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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has promised to remove every migrant from government-sponsored social housing within 90 days of coming into power.

Taxpayer-funded housing schemes have become a flashpoint for anger over the mass migration agenda imposed on the country against the will of the British public, with the sites providing a physical representation of the apparent elevation of foreign ethnic minorities over native Britons.

Brexit boss Nigel Farage has argued that in prioritising foreigners over people from those communities, there has been a “massive disruption to the social fabric” of many localities across Britain and that government policies have actively shifted the housing supply “away from the white British populations who originally inhabited areas”.

In his inaugural article on his recently created Substack account, Mr Farage said that “rules which gave priority to local people and ties to the area were stripped away, in part on the grounds that they discriminated against Britain’s newly diverse population, only to be reimposed in part only after massive disruption to the social fabric of these areas.”

To remedy the situation, the Reform leader said that if given power, his party would bar all foreign nationals from public housing. Those who fail to find a new accommodation within three months will be subject to deportation, he said.

“Residency and preference requirements for social housing will be used to ensure that veterans and long-term local residents will be preferenced for social housing, with exceptions only for groups like domestic abuse survivors and care leavers,” Farage elaborated.

According to statistics from the Housing Ministry, 12 per cent of lead tenants of social housing were foreign nationals in the 2024/25 reporting period. However, this does not include households led by migrants who have obtained British citizenship, or those that include non-head-of-household migrants.

The latest hardline proposal on immigration from Farage comes amid a broader policy push from Reform UK as it differentiates itself from the Westminster establishment parties on the critical issue.

Indeed, in addition to vowing to cut off social housing for migrants, the party has also vowed to cut off financial benefits as a whole to foreign nationals, who currently are draining Britain’s coffers to the tune of over £1 billion every month in direct welfare payments.

The party has also vowed to deport all illegals from the country — estimated to be upwards of a million people — as well as withdrawing Britain from the deportation-blocking European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and revoking status from dubious asylum seekers allowed into the country over the previous five years. The party has also vowed to cut legal immigration to at least “net zero”.

To accomplish the large-scale removal efforts, Reform has called for the creation of deportation hubs across the country to detain migrants rather than allowing them to abscond and hope that they appear when summoned for deportation proceedings.

The party has suggested that it would locate such deportation centres in areas of the country which support open borders, backing parties like the far-left Greens of Zach Polanski.

Meanwhile, one of the most infamous migrant hotels in England was shut down this week, with alleged asylum seekers being removed from the Bell hotel in Epping over supposed fire safety concerns shortly ahead of the Home Office ending its contract to house migrants in the building. The hotel became the site of protests that were mimicked throughout the UK as locals raged after an Ethiopian boat migrant sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl from the area just days after illegally crossing the English Channel and being placed in the hotel by authorities.

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A demonstration of several thousand people took place in Rome on Saturday to advocate for remigration and stricter controls on immigration.

Coming from various regions across Italy, a crowd of roughly 3,000 individuals paraded through the nation’s capital behind a prominent sign declaring “Remigration and Recapture,“ a slogan used to call for the mandatory deportation of migrants back to their countries of origin.

🇮🇹Thousands demonstrate for remigration in Rome.

Protesters are increasingly hitting the streets across Europe demanding mass deportations.pic.twitter.com/X9zFjOkXeH

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 14, 2026

The march drew participation from various right-wing organizations, including Casapound.

According to Luca Marsella, a spokesman for Casapound, their objective is clear. “We want to throw out the illegal immigrants because they shouldn’t be here.”

He further noted that their demands extend beyond those without legal status, adding, “And because we are not politically correct, we also say that we want to send home the legal immigrants who have obviously not adapted or integrated.”

🇮🇹Huge turnout for Remigration in Rome, Italy.

Thousands marched with Italian flags in support of secure borders and mass deportations.pic.twitter.com/YxsvERdZMw

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 14, 2026

Concurrently, Rome hosted the inaugural party congress for Futuro Nazionale (National Future), a newly established right-wing political group organized by Roberto Vannacci, a former general who now serves as an MEP.

Speaking to reporters at a press conference, Vannacci expressed an uncompromising stance on border control, asserting, “If it were up to me, no one should be allowed to enter Italy.”

Vannacci previously aligned with the anti-immigration League Party party led by Vice Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. His political emergence means that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), alongside her coalition allies, will contend with fresh rivals on the right.

