French presidential election candidate Éric Zemmour has vowed to create a “Ministry for Remigration” and deport 1 million foreigners if elected on April 24.
With just two full weeks to go before the first round of voting on April 10, Zemmour has stepped up his campaign to take back control of France’s borders, telling French broadcaster broadcaster M6 on Monday that his administration would deport 100,000 “undesirable foreigners” every year. He added that his aim was to deport 1 million of them.
“The reason for my candidacy is that I see French identity threatened by a population exchange. I want to stop this,” Zemmour told viewers, warning the electorate that France will “be a Muslim country” by 2060 if it continues on its current trajectory.
“When someone comes to your house and trashes everything and assaults you, you kick them out of your house and you send them home,” he added. “You shouldn’t be afraid of words that upset a small [journalistic] environment.”
The ministry would be responsible for the removal of “illegal, delinquent and criminal foreigners,” as well as those deemed by French intelligence services as posing a security threat.
Zemmour has sought to differentiate himself from the National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, a fellow conservative candidate he currently trails in the polls. Both Zemmour and Le Pen have promised a national referendum on the issue of immigration if they win, but Zemmour has been more willing to describe mass immigration as a Great Replacement. The French public overwhelmingly supports a halt to immigration, making the issue a key campaign issue for all French candidates.
Zemmour, however, faces an uphill battle. The latest estimates suggest conservative essayist Zemmour could acquire between 9-13 percent of the vote in the first round, while Le Pen is tipped to receive between 16-19 percent. The incumbent Emmanuel Macron remains at the top of polls and would be a heavy favorite against either in a second-round run-off vote.
Le Pen’s niece, Marion Maréchal, sparked debate last week by defecting from the National Rally leader’s election campaign and endorsing Zemmour. Maréchal has subsequently promoted Zemmour’s hard-hitting immigration reforms on her social media platforms.
“The objective of the Ministry of Remigration will be the departure of one million foreigners over the whole of the mandate in order to arrive, in the long term, at a negative migratory balance on French soil,” Maréchal posted on Twitter.
Zemmour will hope to improve his fortunes at a mass rally in Paris’ Place du Trocadero on Sunday, which marks exactly two weeks until the French head to the polls.
Three weeks after the brutal attack on Yvan Colonna in Arles prison, investigators are trying to learn more about the attacker’s motives. Franck Elong Abé, charged with “attempted terrorist murder”, has told more about the eight minutes before the Corsican nationalist’s death, the newspaper Libération reports. The man with a now well-known personality profile, who had been with the Taliban in Afghanistan, among other things, told investigators at the Marseille criminal investigation department that he had acted according to God’s will. “I am of the opinion that Allah killed Yvan Colonna using my hands. God used my hands to act against the one who committed blasphemy,” he announced.
His act was due to a hatred he had been growing for several days, reports Libération. Franck Elong Abé, who calls himself the instrument of “the creator of the earth and the sky” and of “Mektoub” (destiny), says that the day begins unfriendly between the two men on March 2. As Yvan Colonna is present in the gymnasium, he sees him coming and greets him. The latter, however, does not answer. He then ” attacks ” him. In one of the hearings, the transcript of which was made available to Libération, Frank Elong Abé stated: “Immediately the order came to me to act […] I jumped at head height, feet forward. [He shouted [the warden’s name] three or four times. Then he continues in detail: “He said ‘wanker’ to me, something like that. I think he was surprised and taken aback. […] I kicked him in the neck and his head hit the floor and that’s when he lost consciousness.”
Libération notes that the suspect’s narrative is detailed, “almost robotic”. Among other things, he describes how he tried to strangle the man. When he saw that the man was “breathing”, he used a rubbish bag “to suffocate him”. This account is supported by CCTV footage, which was also available to Libération. The rest is even more macabre. When he hears a warden coming, he tells investigators that he “acted like a child who had just done something stupid” and even thought of doing “mouth-to-mouth”. He told prison guards on the scene that Yvan Colonna had suffered a fainting spell and he remained very calm from beginning to end. According to Libération, Franck Elong Abé goes back to his cell and adorns himself with a Qamis, an Islamic head covering, as he is aware that he would be recognised by the video surveillance cameras.
After viewing the images, the deputy prison warden in charge of detention described a ” smear campaign ” against the Corsican nationalist. While there was nothing in the prison to suggest such an attack, according to the former Taliban, there were a number of elements that would have convinced him of the crime, including two phrases uttered by Yvan Colonna: “I spit on God”, he is reported to have said at one point, and “If Allah exists, let him let me die now”, he is reported to have uttered during a debate on faith. Another man close to the two inmates told investigators that Franck Elong Abé had said to him, “I don’t speak to Yvan anymore because he made fun of my religion.” In front of investigators, he was visibly aware of what he had done and concluded with a certain fanaticism: “I’d rather be in prison all my life than have to answer to Allah for my cowardice in not defending him. Many people kill for love and you understand them, I defend the cause of God and there you don’t understand me.”
