Historian and royal broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo joins GB News to discuss the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the broader implications for the police and the Monarchy.
The multicultural destruction of the West is not a natural phenomenon
Those who do not take their own culture seriously and do not defend it are destined to lose it.
In 1971, Canada’s prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Justin’s father) declared multiculturalism a state policy, making Canada the first country in the world to do so.
In 1974, Belgium followed.
In 1975, Sweden under Olof Palme introduced multiculturalism.
So no, I do not believe that the ongoing destruction of the West is a natural phenomenon.
It is not even a conspiracy. Rather, it is the dominant mentality shared by a Canadian liberal (Trudeau), a Belgian Catholic (Baldwin), and a Swedish social democrat (Palme).
“Muhammad is the most common name in Linz,” Heute now reports about the capital of Upper Austria. Another layer of “diversity” added to the others.
Muslims are also the majority in Vienna’s schools.
Gene Wu is not just another critical studies professor at one of America’s craziest universities. He is the leader of the Democrats in the Texas House. Here is what he said: “Non-whites (Latinos, African Americans, Asians) share the same oppressor (whites) and now we are the majority. We can take over this country.”
Take over this country! Clear enough, isn’t it?
The conviction of an illegal Afghan migrant for the rape of a twelve-year-old English girl in Nuneaton did not disturb the conscience of our most talkative virtuous classes as much as Manchester United owner Jim Ratcliffe, who spoke of a “UK colonized by migrants.” He was attacked and forced to apologize.
A recent Policy Exchange report found that between June 2021 and June 2025, 4.8 million people entered the UK. Much of this migration comes from countries like India, Nigeria, and Pakistan, which have enormous problems with religious fundamentalism and ethnic and inter-community conflicts.
So Sir Ratcliffe is right.
But if in big cities, from London to Birmingham, whites (former Christians) are already a minority, what should be done with the countryside?
Solution: a major cultural-social engineering operation.
The British countryside will become a “less white environment” thanks to national “diversity” plans, revealed the Telegraph. Rural officials are committed to attracting minorities; otherwise, the countryside would be “irrelevant” in a multicultural society, as a “white environment” frequented by the “white middle class.”
Proposals are advancing “to attract more Muslims to the area.”
Other suggestions: “bring halal food to the countryside.”
What else? Minarets among vineyards? Muezzins drowning out church bells? Halal in provincial supermarkets? What else?
How about canceling Easter at school to make room for “Refugee Day”?
Or, while we’re at it, stabbings in schools while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” as just happened in Brent?
And since we’re here, get rid of the Jews too.
Poor Roger Scruton, who was the intellectual bard of that England. What would he say if he read the government’s plans? He called his country home “Scrutopia.” An utopia, indeed.
If yesterday thinking they had a plan seemed a bit too diabolical and believing it seemed paranoid, today they say it openly.
And it’s not only England.
The idyllic German town of Dabel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will see its population increase by 37 per cent after being forced to resettle 500 migrants under the “solidarity program.” The town of 1,370 inhabitants, known for nature, hunting, and fishing, will change radically with the new asylum center, despite local protests. “Suddenly we would have a third more residents,” said Mayor Jörg Neumann.
“Without downplaying the huge cultural gap between Pomerania and Punjab, in Germany the Basic Law is ours, no matter how sacred the Quran is,” writes Michael Martens in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Migrants must accept gender equality, religious and expression freedom, “and those who reject them should leave our country quickly.”
Before Pomerania becomes like Punjab, better act, right?
In Callac, a French village of 2,200 people, half are retirees, only about ten children are born each year, and there is a program to “rejuvenate” the town with migrants. The largest employer is a nursing home. The town was split over the abandoned project of settling migrants.
The perfect paradox: to save the empty village, you kill the village.
Islam is changing the face of the French countryside. In Ferrières-sur-Ariège, Auzat, Joinville, Niederhaslach, Docelles, Loupershouse, Saint-Jean-Rohrbach, mosques and Muslim communities are spreading even in tiny villages.
David Goodhart distinguishes between “anywheres” and “somewheres”.
And the somewheres reject the solution imposed by elites who fly between Davos, the UN and Epstein’s island: oblivion.
