German naturalisations hit historic record for a fifth year running

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Germany has broken its naturalisation record once again, with 332,500 people receiving German citizenship in 2025, according to fresh data released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) in Wiesbaden.

This was up from the previous record of 291,955 set in 2024 — an increase of 14 per cent, or 40,500 people — and marks the fifth consecutive year of rising numbers. It is the first time that more than 300,000 people have been naturalised in a single year since the statistics began in 2000.

Of the 371,100 naturalisation procedures completed in 2025, 90 per cent ended in naturalisation, according to provisional results. Destatis recorded a total of 467,400 citizenship applications over the year.

In 5 per cent of all cases, applicants withdrew their naturalisation application. In about 3 per cent of the procedures, the naturalisation application was rejected. A further 3 per cent or so of the proceedings ended in another way, such as the death of the applicant or their departure abroad.

The surge is a direct result of the major citizenship reform from the previous progressive government that took effect at the end of June 2024, which reduced the standard residency requirement from eight to five years, made dual citizenship the norm and eased other integration criteria.

Syrians continued to form the largest group receiving German passports by a wide margin, accounting for one in five new citizens (20 per cent, or 65,600).

Under the new rules, the overwhelming majority of those naturalised kept their original nationality. Die Welt reported that in many large cities, between 85 per cent and 98 per cent of new citizens held dual nationality.

Before the progressive reforms, only citizens of other EU member states and Switzerland were allowed to keep their previous nationality.

Conservative politicians argue that rapidly granting full voting rights to hundreds of thousands of people from very different cultural and religious backgrounds — often after just a few years in the country — risks fundamentally altering Germany’s identity and social cohesion.

Critics point to persistent problems with integration, parallel societies in major cities and rising crime rates in migrant-heavy areas as signs that the policy is moving too quickly.

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) interior expert Günter Krings called for an amendment to the citizenship law. “The fact that new naturalisations in such high numbers lead to dual citizenship is not a good development,” Krings told the AFP news agency. “We have to react legislatively here.” He said there was an “urgent need for action”.

“Especially in the case of serious criminals and extremists who commit crimes after naturalisation, there is a high public interest in the loss of German citizenship.”

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), said: “New citizens exploit the advantages of being German without pledging allegiance to Germany. For the AfD, it’s clear: Mass naturalisations must be stopped, and naturalisations that have already taken place must be put under scrutiny.”

She also asked: “Is this what Merz means by ‘migration turnaround’? We need an immediate naturalization freeze!”

Supporters of the reform, mainly on the Left, defend the figures as a necessary response to labour shortages and demographic ageing.

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JK Rowling calls attention to detransitioner’s story, gender ideology’s ‘cultish culture’

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In a post to X, J.K. Rowling again took aim at the harmful results of gender ideology, sharing a story from the Independent Woman in which a detransitioner explained how she was pressured into taking testosterone at 14 without any viable alternatives.

“A week after my 14th birthday, I was prescribed testosterone and no one meaningfully explored alternatives,” detransitioner Claire Abernathy wrote. “Eight months later, surgeons performed a double mastectomy on me. My entire life changed within months.”

Rowling, the British author of the Harry Potter series, asked supporters of gender-transition procedures for minors to read the article, arguing that it reflects experiences shared by others in similar situations. She also contended that some individuals are pressured into pursuing gender-transition procedures or are vulnerable due to experiences of abuse.

“I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first-person testimony to the end,” Rowling wrote. “I’ve lost count of the messages I’ve had from detransitioners, mostly girls, detailing outcomes just as bad and sometimes worse. A high proportion are abuse survivors and/or have a history of poor mental health. Now they struggle with physical issues impossible to resolve.”

Rowling has become an outspoken opponent of gender ideology, particularly as it affects victims of abuse. In January 2025, Rowling criticized a Canadian women’s shelter that allowed a gender-confused man to stay at the facility where he ultimately sexually assaulted multiple women.