A 32-year-old man attacked and injured several people with a knife in front of a driving school in the city centre of Mainz.
A 48-year-old man was critically injured on Tuesday afternoon – at least two other men aged 28 and 48 suffered minor injuries, the public prosecutor’s office and the police reported.
A police officer who had been recording a traffic accident nearby rushed over immediately, they said. “He was only able to stop the attack by using his firearm and fired several shots,” the investigators’ statement said. In the process, the 32-year-old Somali was injured. It was initially unclear with how many shots and how seriously the attacker was injured. He is being guarded at the hospital.
The attack was probably caused by a domestic dispute. There are no indications of a rampage or a terrorist background. The police are investigating an attempted homicide.
Reply from Ms Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission.
Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union guarantees freedom of religion. The Commission is committed to ensuring its upholding within the framework of its competences. EU rules specifically address the multiple forms and manifestations of racism and intolerance, including acts and hate speech based on religious affiliation. Within this framework, the Commission is committed to protecting Christians and members of other religious groups from persecution in the EU, making no distinction between the different groups.
The Commission does not plan a specific strategy to combat Christianophobia and does not intend to appoint a coordinator to deal with this issue. The Commission strongly condemns all forms of violence. […]
A nightmarish Saturday for 17-year-old Romain and his mother: they were allegedly robbed and raped by two minors.
The young man was on his way home in his car when two young men armed with knives threatened him, stole his mobile phone and the little money he had and forced him to perform oral sex in the street. They then forced him to take them to his house in the Casal Monastero district in an eastern suburb of Rome, where they stole 200 euros and raped the 17-year-old’s mother in the same way they raped her son.
The two attackers, who were Tunisian nationals, fled but were tracked down a few hours later by officers from the Viminale and Sant’Ippolito police stations.
(…) It is known that the two attackers had escaped from a juvenile detention centre.Il Tempo
“They threatened my son with a knife to his throat, what else could I do? They told us they would kill us both…”.
A night of horror according to the words of a 54-year-old mother who was forced to have sex by one of the two underage thugs who invaded her home in Casal Monastero, near San Basilio, after abusing her 17-year-old son in the street and then forcing him to take them to his home. Still with a knife at his throat.
(…) The two Tunisians allegedly videotaped the atrocities and broadcast them live on social networks.(…) Corriere
It’s official: The United Nations, following the Muslim world’s lead, has formally accepted the concept of “Islamophobia,” a move that will undoubtedly further paralyze any measures against Islamic aggression, or, in a word, jihad.
The resolution was introduced by Pakistan and supported by 55 Muslim-majority countries of the Riyadh-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is also trying to get the U.N. to accept “blasphemy” laws.
There are two points worth considering here: what this bill will do and the hypocrisy of all who support it.
For starters, the resolution will further freeze any and all frank discussions on Islam and its body of teachings, since any criticism can and will easily fall into the category of “Islamophobia.” That is the whole point: to place Islam on a pedestal and shield it from any criticism.
Indeed, not a few international observers have made this point. An E.U. statement said (emphasis added): “We are concerned with the approach of addressing only one religion through a General Assembly initiative. … By using the term ‘Islamophobia’ instead of ‘anti-Muslim discrimination’ or ‘anti-Muslim hatred’, the OIC initiative focuses on protecting religion as such which is an approach that undermines the protection of the individual human rights of persons, such as the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, including the right to debate and criticise religion.”
Similarly, the “term Islamophobia has no agreed upon definition in international law, unlike the freedom of religion or conviction,” said Nicolas de Riviere, the French permanent representative to the U.N. “But it’s this liberty [freedom of religion or conviction] that France defends [as opposed to the religion of Islam itself]. … The phrase [Islamophobia] also suggests that it’s the religion itself that is protected, not the believers. Yet it’s the liberty to believe, or not believe, or the right to change religion, that we should promote.”
Citing discrimination against Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists, India’s permanent representative, T.S. Tirumurti, called on the U.N. to condemn “religiophobias” as opposed to singling out “Islamophobia”: “we are concerned about elevating the phobia against one religion [Islam] to the level of an international day, to the exclusion of all the others.”
It should be noted that while France and India both spoke against the resolution, neither opposed its adoption by consensus.
