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US Vice President JD Vance has criticised Romania’s decision to cancel its presidential election late last year.

Speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on February 20, Vance condemned the annulment of Romania’s December 2024 ballot, arguing the decision does not align with “American values”.

“Friendship is based on shared values,” Vance declared. “You do not have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result – and that happened in Romania.”

His remarks were directed at Romania’s Constitutional Court, which scrapped the vote after declassified security documents alleged Russian interference in favour of hard-right NATO critic Călin Georgescu, who had won the first round. Moscow has denied the accusations.

Vance’s latest European broadside marked his third in recent days.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, he accused the EU of embracing censorship, referencing former European Commissioner Thierry Breton’s response to the Romanian election annulment.

“A former European Commissioner sounded delighted that the Romanian Government had just annulled an entire election,” Vance noted.

“The same could happen in Germany, too,” he warned as that country prepared for upcoming snap federal elections on February 23.

He also accused the EU of censorship on February 12 during the AI summit in Paris.

American Vice President JD Vance criticised the EU at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, accusing European nations of anti-democratic behaviour. https://t.co/pYdi5l8OKu

— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) February 14, 2025

Speaking on February 20, French President Emmanuel Macron defended the Romanian authorities’ decision. He claimed the country’s Supreme Court had uncovered evidence of Russian meddling via social media and vote-buying operations.

“The Romanian Supreme Court massively identified that Russia through proxies, ie intermediary channels had manipulated the elections with the massive use of certain social networks,” he said.

Macron also dismissed Vance’s criticism and concerns regarding free speech in Europe.

“There’s a false discourse on the rise — the so-called defence of ‘free speech’,” he said.

“I heard JD Vance say he was shocked by the decision. For me, it’s not the decision that was shocking, but the fact that Russia interfered on such a massive scale,” he added.

The Romanian court’s decision to annul the election has been raised elsewhere.

The Venice Commission, a key legal advisory body for the Council of Europe, recently expressed concerns over the move and cast doubt on its legitimacy.

During CPAC, Vance also turned his sights on Germany, targeting the government for what he called its its heavy-handed approach to online speech.

“Germany’s entire defence is subsidised by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today,” he pointed out.

“Do you think the American taxpayer is going to stand for that, if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet? Of course not,” he said.

He emphasised that shared values were the foundation of US-European alliances.

“Let’s defend democracy. Let’s have free expression — not just in the United States but across the Western world. That is the path to strong alliances in Europe,” Vance said.

Meanwhile, Germany’s CDU/CSU candidate, poised to win the upcoming election, has warned that US billionaire Elon Musk could face consequences for alleged interference in German politics via his X platform.

With tensions between Washington and Brussels rising, Vance’s remarks could be seen as a portent that the transatlantic alliance may be heading towards greater turbulence.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/02/us-vp-vance-slams-romania-election-annulment-as-risk-to-western-values/

Authorities in Milan are searching for five North African males suspected of stabbing a 16-year-old boy and leaving him for dead in the Italian city.

The Italian teenager was accosted by the migrant gang around 9 p.m. on Thursday evening outside the Merlata Bloom shopping center in the western suburbs of the city.

The gang surrounded the teen and the girl he was with before assaulting him and stabbing him multiple times in an attempt to steal his wallet, cell phone, and scooter.

Emergency responders arrived quickly, treating the victim for wounds to his head, back, and hand before transporting him to Niguarda Hospital where he remains in a serious condition.

Authorities from the General Prevention Office of the Milan Police Headquarters are working to reconstruct the sequence of events and identify the attackers.

According to initial reports, the assailants were described as of North African origin, though their identities have not yet been confirmed. Witnesses provided accounts that could aid investigators in tracking down those responsible.

This latest attack follows another violent incident at the same location involving a 19-year-old victim who was also stabbed and robbed of his cell phone. He too was taken to Niguarda Hospital in serious but stable condition.

Local residents and employees of the shopping center have voiced concerns over recurring violence in the area, describing frequent incidents of crime, muggings, and assaults. Some have expressed frustration over the security situation, calling for increased safety measures.

