Allah's Willing Executioners

When the United States and Israel launched their joint operation against the Iranian regime this month, the geopolitical map of the Middle East shifted within hours. Iran’s leadership, strategic targets, command centers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ballistic missile launchers and nuclear facilities have been targeted in coordinated strikes aimed at dismantling Tehran’s terror machine.

Yet there have been unexpected obstacles — not in Tehran, but in Madrid. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government flatly refused to authorize the use of Spanish airspace or the joint bases at Rota and Morón for American forces. For decades, these installations have been vital logistical hubs for US military operations in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This time, Madrid said no.

President Donald Trump reacted with fury, warning of serious economic consequences for a NATO ally that chose to obstruct a critical operation against one of the world’s most dangerous regimes. The White House message was blunt: when the US confronts a regime openly dedicated to America’s destruction and which is responsible for decades of terrorism, “neutrality” is not neutrality — it is a political choice that aids the enemy.

Spain’s refusal was no isolated incident. It was the logical climax of a long ideological trajectory that has turned the Sánchez government into one of the most hostile to the US and Israel in Europe.

Madrid’s Growing Hostility Toward Israel

Under Sánchez, Spain has repeatedly accused Israel of “disproportionate” and even “genocidal” responses to Hamas while staying noticeably silent on Iran’s central role in arming and directing this terrorist group. Spain has also championed diplomatic initiatives to isolate Israel internationally, tolerated and sometimes echoed BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) rhetoric, and blurred the line between policy criticism and outright hostility toward the Jewish state. Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that Madrid’s language now mirrors narratives promoted not by democratic partners, but by regimes that openly call for Israel’s elimination.

The hostility reached a new low in September 2025, when Sánchez announced a total arms embargo on Israel — banning all exports and imports of defense equipment and dual-use technology — and prohibited ships or aircraft carrying fuel or military material bound for Israel from using Spanish ports or airspace. In the same speech, he openly lamented Spain’s military limitations: “Spain, as you know, does not have nuclear bombs… We alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive.” Critics rightly interpreted the remark as a chilling admission that if Spain did have nuclear bombs, it would have used them against Israel. That a European head of government utter such a threat against the Middle East’s only democracy speaks volumes about the moral rot at the heart of Sánchez’s government.

The Coalition That Keeps Sánchez in Power

Sánchez’s posture is hardly accidental. It flows directly from the fragile coalition that props up his Socialist Party government. To remain in office, he depends on the even further-left Podemos, a party born of radical activism whose founders have long been entangled in troubling financial networks linked to regimes hostile to the West — in particular Venezuela under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.

The Venezuela Connection: CEPS, Millions from Chávez and the Bolivarian Project in Europe

The epicenter of the links between Podemos and Venezuela is the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales (CEPS), the foundation where key Podemos founders — Pablo Iglesias (responsible for strategic analysis), Juan Carlos Monedero, Íñigo Errejón and others —worked for years. CEPS openly advised leftist Latin American governments, including Chávez’s Venezuela.

According to official records from Spain’s Ministry of Culture (Registro de Fundaciones), CEPS received at least 3.7 million euros from the Venezuelan government between 2002 and 2012 — often representing over 80% of its annual income in certain years. Investigative reports and leaked documents (including one signed by Venezuelan Finance Minister Rafael Isea in 2008) push the total to 7.16 million euros between 2003 and 2011, earmarked for “advisory services,” policy analysis, and — crucially — the promotion of the Bolivarian movement in Spain and Europe.

A former high-ranking Venezuelan official cooperating with America’s DEA has confirmed that Caracas and Tehran coordinated efforts to fund emerging radical-left forces in Europe, with Podemos as a prime target. The goal: weaken Western alliances from within by nurturing anti-American, anti-Israeli voices.

Direct payments to individuals have also been alleged. UDEF investigations pointed to $272,325 allegedly paid to Pablo Iglesias in 2014 via an offshore account in the Grenadines linked to the Venezuelan regime (though these claims led to a 2025 Supreme Court ruling against OkDiario for defamation, the underlying financial patterns via CEPS remain undisputed). Other founders like Carolina Bescansa, Jorge Lago and Ariel Jerez reportedly received $142,000 through subcontracts tied to Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company.