“The thing that never happens has happened again,” Rowling wrote, commenting on the assault charges.

Rowling ended her X post by calling out the cult-like character that many of those who support gender ideology find themselves adhering to — an ideology with protests and slogans mattering more than the stories of victims.

“If you’d rather chant slogans and look the other way, you are complicit in this appalling scandal,” Rowling wrote.

“It could never have happened without the support of a cultish culture that has demonised whistleblowers, hounded victims and attempted to scare the rest of us into silence.”

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UK: Arrest made as protesters demanding justice for Henry Nowak clash with riot police

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Over a thousand protesters have gathered outside Southampton Central Police Station to demand action following the murder of Henry Nowak.

The 18-year-old finance student was killed on December 3 last year after walking home from a night out in Southampton.

He was stabbed five times, including a fatal wound to the chest, by a 21cm Sikh ceremonial blade.

The crowds gathered around 6pm this evening to hold a minute’s silence for the teenager, with shouts of “shame on you” also being heard.

Police have confirmed that one person has been arrested during violent clashes between riot police and demonstrators.

Local authorities have also deployed pepper spray after officers were allegedly hit by objects thrown.

Social media footage appears to show a group of protesters throwing bins at police.

The crowds urged police to “take the knee” and shouted, “I can’t breathe.”

GB News understands there is a strong police presence at the protest, monitoring the perimeter.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary previously apologised for the treatment of the university student, who was handcuffed just moments before he died.

Following public outrage after harrowing footage of the 18-year-old’s arrest was released last night, a police officer involved in the case has resigned.

Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Police confirmed three other police officers involved in his arrest remain in place.

A spokesman for the force said: “Three of the officers are still serving, one officer has resigned. As the IOPC has confirmed, they are all being treated as witnesses, so not subject to any current restrictions.”

Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years at Southampton Crown Court yesterday afternoon.

Digwa was found guilty of two charges, murder and carrying a knife in public.

Digwa’s mother, Kirun Kaur, also received a guilty verdict for assisting a defendant by removing the weapon from the scene.

Nicholas Lobbenberg KC, prosecuting, told the court: “This was a sustained attack on an unarmed man. The defendant is skilled with weapons, he trained with weapons, he sleeps in a room with weapons, he searches for weapons on his phone.”

He added: “The Crown says he is a man with a weapons obsession. He chose to use a weapon on the streets of Southampton, this demonstrates in his mind what he had was a weapon ready and available for his use.”

The judge also addressed claims Mr Nowak had used a racist word against Digwa, which the killer’s defence had used to aid Digwa in his case.

When addressing Digwa, he said: “I am sure that Henry said nothing racist. You are the only person to make that claim and it is completely at odds with his previous character.”

The judge noted “Henry Nowak dying alone, humiliated and handcuffed was a direct consequence of Vickrum Digwa’s dishonesty” and Digwa’s defence “describing Henry as a violent, drunk, racist aggressor, compounds the grief of the family”.

Speaking to GB News, a Reverend at the protest said: “For me as a Reverend, I think it’s important that we stand with the people and stand up for truth and righteousness and justice. And what we’re getting very tired of seeing in our nation is basically our children being sacrificed on the altars of multiculturalism and political correctness.

“This is why I’m here today. People are tired, they’re grieved, they’re fed up. And when we saw the body cam footage only really highlighted, what we already suspected is that we have a political system that’s so indoctrinated, even our police, that when they, with their natural eyes, see a man that’s clearly in a state of distress, all they see is that he was a racist.

“We’ve got to get past this. We need to get past this whole kind of hysteria over the flag-waving, misogynistic, racist, bigoted white guy, which seems to be drummed into our political system, our education system, and sadly, in our constabulary.

He added: “I want to see justice in our nation again and practical policing.”

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Swiss train station attacker linked to ISIS was freed from psychiatric hospital day before rampage

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The man who stabbed multiple people at a Swiss train station while shouting “Allahu Akbar” had links to the Islamic State and was released from a mental hospital shortly before the attack.

