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Civil War Can’t Happen in Europe—Or Can it? 

In the United States, if Americans know anything about the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, it’s that the AfD are a bunch of Nazi-adjacent hooligans who threaten to return Germany to Hitlerism. They know this because that’s what the American media tell them. Very few will bother to go online to find the English-language version of AfD’s party platform. If they did, they would find a wealth of common sense, and proposals that sound like ordinary GOP positions, even before the Trumpening of the Republican Party.

It’s the same thing in Europe, of course. In her speech last week at CPAC Hungary, AfD leader Alice Weidel said that in Germany, “politicians fear us like no other party, and for good reason.” The reason, of course, is that AfD tells the plain truth about the various crises besieging Germany, especially those caused by mass migration and Islamization. The German establishment would rather demonize and suppress all those who notice the fracturing of their country than deal forthrightly with the problems that their own globalist ideology and managerial, authoritarian liberalism have caused. 

I don’t know, though, if Europeans understand how truly horrific things are in Germany for AfD politicians and their supporters. Last Friday, I attended a private meeting with some AfD lawmakers and party officials who were in Budapest for CPAC. 

It is one thing to read about how the German state labors to marginalize the AfD. It is quite another to hear personal stories of harassment by the state and private institutions from people who, along with family members, are suffering them. The leaked thousand-page report the German domestic intelligence service prepared to justify classifying the AfD as “extremist”—a precursor to an outright ban—features “evidence” like a tweet from an AfD member who had simply said on social media that there is nothing shameful about being a German.

This pathological fear of ordinary humans who think and feel ordinary human things has led Germany to a state of what I call “soft totalitarianism,” and indeed one that is pushing the boundaries of the hard version. 

Again, though, the media have no interest in reporting on it, and scarcely more interest in reporting on actual conditions leading populist, nationalist parties like the AfD to gain ground among European peoples.

Earlier this year, Britain’s Centre for Migration Control published a report revealing that foreign nationals are arrested for sex crimes at 3.5 times the rate of native Britons. Forty-eight nationalities present in Britain have higher arrest rates than native Brits, with five Islamic nations leading the way: Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Algeria, and Somalia. But the Starmer government seems far more worried about people noticing all this, and thinking bad thoughts about Muslims (“Islamophobia”), than it is about the safety of British women. 

Meanwhile, in Paris over the weekend mobs of African and Arab youths carried out two nights of fiery rampages in connection with a French team’s football victory. Two people were killed, and hundreds injured. Diversity was vigorously celebrated, with ethnic youths—one carrying the Palestinian flag—desecrating a statue of Joan of Arc. In a tweet featuring an image of the appalling display, French MEP Marion Maréchal commented, “No one can yet claim that by continuing we will move towards a bright future of peace and national cohesion. The change of trajectory is imperative and urgent.” 

The mob of non-Gauls swarming atop the Joan of Arc statue symbolizes that they own the streets. It happens in less provocative ways. Recently in Brussels, a German friend told me that in her city, young Germans are now arming themselves with knives when they go out at night. They are afraid of migrant knife attacks, and have lost faith that the police can and will defend them. Ownership of the public spaces is now contested in Germany, and it is not at all clear that law-abiding Germans are holding their own. 

It is all slouching inexorably towards civil war. David Betz, the civil wars specialist at King’s College London, has been sounding the alarm. Now Betz has published in the authoritative Military Strategy Magazine a second essay on the strategic considerations European leaders must take into account in the face of the mounting civil war risk across Britain and the Continent.

Betz says that at least ten European countries face the prospect of civil war. Britain and France lead the pack, with Germany and Sweden not far behind.

From a strategic perspective, the core problem is the rise of “feral cities,” defined as “a metropolis with a population of more than a million people in a state the government of which has lost the ability to maintain the rule of law within the city’s boundaries yet remains a functioning actor in the greater international system.” These are cities, like Paris, that are home to large and restive populations of migrants, foreigners, and Muslims. 

The second factor has to do with the critical infrastructure that makes city life possible in the countryside. Native-born populations who have been driven from the cities by migrants and migrant crime may seek revenge on feral urban populations and the ruling class that permitted this intolerable situation to come about. Concludes Betz:

Putting these factors together allows one to outline the trajectory of the coming civil wars. First, the major cities become ungovernable […]. Second, these feral cities come to be seen by many of those indigenes of the titular nationality now living outside them as effectively having been lost to foreign occupation. They then directly attack the exposed city support systems with a view to causing their collapse through systemic failure.

