Iuliia Mendel, the former spokeswoman for the Ukrainian president, sharply criticised Volodymyr Zelensky after his controversial remarks regarding Viktor Orbán. According to Mendel, arrogance and blackmail were never characteristic of Ukrainian leadership before Zelensky came to power, and this approach only worsens the country’s problems.
In a post on social media, Mendel warned that such rhetoric could undermine Ukraine’s diplomatic position at a time when the country is heavily dependent on the support of its Western partners. She emphasised that the repeated failure to find common ground with Viktor Orbán, the constant use of pressure tactics, and public insults have become strategic mistakes for Ukraine at a particularly difficult moment.
“Specifically in relation to the comments made by President Zelenskyy, we are very clear as the European Commission that that type of language is not acceptable. There must not be threats against EU member states,” Commission deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill told reporters… pic.twitter.com/f92K3dcy52
The controversy erupted after Zelensky made a statement that widely interpreted as a veiled threat against Viktor Orbán. The issue quickly escalated into a political dispute between Budapest and Kyiv, further straining the already tense relations between the two countries.
The European Commission also reacted to the situation. “This type of language is unacceptable. Threats cannot be made against EU member states,” said Olof Gill, deputy spokesperson for the Commission, whose words Mendel used to begin her post.
Ukrainian-Hungarian relations have deteriorated in recent months over several issues, including Russian oil shipments. Hungary has repeatedly condemned Kyiv’s policies, and after Ukraine closed the Druzhba oil pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia on January 27, Budapest said it would block a €90 billion military loan to Ukraine and the 20th EU sanctions package against Russia.
The diplomatic tension comes at a particularly sensitive time, as Ukraine may run out of financial resources by the end of March.
The German police have waited nearly a year to release a composite sketch of a man accused of ripping a 13-year-old girl off her bicycle in Rheine, North Rhine-Westphalia, and sexually assaulting her after her school day was finished.
The girl was riding her bicycle on May 6, when the man attacked her at 1:30 p.m., not far from her school, the Copernicus Gymnasium.
Local police described the incident as follows: “The unknown man stood in a small alley. He pulled the girl off her bike.” Although police have not disclosed exactly what happened to the girl, they describe the man sexually assaulting her in the alleyway.
After the incident, “he then threatened her with death if she told anyone about the crime.”
The student was able to break free from the pedophile and flee. She provided a very detailed description of the man, describing him as 40 years old, 1.90 meters tall, and slim. He has dark eyes and dark brown hair, which has curls down to the ears. He was wearing black pants and a blue t-shirt.
Bild indicated that the police did not disclose why the composite sketch was not created and published the sketch right after the crime instead of waiting nearly a year.
However, even when German police have an actual photo of a suspect, it can sometimes take months for judges to approve the release of such photos.
Ramadan at a comprehensive school in Kleve. Non-Muslim children are now only allowed to eat their lunch secretly, with their eyes averted. Parents speak of exclusion. It is quite obvious that something has happened in Kleve – namely, exactly what is said not to exist.
The Joseph Beuys Comprehensive School in Kleve (photo above) presents itself confidently on its website, pandering to the zeitgeist as a ‘school with courage’ and a ‘school of diversity’. These are big, hollow and empty words from the woke text kit, which are now part of the mandatory inventory in German schools. However, everyday life behind these slogans sometimes looks surprisingly different.
Since the beginning of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, one rule in particular has been causing controversy. Children who eat during break time are required to turn away from their classmates, as their fasting Muslim classmates might find this disturbing.
The incident was made public by parents. The mother of one of the pupils told the Bild newspaper what her daughter and her friend had experienced. Focus magazine has also reported on the deeply disturbing incident. Muslim classmates allegedly told them: ‘It’s Ramadan, you have to fast now and throw your bread in the bin!’ When the girls turned to a teacher for help, he advised them to turn away while eating.
Other parents also report incidents of exclusion and bullying. According to these reports, pupils with a migrant background made ‘gagging and vomiting noises’ when other children ate their lunch. One mother describes how her daughter tearfully told her that she felt excluded and discriminated against in her class. Especially during breaks, she was excluded on the grounds that she was ‘German’.