The terrorist, identified as Nesip Dedeler, stabbed and injured multiple people at the Winterthur train station on Thursday morning and was heard exclaiming “Allahu Akbar” (God is greater) during the attack. Three people had to be taken to the hospital with serious injuries, while two others sustained moderate injuries.

According to Swiss public broadcaster SRF, Dedeler had been known to local police since 2015 for spreading ISIS propaganda, which is illegal in Switzerland. In 2015, he stood trial for an assault in Wülflingen, a district of Winterthur, after he had beaten up a German man together with two companions, kicking and punching the victim in the face while he was already on the ground.

Before the judge, Dedeler expressed his disregard for Swiss law: “I don’t give a damn about Swiss law. Only Islamic law prevents me from attacking people, not Swiss law.”

“You are not honored,” he told the judge at the time, “I will certainly not stand up for you out of courtesy. I only stand before Allah.”

He also reportedly had connections to the An’Nur Mosque, which was permanently closed down in 2017 after its imam was charged for calling for the killings of non-practicing Muslims.

In 2024, Dedeler emigrated to Turkey for two years before returning to Switzerland in May 2026, according to Mario Fehr, the head of Switzerland’s Department of Security.

Swiss authorities said that the man was admitted into a psychiatric hospital on the Monday before the attack. The following day, he left the facilities but was captured by police and readmitted. On Wednesday, doctors ruled he did not pose a danger to the public and released him. Fehr said he was baffled by the decision.

“Why that decision was made is beyond our knowledge, but the assessment was obviously wrong,” the security chief said.

The attacker’s father, Ayhan Dedeler, claimed that his son is not a “terrorist” but someone who is “mentally ill and needs help.” He told Swiss media outlets that the attacker was “very withdrawn” and had “no social contacts, no girlfriend.”

“For ten years he’s done nothing and smokes three or four packs of cigarettes a day,” the father said. “He has no education, no job, and no money.

Ayhan said he repeatedly tried to talk to his son to “make something of himself,” but to no avail.

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Denmark wags the dog with its new government

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After nine weeks of governing without an actual government, Denmark has stayed true to over a century of tradition and formed yet another coalition government.

This time, however, it is a government that almost nobody wanted but got because of the Danes’ particular practice of “democracy.”

Because the new government is a minority government that cannot be sure of implementing any policies without the tacit approval of a party or parties outside the government (something the Scandinavians call “negative parliamentarianism”), it can be a disastrous path to follow and one that can easily topple a sitting government.

Yesterday, after nine painful weeks of back and forth negotiation and two changes in “royal mediators,” the Danes decided to scrap a previous “red and blue” (conservative and liberal) coalition and instead embrace a full-blown left-wing one that includes the Social Democrats (Socialdemokratiet),

The Socialist People’s Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti) and the Radical Left (Radikale Venstre) along with a small swing party, the Moderates (Moderater). The latter, while professing to stand for conservative values was comfortable in selling out those values to be a part of the new government. Its head, Mr. Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was himself a former prime minister d a former foreign minister (now acting foreign minister until the new government is in power).

Critics claim that Mr. L-R has betrayed his party’s platform and was only concerned with keeping his minister’s job and that’s why he agreed to be a part of the new coalition. Others claim that he joined the coalition to “keep it honest” and keep it from going overboard when they get the power to levy taxes and spend the citizens’ money on new or expanded welfare projects and increase the size of government like the former prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, did while in office.

The jury is still out on which motive is the true one, whether Mr. L-R exhibited real cleverness by staying inside the political circle like a conservative-friendly “mole” that would pull the fire alarm and not support the government if it decided to go completely red.  In any event, this new “wag the dog” government has one party, “Enhedslisten,” which is the absolute reddest of the red parties outside the government that has promised to support the governing coalition by giving it their vote while still wielding an effective veto. Then there is the party inside the government (“Moderater” Mr. L-R’s party) with the same power.

