A Guardia Civil report filed two days before her appearance sets out testimony on surveillance, threats and contacts with a drug clan in Badajoz.
The judge who convicted the brother of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been called to give evidence at the National Court in Madrid on October 8 about an alleged campaign of intimidation directed at her.
David Sanchez, brother of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and Miguel Angel Gallardo, former leader of the Extremadura branch of the ruling party PSOE, attend the start of their trial at the provincial court of Badajoz, Spain, 28 May 2026. Screengrab youtube
Beatriz Biedma appears as an injured party in the case against Leire Díez, a former official of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) known in Spain as the party’s plumber. Investigating judge Santiago Pedraz has limited her standing to a possible offence of slander.
Her appearance has followed a Guardia Civil report delivered to the court on October 6 and added to the case file by Pedraz. The 32-page document gathers testimony on contacts between the Díez network and the Los Rochos drug clan in Badajoz, southwest Spain, along with accounts of the surveillance of the judge.
The clan’s leader, Cintia Rocho, told investigators that former judge Luis Sáenz de Tejada had spoken of the need to get rid of Biedma. She said he had also used a Spanish saying about beating sense into a donkey.
A businessman who dealt with Sáenz de Tejada said he had learned through a third party that the judge had been followed. Those behind the surveillance were people the former magistrate had acted for as a lawyer, he said.
Investigators also set out written notes. One attributed to Díez and dated March 25, 2025 refers to a judge in Badajoz, heroin and a clan name, while another speaks of destroying the proceedings against the Prime Minister’s brother.
The report concludes that the group’s actions amounted to preparatory steps aimed at disrupting that case. Díez denies slandering the judge or manoeuvring against her and has appealed against her admission to the proceedings.
Officers also examined the YouTube channel run by Sáenz de Tejada, who was struck off as a judge in 2022 after convictions for domestic violence. He posted 52 videos on the David Sánchez case between June and September 2026, naming Biedma in 34 of the titles.
Biedma investigated the hiring of David Sánchez at the Badajoz provincial council, which was run by the Socialists at the time. The provincial court sentenced him in July to nine years of disqualification from public office for administrative malfeasance.
Pedraz is examining whether party funds paid for a network set up to obstruct cases affecting the PSOE and the government. Former organisation secretary Santos Cerdán is among those under investigation, and the judge is weighing whether the party itself can be charged as a legal person.
The PSOE has said Díez is not a member and that it is not a party to the case. The Spanish Government has rejected any suggestion that the Prime Minister knew of her activities.
It has been revealed that police in the northern German city of Bremen have for more than a decade advised participants in workplace safety seminars that deliberately inducing vomiting can be one way to interrupt an attempted sexual assault or rape.
Franka Haedke, a spokeswoman for the Bremen police, said the guidance is part of broader self-defense instruction offered by the department’s Central Police Prevention unit.
“In an emergency, such as attempted rape, defend yourself with all available means,” Haedke told the Kreiszeitung newspaper. “Vomiting can also be an effective way to ward off a sexual offense.”
Seminar instructors tell participants they can trigger a gag reflex by placing a finger down the throat. The resulting disgust, police say, is intended to disrupt an attacker’s actions. Haedke described the suggestion as one option among others rather than a prescribed response.
The sessions, which have run for more than 10 years, are held at companies, government offices and medical facilities. Employees of public transit agencies, the fire department, job centers, and social-service organizations are also eligible to attend. Topics include recognizing and avoiding danger, de-escalation, bystander intervention, and specific conduct during a sexual assault. Participants are invited to describe their own experiences so that advice can be tailored to situations they have encountered.
Haedke said the courses help people “recognize dangers early, manage conflicts, and act thoughtfully.” She added that the seminars “contribute to the prevention of crime and should be actively promoted and conducted on a recurring basis from the police’s point of view.”
Notably, the police appear powerless to address one of the key issues driving the increase in rapes and sexual assaults in Germany, and that is the incredible increase in foreigners. Since 2018, there has been a 72 percent increase in rapes in the country. In Bremen itself, where the police are advising women to vomit to stave off a rape, the city has been labeled the “most dangerous city in Germany.” It also happens to have the highest share of migrants of any German city. It is also a place where 49 percent of all rapes were committed by foreigners, even though the official foreign population is 23 percent.