CEPS quietly ceased operations in 2016 amid mounting scrutiny. Podemos has consistently denied any illicit funding, instead framing the payments as legitimate consulting fees for academic and advisory work. Yet the scale, the timing (peaking just before Podemos’ 2014 launch) and the beneficiaries raise unavoidable questions: was this mere intellectual exchange, or seed money for a political project designed to echo Venezuela’s “anti-imperialist” rhetoric in the heart of the European Union?

The Venezuelan link is not isolated — it intersects directly with the Iranian network, forming a Caracas-Tehran axis that funneled resources to the same ecosystem.

The Deep Iranian Penetration: HispanTV, Millions in Cash, and a Propaganda Machine

The Iranian connection is structural and documented by multiple police investigations. The central vector was HispanTV, the Spanish-language propaganda channel created and fully funded by the Iranian regime to spread its narrative across Spain and Latin America. The Iranian businessman in charge of its Spanish operations, Mahmoud Alizadeh Azimi, also controlled the production company 360 Global Media (later renamed Ziba Talents).

According to reports, between 2012 and 2015 alone, approximately 9.3 million euros were injected from Iran into 360 Global Media through 16 shell companies suspected of money laundering. The funds arrived via 67 suspicious transfers, mostly routed through opaque jurisdictions to bypass sanctions. Police sources estimated that 25% of these Iranian funds — 2.4 million euros, or between 600,000 and 700,000 euros per year — was diverted to the “audiovisual communication network” of Podemos: direct payments to Pablo Iglesias, his closest collaborators, and the production companies they controlled.

Iglesias himself hosted and directed the flagship program Fort Apache on HispanTV. Official police figures: 93,000 euros paid to him personally between 2013 and 2015 through 23 separate transfers from the Iranian-linked company. Even more damning: in February 2025, new judicial documents revealed that Iglesias continued to invoice the same Iranian producer in 2016—12,600 euros in six payments between February and July—after he had already become a deputy in the Spanish Congress. The mechanism was as simple as it was effective: inflated invoices for “production services” that allowed Tehran to channel money discreetly to its European political allies.

A former high-ranking Venezuelan official, now cooperating with the DEA, confirmed the scheme: Iran and Venezuela had explicitly agreed to use HispanTV to finance emerging radical-left forces in Europe, with Podemos as the prime beneficiary. The goal was clearly to destabilize the Western alliance from within.

Podemos has always denied any wrongdoing, calling the revelations “politically motivated smears” by the right. Yet no court has ever cleared the party of these massive financial flows. The pattern remains: millions of euros from the Iranian regime — and parallel flows from Venezuela — landed precisely in the pockets and production companies of the men who founded Podemos and who later became the kingmakers of the Sánchez government.

From Ideology to Foreign Policy

By the time Sánchez formed Spain’s governing coalition, anti-American and anti-Israeli positions had moved from the fringes to the heart of government policy. Spain now frames its stance as “principled multilateralism” while displaying selective outrage: furious condemnation of Israel’s self-defense, striking leniency toward the Iranian regime, and silence on Venezuela’s dictatorship. The refusal to let American forces use Spanish bases during the current Iran operation is therefore not a sudden surprise — it was the predictable outcome of years of ideological and financial capture.

When Anti-Zionism Becomes Something Else

In parts of Europe’s radical left, Israel is no longer merely criticized; it is portrayed as a uniquely illegitimate, colonial, genocidal entity. Within this worldview, Tehran’s explicit calls for Israel’s destruction were downplayed as mere rhetoric. Sánchez’s nuclear weapons remark perfectly illustrates how anti-Zionism can slide into something far darker: the open fantasy of possessing weapons of mass destruction to coerce the Jewish state. When the prime minister of a NATO member state publicly regrets not having nuclear weapons to “stop Israel,” the mask slips. What remains is not diplomacy, but a dangerous alignment with the eliminationist camp.

A Strategic Question for the Western Alliance

None of this proves direct corruption inside Sánchez’s inner circle, but the convergence of ideological sympathy along with documented millions of euros from Tehran and Caracas flowing into his coalition partners’ networks, and concrete policy decisions that undermine the West is impossible to ignore. A European government that blocks a vital operation against Iran while maintaining alliances with movements historically tied to Iranian and Venezuelan influence networks has placed itself outside the democratic consensus.