“Crime, attacks, and robberies. It is the usual situation here,” one told local news outlet Corriere Della Sera.

In November last year, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi announced the deployment of 600 additional police officers to Milan, citing concerns over integration challenges and rising crime rates, particularly in areas with significant immigrant populations.

Piantedosi offered damning statistics on the disproportionate involvement immigrants have in committing crime, noting that 65 percent of all offenses in the city are committed by foreign nationals despite representing 20 percent of all residents.

“These figures highlight integration challenges that must be addressed to reduce marginalization and its consequences,” he added.

At the same time, Milan’s left-wing mayor Beppe Sala accepted that the Italian city can no longer be considered a safe place to live.

“I won’t claim Milan is a safe city, but it is making an effort to address challenges faced by all international cities,” he said.

One such challenge is the rise in sexual assaults across the city, an issue that gained mass coverage during New Year’s Eve celebrations when several women reported assaults by migrants.

Six Belgian students shared their experience of being sexually assaulted by a large group of foreign men while celebrating the festivities in Milan’s Piazza Duomo, describing the experience as “a night of terror.”

Just last month, Milanese authorities arrested one Egyptian national and were on the lookout for nine other men of North African origin in connection with the gang rape of a 19-year-old student who was partying at a nightclub with her boyfriend.

The brutal attack occurred outside the Alcatraz club after the victim and her boyfriend had stepped outside the club. They were then accosted by a gang of 10 people who initially attempted to rob them but when they resisted, proceeded to rape the female victim.

https://rmx.news/article/five-north-africans-wanted-for-stabbing-of-italian-teen-in-milan/

Our progressives do not seem very shaken by the disturbing similarities with the events that shook pre-war Europe. But Islam is out to get all the infidels, including woke progressives. Opinion

by Giulio Meotti

That the liberal conscience of the West remains indifferent to the images of Israeli Jews freed from the captivity of Islamic terrorists is aberrant and alarming. It seems that not even the crimes that echo the darkest moments of the 20th century are enough to break the cultural frivolity and moral narcissism of our times.

Hamas placed an hourglass on the stage in Gaza with the photos of the hostage Matan Zangauker and his mother Einav, under the caption: “Time is running out.”

The mothers of hostages are also psychologically tortured. “Time is running out” is the slogan of the hostages’ families forum. Islamic fundamentalists are very skilled readers of the Western psyche.

Romi Gonen only started eating three weeks after she was released by Hamas, her mother, Meirav, said. One of the first things she noticed about her daughter when she returned from 471 days in captivity was “her long, sticking out fingers.”

The hostages were held in extremely unsanitary conditions, full of lice, bedbugs, mold and fungi.

“The Jews are starving us,” Hamas shouted, winning over half of the West, when in reality Hamas was starving the Jews. Gaza is a ghetto, the Western idiots said.

The truth is that under Gaza there is a concentration camp.

For over a year, the entire international community danced to the tune of propaganda about the “famine” in Gaza. Then Hamas showed what they wanted the world to see: evidence of their cruelty, worn on the faces and bodies of those they have tormented since October 7.

The Red Cross has never even pretended to care about the fate of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. When the mother of one of the hostages begged the Red Cross to try to deliver the medicine her daughter needed every day, Red Cross officials scolded her: “Think about the Palestinian side.”

Meanwhile, three hostages arrived from Gaza with high jutting cheekbones, sunken eyes, prominent collarbones, muscle wasting: where is the scandal?

Or Levy was kept in tunnels almost all the time, was allowed to shower only every few months, was barefoot for 491 days and wore shoes for the first time on the day of his release.

The hostages were subjected to severe torture during their captivity, both physical and psychological. They were strangled, tied up, gagged with cloth until they suffocated, hung upside down and burned with a hot object. One of the hostages revealed that he had been shackled. “I was handcuffed in a dark tunnel, without air or light. I could not walk or stand, only before my release did my captors remove the shackles, forcing me to learn to walk again.”

Sagui Dekel-Chen, who was kidnapped while fighting terrorist invaders with his kibbutz security team on October 7, 2023, was held in a Gaza hospital for the first few weeks of his captivity. He was “tortured during interrogation” by the terrorists and has scars on his body to prove it.