Do not brush aside events like the desecration of national monuments by thuggish political or ethnic mobs, he warns. Betz writes that governments must now draft plans to protect significant cultural treasures if a general civil war breaks out. As extraordinary as it is to contemplate, they must also develop strategies to protect national nuclear arsenals, as the immediate successors to the Soviets had to do.

And, governments must now establish plans to establish defensible “secure zones” outside the cities, where populations can flee to safety, and some semblance of normal life can carry on during the conflict.

You might be  thinking: This is madness. It can never happen here. To this, Prof. Betz, who studies civil war as his academic specialty, strongly cautions against “normalcy bias.” The well-established indicators of coming civil war are now vividly present in various countries. 

History gives us plenty of examples of ruling-class elites who failed to read the signs of the times, and who were swept away in violent social upheavals that they did not see coming. Europe and America—even Trump’s America—is still in the grips of normalcy bias, heavily reinforced by media messaging and state policies. 

Then again, history is not fated. We still have agency. But to address the metastasizing crises, you first have to admit that the problems exist. 

Perhaps Europeans will choose surrender and submission, as the Western Roman Empire did, or had forced on it by its own feebleness in the face of the barbarian invasions. In which case, it is an open question as to which is the worse outcome: a civil war to save Europe, or no civil war at all?

Simply hoping that it doesn’t come to that is not a plan. So what is the plan? Because what Europe’s ruling class is doing is not working, and in fact is only accelerating a showdown that, if it comes, will quickly grow bloody, and beyond anyone’s ability to control. The persecuted politicians of AfD strike me as German patriots. They are also canaries in the European coal mine. 

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Moroccan educator jailed in Spain for raping 15-year-old girl in his care

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A Moroccan national has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor during his employment as an educator at a juvenile center.

The Provincial Court of Murcia found that the 31-year-old man picked up the girl in his car and drove her to a remote field, where they had sexual intercourse. Although the court acknowledged that the act may have appeared consensual, it emphasized that under Spanish law, a person under 16 cannot legally consent to sex, making the act a criminal offense.

In other legal jurisdictions, the offense is known as statutory rape, although it is not referred to by that exact term in Spanish law.

As reported by La Opinión de Murcia, the incident occurred in March 2021 but was only resolved this year with a final court ruling. After returning to her residential facility, the victim confided in a classmate, who reported the incident to other educators. The man was immediately transferred from his role the following day.

In addition to his prison sentence, the man will serve five years of supervised probation after his release. He is prohibited from approaching the victim for six years and banned from working in any capacity involving regular contact with minors for 11 years.

He is not understood to be subject to deportation proceedings.

The convicted man had worked at the juvenile facility as both an educator and a translator. He denied the charges, claiming he was never alone with the girl and suggesting there was always a security guard nearby. He further alleged that the girl and another minor had harassed him, made inappropriate remarks, and touched him. According to his testimony, when he punished them, they responded with threats: “Son of a bitch, we are going to make you suffer for your whole life.”

He also claimed that the girl later told him, “If you don’t do anything to me, I’m going to fuck up your life.”

However, the court sided with the victim’s account. She testified that she met the man during the Covid-19 lockdown while living in the center. After she moved to a sheltered apartment, they exchanged phone numbers and began speaking on WhatsApp. She said they agreed to meet in person, and the man picked her up from Murcia’s bus station.

Before driving to a field, he reportedly asked her to “swear to her mother” that she would not report what they were about to do. In the field, the victim said, they had full sexual intercourse.

The girl also explained that when she first told a friend about the encounter, she might have downplayed its seriousness because she thought she was in love. Over time, she realized she had been manipulated and pressured, a realization that became clear when she turned 17 and began dealing with the psychological consequences.

In its judgment, the court noted the coercive nature of the relationship and the power imbalance between the adult and the minor, noting how the defendant had “transmitted frankness and conviction” in his dealings with the child.

Data from the Spanish interior ministry reported by La Gaceta in February revealed that over 5,400 Moroccans are currently incarcerated in Spain, accounting for 29.5 percent of the foreign prison population.

Moroccans are by far the largest group of foreign inmates in Spanish prisons.

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Brussels: The Muddy Mirror of a Europe in Crisis

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Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration. For the past 15 years, the signs of a deep crisis — political paralysis, an explosion in crime, fiscal bankruptcy, the rise of Islamism and migratory engulfment — have been piling up, heralding an inevitable tipping point.

The normalization of radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse we are witnessing in Brussels is the result of 15 years of leaders abrogating their responsibility. Brussels, through its inability — or unwillingness — to make unpleasant but necessary choices, is setting itself up as the first potential locus of protracted European unrest. Even Politico recognizes the scale of the problem. The only question is: When will the Belgian state recognize the failure of a society that has given up on governing itself according to a common law?