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Farage: Nowak Case Exposes Britain’s “Two-Tier” Policing

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A fierce political row has erupted in Britain over policing, race, and multiculturalism after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s killer and the release of body-camera footage showing officers handcuffing the dying student while accepting false allegations of racism made by his attacker.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused Britain’s institutions of operating a system of “two-tier policing” after officers treated Nowak as a suspect rather than a victim while accepting claims from Vickrum Digwa that he had carried out a racist assault. The footage has reignited debate over diversity policies in policing and prompted fresh scrutiny of how British authorities handle incidents involving race.

Farage said the footage showed that “an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder” and argued that the case exposed deep cultural problems within British institutions. Referring to the treatment of Nowak after police arrived at the scene, he said the teenager had been “treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder.”

Drawing comparisons with the reaction to the 2020 death of George Floyd in the United States, Farage said: “What has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians and indeed, to be frank, much of the media to this? Silence, absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we’re living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.”

The controversy intensified after Hampshire Police released footage showing Nowak repeatedly telling officers he had been stabbed and could not breathe before being handcuffed. The Independent Office for Police Conduct is continuing its investigation into the officers’ actions.

The case has also increased pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who faced criticism from opposition politicians and commentators for not publicly addressing the case until after the conclusion of Digwa’s trial. Starmer later described the murder as “awful” and “shocking” and said it was right that the police response was being investigated.

The government has defended its handling of the case. Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds rejected claims of two-tier policing and argued that ministers had refrained from commenting publicly while criminal proceedings were ongoing. At the same time, he described the body-camera footage as “absolutely shocking” and acknowledged that serious questions remained about the actions of the officers involved.

Meanwhile, Reform UK has renewed calls to abolish legal exemptions allowing Sikhs to carry ceremonial knives in public. At the time of the killing, Digwa was carrying both a traditional kirpan and the larger ceremonial blade used in the attack.

In his sentencing remarks, Judge William Mousley KC rejected Digwa’s claims that he had been subjected to racist abuse and concluded that he had repeatedly lied to police about the circumstances of the killing. The judge said those lies influenced officers’ actions at the scene, contributed to the arrest of the dying victim, and helped fuel wider racial tensions after the case became public.

The judge also delivered a stinging rebuke to Digwa’s conduct, telling him that he had “brought shame upon your family, your community and your religion.” Mousley further found that Digwa had abused the legal privilege granted to Sikhs to carry ceremonial blades in public and had contributed to fears of a backlash against innocent members of the Sikh community.

With the police watchdog’s investigation still ongoing and Parliament demanding answers from ministers, the case has become a flashpoint in Britain’s increasingly polarised debate over race, policing, immigration, and public trust in state institutions.

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French Far-Left Leader Claims ‘White, Christian’ France Never Existed

A leading leftist in the National Assembly has claimed that France was never a white and Christian country, and that the idea is merely a “fantasy” of the so-called far-right.

Mathilde Panot, who leads Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) party in the lower house of the French parliament, not only championed the idea of a “New France” but appeared to suggest that Old France never actually existed.

Speaking to Le Média, the MP for Val-de-Marne’s 10th constituency said that it is imperative for the political left to “never concede anything whatsoever to the far right” as it is through the acceptance of premises through which the “far right becomes socially acceptable”.

Despite Christian heritage in France dating back to the 5th century with the conversion of Clovis I, she claimed that the right “fantasises about a France that does not exist and has never existed… a France that is supposedly a ‘white’ France, a ‘Christian’ France… a France being ‘invaded’ by—well, by who knows whom. In short, they are completely lost in a fantasy regarding the true nature of this country.”

“The only way to defeat the far right is to remain steadfast in one’s principles and refuse to yield even an inch to them regarding issues of racism, immigration, and—well—all such matters. Anyone who actually cedes ground to them is, in effect, helping them advance every single time—because, by doing so, they are effectively playing right into the far right’s ideological framework,” Panot continued.