The school itself naturally rejects the accusation of restriction. It claims that it is all just a misunderstanding. In response to a complaint from parents, it states that eating and drinking during breaks is still perfectly acceptable. At the same time, however, there have been cases where children who are not fasting have provoked their fasting classmates with their food. For this reason, it has been discussed that children should avoid observing each other while eating or not eating, if possible. The ‘rule’ of turning away therefore applies to everyone.
The Düsseldorf district government has now taken up the matter. Upon request, it confirmed that the facts of the case are being investigated. In principle, it is allegedly the case that pupils should not be restricted in their personal behaviour. Attempts by pupils to impose religious rules on their classmates would be consistently punished in schools. According to its own statements, the authority is in contact with the school management.
The case in Kleve highlights a problem that has long since gone beyond the confines of a single school. In a pluralistic society, different religious practices and ways of life come into contact with one another. This is particularly true in schools, especially when German children are in the minority. In such cases, the crucial question is no longer whether to fast or not to fast, but whether state schools are beginning to take false tolerance so far that they are effectively imposing foreign religious rules on everyone else.
If children are only allowed to eat their lunch secretly with their eyes averted in future, then this is less an educational solution and more a symbol of submission.
A ‘school with courage’ in particular should know this.
The first wave of migrants from Iran have already began to emerge as a result of the Iranian regime’s violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests and the fallout of the 12-day war with Israel last year.
Jiletni, 21, told The Times that he did not flee due to military action.
Rather, he fled with friend Fatah to escape the Iranian regime’s “constant surveillance”.
He hails from Kermanshah in the Kurdish region of Iran, where more than 40 protesters were shot in the city by security forces, according to reports.
Iranians accounted for 11 per cent of the over 41,000 migrants who arrived in Britain through the Channel last year.
They also became the most common nationality to arrive at British airports without documentation.
Another Iranian immigrant Muhammed, 24, introduced a new group of Iranian arrivals to the facilities in the camp.
Speaking to them Farsi, he pointed them towards food stalls run by local charities.
He told The Times that he would be killed if he returns to Iran for his activism, and added that it is likely his friends and family have been killed in air strikes conducted by American and Israeli forces.
Between 2015 and 2024, 62,000 Iranians applied for asylum in the UK, according to the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.
Senior maritime sources told GB News at the time that it was likely there would be “another record year” for illegal small boat crossings.
The International Organisation for Migration, a UN body, has appealed for de-escalation in the Middle East, with fears that ongoing military escalation would add to the 19 million refugees already displaced due to “conflict, violence, and disasters”.
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld prison sentences for seven individuals convicted of hate crimes over social media posts targeting unaccompanied foreign minors in Melilla, the autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast.
The ruling, issued by the Criminal Chamber on February 26 and made public yesterday, confirms convictions stemming from comments posted on Facebook in 2017.
The defendants, members of local groups with thousands of followers, referred to the minors – often termed “MENAs” (menores extranjeros no acompañados) in Spanish discourse – as “escoria” (scum), “bazofia” (rubbish), or “gentuza” (riffraff).
Other defendants urged the formation of citizen patrols to “clean” the streets and demanded the group be sent back to “their f*cking country to starve”.
Some commentators have criticised the ruling as an example of judicial overreach that prioritises protecting undocumented migrants over citizens’ rights. They argue it criminalises legitimate concerns about border security and public safety in places such as Melilla, the Spanish enclave bordering Morocco.
The court ruled that the expressions constituted incitement to hatred and, at minimum, indirect calls to violence against a vulnerable collective, overriding claims of protected free speech.
“Freedom of expression is not an absolute right,” the judgment stated, “and cannot serve as an excuse when comments objectively demean, humiliate, or provoke conflict with constitutional rights.”
Penalties range from eight months to one year and 10 months in prison – reduced from original terms of up to two years and six months due to undue delays in the lengthy proceedings.
Additional sanctions include fines and bans on working with minors.
The decision upholds an earlier ruling by the Málaga Provincial Court, which reversed an initial acquittal by a Melilla lower court.