1. Structural political paralysis

Almost a year after the regional elections of June 2024, the Brussels-Capital Regional Parliament has yet to produce a governing majority. The traditional parties such as the Socialist Party (PS), the Reformist Movement (MR) and Open VLD – are bogged down in fruitless negotiations, unable to overcome their ideological differences and their fear of offending the different factions of their electorates.

The PS, openly Islamized, refuse any agreement with the centrist parties, preferring to ally itself with the Islamist Team Fouad Ahidar (TFA), a party founded in 2024 by Ahidar, a politician of Moroccan descent who has been a member of the Brussels parliament since 2004, previously representing the PS. The marxist Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB), with 16.1% of the vote in Brussels in 2024, also allies itself with TFA.

TFA embodies a new situation: a political Islam that no longer hides its identity. Instead, it advocates that a religious identity be the underpinning of national cohesion. This fragmentation reflects a profound breakdown in the social contract, between the old European society, which confines religion to the private sphere, and the “new Europeans” (Muslims), who want everything to be subject to their religious doctrine.

Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of the center-right MR, has warned that alliances with forces such as the PTB and the Islamist TFA are “undermining the foundations of liberal democracy.”

The paralysis in the government deprives Brussels of any capacity to deal with the crises that are fast piling up.

2. Endemic crime, the result of a failing state

Crime rates are rising everywhere in Brussels, particularly in an area in the spotlight for its frequent shootings: the Bruxelles-Midi Zone (Saint-Gilles, Forest, Anderlecht). Between 2022 and 2023, notes the newspaper L’Echo, robberies and extortion rose by 23%, robberies without weapons by 34%, pickpocketing by 27%, and armed robberies by a staggering 53%. This area is home to five of Brussels’ 15 drug-trafficking “hot spots.”

The Bruxelles-Midi zone therefore unsurprisingly suffers from a severe shortage of police officers — 20% of positions remain unfilled — mainly due to major recruitment difficulties. The reason: the high level of crime.

Districts such as Molenbeek, Schaerbeek and Anderlecht have become places where the lack of security is a life-threatening reality, marked by assaults, drug trafficking, shootings and clashes between gangs.

The murder of a police officer, Thomas Montjoie, on November 10, 2022 in Schaerbeek by Yassine Mahi, an Islamist who had telegraphed his intention to attack police officers on social networks, sparked a deep anger within the police force. Days later, thousands of police officers demonstrated outside the Palais de Justice in Brussels to denounce the absence of both security and any judicial action in the face of violent radicalization.

These failures are, as they say, just the tip of the iceberg: the Belgian justice system releases multi-recidivist delinquents and jihadists. In May 2025, not for the first time, riots involving “youth gangs” rocked several communities. Vehicles were set on fire along with countless attacks on police. The inability to restore law and order has been transforming entire neighborhoods into enclaves where Belgian law no longer applies, and foreshadows their balkanization into Islamic no-go-zones.

3. Inevitable bankruptcy

The Brussels-Capital Region is not merely on the brink of bankruptcy; it is already at the bottom of a financial abyss. In 2024, the regional government’s revenues amounted to €5.69 billion, while expenditures reached €6.99 billion euros — a deficit of more than 20%. Public debt exceeded €10 billion—a staggering 300% of annual revenue — for a city of just 1.1 million inhabitants.

This situation, compounded by decades of government hand-outs — subsidies to community associations, ill-targeted social programs and chaotic management of infrastructure (the roads in Brussels are notoriously the worst maintained in Europe) — makes bankruptcy imminent. Public services, such as transportation, schools and hospitals, are deteriorating, while dependence on federal transfers of money exposes Brussels to systemic risk. If civil servants’ salaries or social benefits, which support 30% of Brussels households, were to be suspended, social anger, already seen in recurrent demonstrations, could turn into widespread insurrection.

4. The seemingly unstoppable rise of Islam and anti-Semitism – for the simple reason that no one is stopping them or even trying to

In 2024, Team Fouad Ahidar, driven by Islamic doctrines, achieved significant electoral success, winning three seats in the Brussels-Capital Regional Parliament. Ahidar, who advocates a Muslim identity ahead of any national allegiance, embodies the emergence of an uncomplicated political Islam.

“Fouad Ahidar is a proven pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic figure who served as a member of parliament in Brussels for twenty years,” notes Claude Moniquet, a retired journalist and former French intelligence agent.

Ahidar represents only a small part of the wave of antisemitism in Brussels. Jew-hatred, often marketed in unconvincing, transparent disguises as “anti-Zionism,” flourishes in many other Islamic-centered and radical left-wing circles. In 2023 alone, anti-Semitic incidents in Belgium — including physical assaults and vandalizing synagogues — rose by 65%, mainly in Brussels and Antwerp.

