Migrant Parents, Police, Local Officials All Failed to Stop Southport Massacre: Report

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Child murderer Axel Rudakubana’s migrant parents, police, and local officials all share blame for failing to prevent the Southport attacker from taking the lives of three innocent girls in 2024, a report has found.

Nearly two years ago, Alice da Silva Aguiar (9), Bebe King (6), and Elsie Stancombe (7) had their lives ripped away from them in a brutal mass stabbing attack by Rwandan-heritage Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in the sleepy town of Southport in Merseyside, England. Eight other children and two adults were also injured in the vicious attack by the then-17-year-old.

A report published this week from retired judge Adrian Fulford, who led an inquiry into the murders, has found failures throughout, including from Rudakubana’s parents, police officers, and council officials, all of whom could have potentially prevented the mass stabbing had they meaningfully intervened.

The report was especially damning concerning the culpability of parents Alphonse and Laetitia, who migrated to Britain from the previously war-torn African nation of Rwanda. Fulford said that the “passive stance” taken by Rudakubana’s parents in the face of his earlier violent attacks prior to the massacre and his collecting of weapons constituted a “complete moral failure on their part.”

“I conclude that they bear a very considerable degree of responsibility for the appalling events” of the Southport Killings, given the failure to report their son to the police after having seen him attempt to take a knife to the Range High School just a week before the fatal attack at the children’s dance party. Fulford noted that had they done so, he would have been in custody at the time of the killings.

“That would have been the inevitable result because, it should be recalled, a search of [Axel Rudakubana’s] bedroom would have revealed the crude preparation of ricin, and a search of his electronic devices would eventually have revealed the academic article containing the Al-Qaeda training manual. The attack, accordingly, would never have occurred,” the former judge wrote.

“I accept that [Axel] had made their lives extremely difficult, but this complete abandonment of responsibility, given the danger they knew their son posed to others, was utterly unconscionable,” he said.

In addition to the migrant family, Fulford’s report also condemned the failure of local officials, police, and counter-terror agencies to “take ownership of the risk” that Rudakubana posed to the public, with the report consistently finding that various agencies sought to unload responsibility of the troubled teen.

For example, the report found that Lancashire Constabulary’s Community Safety team decided in December of 2019 that after Rudakubana had been referred to Prevent, it was up to the anti-terror programme to ensure that he no longer posed a threat to community safety. Meanwhile, Prevent had failed to pass his case to a deradicalisation panel on multiple occasions.

The Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (FCAMHS) was found to have closed his case in March of 2020 despite having failed to carry out any structural assessment as to the risk Rudakubana posed to others.

The report found that the Lancashire Constabulary police force “repeatedly took the view that its role was complete” as Rudakubana had been referred to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), “even when officers repeatedly attended at the same address.” This was made worse by the force routinely not receiving “any feedback from the MASH or other agencies as to what action was being taken.”

Police and other agencies were found to have displayed a “tendency ” to “excuse” Rudakubana’s violent behaviour on “the basis of his perceived or, later, confirmed autism spectrum disorder.”

The Lancashire County Council’s (LCC) Children’s Social Care (CSC) and Child and Family Wellbeing Service (CFWS) were also said to have “repeatedly” stepped down or closed his case despite their interventions failing to produce any meaningful change in his behaviour.

“Far too often, Rudakubana’s ‘case’ was passed from one public sector agency to another in an inappropriate merry-go-round of referrals, assessments, case-closures and ‘hand-offs’. Agencies repeatedly passing the risk to others and closing/downgrading their own involvement is not effective – or responsible – risk management,” Fulford said.

“If, as a society, we are to avoid repetition of what happened in AR’s case, this culture has to end. This is the single most important conclusion of Phase 1 of this report. This failure lies at the heart of why AR was able to mount the attack, despite so many warning signs of his capacity for fatal violence.”

Responding to the report, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood told parliament on Monday that the government has “introduced a new Prevent assessment framework with mandatory training for counter-terrorism case officers” and that there will be stricter requirements before cases are dismissed in the future.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer added: “I’m determined to make the fundamental changes needed to keep the public safe.”

However, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage — who was accused of sparking the riots that ensued after the mass stabbing for rightly questioning whether the attacker had been known to authorities and demanding to know his identity  — said that he did not believe the government had learned from the attack.

“This report today absolutely vindicates everything I said at the time. A total failure at every level. A failure, yes, of course, of the parents. A failure of Prevent, to whom this guy was reported more than once. And a total failure of leadership from our Prime Minister, Kier Starmer, who did what he could to hide the truth about what really happened in Southport on that awful day because he’s terrified of saying anything that he fears might upset elements of the Muslim community,” he said.