For the US, this is unacceptable. For Israel, it is alarming. For Europe, it raises a question that is actually existential: how deeply have the ideological and financial tentacles of Tehran and Caracas penetrated the continent’s political class?

Spain’s decision is more than a diplomatic spat. It reveals how far the shadow of the ayatollahs — and their Bolivarian allies — now stretches into the heart of the Western alliance.

When a NATO member obstructs action against a regime sworn to the destruction of America and Israel, the question is no longer whether influence exists. The question is how far it reaches — and how much damage it has already done and is planning to do.

Finally, frightened by the prospect of the measures promised by Trump, particularly regarding the threat of tariffs, the Sánchez government has temporarily abandoned ideology in favor of a provisional form of rationality: Spanish airspace — however late and, to borrow Trump’s remarks, “after we’ve already won” — is once again open to US forces.

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by Jeremy Egerer

The whole point of Impractical Jokers is a few pranksters doing things, on purpose, which violate the norms of our society.  This is what’s known as comedy.  In real life, the whole point of a border is keeping people out who violate the norms of our society by accident.  This is what we know as “having a country.”

Now, we all know that a country can be comical, but things get serious when too many people from too many countries start violating your norms willy-nilly.  For instance, do Americans stand in line or crowd to the front?  Do we throw trash in the garbage bins or on the street?  How loudly can we play our music with the windows open?  And can anybody park on the lawn?

Things get more uncomfortable when you ask, at what age is an impregnable women too young?  And can you just follow one around if she’s alone, or stare at her on the bus?  Do you have to wash your hands before making a stranger a hot dog?  And should people own actual dogs?  And can you blast prayers at six in the morning from the top of a building?  And do you have to hold it all in, or can you just poop on the street?

(Fooled you on that last one.  In San Francisco, almost anyone can fit in except Republicans.)

Some other differences go well beyond laws and affect the norms.  George Patton writes in his memoirs that when he visited the sultan in Morocco, a leopard broke out of its cage and ran straight into the harem.  A lot of screams were heard, and the sultan took off.  And when he came back, he told Patton (with a calm face) not to worry.  It just got one of the concubines in the neck.  The real wives were all safe, so they could carry as usual.

This is the kind of thing that pisses Americans off, but it highlights a crucial difference between American and Arabian society.  In 1942 Morocco, a man of eminence could pile up dozens of women of no eminence, and sometimes they got bled to death by leopards.  In modern America, a woman of no eminence can pile up men of eminence and bleed them dry on her own.  This is what we refer to as “alimony” and “child support,” and if a man tries to escape the harem, we throw him in another one where the sultan is his cellmate.

Thus, so far from being against ethnic diversity, I’m for it — somewhere else.  The great value of having other countries (and dare I say it: other states) is that you can view them from a distance.  The chief benefit of viewing them from a distance is you can find out which things you want to do yourself and which things you want the cops to shoot at.

This is the conservative’s idea of diversity.  It’s a plan where clear distinctions lie between “us” and “them” so we can delineate between the two and plan accordingly.  If you like this sort of thing, you believe deeply in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  The problem with the leftist’s diversity is that the diversity happens right at home, so by the time you realize you hate something, you’re stuck with it.  Also, you have to like it.  This is the whole point of HR and DIE — not to let anyone at work say, “I really support ICE.”

One country I’m really glad is “over there” is Great Britain — for the simple reason that the British will consider anybody “British.”  And for the additional reason that if you disagree with who can be British in Britain, you can end up in prison.

That’s why more people get arrested in Britain than in Russia for having opinions.  It’s also why Mohamed is the most popular name in the country.  And when Pakis started raping thousands of little girls, it’s the reason police swept the accusations under the rug.  Simply put, Brits wanted to defend everything but Britishness — and that’s why the United Arab Emirates won’t send any students to college in England.  The UAE took one look at the radical Islamists in Oxford and decided that Oxford was too much like Mohamed to let the Islamic students back into Arabia.

Yesterday, our forefathers would have burned the whole world because the British wanted to tax us too much.  Today, our forefathers would burn the whole world because the British tax their citizens to fund all the wrong things.  I include here such laudable expenditures as disarming law-abiding citizens, hiding crime by foreigners, feeding terrorists and layabouts, making a joke out of God, and terrorizing the ethnically British.  Sixty years ago, the whole civilized world was allied against Soviet Russia.  Today we have not just an interest, but a moral obligation to have the whole free world ally ourselves against the general ethos of Great Britain.