After Hamas’s Iranian-backed invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, many of Brussels’ elected representatives made speeches on the “Palestinian resistance”, while others denounced “the barbarity of the terrorist state of Israel”. In Brussels, the Islamically-inspired terrorist organization Samidoun was still well established, even though it had already been banned in several European countries, including Germany. In short, in Brussels, Jew-hatred enjoys almost total impunity.

5. An uncontrolled flood of migrants

For the past decade, Brussels has been under immigration pressures unparalleled in Europe. As of 2023, 74% of Brussels’ population is of foreign background, compared to a European average of 10%. In areas such as Molenbeek, the proportion reaches 86%. This demographic transformation or “great replacement,” far from being accompanied by an effective integration policy, has saturated Brussels –– overcrowded schools, overwhelmed hospitals, sorely inadequate housing — and exacerbated communal tensions.

In 2022, a report revealed that 35% of young people with an immigrant background in Brussels were living in households where nobody has a job — a breeding ground for delinquency and radicalization. Immigration flows, fed by clandestine people-smuggling networks by way of Turkey and North Africa, continue to expand, while reception centers for “asylum seekers” are already full. The 2015-2016 jihad attacks in Paris (130 murdered) and Brussels (32 murdered), by Muslims radicalized in neighborhoods such as Molenbeek, revealed the consequences of Europe’s lax immigration policy. The Belgian authorities, and Brussels in particular, seem to have learned nothing.

Prognosis: Imminent uprisings

Brussels is not only a city in crisis, it is a city on the brink of implosion. The convergence of political paralysis, the disintegration of law and order, budgetary bankruptcy, Islamist sectarianism, Jew-hatred and uncontrolled immigration mark a slippery slope toward violence and chaos. Military intervention, as a desperate response to uncontrollable unrest, might eventually be needed. On that day, the globalist elites, who have turned a blind eye to so many signals, will bear responsibility for a disaster they could have prevented. Brussels, far from being an isolated case, is a small mirror of a Europe that is faltering.

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Study finds ‘substantially lower’ birth rates for Czech women who took COVID-19 vaccine

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Women who received COVID-19 vaccines were “considerably” less likely to successfully conceive children, according to a study of data from the Czech Republic, warranting further investigation.

The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, was led by Dr. Vibeke Manniche. It examines birth data from women between ages 18-39 from the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (IHIS) spanning January 2021 to December 2023. Data for “successful conception” (defined as “one that resulted in a live birth nine months later”) was compared against estimates of monthly birth rates and vaccination rates.

“There were approximately 1,300,000 women aged 18-39 years in the Czech Republic, and the proportion of vaccinated women increased until reaching a steady state of around 70% of all women by the end of 2021,” the study says. Starting that June, “monthly numbers of SCs (successful conceptions) per 1,000 women were considerably lower for women that were vaccinated before SC, compared to those that were not. SC rates for women vaccinated before SC were generally lower than expected based on their proportion of the total population of women … In June 2021, an increase in the rate of SC was observed for women unvaccinated before SC, and this higher rate was maintained over the subsequent 6-month period. During 2022, rates of SCs stabilized in both women that were vaccinated and unvaccinated before SC, and the uncertainty in the estimates subsided. However, throughout 2022, SC rates remained about 1.5 times higher for women that were unvaccinated before SC compared with those that were vaccinated before SC.”

The authors’ conclusion was that successful conception rates were “substantially lower” for women who had been vaccinated before conceiving than for those who had not. The authors caution that the correlation alone does not establish a causal link to the vaccines, citing unknown variables such as “unmeasured confounders such as socioeconomic factors, comorbidities, effects of individual COVID-19 vaccination boosters, concurrent COVID-19 infection specifics, preconception fertility, contraception use, pregnancy loss, stillbirths, and paternal vaccination status”; and offering alternative explanations such as women’s decision to take or forgo the vaccine correlating with their desire to have or not have children.

Still, the study adds to a large body of warning signs against the shots, which were developed in record time by the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initiative.

The federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports 38,615 deaths, 220,701 hospitalizations, 22,531 heart attacks, and 29,150 myocarditis and pericarditis cases as of April 25, among other ailments. CDC researchers have recognized a “high verification rate of reports of myocarditis to VAERS after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination,” leading to the conclusion that “under-reporting is more likely” than over-reporting.

