A French court has sentenced 55-year-old Rachid Kheniche to 18 years in prison for the 2022 killing of his 89-year-old Jewish neighbor, René Hadjadj, in Lyon.
According to the court, Kheniche invited Hadjadj to his 17th-floor apartment, where he attempted to strangle him before throwing him from the balcony, causing his death.
Prosecutors had sought a murder conviction with an antisemitic motive, which would have carried a life sentence. However, the court declined to recognize antisemitism as a factor in the crime.
The judge acknowledged that Kheniche had previously shared antisemitic content on social media but ruled that prosecutors failed to prove a direct link between those posts and the killing. The court found no conclusive evidence that the attack was carried out because of the victim’s Jewish identity.
During the trial, Kheniche denied being antisemitic and said he had maintained a close relationship with Hadjadj. He also claimed he experienced a psychotic episode on the day of the incident. Although evidence showed he had posted numerous messages promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, the court determined that this alone did not establish a clear antisemitic motive for the crime.
A lawyer for the victim’s family said the verdict reflects France’s broader handling of antisemitism cases. Representatives of the Jewish community voiced disappointment that the court did not recognize an antisemitic dimension, describing the killing of the elderly man as a particularly grave and brutal act.
The teenager, who is a British national, arrived at the school armed with a knife at at around 12.30pm.
He went up to a first floor classroom and sprayed a substance towards a pupil, who was not injured.
The suspect then stabbed a 13-year-old boy in the classroom, before running along a hallway and down a flight of stairs.
He then stabbed a 12-year-old boy on the ground floor, before fleeing the school.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Detective Chief Superintendent Helen Flanagan, of Counter Terrorism Policing London said: ‘Armed police attended the school and a manhunt was immediately stood up to try and locate and detain the suspect as quickly as possible.
‘While urgent enquiries were being made to try and locate the suspect, police were called by a member of the public at approximately 16:15hrs over concerns of a child who had been seen at a mosque in NW10.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe in an interview with Sky News on the fringes of the European Industry Summit in Antwerp. Screenshot X
Britain’s wealthiest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said the country has been “colonized” by immigrants.
Ratcliffe is the founder of the INEOS chemicals group and co-owner of the soccer giant Manchester United. He has an estimated net worth of around $18 billion.
In an interview with Sky News, Ratcliffe pointed to the fact that Britain’s population has exploded in the past six years as successive governments open the borders to anyone who wishes to move there.
“You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said on the fringes of the European Industry Summit in Antwerp.
“I mean, the UK has been colonized,” he continued. “It’s costing too much money.”
“The UK has been colonized by immigrants, really, hasn’t it?”
”I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.”
Watch the clip below:
"The UK has been colonised by immigrants," Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
“You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said. “I mean, the UK has been colonised. It’s costing too much money.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is a fervent supporter of mass immigration, said that his comments were “offensive and wrong.”
“Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country,” he declared. “Jim Ratcliffe should apologise.”
Ratcliffe also weighed in on Starmer and the prospects of opposition leader Nigel Farage, who is currently leading the polls for the country’s next general election.
“I don’t know whether it’s just the apparatus that hasn’t allowed Keir to do it or, or he’s maybe too nice,” he said.
“I like him, but it’s a tough job and I think you have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track, because at the moment I don’t think the economy is in a good state.”
“I think Nigel is an intelligent man, and, I think he’s got good intentions. But in a way, you could say exactly the same about Keir Starmer.”
”I think it needs somebody who’s prepared to be unpopular for a period of time to get the big issues sorted out.”
One feels a perfect sense of schadenfreude, as if one were reading Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic about the revolutionaries of Central Park West dining on Roquefort and champagne while talking about class struggle.
This is what I felt looking at Noam Chomsky in the private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
Despite the political monstrosities he has embraced, Chomsky turned out to be a very likable man when I interviewed him.
The great MIT linguist and one of the main architects of the modern postcolonial pro-Palestinian Arab movement, turns out to be a champion of ideology and hypocrisy.
