Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken after their election as party chairpersons at the 1st session of the 9th party conference (2024). Wikimedia Commons,Ferran Cornellà,CC-BY-SA-4.0
Germany’s Left Party leader Jan van Aken has sparked controversy after suggesting that politically left-wing crimes can be justified if they serve the public good, whereas right-wing crimes cannot.
In an interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Van Aken defended his own past breach of secrecy laws, arguing that “sometimes you have to cross borders to protect the general public.”
Van Aken was questioned about his role in leaking confidential government documents in 2016 related to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the United States and the European Commission. At the time, as a member of the Bundestag, he smuggled a hidden camera into a classified reading room, filmed the documents, and handed them over to Greenpeace. The disclosure helped turn public opinion against TTIP, which was later abandoned.
With the offenses now statute-barred, meaning time has run out for legal proceedings to be brought, van Aken openly admitted to his actions, defending them as necessary to prevent what he saw as a threat to consumer protection and workers’ rights. When asked whether a right-wing politician, such as a member of theAlternative for Germany (AfD) party, should also be allowed to break the law for reasons of conscience, van Aken firmly rejected the idea.
“Anyone who excludes others and steps down does not serve the common good,” he stated, implying that left-wing offenses could be morally justified while right-wing ones could not. When pressed on whether criminal law applies differently to leftists and right-wingers, he insisted, “The law applies equally to everyone. Only sometimes you have to cross borders to protect the general public.”
Beyond his stance on political crimes, van Aken also weighed in on Germany’s immigration policies, arguing that the arrival of over two million refugees in the past decade is entirely manageable if municipalities receive adequate funding.
“Germany has already taken in more than one million refugees twice. Certainly, there were also problems, but the core issue is underfunded municipalities,” he said.
He also made controversial remarks about billionaires, calling them a “danger to democracy” and claiming that no one earns immense wealth fairly.
“No one works so hard or is so smart that he would have earned a million an hour. They only have the money because they have taken it away from others — either by paying wages that were too low or charging prices that were too high,” van Aken stated.
Additionally, he accused Elon Musk of buying X to help bring right-wing parties to power, adding to a long-running debate about the influence of billionaires in politics. He didn’t, however, make any reference to billionaires like George Soros who have spent a considerable amount of their wealth on funding left-wing NGOs and left-wing parties across the Western world under the guise of “defending democracy.”
Reduxx has learned that a registered sex offender was amongst a small group of trans activists who recently protested outside of a San Francisco spa and demanded access to clothing-optional female-only events. Dwight Austin, who began calling himself Dakota Rose Austin in 2022, was interviewed sympathetically by the media as a victim of the spa’s “discriminatory” policies.
As previously reported by Reduxx, a group of trans activists gathered at the entrance of a Russian-style bathhouse on the shores of the San Francisco Bay to protest their sex-segregated events. The spa holds nights where only males or only females are allowed into the clothing-optional facility on the basis that practitioners of certain religions prohibit the unclothed mixing of the sexes.
The demonstration was organized after one trans-identified male who calls himself Breath Mormorer claimed he was a victim of “transphobia.” Mormorer said Archimedes’ staff told him he would have to remain clothed at all times if he wanted to attend the female-only night.
Trans activists in San Francisco are protesting outside of a nude spa after a trans-identified male was told he could not be naked during a female-only event.
The protest was featured on local news, where Austin was interviewed by reporter Kelsi Thorud.
“As Latinos, as trans, as queer, as African American, the fear is turned now. If you weaponize DEI and affirmative action and all these other things that were a benefit of everyone in America and you weaponize them against us, now I’m in fear,” Austin said. He was also featured in a number of other articles, quoted as being a trans activist.
However, despite professing to be living in “fear,” Reduxx has learned that Austin is listed on California’s state registry as a level 4 sex offender, according to a 2022 risk assessment. The ranking positions Austin as a moderate to high risk, with an “above average risk” of reoffending. The crime which saw Austin placed on the registry: rape by force or fear.