Macron: Meloni ‘Should Not Comment’ on Beating Death of Conservative Student Quentin Deranque
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to stop commenting on the death of conservative university student Quentin Deranque.
The 23-year-old Catholic activist was killed last week during an anti-mass immigration protest in Lyon in an alleged act of Antifa violence.
As Breitbart News reported, the young man’s death sparked widespread condemnation of far-left violence. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, said on Sunday that “clearly it was the far left was behind it.”
On Wednesday, Meloni, in a social media post, said the killing of Deranque is “deeply shocking and saddening,” describing the incident as a “wound for the whole of Europe.”
“The death of a young man in his early twenties, attacked by groups linked to left-wing extremism and overwhelmed by a climate of ideological hatred that spans several countries, is a wound for the whole of Europe,” Meloni’s post read.
“No political idea, no ideological opposition can justify violence or turn confrontation into physical aggression. When hatred and violence take the place of dialogue, democracy always loses,” she concluded.
L’uccisione del giovane Quentin Deranque in Francia è un fatto che sconvolge e addolora profondamente.
— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) February 18, 2026
La morte di un ragazzo poco più che ventenne, aggredito da gruppi riconducibili all’estremismo di sinistra e travolto da un clima di odio ideologico che attraversa diverse… pic.twitter.com/F7vzDhT9X8
Meloni’s remarks appear to have infuriated Macron. On Thursday, during the tail-end of an official visit to India, Macron, answering a question from a reporter, urged Meloni to stop “commenting on what is happening in other countries”
“Let everyone stay at home and the sheep will be well looked after,” Macron said, as per Le Figaro.
“I am always surprised to observe that nationalists, who do not want to be disturbed in their own homes, are always the first to comment on what happens in other people’s homes,” Macron stressed, according to Rai News.
Unnamed Italian government sources at the Palazzo Chigi told Rai News that the Italian government received Macron’s statements “with astonishment.”
The sources reportedly emphasized that Meloni “expressed her deep sorrow and dismay at the tragic killing of young Quentin Deranque and condemned the climate of ideological hatred that is sweeping through several European countries.”
“These statements represent a sign of solidarity with the French people affected by this terrible event and do not in any way interfere in France’s internal affairs,” the source said.
“There have been many Quentins in Italy. Some during the darkest periods of the Republic. Condemning episodes such as the one in Lyon also serves this purpose, to ensure that Italy does not return to its ugly past. Because politics is above all about dialogue and debate, even with those who do not share our views,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.
“Clearly, Emmanuel Macron does not have the basic political culture to understand that for Giorgia Meloni and Italy, the issue of political violence and the murder of a young right-wing person by the far left has a very particular resonance,” Marion Marécha, the leader of the Identity–Liberties party in the European Parliament, wrote on social media.
Italy: German woman found beheaded near Florence, Moroccan suspect arrested
Police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of murdering a woman whose beheaded body was found on Wednesday at a site formerly operated by a branch of the National Research Council (CNR) at Scandicci outside Florence. The victim was a 44-year-old homeless German woman, sources said.
There were traces of blood on the clothes of the suspect, a 30-year-old homeless Moroccan man, the sources said. The suspect is in hospital after being found in a disturbed state on February 18 and being committed to mental health treatment. During the investigation police seized a blood-stained knife and a machete.
Did DEI Cause D.C. Sewage Disaster? DC Water may have “delivered equity” by filling a less diverse area with sewage
After complaining about a water industry that was terrible because it “had too many white men at the top”, DC Water CEO David Gadis bragged that, “My executive team, you know, looks exactly like the community… people of color.”
7 out of 9 members of the DC Water leadership team are black. 5 are women.
This hasn’t done anything to get the sewage back in the pipe. Or decontaminate the Potomac.
The DC Water 2023 report was titled ‘Water Equity for All’ and had Gadis bragging that “in recent years, DC Water has established itself as the national gold standard when it comes to delivering water equity.”
DC Water is now at the epicenter of the massive Potomac sewage spill in which hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater poured into the river in one of the worst sewage spills in American history. But at least the D.C. Water’s executive team “looks exactly like the community” whose lives they’re wrecking.
Or do they?