Public opinion polls suggest that Futuro Nazionale could capture 4.5 percent of the electorate, drawing its strongest support from citizens who previously voted for League. Vannacci’s movement already possesses a foothold in the legislature, as eight sitting parliamentarians have already defected to join his ranks.

The issue of migration is a contentious one, with migrants responsible for 43 percent of sexual crimes and 60 percent of robberies and thefts.

Just days ago, two Pakistani men were arrested for allegedly burning alive four Pakistani nationals after the men demanded better wages for agricultural work.

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Ireland took a break from its usual pastime of Israel-bashing to recoil in horror at the near-beheading by a Sudanese “asylum seeker” of a man in Belfast. Naturally, nobody in the Republic remarked that this had been a one-man imitation of what happened to Israel on October 7, 2023, though now the victim has survived, unlike the 1,300 Jews and non-Jews who were slaughtered on that terrible day. Nor did anyone in the media or politics ask this simple question: How did the assailant manage to fly from Paris, which is not apparently governed by totalitarian Islamophobes, and pass through security at Dublin Airport without a visa before being granted asylum?

Perhaps via the same system that had admitted Algerian Riad Bouchaker, who in 2023 ran amok in the centre of Dublin stabbing a group of little girls, leaving one paralysed, non-verbal, and permanently brain-damaged. Bouchaker’s trial was beginning when the attack in Belfast occurred. He does not deny responsibility but claims he was not of right mind, having been denied social welfare benefits that he thought were his right. 

That attack and its bizarre excuse should have caused alarm amongst Ireland’s political classes. Instead, they have been obsessing about events in Gaza, about which they can do nothing, while ignoring the consequences of what has become an almost uncontrolled immigration into a country that they purport to govern. In part, this is because of the extraordinary power of the many non-governmental organisations that, despite their name, are government-subsidised instruments for influencing public opinion. Such NGOs—usually called QUANGOs, from the addition of “quasi-autonomous”—have historically had a profound effect on popular perceptions, especially within media outlets. These have effectively quashed open discussion on issues such as immigration, housing shortages, the health system, homelessness and race. 

This silence gives the impression of an island at peace with itself, whereas there is a seething unrest in working-class areas over the unsought and largely imposed changes in their communities. Any expressions of discontent are immediately denounced by the government-subsidised media as ‘racist,’ ‘far-right,’ or bizarrely, the work of the Ku Klux Klan. Though this outfit is effectively dead in the USA, it nonetheless flourishes in the imagined psychodramas with which the southern Irish media are obsessed. They have been joined in their self-righteous hallucinations by Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, which—with its allies—was responsible for 60% of all murders during the Irish Troubles, 1970-2003. When not denouncing the violence of Northern Ireland Protestants, Sinn Féin still publicly proclaims its pride in atrocities committed by the IRA.   

Within the Protestant, pro-British minds of Northern Ireland, comparable delusions have created comparably toxic results, including attacks on the homes of law-abiding and economically productive immigrants. These terms generally do not apply to their assailants, though ‘stupidity’ certainly does. Nobody should ever under-estimate the social power of the loudly brainless, especially in the economically and educationally deprived communities of Northern Ireland. The province is entombed in the permafrost of an imposed peace that nobody likes but, in equal measure, no one is prepared to thaw by resorting to organised violence for fear of what sabre-toothed monsters might possibly emerge from the melting ice.

The Republic is vastly different, not least because, next month, it assumes the presidency of the Council of the European Union, to which Northern Ireland—being part of the United Kingdom—does not belong. Ireland prides itself on being ‘good Europeans,’ unlike—by whispered implication—the nasty British. The Irish already enjoy a derogation from the common laws on corporation taxes within the EU, enabling the Republic to become a major centre of U.S. industry. It cannot now demand a tightening of the EU laws on ‘asylum-seekers’ without imperilling its reputation as Europe’s good Anglophone country, which is no doubt why the Dublin government has stayed astonishingly silent over the attempted murder by a man who had no right to be in Ireland yet whom it allowed to pass through its main airport.

As every country in the EU now knows, this is an issue that will not go away. The union is politically and socially incapable of admitting, never mind assimilating, the millions of people from Africa and northwest Asia who want to avail themselves of the economic benefits and the generous welfare systems Europe provides. Ireland has run perhaps the laxest of immigration regimes within the EU, largely because of the political and cultural influences of the NGOs. Rather like the communist party in the former Soviet Union, these are too deeply entrenched and politically powerful to be dissolved by merely government decree. They also appear to confirm Ireland’s ethical superiority over other countries. especially that of its nearest neighbour and the only state with which it shares a land border, the United Kingdom. 