Whether Russia belongs on our team, in the age of China, is a fair question.  Whether the U.K. belongs on it without respecting themselves is obvious.  A country should always question whether its allies are the kind of people who commit murder.  But a country should never ally itself with a country in the middle of a suicide.

Thus, we wish Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain the best of luck.  And if he gets crushed by the DIE machine, we wish Britain itself the worst of it.

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A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race.

Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the murder weapon before later turning himself in to police.

Downey was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced last month to life in prison. The Crown was seeking no chance for parole for at least 15 years, but B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes went with 12 years after reviewing Downey’s Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA).

“As I have indicated, Mr. Downey has a substantial criminal record involving violence and firearms. I recognize, however, that the aggravating effect of his criminal record is offset in part by the mitigating circumstances of his background, as detailed in the IRCA,” Holmes said in her Feb. 13 decision.

Similar in function to Gladue reports for Indigenous offenders, IRCAs are designed to “help criminal justice professionals better understand the effects of poverty, marginalization, racism, and social exclusion on Black and racialized offenders and their experiences,” according to the Department of Justice. IRCAs were first developed by a Nova Scotia sociologist in 2014 and are now increasingly used in Canadian courts.

The IRCA in Downey’s case, authored by University of Calgary social work professor Patrina Duhaney, describes Downey as a “Black man of African Nova Scotian, African American and Jamaican ancestry.” However, it notes that he did not experience “overt racism” in his early life.

“He grew up in Toronto in predominantly Black and racially diverse neighbourhoods and attended racially diverse schools, and felt that he did not experience overt racism,” according to Holmes’ decision. “Mr. Downey explained to Dr. Duhaney that his experience living in communities which normalized racial diversity shaped his early sense of identity and belonging.”

In 2016, Downey moved to British Columbia, where he felt adrift.

“Here, he found a much smaller Black population, and the cultural norms among Black communities felt unfamiliar to him, and contributed to feelings of disconnection and isolation. He also experienced racism in ways he had not previously encountered, both in the community and in the institutional setting,” Holmes writes.

While Downey had “a significant criminal record that includes serious offences of violence,” which predated his time in British Columbia, in Holmes’s view, the IRCA submission made “clear that broader systemic, structural, and community factors relating to Mr. Downey’s experience as a Black person have played a part in his life experience, bringing various types of trauma, negative peer influences, and mental health challenges.”

Downey experienced poverty, the absence of his father in his early years, domestic violence at home and shootings in his neighbourhood.

The justice cites the IRCA in her judgment to refer to Downey’s “lasting sense of danger and mistrust,” the lingering mental health effects stemming from previous incarcerations and the stress of being away from his community in Ontario.

Holmes specifically cites the IRCA under “Mitigating Circumstances,” writing that the submission demonstrated “early exposure to violence, chronic instability, poverty, systemic anti-Black racism, and untreated mental health symptoms, such as hypervigilance, that may be trauma related.”

Other mitigating factors include Downey’s admission that he killed Blimkie and his expression of remorse in a personal statement to the court.

The devastating pain to Blimkie’s friends and family, however, still lingers.

“The victims have suffered an almost unbearable loss that affects them all profoundly, and, for some, in almost every aspect of their lives,” Holmes wrote.

“The family members feel the loss all the more deeply because they had no opportunity to say goodbye to Ms. Blimkie or to give her comfort in her final moments. They also feel betrayed by Mr. Downey who they welcomed into their home.”

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Despite worldwide outrage over the desecration of Paderborn Cathedral, another abuse of a place of worship recently occurred in the archdiocese.

In the Catholic Herz-Jesu parish in Herne, an ecumenical Harry Potter liturgy was staged.

The organizers announced in advance that the church interior would be “transformed into a magical setting” after an “open arrival” and the offering of “food and drink.” The goal was to make the place “look similar to the castle scenes in the films,” including appropriate decorations and “floating candles.” In addition, pews were rearranged and tables were brought in: “We will then sit together in groups, like the four different houses at Hogwarts.” The promised panorama ranged from “special music” with Harry Potter melodies accompanied by “lighting appropriate to the scene” to “special effects” and “walking acts.”

These were the announced conditions for the so-called “ecumenical service” after snacks and drinks. An actress was responsible for reading aloud from the third volume of the novel series.