CEO Gadis had pitched his focus on contracting with “minority and women-owned businesses”. The report promised that “infrastructure decisions” would be made “equitably” so that rather than just analyzing “the risks of infrastructure failures”, the Authority would be looking at them within the context of social and environmental vulnerabilities” and would “protect the needs of the most vulnerable communities from impacts such as flooding and sewage overflows.”
Did DC Water let the Potomac disaster happen because it prioritized sewage management around equity and the ‘Interceptor’ that dumped massive amounts of sewage may have been seen as a risk, but not a sufficient risk to a sufficiently diverse “vulnerable community”?
The areas affected by the sewage spill are primarily in Montgomery County which are less ‘diverse’ than D.C. itself with only a 18% black population and nearly half white population.
Did DC Water prioritize infrastructure risks to more properly ‘diverse’ areas leading to this disaster? Even with the disaster underway, DC Water has been accused of stonewalling and refusing to cooperate with other agencies, including the Potomac riverkeeper, trying to figure out the magnitude of the disaster. That is highly suspicious behavior for an innocent organization.
As federal investigators look for answers, they may want to consider starting with that question.
DC Water described its mission not as delivering water, but as “delivering equity”. Now DC Water may have “delivered equity” by filling a less diverse area with sewage.
But it’s not as if the DC Water leadership doesn’t have some experience with that sort of thing.
David Gadis, the first black CEO of a “major water utility”, had last been in the news during his tenure with Veolia Water. During that time, Veolia was accused of helping cover up the water disaster in Flint, Michigan in that city’s water crisis.
Veolia later paid out $78 million to tens of thousands of Flint residents.
“We are honored to support your community with our technical expertise so that together we can ensure water quality for the people of the city of Flint,” Gadis had promised Flint residents.
Gadis had assured Flint residents that the water was safe even as emails mentioned the presence of lead. Why, after that disaster, did D.C. Water choose him out of 100 candidates?
One might think that the priority would be picking a CEO who wasn’t at the center of the most notorious tainted urban water crisis (including one involving minorities) in the whole country.
But as the DC Water press release mentioned, Gadis “was the first African American CEO to lead a major utility in Indianapolis.” And really, who cares about anything else?
Perhaps taking a man who had a basketball scholarship to Southern Methodist and had been “entirely focused on the prospect of a basketball career” before losing the NCAA National Tournament and then being lucky “that the abilities he developed on the basketball court—such as leadership, responsibility, and preparation—also applied well to the… water industry” was not a great plan. Even if Gadis had the supreme virtue of looking “exactly like the community.”
DC Water, like many cities, had badly aged infrastructure. Instead of focusing on that, Gadis bragged about his commitment to meaningless buzzwords like “sustainability” and “equity”.
The ‘Authority’ would have done better to focus on functionality and safety instead.
While DC Water focused on its “first-ever appearances at the Capital Pride Block Party”, the “Women of Water” (WOW) program and celebrating “the many cultures, languages, and ethnicities represented at the Authority”, a disaster was approaching that could not be met with DEI, but with real-world hard work before the Potomac river was full of sewage.
Rather than discuss the magnitude of its actual tasks, DC Water’s reports redefined everything as equity. When DC Water described its water hookups, it rebranded this system as “one of the most direct ways DC Water delivers equity to customers is through the service lines that connect the water mains in the street to their homes and businesses.” This cultlike Marxist language fundamentally shifted away from its actual mission to a symbolic ideological one.
And ideology, as the Soviet Union could have told the DEIrs, is no substitute for results.
DC Water may have had “82% BIPOC representation”, but what it didn’t have was a plan to safely move around water and sewage through a badly aging system that needed thorough overhauls and close monitoring. And sadly enough it’s not at all unique in that regard.
Many government and private organizations have developed a leadership class that neglects its actual responsibilities and spends all of its time babbling about its commitments to environmental sustainability and equity to the exclusion of doing anything that might be useful.
Political virtue signaling is often a convenient cover for incompetence in failing organizations.
This politicization of everything is a systemic threat to the economy and to public safety and lives. Americans deserve organizations that prioritize their jobs, not their own politics.
Areas whose organizations drown in political sewage will eventually drown in real sewage.
‘Harry Potter church service’ at German Catholic parish receives over 500 complaints
German Catholics are protesting against a “Harry Potter church service” scheduled to take place inside a Catholic church.