Ireland’s immigration problems cannot be legislated away while its political classes purport to be the most moral in Europe. Of course, it is easy to lecture Israel about Gaza when words do not have to be matched with deeds. Furthermore, controlling inward population flow is an almost impossible challenge for a state that genuinely believes itself to be—no matter how absurdly—a moral leader of Europe  and which has accordingly created a voluble chorus of state-subsidised NGOs to plainchant that fiction. No straitjackets are as tight as those devised by their wearers to protect their defining vanities. 

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Prof. David Betz address the 2nd Annual New Culture Forum Literary Festival to expound on his theory – and prediction – that civil war is coming to Britain. Indeed, that we are past the tipping point and are already in the early stages of that civil war. He claims, based on conversations he has had with military figures, that the military know this is coming. He speaks with writer and broadcaster David Oldroyd-Bolt. #NCFLitFest

A total of 159 kebab shops across Britain have been granted Home Office licences allowing them to sponsor overseas workers under the skilled worker visa scheme.

The licences enable businesses to recruit workers from abroad, with sponsored employees often able to bring family members with them to the UK.

The figures have sparked criticism from senior Conservatives and migration campaigners, who argue the system is being stretched far beyond its original purpose.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp described the arrangements as “a disgrace”.

“Many sponsored workers won’t be highly skilled,” he said.

Conservative MP Neil O’Brien also criticised the scheme, branding it “absurd” and warning that “a lot of ‘work’ is fake-visa milling”.

The Centre for Migration Control said the figures suggested the sponsorship system was “out of control”.

Under current rules, skilled worker visas generally require applicants to earn at least £41,700 a year or meet the occupation’s designated salary threshold.

Home Office records show that 56 kebab shops used their sponsorship licences to recruit overseas workers between 2021 and 2023.

One business, Baba Kebabish in East Ham, was allocated seven visas during that period for roles classified under accommodation and food service activities.

There is no suggestion the business has committed any wrongdoing or has any connection to visa fraud.

Official records also show that 79 vape shops and 16 car washes also hold licences permitting them to sponsor overseas workers.

Critics argue the range of businesses accessing the scheme raises questions about whether the route is being used for genuinely skilled roles.

The data also comes after a series of enforcement actions against employers found to be breaking immigration rules.

Between October and December 2025, 13 kebab shops were fined up to £90,000 for employing illegal workers.

Businesses seeking sponsorship licences must pay a fee of £536 and demonstrate that they are offering legitimate employment opportunities.

The Government has defended the system, insisting it has already tightened the rules surrounding work visas.

Ministers say more than 100 occupations have been removed from eligibility lists in recent reforms designed to reduce net migration.

A Government spokesman said record numbers of people abusing the immigration system were now being identified and removed.

The Home Office has also maintained that sponsorship licences are only granted after businesses meet strict requirements and demonstrate a genuine need to recruit workers from overseas.

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Western Europe is no longer a continent — it’s a slaughterhouse where law-abiding citizens are hunted like animals by imported barbarians, then thrown in prison by their own governments for the “crime” of fighting back.

This is the new normal under the globalist EU regime: an explosion of Third World barbarism enabled by open borders, lunatic judges, and spineless politicians who have declared war on their own people.

The Barbarism Tsunami Nobody in Brussels Wants to Admit

Official Eurostat numbers don’t lie, no matter how hard the mainstream media tries to bury them:

• Sexual violence offenses in the EU jumped 94.2% between 2014 and 2024.
• Rapes alone skyrocketed 150.4%.
• In 2024 alone: 256,302 sexual violence cases and 98,190 rapes — up another 5-7% from the previous year.

Knife crime? Off the charts. Murders rising. In Germany, non-Germans (just 16% of the population) make up 40-50% of violent crime suspects in major states. The data is overwhelming and irrefutable: mass, uncontrolled migration from failed Islamic and African nations = imported medieval savagery.

Real-world horror stories that the elite dismiss as “isolated incidents”

Belfast, June 2026: Sudanese asylum shopper Hadi Alodid, fresh off the Paris-Dublin migrant express, stabs a man dozens of times in the head, neck, and back with a kitchen knife. The victim loses an eye. Riots erupt. Predictable “mental health” excuses incoming.