Chomsky was pictured at Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut, where he met Hassan Nasrallah on a visit that makes his meetings with Fidel Castro pale by comparison. But seeing him with Epstein is even more impressive.
Chomsky has led the life of a pleasure-loving capitalist (with houses in the wealthy wooded suburb of Lexington and a vacation home in Wellfleet).
There is nothing scandalous in itself about this for a world-famous academic; everything, however, clashes with the narrative of the “man of the people” intellectual who denounces America’s top 1 percent while occupying a privileged position within or close to it.
But the beauty of those who live off dissent in a democracy is that they are rarely called to account for their skewed idea of truth.
Chomsky reminds me of Bertolt Brecht, who moved to East Berlin but had himself paid funds into a Swiss bank account under the name “Lars Schmidt,” where the rubles he received for the Stalin Prize ended up: “Union Bank of Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich.” Instead of the publishing cooperatives of the German Communist Party, the red poet preferred capitalist companies that paid royalties.
And then there is Jean-Paul Sartre- rich and communist-who knew about the Soviet Gulags but kept silent so as “not to despair Billancourt” (the Renault workers). Sartre at a café table with his ever-present cigarette, Sartre strolling through Paris and the world’s capitals with Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre the playwright surrounded by famous actors, Sartre besieged by reporters at the time of the refused Nobel Prize, Sartre at assemblies at the Sorbonne, Sartre at Vietnam protests, Sartre hawking newspapers, Sartre outside the Renault gates…
This is the legend, carefully constructed-like Chomsky’s.
The reality was written by the renowned Sartre scholar Ingrid Galster in “Sartre sous l’Occupation et après. Nouvelles mises au point”, published by L’Harmattan. It seems the writer benefited in many ways from the Nazi occupation of Paris and Vichy rule, when he took over the post of a Jewish professor dismissed by Vichy. In 1943, the year Sartre became “Sartre,” he staged The Flies at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre-except that the theatre had been “Aryanized,” and the Jewish name removed from the façade in favor of the plainer Théâtre de la Cité.
All this makes Chomsky’s complacent presence on the light leather seat of Epstein’s private jet all the more hilarious.
The New York Times reported:
“Epstein provided private plane trips, internships, Apple Watches, Hermès bags, extra-large zipper sweatshirts (those went to Steve Bannon), nearly $10,000 worth of boxers and T-shirts (Woody Allen) and an XXL cashmere sweater (Noam Chomsky)”.
From Castro to cashmere?
As far as I know, Epstein never pretended to be an equality theorist. He was simply an accumulator of capital and bodies.
Chomsky, by contrast, devoted every breath to proclaiming his own moral purity. For a man who dedicated his intellectual life to destroying the very possibility of private jets, appearing so damn comfortable on one with a man like that is simply too perfect.
Chomsky liked Epstein. But he liked Epstein’s private plane even more.
One is left to wonder whether, on those flights, the linguist ever looked out the window and recognized, even for an instant, the abyss between his words and his life. Or whether, like most of left-wing intellectuals before him, Chomsky simply closed his eyes, enjoying the view from thirty thousand feet and the privilege of never having to justify it.
Jesse Strang, believed to be the Tumbler Ridge shooter. Public domain.
by Andrea Widburg
A horrible tragedy occurred yesterday in Canada when a killer, later identified as a “trans identifying woman,” shot nine people to death and injured 27 others, before turning the gun on himself. The Canadian establishment has been desperate to hide the truth about the shooter, but this was not a secret the establishment could sit on.
The shooting took place at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in tiny Tumbler Ridge, a remote rural community in British Columbia. The killer began by murdering two people at a home, then headed for the secondary school (grades 7-12), where he opened fire. Six people died on school grounds, and one died en route to the hospital.