The captors ate in front of the hostages and denied them food, and sometimes forced the hostages to watch them choosing who would eat and who would not.

Hamas showed kidnapped Israeli soldiers videos of their fellow prisoners being tortured.

Daniella Gilboa’s father says: “Some days, they were fed animal feed: inedible scraps of dirty vegetables and a kind of hard flour.”

I don’t think it’s just Hamas that is a threat to Western civilization. It’s the entire Palestinian Arab cause, as it has been for half a century.

Gadi Mozes, who turned eighty in Hamas hands and was released three weeks ago, was held alone for the entire 482 days he was held by the terrorists.

Keith Siegel recalled being dragged 33 times through tunnels and dark buildings. Among Keith’s hiding places was a family home with a Gazan family and children, but where he was locked in a room.

Israeli News 12 testimony from a recently released female hostage: “She was held captive by a married father with multiple wives. He was a senior commander in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and was extremely abusive, beyond words. He turned her into a house slave.”

Hamas not only beat and caged Yarden Bibas (like Ofer Calderon), but also tortured him by beating him and giving him false updates on the fate of his family, his wife and two children.

Adam Berger said his daughter, Agam, witnessed physical abuse while in captivity. “Sometimes they tortured other female hostages in front of her eyes.”

Many were given “cloths soaked in cold water” to wash themselves.

Daniella Gilboa returned with a bullet still in her leg.

Army spokesman Daniel Hagari climbed into the hole where Hersh Goldberg Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov were detained and killed in cold blood. From a children’s room decorated with Mickey Mouse, he descended into a hole where it is impossible to stand: bottles of urine and a bucket for toilets, bottles of water for drinking and washing, women’s clothes on the floor, a Koran, the blood of six young people. Hagari said that the prisoners were reduced to a minimal weight, about thirty kilos – like in Auschwitz.

Many children released after two months had had their legs branded with motorcycle exhaust pipes.

A freed Thai worker says that the Israeli hostages he was held prisoner with were savagely beaten with electric cables.

Two teenagers were forced to perform sexual acts on each other. Women were sexually abused and forced to undress in front of everyone, tied to the bed, threatened, pulled by the hair. Whipped. This is contained in the report of the Israeli Ministry of Health released in December.

But our progressives do not seem very shaken by the disturbing similarities with the events that shook pre-war Europe.

They are hereby warned: the new Hitler Islamonazis havs promised all the “infidels” the paradise in the shadow of the sword.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/404166

On this week’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson speak with John Gillam, host of the Thinking Class podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkingClass

It has been revealed that one of France’s most-watched right-wing TV shows, Touche pas a mon poste, will be officially taken off air.

That came after the Council of State, the highest administrative court in France, upheld a decision to strip its channel host C8 of its broadcast frequencies.

The ruling, delivered on February 19, meant C8 would cease operations on the evening of February 28, marking an unprecedented move in the country’s media landscape.

The French court rejected C8’s final appeal against the broadcasting regulator Arcom’s refusal to renew its licence, despite public backlash and an online petition gathering more than 1 million signatures in just 24 hours.

Arcom initially refused to extend C8’s frequencies in the summer of 2024, citing regulatory concerns, prompting it to take its fight to the highest administrative court.

The channel’s renewal was in jeopardy due to controversies surrounding Touche pas à mon Poste and host Cyril Hanouna.

It has faced many sanctions since 2016, with more than half occurring in the past four years, primarily involving Hanouna’s on-air behaviour.

In July 2024, Arcom issued a warning against C8 for “denigrating a political candidate”.

During one show at that time, Hanouna put two leaders of Reconquête and the National Rally in contact by telephone asking them to negotiate ahead of the French legislative elections. During the call, he also denigrated former French president François Hollande.

Arcom then deemed that Hanouna had not respected the obligation to respect political pluralism during electoral periods.

A documentary aired by US television station CBS has apparently revealed how Germany criminalised freedom of opinion, causing shock worldwide. https://t.co/2mjxWMXPmI

— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) February 20, 2025

C8, part of the Canal+ media empire owned by Conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, is the entertainment sister channel of CNews, often described as France’s equivalent of Fox News in the US.

