According to Le Point, 52-year-old E. H., who was born in Nouakchott (Mauritania) and has a degree (DEA) in computer science, worked as a service provider for the Ministry of Justice between 2016 and 2019, where he was highly commended for his technical skills. He claimed to be an expert in performance auditing and had been working from Brussels for a multinational company since 2019.
However, this man is now affected by an order to freeze his assets because he headed an association that was disbanded by the authorities in the context of the fight against radical Islamism. His professional past within the Ministry of Justice itself raises serious questions about the internal control and monitoring mechanisms.
Another crime against Christianity. A police source told Valeurs actuelles that on Thursday evening, April 17, a statue of the Virgin Mary was found torn from the ground and broken into several pieces. The crime took place in the Rue de la Bauduère in Les Sables-d’Olonne in the Vendée.
The location is said not to be secured by video surveillance. It is therefore likely to be difficult to track down the perpetrator(s). (…)
Faced with this act, the mayor Yannick Moreau promises: ‘We will make amends for this outrage against the local heritage by restoring the site as it was before this deliberate act of cruelty’, because ‘the town and the inhabitants of Sablais are the owners of these places, which are embedded in their daily life’.
Two siblings in their 80s, one 82 and the other 84, were violently beaten by a man who was attempting to rob the two of jewelry and money. During the robbery, he told them he was robbing them out of revenge for what France did to Africa.
On the night of April 6 going into April 7, a man broke into the siblings’ home. When the two noticed his presence, he told them he was a member of the “African police,” according to a police source speaking with JDD.
The two, due to their advanced age, were unable to defend themselves. They were taken into a room and tied up with cable ties. Both their heads were then covered with pillow cases.
When the two siblings protested, he delivered a number of statements as to why he was robbing them, including: “Frace stole Africa’s gold, now it’s our turn.”
When questioned by the police, the two elderly victims said they saw the Black man search their apartment from top to bottom and spray-cleaning everything that he touched, presumably in an attempt to remove DNA or other evidence.
The man stole several watches, jewelry, and bank cards of the victims after obtaining their PIN numbers by threatening them.
The man is described as “African-looking” and 25. Police are still searching for him. He was wearing a bucket hat and a black Nike sweatshirt.
Elderly victims have long been a target for attack in France. Last year, Remix News reported that a Moroccan illegal migrant was sentenced to 15 years in prison for two cases dating to 2020, when he burst into the room of a 62-year-old woman and raped her, and then months later, reportedly beat another woman, 86, in a brutal attack.
Last year, an African migrant brutally beat and robbed 17 different elderly women in a string of attacks in the city of Rennes. Labeled a serial attacker of the elderly, the 36-year-old man used extreme violence on his targets, including women over the age of 90.
Also last year, another African migrant beat and robbed ten elderly women in Paris. In court, he said he “regretted his actions.” Many of the women were targeted right as they entered their homes, with the man pushing them inside and proceeding to assault and rob them.
State media outlets in Belgium have expressed concern that reporting on the serious health condition of a Vlaams Belang politician may contribute to the “humanisation of the far-right”.
In early April, Guy D’haeseleer, the Mayor of Ninove in the Flemish province of East Flanders and a prominent figure within Vlaams Belang, was hospitalised with acute liver failure caused by hepatitis.
Since then, he has remained in intensive care and urgently requires a liver transplant. A compatible donor has yet to be found.
Due to the critical nature of his condition, combined with his political profile, updates on his health and how his family has been coping have featured heavily in the news.
Like many countries, Belgium has faced a severe shortage of donor livers and long waiting lists.
Regarding D’haeseleer, though, some journalists within State media have started to question the extensive coverage of his condition.
They have argued that such reporting risked fostering public sympathy for D’haeseleer and, by extension, the Vlaams Belang party, which the Left has labelled “far-right”.
“Not a day goes by without the Flemish media mentioning the state of health of the far-right Mayor,” Francophone news channel RTBF stated.
“Between the humanisation of the far-right and information to the public, where should the limit be drawn?”
The journalists concerned were inspired by an April 14 piece on VRT NWS, the Dutch-speaking State broadcaster, where the News Ombudsman at the station, Judit Verstraete, spoke about the question of the perceived excessive focus on D’haeseleer’s health.
“One may well ask whether that [media attention] is necessary. Surely some restraint seems appropriate here now,” she said.
“It remains a very personal situation. Just because the information is available does not mean it has to be brought out. The editors should therefore consider with every update whether it transcends the personal situation sufficiently to report on it.”
On RTBF, it was noted that many in the media broadly reported on the case under headlines including My family even came to say goodbye, Human solidarity overcomes political differences and The difficult quest for a donor of faith: ‘We lack organs’.