The Bremen guidance is not the first unconventional self-protection tip from German police to draw public scrutiny. Remix News previously reported that in Berlin, officers previously listed singing as a way to irritate an attacker, advice that remained visible on the police force’s website even after internal materials had been revised. A screenshot of the recommendation went viral on social media in 2024 and was widely mocked.
Berlin police later said the tip had been drawn from professional associations for psychiatry and did not match operational experience.
“A screenshot of our homepage has been circulating for a few days, according to which we recommend that in the event of an attack, you irritate the perpetrator through unexpected behavior, such as singing,” the Berlin police stated. “This is recommended by the professional associations for psychiatry, among others. However, this advice does not correspond to our police experience and has therefore no longer been part of our recommendations since 2023. The flyer was already updated, now our website is too.”
The police stated that the suggestion was not meant for terrorist attacks, rampages or armed assaults, including those involving knives, where protecting life is the priority.
After the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015–16, Mayor Henriette Reker — although not a police official — also gave advice that was widely condemned. Reker said women should keep “a certain distance of more than an arm’s length” from unknown men and avoid behavior that could be “misunderstood.” After thousands of German women were sexually assaulted and even some raped by North African migrants, the remarks were widely criticized, including by Germany’s justice minister.
Swedish police have also previously advised women to stop going out alone. Before mass immigration, Sweden was once one of the safest countries in the world for women. However, right around the same time as the mass sexual assaults in Colgone, Swedish police issued similar advice. In Östersund in 2016, after a series of assaults and an attempted rape, police chief Stephen Jerand advised women who wanted to move around at night to arrange a ride or walk in groups. He called the warning factual rather than a ban on going out alone.
German police have given similar pairing advice after attacks on joggers. Leipzig officers in 2017, after a woman was raped in Rosental park, said it would be better to run in pairs or make sure someone else was nearby, and to look back when passing people. The city’s mayor criticized the police for restricting women’s freedom.
After an attack in the English Garden in Munich in 2016, police in the city told runners to choose busy, lit routes after dark, jog at least in pairs at dusk, skip headphones, and carry a whistle or personal alarm. Although it was less controversial advice that what other authorities provided, critics note that women are increasingly unsafe in Europe while out exercising or enjoying public spaces.
The prosecution questioned Péter Magyar as a suspect in the phone theft case, the prime minister announced on his social media page. Magyar added that he gave a brief statement and “did not admit to committing the crime he was accused of.” Shortly before the post, he had still written that he would be attending a cabinet meeting lasting until the evening. The Hungarian Parliament suspended Péter Magyar’s immunity on September 28.
The theft case stems from an incident at Ötkert, a downtown Budapest nightclub, just days before Péter Magyar took up his seat in the European Parliament in 2024.
Witnesses reportedly gave accounts of Magyar behaving in an exceptionally disruptive manner for hours after consuming a large amount of alcohol.
The alleged victim, István Szendre, a mechanical engineer said the confrontation began after he started recording Magyar at the nightclub, Magyar Nemzetreports.
He added that Márk Radnai, Magyar’s fellow party member, noticed him first and began gesturing threateningly in his direction. Magyar then approached him and told him to stop recording. Szendre refused, at which point, according to his account, the later prime minister grabbed the phone and ran away. The man said that Magyar then went to the bar and tried to delete the videos, but was unsuccessful. According to István Szendre, when Magyar approached him again, he quickly put the phone in his pocket.
The man claimed that while he was asking for his phone back, Magyar struck him amid a series of political insults, prompting young people present at the scene to step between them. Security personnel then escorted Péter Magyar out, Szendre said. According to the alleged victim, on the street the future prime minister repeatedly denied having the phone, and then, near the Danube embankment, threw it into the river. Divers managed to recover the phone, and the data extracted from it is being used as evidence.
A police investigation into Péter Magyar’s scandal began that same day, following several criminal complaints, on suspicion of disorderly conduct and property damage.
The case was made particularly complicated by Magyar’s constitutional status. Just a few days before the incident at Ötkert, he had been elected a Member of the European Parliament. The results of Hungary’s 2024 European Parliament election were announced on June 14, meaning that, according to the European Parliament’s subsequent position, Magyar was already considered an MEP at the time of the June 21 incident.