In response to the ruling, Canal+ labelled the decision as “baffling” and a first in French audio-visual history, warning of economic and social consequences.

“This ruling results in the outright elimination of a channel that has been part of the audio-visual landscape for almost 20 years, still ranking as the first digital terrestrial television (DTT) channel, attracting over 9 million daily viewers,” the company said in a statement on February 18.

“An entire ecosystem is being sacrificed. Nearly 400 employees and service providers now face job losses,” it added.

The decision has sparked outrage on the Right, with many seeing it as a direct attack on media pluralism and free speech.

Reconquête MEP Sarah Knafo denounced the ruling, stating: “Fifteen judges at the Council of State have just deprived millions of French people of a channel they watched every evening. Administrative justice was meant to protect our freedoms against the arbitrariness of power — instead, it did the opposite.”

Marion Maréchal, president of the right-wing movement Identity and Liberty echoed the concerns, warning that the court’s ruling was another step toward the erosion of media diversity in France.

“The confirmation of C8’s shutdown by Arcom places France among countries where media pluralism, already fragile, is rapidly declining,” she said.

Even before the verdict, National Rally leader Jordan Bardella had warned that the French establishment was cracking down on dissent ahead of the likely closure of C8.

Meanwhile, French leftwing activists celebrated the channel’s demise, taking to social media to mock C8’s flagship right-wing host Hanouna.

“Your tears are so sweet, Cyril Hanouna,” one activist gloated.

“History will remember nothing of your show, except what not to do in a democracy. Populism and simplism have thrown you into the abyss of fascism,” the poster continued.

“The end of your show will be good for public debate.”

President of France’s National Rally party and MEP Jordan Bardella has warned that free speech is “under attack” in his country, citing the US as a model for change. https://t.co/J5JCKj9D1E

— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) February 18, 2025

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/02/frances-top-court-ends-popular-right-wing-tv-show-and-host-channel/

A panel discussion on local politics was to be held for those who work in the legal system in Hamburg, Germany earlier this month. Representatives of all the political parties that will be competing in Hamburg’s upcoming state election were scheduled to participate. The event was canceled at the last minute, however.

The reason? One of the invited parties was Alternative for Germany (AfD) – and some in Hamburg’s political and legal institutions consider them to be no better than Nazis, and unworthy of being heard at all. This has become clear both as the result of their public statements as well as a series of leaked official e-mails, which Freilich Magazine first reported on.

The elections to Hamburg’s state parliament are scheduled for March 2, exactly one week after Germany’s national elections, in which the AfD is expected to perform well. Senior Public Prosecutor Sebastian K. of the Hamburg Judges’ Association thus thought that this was an opportune time to have spokesmen from all the parties come together to address his colleagues on the theme of “Hamburg as a Legal Center: What Is it Worth to Hamburg?” The discussion was scheduled to be held on Feb. 6 in the Hamburg Regional Courthouse.

All of the parties acknowledged their participation. The AfD decided to send Dr. Alexander Wolf, a lawyer who is the deputy leader of the party’s group in the Hamburg State Parliament.

When Sebastian K. invited his colleagues to attend, however, it did not elicit the response he had hoped for. One of the judges in the regional court sent a reply message on Jan. 28, saying that she was shocked that a party that is “certainly at least partially right-wing extremist,” in her words, would receive an invitation to such an event.

This judge went on to say that the AfD’s Hamburg branch is using slogans that are comparable to those of the Sturmabteilung (SA), or Stormtroopers, the violent paramilitary force that helped Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany in the early 1930s. She also indicated that she was confused as to why the Hamburg Judges’ Association would allow the AfD to be represented “on an equal footing with representatives of democratic parties.” The AfD should not be given any attention whatsoever during the period of election campaigning, she concluded.

It should be noted that on Jan. 28, the day of the judge’s message, a mass demonstration against the AfD was held in the city of Hamburg. The police estimated that 60,000 people participated.

Also on Jan. 28, a motion to tighten Germany’s immigration policies in response to the deadly knife attack in Aschaffenburg on Jan. 22 was put forward by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag. The motion narrowly passed with the help of the AfD, which horrified all of the enemies of the right throughout the country.