“For once, we have a report that is not a whitewash. A report that tells the truth, but a report that also shows you I’m the one public figure in parliament prepared to stand up, to ask the right questions, whatever condemnation I receive,” Farage noted.

“I fear the result of all of this will be very little that will be done to protect little girls like this in the future. Yet what we may well get are laws on definitions of Islamophobia that make it even harder to ask the questions that I asked just 24 hours after that terrible, terrible day.”

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Kiev buys Bentleys, why let war put a dent in your mood?

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Kiev has become one of the strongest Bentley markets in Europe, according to Richard Leopold, Bentley regional director for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.

During the European Scorecard Awards 2025 held in Marbella, Spain, Bentley announced the results of its internal Business Performance Matrix, a system evaluating 61 dealerships worldwide. Bentley Kiev received recognition in sales, marketing and best improved.

Kiev is the third strongest market in Europe for Bentley.

Most Bentley models start at between €250,000 and €300,000.

Ukrainian journalist Diana Pachenko publicly questioned whether some of these purchases could be linked to misused funds, suggesting that certain vehicles may ultimately end up in Monaco or southern France.

Panchenko sarcastically remarked: “If Europe hands over another €90 billion to [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelensky, there is a good chance that Kiev could take the top spot.”

She further claimed: “Most of these cars end up at villas in Monaco or France,” and argued that “People steal from Ukraine and then move to places like these to live.”

This appears to refer to the situation in which close associates of Zelensky are under investigation by authorities for alleged corruption, including large-scale bribery.

Kirill Dmitriev, Special Representative for Overseas Investment and Economic Co-operation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is at war with Ukraine, also shared Panchenko’s post on his X account, sarcastically noting: “Bentley is popular in Ukraine.”

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Former Pfizer exec estimates 20,000 to 60,000 deaths from COVID shot in Germany

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A former Pfizer executive has said that an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 people in Germany died from the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID shots.

Dr. Helmut Sterz is a veterinarian who holds a doctorate in virology and worked as a toxicologist in the pharmaceutical industry for many years, including as head of toxicology at Pfizer Europe.

During a statement before the German Parliament’s COVID-19 Inquiry Commission, Sterz said that up to 60,000 people in Germany may have died after receiving the Comirnaty vaccine, the trade name of Pfizer’s COVID jab. His estimate is based on around 2,000 reported suspected deaths following vaccination with Comirnaty. He argues that multiplying this by a factor of 30 is a realistic standard for accounting for underreporting of all medication side effects.

The former Pfizer executive told German news outlet NiUS: “It is generally accepted that the actual number of suspected deaths is far higher than the reported figures. The PEI [Paul Ehrlich Institute] receives voluntary reports, just as pharmacovigilance agencies in other countries do. It is generally assumed that only between 1 and 10 percent of actual vaccine side effects are reported. So one can multiply the number of reported cases by a factor of between 10 and 100.”

It is generally accepted that spontaneous reporting systems for medication side effects, such as VAERS in the U.S., capture only a fraction of the actual adverse reaction rate.

In a 2007 bulletin, the German Paul Ehrlich Institute (similar to the CDC in Germany) pointed out that “only about six percent of all ADRs (adverse drug reactions) and five to ten percent of serious ADRs” are reported.

The estimated number of deaths by the former Pfizer executive only refers to those who received the Comirnaty vaccine and not the COVID shots produced by other manufacturers, which means the actual number of people who died after taking the inoculations could be higher.

Sterz suggested that if people had known the number of potential deaths, they would have assessed whether or not to take the COVID shots much differently.

He told NiUS: “By the way, what would have happened if people willing to get vaccinated – especially healthy young people – had been told that between 20,000 and 60,000 people in Germany would die from the vaccine because they had to be vaccinated against a man-made virus that causes the flu?”

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Germany’s knife crime crisis: 2 Syrians arrested for stabbing 28-year-old German victim in Pulheim

A citizen journalist was the first to obtain the suspects’ nationality. She said that many news outlets do not even ask for this information.
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German authorities have arrested two Syrian nationals following a fatal knife attack in Pulheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, during the early hours of Sunday, April 12, 2026. The incident occurred in the local city park after a physical altercation broke out between several individuals.

A 28-year-old German man was killed in the assault, while a 35-year-old Bosnian-Herzegovinian national sustained serious stab wounds and was transported to a nearby hospital. The suspects, aged 20 and 24, were apprehended by police in the vicinity of the crime scene shortly after the attack.

