Brazilian tyrannical Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on the day of his inauguration to Supreme Court – Poder360
Conservative leader Flávio Bolsonaro has been summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passport within 24 hours.
The order was issued by the wicked Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
Moraes argues that there is a risk that Flavio Bolsonaro could flee abroad to avoid prosecution.
Lula and Moraes want to jail Flavio with his father Jair Bolsonaro – There crime was daring to oppose them in an election and forcing the communists to make an obvious steal.
This is sickening! It took less than 24 hours following the very controversial election that allowed Lula to keep polling stations open late.
Conservative Flavio Bolsonaro called for Sunday’s presidential results to be annulled in Brazil.
This comes after socialist tyrant Lula da Silva callled his personal attorney and Brazilian Justice Christiano Zanin to hold the polls open for two extra hours. Lula arrested the former pro-American leader Jair Bolsonaro following the previous election and is still persecuting the man – like a typical communist.
Over 30,000 Spaniards peacefully gathered in Madrid on Sunday to demand solutions for Ceuta as the North African exclave nears the third month anniversary of the ongoing mass illegal migrant invasion of its territory.
Sunday’s peaceful demonstration at the Spanish capital city was organized by Mujeres Caballas, a female civil organization that arose in the aftermath of the late July migrant invasion of Ceuta. The group reportedly identifies itself as an apolitical, multi-religious organization of women united in the defense and future of their city.
According to Spanish outlets, Mujeres Caballas started as an initiative from women who immediately began to suffer the consequences of the invasion in their lives and that of their families and communities. Many of the female group’s members are mothers of young children, healthcare professionals, teachers, and security officials.
The demonstrators once again called upon the government of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to finally enact urgent measures that can restore normalcy for the ailing city, whose inhabitants continue to experience a severe deterioration of their livelihood after tens of thousands of illegal migrants swarmed into the exclave.
The head of Ceuta’s local government, Juan Jesús Vivas, accompanied the Madrid demonstration.
Vivas, who has repeatedly denounced the situation in Ceuta over the past months, reiterated to reporters that the situation at the invaded city is far from normal and “absolutely unsustainable” three months later — emphasizing that the city’s residents feel legitimately “indignant” with the actions of the Sánchez administration, or lack thereof.
Vivas stressed that his office estimates that there are still about 15,000 illegal migrants that remain inside Ceuta following the late July invasion, an amount equal to 20 percent of the exclave’s current population.
He detailed that the continued presence of the invading migrants has led to a 60 percent increase in crime, and a staggering 400-percent increase in medical emergencies across Ceuta healthcare facilities. Additionally, the invasion’s lingering consequences caused a five percent GDP drop in the city’s economy over the past three months, Vivas’ office found.
The official accused the Spanish central government of not having carried out a single deportation of an invading migrant through administrative channels. Per, Vivas Pedro Sánchez “could have used all available means and resources to restore normalcy to Ceuta immediately, but he did not.”
“Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta is defended,” Vivas exclaimed, calling for a similar situation to never happen again.
“Together and united, we will move forward,” he added.
#Canal24Horas | En Madrid, en unos minutos comienza la manifestación convocada por Mujeres Caballas
A esta hora, comparece ante los medios el presidente de Ceuta, Juan Jesús VIvas pic.twitter.com/1kcTgBVjbt
Per the public broadcaster RTVE, Maxi Lacasa, a Ceuta resident and police officer that travelled to Madrid to organize Sunday’s rally, denounced that that there are only “two civil guards” currently guarding Ceuta’s borders with Morocco. She warned that the city has not seen a single solution from the Spanish government over the past three months.
“Ceuta needs the immediate return of migrants and a strengthening of its borders with more human, material, and technological resources,” she said.
El Pueblo de Ceuta observed that the rally’s organizers read a manifesto containing nine critical demands urging the Spanish government to address the situation in Ceuta — including the reinforcement of the exclave’s borders; greater responsibility from Spain and the European Union in the protection of the city; an urgent Royal Decree that expedites the deportation or voluntary departure of the remaining invading migrants; reforms to the Spanish migration laws; and the urgent restoration of security and normalcy so that Ceuta’s residents can finally return to their normal lives and safely make use of the exclave’s public areas, among others.