The next day, Carola Ensslen, a member of the Hamburg Parliament from the Left Party, and who was to have been one of the participants in the panel discussion, informed the assembly that the Holocaust is repeating itself, gesturing in the direction of the AfD’s representatives. She then said that “democrats must not make room for right-wing agitation.”

Ensslen’s sentiments were echoed by Lena Zagst, a member of the Hamburg Parliament from the Greens who had likewise been invited to participate in the discussion, on her Instagram account. Both Ensslen and Zagst then announced that they were boycotting the event in protest of the AfD’s participation.

Given that it was scheduled to occur the following week, the Hamburg Judges’ Association announced that the parliamentarians’ withdrawal so close to the date meant that the discussion would have to be canceled altogether.

The controversy didn’t end there, however. Another regional judge sent out an e-mail which has since been made public in which he bemoaned the fact that Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU, is “working with the fascists” to introduce a “xenophobic and probably illegal bill.” The judge advised that no one should participate in discussions involving the AfD, since “fascists and right-wing extremists like the AfD” are not interested in “discussions on the matter.”

A Hamburg public prosecutor who expressed his shock at the AfD’s invitation to the panel discussion gave his view that, given that the Hamburg Judges’ Association is a private rather than public institution, it is not bound by the constitutional requirement to remain neutral. He added that opponents of the rule of law such as the AfD should not be given a venue in which to spread their “often false” views, even though the prosecutor refused to give any examples of such views.

Another prosecutor went even further: “The judiciary is not neutral in this regard, but is rather called upon to actively support democracy,” he said.

Some judges also threatened to resign from their membership in the association.

These are only a few examples of the censorious rhetoric about the AfD that has been heard from public officials in Hamburg in recent weeks. It should be mentioned that while the response to the event was overwhelmingly negative, a few of the association’s members attempted to remind their colleagues that they must exercise impartiality, as mandated by the constitution – even when it involves “abhorrent political viewpoints.”

The German news portal Freilich contacted the Hamburg judiciary for their reaction to its members’ clear bias against the AfD – specifically, how it could be reconciled with the constitutionally mandated requirement for judges to remain impartial. The judiciary’s press agents refused to answer, however, referring such inquiries to the Hamburg Judges’ Association – despite the fact that many of these statements were made via the official e-mail accounts of members of the courts and prosecutors’ offices.

When Freilich contacted Dr. Alexander Wolf of the Hamburg faction of the AfD for comment, he denounced the accusations that his party is fascist or undemocratic as an “absurdity” that calls into question the sanity of those who make such statements. He further said that he believes it calls the impartiality of Hamburg’s judges and prosecutors into question.

It seems that some of those who participated in the e-mail discussions were aware of this, given that two of the judges involved suggested that the exchange should be moved to the Hamburg Judges’ Association’s private e-mail list, given that the accounts they were using were official ones.

The publication of the judges’ and prosecutors’ e-mails by Freilich has led the AfD to consider launching legal action against them. Krzysztof Walczak, who is the parliamentary secretary for the Hamburg faction of the AfD, said that these revelations are tantamount to a scandal “if it is true that several Hamburg judges .. used official e-mail accounts to conduct political agitation against a legal and constitutionally protected party such as the AfD.”

Walczak said that the situation is especially serious given that judges have a large degree of power to affect the lives of ordinary citizens.

“If every citizen now has to fear being treated unfairly by a judge because of his party membership, it not only means that there might be bias in individual cases, but it also undermines trust in the judiciary and the rule of law as a whole,” he explained.

Walczak believes that, if the e-mails are proven to be authentic, the judges’ actions could be construed as a violation of the Hamburg constitution, and it would then be possible to prosecute them in court. He said that the AfD is currently investigating whether or not they should submit an application for the judges to be indicted on the grounds that they have violated the constitution.

It is unclear how prejudice against the AfD from within the German state might impact their ability to govern if they win political power in Sunday’s national elections. One thing seems to be certain, however: They are not likely to get a warm reception from the existing establishment.  