The initial police alert described the shooter as “a female in a dress with brown hair.” (Clearly, they meant a brown-haired female, not a brown-haired dress.) Almost instantly, though, social media users (me included) posited that the shooter was probably a member of the mentally-ill cohort who claim to be the opposite of their biological sex:
The guess was a reasonable one, given the disproportionate number of so-called “transgender” mass shootings in the last few years: In 2018, a “trans woman” killed three in Aberdeen, Maryland; in 2019, a “trans man,” working with a partner, killed one and injured eight in Highlands Ranch, Colorado; in 2022, a “non-binary” person killed five and injured 19 in Colorado Springs, Colorado; in 2023, a “trans man” killed six in Nashville, Tennessee; and in August 2025, a “trans woman” killed three in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And while Tyler Robinson, soon to be tried for assassinating Charlie Kirk, does not identify as “trans,” he was in a romantic relationship with a man who did.
Considering what a small percentage of the population so-called “transgender” people are, they’ve racked up a high body count just in America.
Add in the fact that women are rarely mass shooters unless, like the Nashville shooter, they, too, are in the grip of “transgender” madness, and it was a pretty safe bet that the “female in a dress” was a man. (It’s like a bad version of the old saw: “That was no lady, that was my wife,” only this version goes “that was no lady, that was a ‘transwoman’.”)
We were correct, of course:
🚨Another Trans Mass Shooter Emerges in Canada 🏳️⚧️
Jesse Strang, a 17-year-old transgender individual, has been identified as the shooter in the deadly attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Canada. This biological male began identifying as a girl around 2023 and killed 10… pic.twitter.com/NbrHMKPt2k
There are no “transgender” people. Other than an infinitesimally small cohort of people who are either male or female, but who have extra chromosomes that interfere with their physical sexual presentation, there are only two sexes.
What there are, however, are mentally ill people. Some suffer from multiple simultaneous mental illnesses, while some are responding to societal factors (e.g., disastrous family lives, including mothers with personality disorders, or societal pressure, especially from peer groups and social media).
I also believe that some are reflecting the Pill’s ubiquity (whether because their mothers took it close to the pregnancy or because it’s in the water), which is altering the hormonal wash babies receive in utero. If that’s the case, the best way to treat trans people would be to give them hormones aligning with their biological sex.
If leftists weren’t politically committed to the fantasy of so-called transgenderism, these mentally, physically, or societally ill people would get the help they need. This help would come in the form of therapy, medication, or even institutionalization. What they wouldn’t get is the constant assurance that all is right with them, no matter how miserably unhappy they are. The problem, these wretched people are told, is the outer world. Add in prescription hormones that make naturally aggressive men emotional or that make naturally emotional women aggressive, and you’ve got violence.
Of course, the Canadian establishment will not acknowledge this reality. It’s sticking to the “female” shooter narrative:
NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED
The media is reporting that a "female" shooter was responsible for massacring people at a school in Canada.
The one thing you can expect to come out of Canada now is an even more aggressive push for total gun control in a country that is already one of the most heavily controlled countries in the world.
But of course, gun control is a fiction that simply places more power in the government. The reality is that, despite its gun control policies, Canada has had several high-profile mass shootings in the last two decades.
Excluding generic gang killings in urban areas (and there have been a lot of those), the non-gang shootings over two decades have been the Dawson College shooting (1 dead, 19 injured), the Moncton shooting (3 dead, 2 injured), the La Loche shooting (4 dead, 7 injured), the Quebec City mosque shooting (6 dead, 5 injured), the Danforth shooting (2 dead shooting injured), the Fredericton shooting (4 dead), the Nova Scotia shootings (22 dead, 3 injured), the Langley shootings (2 dead, 2 injured), and now the Tumbler Ridge shooting (8 dead, 27 injured). That’s a pretty high death toll.
What the left refuses to acknowledge is that guns are tools—efficient tools, admittedly, but they have no independent agency. They function only when someone uses them, whether for good or ill. Most people use them for good.
However, there is evil in the world, and evil people will use the weapons at hand. The real problems begin when you have cultures that do not value life (that would be leftism and Islam), that glorify violent death (I’m looking at you, Hollywood), that encourage insanity (leftism) or religious violence (Islam), and that refuse to provide meaningful consequences for violent people.