The organizers gave a 30-day deadline to the Spanish government to “start seeing solutions.”
In addition to Sunday’s mainland rally in Madrid, local Ceuta residents staged an equally peaceful demonstration at the exclave right in front the headquarters of the central government’s delegation, expressing the same demands for solutions that can finally bring an end to the ongoing invasion of their city.
Per El Faro de Ceuta, several of the protests’ participants affirmed that they believe the central government could have already solved the crisis if it had the “willingness” to do so.
Swedish residential landlord Heimstaden Bostad has frozen new capital allocations to Germany, with co-chief executive Christian Fladeland declaring the country “uninvestable” if Berlin’s prospective left-wing coalition advances plans to seize large private housing portfolios.
The group holds roughly 20,000 flats in the capital valued at about €5 billion, around 15 per cent of its portfolio, and estimates that nearly half could fall under the proposed scheme, potentially exposing it to a €1 billion hit if compensation is set well below market value.
The plan, agreed in exploratory talks between Die Linke, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens after Die Linke’s victory in the Berlin election on September 20, would force private owners with more than 10,000 flats in the city to transfer surplus units into public ownership.
Die Linke took 25.7 per cent of the vote, ahead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on 18.8 per cent. The three parties set out their housing agreement on October 18.
Total compensation would be capped at €16 billion, an average of about €100,000 per flat, far below book values for major landlords. Die Linke lead candidate Elif Eralp has said the measure would cover about 160,000 flats held by Vonovia, Adler, Heimstaden, Covivio and the DVI group.
Legislation is targeted for mid-2028, with the law due to take effect in mid-2029 at the earliest. The 2021 referendum that set the process in motion had sought a threshold of 3,000 flats.
Fladeland warned in an interview with Bloomberg that the uncertainty is already steering capital elsewhere and said he could “not find a worse way of actually discouraging any capital to come into the city” to address its housing shortage.
He said he thought there was a “very, very low likelihood” that the expropriations will ultimately actually be implemented, as it would fail in court, though noted that the talks alone were doing a lot of damage.
Fladeland said he hoped the federal government would step in to block further plans on expropriation.
Regarding Berlin’s housing crisis, the Heimstaden co-chief executive said that the German capital has been too slow to provide space for new housing and should attract more private capital to increase supply instead.
Europe’s largest landlord, Vonovia, has similarly paused new residential projects in Berlin, citing lack of investment certainty, while shares across the sector have come under pressure. Heimstaden’s hybrid bond has slipped from about 98 cents in August to 82.5 cents.
Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic said the proposed plans were unconstitutional.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s federal government has moved to counter the regional push, with interior minister Alexander Dobrindt preparing an investment protection act (Investitionsschutzgesetz) to raise hurdles on such nationalisations, requiring states to exhaust other options, pay market value in cash and face constitutional scrutiny.
Merz has stressed that property rights and market confidence must not be experimented with, telling an investment summit in Berlin on October 20 that both were the foundation of the country’s market economy.
Critics, including the banking sector, argue the mere debate already damages Germany’s reputation as an investment location and will worsen the very housing shortage the expropriation is meant to solve. The Association of German Pfandbrief Banks has warned that writing off mortgage charges would push up the cost of property credit.
Italy’s Catholic bishops are promoting a new Islamic education program that describes the Koran as the “revealed Word of God,” while Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has said Catholic religion classes should be treated as a “laboratory of culture and dialogue.”
On October 21, Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), presented the new educational initiative, “Factsheets for Understanding Islam,” at an event in the Palazzo Borromeo – the seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. Promoted jointly by the CEI, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, and the Italian diplomatic mission, the program is designed for teachers of Catholic religion classes in state schools.
Reflecting on his years as a religion teacher, Zuppi stated: “The only thing that was clear was that there was no need to teach catechism.” For this reason, according to him, Catholic religious education classes in schools should be conceived as a mere “laboratory of culture and dialogue.”
“The eleven sheets go beyond the usual clichés. They begin with ‘What Is Islam?’ and ‘A Brief History of Islam,’ then go on to address faith and theology [and] the Qur’an as the revealed Word of God,” Vatican News reported.