Aschaffenburg, Germany, January 2025: A failed Afghan asylum seeker butchers a 2-year-old boy in a park, then hacks a 41-year-old hero trying to protect children. Toddler and others left fighting for life. The killer declared “not responsible” and sent for taxpayer-funded therapy while grieving parents are destroyed forever.

Solingen, August 2024: Syrian “refugee” goes on an ISIS-inspired knife rampage at a “diversity festival,” slaughtering three and wounding eight more by trying to slit their throats. “Life” sentence — too late for the victims.

Villach, Austria, 2025: Another Syrian “asylum seeker,” 23, radicalized and loyal to ISIS, stabs one dead and critically injures five.

Germany alone saw 29,000 knife crimes in 2025 — roughly 80 per day. This isn’t “crime.” This is conquest by blade.

Meanwhile, the State Hunts the Victims Who Dare Defend Themselves

While savage migrants get catch-and-release, therapy, and lenient sentences, European citizens who arm themselves or fight back are treated like terrorists.

Pepper spray? Illegal or heavily restricted in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and more. In France, even Category D items like knives or tear gas can land you fines up to €15,000 and a year in prison if you’re caught carrying them without a “legitimate reason.”

Real cases of the inverted justice system

Pablo in Thiais, France (2020, sentenced 2026): Attacked in a parking lot by two knife-wielding carjackers. Pablo gets stabbed, disarms one, and, in the chaos, stabs the other, who later dies. The surviving attacker gets a slap on the wrist. Pablo — the victim — gets 12 years in prison. Legitimate defense rejected because he supposedly used “too many” blows. This is not justice. This is a ritual sacrifice of the native population.

Nice jeweler Stéphan Turk: Robbed at gunpoint, shoots fleeing armed robber. Harassed by the system for years.

French farmers and homeowners breaking into their own homes at night to stop burglars? Often dragged through hell, smeared by the media, and lucky to get a non-lieu after public outrage.

French magistrates? Thirty percent belong to the hard-left Syndicat de la Magistrature — openly communist extremists who demand you stop fighting the second the attacker stops attacking. Try calculating “proportional response” while a pack of hyenas is raping your wife and butchering your children.

This Is Deliberate Legal Treason

The European ruling class has chosen to side with the criminals over their own citizens. They confiscate 50-60% of your income in taxes, supposedly to keep you safe, then disarm you, import the wolves, and punish the sheep who bear their teeth.

A good citizen in modern Europe is a passive, disarmed, silenced victim who dies quietly so the elite can virtue-signal about “diversity” from behind their armed security details.

Enough.

The only moral response is radical reform: an immediate end to mass asylum abuse and repatriation of failed invaders and criminal migrants.

Full restoration of the natural, sacred right to self-defense — including effective non-lethal tools for women and families.

Realistic proportionality standards that recognize real-world violence, not law school fantasies.
Judges who consistently side with criminals over victims must be punished.

Europe is bleeding out. The question is no longer whether the current system can be fixed. The question is whether Europeans still have the will to survive — or if they will let globalist traitors and imported savages finish them off.

The time for polite debate is over. The barbarians are inside the gates — and the gatekeepers are holding the door open.

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Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru’s presidential election, defeating left-wing challenger Roberto Sánchez in one of the closest races in the country’s modern history.

With more than 98 percent of ballots counted, Fujimori secured approximately 50.002 percent of the vote, edging Sánchez by only a few hundred votes out of nearly 20 million cast.

Election observers and polling experts say the remaining ballots are expected to preserve her narrow lead.

The victory marks a major political comeback for Fujimori, 51, who lost three previous presidential bids and has spent two decades building the political movement founded by her father, former President Alberto Fujimori.

BREAKING:

The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has overtaken the far-left candidate Roberto Sanchez with 651 votes.

98.2% of the votes have now been counted.

Most of the votes that remain to be counted are from Fujimori strongholds. Keiko is the next President of Peru 🇵🇪 pic.twitter.com/X2BzLKReGj

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 11, 2026

Fujimori campaigned on restoring law and order, boosting economic growth, and confronting the wave of violent crime that had gripped Peru in recent years.

During the campaign, she pledged to crack down on organized crime, expand prison capacity, combat drug trafficking, and strengthen border enforcement.

