police officer in San Sebastián who hastily changed his legal sex was charged “as a woman” after attempting to murder his wife and two daughters.

A former police officer in Spain appears to have changed his legal sex in an effort to avoid harsher penalties for attempting to murder his wife and two daughters.

This is the second case of suspected "trans fraud" in less than two weeks.https://t.co/2NWTV1eLPY

— REDUXX (@reduxx) August 22, 2024

In other cases branded “trans fraud” by trans activists, male civil servants have reportedly changed their legal sex marker in order to access benefits reserved for female workers or mothers. Some of these men are reportedly associated with TNN.

As previously reported by Reduxx, a 35-year-old Army corporal in Ceuta changed his legal sex to “female” after deciding he identified as an “intersex bigender” person. Roberto Perdigones says he first discovered that changing his registered sex would afford him significant professional and financial benefits after reading an update in the National Police Exam syllabus with a list of “possible” gender identities one may have. Perdigones found a gender description he felt he matched, so pursued the change.

After changing his legal sex, Perdigones qualified for a mother’s pension as he was reclassified as a “woman” with a child.

“By changing my sex, as I have been informed, my pension has gone up. Because women receive more in retirement pensions to compensate for the inequality. In addition, I get 15% more because I have a child,” he boasted to local media.

The region of Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish territory located on the coast of Morocco, has experienced a particularly disproportionate surge of male civil servants changing their legal gender marker to “female.”

Ceuta has a population of just 85,000 inhabitants, 4,500 of whom are members of the Security Forces and the military. While in other parts of Spain, judges reserve the right to deny a change of legal sex when they conclude that the applicant is acting with “spurious intent,” Ceuta is an autonomous area that does not have such regulations.

Judges in Ceuta who deny legal sex changes could be charged with criminal prevarication. Many believe the combination of a large military male population and little-to-no repercussions for pursuing a gender change, even just to obtain employment benefits, have resulted in the phenomenon exploding in the small region.

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An unidentified rioter veiled the head of a statue of St. Joan of Arc near the city center of Toulouse, appearing to mimic a hijab, along with a Palestinian flag, while video from Paris shows vandals climbing and putting political stickers on a statue of the patroness of France as violence raged across the country over the weekend.

Images posted across social media from Toulouse show an unidentified masked man, who appears to be African, standing on the bronze statue located on Place Jeanne d’Arc after placing a yellow vest on the saint’s head in the shape of a hijab and the Palestinian flag on the statue’s side. Separate video from Paris shows another unidentified reportedly foreign rioter being cheered on by a mob after climbing on and placing political stickers on the statue of the country’s patron saint in the Place des Pyramides.

🇫🇷⚡️- A Joan of Arc statue was veiled using a yellow vest by a youth of African descent in Toulouse. pic.twitter.com/x8i2tEmRnn

— Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts (@officialrnintel) October 17, 2026

BREAKING:

Foreign rioters are defiling French national and religious symbols.

For the second time in less than 3 years, they are targeting the statue of Saint Joan of Arc in Paris pic.twitter.com/DR9CyTjJSM

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 17, 2026

Video from Saturday evening in Toulouse shows a courageous yet to be identified young man removing the yellow vest and flag from the statue.

WATCH: A young patriot has scaled the statue of Joan of Arc in France and removed Palestinian and Antifa flags pic.twitter.com/U5oAXBiIPV

— LifeSiteNews (@LifeSite) October 19, 2026

Several X users denounced the defiling of the St. Joan of Arc statues and called for the country’s Christian heritage to be respected. Some also noted that this is the perfect illustration of the country’s collapse.

🇫🇷 A 2nd-gen Frenchman climbed onto the Joan of Arc statue and literally placed a hijab on her head…

France’s collapse, perfectly illustrated.

Writer: Samuel pic.twitter.com/jUTKjY3LtN

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 18, 2026

🚨🇫🇷 DISRESPECTING FRANCE’S CHRISTIAN HERITAGE IS NOT A PROTEST!

Rioters climbed onto the statue of St. Joan of Arc in Paris, desecrating a landmark tied to France’s history and identity.

A nation that fails to defend its heritage risks losing more than monuments—it risks… pic.twitter.com/yqNrNPCHgg

— @PatriotVoice (@USA_Patriot_GOP) October 17, 2026

France is not the barbarians who are burning it down.

France is the first daughter of the Church and it will not fall. pic.twitter.com/RUpJLwuTLL

— Trad West (@trad_west_) October 18, 2026

Over the weekend, mass riots broke out across France, known as the “eldest daughter of the Church,” purportedly in protest over the state of schools and the cost of living, with an estimated 550,000 people taking to the streets, with many breaking into and looting stores and businesses, as well as setting historic buildings and other property ablaze, per The Guardian. As of this writing, over 1,800 have been arrested.

Even France’s leftist president, Emmanuel Macron, felt compelled to declare via X that there is “no room for violence in our republic” and vowed that all responsible would be prosecuted.

France has seen a massive uptick in violence in recent years. Indeed, earlier this month, initially peaceful student protests quickly turned into chaos as young people set fires, injured teachers, and torched cars, resulting in 400 schools being closed across the country.

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“Europe will realize that, in order to survive, it will have to become Israel, because its enemies already see it as Israel.”

“We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do,” Maarten Boudry, a European Belgian philosophy professor, posted on Twitter. “Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite. So you were worried about ‘colonization’? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for. It never ends with the Jews.”

Why is the PLO flag being waved everywhere? Because it represents a fusion of Islam and Marxist revolutions. And because those waving it intend to reduce the country they’re waving it to, to another Israel, a beleaguered ‘colonial’ outpost, under siege and waiting to fall to the mobs.

“Soon Europe will realize that, in order to survive, it will have to become Israel, because its enemies already see it as Israel. But when that happens, the continent that stabbed Israel in the back for defending itself will defend itself in ways far less moral than Israel ever did,” Dan Burmawi, a Jordanian Muslim who converted to Christianity, posted.

Sadly there’s no real sign of that.

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.

Despite the propaganda, Israel has been crippled enough that it hardly defends itself. Even after Oct 7, its soldiers fought with their hands tied behind their backs, just like ours. Israel demolished blocks of buildings to avoid having to fight door to door and reduce civilian casualties. Drone videos of those same demolished blocks are used to establish the lie of genocide.

Genocide, like all Islamic and Marxist accusations, isn’t actually a lie, it’s a projection and an inversion, genocide is what they intend to do to us.

Accusing us of genocide stops us from resisting their genocide.

Everywhere is a few million Muslims away from becoming Israel. Most places try to desperately live in peace with their murderers. When the violence becomes too intense, they cling to the hope of co-existence, to the conviction that the people killing them are a tiny minority, and when they realize that the minority is the majority, they justify it because of how we have oppressed them.

Israelis don’t quite know what it feels like to be Jewish. Mostly because the tiny country is geographically isolated from the online and offline insanity that American and European Jews have to endure.

The rest of us will either learn to be Israel or, as Boudry put it, become ‘Jewish’, not spiritually, but much as the Christians of the Middle East were subjugated into becoming Jewish, a despised weak minority at the mercy of a cruel Muslim majority.

We’ll all get to have our own Holocaust. And the post-colonialist Marxist professors will explain to us why we deserve it just before they too get put down.

I don’t know that we need to become Israel. Americans could become the America of 1926 which would never have tolerated any of this. Europeans have their own models. As with so much else, we don’t have to live like this, we’ve been shamed, lied to and twisted into accepting this horror as the right side of history. It’s a foul dream. And if we don’t wake up from it, we will have no future.

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