Laura Jacobs, a political scientist from the University of Antwerp specialising in the “far right”, said: “It might seem surprising at first glance” that a Vlaams Belang politician received so much attention.
She added that he was already known to the broader public before his illness, due to his political success in Ninove, where he gained an absolute majority. Jacobs also said Flemish media tended to “personalise” its reporting about “famous” people.
In October, she had written that the media should not approach D’haeseleer on a personal level but “be critical, use fact-checks and substantive rebuttals”.
A spokesperson for Vlaams Belang told Brussels Signal on April 18: “What on earth are the Francophone media focusing on, while this man is fighting for his life in hospital? This is nothing short of disgraceful.”
Despite being the second-biggest party in the country, Vlaams Belang has been placed behind a cordon sanitaire at the national level, meaning all other parties have refused to work with it.
In the media, the party has only been allowed to appear on current affairs programmes — and thus is severely underrepresented in the broadcast media compared to its voter share.
Vlaams Belang media treatment in Flanders has improved in recent times compared to the past, when all coverage was uniquely negative. In Wallonia, though, this negative trend has continued and exclusion remains the norm.
RTBF has not limited its approach to Belgian politicians only. In January, it famously refused to broadcast the inauguration speech of US President Donald Trump live, having claimed he spread a “racist, far-right, xenophobic” message.
The station decided to broadcast his speech slightly later than live, apparently to allow time for analysis to be undertaken.
The port side and upper deck of the Vasa seen from the stern. Pierre Goiffon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Climate activists from the left-wing group ‘Restore Wetlands,’ known for resorting to criminal acts to advance their agenda, forced their way past protective barriers on Wednesday and climbed aboard the Vasa—the world’s only surviving intact 17th-century ship—housed inside the museum that bears its name.
According to Expressen, the activists tied themselves to the mast, unfurled a banner reading “Stop Peat Mining,” and shouted slogans before being removed by police. Their organization—which, in its manifesto, declares that “playing along” with parliamentary democracy is “purely destructive”—was proudly and unapologetically promoting the stunt on its website.
The Vasa, a warship built for King Gustav II Adolf, sank just minutes into its maiden voyage outside Stockholm in August 1628, killing all but 30 of its crew. It was rediscovered in 1956 by an amateur archaeologist, with salvage operations beginning in 1959 and continuing until 1961. The museum that now houses the ship was inaugurated in 1988, and the Vasa is widely regarded as a vital part of Sweden’s cultural heritage.
Lars Amréus, Director General of the Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums—of which the Vasa Museum is a part—said in a press release:
We strongly condemn this type of action, which endangers both personal safety and our shared cultural heritage. Such actions have no place in museums or the cultural sector at large. Our main focus is to ensure that Vasa has not been damaged.
Amréus emphasized the ship’s fragility: “Ninety-eight to ninety-nine percent of the ship is original, so they have undoubtedly moved on original parts of the ship,” which could have caused harm to the vessel.
He noted that while climate activists have, in other incidents, damaged artifacts with paint or glue, there is currently no indication that this kind of vandalism occurred in this case.
As of now, no significant harm to the historic ship has been identified, though further inspections will be conducted, according to the museum. Still, putting the best-preserved 17th-century ship at risk “reveals the activists’ fanaticism,” columnist Linda Jerneck wrote: “Restore Wetlands wants us to show solidarity with future generations—by pissing on what previous generations left behind.”
A group of British Muslims of Iranian origin, led by Anjem Choudary, is threatening to file a lawsuit before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The Muslim group intends to sue Spain in Strasbourg over these Catholic processions, with Choudary arguing that these religious events, rooted in Catholic tradition since 1978, are a “provocation” against Muslims.
“It’s an offense to the thousands of Muslims forced to live in secrecy ,” declared the leader, known for his history of radical statements. The legal challenge seeks to have Spain suspend these centuries-old celebrations, triggering a strong backlash throughout the country.
In recent years, several European countries have faced similar tensions.
In France, for example, a 2024 report by Le Figaro revealed that Islamist groups attempted to ban Christmas celebrations in public spaces, claiming they “offended” their faith.
In Belgium, Christmas markets were canceled following similar pressures — a move that unsurprisingly sparked massive protests. These cases reveal a troubling pattern: the imposition of cultural restrictions under the guise of “tolerance.”
This case raises serious questions about the limits of multiculturalism in Europe. Should ancient traditions give way to external demands?
The Strasbourg court’s decision could set a dangerous precedent — not only for Spain but for the entire continent.
In the meantime, Spanish society must prepare to defend its cultural heritage and send a very clear message: Holy Week is untouchable.