Emergency services were alerted to the scene at approximately 12:10 a.m. by witnesses reporting a disturbance. Officers arriving at the intersection of Johannisstrasse and Am Stadtgarten discovered both victims; despite medical workers attempting to save the younger victim, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Cologne police are leading the investigation, but have so far declined to release specific details regarding the motive or the exact sequence of events leading up to the stabbing.

The case was initially reported by local media, but no information was released about the perpetrators’ backgrounds. However, citizen journalist Yvonne Kussmann contacted the local police, who readily gave her the information. While the initial poster complained that this information was not released, Kussmann wrote that she believes that the police are often more than willing to give this information; it is just that media outlets do not publish or request it.

“The arrested suspects are two Syrians, the deceased was German, and the injured person holds Bosnian-Herzegovinian nationality. I inquired with the Cologne police and received very friendly information. Sometimes I think it’s less the police who don’t release information, but rather the media don’t even ask for it in the first place,” wrote Kussmann on X.

The stabbing comes yet again after the debate about migrant crime rages in Germany, including a recent statement from Chancellor Friedrich Merz addressing the topic.

“We must also address the fact that a considerable proportion of this violence comes to the Federal Republic of Germany from immigrant groups,” said the chancellor earlier this month.

According to BKA statistics, the foreign share among criminal offenders rose from 29 percent in 2014 to 41.8 percent in 2024.

Data from last year found that there was a 50 percent increase in knife attack victims requiring emergency care in 4 years, according to data from hospitals.

“It’s alarming to see that knives are being used as weapons with increasing frequency in Germany,” Andreas Seekamp, ​​who has worked for 20 years as a senior trauma surgeon at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel Campus, told Der Spiegel. 

German doctors have also noted that, besides a higher number of reported knife attacks, their brutality is also increasing. “We have the impression that the attacks are being carried out more deliberately,” said Dietmar Pennig, Secretary General of the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery. 

“We are definitely seeing an increase in stab wounds to the neck or chest, precisely where it is particularly dangerous.”

As Remix News previously reported, migrants are particularly overrepresented in violent crimes, including knife attacks.

“We have imported knife violence. In other cultures, the knife is a kind of status symbol. This is changing the social climate here in the country,” stated criminal attorney Udo Vetter in 2024. He further noted that “knives have become an everyday companion for many people. And the barrier to using them is low.”

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A dubious idea for waste disposal in Berlin: holidaymakers are to be asked to clear up rubbish

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Tourists in Berlin will in future be able to earn small rewards by picking up rubbish or travelling in a sustainable fashion, according to the Visit Berlin tourism agency. The programme, called “BerlinPay,” is set to launch this summer, with a focus this year on the city’s waterways, the agency’s website says. “We are making responsible behaviour more visible and rewarding it.”

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France Doubles Down on Taxes

by Thomas Kolbe 

France is reducing its enormous budget deficit in the current fiscal year. However, the price for this minimal relief is high: only massive tax hikes can still slow the debt spiral.

On both sides of the Franco-German border, the same problem persists: overburdened and reform-averse politicians struggle against a rapidly accelerating debt spiral. Their preferred tool: higher levies.

Last week, France’s Finance Minister Roland Lescure reported a revision of the projected budget deficit for the current year.

Initial estimates for 2026 had suggested a deficit well above five percent. Yet numerous fiscal measures brought last year’s deficit down to 5.1%. For 2026, the Finance Ministry expects it to stabilize at around five percent — provided the ongoing energy crisis and the war in Iran do not cast a lasting shadow over the year, and the economy does not abruptly collapse.

With total public debt at roughly 115% of GDP, France cannot possibly meet the Maastricht criteria under this level of new borrowing.

Do restrictive fiscal rules, such as the increasingly fading Maastricht criteria, even matter anymore in the Eurozone? It’s a rhetorical question: public spending dynamics are no longer controllable. One could also say: EU nations have entered a phase of fiscal fatalism.

After a 4% increase in government spending in 2024, outlays rose again last year, this time by 2.5%. The state apparatus continues to expand, regardless of the dramatic debt levels, pushing the public-sector share of GDP to 57%.

Similar to Germany, this figure does not account for the bureaucratic overhead borne by the private sector on behalf of the increasingly feudal state. Hundreds of thousands of private-sector jobs exist solely to fulfill government reporting and compliance obligations.

Massive Tax Hikes

Meanwhile, the French government remains stuck in its involuntary role as a reform-incapable instrument of the crumbling status quo. Parliament’s majority arithmetic leaves it paralyzed.

A reform process to shrink the welfare state, reduce the massive bureaucracy, and achieve sustainable budget management is now completely out of reach for Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s minority government.