Within the same year as his sex offender high risk designation, Dwight Austin began calling himself Dakota Rose and utilizing multiple social media accounts in a bid to become a prominent trans activist, and quickly racked up like-minded followers.
According to his most recent Facebook profile, Austin has been canvassing for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In recent years the ACLU has filed dozens of lawsuits across the United States in defense of male criminals who claim to be transgender. In many cases, trans-identified male convicts represented by the ACLU in human rights complaints have been sex offenders and violent killers.
After the initial boycott started, Archimedes Banya issued a statement claiming that they stood by the “diversity of the Bay Area,” and wanted to respect both their “commitment to inclusivity” and the needs of religious and cultural communities who require sex-segregated spaces.
As such, they announced the introduction of two different events: an Inclusive Women’s Night, which they described as “open to all individuals who identify as women,” and a Cultural and Religious Women’s Night, which they state is “designed to provide a space that aligns with the needs of women from religious or cultural backgrounds who observe practices requiring a female-only environment based on sex assigned at birth.”
In response to criticism, Archimedes Banya posted a statement to social media which argued that women are entitled to a “phallus-free” environment.
“We have seen messages claiming that cis women don’t deserve space, that asking for a phallus-free environment is inherently hateful, and that any separation is an act of exclusion. That is categorically not true,” read the statement.
“The request for a phallic-free space is not about exclusion, it is about recognizing that some members of our community experience a different reaction to that part of the human body. Whether that reaction is based on personal history, trauma, cultural or religious beliefs, or simply comfort, it is valid.”
However, trans activists continued to demand full access to spa facilities where women are undressing or in the nude, and the facility was inundated with one-star reviews online, leading to Yelp suspending users’ ability to rate the spa.
In a statement, the Human Rights Commission said it recognized that the bathhouse’s policy change came “at a time when transgender and non-binary people are facing a barrage of attacks, and we want to be clear that the City and County of San Francisco is committed to ensuring that transgender people are protected from unlawful discrimination.”
As a result, Archimedes Banya had no choice but to comply with their demands or engage in a litigation. In California, it is against the law to discriminate based on self-declared “gender identity,” and this extends to access to sex-segregated facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and showers.
On social media, Mormorer, who led the demonstration against Archimedes Banya alongside Austin, has been boasting about forcing the spa to comply with their demands.
If the trans contingent including Austin is permitted to participate in the female-only events, it will represent the second time a sex offender was granted access to the women’s section of a nude spa.
In 2021, a Korean spa in California made international headlines after a trans-identified sex offender had been granted access to the women’s facilities in accordance with California state law.
Wi Spa, a jjimjilbang-style establishment in Los Angeles was the subject of viral attention after a video recorded by a female patron began circulating on social media. In the video, the woman confronts spa staff because of a nude male who was exposing himself in front of women and girls in the women’s changing room.
The incident was initially dismissed as a “transphobic” hoax by progressive commentators, but would later be verified by police who issued a warrant for the arrest of Darren Agee Merager, a registered sex offender. Merager was arrested in December of 2022.
A 17-year-old minor was taken into police custody on Tuesday by police officers from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI). As a Daech fanatic, he is said to have planned to attack various religious or diplomatic targets related to Israel or the USA.
This is the first foiled attack plan in 2025, and it is potentially worrying. According to our information, confirmed by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), a 17-year-old youth was taken into police custody on Tuesday by police officers from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) as part of a preliminary investigation into ‘criminal terrorist organisation’. The young man from Vesoul (Haute-Saône) is suspected of having planned a violent attack in France during Ramadan, the month of fasting for the Muslim community, which began on March 1st. This was done in the name of the Islamic State (IS) organisation, to which he claimed allegiance.
The case first came to light on Monday when the minor was caught with a knife outside his school in the Haute-Saône department during a gendarmerie check. He was initially taken into police custody for ‘carrying a prohibited category D weapon’ and briefly questioned by the local gendarmerie. The next day, however, he was taken back into custody by DGSI investigators, who feared that the offence was imminent. The man, described as highly radicalised, had been prosecuted by the territorial intelligence service in 2024 for proselytising and glorifying terrorist acts on social networks.