The LFI leader made the comments in reference to a growing consensus across the political spectrum against mass migration into France, with fellow leftist leaders such as François Ruffin, who was formerly in the same party as Panot, coming out last month in favour of limiting the influx of foreigners to protect the wages of French workers.

Meanwhile, neo-liberal Macronists, who will be vying for tactical left-wing votes in the upcoming presidential election, such as former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, have both in the past week called for significant cuts to immigration.

In contrast, Panot and her party’s presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, have doubled down on multiculturalism, in what they term “New France“.

Mélenchon, who was born in Morocco to Sicilian and Spanish parents, has hailed the idea that France is experiencing “creolization” through the importation of millions of foreigners, primarily from former French colonies in North Africa.

This has seen his party become a major power player in the areas of the country dominated by ethnic minorities, such as the Seine-Saint-Denis commune outside of Paris.

While Mélenchon has embraced the term “Great Replacement” — arguing that it is a good and natural phenomenon in which one generation takes over from the previous — he has also made it clear that he views the native French population, particularly the rural, Catholic working-class, as a chief impediment to forming a socialist state.

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Assaulted with glass bottle, gang-raped, locked in dog cages: The shocking testimonies of UK grooming gangs survivors

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British MP Rupert Lowe on Monday (June 1) shared the testimonies of multiple survivors of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse. A victim recalled being raped by ‘600 or 700 different men over three years’. Another claimed that the perpetrators targeted ‘white girls’. The abusers in the grooming gangs scandal, haunting the UK for decades, have been found to be mostly men of Pakistani heritage

Horrific accounts of sexual abuse linked to the United Kingdom’s “grooming gangs” have emerged. Rupert Lowe, the independent MP for Great Yarmouth, shared graphic testimonies of the survivors in Westminster Hall, the oldest building in Parliament, on Monday (June 1).

“I sincerely urge this Parliament to listen to the testimonies from these brave survivors and to act, to finally act,” he said. As per Lowe, he compiled these accounts of the survivors during his independent inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse.

British MP Lowe read out testimonies of multiple survivors who were sexually abused as children. The accounts reveal severe abuse, alleged police misconduct and racial targeting of the victims, often over years.

One of the survivors revealed her abuser “forced” a liquor bottle “up inside me” when she was a teenager. “He took the bottle of Jack Daniels and he forced it up inside me. He broke the glass. I was about 12 or 13,” she recalled.

In a chilling testimony, another survivor said she was raped by hundreds of men. “I was raped by probably about 600 or 700 different men over three years,” she alleged, recalling that abuse began when she was 13 years old.

A third survivor alleged she was raped by multiple police officers in different parts of the country.

“I was bleeding from both my vagina and my back passage and was so swollen I could not sit down. I told hospital staff my drink had been spiked, and I did not know what had happened because I was too afraid to tell the truth. They did not ask any questions. They gave me tablets and discharged me. I was 15 years old,” alleged another.

Disclosing distressing details, some victims said they were treated like animals. “I remember a man opening the back of a van, and I saw 15 to 20 girls locked in dog cages,” one woman said.

According to another survivor, she was gang-raped and after the assault ended, “the men hit me repeatedly, threatened to find me, kill me and harm my loved ones if I ever told anybody what had happened.”

Another alleged that a perpetrator “put a cigarette out on the baby’s face”.

As per the statement read by Lowe, a survivor claimed that these gangs targeted white girls.

“Race did play a part and motivated the selection or demographic of the victims. Throughout my exploitation, the other girls I encountered or who were abused alongside me were almost exclusively white.”

Another said that a victim got pregnant by a perpetrator whose father was a Muslim cleric. “She had a baby by him, and his dad was an Imam. His dad knew. And he got his son married and said that he wasn’t allowed to see the child. They look after their own community.”