At any rate, the actual reason many feel that Islam should be granted special protection is that, unlike Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., many of its teachings are problematic — killing apostates and “blasphemers,” treating women like chattel, and legalizing sexual slavery, to name a few — and, therefore, not suited for the modern world. Hence the real need to silence all criticism in the guise of “protecting Muslims.”
Meanwhile, those who truly need protecting from Muslims — for instance, religious minorities — get zero recognition by the U.N. The Muslim persecution of Christians, for example, is a real phenomenon: it’s unwavering, constant, systematic, and systemic, and it conforms to sharia-approved patterns — meaning its root source is Islam.
Since July 2011, I’ve been compiling a monthly series, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” (published by the Gatestone Institute), collating and summarizing the one or two dozen accounts of persecution that surface every month. The accounts documented in every one of these now 125 reports typically fit under the same themes — including the bombing, burning, or banning of churches; the rape and forced conversion of Christian women; murderous attacks on and long prison sentences for apostates, blasphemers, and evangelists; overall discrimination and exploitation; and, increasingly, the outright slaughter of Christians. (For more on the doctrinal and historic background of this phenomenon, see this more elaborate and detailed article.)
Similarly, a study published in January 2022 found that, in 2021, “over 360 million Christians suffer[ed] high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.” On average, 16 Christians were killed for their faith every single day. During that same period, more than 5,000 churches were attacked and/or destroyed.
And the overwhelming majority of this persecution took place at the hands of Muslims. Worse, the Muslim nations that are especially brutal and notorious in their persecution of Christians — including Afghanistan and Somalia, respectively considered the worst and third worst persecutors and murderers of Christians in the entire world — are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the same group that sponsored the “Islamophobia” resolution that the U.N. just adopted. Equally disgusting is that Pakistan — where not one week seems to go by without an underage Christian girl being abducted, raped, and forced to convert and marry her abductor, with the police and courts siding with the rapists — is the nation that submitted the resolution.
This brand of hypocrisy should be familiar by now: just as one stands to be “canceled” for quite appropriately saying something like “all lives matter” — since the only approved formulation is that “black lives matter” — so now one cannot say that “all religions matter,” but only Islam, the one religion that the U.N. has just granted a privileged position.
Why would you pay 2,000 korunas (€81) for a Czech woman when you can have a Ukrainian woman much cheaper? That is the message being broadcast on Czech websites dedicated to arranging meetings with prostitutes.
A businessman who regularly frequents the website brought the ads for Ukrainian women to the attention of the Women’s Protection Association, and they have in turn contacted the police.
The unnamed businessman said that although he regularly visits the website, the ads for Ukrainian women disturbed him given that there are women and children fleeing the country due to the war.
The Women’s Protection Associaton’s coordinator, Zdeňka Pecharová, confirmed that the first cases of abuse of Ukrainian refugees for forced prostitution had already begun in the Czech Republic.
“We have information from specific men that when they make an appointment and arrive at the place, it is a dirty private house where they give women drugs and force them into prostitution,” Pecharová said.
Mostly women and children flee abroad from war-torn Ukraine. According to Pecharová, men address them directly at the border, offering them transport to the Czech Republic for a fee. However, refugees thus become victims of human trafficking. Traffickers push drugs on them to get them addicted and then sexually exploit them. The association is said to know of dozens of such cases.
Monika Molnárová from the Slovak non-profit organization Caritas, which fights against human trafficking, also confirmed the presence of suspects at the borders.
“We have recorded several cases at all three crossings at the Slovak-Ukrainian border. The suspects arrived in luxury vans, were often wearing gold and some jewelry, and tried to lure women and children into the car, offering them accommodation or work abroad,” Molnárová described.
Members of her NGO’s team approached these suspicious men, which prompted them to quickly leave the scene. Based on this behavior, the team concluded that they were potential traffickers, however, they have yet to verify a specific case. Employees of the Ministry of the Interior also actively cooperated at the borders, distributing leaflets in both Ukrainian and Slovak languages with information on possible risks to war refugees.
Czech police have allegedly already received the information from the non-profit organization and will deal with the case. A few days ago, they published a video in the Ukrainian language warning of fraudulent behavior of people taking advantage of the situation in Ukraine.
“It includes, for example, an offer that someone will speed up the registration process for you or provide you with a well-paid job. Do not trust that person. You may be a victim of human trafficking and be forced to provide sexual services, slave labor, or other illegal activities,” the police officer warned in the video.
The Naši Ukrajinci (Our Ukrainians) and Pomáhej Ukrajině (Help Ukraine) projects are also trying to prevent these events.