Created by a joint team of Catholic and Muslim experts who negotiated over differences to produce a single, mutually agreed text, the 11-module curriculum presents Islamic doctrine, including describing the Koran as the “revealed word of God,” under the pretext of eradicating “ignorance” and fostering social cohesion.
“I would send everyone to school, because there is remarkable ignorance [about Islam]…. The sheets represent the exact opposite of the clash of civilizations,” Zuppi added. He also praised the joint Catholic-Muslim text as a great “antidote to violence and ignorance,” while warning that news headlines critical of Islamic proliferation are “dangerous with islamophobia.”
The curriculum consists of 11 modules covering topics including “What is Islam?” “A Brief History of Islam,” Islamic theology, “following the example of the Prophet,” the Islamic concept of worship (‘ibāda), the Islamic concept of religious community (Ummah), Islamic spirituality, and interreligious dialogue.
Prominent Islamic organizations collaborated in drafting and reviewing the materials, including the Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy (UCOII), the Italian Islamic Religious Community, the Italian Islamic Confederation, and the Tevere Institute. During the presentation at Palazzo Borromeo, UCOII President Yassine Baradai cited his own experiences in his youth at a Catholic parish center as a “sign of openness which allowed him to better understand himself” as Muslim.
Father Alberto Gastaldi, director of the CEI National Office for Education, School, and University, defended the initiative by describing interreligious dialogue as “the very hallmark of Catholic educational commitment” and hailing the classroom as “the first true laboratory of dialogue.”
“In a school classroom, learning about Islam through reliable and respectful resources does not mean abandoning one’s own identity. Rather, it means practicing that integral humanism which knows how to make room for the other.… Interreligious dialogue is not an occasional concession,” Gastaldi declared.
A male Camas High School runner who finished 76th in a boys’ junior varsity race in September has taken second place in a girls’ district cross-country championship. Logan Mihailoff finished ahead of two female athletes who previously protested competing against him.
Mihailoff placed second at the October 21 Class 4A Greater St. Helens League district cross-country championships in Camas, Washington, narrowly behind first-place finisher Sophia Rogers. Skyview High School runners Charlie Garrett and Sierra Retzlaff finished third and fifth, respectively. The two girls would have placed second and fourth had Mihailoff not competed in the girls’ field.
The result marks the latest development in a dispute that has increasingly divided athletes, families, and school communities over whether males should be permitted to compete in girls’ sporting categories. For Garrett and Retzlaff, Wednesday’s finish was particularly significant: the two girls had previously walked away from the starting line during an earlier meet to protest competing against the male athlete.
Garrett and Retzlaff had made their objections public by painting messages supporting women’s sports on their arms and legs before walking off the starting line at a September meet. “We did it because we didn’t want to act like we were OK with what was happening,” Retzlaff said at the time. At the October 21 championship, however, both competed, and finished one place lower than they otherwise would have due to Mihailoff’s participation.
One girl, Elise Bierer of Battle Ground High School, was recorded walking off the starting line in protest of Mihailoff’s presence. According to OutKick, the young girl broke down in tears after forfeiting her championship hopes.
The lone girls who walked off the field yesterday!
“Elise Bierer, a Battle Ground High School runner, walked off the starting line alone at a district cross-country championship Wednesday rather than compete against a boy, sacrificing her opportunity” video by @thehoffather…
— Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology (@KnownHeretic) October 22, 2026
But Mihailoff’s athletic success is incredibly recent and followed his decision to “identify” as a girl.
According to The Post Millennial, Mihailoff was still competing against boys in early September, and finished 76th in the Ultimook boy’s junior varsity race. Later on that same month, after beginning to identify as a girl, Mihailoff placed second among 195 runners in the girls’ junior/senior junior varsity race at the Nike Portland XC Invitational. Three days after that, Mihailoff came in first place in a girls’ varsity race against Union High School, finishing ahead of 45 female competitors.
At the October 10 Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational in Arlington, Mihailoff placed 39th among 135 runners in the girls’ elite 5K, recording a time of 18:36.8. The Post Millennial reported that the same time would have placed him last among the 159 competitors in the boys’ race.