A third survivor recalled that the incidents of sexual abuse increased around festivals. “Things would escalate around Eid and holidays. Parties got bigger, got worse, got more violent. More people involved, more girls involved. The parties were just bigger.”

Another survivor alleged she was teased over her Christian faith. “The main clash that I kind of had with the religion side of it was, I grew up a Christian. I would wear my cross because it was something really, really special to me. It was just used as a way to break me down. They said, ‘Where is your God now? Why has your God forsaken you?’”

The perpetrators used racial comparisons to defend the way they “treated and controlled” women.

According to a separate testimony, “Comments were constantly made suggesting that ‘white girls’ and Christian girls were viewed as having fewer morals or lower value, whereas ‘Muslim girls’ were described by some of the men as having dignity and higher moral standing. These comparisons were used to justify the way I was treated and to further humiliate and control me.”

Years of child sexual abuse by “ grooming gangs” have rocked the UK. Last year, Lowe headed a private investigation that detected “gang-based child sexual exploitation” in at least 85 areas across the UK.

In a statement in August last year, the British MP said the probe found that “rape gangs”, mostly comprising men of Pakistani heritage, have been operating for decades and “far more widespread than thought”.

“Patterns of predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable,” the statement added, accusing authorities of failing to act on the systematic abuse.

The scandal first came to the public attention around 2001 when the names of taxi drivers who allegedly picked up girls from care homes in Rotherham to abuse them were shared with the police and council. The convictions in the case came in 2010 when five men of Pakistani origin were imprisoned for several offences against girls as young as 12 years of age.

Similar systematic abuse of children was reported in 50 other cities across the UK, including Rochdale, Oxford, Telford and Bristol.

As per a 2014 report by Professor Alexis Jay, more than 1,400 children were sexually abused between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham alone. Many of the victims were abducted, raped and trafficked by predominantly British-Pakistani men. Authorities hardly intervened due to fears of being labelled racist.

The UK government’s investigation into these grooming gangs has found that perpetrators are mostly “taxi drivers and market traders of Pakistani heritage”.

Keir Starmer’s government has announced a near tenfold surge in funding for detectives hunting grooming gangs. Last June, his government ordered a national inquiry into organised child sexual abuse. This came after a report by Baroness Louise Casey criticised decades of institutional failure to protect children from these gangs.

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‘The Monster of Brussels’ – Congolese serial killer released from prison despite murdering his infant daughter, raping and murdering her grandmother, and leaving his girlfriend for dead

Junior Pashi Kabunda is already free from prison despite his spate of vicious murders, with the family of the victims asking what a life sentence really means in Belgium.

Junior Pashi Kabunda, the individual nicknamed “the monster of Brussels,” has been released from prison under conditional terms, a decision that has sparked significant controversy. Now, the 36-years-old Pashi Kabunda was recently permitted to leave Huy prison, where he was serving a life sentence for multiple homicides.

The list of his crimes is truly shocking. Born in the Congo on May 6, 1990, he had moved to Belgium and by the age of 16, he had murdered Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, a Jewish pianist of Polish descent who was returning from a recital. He committed the assault on Aug. 29, 2006, with 22-year-old Laurent Oniema, who beat the victim unconscious, dragged him to a basement, and then beat him again when he woke up. Rawitz-Castel asked the men before he died, “What did I do?” Instead of helping the man, they stole his Honda Civic. That was just his first murder, but many more would follow.

Pashi Kabunda’s first victim was Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, who he beat to death.

Instead of being imprisoned, he was institutionalized in a children’s care home after being tried in March 2008.

In September 2009, Kabunda received a pass to leave the children’s home to visit the family of his girlfriend, Céline Mamadou-Hendrickx, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. That turned out to be a fatal mistake on the part of Belgian authorities.

On Sept. 20, 2009, while on leave from the center, he raped and murdered 79-year-old Marcelle Deconinck, the grandmother of his girlfriend, Céline.