The case originated from a 2017 complaint by child rights groups, including PRODEIN Melilla, following posts in Facebook communities such as “Opinión Popular de Melilla”.
These posts highlighted ongoing tensions in Spain’s North African enclaves over migration, where unaccompanied minors from sub-Saharan Africa and Morocco frequently arrive seeking to travel to mainland Spain or further into Europe.
In another free-speech case in Spain today, the Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers lodged a complaint with the Valladolid courts against the Co-ordinadora Juvenil Socialista (a socialist youth group linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE) for allegedly inciting hatred against Christians and pro-life advocates.
The complaint centres on a poster promoting a demonstration outside a pro-life support centre, featuring a burning rosary and cross with the slogan “Si el enemigo avanza, avancemos nosotras” (“If the enemy advances, let’s advance”).
The lawyers’ association argues this symbolically burns Christian symbols and labels religious believers as “enemies”, potentially breaching Article 510 of the Penal Code on hate crimes.
In Europe, Canada, and Australia, hate-speech laws and related convictions have proliferated in recent years, coinciding with increasing mass migration.
Prosecutions have surged in the UK and Germany’s police have conducted mass raids on “hate posts”.
NGOs and civil society organisations, including those funded through European Union programmes, have played a key role in advocating for stronger laws, monitoring incidents and pushing for enforcement against perceived hatred.
In stark contrast, the US stands as the primary outlier, consistently pushing back through robust First Amendment protections.
Spain’s radical leftist government has proposed legalizing huge numbers of Muslim illegal migrants, protested President Trump’s bombings of Islamic terrorists in Iran, and Barcelona is now cracking down on dancing and music.
At the rate that Spain is going, it’s going to need its own ‘Reconquista’ before it becomes more Islamic than Iran.
The Barcelona City Council , through its Office of Religious Affairs (OAR), has distributed to the city’s schools the guide ‘Guidelines for educational centers on Ramadan ‘, in which it recommends that school principals , as a gesture of respect for the Muslim celebration, which this year began on February 18 and concludes on March 20, not carry out extracurricular activities such as music or dance, which may be considered by some people as “inappropriate” in this month “dedicated to spirituality”.
Nearly a month of bans on music and dancing to accommodate Islamic colonialism.
But as the Ayatollah Khomeini (ZBUH) once said, “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”
And as countries like Spain choose to Islamize, there will be no fun or joy in them either.
But, as described in George Orwell’s 1984, there will be other pleasures.
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
Or as Islam calls it, “Jihad.”
Iranians are rebelling against Islamization, but too few Europeans have the courage to join them in standing up to it.
A bombshell report from the Sun Journal on March 4 revealed yet another transgender-identifying male predator terrorizing vulnerable female inmates in a women’s prison – this time, in Maine.
Andrew Balcer is, according to prison records, over six feet tall and 310 pounds. The Sun Journal refers to him as “she.” He is not female. In 2016, the then-17-year-old stabbed his mother Alice nine times in the back with a hunting knife and then used the bloody weapon to kill his father Antonio and the family chihuahua, as well. His older brother escaped.
Balcer then called the police and, with laughter, told them what he’d done. He pled guilty in September 2018 but claimed that he had murdered his parents because they would not support his “gender identity change,” a claim his brother disputes, saying that their parents would have supported him. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
“It was not clear when Balcer was moved from the Maine State Prison at Warren to the women’s section at Windham,” the Sun Journalreported. “The inmates there said Balcer has been with them for at least a year.” What is clear is that the female inmates are now locked behind bars with a predator, and that he is taking full advantage of his new circumstances. He now identifies as a “woman” named Andrea.
Since arriving at the prison, female inmates have reported that Balcer has “cornered” women; that he has groped them, “forcibly kissed” them, and that they have faced offers from Balcer “to impregnate them.” At least six, but “perhaps as many as 11,” women have complained about Balcer since his arrival, but aside from Balcer being occasionally segregated during investigations under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, nothing has been done.
“I’ve complained at least four times,” said his cellmate, Jennifer Albert. “I’ve gone in with the other four girls all in one stand and we brought it up with the men at the desk, who then forwarded it to the sergeant. But nothing really came of it.”