Women’s rights advocates argue that these results should raise questions about competitive fairness and the opportunities available to female athletes, particularly when race placements determine qualification for subsequent competitions. Wednesday’s championship has brought those concerns into sharper focus, with the placements of individual runners illustrating the immediate competitive consequences at stake.
Mihailoff’s silver championship placement comes after nearly half of Camas High School’s own girls’ cross-country team walked off the starting line during an October 13 meet against Battle Ground, demonstrating their opposition to the district’s so-called “trans inclusive” policies.
— Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology (@KnownHeretic) October 14, 2026
The school district has defended its approach by citing Washington state law and Washington Interscholastic Activities Association eligibility rules, which permit students to compete in accordance with their gender identity. The district also previously indicated that it would continue following those requirements unless the governing rules or laws changed.
The controversy drew further attention Wednesday when supporters gathered near the championship for the “Camas Courage: Support Our Girls” rally, organized by women’s rights advocate Amy Sousa to support female athletes who oppose males competing in girls’ sports.
Sarah Babb, whose daughter Madeline has competed on Camas’s cross-country team for three years, told rally attendees that her daughter was among the runners who had participated in the October 13 walkout.
“She is one of the girls that decided to walk out the race last week to let the coaches and the administrators know that they are tired of competing against a boy on the girls team,” Babb said. “It isn’t right. It isn’t fair. And the girls are frustrated.”
Babb argued that the dispute had distracted athletes from their primary goal of running and competing.
“This has been going on since the second week of the season. It’s been a distraction from their desire to just run and compete against other girls, which is what they are entitled to do according to Title 9, something so many women fought for in the seventies,” she said.
Her remarks reflected the position of campaigners who believe sex-based sporting categories are necessary to protect female athletes’ opportunities. The legal application of Title IX, however, depends on the relevant legal and regulatory framework and should not be determined solely by statements made at a rally.
Also addressing the crowd at Sousa’s rally was Frances Staudt, a Tumwater basketball player who previously refused to compete against a male opponent. Staudt described the personal criticism she said she faced after speaking out about eligibility rules.
“Two years ago, I stood up for something I truly believe in. I stood up for fairness, I stood up for privacy, and I stood up for the rights of girls to compete in sports that were created for us,” Staudt said, according to The Post Millennial.
“And because I stood up, I was called a bigot. I was called hateful. I was told I was the problem. Why? Because I refuse to stay silent.”
Staudt praised the Camas runners who walked away from the earlier race rather than compete under the existing policy, arguing that girls should not have to sacrifice their participation to make their concerns heard.
“We shouldn’t have to walk away from the starting line just to make our voices heard,” she said, adding that female athletes should not be publicly shamed for expressing their views.
The rally also served as a platform for political action, with Staudt urging Washington voters to support Initiative IL26-638, referred to by supporters as Initiative 638. The measure would prohibit biological males from competing in designated girls’ school sports and require health care provider verification of biological sex through sports physical documentation.
“Believe the girls,” Staudt said. “We’re in the 12th round of this fight, and we need to deliver the knockout punch and vote yes on I-638 to protect girls’ sports.”
Another day in France, another minor revealed to me the victim of forced prostitution.
Five men are facing trial at the Rhône Assize Court from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2 on charges of aggravated pimping involving a 12-year-old girl, referred to by the pseudonym Louna. While the suspects are being prosecuted, none of her clients face charges.
Louna, a vulnerable out-of-school youth who was also the alleged victim of a gang rape at age 10, ran away twice in 2022. On June 17, 2022, she left a campsite in southern France where she was vacationing with her grandmother. Six days later, a client recognized her from a missing person flyer and notified authorities, writes Le Progres.
Police located Louna in a rundown apartment on Quai Gillet in Lyon’s 4th arrondissement, discovering physical injuries (bruises and knife cuts) and that she had cocaine in her bloodstream.
The minor told police that she was manipulated online by a 19-year-old named Moha, whom she believed was her boyfriend. Moha and three accomplices allegedly groomed her with promises of luxury items, coerced her into using cocaine, and managed her prostitution.