An analysis of 99 million people across eight countries published in the journal Vaccine “observed significantly higher risks of myocarditis following the first, second and third doses” of mRNA-based COVID vaccines, as well as signs of increased risk of “pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis,” and other “potential safety signals that require further investigation.” In April 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) was forced to release by court order 780,000 previously undisclosed reports of serious adverse reactions, and a study out of Japan found “statistically significant increases” in cancer deaths after third doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and offered several theories for a causal link.

In January, a long-awaited Florida grand jury report on the COVID vaccine manufacturers found that while only a miniscule percentage of the millions of vaccinations resulted in serious harm based on the data it had access to, such events do occur, and there are “profound and serious issues” in pharmaceutical companies’ review process, including reluctance to share what evidence of adverse events they did find.

Last week, U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad co-authored a paper announcing new safety trials before future COVID-19 shot recommendations but also that they anticipated continuing to recommend the shots for everyone older than 65 and for most children and adults with a wide range of “risk factors.” Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. subsequently announced that they were withdrawing recommendations for healthy children or healthy pregnant women to receive the shot.

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PARIS CHAOS: Macron’s Wax Statue Stolen From Museum by Greenpeace Activists, Paraded in Front of Russian Embassy (VIDEO)

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Paris is still smoldering after the chaotic weekend ‘celebration’ of the Paris Saint-Germain victory in the European Champions League, an event that turned into a full riot ending with 2 dead and many hundreds detained.

So, in this apocalyptic scenario, what difference does a wax statue make? As it turns out, a lot – since it depicts French President Emmanuel Macron, terrible optics for a super-embattled leader.

The blows just keep on coming: deeply unpopular Macron can’t catch a break.

Macron is caught in Kiev hiding what many suspect is a bag of cocaine; is slapped by the wife in Vietnam, called ‘a loser’; Turkish President holds his finger in Albania and doesn’t let go in an awkward moment… better go home, right?

As soon as Macron goes to France, a new poll shows that 82 per cent of the French think his presidency has been ‘a failure’.

So, yes, at this juncture, his wax figure theft means a lot.

Wax Macron goes for a ride.

franceinfo reported (translated from the French):

“The wax statue of Emmanuel Macron was stolen on the morning of Monday, June 2 from the Grévin Museum in Paris, in the 9th arrondissement, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case. An action claimed in the wake of this action by a man presenting himself as a Greenpeace activist. Two people have been arrested, franceinfo learned on Monday afternoon, from a source close to the case.”

Following the daring action, the activists unveiled their real intentions with the statue: they transported the statue to a place in front of the Russian embassy.

“Greenpeace said in a statement that it had ‘borrowed’ the statue from the museum and then deposited it in front of the Russian embassy in protest against France’s economic ties with Russia.

‘For us, France is playing a double game’ and “Emmanuel Macron embodies this double discourse: he supports Ukraine but encourages French companies to continue to trade with Russia’, said Jean-Francois Julliard, director general of Greenpeace France.”

“According to the first elements of the investigation, a source close to the case told franceinfo, two women and a man who appeared to be tourists visiting the Grévin Museum changed to pretend to be museum employees. They then stole the wax statue that was not sealed. A statue worth 40,000 euros, according to this source. The thieves managed to leave with the statue by going through an emergency exit and hiding the statue under a blanket.”

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‘We must not hesitate’ – German justice minister open to AfD ban

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Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig, of the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD), is keeping the hope for a ban on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) alive, saying a ban should still be on the table.

She told German newspaper Rheinische Post a ban should not be “dismissed for political reasons alone.” She also brushed away concerns that the AfD could “once again portray itself as a victim” if ban proceedings are initiated.

Most of the main German parties have advocated for an AfD ban, including many top politicians from the SPD. However, a vote must first pass in the German parliament, the Bundestag, and then be approved by the Bundesrat, which is represented by the 16 German states. From there, it would need to go to the top German court, the Constitutional Court, which could still reject such a ban as unconstitutional — a risk many opposed to a ban have cited for not moving forward with such a proposal.

Hubig acknowledges that the legal hurdles remain high. A ban of the largest opposition party in the country, and one that has reached first place in some polls, would potentially end German democracy, but this is not deterring many from the German political establishment.

Hubig said that it must be examined whether the AfD “is systematically and actively opposing the free democratic order, and whether this can be proven.” She said that if such a finding is determined, the government is obligated to take action.

“Then we must not hesitate,” she said, saying that the Basic Law, the German constitution, is her “compass.”

She also claimed in the same interview that legal action against the AfD should not replace political debate.

“Because many people who vote for this party are not right-wing extremists. As democratic parties, we want to regain their trust,” she claimed, although, her openness to a ban appears to contradict this view.