Every administration supported by President Emmanuel Macron functions as a placeholder, interchangeable and powerless in a parliamentary arithmetic deadlock. Macron, facing dramatically poor approval ratings as a sort of “president without a people,” knows the fragility of France’s public finances and can at least rely on one thing: a broad political alliance capable of delivering temporary relief through tax hikes.

In Paris, as in much of the EU, policymakers are staunch etatists — staunchly loyal to the state and simultaneously hungry for power — making a large government apparatus serve their interests.

Over the past two years, France has cranked up the tax screws: a minimum rate for top incomes above €250,000, an increase in property wealth taxes, and a rise in corporate taxes for larger firms, yielding up to €6 billion in additional annual revenue.

New levies on higher dividend payouts and large corporate stock buybacks have been introduced. A Tobin-style financial transaction tax is planned to hit wealthy shareholders. Energy and environmental levies have also risen. As with tobacco and alcohol, the message is clear: “We tax luxury and the rich.”

This creates the impression of socially just taxation, while distracting from the fundamental problem: the expanding state, a European disease driving the continent into turbulence.

Where the Journey Leads

France illustrates both the mechanics and potential timeline of the emerging national debt crisis. Through intensive public-relations work and the backing of state-aligned media, politicians cultivate the impression of massive social imbalances. Punchline: societal decay and poverty, up to the misery of public finances, are the undeniable result of capitalist plunder.

The only functioning corrective to this systemic injustice comes from the benevolent, balancing state, stepping in to deliver fiscal transfers and enforce a form of justice.

In the sticky rhetoric of “justice,” the government conceals its complete failure — whether in border policy, over-bureaucratization, or the naive belief in a centrally planned economy. The result is a lifeless economy, which in France fares no better than in Germany. Only in energy has the importance of nuclear power been recognized — a wise choice, securing significant advantages for French industry.

Fiscal policy in Paris and Berlin now moves hand in hand toward the fiscal inferno. Berlin delayed necessary action by two years, but 2026 promises to be a year of major shocks. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is expected to raise both inheritance tax and the top income tax rate.

Options on the tax roulette wheel include a two-percentage-point hike in VAT and the end of spousal income splitting — measures particularly cherished by the political left in its ongoing attack on the remnants of the bourgeois family sphere.

The CDU’s participation in this scheme, leveling itself with other socialist parties in the Bundestag, reveals the intellectual and ethical erosion of a party led to the threshold of socialism by Angela Merkel and now finally pushed over by Friedrich Merz.

From general political-ideological mismanagement emerges a crisis-management strategy. Germany and France offer clues about fiscal trajectories in the coming years.

In short: the state will feed off the shrinking economic substance, masking its failures with higher levies while postponing necessary reforms.

This has immediate consequences for capital markets. If the sell-off of European sovereign bonds continues, the European Central Bank will have to intervene to prevent the public debt Ponzi scheme from collapsing.

This trend is highly inflationary and accelerates the process of social and economic erosion. Those capable of cutting the Gordian knot of Europe’s complex fiscal entanglement remain, for now, on the sidelines.

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UK: Asylum seeker on the run after assaulting schoolgirl, 14, accused of offering her cocaine and whisky

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An asylum seeker who was found guilty of assaulting a teenage girl at a Dorset holiday park after offering a group of children alcohol and Class A drugs is now on the run.

Thabani Maposa, housed at the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth, was convicted of assault by beating after he failed to attend his court hearing.

Magistrates have now issued an arrest warrant for the 45-year-old following the incident at Seaview Holiday Park in nearby Weymouth, which occurred shortly before 12am on May 23, 2025.

The court heard Maposa made contact with youngsters aged between 12 and 15, offering them whisky, cocaine and cannabis before inappropriately touching a 14-year-old girl.

His nationality and immigration status were not disclosed during proceedings; however, the holiday park is located approximately 30 miles from his registered address in Bournemouth.

The court heard Maposa had initially approached the caravan door claiming he was staying next door with his young family and asked the group to reduce their noise levels.

The children, who had been permitted by their parents to consume alcohol, agreed to his request.

However, rather than leaving, he entered the caravan uninvited and joined the group.

Once inside, he informed the group he could supply them with alcohol and Class A substances, then requested the victim participate in a demonstration.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Valera told the court: “Mr Maposa appears in the caravan and says he is staying in the adjoining caravan and can you keep the noise down.

“They say no problem but he doesn’t leave the caravan and the allegation is that he touched the 14-year-old girl.”

He instructed the children to touch his shoulder if they wanted cannabis and to grab his waist for whisky or cocaine, physically demonstrating these signals on the victim.