Put together all those factors, and you’ll see that, to paraphrase Soylent Green, “It’s not the weapons; it’s people! Gun violence is people!”
The scandal surrounding the release of the Epstein files has rocked the French ruling class. The most prominent victim is former Socialist Culture Minister Jack Lang. Once adored by the progressive Left for his involvement in public cultural programmes, he was forced to resign from his position as director of the Arab World Institute as the extent of his material and moral corruption—known to all but carefully concealed for years—came to light.
Jack Lang is one of those untouchable figures of the French Republic. Minister of culture during the socialist presidency of François Mitterrand, his name is associated with some of the progressive Left’s greatest achievements, like the creation of the Fête de la Musique (Music Feast), which is now held every year at the end of June.
Since 2013, Jack Lang had been president of the Arab World Institute (Institut du Monde Arabe, or IMA), a prestigious Parisian public cultural institution dedicated to dialogue between French and Arab cultures—and very hungry for subsidies and politically correct projects. It was in 2012, shortly before his appointment as head of the IMA, that he met Epstein through filmmaker Woody Allen.
As soon as the Epstein files were made public, Jack Lang’s name circulated in the French press, his connections with the American billionaire being well-known. His name appears no less than 600 times in Epstein’s correspondence. Lang saw him as a patron and a friend. He claims to be “very naïve” and to have never heard of Epstein’s 2008 convictions for child sex offences.
Jack Lang was known for his luxurious lifestyle: a Parisian apartment on the famous and magnificent Place des Vosges, gourmet restaurants, luxury cars—he ticked all the boxes of the outward signs of wealth, notably maintained by Epstein’s gifts, in cash or in kind. Epstein lent him his car and his jet. He spent tens of thousands of dollars to maintain the ‘Lang myth’ through all kinds of productions and communications: $50,000 for a film about the epic ‘Lang years,’ $30,000 for a film in tribute to his daughter…
Jack Lang was not the only one to benefit from Epstein’s generosity. It was actually a family system. An offshore company, Prytanee LCC, based in the British Virgin Islands, was created in 2016 with “friend Jeffrey.” The idea, put on the table in 2015, was as follows: Epstein would create a fund, to which he would contribute $20 million, for Jack Lang to buy works of art, which he would later resell and share the profits 50-50. “No risk for your side. It will be fun!” Epstein enthused. “Wow!!!” replied Caroline, Jack Lang’s daughter. She worked for Warner Bros for thirty years and acted as a liaison between Jack and Jeffrey.
The fall is hard. For many years, Jack Lang was an icon of the French art world. No film, no vernissage, no exhibition could hope to attract attention unless it was supported and promoted by Jack Lang, whose opinion was considered the ultimate authority. He came to see himself as untouchable, hence his reaction when rumours of his escapades finally reached him and the question of his resignation arose: “What have I done that is reprehensible? What legal action has been taken against me? This is absurd,” he reacted, according to Le Monde.
Today, however, his former allies are forced to acknowledge that their idol had a hidden side and that many of them were well aware of his misdeeds. “He never missed an opportunity to promote himself, an honour, a medal, he is the guardian of his legacy and his recognition every second of his life… Everyone knew he didn’t pay for anything. He believes he should be invited everywhere, in luxurious conditions,” says Rima Abdul Malak, also a former culture minister.
To maintain his lifestyle, Lang had two options: either he got financed by Epstein, among others, or he simply didn’t pay—he was known for that. At Edgard’s, a prestigious Parisian restaurant, he is known as the white wolf: “The Langs will never be welcome here again, they owe me ten years’ worth of lunches,” the owner of the establishment told Le Monde. In Cannes, the city of the film festival, he left unpaid bills amounting to several thousand euros in almost all the luxury hotels on the Croisette—which now refuse to host him.
But Lang’s abysmal material corruption is certainly only part of the problem. It is the cloud of glitter that hides his moral corruption.