Using the now-defunct website Coco, she was forced to see roughly 30 clients in a single week. The suspects threatened her with physical violence if she did not generate €500 to €1,000 a day, monitoring her actions closely.
This is just the latest in a slew of sex crime cases involving minors. Back in 2022, 12-year-old Lola Daviet was brutally raped and murdered in Paris by an Algerian woman, with the case possibly linked to a North African custom involving the killing of a White child with blonde hair.
Grooming gangs have also been on the rise. Child prostitution in France has risen by 43 percent over the past four years. French police are identifying “younger and younger girls” being trafficked.
Almost two months have passed since Sweden’s highly controversial parliamentary election, which saw the Social Democratic-led leftist bloc secure a razor-thin victory over the anti-immigration Tidö coalition of right-wing parties. Yet, hardly a day has passed without more suspicious details emerging about that victory.
Most recently, former Social Democratic MP Widar Andersson filed a complaint against the Migration Agency over its decision to grant citizenship to Mohamed Abdukardir Ali, a newly elected Somali-Swedish MP for the far-left Left Party (V), whose unexpected election is already under scrutiny as part of a police investigation into suspected fraud.
Andersson asked the Parliamentary Ombudsman to examine why Ali received Swedish citizenship in February 2026 despite having previously been rejected over his financial conduct. ‘It is obvious that something has gone wrong,’ he said on Sunday, 25 October.
Documents obtained by Kvartal show that Ali received permanent residence through family reunification in September 2013, although the authorities did not formally verify his identity. He was also issued an alien’s passport noting that deficiency. His application had been submitted at Sweden’s embassy in Addis Ababa in May 2012, when he was 16.
‘Former Social Democratic MP Widar Andersson filed a complaint against the Migration Agency over its decision to grant citizenship to Mohamed Abdukardir Ali’
In January 2023, Ali declared that he had no debts and referred to Sweden’s Enforcement Authority, despite entering a five-year restructuring arrangement only months earlier. The Migration Agency rejected his application, citing his failure to meet the good-conduct requirement. During subsequent proceedings, his representative claimed the arrangement had ended, and his debts had been settled; official records showed it ran until June 2027. In a later appeal, Ali again described the debt as fully repaid. Nevertheless, he was naturalized on 20 February 2026, six months before the election. The agency has not publicly explained its reversal.
Ali’s claimed business connections with Somalia have also unravelled under scrutiny. He described himself as the founder and chief executive of Verisom, an international development venture that Expressen could not locate in corporate registers. Through the Swedish company Afritech Growth, he pursued digital identity and other projects purportedly involving Somali officials. His business partner, former Moderate politician Agneta Nyvall, said she helped finance his trips to Somalia but now doubts whether the promised meetings took place.
Swedish authorities said they knew nothing of the venture, while the government denied that Ali participated in its separate Somalia aid agreement. According to Expressen, Ali had also cited the proposed business project in his citizenship proceedings.
To top it off, after returning to the Riksdag from a month-long absence following the election, a series of brief interviews exposed another controversial aspect of Ali being an MP representing Swedish people: he cannot speak proper Swedish. Moderate MP Louise Meijer questioned how this was even possible for a Swedish citizen, proposing a ten-year citizenship requirement before someone could be elected to Parliament.
Ali entered Parliament from ninth place on the Left Party’s Dalarna list after securing 648 personal votes, enough to displace its leading candidate. Police are investigating allegations that voters were transported to polling stations and given pre-marked ballots; three people are now suspects, and interviews are expected this week. Ali has not been formally accused of any offence and denies involvement.
The election result heightens the significance of the Ali scandal. The left-wing bloc secured 176 seats against 173 for the anti-immigration Tidö parties, with Reuters reporting 73,000 additional opposition votes across 786 immigrant-heavy districts compared with 2022. In Stockholm’s Rinkeby, roughly 94 per cent supported the opposition. The Left Party’s failure to properly vet Ali now hangs over a parliamentary majority partly secured through immigrant votes, making the entire post-election process resemble more of a Somali fraud investigation than the functioning of a Western democracy.