Catholic faithful have sent hundreds of emails to the Archdiocese of Paderborn in protest of a planned ecumenical “Harry Potter service” at the Herz Jesu Church in Herne.
The service is a cooperation between the Evangelical church community Haranni and the Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn and is scheduled for February 28. According to the leaflet for the event referencing several Harry Potter themes, the service is aimed at “fans and Hogwarts newbies” who call themselves “young or grown-up adults in the Muggle world.”
It promises “a magical evening between candles, light, and darkness, showing us how hope takes shape.” The plan entails setting the scene “with butterbeer and treats from the ‘honey pot,’” and guests are invited to wear costumes.
The Catholic lay group Christkönigtum (Christ the King) started a campaign to get the archdiocese to cancel the event. According to Christkönigtum spokesperson Kevin Mis, several hundred protest emails have been sent via the association’s website.
“Through our lay apostolate Christkönigtum, we launched a mail campaign,” Mis told LifeSiteNews. “More than 500 complaint emails reached the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Bishop Dr. [Udo] Bentz was informed, and a complaint management department was brought into the matter. An official statement was announced regarding the planned Harry Potter ‘service.’”
“Through Catholic media websites, officials of the diocese stated that it will take place,” he continued. “They speak of ‘individual’ faithful who had complained, as if it were nothing significant.”
“This is a scandal,” Mis said in his statement to LifeSiteNews. “The Catholic Church in Germany is burning, and they are adding fuel to the fire.”
In a statement given to CNA Deutsch, the Archdiocese of Paderborn defended the Harry Potter event: “Our societies are becoming increasingly secular. Knowledge of the Christian faith is declining and can no longer be taken for granted.”
“Familiar images and stories from contemporary culture can help to open up initial approaches to the Christian faith and build bridges to the Holy Scriptures.” That is why those responsible “drew on motifs from the well-known and popular Harry Potter series for an ecumenical service of the Word.”
“It is unmistakable that literary narratives such as Harry Potter are not a source of faith and are in no way on a par with Holy Scripture,” the archdiocese stated. “The standard, focus, and goal of the planned service are and remain the Word of God and the Christian message.”
The literary references served “exclusively as didactic points of reference to open up biblical content and make it understandable.” They “do not relativize or water down the interpretation of the Gospel,” the archdiocese wrote, 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 remain fully preserved,” the archdiocese claimed.
According to the archdiocese, this type of worship service has already been tried out in other dioceses and has been “well received.” At the same time, they note that “some believers have expressed questions and concerns in connection with the announcement of the worship service.” These will be “taken seriously and incorporated into the further planning and design of the worship service.”
German state security investigates Islam-critical carnival float
Because a carnival group in Saarland outlined the Islamisation of the West as a bleak future scenario for women and girls, the state security service is now investigating. That is precisely what carnival is all about – openly criticising the regime in power. The carnival clubs last failed to do this between 1933 and 1945.
During the Shrove Monday parade in Nonnweiler, Saarland, a group of marchers carried signs through the village reading: ‘What lies ahead for our girls?’ The answer: ‘Caliphate, Sharia law, burqa, forced marriage, niqab, child marriage’. A clear warning against Islamisation and the oppression of women – classic carnival. However, the state security service is investigating possible hate speech or incitement to hatred.
“We learned about this parade group in Nonnweiler from the newspaper SZ article. The state security service, which is generally responsible for assessing such extremist behaviour, is now looking into whether the whole thing is covered by freedom of expression or whether there could be a criminal offence involved.” The investigation is expected to take a few days, according to the spokesperson for the state security service of the state police department.
The carnival society, the organiser of the parade, also distanced itself submissively: ‘As an association, freedom of expression is very important to us, especially during the carnival season. However, we distance ourselves from the opinion expressed on the parade float and would like to emphasise that it was the opinion of the respective group.’ As an association, we stand for – blah blah blah – openness, equality and tolerance.
At the same time, it is acceptable – and that is a good thing – to drag the Catholic Church through the mud with impunity for decades. In Cologne, a float with a priest and altar boy in a confessional, bearing the inscription ‘Jesus loves you’ – an open allusion to abuse scandals. State security? Not at all. No investigations, no review of complaints. Jacques Tilly – every year he serves up the same old stuff: anti-Putin, anti-Trump, anti-AfD – has been building floats against the Church, the Pope and Catholicism for years. State security? Not a chance.