The book (Harry Potter – gut oder böse?) by renowned Catholic publicist Gabriele Kuby, who had dealt intensively with the subject of Harry Potter and had come to a clear analysis, is particularly suitable for fully understanding this zeitgeist theater.

In it, she stated, “Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, is a closed world of violence and horror, curses and hexes, racial ideology and blood sacrifice, disgust and obsession. There is an atmosphere of constant threat that is transferred to the (young) reader.” Kuby unambiguously unmasked the occult goings-on: “The human world is degraded, the world of witches and wizards glorified. There is no positive transcendent dimension. The supernatural is exclusively demonic. Divine symbols are perverted.”

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote to Kuby in a personal letter on March 7, 2003: “It is good that you are raising awareness about Harry Potter, because these are subtle seductions that have an imperceptible and therefore profound effect, corroding Christianity in the soul before it has even had a chance to grow.” In the same year, the future German pope reiterated, “Thank you very much for your courageous commitment against occultism and magic!”

Against this background, the statement by the archiepiscopal authority, which defended the Harry Potter liturgy in advance, amounts to an admission of failure: “The standard, focus, and goal of the planned liturgy of the word” were and remain — according to the diocese’s narrative — “the word of God and the Christian message.” The literary references allegedly served “exclusively as didactic points of reference to open up biblical content and make it understandable.”

The hypocrisy went even further: They “do not relativize or water down the interpretation of the Gospel” but rather support “a responsible, contemporary, and at the same time theologically sound proclamation.”

The sacred character of the service and “the dignity of the church interior” remained “fully preserved,” according to the real-life satire from Cathedral Square.

We firmly reject this desolate verbal smokescreen, which is an insult to human reason!

We vehemently protest against the abuse of the house of God and the decadent pseudo-liturgy!

We urgently call on all those responsible for this irreverent spectacle to repent and do penance!

The Lord of His Church has retribution ready, as documented in the Holy Scriptures with the cleansing of the temple (cf. John 2:13-17).

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On February 25, 2026, a striking and controversial moment unfolded at Old Trafford, the legendary home stadium of Manchester United in England.

For the first time in over a century, the Adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, was broadcast through the stadium’s speakers.

Old Trafford proudly hosted Iftar on Tuesday, in collaboration with @MUM_SC ☪️❤️ pic.twitter.com/xLjeZK6Nlp

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) February 27, 2026

This occurred during a special Ramadan Iftar event, the meal that breaks the daily fast during the Muslim holy month. The gathering was organized by the Manchester United Muslim Supporters Club (MUMSC), an officially recognized fan group, in partnership with the club itself.

Old Trafford, known as the “Theatre of Dreams” thanks to Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton, is England’s largest club soccer stadium. It can hold over 74,000 fans and has been the team’s home since 1910. For many in Britain, it stands for soccer tradition, working-class pride, community, and national identity, much like Yankee Stadium in baseball or Lambeau Field in American football.

Manchester United is often seen as England’s most influential and globally recognized soccer club. With hundreds of millions of fans worldwide, many trophies, and a history linked to stars like George Best, Bobby Charlton, and Sir Alex Ferguson, the club has a cultural impact that goes beyond sports.

About 80 Muslim fans and guests were invited to the pitchside for the Iftar. English Qur’an reciter Ibrahim Idris gave the Adhan at sunset, marking the end of the fast. The call echoed through the empty stands under the lights, followed by Qur’an recitation and group prayers. Videos of the moment soon spread on social media and in the news, showing the sound filling the stadium.

For critics alarmed by cultural and demographic changes in the UK, this event represented a profound escalation in the process of Islamisation. A stadium long associated with secular British traditions—rooted in a historically Christian-influenced society—now amplified an Islamic religious proclamation at its very core.

Prominent among the voices raising the alarm was the X account @HeartsofOakUK. In a viral post accompanied by footage of the Adhan, they wrote: “The Adhan echoing through Old Trafford last night – the first ever in the Theatre of Dreams. This is a football stadium, not a mosque. Next, it’ll be full Friday prayers on the pitch? We are being colonised by Islam.”

The commentary struck a chord with those worried about future implications: potential demands for prayer breaks during matches, dedicated religious observances on the pitch, schedule adjustments around Islamic holidays, or further conversions of public spaces.