Pashi Kabunda then beat and suffocated his own 18-month-old daughter Anaïs to death over the suspicion that she was not his child. However, a DNA test would later determine it was indeed his child. During the incident, he also tried to strangle Céline and left her for dead.

Pashi Kabunda seen with his daughter and the grandmother before he murdered them both and raped the grandmother

In December 2010, the justice system sentenced Pashi Kabunda to life in prison, which legally equated to 30 years and one month. During the trial, he showed no remorse and was found guilty of double murder and attempted murder. However, under Belgian law, prisoners who have served over half of their time are eligible for parole.

In 2024, he became eligible for release. This year, 2026, the courts have agreed to release him despite protest from the victims and the prosecution. The prosecution has already alleged that he has violated his conditional release and is fighting to ensure he is imprisoned once again. His current conditions include an electronic ankle monitor, supervision from a probationary officer, and therapy.

The victims are in complete shock that “The Monster of Brussels” is freely roaming the streets once again at only the age of 36, which means he has a long life of freedom ahead of him. According to Brussels Today, the relatives of the victims say the conditional release has brought back immense pain and anxiety.

During an earlier parole evaluation in 2022, David Mamadou-Hendrickx—who lost his mother and his granddaughter in the attacks, while his daughter Céline survived—voiced his profound distress. He heavily criticized the terminology used in the judicial system, explicitly targeting the use of the word “life imprisonment,” which he argued becomes meaningless if a convict is allowed to walk free before their natural death.

To add to the shock, family and friends of Céline, who is still alive, only learned by chance that he was granted unsupervised day outings from prison as early as 2021. That means he was out on the streets and could have targeted Céline or anyone else if he chose to do so — all with no supervision from the authorities during the time he was outside the prison.

Pashi Kabunda had already been granted unsupervised day outings starting as early as 2021.

A review hearing about the man’s release is slated to take place shortly, leaving the final determination with the judge. Defense attorneys who represented Pashi Kabunda throughout his legal proceedings have declined to comment on the matter.

Pashi Kabunda is far from the only “monster” in Europe either. Known as the “Monster of Cherbourg,” one of the most horrifying accused criminals in France, Oumar Ndiaye, became infamous for his brutality.

On Aug. 4, 2023, the then 18-year-old Ndiaye broke into the home of 29-year-old Mégane in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. Standing at 1.90 meters (6’2″), Ndiaye used his size to overpower the victim, brutally beating her across her body and face.

He then repeatedly raped her, both through sexual intercourse and then with a 29-inch-long broom handle.

Mégane arrived at the hospital with life-threatening internal injuries, including perforations of her colon, small intestine, peritoneum, and diaphragm. She also suffered a collapsed lung and fractured ribs.

Emergency responders who attended the scene were offered psychological care and support, with many emergency responders also breaking down in tears at the condition of the victim, France Bleu reported at the time.

“Investigators are shocked, they have never seen so much barbarity,” one source familiar with the case told France Bleu.

After spending a month in a coma on the brink of death, she finally regained consciousness on Sept. 6, 2023.

Shortly after emerging from her coma, her father said: “(The government) not communicating about this attack gives credit to all these sexual predators and other parasites of society who plague the streets. A wake-up call to the government about the fact that we leave this kind of individual, with a heavy criminal past, in complete freedom, would be welcome. ‘Trust in justice,’ we were told… We only want that.”

Though she survived, her life has been shattered. She has undergone numerous surgeries and has been forced to move back in with her mother. Today, she suffers from recurrent nightmares and severe depression, requiring ongoing medication. She no longer leaves her house alone and has had to give up both her career and her passion for sports.

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Body cam footage shows damning behaviour of English police during Henry Nowak’s murder

Distressing body-worn camera footage released by Hampshire Police has sparked widespread outrage after showing officers completely misreading the situation and ignoring pleas by the fatally wounded Henry Nowak for help.