The double standard is disgustingly obvious: Christianity is fair game. You can mock it, insult it, caricature it – it’s considered courageous satire. With Islam, on the other hand, a list of real-life practices (child marriage, forced marriage, compulsory burqa in some countries) is enough to trigger state security. This is no coincidence; it is raison d’état 2026: criticism of Islam is dangerous, criticism of Christianity is harmless.
Carnival, the last bastion of bawdy freedom, is being castrated.
Newsom and Merz in Wonderland
by Thomas Kolbe
California Governor Gavin Newsom is considered a friend of EU policy. His California resembles a European replica of Brussels’ climate-socialist fantasies, making him a natural ally of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The United States is a culturally deeply divided country. To put it bluntly: the woke, self-proclaimed progressive, socialist-leaning coastal regions clash with significant resentment potential against the traditionally shaped, still Christian-rooted and bourgeois world of the vast inland areas of North America. Another cultural fault line emerges when one considers the urban mindset of culturally unanchored milieus versus the stable foundation of rural communities.
Governor Newsom of the Democratic Party is a committed climate activist with a distinctly social-political orientation. This makes Newsom, with his pronounced progressive grounding, a natural ally of a corresponding European eco-socialist agenda.
It follows logically that German Chancellor Merz, after a rhetorical encounter with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sought proximity to Newsom to secure dwindling confirmation of his own political course. For Merz, the economic fiasco, rising national debt, and imminent gas crisis are tightening the squeeze. With state elections approaching, any press appearance not exposing the political dead end his government has led the country into is highly welcome.
Rubio had previously outlined the European dilemma in clear terms at the Munich Security Conference: overextension through uncontrolled mass migration, what he sees as a grotesque fixation on pointless climate policies, and an abandonment of the core values that once made the West strong — a lean state, individual liberty, and market-oriented economy. Strong words directed at representatives of the current European Union, who see themselves on a crusade against traditional Europe.
Newsom is now expected to “fix” this. Merz’s demonstrative meeting with the West Coast politician was closely noted in Washington. Richard Grenell, the U.S. President’s special envoy for diplomatic affairs, called it perhaps Merz’s greatest misstep yet — a slight to the Trump administration, while European media framed it as a signal that the German government under Merz maintains a channel to Democrat-leaning U.S. politics, almost a form of parallel diplomacy.
This reveals a strategic hope: in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, time is being bought, assuming that even a second Trump term would only be a temporary interruption of a comprehensive societal overhaul — a restructuring with collateral damage, but ultimately expected to succeed. They rely on the success of their military-industrial buildup and the delayed success of the green transformation.
Perseverance is the motto. An eco-socialist transformation to build a political control apparatus can only succeed if the U.S. and Europe cooperate closely, implement regulatory mechanisms and censorship policies together, and enforce Net-Zero policies, as practiced in California, without strong political opponents. Otherwise, capital flight accelerates, and the socialist project stalls amid the economic catastrophe currently unfolding in Germany.
Merz’s short meeting with Newsom, staged for the press, suggests that Berlin sees a high probability of Newsom becoming the Democratic presidential candidate in 2028. Naturally, Europeans are also expected to do everything they can in the upcoming November midterms, where a significant portion of Congress seats will be up for grabs, to strengthen the opposition to Donald Trump.
As in 2016 and 2020, activists from UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party also supported Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in 2024, causing significant friction between Trump and London.
“Election intervention” — that is the euphemistic term from the U.S. The EU Commission carries out such actions almost as a sporting discipline. The allegation: Europeans not only intervened across the Atlantic but also in their own home elections in at least eight national campaigns.
A 160-page report by the U.S. House of Representatives from February claims the EU censored conservative and populist content on migration, gender policies, or COVID vaccinations, influencing election outcomes in favor of left-leaning groups. While the EU rejects these accusations, what has actually been implemented under the Digital Services Act may go far beyond what the U.S. could substantiate in its report.
This is classic EU policy and aligns with Newsom’s vision of a powerful state apparatus, capable of suppressing criticism of his homeless industry as well as his destructive climate policies. Newsom — the ideal partner for Friedrich Merz and Germany across the Atlantic?