‘Interviews exposed another controversial aspect of Ali being an MP representing Swedish people: he cannot speak proper Swedish’
Yet that victory has produced no government. Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson’s proposed minority cabinet was rejected, while Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist abandoned coalition negotiations on Monday after failing to secure sufficient support. The Centre refuses to govern with the Left, which insists on ministerial positions despite the scandals surrounding its newly elected MP and its overall election performance.
The party nevertheless continues to defend Ali as pressure mounts. Former Social Democratic politician Jan Emanuel on Monday demanded Ali’s resignation and argued that he should never have been granted Swedish citizenship. Accusing the Left Party of prioritizing electoral gains over scrutiny of candidates, Emanuel said the party did not want Ali himself, but rather the immigrant votes he could attract. He also called for a new election, arguing that voters should be allowed to respond to the scandal.
Police clash with rioters in Rome. Left-leaning media have portrayed the rioters’ grievances as justified, while right-leaning media have called for their arrest. Photo: Screenshot from a video posted on X by Fonsi Loaiza.
On October 18, the day after rioters looted central Milan, the communist daily Il Manifesto ran its front-page story under “La bella stagione” (The Beautiful Season), with the headline “The city’s excluded take the streets.” In the right-wing La Verità, editor Maurizio Belpietro titled his editorial “Them in jail, us in the streets” and wrote that the destroyers “should not be understood, but punished.”
Those contrasting responses reflect the Italian media’s longstanding political divide, evident in coverage of Milan’s riots.
The main right-leaning dailies are Il Giornale, Libero and Il Tempo, controlled by Lega deputy Antonio Angelucci, and Belpietro’s La Verità. On the left are the center-left La Repubblica and La Stampa, Domani, Il Manifesto, and Marco Travaglio’s anti-system Il Fatto Quotidiano. Corriere della Sera, ANSA and Sky TG24 sit closer to the center.
Left-leaning papers frame the violence as a symptom of economic hardship and state repression, calling the government’s emergency security decree an overreach. Right-leaning papers emphasize failed immigration policy, Islamist influence and a political left they accuse of tolerating or supporting the violence.
The two camps disagree most sharply over the rioters’ identities and the significance of the alleged organizer’s detention.
The unrest began on October 17, when a cost-of-living march called “Italia in Piazza” (Italy in the Square) turned violent in central Milan. Of roughly 5,000 marchers, about 500 young people broke away and attacked police with stones, firecrackers and barriers in Piazza Duomo. Looting continued on October 18. Police took 271 people to headquarters, 220 of them minors, and held 174 preventively. Police figures put officer injuries at 14: ten State Police and four local police.
Early injury reports differed. ANSA initially reported at least four officers and 20 protesters injured. Citing Lombardy’s emergency service, Areu, the Giornale di Brescia reported ten officers and about 15 protesters injured. A politician quoted in Sky TG24’s live coverage claimed more than 100 officers were injured, though the reports did not establish a common timeframe or geographic scope for comparison.
Meloni wrote that demonstrating is a right but setting cities ablaze is not. She called on the opposition to condemn the violence without ambiguity.
On October 20, the Council of Ministers approved a decree sending 500 additional soldiers to Milan. A provision granting them police powers was dropped after the Presidency of the Republic objected.
Reported provisions included a new offense of “violenza organizzata nelle manifestazioni pubbliche” (organized violence at public demonstrations), carrying penalties Meloni described as up to five years in prison and fines up to 20,000 euros ($21,600). Reporting also described measures concerning preventive detention and criminal responsibility for minors aged 14 and older, and parental fines of 500 to 1,000 euros ($540 to $1,080).
Milan’s second weekend of protests, on October 24, passed without looting. With 1,400 police, carabinieri and soldiers deployed, police identified 2,921 people, took 196 to headquarters, held 171 preventively, referred 44 to prosecutors and arrested five.
That morning, police detained Youssef Siher, a 30-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin whom Milan prosecutors identify as the creator of “Movimento 17 Ottobre” (October 17 Movement), the online group that called the protests. He is under investigation for incitement to commit crimes with an alleged terrorist purpose, an aggravating circumstance, and for organized violence under the new decree.