Even if a ban is voted on, it would likely still take years for the case to be decided by the Constitutional Court. Perhaps even more important is that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has rejected such a ban, and without his Christian Democrats (CDU), there is no chance for such a ban at the moment.

Merz not only ruled out a ban, but he used extraordinarily harsh language against the measure despite earlier rumors that he was receptive to such a ban.

“Working ‘aggressively and militantly’ against the free democratic basic order must be proven. And the burden of proof lies solely with the state. That is a classic task of the executive branch. And I have always internally resisted initiating ban proceedings from within the Bundestag. That smacks too much of political competition elimination to me,” he warned.

For now, Merz holds most of the power in regard to an AfD ban, although his new coalition partners, the SPD, have hinted they would not accept a coalition agreement if a move towards a ban is not initiated. It remains unclear how far the SPD will go to get what they want regarding the AfD.

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Retired UK Constable Detained for Social Media Post Receives Financial Compensation for Wrongful Imprisonment

Julian Foulkes: ‘This was never about money’.

Under leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the United Kingdom is sinking ever deeper in the censorship quagmire, signaling an authoritarian future where free-speech will be completely criminalized.

But that is not to say there has been no pushback from the British society.

Now, a retired police constable has been awarded some measure of justice in the form of compensation of £20,000 [US$ 27,000] after a wrongful arrest over one social media post in which he warned about rising anti-Semitism.

The Telegraph reported:

“Julian Foulkes, from Gillingham, Kent, was handcuffed at his home by six officers after replying to a pro-Palestinian activist on X. Kent Police officers searched his home and commented on his ‘very Brexity’ book collection. The force detained the 71-year-old for eight hours, interrogated and issued him with a caution after officers visited his home on Nov 2 2023.”

Back in May, Kent Police admitted that the caution was a mistake and deleted it from Foulkes’s record.

Kent’s chief constable Tim Smith phoned Foulkes personally and offered an apology for the ‘ordeal’.

A letter sent to Foulkes’ lawyers confirmed the Police force agrees to a settlement, after Foulkes launched a legal challenge supported by the Free Speech Union (FSU) for wrongful arrest and detention.

“The letter, sent by a lawyer for the force, read: ‘I am instructed to accept the offer of early resolution without recourse to litigation by payment of compensation in the sum of £20,000 plus your client’s reasonable legal fees in full and final settlement of all prospective claims arising from his arrest on Nov 2 2023’.”

Foulkes is pleased that Kent Police followed their apology with compensation.

“’However, this was never about money’, he said. ‘For me, it was a simple matter of right and wrong and I now need to see that the full investigation I have been promised takes place and necessary actions are taken to prevent any recurrence’.”

On Friday (May 30), Kent Police took the unusual step of referring itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

“Mr. Foulkes’s X post replied to an activist threatening to sue Suella Braverman, the home secretary at the time, for calling pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London ‘hate marches’. In the post, sent two days before police visited his home, Mr Foulkes wrote: ‘One step away from storming Heathrow looking for Jewish arrivals…’”

What Foulkes’s was referring to were the news reports of ‘an anti-Semitic mob’ storming an airport in Dagestan, Russia, ‘looking for Jewish passengers’.

Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel for the FSU:

“’The [FSU] is pleased to see that Kent Police has done the right thing and apologized to Julian, with due compensation. This is, however, merely the end of the beginning – we now need to see a full and credible investigation into the outrageous violations of Julian’s basic freedoms’.”

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Champions League: PSG Wins, France Loses

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Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Inter Milan in the Champions League final on the night of Saturday, May 31st, led to scenes of unprecedented violence in the French capital—a far cry from the festive atmosphere promised by a few blissful souls who still believe that football brings people together and unites them. 

The atmosphere was like a dress rehearsal for a civil war. The authorities’ impotence and blindness can only be cause for concern in the face of the chaos that is coming, patiently organised over the last 50 years through mass immigration and a lenient justice system.

In Paris, tensions rose gradually as PSG’s score against Inter Milan climbed. 5-0: a resounding victory, but for whom?

In a matter of moments, the streets of Paris were engulfed in violence.

This came as no surprise. Several hours earlier, shopkeepers in the city centre and at several locations in the capital—primarily the Champs-Élysées—had barricaded themselves in. In the afternoon, the metro was shut and transport was not guaranteed ‘for security reasons.’ A strange and disturbing atmosphere reigned in the city. It was a new kind of Battle of Britain, since, jokes aside, if we are to believe the analysis of former interior minister Gérald Darmanin during the previous Champions League final, the troublemakers may have been “English supporters.”

Is it normal to draw the curtains, to set up roadblocks, fences, and security perimeters for a football match? No, of course not. But the French seem to have become accustomed to another form of normality. 