In Berlin, Newsom represents the “other America,” effectively Europe in the U.S., a bridgehead potentially undermining the Trump administration. The latter recently ended its previous climate policies with a single stroke. Europe now stands largely alone with its Net-Zero emissions strategy, facing persistent capital outflows. Investments increasingly flow elsewhere, while the EU, as an over-regulated high-cost zone, loses attractiveness.
The EU and California — and similarly Canada — persistently pursue bringing key sectors, like energy, under stronger state control and forcing consumers and producers into binding regulatory frameworks through CO2 trading.
The parallels between California and the EU are striking. Beyond climate repression, Newsom pushes entrepreneurs and wealthy individuals out of California with ever-higher taxes toward more attractive states like Florida or Texas. Both Brussels and Sacramento stubbornly refuse to alter a single jot of this ideological crash course in the face of this exodus.
Merz, according to reports, leveraged the NATO narrative for bridge-building and partnership stabilization with Newsom: NATO is a shared competitive advantage, mutual trust is essential — and Newsom is exactly the right man to ensure it. Defiantly, Merz added to criticism from Washington that he chooses his conversation partners based on his own interests and decides autonomously whom to meet or not.
He wants a restart with the U.S., Merz said — a phrase that critics argue adds salt to open wounds. Remarkable, for a politician responsible for a country in the deepest economic crisis in its recent history, whose structural problems are further aggravated by his own policies.
This is particularly evident in climate policy: Merz remains steadfast on CO2 trading, the supply chain law, the costly replacement of fossil heating systems with heat pumps, and the combustion-engine ban. He pursues a continuous performative media strategy, misleading the public with rhetorical placebos such as alleged bureaucracy reduction or border controls regarding his true intentions.
These intentions point toward a future in which Brussels, a potential U.S. President Newsom, and a strengthened NATO jointly shape geopolitics as climate-socialist power blocs. At the same time, the last hope for Europe as a cultural cradle of civilization faces extinction.
As Spain prepares to legalize up to 1.3 million migrants, two brutal crimes highlight the cost of open borders
Two tragic cases highlights a disturbing pattern of gender-based violence that has reignited a fierce national conversation in Spain. Both incidents involve foreign nationals — an Algerian man in Xilxes, Valencia, and a Moroccan man in Calella, Barcelona — and occur against the backdrop of a leaked police report suggesting the imminent legalization of roughly 1.3 million undocumented migrants.
In Xilxes, the community is mourning a woman and her 12-year-old child after the Civil Guard arrested her 39-year-old Algerian husband for breaking a restraining order. Police believe he slashed both their throats. According to investigation sources, the victims belonged to a family of deaf people well known in the town, according to Diario de Sevilla.
🇪🇸🚨Spain's immigration crisis highlighted by two new brutal crimes.
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 18, 2026
An Algerian father has been accused of murdering his 49-year-old Spanish ex-wife and their 12-year-old daughter in Xilxes. Both victims, found with their throats slashed, were deaf and mute.
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The woman was already integrated into the Viogen system, a specialized tracking network for gender-based violence, where her situation had been recently assessed as a “medium risk.”
The suspect had been issued a restraining order that was supposed to remain in effect until 2027, following a previous arrest for sexist violence last year. The judicial police are now working to clarify how the suspect was able to bypass legal protections to commit what appears to be a double crime.
Attack in Barcelona
Similarly, in Calella, a 24-year-old Moroccan man was arrested after a brutal attack that left his partner in a state of brain death and her mother in critical condition. The man is alleged to have used a blunt object to smash the daughter’s skull in, leaving her in a state of brain death.
The alleged perpetrator had been a fugitive for weeks until he was finally located in Onil after the Criminal Investigation Division issued a search and arrest warrant for double attempted murder, according to La Gaceta.
The events generated a strong social alarm in the area, where neighbors reported the extreme violence of the attack.
Police eventually managed to identify and proceed to arrest him when they verified that he had a court order in force, highlighting yet another case where a suspect with a known legal history committed an act of extreme violence.