For this reason, then-Prosecutor General Péter Polt wrote to the President of the European Parliament on September 26, 2024, requesting that Magyar’s parliamentary immunity be lifted.
The request was based on suspicion of the misdemeanor of theft involving property of relatively low value. The case was subsequently referred to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee. The process lasted nearly a year, and Magyar was heard by the committee on June 24, 2025. On September 23, 2025, the committee adopted, by 20 votes in favor, four against, and no abstentions, a position recommending that his immunity be maintained. On October 7, 2025, the European Parliament’s plenary session ultimately decided not to lift Péter Magyar’s immunity. The prime minister had previously said on several occasions that he would not hide behind his immunity. Nevertheless, he did not call on MEPs to waive his immunity and allow him to face the prosecution.
As Hungary Todayreported, on September 28, 2026, the Hungarian Parliament ultimately suspended Magyar’s immunity, clearing the way for the investigation to proceed.
The measure was approved unanimously, with 139 lawmakers voting in favor and no votes against or abstentions.
Zoltán Lomnici Jr. previously told Magyar Nemzetthat the legal classification potentially applicable to the case involving Péter Magyar could be theft involving property of relatively low value, which is considered a misdemeanor. The maximum penalty is two years’ imprisonment, although a fine, community service, or a suspended prison sentence may also be imposed. According to the constitutional lawyer, given the nature of the case, a fine or another more lenient sanction is more realistic than an actual prison sentence.
A French bishop will offer a Mass of reparation at a church in the Vendée area after it was desecrated by young teens as they blasted rap music celebrating terrorism.
On Sunday, October 4, teens broadcast on Snapchat their invasion of Saint-Hilaire Church in Soullans, in the Vendée department of western France. A video clip shows young girls singing to French rap glorifying terrorists Mohammed Merah and Salah Abdeslam. While the song refers to “Allah” and has been described as Muslim, it is essentially satanic. The rapper, Boro 700, proclaims, “There’s an electric connection between Satan and me.”
Video footage of the intrusion shows teen boys walking past the altar and tabernacle as the girls sit on the pews of the cathedral. One shot shows that something dark appears to have been spilled on the church floor, but it otherwise leaves unclear what damage was inflicted.
The parish priest and the diocese reported “minor damage,” including “overturned objects” and “burned benches.” Damage notwithstanding, the church is considered to have been desecrated.
“It is above all the desecration aspect that shocks,” the diocese’s head of communication told Valeurs actuelles.
Saint-Hilaire is now closed “as a precaution and pending liturgical repair,” with Masses suspended until the reparation Mass to be held on Monday, October 12 at 7 p.m., presided over by Bishop Renauld de Dinechin of Luçon. The altar will be stripped, sprinkled with holy water, and prayed over.
The mayor of the city, Vincent Jolly, told Valeurs that what happened in the church was “intolerable.” He noted that the oldest child involved is 14 years old.
The incident is part of a broader epidemic of attacks on Catholic churches in France. Vandalism is frequently reported in the country, including the theft of consecrated hosts and desecration of tabernacles.
A 2019 report noted that desecrations of churches, chapels and cemeteries in France are often tracked down to “native” French vandals, the majority of whom are adolescents or young adults.
By 2019, anti-Christian attacks in France had quadrupled over the course of a decade. The cause of the increasing number of attacks is often “Satanism,” argued Bernard Antony, founder of the General Alliance against Racism and for the Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF).
France now has the highest number of documented acts of vandalism, theft, desecration and destruction targeting Catholic churches.
The Vendée, where the teens desecrated Saint-Hilaire Church, is the region in western France where an uprising took place during the Reign of Terror in 1793 and 1794. The leaders of the French Revolution conscripted ordinary men to serve in the revolutionary army and required Catholic priests to vow submission to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and repudiate their commitment to obey the Pope.
The Revolution came to inflict genocide on the deeply Catholic Vendée. The Committee of Public Safety – the revolutionary government in Paris led by Robespierre – expressly ordered every man, woman and child from the province to be killed, their houses and villages to be destroyed, and the very earth of the province to be burned.
A small boat migrant committed a sex crime against two girls just days after he was given the keys to a taxpayer-funded house.