“Justice won’t be afraid,” Fujimori said on the campaign trail. “The most important thing is to have the will to use force to be able to confront criminals, these scum who are killing us.”

Her victory comes amid a broader shift toward conservative governments across Latin America, as voters increasingly reject the failures of left-wing governance.

🚨 WOW! Right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori just RE-TOOK THE LEAD the close Peru election, the right is RISING across Latin America

She's now LEADING her leftist opponent after narrowly trailing, and nearly 99% of the vote is counted 👏🏻

Time for Colombia and Brazil… pic.twitter.com/4UEbjaLF0I

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 11, 2026

Supporters credit the Fujimori movement with rescuing Peru from economic collapse and defeating the brutal Shining Path insurgency during the 1990s.

Her father remains a highly influential figure among many Peruvians who remember that era as one of restored stability after years of terrorism and hyperinflation.

Sánchez has not conceded defeat, and some of his allies have alleged electoral irregularities without presenting evidence.

The leftist candidate insisted he would defend what he described as a “popular victory.”

Fujimori will take office facing significant challenges, including rising crime, political fragmentation, and a decade of instability that has seen multiple presidents.

Latin America since USAID defunding:

🇨🇱 Kast ("far right") wins in Chile
🇧🇴 Paz ("far right") wins in Bolivia
🇵🇪 Fujimori ("far right") wins in Peru
🇪🇨 Noboa ("far right") wins in Ecuador
🇭🇳 Asfura ("far right") wins in Honduras
🇨🇷 Fernandez ("far right") wins in Costa…

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Her victory is being celebrated by business leaders, who argue it will bring more prosperity to the country of some 34 million people.

“Her father was a great leader, and she has a coherent team that can pull the country out of the mess we’re in,” businessman Carlos Sigüeñas told The Wall Street Journal.

“Security will improve, there will be better jobs, more investment.”

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German state media has accused Tesla trillionaire Elon Musk and anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson of calling for the “hunting” of migrants in the wake of an alleged asylum seeker beheading attempt in Belfast.

Tuesday’s edition of German public broadcaster ZDF flagship programme ‘Today Live’ argued that the backlash to footage of a Sudanese asylum seeker allegedly attempting to cut a man’s head off in Northern Ireland earlier this month was a result of malign actors from abroad on social media, signalling out Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson in particular.

Introducing the segment, presenter Christina v. Ungern-Sternberg said: “A brutal attempted murder on a public street in Belfast. Someone films it; the video goes viral. A racist mob subsequently hunts down migrants. Calls for this had come from a British right-wing extremist and tech billionaire Elon Musk. The pattern isn’t new.”

Not only did the German public broadcaster fail to provide any evidence that either Musk or Robinson had called for the violent targeting of migrants, as was seen in some cases during the Belfast riots, ZDF also appeared to undermine their entire argument with the posts they cited as evidence of incietment.

Indeed, in one of the only posts highlighted by the broadcaster, veteran street organiser Tommy Robinson said: “The whole of the United Kingdom is hitting the streets tonight at 7pm following yet another invader attack on our people.”

This post was accompanied with a list of various protests, which featured the call for people to remain: “Peaceful. Respectful. Together.”

The post was shared by Musk, who added: “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!”

There does not appear to be any evidence that either men called for violence of any kind in response to the brutal attack in Belfast. Nevertheless, the half-hour ZDF programme was nearly all dedicated to the supposed negative influence played by Musk and Robinson.

The German broadcaster brought on Ciarán O’Connor of the Soros-backed  Institute for Strategic Dialogue as an expert on the matter. O’Connor said that Musk has taken an increasing interest in spreading anti-immigration content over the past five years, saying that he uses his large platform on X to boost local stories to the international level.

While not directly accusing Musk of calling for hunting down migrants as the ZDF presenter did, the ISD commentator noted that social media was used to spread addresses of properties linked to migrants or to asylum seeker accommodation for the purpose of targeting certain groups.

“We see the same pattern, the same playbook, time and again: tragic incidents occur, or tensions flare up over crime, and social media platforms are used in real-time to call on people to protest or simply to take action. And there is also a clear call for violence and an encouragement of violent reactions,” he said.

O’Connor said that British and European regulators should put pressure on social media platforms to police so-called “disinformation” and to establish a crisis protocol to prevent the algorithmic amplification of certain news items.