Another example of a misguided integration policy can be seen in the recent event at the Noldinhaus in Salurn,’ said the Freedom Party. While it is apparently ‘unreasonable’ to teach immigrants about our own traditions and values, it is taken for granted that our children have to deal with foreign religions and abstruse world views.
At the so-called ‘Iftar of Friendship’, schoolchildren were brought in to deal with the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. ‘So while Muslim traditions are being promoted and integrated into the everyday lives of schoolchildren, we have been experiencing a worrying development in South Tyrol for years: out of a misguided sense of tolerance, traditional Christian festivals and celebrations – such as the St. Martin parade, St. Nicholas celebrations and Christmas parties – are increasingly being cancelled or watered down in kindergartens and schools,’ criticised Roland Stauder, Chairman of the Freedom Party, in a press release.
The Freedom Party sees a worrying imbalance in this development: ‘Integration is the responsibility of those who come to the country – not the native population’. It is unacceptable that we have to give up our own customs and traditions in order to accommodate immigrants, while they are not required to adapt to our culture. Integration that demands that only the native population shows consideration is not integration, but a deliberate undermining of our identity, the Freedom Party states. The fact that there is now an Islamist organisation in Salurn that is considering political activity is also particularly critical. A development that raises serious questions about the coordinate system of our values.
‘It is unacceptable that our children are being instrumentalised for political purposes and subjected to religious brainwashing. Integration that is based on one-sided adaptation and represses our own culture is not integration, but ideological re-education,’ says Stauder. The Freedom Party is therefore calling for a return to our values and traditions and an end to this one-sided favouring of foreign customs in our education system.
On today’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by TalkTV’s Alex Philips, presenter of our widely acclaimed #NCFHeresies documentary: Immigration and the Rise in Rape. Watch our documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ58W…
A convicted Afghan asylum seeker, deported for his involvement in the drugging and gang rape of a 14-year-old girl, is seeking to return to Germany, citing family ties.
The Afghan, identified as Mukthar N., was part of a group that drugged and raped a 14-year-old girl for hours in Illerkirchberg. His case caused national outrage, particularly when it emerged that after serving a 26-month prison sentence, he was briefly placed back in the community without warning to residents.
Police classified him as a high-risk offender with the potential to commit further sexual crimes, and he was even placed under police protection for a short time. After considerable backlash, the man was deported back to Afghanistan in August 2024.
His lawyer is now actively appealing for his re-entry under human rights laws protecting his right to life with his family — he has a wife and child in Baden-Württemberg.
Bild reported how he recently made an emotional plea in a TV report in which he said tearfully, “I want to see my child, I want to be there for my wife.”
When he was deported, the child rapist was barred from re-entry to Germany for six years, but just months later in November 2024, he attempted to appeal his deportation in order to return — a request that was denied in January.
His eventual deportation in August 2024 was part of a collective flight carrying 28 Afghan criminals back to their home country — the first such repatriation since the Taliban took power in 2021.
Illerkirchberg Mayor Markus Häußler described the deportation as the removal of a “thorn in the flesh,” expressing relief on behalf of local residents.
Human rights laws are frequently misused to launch legal challenges and thwart legal challenges to deportations from Europe, with thousands of Afghan criminals still residing in Germany.
Following a brief pause during the election campaign, flights relocating Afghan refugees from a German-managed reception center in Islamabad, Pakistan, have resumed, with over 3,000 individuals expected to be brought to Europe in the coming weeks. This is despite previous concerns about lax security checks.
In 2021, then-Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) revealed that at least 20 of the Afghans evacuated by the Bundeswehr had failed security screenings. Among them were convicted rapists and individuals previously deported from Germany due to security concerns. Reports also indicated that some evacuees had ties to counter-terrorism watchlists.
The political landscape has further complicated the issue. Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, who previously promised sweeping immigration reforms during the election campaign, has softened his stance. After the possibility of forming a “Grand Coalition” with the Social Democrats (SPD) emerged, Merz stated that “no one has any desire to close the borders.”