Mohammed Abbas, 29, who claims to be Palestinian, entered the country on a dinghy from France in March.
In June, he was put behind bars for a number of charges, including sexual assault on a female, common assault, assaulting a constable on duty and assault by beating.
Then, at a sentencing hearing in July at Coventry Magistrate’s Court, he was sentenced for 300 hours of community service and fined £100, as the sexual assault and common assault charges were dismissed.
After his release, he was placed into a taxpayer-funded two-bedroom house in Cardiff, worth a quarter of a million pounds. At the time, he was the sole occupant.
But just two days after he settled in, he trespassed into a separate property. A pair of sisters, one under the age of 16, and the other under 13, woke up to Abbas exposing himself in their bedroom doorway.
At Cardiff Crown Court last month, he admitted two charges of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, and pleaded guilty to trespass with the intent of committing a sexual offence and burglary after stealing a phone and AirPods from the family’s house.
“Every week a new story emerges of an illegal channel migrant or asylum seeker attacking women or girls. These sickening attacks are a danger to every woman and girl where illegal immigrants are accommodated.”
He added: “The list goes on and on, yet Burnham tells us there’s no problem.”
Mr Philp said the Conservatives would leave the European Convention on Human Right (ECHR) and deport all small boat migrants immediately.
The family of the two girls remain unsure how he entered their home.
“We didn’t know him and don’t know why he picked our house,” their mother said. “It was just random.”
Neighbours also told the newspaper they were scared of Abbas when he was first handed the keys to his taxpayer-funded home, claiming that all the residents in a four-property estate are asylum seekers.
Fahmida Abro, 40, who lives opposite, said she was afraid of him because he would drink outside in the street
She said: “My three daughters play in the street, but I brought them in if he was there.
“I’m even more worried now I know he’s a sex offender. Why was he put here?”
The Home Office said it would seek to deport Abbas at the earliest possible opportunity, with a spokesman adding: “Our thoughts are with the victims of Abbas’ vile crimes.
“We are boosting the number of officers on the ground in France and removing the pull factors drawing people here through illegal and dangerous routes.
“Removals of foreign national offenders are up 41 per cent, with nearly 12,000 returned or deported since the Government came to power to the end of this March.”
“Every woman that’s in the north of France has been raped along the journey. Some of the men too.”
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“You can almost guarantee that every woman that’s in the north of France has probably been raped along the journey. Some of the men too,” UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood admitted on a podcast. “They’ve certainly been abused and threatened.”
If a fellow Muslim woman or girl isn’t safe on a boat full of her own people, what happens to a British woman or girl alone at night in a park or a train station with one of these ‘migrants’?
What the Pakistani Muslim Labour politician put in charge of Britain’s immigration and national security policies didn’t admit was that the majority of those migrants illegally crossing on ‘small boats’ from France to England are from Muslim countries.
In 2025, 77% of ‘small boat’ migrants came from majority Muslim countries. Apart from Ethiopia (which has a 30%+ Muslim colonist population) and Vietnam, the top 10 small migrant invading countries were majority Muslim. And it’s not the Vietnamese in the news over terror and rape.
6 of the top 10 ‘small boat’ invader countries have some level of legal rape, rape is used by the Islamic authorities to punish dissent or used by prominent factions as a weapon of war such as sex slavery. That includes Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Yemen. This cultural background undoubtedly plays a role in the crimes committed by migrants on their route.
And the crimes committed by migrants once they enter the UK.
Over the summer, the British government put out flyers and posters aimed at migrants explaining that, “if you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the UK. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim.”
Local police statistics show high rates of rape by foreign nationals from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. The populations with high rates of rape also have high rates of migration.
That’s not a coincidence.
Despite that, Labour Home Secretary Mahmood announced a plan to ‘fast track’ the arrival of Afghan and ‘Palestinians’ migrants to the UK. The Pakistani Muslim politician ordered Britons to be “ready and able to welcome those who come here” and “unlock the inherent generosity of this country.” That generosity means bringing more Afghans rapists to attack women in the UK.
Mahmood blames the ubiquity of rape by migrants on “criminal gangs” and “people traffickers”, but it means that at best the other men on the boats are at best complicit in what is happening.