However, it may be ZDF that faces consequences, with Stuttgart City Councillor for the AfD Tino Strussenberg filing a police complaint against the broadcaster for allegedly defaming Musk and Robinson.

It is not the first time that ZDF has been accused of spreading its own disinformation, with the public broadcaster having to issue a retraction last year after ZDF Washington correspondent Elmar Theveßen falsely claimed that assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had called for homosexuals to be “stoned to death”, when in reality the slain American activist was merely quoting a bible passage.

Others on ZDF also attempted to denigrate Kirk after his death, including Today Live host Dunja Hayali, who asserted that his political positions were “too radical, too racist, too misanthropic, misogynistic, and dehumanising.”

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The man who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of attempted murder after a 17-year-old girl was stabbed is a British-born man of Pakistani heritage, Lancashire police have confirmed.

The 30-year-old man from Brierfield, Lancashire was arrested shortly after the incident and remains in custody.

The teenage victim was stabbed in the back of the neck but has subsequently been discharged from hospital, police have confirmed.

A spokesman for the police said there is “currently no evidence to suggest this attack was racially motivated”.

Police were called to Wood Street at 3.06pm following reports of an incident.

Armed officers arrived at the scene, where the 30-year-old man was arrested.

A spokesman for the police said a “dedicated team” are now following inquiries as the investigation continues.

They confirmed there are no further suspects currently.

Brierfield’s MP Oliver Ryan has urged people “stick to the facts” and not “exploit” the incident for “clickbait”.

In a statement on X, he wrote”First and foremost, my thoughts are with the young victim of yesterday’s horrific stabbing in Brierfield, which I know will shock and frighten everyone in our area.

“I have been to Brierfield and have been liaising with the Police since yesterday afternoon, local councillors and members of the community. There will be increased Police patrols in the area, though I know this is little comfort to local people.

“To address speculation, it is my understanding that both the attacker and the victim are Brierfield residents, and British.

“The victim is in the care of the NHS, we all wish her a quick recovery after this deeply traumatic, life-changing event – my prayers are with her and her family at this time. The attacker is in custody, and is a very unwell, dangerous individual.

“This is an active criminal investigation so I am unable to comment further at this stage as a public official.

“I would encourage others commenting to stick to known facts and not exploit for clickbait this already distressing situation for people.”

Extra patrols of police will be dispatched to the area over the weekend for “reassurance” and the “incident will have caused alarm in the local community”, the spokesman confirmed.

The police have appealed to the public to come forward if they have any information, including CCTV, dashcam or doorbell footage.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting log 0836 of June 12.

Alternatively, information can be passed anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Enquiries remain ongoing.

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Swiss voters will head to the polls on Sunday, June 14, to decide whether to impose a constitutional cap on the country’s population in a closely watched referendum that could reshape immigration policy all around Europe.

The proposal, entitled “No to a Switzerland of 10 million!” was launched by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament. It seeks to ensure that Switzerland’s permanent resident population remains below 10 million until 2050.

With the population currently standing at around 9.1 million—with foreigners making up over a quarter of the population—the initiative would oblige the government to take action once the number of residents exceeds 9.5 million.

Measures could include tighter rules on asylum, family reunification, and permanent residency permits. If these prove insufficient, Switzerland could ultimately be forced to renegotiate or even terminate its agreement with the EU on the free movement of people.

Supporters argue that rapid population growth has placed excessive pressure on housing, transport infrastructure, and public services. The SVP has linked immigration to soaring rents, congested roads and trains, rising crime, and a loss of national identity.

In a final appeal to voters ahead of the ballot, SVP president Marcel Dettling said: “We will not be intimidated. It is our democratic right to say: this cannot continue with immigration.” He urged Swiss citizens to “send a signal” by backing the initiative, arguing that the government had failed to act despite the approval of a separate anti-mass immigration referendum in 2014.

Business organisations and most major political parties have all urged voters to reject it, warning that it could damage the economy and isolate the country from its largest trading partner.

The business federation Economiesuisse has described the initiative as an “absurd proposal” that threatens Switzerland’s security and prosperity. Opponents argue that sectors including healthcare, construction, agriculture, tourism, and technology rely heavily on foreign workers.

Critics also point to Switzerland’s ageing population, saying immigration is essential to addressing labour shortages and sustaining the country’s social welfare system.

Opinion polls suggest the result could be extremely close. If approved, the measure would make Switzerland the first country to endorse a nationwide population cap through a public vote.

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