Get ready for the crazy train because it’s leaving the station and picking up steam. That’s what Democrats are doing now, having fallen completely out of power. They know they have no argument FOR their policies, so they make arguments AGAINST anything Republicans are trying to do. Simply saying “no” means that they absolve themselves of any responsibility, which only really flies with people you obey without question – very good dogs willing to do whatever they are told. In other words, Democrat voters.
Sane people would stop beating their heads against a wall after a while, being smart enough to realize it won’t come down that way and they should try something else. But we aren’t dealing with smart people here; we’re dealing with Democrats, so their response to having their insistence rejected by voters is to insist harder and louder – the kind of thinking that passes through the head of a rowdy drunk being tossed out of the bar while arguing ever louder and more flailingly that he wasn’t doing anything to warrant being invited to leave.
The hill Democrats have chosen to die on is men playing in women’s sports.
You can frame this however you like, boys and girls, men and women, whatever; it’s the same thing at a different age. Biology always wins because biology is reality, and reality is undefeated; just ask any kid who was sure they could fly jump off a garage.
The thing about reality is it is not dependent upon your belief in it, it just is.
Where are the “trans men” (women) dominating or even just performing adequately in men’s sports? If biology and gender are social constructs, sure, someone would break through. And there’s no way we wouldn’t have heard about it – the first girl hitting a home run, .300 or even just above the Mendoza Line in high school baseball will be the subject of a ticker tape parade on MSNBC, so you know they don’t exist yet.
Weirdly, these people celebrate a boy beating girls at anything because they’re pot-committed to the concept that God is continuing to make more and more mistakes in the assembly room in his old age, and it’s not a fad or social contagion in an age where getting attention for any reason is the goal, good or bad be damned.
It’s gross, really.
This is the hill they’re willing to die on. Let them. Help them do it.
Oliver talks so mater-of-factly about children being pumped full of hormones their bodies were not made for or having parts of their anatomy sliced and diced and molded like perverse clay that it’s hard to know if he’s reading what his staff put on the teleprompter or Josef Mengele’s journal.
There is little difference between the two.
Honestly, it’s not really a disconnect, it’s ignorance. The modern left is the natural evolution of the Nazis. Of the entire progressive movement, actually. When leftists are marching holding signs reading “Socialism beats Fascism,” they’ve lost their collective mind.
The Nazis were not known for their sense of humor, so when they named themselves the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party, they were pulling a hilarious prank; they meant it. Communists, socialists and fascists were only slightly different, mostly regarding private property and government seizure. Like male Betta fish, who will fight any other male they are in a bowl with to the death for dominance, the females, the three legs of the progressive stool, fought to be in control, not over the general direction of their evil movement.
We aren’t dealing with people bound by reality here; we’re dealing with people specifically unbound by it. When you know that world record time for the women’s 100-meter dash not only wouldn’t qualify for the men’s Olympic semi-finals but that it is a half second slower than any of the top 10 records for high school boys and still insist there is no biological difference between the only two genders that exist, you are insane.
Democrats are insane. Still, embracing that insanity is easier than trying to sell their policies, I guess.
Jens Spahn. Wikimedia Commons, Olaf Kosinsky, CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
Efforts to exclude the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) from the German political system—despite it coming second in the recent federal elections and leading national polls for the first time earlier this month—are reportedly crumbling. But establishment figures are scrambling to ensure that this so-called ‘firewall’ remains in place.
Jens Spahn, an ally of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz and fellow member of his centre-right CDU, last week toldBild that politicians must “simply acknowledge … how many millions of Germans voted for the AfD,” in part because they “wanted to tell us [establishment types] something.” He also “recommend[ed] that
We treat the AfD as an opposition party in the same way in terms of procedures and processes as we would any other opposition party.
Hardly the most extreme of proposals, though the response would suggest otherwise.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who has previously expressed a desire to sack federal police officers who “actively support” the AfD, accused Spahn of being “irresponsible and oblivious to history” because
The AfD is not an opposition party like any other. Anyone who wants to treat it that way and thereby further normalise it is making a serious mistake.
The left-wing SPD’s Matthias Miersch also bashed Spahn as “fundamentally wrong and very, very dangerous,” while the party’s parliamentary manager, Katja Mast, also insisted she would “continue to protect our democratic institutions” by blocking the widely democratically-backed AfD.
Clearly unnerved by this backlash, Spahn later stressed that he “didn’t use the word ‘normalisation’” when discussing the AfD, adding: “Nobody really needs to tell me what kind of people are sitting in their ranks. I know that.”
For its part, the AfD declared on Thursday it is still willing to cooperate with the CDU, praising “more and more leading Christian Democrats” who are “calling for what should actually be a matter of course in a democracy: to finally treat the AfD like any other opposition party.” Party officials added that
The exclusion of the AfD harms democracy—it does not strengthen it.