Jack Lang was one of the signatories of the scandalous 1977 petition published in the newspaper Le Monde, aimed at legalising or at least decriminalising paedophilia. In the Epstein files, an educational project entitled ‘Petit Prince,’ discussed with Lang in 2013, raises questions. “Should children be introduced to religion and new sexualities?” asks Jeffrey Epstein in an email. We will not know more, as the former minister does not remember what it is about.
Lang’s dark reputation, which has fuelled various theories for years, is now coming to light. In the past, recurring rumours from multiple sources have reported possible orgies involving minors in Morocco in which Lang was allegedly involved—without any investigation or conviction ever being successful. In the Epstein files, a series of emails indicate that the former minister and his wife corresponded with the American financier in 2015 about the purchase of a riad in Morocco. Lang defends himself by claiming that he was merely an “intermediary.”
For now, the untouchable figure of the Republic is not under investigation or facing any legal proceedings. But his glory days are well and truly over.
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An Afghan man sentenced to seven years in a German prison for alleged rape and battery has been released from custody after a judge at a Berlin court failed to write a trial protocol in time.
As local newspaper Tagesspiegelreports today, 27-year-old Mahmood D allegedly abused, raped and tortured his wife repeatedly between 2022 and 2024 and threatened to kill her.
In May 2024 the Berlin police apprehended him and he was held awaiting trial.
That started in November 2024 at the Berlin Regional Court and lasted until June 2025. Mahmood D remained in jail for the entire duration of the trial because the court saw a risk of his absconding.
In June 2025, the court handed down a prison sentence of seven years and nine months – indicating the severity of the Afghan man’s alleged crimes.
The presiding judge, though, failed to write down the judgment in time. Generally, the written judgment needs to be submitted to the lawyers of the defendant within four months of the verbal announcement of it in court.
The reasons for this delay are unclear. According to reporting by Tagesspiegel, the judge in question is accused of substance-abuse problems and has been on sick leave since December.
The failure to provide the written judgment meant the verdict was never legally delivered to the defendant.
After the four-month deadline expire, Mahmood D’s lawyer filed a complaint against the arrest warrant for his client.
The Berlin High Court upheld the complaint, saying that despite the severity of the alleged crimes there were no especially important reasons to keep the man in jail in light of the procedural delays.
In January 2026, Mahmood D was released from custody. His lawyers have reportedly appealed the prison sentence handed down by the Regional Court.
The former wife of the Afghan man is now under police protection as Mahmood D has allegedly repeatedly threatened to kill her before he was taken into custody.
Salenave was sprinkling holy water on St. Gault Church, which was built in the 11th century, when the mayor drove up and approached him, demanding he leave the premises. Father started to leave in his car as police arrived on the scene. He continued back to his priory, only to have 10 law enforcement officials arrive several hours later. Salenave spent the next 36 hours in jail on charges that he committed violence against an elected official that he adamantly denies.
St. Gault is located in the commune of Quelaines-Saint-Gault. A petition with more than 32,00 signatures calling on the French government to stop the destruction of historic churches is circulating online. It explains that thousands of abandoned churches are on the verge of demolition but that thanks to President Emmanuel Macron’s 2023 “Church Plan” they can yet be saved. It notes, however, that some municipalities have doubled down on destroying them with no repercussions.
Salenave’s arrest has caught the attention of social media influencers. The vice president of the Paris chapter of the Association of St. Geneviève, a traditionalist counter-revolutionary group, called on Catholics to pray for Salenave.
During the interview with French outlet Tocsin, Salenave explained that he spent the night at the police station and that delays in the hearing seemed purposefully designed to “intimate” him but that he said it was a “trial” for him that he used to glorify God. He said that he is filing a complaint over the matter with the authorities.
Salenave is a former priest of the Society of St. Pius X. He is currently a member of the “Resistance,” which is associated with the late English Bishop Richard Williamson, also formerly of the SSPX. The Resistance has a strong presence in France, with the Dominicans of Avrille and the Society of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary (SAJM) its main representatives. It is believed that Salenave is associated with the SAJM.