Germany: AfD Derangement Syndrome among Hamburg’s judges and prosecutors

The 15-year-old pupil had replied with ‘Allah’ to an anonymous person he was chatting to on Instagram after the latter had asked him to ‘find a dog’s name that starts with A’. Three suspects were taken into police custody on Tuesday.

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It all started when the student, who was chatting with a stranger ‘by private message’ on the social network Instagram, was asked to ‘find a dog’s name starting with A’, the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office told Le Figaro, confirming a Sud Ouest report. Except that the teenager had replied with ‘Allah’. An insult that led to a violent reaction from his interlocutor.

After this outrageous word, the teenager became the target of numerous death threats and insults.

Le Figaro

The pupil was very disturbed and had to change schools. Investigators examined the contents of his mobile phone and contacted Instagram’s general management at the request of the public prosecutor’s office. Checks of the app led to the alleged authors of the messages. The investigation is focussed on three young people aged 13, 14 and 17. They were arrested on Tuesday February 18 at their parents’ home near Gradignan and taken into police custody at the central police station.

[…]

Sud-Ouest / Gradignan (33) : après avoir prénommé un chien « Allah », un lycéen de 15 ans menacé de mort sur les réseaux sociaux et contraint de changer d’établissement ; trois ados interpellés – Fdesouche

He expresses no remorse, only hatred: Farhad Noori believes that Allah ordered the deadly attack in Munich. In prison, he refuses to see a doctor – ‘only Allah decides about me’. He refuses his food because it is ‘not halal’. He orders the prison staff to clean his cell – of Christians.
Who was Farhad Noori, the Munich attacker? Initially, the 24-year-old Afghan who drove a Mini Cooper into a Verdi rally last Thursday, killing two people and injuring 37, puzzled investigators. However, initial impressions gained by security circles from Noori’s statements during interrogations and his behaviour in Munich prison reveal a profile of a radical Muslim who shows no remorse and exhibits signs of religious madness. NIUS learnt this exclusively from Bavarian police circles who had an insight into his accommodation in Munich prison.

According to the report, Noori, who was allegedly born in Kabul on January 9, 2001, is said to have made several fundamentalist religious statements in dialogue with prison staff in recent days. For example, when a doctor came to examine Noori’s mental state, the bodybuilder is said to have repeated several times that ‘only Allah decides about him’. This was another reason why he refused to see a doctor. If he were to die, it would be ‘Allah’s decision’ – and he felt no fear because he would be resurrected and return to this world anyway.

After the crime, the lead prosecutor, Gabriele Tilmann, had already stated that she would ‘dare to speak of an Islamist motivation for the offence’. The 24-year-old, who is now accused of 39 counts of attempted murder by the federal prosecutor, is said to have prayed and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ after the crime. During questioning, Noori also gave insights into his motives, ‘which I would summarise as religious motivation’, according to Tilmann. Research by NIUS also came to the conclusion that Noori had repeatedly used Islamic symbols on social media, including the tauhid finger, Kaaba emojis or sermons that at least indicated an interest in pious Islamic content, in addition to pictures of poses in the gym or in branded clothing.

However, Noori’s behaviour in Munich prison can hardly be described as pious in the literal sense: According to police sources, the Afghan is said to have behaved ‘insolently’ at times – and showed no signs of remorse or scruples. When making contact with investigators on site, the Afghan is said to have repeatedly displayed ‘aggressive behaviour’ and a ‘loud, demanding tone’. Noori is also said to have repeatedly changed languages and started speaking in Urdu.
For example, when food was to be brought to him through the food hatch, an attempt at communication is said to have failed immediately, as Noori repeatedly interrupted staff members and interrupted them aggressively. Within a few days, the assassin is also said to have triggered the emergency call several times, although he had been made aware that this was only intended for emergencies. On one occasion, the Afghan is said to have instructed a guard to ‘throw away his rubbish immediately’, as this was ‘his will’.