“[Balcer] pulled my body right up against hers [sic], like as tight as she possibly could,” Albert said. “She slid me down so that I could feel […] that it was a man.” She cited other examples of similar behavior, as well.
Another woman, 45-year-old Katie Mountain, described the abuse in detail. “She [sic] is a terrorizer, honestly,” Mountain said, using female pronouns to describe her male assailant. “She’s put me through hell. She’s shoved me against the bathroom wall and tried to force me to kiss her. I would wake up to her just staring at me and then making comments like: If you don’t wake up, it’s because I smothered you with a pillow.”
There is something sadistic about forcing female inmates to refer to their male assailant as a female, when they are quite clearly aware that he is not.
Mountain says she asked the sergeant to move her somewhere else six times and asked the same of her unit manager twice. Her requests were only heeded when she simply refused to return to her cell. Her husband has said that he is fearful for her safety, and now “keeps himself busy” trying to ensure her safety while in prison, reaching out to officials and his state representative. He told the Sun Journal that he will lobby the White House if that is what is necessary.
Thirty-six-year-old Megan Reeves was also forced to share a cell with Balcer. “He’s very big; very intimidating,” she said. “He is just very vulgar and very, very perverted. He’s done this to a lot of girls at this point, and we’re all traumatized. A lot of us were scared. We even reported to mental health that we felt like we needed something to arm ourselves with because the staff kept putting it off and not seeing the danger, the severity of our situation.”
Andrew Balcer has already attracted the attention of the Trump administration; Bondi referred to his case in April 2025, when the administration announced that federal funding would be withheld from state prisons that housed men with women. But in 2021, Maine Democrats passed a law requiring that “prison placement [be] based on gender identity.”
Predictably, Maine Department of Corrections spokesperson Jill O’Brien declined to answer the Sun Journal’s questions, citing “privacy rules,” although she did insist to the press that all allegations would be investigated.
“I talked to the unit manager and was told, ‘Well, I don’t make the laws in Maine so there’s nothing I can do about it,’” Mountain told the Sun Journal. “But to me, when it gets to the point where somebody has assaulted seven women, that shows the person needs to be moved. And this place just doesn’t seem to care. Like, they’re so nonchalant about it. I knew it wouldn’t be a walk in the park coming here. It’s prison. I get that. But I did not think that they’d put me in with a man. With a predator.”
An American airstrike has destroyed Iran’s quirky attempt at building an aircraft carrier, the Shahid Bagheri, which was only commissioned last year.
Operation Epic Fury has seen the United States destroy “over 30” Iranian warships, it was stated, as America moves to end Iran’s capacity to exert malign influence over the region and its ability to fund terrorism worldwide. United States Navy Admiral Bradley Cooper provided an update on the situation on Thursday evening, revealing the continuing pace of strikes and, in particular, Iran’s loss of its new ‘carrier’.
U.S. forces aren't holding back on the mission to sink the entire Iranian Navy. Today, an Iranian drone carrier, roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier, was struck and is now on fire. pic.twitter.com/WyA4fniZck
…our strikes against the Iranian Navy have intensified, You may have heard the president say just a little while ago that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships. That was true at the moment. We are now up over 30 ships and in just the last few hours we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship. Roughly the size of a World War Two aircraft carrier, and as we speak it is on fire.
The “drone carrier ship” is the Shahid Bagheri, a converted civilian container ship. Footage published by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) shows the distinct shape of the Shahid Bagheri take a hit on its flight deck, which erupts into a torrent of billowing flame. The video cuts to an unspecified later time, where the fire forward is clearly well established, and a second strike hits the ship aft, possibly on the superstructure which typically houses crew accommodation and the bridge.
The force of the second impact sends large pieces of wreckage flying through the air and into the sea. The U.S. hasn’t made clear what the ultimate fate of the ship was yet, but did imply it was among the ranks of the “sunk or destroyed”, and as of Thursday night was “on fire”. Given the drone carrier was converted from a civilian cargo ship and would consequently have been built with less robust fire fighting and flooding prevention measures than a purpose-built warship, the chances of it being meaningfully saved are at best slender.