The victim described feeling frightened during the encounter, telling the court: “He pulled me in and was very close to me and I could feel his body next to me. I didn’t want him to touch me. I was really scared and didn’t know what was going to happen.”

Another witness present in the caravan stated: “He started touching her on the hip and shoulder. I could tell she was uncomfortable in that situation.”

The situation ended when an older boy emerged from a separate room, heard what was occurring and ordered Maposa to leave.

After throwing the defendant’s jacket outside, the boy locked the caravan door once Maposa went to retrieve it.

During his police interview, Maposa denied any physical contact with the child, claiming he had only been present for five minutes.

Magistrate chair Martyn McCarthy said: “We give credence to the fact that there was touching as both girls who gave evidence were credible witnesses.”

Maposa is among numerous asylum seekers residing at the Roundhouse Hotel who have faced criminal charges recently.

Earlier this month, two Egyptian nationals, who resided at the same accommodation, received imprisonment for running a county lines drug network from their rooms.

Mohammed Dawood and Alsayid Abdul-Khalik received sentences of 37 and 44 months, respectively, for dealing crack cocaine and heroin.

Last year, two other residents were jailed after chasing hotel staff with knives following a dispute over food.

Ibrahim Zouari, a Libyan national, and Tunisian migrant Houssine Nouira received 15 and 12 months, respectively, after demanding meals that met their dietary requirements.

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Hungary’s Fall Clears Path for a More Centralized EU

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The transformation of the European Union into an increasingly centralized structure—what many describe as the “United States of Europe”—is now closer than ever after Fidesz’s defeat in Hungary. As soon as the new Hungarian government’s victory was confirmed, Ursula von der Leyen declared that Hungary was “returning to its European path.” 

It sounded like a congratulatory remark. In reality, it signaled that the EU’s main sovereigntist stronghold has fallen.

For years, Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into the firmest obstacle to the political integration project that the Commission, much of the European Parliament, and several major member states have long sought to advance. Budapest blocked sanctions, challenged the rule-of-law conditionality mechanism, rejected mandatory migrant quotas, and, above all, used unanimity as a tool to defend national interests. That is now over.

The first consequence will be political. Without Budapest, the governments that still defend greater national sovereignty lose the country most willing to stop decisions in the Council. There will be less resistance and, above all, less fear in Brussels about moving forward.

That advance already has several clear directions. The most important thing is the gradual end of unanimity. For months, the Commission and several Western governments have argued that a Union expanded to more than thirty members cannot function if any single country can block decisions. The official argument is efficiency. The real outcome would be a transfer of power from national capitals to Brussels.

The proposal is to extend qualified majority voting to areas that have until now remained under the control of member states: foreign policy, sanctions, taxation, industrial policy, and some security matters. Orbán was the leader most opposed to this because he understood exactly what it would mean. 

Without unanimity, smaller states would lose their real ability to prevent decisions that run against their national interests. Governments could be forced to accept policies rejected at the ballot box.

The second major change will come through the budget. The Commission is preparing the 2028–2034 framework with an approach that goes far beyond distributing funds. The model increasingly resembles NextGenerationEU: common debt, centrally managed transfers, and more direct EU resources. 

In practice, that means greater power for the Union to borrow on behalf of all member states and to make access to EU money conditional on political objectives set in Brussels.

Hungary had long denounced that system as a form of political pressure. Not without reason. The freezing of billions of euros in EU funds for Budapest showed to what extent European money has become a mechanism of political discipline. With a Hungarian government now aligned with Brussels, that logic will not disappear. It may become the norm.

The third transformation concerns the so-called rule of law. What was until now presented as an exceptional response to a “problematic” country risks becoming a permanent system of supervision over domestic affairs. Justice, media, education, family legislation and even constitutional arrangements are becoming increasingly exposed to intervention by the Commission and the European Court of Justice.

There will be no need for a dramatic formal treaty change. Brussels has learned to move in a different way: by using existing clauses, extending qualified majority voting, relying on ECJ case law, and passing secondary legislation. It is integration by accumulation.

Added to this is economic centralization. The EU’s largest powers are already pushing for more European supervision of financial markets, investment platforms, and crypto-assets. The old ambition of creating a true capital markets union directed from Brussels is also returning. 

That is why the phrase “United States of Europe” is returning with force. Not because a formal European superstate will appear tomorrow, but because the pieces increasingly fit together in that direction: less national veto power, more common debt, more authority for the Commission, greater weight for the Court, and less room for a national path of one’s own.

Hungary had been the main political brake on that process. Its shift changes the balance inside Europe. Brussels sees it as a window of opportunity to move faster before a future enlargement toward the Balkans and perhaps Ukraine. 

What will come next?

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