Any agreement with the SPD is likely to see the culture of mass immigration into Germany continue with reports on Wednesday that the far-left party’s Migration and Diversity Working Group wants to reject the hypothetical hardline course set by the CDU.
The group argues that Germany needs 500,000 legal migrants every year on top of asylum seekers who usually enter the country illegally, which it argues would help replace retiring workers.
German police have searched the immigration office in Munich on suspicions that employees there took bribes in exchange for positive asylum decisions.
The raid on on March 11 came after Munich prosecutors had launched an investigation into five current and one former employee of the city’s administration.
They are suspected of making illegal decisions “in numerous cases” related to immigration law, the public prosecutor’s office confirmed to the media.
The organisation itself contacted the police after irregularities in residence permits were found during an internal audit at the office.
In the first half of 2024, an employee had allegedly observed a man approaching people at the immigration facility and offering assistance in exchange for payment.
After the man returned to the premises, despite being banned, the authority initiated the internal audit.
It revealed that this individual’s clients consistently had appointments with the same set of clerks. Since then, evidence has been systematically collected regarding this matter.
Five suspects are currently in custody, while Süddeutsche Zeitung reported a total of seven under investigation.
Investigators also searched private apartments related to the suspects.
Authorities said they suspected bribery and forgery of documents took place between May 2022 and January 2024. One of the suspects allegedly facilitated contacts with foreigners, forged documents and arranged payments to city administration employees.
Since 2022, the Munich immigration office, which employs around 3,800 people, has been headed by Hanna Sammüller-Gradl, of The Greens party.
In February 2024, she told the media she wanted to make the authority more friendly to migrants and described the debate about deportations as a “sham”.
Sammüller-Gradl complained that “generalising slogans against certain groups of people are no longer only uttered by the parties on the far-right, but also by those who actually locate themselves in the middle of society”.
On March 12, the parliamentary group leader of The Greens, Rosa List, Mona Fuchs, said: “There must be no taking advantage, from any municipal employee. This zero-tolerance policy with regard to corruption and taking advantage of it naturally also applies to the district administration department.”
She stressed that it was the organisation itself that pushed ahead with the internal investigations over its suspicions and informed the investigating authorities.
Manuel Pretzl, chairman of the parliamentary group of the Christian Social Union and Free Voters in the Munich City Council, has demanded “complete” transparency on the matter.
Kalilu Diwara, the imam at the center of the dispute Photo: @AlbertoTarradas on X, 13 March 2025
The historic Catalan town of Salt has suffered two consecutive nights of riots following the arrest of a sub-Saharan imam. He had been evicted from a house he had illegally occupied for five years without paying rent. In response, immigrant groups and radical left-wing activists have vandalised property, attacked the police, set fire to dumpsters, and damaged urban infrastructure.
The first episode of violence occurred when around 200 people gathered in front of a local police station, throwing stones and eggs at the officers. The police deployed riot units to control the situation. The second night was even more intense, with hooded individuals attacking law enforcement, setting urban infrastructure on fire, and spreading chaos in the streets. The incidents resulted in six arrested, three of them minors, and one officer sustaining minor injuries.
The disturbances have affected public safety and heightened the sense of disorder in the municipality. Residents worry about these incidents becoming normal and the lack of effective deterrents. Rioters have openly boasted about their actions without fear of legal consequences.
Así están las calles de Salt, Girona, tras la detención de un imán que intentaba okupar una casa. pic.twitter.com/CBDIWwUJi9
— Wall Street Wolverine (@wallstwolverine) March 11, 2025
Salt City Council, led by the separatist party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), has granted the evicted imam a social housing unit despite him failing to meet the established vulnerability requirements. The council defended the decision, claiming they wanted to avoid “fueling the far right,” but the move has sparked outrage among residents and criticism from the political opposition.
The local government, instead of condemning the riots, focussed on criticising evictions carried out by banks and investment funds. Many see this as siding with the rioters rather than supporting law enforcement and restoring order.
The decision has also raised concerns about fairness in allocating social housing, as many families in similar situations do not receive the same preferential treatment as the imam. People also worry that this concession could set a precedent, encouraging future violent demonstrations to pressure institutions into granting special benefits.