Iranian Warship Sunk By U.S. Submarine in International Waters, First Since WW2: Hegsethhttps://t.co/3fkVwcD2iQ
The converted merchant ship entered Iranian military service with quite some fanfare in February 2025. Iran published footage of operations on the deck of the ‘carrier’, showing off its ability to operate helicopters and drones. According to an Iranian military officer who spoke at the time, the ship was capable of circumnavigating the globe and was intended to “operate independently in international waters for a year. It can launch long-range missiles… it can defend itself against aerial attacks”.
In addition to the drones, it was claimed to carry its own deployable flotilla of fast-attack boats — launchable from the hold by way of davits — and even miniature submarines and Iranian or Chinese anti-ship missiles.
The ship was grimly mocked by some observers at the time for the nature and scale of the drones shown launching, which to some eyes appeared to be little more than hobbyist-scale model aeroplanes.
The publication of the footage showing the demise of the Shahid Bagheri follows the United States also releasing periscope video of the destruction of Iranian frigate Dena. The destruction of the Dena on the high seas apparently prompted a second Iranian warship, the fleet oiler Bushehr, to sail into Sri Lankan territorial waters and turn itself over for internment for the remainder of hostilities.
"From a military perspective, Iran has the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz but for now, we are not doing so as long as we are using the strait ourselves," said IRGC Navy Commander Alireza Tangsiri during an interview aboard the drone-carrier warship Shahid Bahman Baqeri. pic.twitter.com/aO6MWdUhw8
“Never let a good crisis go to waste” is one of those Churchillisms that seems to best capture the spirit of our own cynical age. It has long been a favourite of the ruling Brussels clique: time and again, the Commission has weaponised crises to its advantage, judiciously using every difficulty to justify the further centralisation of powers at the expense of member states. With ProtectEU, its new dystopian, securitarian agenda, the EU is proving such shameless opportunism is still its forte.
ProtectEU is the Union’s new internal security strategy. It isn’t difficult to explain its rationale. We do, indeed, live in an era of ever-multiplying threats: from terrorism to cybercrime and nefarious state-led activities, it is true that the task of shielding nations from external threats has never been more complex than it is today. But, as always with Brussels, the devil is in the details.
Since the London bombings of 2005 and the subsequent adoption of the EU’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy to the 2021 Security Union framework, the Union has steadily—and self-servingly—expanded its understanding of security. ProtectEU, with its commitment to deeper data sharing, algorithmic detection of “extremist content,” and closer cooperation with online platforms, would further empower agencies like Europol. That would be perfectly fine—if only it was genuinely meant to make us safer.
Unfortunately, it goes well beyond that. In ProtectEU, the Commission is speaking of a “growing range of motivation” in which it includes the conveniently ill-defined category of “anti-system ideologies,” “misogyny,” “anti-LGBTQ+ hatred,” or the rejection of “European democratic values.” These are dangerously elastic concepts. Terrorism, hitherto defined as the use of violence against civilians for political ends, is being bureaucratically redefined as a hazy category designed to include not only murderous fanatics but also mere anti-regime dissidence. They are using anti-terrorism as a mask for political repression—and not for the first time, either.
Dissidents of the liberal-globalist order have all watched this film before. The 2021 Terrorist Content Online Regulation already allows authorities to demand removal of flagged material within an hour. The Digital Services Act obliges platforms to manage “disinformation” and “hate speech,” concepts so delightfully Orwellian as to mean whatever one might want them to mean. While appearing reasonable and necessary when taken individually, these measures collectively build an ecosystem of repression that East Germany’s Stasi could only have dreamt of.
With the establishment increasingly unable to guarantee its self-preservation at the ballot box, it is hardly a surprise that it is trying to reinterpret the vocabulary of counterterrorism to swallow political disagreement. What, indeed, is “anti-system ideology”? What does it encompass? Are the rejection of demographic transformation, the obliteration of national sovereignty, or dangerous, potentially—and literally—suicidal foreign policy adventurism tenets of this “ideology”?