But there is much more: Noori is also said to have explicitly asked prison staff to clean his cell ‘because the Jesuits housed before him had soiled everything’. According to police sources, it seems likely that by ‘Jesuits’ he meant Christians in the sense of the German majority society. When he was brought food to his detention room, he did not want to accept it ‘because it was not halal and would have been soiled by the prison’. Everything he really needed, he said, he got from Allah, ‘because Allah was sitting next to him when he prayed’. The offence of which the accused is accused was also ordered by Allah. The communication attempts present the impression of a radically religious and at the same time delusional perpetrator, according to the source.

This matches a digital ring that Noori is said to have carried with him last Thursday during the crime. The newspaper Die Welt reported exclusively on the item. Investigators are said to have puzzled over the significance of the digital ring, the report said, possibly because the gadget was intended to record the number of people hit or killed. According to NIUS information, however, it seems more likely that the analogue counter is a further indication of Noori’s Islamist world view. Devout Muslims in the Middle East are said to carry such Digital Rings with them to count their prayers to Allah. A New York Times article from 2022, for example, is entitled: ‘Some Muslims Are Using Digital Rings to Track Their Praises to God’. It seems likely that the mysterious Digital Ring was more an indication of Noori’s attachment to Allah than a kind of body counter.

The Afghan arrived in Germany in 2016. His asylum application was rejected, but due to the situation in Afghanistan, Noori could never be deported – and was therefore granted tolerated stay. In 2021, he was also granted a so-called ‘lane change’. This allows rejected asylum seekers who are considered to be well integrated to obtain a residence permit. The German magazine Der Spiegel revealed last weekend that he allegedly lied about his escape story. A judge at the administrative court in Munich came to the conclusion that Noori’s statements were ‘not credible’ as they seemed ‘lacking in detail and unrealistic’. There were also ‘inconsistencies’ in his statements. A serious threat in Afghanistan was therefore ‘unlikely’.

NIUS

The world’s a stage and the players are finally taking their places. Trump and Putin, two lions in a den of hyenas, two men who don’t just talk but act. The phone call was the spark, the kindling. Now the fire’s burning and the smoke’s rising over Riyadh, where the real work begins. No time for the faint-hearted, no time for the hand-wringers, the bureaucrats, the paper-pushers, who’ve spent decades hiding behind their desks and their rules. This is about power. Unapologetic, world-shaping power. And Europe? Europe’s not invited. The Europeans are not even in the conversation. They’re the ghosts of a fading empire, the relics of a world that doesn’t exist anymore. Trump doesn’t need them. Putin doesn’t need them. The future doesn’t need them.

Riyadh. The desert. The heat. The sand. A fitting backdrop for what’s about to go down. The American delegation — Rubio, Waltz, Witkoff — men who understand the game, men who don’t flinch when the stakes are high. Across the table, Lavrov and Ushakov, the sharp minds of the Kremlin, the architects of Russia’s resurgence. No Europeans. No Ukrainians. No whining, no begging, no pathetic cries for “diplomacy” or “multilateralism.” This isn’t a charity. This isn’t a therapy session. This is the real deal. The kind of deal that gets made when the adults are in charge and the children have been sent to their rooms.

What’s on the table? Everything. Ukraine. NATO. The future of Europe. The balance of power. The Europeans can cry about “sovereignty” and “territorial integrity,” but what do they know about strength? What do they know about survival? They’ve spent decades leeching off American power, hiding behind American tanks, American dollars, American might, while sneering at the hand that feeds them. Well, guess what? The hand’s pulling back. Trump’s America doesn’t owe them anything. And Putin? He’s been waiting for this moment. Russia’s a powerhouse. A player. A force to be reckoned with.

The Europeans can cry all they want. They can whine about “security” and “alliances” and “values.” But what have they ever done except freeload? What have they ever built except a house of cards? Trump knows it. Putin knows it. The world knows it. Europe’s time is over. Their security architecture? A joke. Their NATO? A relic. Their so-called “unity”? A fragile facade that crumbles at the first sign of pressure. Trump and Putin aren’t here to prop up their hallucinations. They’re here to burn them down.