A 2024 trainee at the Milan-based Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Siher also wrote for Il Fatto Quotidiano but reportedly stopped about 18 months ago. Early reports of his origins conflicted: Il Sole 24 Ore described him as of Palestinian origin and LaPresse as of Egyptian origin, before ANSA and most outlets reported Moroccan origins. Il Tempo reported that judicial review of his detention was due by October 26.
On the far left, Il Manifesto portrayed the riots as an uprising of excluded youth. Its correspondent described two days of spontaneous revolt by marginalized, racialized young people labeled “maranza,” a slang label often applied to street youths, including second-generation immigrants. It attributed their anger to police repression and institutional indifference. According to Libero, Brothers of Italy (FdI) deputy Emanuele Loperfido publicly condemned the paper’s front page.
Il Fatto Quotidiano emphasized protesters’ accounts. One feature quoted a 19-year-old in Milan who said repression was the only response to young people’s complaints about an unsustainable life. It cited living costs, rearmament and difficulty making ends meet as drivers of the protests. Its reporting on Siher focused on legal proceedings, citing prosecutors’ description of him as an effective instigator and a flight risk. It also reported that Genoa prosecutors were checking for links to a network accused of financing Hamas, while noting that Siher had never been named in that investigation.
Domani focused on police conduct, reporting that two adult students with no criminal records had their home searched without a warrant on October 24. Nothing was found.
Open, founded by television journalist Enrico Mentana, emphasized student organizers’ accounts. A Deriva collective member said media coverage of the clashes made them invisible. Another report listed protesters’ concerns: living costs, stagnant wages, school funding, the new cap on foreign students per classroom, European rearmament and Palestine.
La Repubblica and La Stampa covered the violence while emphasizing its causes. According to the Swiss daily Corriere del Ticino, La Repubblica reported that recruitment through Telegram and TikTok targeted second-generation Italians from the Lombard provinces. La Stampa’s October 18 front-page commentary argued that violence had undermined the protest’s aims.
Avvenire, the Italian Bishops’ Conference newspaper, took a similar line despite not being left-wing, publishing an op-ed criticizing the decree. Milan Archbishop Mario Delpini told La Repubblica that aggression cannot be contained by repression alone.
The right-leaning press blamed immigration and the left. Libero, edited by Mario Sechi, quoted FdI’s Lombardy security councillor Romano La Russa, who blamed leftist social centers and maranza he described as products of Democratic Party integration policies. Columnist Pietro Senaldi accused Milan Mayor Beppe Sala of attacking the Interior Ministry instead of those who looted his city.
After Siher’s detention, Libero ran the headline “Non è disagio, è Islam” (It’s Not Hardship, It’s Islam), alleging an Islamic political project to destabilize Italy behind the looting. It also accused Il Fatto Quotidiano of blaming the government while the alleged organizer was a former contributor to the paper.
La Verità described the October 18 looters as hundreds of hooded youths, mostly minors and of foreign origin, and called Sala’s complaint about insufficient police “surreal.” An editorial argued that the riots’ only political impetus came from progressive elites seeking to exploit the anger of “new Italians.” Lega MEP Silvia Sardone told the paper that Siher’s case revealed an alliance between Muslim radicalism and the radical left.
Il Tempo emphasized organization and intelligence warnings. It reported that Bruno Valensise, director of Italy’s domestic intelligence service, AISI, had warned of convergence with the radical left, describing links among far-left militants, Islamists, pro-Palestinian activists and maranza. Its Siher profile said he contributed to Al Mayadeen, a Hezbollah-aligned Arab satellite channel, and was a leader of the Young Palestinians of Italy. Il Giornale highlighted Meloni’s description of the rioters as thugs exploiting demonstrations to sow chaos.
The populist-right Il Giornale d’Italia broke with other right-wing papers after Siher’s detention, mocking them for abandoning hardship as an explanation once the alleged organizer emerged as Muslim and a former Il Fatto contributor. It questioned whether he had organized everything alone.
The center-right Rome daily Il Messaggero reported that deploying Folgore paratroopers to Milan aimed to blunt the propaganda of Roberto Vannacci, the former Folgore general who leads Futuro Nazionale (National Future) and has pressed the government on security.