Images show officers handcuffing the 18-year-old university student Nowak as he lay bleeding to death from multiple stab wounds, while initially believing false accusations made by his killer.

The footage, made public yesterday following the sentencing of Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, at Southampton Crown Court, captures Nowak repeatedly telling officers “I’ve been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe.”

One officer is heard replying, “Don’t think you have, mate.”

Although Nowak looked very weak and pale due to his stab wounds, including one to his lung, and posed no threat whatsoever the police decided to handcuff the young man anyway.

Nowak laid handcuffed on the ground while eventually receiving first aid, then died at the scene on December 3, 2025 in Portswood, Southampton.

Despite Nowak obviously being in distress, as he was bleeding to death, the officers ignored his pleas over fake racism accusations by his murderer, which seemed more important to them.

The police did ask the murderer if he was injured. He said he was and had a swollen eye, though this wasn’t clear based on the images.

At one point a female police officer says “we have to check, don’t we” regarding Nowak’s wounds, and superficially starts looking.

Another male officers held him on his side during that process, and informs the dying Nowak that he is under arrest for assault and starts to read him his rights.

Digwa, who stabbed Nowak five times with a 21cm ceremonial knife, falsely claimed the teenager had racially abused him. He was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years after being convicted of murder.

Hampshire Police have apologised, stating officers were initially “misled at the scene” and failed to immediately identify Nowak’s injuries in what they described as a chaotic situation. The force said life-saving aid was provided “as quickly as possible” once the extent of his wounds became clear.

However, the footage shows they missed many cues to act.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched an independent investigation into the officers’ actions, including the decision to handcuff Nowak and the standard of first aid given.

Nowak’s family has called for a “full, fearless and transparent” inquiry, with his father describing the treatment as “inhumane”.

UK Prime Minister spoke for the first time about the case after the verdict on Digwa was pronounced. On X he said it was “an awful, shocking case”. He also connected it to knife crime.

“Henry’s loved ones have gone through the trauma of a long trial and endured Henry’s killer making up appalling claims about their son who was thoughtful, kind and deeply loved. It is right that the IOPC is investigating the police’s response to his senseless murder. And we must end the cycle of tragedy by tackling the horror of knife crime”, Starmer said.

His government will also address the issue in the Parliament.

This morning, Reform UK leader Nigel Farrage issued an “emergency address to the nation” regarding the released footage.

He said it was “proof we live in a two-tier country”.

“Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. This is serious. This is urgent,” Farage said.

upert Lowe, leader of the Restore UK party said “Young white British men are bleeding to death in the street as a direct result of our racist establishment. I will never forget, and I will never forgive.”

“Henry Nowak is one of thousands and thousands and thousands. Innocent young men and women put through the most unimaginable pain, because our country has failed to do what needs to be done. Because children have been sacrificed to death in order to appease foreign cultures that have no place in our country. ”

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservatives, said; “I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. Everyone matters. Henry Nowak matters.”

She said policing had overcorrected its policies after the George Floyd events, being overly focussed on racism and not on policing. She also wanted to restore equality under the law.

Badenoch warned that the UK was devolving into tribalism.

Former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis told GB News that the case adds to a series of disasters by the British police, stressing that no one called an ambulance while Nowak repeatedly stated he was stabbed. He also questioned why Nowak was handcuffed, which is not the standard procedure and he obviously wasn’t a threat.

Former Superintendent at Police Scotland, Martin Gallagher, told the same news channel that police officers are being indoctrinated by DEI training.

Labour MP Jonathan Pinder, an ex-police officer himself, told the BBC he also didn’t understand why Nowak was handcuffed nor why they didn’t immediately administer first aid. Pinder noted they seemed indifferent to the situation.

Despite the huge outrage about the death of Nowak, mainstream/left-leaning outlets have been very minimal in their reporting about the story, focusing narrowly on the murder conviction and the IOPC investigation.

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