None of these fears need be regarded as paranoia. Few conservatives have forgotten about how the German establishment has been hard at work trying to ban what is now the country’s largest single political party, Alternative für Deutschland. Its domestic intelligence agencies openly and shamelessly monitor a legally established parliamentary party enjoying the support of tens of millions of Germans for purely ideological reasons. Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, has long classified the party as “extremist”, thus opening a legal path for its prohibition. Incredibly, it does so in the name of liberal democracy.
Europe’s institutions increasingly conceive security in sociological terms—they don’t think of it as social tranquillity, but as coercively imposed ideological conformity. Algorithms are supposed to keep the establishment safe from dangerous ideas rather than people safe from international criminals.
But the problem really does go beyond the visible opportunism with which Europe’s mandarins are trying to use the dark shadow of international terror. Terrorism, jihadism in particular, does remain a bitter threat to hundreds of millions of Europeans. Yet an increasingly large portion of intelligence and policing resources are being directed towards what is, for all intents and purposes, naked political repression. While that is intolerable in its own right, it also represents a dangerous diffusion of focus. Intelligence resources are finite; if everything is extremism, nothing is prioritised. Less will be done to confront real threats that cost actual lives.
Europeans should be wary of the EU’s determination to police the internet. Above all, they should not—and must not—underestimate the Eurocrats’ desire for authoritarian control of what they see, think, and desire for their future. Brussels aims to build a closed, vertically controlled information space where seeing the reality of our sinking continent becomes impossible—and arguing for change is turned into a thought crime. They think this will keep them in their seats, and they think the peoples of Europe won’t notice or care while their most elementary liberties are methodically taken away. They must be proven wrong.
An asylum-seeking family in Austria has been ordered to repay €66,457 in welfare benefits after authorities discovered the family possessed significant assets back home in Turkey, including a large vineyard, an apartment in Istanbul, and a significant amount of cryptocurrency.
The case emerged following an inspection at an asylum facility in the Upper Austrian town of Braunau last summer. Officials found that the 37-year-old father of the family owned prime real estate back in Turkey.
As reported by Kronen Zeitung, investigators also uncovered a cryptocurrency wallet containing 1.5 Bitcoins, which were valued at approximately €150,000 at the time.
Upper Austrian authorities responded by immediately terminating the family’s eligibility for basic services. Their accommodation was also revoked, and on July 20, the state issued a formal demand for repayment totaling €66,457. The sum covered basic welfare services, food allowances, health insurance, and accommodation costs provided to the family.
However, the family has contested the repayment demand, and the case is now pending before a court.
“We use all legal means to hold those responsible accountable in cases of social welfare fraud. In this way, we were able to recover approximately €900,000 in misused welfare funds last year — the case is still pending in court, and we are pursuing it rigorously,” said Upper Austrian State Councillor for Integration Christian Dörfel.
The case comes amid broader concerns about welfare fraud in Austria. Last year, it was reported that authorities recorded 4,865 cases of social benefits fraud pertaining to 2024, according to figures from the Social Benefits Fraud Task Force (SOLBE).
Since the agency was established in 2018, investigators say they have uncovered fraudulent claims totaling €135.6 million. Officials estimate that around 70 percent of suspects in these cases are foreign nationals.
“More than 70 percent of the suspects are not Austrian citizens,” said Gerald Tatzgern, head of the department responsible for combating welfare fraud.
One common scheme uncovered by investigators involves couples registering at separate addresses in order to receive higher benefit payments while continuing to live together.
Authorities have cited several high-profile cases. In one example, a Bosnian national received €1,250 per month in Austrian social benefits while simultaneously earning income by renting out multiple properties in his home country. The scheme reportedly cost Austrian taxpayers around €100,000.
In November 2024, a 62-year-old Syrian man went on trial, accused of fraudulently receiving nearly €200,000 in social benefits over a decade.
Prosecutors allege that between August 2014 and January 2024, the man received up to €1,400 per month in minimum income support and health insurance benefits despite allegedly holding Turkish citizenship, which could have affected his eligibility for assistance.
Most welfare fraud cases have been recorded in Vienna, where authorities uncovered 2,626 cases, followed by Lower Austria with 508 cases. Since 2018, the task force has investigated a total of 25,156 suspected cases.