Official accounts leave key questions unresolved. In his initial assessment, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said findings excluded structured links to radical-left groups, describing the unrest as spontaneous and fluid. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto called it a product of hybrid warfare. By October 24, prosecutors had identified an alleged organizer.
Police counted 60 foreign nationals among the 271 people brought in on October 18. The figures do not separately identify second-generation immigrants with Italian citizenship, leaving competing claims about the rioters’ backgrounds unresolved.
A PhD student at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies has argued that Ukraine has suffered significantly higher irretrievable casualties than Russia since the full-scale military operation began, challenging the widespread media narrative that Russian forces are taking the heavier toll.
Alexander Grable presented his analysis in a paper titled “Irretrievable Losses: Estimating Casualties in the Russo-Ukraine War,” delivered at a conference hosted by the Finnish National Defence University. Drawing on official Ukrainian health data, body-exchange ratios, and comparisons of confirmed figures, Grable contends that Ukrainian losses are at least ten times higher than Russia’s and possibly substantially more in comparable categories.
He points to Ukrainian Ministry of Health and National Institute of Strategic Studies figures on war-related amputations. Even allowing for high standards of medical care and evacuation, these imply killed-in-action totals well above Ukrainian President Zelensky’s public figure of around 50,000 and estimates such as the BBC’s roughly 140,000.
Parallel data on Russian military hospital admissions, obtained via a defector, show relatively fewer amputees. Body exchanges throughout the conflict have averaged approximately 12.5 Ukrainian dead returned for every one Russian, according to the research.
Grable also questions the reliability of some open-source tallies frequently cited as evidence of high Russian deaths, including parts of the Mediazona project, after cross-checking cases against Russian probate records. He links the disparity in losses to Russia’s reported surge in munitions production and artillery fire superiority, which Zelensky has himself described as reaching ratios of 10:1 or higher.
The paper concludes that demographic, industrial and resource fundamentals favour Russia in a prolonged war of attrition. Grable and those discussing his findings suggest a negotiated settlement remains the most realistic path to ending the fighting.
Zana Abdul Rahman Rahim arrived in the UK on the back of a lorry in June | POLICE HANDOUT
An Isis-linked terrorist who “plotted to kidnap a British ambassador” has been found to have entered the UK illegally in the back of a lorry.
Zana Abdul Rahman Rahim, 43, arrived in Britain via Dover from France in June despite being handed a UK-wide ban.
Rahim was discovered after being stopped by West Yorkshire Police for a broken light on his car.
During a routine stop check on the vehicle, officers at the scene discovered Rahim’s true identity.
Despite his ban, Rahim had made several previous attempts to enter the country.
While living in Derby and working as a car washer, he was arrested as part of a larger police sting across Europe in 2015.
He was then deported to Italy and jailed for seven-and-a-half years for his role as a spokesman and strategist for an Isis-affiliated terror cell.
Rahim was also part of a larger terror network which plotted to attack and kidnap British and Norwegian ambassadors.
In May this year, Rahim travelled to France having completed his sentence in Italy, before successfully crossing to the UK.
Rahim is currently in custody following his arrest in Yorkshire and will be sentenced on October 30.
The case is not the first of its kind to be prosecuted in the UK.
Rebwar Hamad, 48, was also a convicted terrorist from Iraq who entered the UK illegally.
Hamad crossed the Channel by small boat in September 2025, having been convicted of terror offences in Italy.
Mohammed Yaseen, another Iraqi national, was previously convicted in Germany for being a member of Isis.
He then arrived in Britain by a small boat in the Channel in December 2025.
Earlier this month, Yaseen was living in a bail hostel in Windsor and was spotted at a Co-op store close to Windsor Castle, after being released from prison.
Hakan Barac, a 28-year-old Turkish national who arrived by small boat in 2023 was jailed last year for posting videos in support of Isis.
Barac was in the process of applying for asylum when he was arrested by police.
The Isis supporter was jailed for 45 months after sharing material glorifying “violent terrorism”.
In a statement, a Home Office spokesman told GB News: “It is standard Government policy that any foreign national who receives a prison sentence in the UK is referred for deportation at the earliest opportunity and will be barred from ever returning to the country.”