Salt residents have expressed their concerns about the increasing crime and violence in the municipality. Testimonies from some rioters have revealed the level of impunity with which certain groups act. “We are in Salt. Look at everything we’ve destroyed; we’ve shut down the streets, and no one can leave Salt,” one participant boasted.
Disturbios en Salt, Girona, tras la detención del imán de la mezquita por intentar okupar una vivienda. pic.twitter.com/vMgpM6iTcX
— Wall Street Wolverine (@wallstwolverine) March 11, 2025
The situation in Salt reflects a broader issue in Catalonia, where a combination of unintegrated immigration, radical activism, and political permissiveness creates an increasingly volatile situation.
But it is just a symptom of a broader trend spreading across Europe. The welfare system cannot sustain the constant arrival of millions of immigrants across the continent. There is no political, social, or economic capacity to absorb such a large influx of people, leading to poverty, crime, and violent outbreaks like this one.
German politician Vanessa Behrendt has given a passionate pro-life speech, calling out leftist parties for allowing the killing of babies and creating a two-tier society of the born and the unborn.
”Dear Madam President, dear survivors, I realize that none of you were aborted. You were all born,” Behrendt began her speech in the parliament of Lower Saxony.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician was immediately admonished by state parliament vice president Barbara Otte-Kinast for using the word “survivors” in the context of abortion.
“Okay… then dear people who were not aborted, because you were all born. Not from a birthing person, not from a person with a bonus hole, not from parent 1 or parent 2, but from a woman, from your mother,” Behrendt continued.
“You were also not born as anything but as a human being, a human being with rights.”
“ I warmly congratulate you on this because not everyone is so lucky. We are all survivors of a system that denies well over 100,000 people a year their most fundamental right – the right to life. A two-tier society of the born on the one hand and the unborn on the other.”
“ A society that kills. Not because it is allowed to but because it can. Because you here, SPD and Greens, have agreed that it is okay to kill babies.”
Behrendt gave her speech in the context of a debate around a bill regarding so-called “self-determined pregnancy.” The motion, which was ultimately passed with the votes from the Socialist SPD and the Greens, contained several provisions, including easier access to abortion and the demand for nationwide legalization of abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. Although the motion was accepted at the state level, abortion remains regulated at the federal level in the Criminal Code.
Behrendt is the politician who acts as Family policy spokesperson for the AfD in Lower Saxony.
“ My body, my choice, you say,” she stated. “I say that the freedom of the born ends where the freedom of the unborn begins. There is no qualitative difference between the born and the unborn. They are all human beings.”
“ In your political youth groups, they like to call unborn babies clumps of cells. I could say the same about you. You would be clumps of cells in suits. Every human being begins life with exactly two cells. One cell from their mother, one from their father. By the time a person is an adult, there will be around 37 trillion cells.”
A letter from the Zuckmayer School in the Neukölln district of Berlin has caused displeasure among parents. Not only were the seventh-graders invited to take part in the Islamic fast-breaking (iftar), but attendance was also compulsory.
Parents were asked to bring their children food, for which a special list was drawn up. Breaking the fast is a central ritual in the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan and only takes place after sunset.
Particularly controversial: according to the letter, the event was to take place in the evening and lessons would be cancelled elsewhere. This called the Berlin education authorities into action. This made it clear that religious events at state schools are voluntary and that no lessons may be cancelled. After consultation with the school inspectorate, the invitation was revised accordingly. The school has not yet issued a statement.
Ramadan also poses challenges for many schools in Austria. More and more young children – some as young as primary school age – are abstaining from eating and drinking during lessons. Educators and experts are sounding the alarm. Vienna primary school unionist Thomas Krebs warned of the consequences: ‘Without sufficient hydration, physical education is hardly possible. In addition, many children suffer from poor concentration, hypoglycaemia and exhaustion – some literally fall over.’
Peer pressure also plays a significant role. According to Krebs, there are cases of pupils pressurising their peers to fast as well. This can lead to children abstaining from food for fear of social exclusion, even if they have health problems.