1.3 million illegal migrants could be legalized
These types of cases have become central to a heated national debate in Spain following a leaked police report regarding the legalization of up to 1.3 million migrants. While the government officially estimated that 500,000 people would benefit from a new regularization decree, a confidential risk analysis from the National Centre for Immigration and Borders (CNIF) suggests the number could be more than double that figure.
These incidents have provided political ammunition for those critical of the mass regularization plan described in the leaked police document. Opponents argue that the 1.3 million figure, which includes roughly 250,000 to 350,000 asylum seekers, represents a risk to public order that the state is not prepared to manage.
The leaked report warns of a powerful pull factor and expresses fear of administrative collapse within immigration units. Critics use the cases in Xilxes and Calella to question whether the government can adequately vet such a large number of applicants, especially when current systems like Viogen failed to prevent the tragedy of a woman who was already known to be at risk
Foreigners vastly overrepresented in crime
As Remix News reported last year, the CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” examines the evolution of crime across various demographic groups and geographical areas in the country, and the researchers are warning about “imported crime” due to mass immigration.
Some of the key findings indicate that foreigners, who make up 31 percent of Spain’s prison population, commit per capita 500 percent more rapes and 414 percent more murders than Spanish citizens. The highest rates are seen among Arabs and Latinos, with many of them hailing from countries in South America known for their extremely high crime rates.
On a more regional level, the crime statistics are equally alarming. The Ertzaintza, the autonomous police force of Spain’s Basque Country, published its first report ever on the origin of detainees, with the data showing that 64 percent are foreigners, despite foreigners only making up approximately 14.1 percent of the population.
There were 80,111 crimes between January and September 2024, with 64.21 percent of those arrested being foreign nationals and 35 percent identified as Spanish.
For serious crimes like intentional homicide or murder, foreigners committed 53.8 percent of all such crimes. A total of 13 people were arrested and three were investigated. Six of those arrested were Spanish (either Basque or from other regions of Spain), and seven were foreigners. Two were from Maghreb and five from Latin America.
For sexual assault, foreigners were responsible for 68 percent of all cases.
For robbery with force, foreigners were responsible for 68.6 percent of cases.
For robbery with violence or intimidation, they committed 81.9 percent of all cases.
Judicial Activism or Justice? Italy Must Pay for Protecting Its Borders
A court in Palermo has ordered the Italian state to pay €76,000 in compensation to the German NGO Sea-Watch for the 2019 seizure of its vessel, the Sea-Watch 3, prompting fury from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and reigniting tensions over migration policy and judicial activism.
The ruling concerns the dramatic events of June 2019, when the Sea-Watch 3 docked at Lampedusa in defiance of a government ban after spending two weeks at sea with dozens of migrants on board.
During the manoeuvre, the vessel knocked aside a police boat. The ship was subsequently impounded for five months, and its captain, Carola Rackete, was arrested. Proceedings against her were later dropped in 2021.
The ministries of interior, transport, and economy, along with Sicilian authorities, have now been ordered to pay damages and legal costs for what the court deemed an “unjust blockade.”
Sea-Watch celebrated the decision, declaring, “The law once again sides with civil disobedience.”
Meloni, who was not in office at the time of the incident but has since made border security a central plank of her premiership, said in a video statement that the ruling left her “literally speechless.”
She questioned whether judges were tasked with upholding the law “or rewarding those who boast about breaking it,” adding that her government would continue to defend “the borders and the safety of citizens.”
Una decisione che lascia senza parole. Ascoltate bene cosa è successo pic.twitter.com/THsV8vGI9L
— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) February 18, 2026
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini also condemned the judgement, telling supporters on social media that Italians were being forced to pay “€76,000 of your money” to Sea-Watch. “Is this normal?” he asked, calling for a reform of the justice system.
The case has sharpened concerns within government circles that sections of the judiciary are sabotaging efforts to curb irregular migration.
In recent days ministers approved draft legislation allowing for a potential ‘naval blockade’ in cases of serious threats to public order or exceptional migratory pressure. The proposal would enable authorities to prevent migrant boats from entering Italian waters and transfer those on board to third countries.
NGO vessels frequently operate in sensitive search-and-rescue zones, including areas designated to Libya, while failing to coordinate with local authorities. Many of the ships active in the central Mediterranean sail under the German flag and have received funding from Berlin in recent years.