In fact, as during the Liverpool-Madrid match of grim memory, hordes of ‘barbarians,’ in the words of interior minister Bruno Retailleau, descended on the city. These ‘barbarians’ were of North African and African origin, as was clearly shown in the videos that flooded social media. But these barbarians were almost all French nationals.

Replacement is not a myth. The massive settlement of these populations on French soil is a reality that clashes head-on with the authorities’ irenic discourse on ‘living together’. On Saturday evening, Paris was the scene of raids by individuals who have only a very distant connection with the city of Robert Doisneau and Edith Piaf. Victory for Paris, but which Paris are we talking about? On Saturday evening, the Champs-Élysées smelled like hell, and the new Children of Paradise, to paraphrase Marcel Carné’s masterpiece of Parisian cinema (Les Enfants du Paradis), had faces full of hatred and destruction. We saw thousands of gangs who were there to destroy and loot, and who did so with complete impunity because they knew they risked absolutely nothing. 

The mainstream press coverage of the events bears no resemblance to what actually happened on the ground. Fortunately, social media, and first and foremost the X platform, are playing their role in providing real information during such events: mortar fire; roofs on fire; the ring road blocked by wild, hairy people shouting and harassing cars; shops destroyed and looted; cars burned—this is what Parisians saw and heard on Saturday evening. In my own apartment, you could even smell the gunpowder as smoke came through the closed windows. 

In such a chaotic environment, the fact that there was a so-called right-wing interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, who has been trying hard for several months to make his mark with pseudo-tough talk, did absolutely nothing to change the situation. The police and judicial system are rotten to the core. Numerous law enforcement officers took to social media to point out how nothing was done to anticipate such an outbreak of violence. The Macronist authorities were much more zealous when it came to controlling the yellow vest protests. Above all, the police are paralysed in their actions by instructions from above that kill any possibility of real law enforcement: no deaths, no injuries, avoid blunders at all costs—and leave the field to the rioters. The police were therefore completely overwhelmed. As Baudoin Wisselman, from our colleagues at Frontières magazine, sums it up, “What is happening is no longer law enforcement, it is urban counter-guerrilla warfare.”

The result: two deaths and nearly 700 fires. Yet Emmanuel Macron chose this moment to express his “pride” with street slang—“champion, brother!” One wonders what exactly he is proud of.

This ‘Saturday night fever’ will be remembered for a few terribly symbolic images.

The statue of Joan of Arc, swarmed by half-naked men who climbed and bellowed atop her—oblivious not only to who she was, but to the very meaning of the word respect.

At the end of the match, a scandalous moment, when MMA star Khabib Nurmagomedov, who had rejoiced at the beheading of Samuel Paty, refused to shake hands with the CBS Sports presenter—a woman, of course—forcing her to apologise.

Finally, a photo of Dembelé, one of the PSG players, standing in front of the cup with his veiled wife.

Paris Saint-Germain has long since ceased to have any connection with Paris or Saint-Germain. It is a club owned by Qatar, which is there to defend its own interests. The football ‘celebration’ was an opportunity for all the Hamas supporters who were there to cheer on the players from the Maghreb and Africa to promote militant Islam. “Fuck Israel” could be heard chanted by supporters around the Parc des Princes, while in the evening, Palestinian flags flew alongside Algerian colours. Congolese player Désiré Doué may have thanked Christ for his victory, but he was very much alone.

As the left-wing newspaper Libération headlined the day after the club’s victory, Qatar is “getting closer to its goal.” Paris and France, on the other hand, continue to lose.

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Girl athletes praised after refusing to take podium next to transgender opponent

Two high school track and field athletes in Oregon refused to stand on the medal podium alongside a transgender athlete X

Two high school track and field athletes in Oregon have refused to stand on the medal podium alongside a transgender competitor at the state championship on Saturday night.

Reese Eckard of Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson of Tigard High School stepped down from their respective positions during the high jump medal ceremony.

The incident has sparked considerable praise on social media, with the pair being lauded by prominent conservative activist Riley Gaines amongst others.

Both athletes finished ahead of the transgender competitor from Ida B. Wells High School, with Anderson placing third and Eckard fourth, whilst the transgender athlete tied for fifth place.

There have been several protests from girl athletes against transgenders in recent times X

The symbolic protest represents part of a growing trend of female athletes making similar gestures against transgender inclusion in women’s sports.

Footage obtained by Fox News Digital captured the two high school seniors stepping down from the podium next to the transgender athlete who represented Ida B. Wells High School.

The two females faced the opposite direction as other competitors received their medals from officials.

An official was then seen confronting the young women and gesturing for them to move away.