And what about Ukraine? What about the so-called “peace talks”? Let’s be real. Ukraine’s a pawn. A bargaining chip. A piece on the board that Trump and Putin will move as they see fit. The Europeans can scream about “sovereignty” and “territorial integrity,” but what do they know about strength? What do they know about survival? Trump and Putin are playing the long game. They’re thinking about the future. About power. About control. The Europeans? They’re stuck in the past, clinging to their pathetic little fantasies of relevance.

So let them whine. Let them cry. Let them clutch their treaties and their alliances and their useless little conferences. Trump and Putin are moving forward. They’re building a new world. A world where the weak are left behind. And Europe? Europe can rot. The Europeans had their chance. They blew it. Now they’re just spectators, watching as the real players rewrite the rules.

This is the new reality. This is the new order. And if the Europeans don’t like it? Tough. They’re not at the table anymore. They’re not even in the room. Trump and Putin are the future. And the future doesn’t have room for weaklings.

Europe, once the cradle of civilization, now lies in its twilight, a hollowed-out shell of its former glory. Its cities, once bustling with the vigor of empires, are now museums of decay, their streets echoing with the footsteps of a people who have forgotten how to rule and have been subjugated long ago. The Faustian spirit that once drove Europe to conquer the world has withered, replaced by a lethargic decadence that clings to the past like a child to a broken toy. Trump and Putin, in their brutal pragmatism, are the harbingers of a new epoch, one where the old order is dismantled brick by brick. Europe, with its endless debates and moral posturing, is no longer the protagonist of history but a footnote, a cautionary tale of what happens when a civilization loses its will to power. The future belongs to those who can seize it, and Europe, paralyzed by its own irrelevance, has already been left behind.

Trump, Putin, and Europe’s Funeral / Constantin von Hoffmeister

A “very dangerous” asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenager cannot be jailed as it could breach his human rights due to the torture he experienced in Syria, a court has heard.

Hassan Abou Hayleh, 39, was found guilty in November of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in Dorset.

His sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court was adjourned on Monday after his defence barrister argued imprisonment could violate his rights under Article Three of the European Convention of Human Rights.

The Syrian immigrant’s lawyer said Hayleh, who required an Arabic interpreter in court, suffers from PTSD after being tortured in a jail under the Assad regime.

CCTV footage showed Hayleh driving around Weymouth town centre at 3.25am on December 18, 2022, looking for vulnerable women to target. He spotted the victim sitting alone on the pavement after leaving a nightclub while waiting for her father to collect her.

After helping her up from the ground, he placed his hands down her trousers and inside her underwear before trying to get her into his car. The victim refused and shouted for help to three passing members of the public, telling them Hayleh had touched her.

Defence barrister Graham Gilbert told Judge Robert Pawson: “The doctor’s report only came in on Saturday and it expressed concerns about Hayleh’s PTSD.”

“He has several symptoms of PTSD which would be made worse by a custodial sentence. It would also be made worse without the support of his wife and friends,” Gilbert said.

Judge Pawson responded: “A lot of prisoners’ mental health gets worse during a custodial sentence…However we are going to take the upmost care and caution due to Mr Hayleh’s PTSD due to his time suffering torture in a Syrian prison under the Assad regime. Placing him in prison would provide echoes of that experience.”

Article Three of the European Convention of Human Rights prohibits torture, inhumane treatment and degrading punishment. The judge must now interpret UK criminal law in a way that is compatible with the Human Rights Act 1998. Hayleh, of Wentworth Close, Weymouth, was released on conditional bail until his next appearance in April.

The Syrian arrived in the UK in 2020 and had been living in Weymouth, Dorset. When questioned by police, Hayleh claimed it was a misunderstanding, saying he had only tried to help the victim by pulling up her exposed trousers after she hugged him.

At a previous hearing following his conviction, Judge Pawson told Hayleh: “You were driving around in the early hours on a Sunday morning hoping that you would find exactly what you did find, a young and vulnerable drunk woman who you wanted to get into your car so that you could sexually abuse her.”

The judge had also stated: “On the evidence before me you are potentially a very dangerous man. I shudder to think what might have happened.”

The case has drawn criticism from former politicians, with some arguing that victims’ rights should take precedence over offenders’ human rights considerations.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/dorset-news-asylum-seeker-sexual-assault-teenager-jail-breach-human-rights