Salenave appeared on the Tocsin podcast on a separate occasion to explain that he said Masses in barns during COVID, which he described as being similar to the days of the French Revolution.
⛪ FOI, RÉSISTANCE ET COMBAT SPIRITUEL
🕯️ « J’ai célébré des messes clandestines dans des granges pendant la période Covid. On se serait crus revenus aux périodes révolutionnaires. Aujourd’hui, le pouvoir n’est plus au service du peuple ni de Dieu, mais au service du… pic.twitter.com/lqoMsZ3Q1r
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, drew attention to Salenave’s remarks in a recent interview with Catholic journalist Stephen Kokx.
“What is stopping priests from helping the faithful in this fight against globalism, as some have already begun to do?” he said, referencing Salenave’s efforts. “Catholics must reclaim their destiny, freeing themselves from the invasive and deadly dictatorship of the elite and the overwhelming power of a usurped authority.”
The SSPX recently announced that it would proceed with the consecution of future bishops on July 1 with or without Vatican approval. During an impassioned sermon on Sexagesima Sunday this past weekend, SSPX Bishop Bernard Fellay argued that a “state of necessity” clearly exists for the consecrations because the “missionary spirit” of the Church has been “killed” by the current Roman authorities.
Viganò told Kokx that the wishes for SSPX Superior General Father Davide Pagliarani, who will meet with Cardinal Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández on Thursday to make doctrine and Vatican II the primary focus of their conversation. Fernandez is the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
“I hope that the reason the Superior General is insisting on having a dialogue with Rome is not primarily to achieve canonical regularization but rather to ‘corner them’ – so to speak – so that, on the one hand, the willingness of the members of the SSPX to recognize themselves as children of the Catholic Church and subjects of the Roman Pontiff is evident; and on the other hand, to ‘put on record’ the unwillingness of the current Hierarchy to reconsider Vatican II and its very serious deviations, showing it for what it is, namely subversive and heretical,” he remarked.
Three Syrians reportedly raped a 27-year-old victim on top of the hood of a parked car in the city of Düsseldorf when she became separated from her friends. Two of the Syrians are on trial, with the case also making headlines because the men are unhappy that a female interpreter has been assigned to them.
The two Syrian nationals, 33-year-old Saad A. and 40-year-old Ahmed A. opened on Tuesday before the Düsseldorf Regional Court. The third suspect in the case remains at large.
During the opening proceedings, Saad A. expressed his discomfort through an interpreter, stating he was “ashamed to be interpreted by a woman.” Both individuals require interpreters during the trial.
Despite his protests, the trial will proceed under a female judge, and both men will be sentenced by her as well if they are found guilty.
The prosecution alleges the assault occurred in the early hours of June 29, 2025, in Düsseldorf’s historic district at Stiftsplatz,
At approximately 2:45 a.m., the woman, who was highly intoxicated, was lifted onto the car’s hood. Prosecutors claim that by this time, it was unmistakably clear the woman was incapacitated by alcohol and “showing almost no reactions.”
The indictment describes a systematic assault where the defendants allegedly took turns raping the woman while two others acted as lookouts. Despite their efforts to hide the assault, a witness walking by saw what was happening.
Other people were also nearby and asked what the suspects were doing, with the one witness stating that Ahmed A. reportedly claimed to know the victim, mocked her drunken state, and said, “She needs this.”
Upon confronting Ahmed A. over this reply, the accused reportedly charged at the witnesses gathered, screaming that he “would also commit a crime against them.”
Bild reports that the witnesses demonstrated bravery and forced the perpetrators to flee. They immediately contacted emergency services and escorted the victim to a police vehicle at the nearby Burgplatz.
Armed with witness statements and other evidence, police arrested Ahmed A. and Saad A. that same night. Investigators obtained DNA evidence from the victim’s body, which is the main piece of evidence in the case besides the witness statements.