Eckard and Anderson subsequently walked away from the podium and stood off to the side.

The transgender athlete had previously competed in the boys’ category in 2023 and 2024, according to Fox News Digital’s earlier reporting.

Anderson later provided a statement explaining their actions: “We didn’t refuse to stand on the podium out of hate. We did it because someone has to say this isn’t right. In order to protect the integrity and fairness of girls sports we must stand up for what is right.”

On social media site X, the response was largely one of praise from people commenting as one person responded: “Not all heroes wear capes. Good for them! Shame on the adult who pushed them off to the sidelines.”

Another wrote: “Absolute nonsense! Good for you girls!”

And a third said: “Great job Ladies way to make the brave choice!”

On 17th May at a California track and field sectional final, Reese Hogan of Crean Lutheran High School stepped from the second-place spot onto the first-place medal podium after her transgender opponent, AB Hernandez, stepped down from it.

Hogan’s action was similarly praised on social media by Gaines and others.

Earlier, on 2nd April, footage of women’s fencer Stephanie Turner kneeling to protest a transgender opponent at a competition in Maryland went viral after she was subsequently punished for her actions.

The Maryland incident ignited global awareness and scrutiny against USA Fencing.

Oregon joined several other Democratic-controlled states that saw transgender athletes compete in girls’ track and field championships over the weekend, with highly-publicised incidents also occurring in California, Washington, Maine and Minnesota.

Federal authorities have launched multiple investigations targeting states that permit transgender participation in women’s sports.

The America First Policy Institute filed a Title IX discrimination complaint against Oregon on 27th May, alleging violations of federal law for allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports.

The complaint was submitted to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, which has already initiated Title IX investigations against high school sports leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.

Jessica Hart Steinmann, AFPI’s executive general counsel, stated: “Every girl deserves a fair shot – on the field, on the podium, and in life.”

President Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order on 5th February, making opposition to transgender athletes in girls’ sports an administration priority. The Department of Justice has launched a lawsuit against Maine for defying Trump’s executive order, whilst the president suggested federal funding pauses could target California.

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The fight is on: former boxer Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election

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Opposition Conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential election, beating Rafał Trzaskowski, the candidate of the ruling centre-left coalition led by Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.

Polling station results state Nawrocki won 50.9  percent of the vote against 49.1 percent for Trzaskowski.  

Earlier exit polls had given Trzaskowski a wafer thin lead of 50.2 to 50.3 percent, but  pollsters warned that the margin of error was one percent: an estimate which turned out to be prophetic. 

Karol Nawrocki is a 42 year old historian who currently serves as head of Poland’s National Institute of Remembrance, the state body investigating and documenting German Nazi and communist era crimes.

A relative political novice, he was a former amateur heavyweight boxing regional champion. Hailing from, Gdańsk, Nawrocki comes from a working class background and has admitted to having been involved in skirmishes between football supporters in his youth. 

Throughout the election campaign he was dogged by attempted smears. It was claimed he had acquired a municipal apartment from a senior citizen offering care but had allegedly failed to fully honour his side of the bargain. There were separate claims, which he denied, that he had connections to the underworld. Prime minister Donald Tusk in a televised interview on May 26 accused Nawrocki of pimping in a Gdansk hotel for which the PiS president-elect was a security guard. Nawrocki has denied the allegation and is in the process of suing liberal leaning German-Swiss owned portal Onet for publishing the claim. 

Having fought such a bitter campaign to stop Nawrocki, cohabitation between PM Tusk and the new president will be challenging. 

The Polish PM will now find it hard to force through his legislative agenda on judicial reform, the liberalisation of abortion legislation and the introduction of civil partnerships for same sex couples. 

Tusk’s immediate challenge will be to hold his governing coalition together as it is likely to come under pressure from both PiS and the right-wing Confederation party, who are likely to argue that they rather than Tusk have a mandate to lead the country. 

During the campaign, Nawrocki promised he would oppose Ukrainian membership of NATO and any presence of Polish troops in Ukraine. He is also an opponent of any further  EU integration as well as the EU’s Green Deal and Migration Pact. 

Nawrocki in early May met US president Donald Trump and received the backing of the US administration for his pro-US stance. 

The PiS’s president elect, after taking his oath of office in the Polish parliament, will in early August replace the current PiS-aligned President Andrzej Duda, who is finishing his second and final five-year term. 

As president, Nawrocki will head the armed forces, and will enjoy the right to veto legislation and appoint judges.  

The election result can still be challenged in the Supervisory Chamber of Poland’s Supreme Court, a body Tusk’s government claims is illegitimate as a result of European Court of Justice rulings against the last PiS government’s judicial reforms.  

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