These concerns are linked to wider demographic trends in the UK. Muslims make up about 6.5% of the population, according to recent census data, with even higher numbers in big cities like Manchester. This urban presence makes Islamic practices more visible in daily life and cultural spaces.

The MUMSC prepared for this moment with earlier actions, like setting up multi-faith prayer rooms at Old Trafford and at the club’s training ground in Carrington. This was the second annual Iftar for fans, but broadcasting the Adhan made it a historic, and for some, unsettling milestone.

By using the club’s sound system, the call turned a private gathering into a public statement. Critics say this crosses an important line, as a place once just for sports has now become a stage for Islamic religious expression.

As of February 26, 2026, the day after the event, reactions show deep divisions. @HeartsofOakUK’s warning reflects a growing feeling among some patriots and cultural conservatives that this was more than just an act of inclusion. They see it as a turning point, showing one of Britain’s most important institutions giving way to outside religious influence.

Now that this has happened, it sets a clear precedent. The Adhan at Old Trafford could lead to more changes at historic sites, matchday traditions, and the usual character of British football. For people worried about national identity, this bold moment in the Theatre of Dreams has made their concerns even stronger.

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NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo joins TalkTV to discuss anti-White racism, corrupt African leaders seeking reparations from Britain and the BBC stopping its coverage of iconic British national events.

The Ukrainians are growing more confident with their attacks on—or, better put, their threats against—the Hungarian government, which is no surprise given the lack of care shown by their European funders.

Perhaps if Brussels had responded differently to Volodymyr Zelensky’s suggestioned that Ukrainian soldiers could “call and speak” to those blocking a €90 billion EU loan—that is, essentially, Viktor Orbán—than by awarding him the so-called ‘European Order of Merit,’ the tone might have shifted.

But, for the most part, they stayed silent. And now, a retired politician and former officer of the Security Services of Ukraine has said in a television interview that a covert military organisation could easily target the Hungarian prime minister unless he changes his Ukraine stance.

Hrihoriy Omelchenko left little to the imagination when saying that “our organisation, called KARMA, does not need Orbán’s address.”

We know where he lives, where he spends the night, where he drinks beer and wine, where he goes out, whom he meets, and so on. Therefore, if Orbán does not change his anti-Ukrainian stance … he should remember that KARMA never forgives anyone’s crimes.

Perhaps most hideously, Omelchenko added that Orbán “should think about his five children and six grandchildren.”

The Ukrainians are growing more confident with their attacks on—or, better put, their threats against—the Hungarian government, which is no surprise given the lack of care shown by their European funders.

Perhaps if Brussels had responded differently to Volodymyr Zelensky’s suggestioned that Ukrainian soldiers could “call and speak” to those blocking a €90 billion EU loan—that is, essentially, Viktor Orbán—than by awarding him the so-called ‘European Order of Merit,’ the tone might have shifted.

But, for the most part, they stayed silent. And now, a retired politician and former officer of the Security Services of Ukraine has said in a television interview that a covert military organisation could easily target the Hungarian prime minister unless he changes his Ukraine stance.

Hrihoriy Omelchenko left little to the imagination when saying that “our organisation, called KARMA, does not need Orbán’s address.”

We know where he lives, where he spends the night, where he drinks beer and wine, where he goes out, whom he meets, and so on. Therefore, if Orbán does not change his anti-Ukrainian stance … he should remember that KARMA never forgives anyone’s crimes.

Perhaps most hideously, Omelchenko added that Orbán “should think about his five children and six grandchildren.”

‼️ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, UKRAINE ‼️

Another outrageous threat against 🇭🇺@PM_ViktorOrban.

A former lieutenant general of the Ukrainian security services has now threatened the Hungarian Prime Minister and his family, claiming that the Ukrainian “death squad” knows everything about… pic.twitter.com/yRgmQsmHLq

— Balázs Orbán (@BalazsOrban_HU) March 11, 2026

Dutch former MEP Rob Roos also said “it’s criminal” that “we [Europeans] keep sending billions of taxpayers’ money… while this is the behavior we get.”

“Ukraine,” Roos added, “is not ready for [the] EU or NATO.”

Yet on Thursday, Zelensky questioned why Orbán was “blocking everything.” The establishment Guardian paper also snarked that the Hungarian prime minister was “using the dispute for maximum political gain before the election due next month,” as if to suggest that he really shouldn’t be taking what can really only be read as a death threat seriously at all.

Kyiv is growing especially frustrated with Budapest thanks to its block on a €90 billion funding package for Ukraine, and is even demanding that Brussels comes up with a ‘Plan B’ for sending cash across. Yet Orbán has said he will step back if Ukraine restores Russian oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia via the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline.

Zelensky was clearly not at all impressed when Hungary and Slovakia sent a delegation on Wednesday for talks on the pipeline, with Kyiv denying that the group had any official status. A proposed EU mission to inspect the line, which officials in Budapest and Bratislava believe is not damaged, is also awaiting Ukraine approval.

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Poland’s prosecutors have filed an indictment against a former government minister after his email in which he had kept government correspondence was hacked.

Michał Dworczyk, a close ally of former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, is an MEP for the opposition Conservatives (PiS). He is yet another former minister from the party to face prosecution by the prosecution service controlled by the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro who has been granted political asylum in Hungary has been charged with abuse of power, and former PM Morawiecki himself is facing charges for allegedly breaking the law over the attempted organisation of a postal ballot in the presidential election of 2020 during the pandemic. 

Dworczyk, who served as head of Morawiecki’s chief of staff, was charged over an incident in 2021 that saw sensitive emails of dozens of politicians and government officials published online. 

Morawiecki at the time criticized the media for publishing the emails and Dworczyk said that none of the contents of his private email had related to national security matters, only internal politics and non-classified matters relating to the pandemic and economic issues. 

The authorities of the time claimed that some of the published material was fake, some was doctored, and some genuine, but refused to comment on the authenticity of individual leaked emails.

On March 11 Dworczyk was charged with using a private email account for official correspondence and of using the unsecure email service for classified information concerning national security and obstructing the investigation by attempting to delete his emails. 

Last October, the European Parliament stripped him of the immunity usually enjoyed paving the way for the Polish prosecution. 

If found guilty of the charges Dworczyk faces between three months and five years imprisonment. 

Dworczyk denies any wrongdoing and believes he is a victim rather than the perpetrator of the crime. 

In a post on his X account Dworczyk wrote that he would willingly respond to the indictment as soon as he gets a chance to read it but claimed the prosecution service has repeatedly declined to give him access to the files and that he had learned of his indictment from journalists. 

In his statement, Dworczyk denied ordering anyone to delete his emails and said that no evidence of him doing so had been presented.

He went on to state that he was the one who had notified the Internal Security Agency of the hacking of his account and that it was unacceptable that instead of pursuing the perpetrators of the hack, who have yet to be identified, it is the victims who are being pursued. 

Dworczyk concluded that he hoped “in an independent court I will demonstrate the absurdity and the political motives of the charges brought against me.” 

The Tusk government since coming to power in late 2023 has issued a raft of indictments against former PiS state officials having stood on an election platform of holding former government ministers to account for their time in office.

However, prosecutions which had been instigated by the PiS government’s prosecutors against former Tusk government officials or allies from their time in office (2007-2015) have tended to be abandoned by the prosecution service.

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Known as the “Monster of Cherbourg,” one of the most horrifying accused criminals in France, Oumar Ndiaye, is now facing trial.

Ndiaye has been on trial since Wednesday in the Manche Assize Court. He faces charges of rape, torture, and acts of barbarity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ndiaye had long been a known menace in his neighborhood of Octeville, where residents reported he frequently smoked cannabis and terrorized the community. At only 18, he already featured 17 offenses involving physical assault, theft, and the incestuous sexual assault of his younger sister. Disturbingly, he had been investigated in several previous rape cases, all of which were closed without further action. He now faces a sentence of life in prison.

According to Le Figaro, the suspect expressed “neither empathy nor remorse” for the crime when he was in police custody.

The case also has parallels with numerous other rape cases involving foreigners that Remix News has reported on over the years. In what is one of the most harrowing cases, 9-year-old Swedish girl Luna was raped and strangled into a coma by a 15-year-old Ethiopian classmate with a history of sexual assault and viewing strangulation pornography on school computers. In a long-form piece, Remix News reported how Luna’s family lives with what they describe as a “black hole with no bottom” over the fact that the once lively girl can no longer speak and remains confined to a wheelchair.

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