A recent assault on a migrant on a boat by three other migrants had no indication that the perpetrators were gang members. In one of the most notorious cases, an Iraqi migrant raped and strangled to death a fellow Iraqi 16-year-old girl on a boat. This is not just ‘traffickers’: it’s a reflection of an Islamic culture where unprotected women and girls are seen as fair game.
And the wave of sexual assaults by migrants after they arrive in the UK shows it’s not just a few gang members. Some of the worst migrant rapes in the UK this year included numerous Afghan assaults, among the worst of them were two Afghans who only months after invading on a ‘small boat’ kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl, strangling her, laughing and taking a video of their victim. There were protests after authorities failed to admit the perpetrators were migrants.
An Iranian teenage invader who raped a 14-year-old girl three weeks after his arrival got no jail time but was told to take classes on “the understanding of consent, boundaries, and victim awareness.” A Kurdish migrant raped a woman only weeks after arriving on a ‘small boat’. Last year, a Syrian migrant assaulted three different women and was given a suspended sentence after he claimed he wasn’t aware his actions were illegal. Such claims are commonplace.
There’s been no evidence that any of these Muslim rapists were ‘human traffickers’.
It’s no coincidence that Afghanistan, a society whose strict Islamic doctrines treat women as subhuman, has produced so many of the rapists or that rape has increased with the mass arrivals of Afghan migrants. Mahmood and the Burnham government want to blame the routine rapes of women and girls on “criminal gangs” in order to present legal mass migration of refugees as an alternative to small boat mass migration, but the problem isn’t the gangs.
The problem is the culture.
The government’s ‘don’t rape’ poster campaign is an inherent admission that migrants aren’t safe and can’t be trusted to even understand basic concepts of right and wrong. When a group of people have to be told that “sex with someone under the age of 16 is a serious crime in the UK”, that is not a “criminal gang” problem: it’s a cultural problem that presents a high risk.
Islam allows adult men to have sex with children as young as 7 years old. Islamic religious authorities believe that a woman who is out in public is guilty of enticing a man, and any rape that occurs is her fault, not that of the rapist. Asking Muslim migrant men to reject this is asking them to reject their own religion. And there is no reason to think that they are about to do that.
The majority of young Muslims in the UK have been polled as preferring Islamic sharia law. Do they in their daily lives actually respect a ban on having sex with children or raping women for any reason other than fear of punishment? Do they believe that Islamic law or British law is more morally right? The problem here isn’t limited to gangs or migrants, it’s a religious issue.
Mahmood has admitted that Muslim women and girls aren’t even safe on boats with Muslim men. How can an entire nation of women and girls be safe with them? The estimated 250,000 women and girls raped and sexually trafficked by Pakistan Muslim sex grooming gangs and the resulting cover-up by Labour authorities including current Prime Minister Burnham and former PM Starmer show that a country full of Muslim migrants is no safer than a boat full of them.
If a Muslim woman isn’t safe on a boat with Muslim men, can any woman be safe with them?
Weeks of increasingly destructive protests are the result of “nothing less than out of control mass migration”, U.S. President Donald Trump said, dealing directly with a root cause of French urban violence often skirted by legacy media.
Massive riots spreading across French cities that started out as school protests but which have since become an expression of counter-French feeling by disaffected urban youth are the result of uncontrolled mass migration, U.S. President Donald Trump has said, reinforcing the views of several prominent French sovereigntists. The now weeks-long violence has seen hundreds of thousands turn out onto the streets and has led to thousands of arrests, hundreds of injuries, and millions in damages.
Among those are 700 injured police officers, over 200 injured youth, and over 80 school staff injured.
While broader media attention has focused on the origins of the riots weeks ago on school conditions, others have noted the hijacking of events by the hard left to whip up revolutionary zeal, particularly ahead of next year’s presidential election when socialist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon hopes to make it to the final round and even to the Elysée.
Reacting to a torrent of social media clips showing French ‘urban youth’ rioting, including beatings of isolated police officers and improvised flamethrower attacks, President Trump said in a statement to his Truth Social: “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration.”
The President went further, noting the serious and long-standing security threat facing France as well as several other European states, and said: “This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”
To figures on France’s sovereigntist right, who warn against the integration failure of multiculturalism and the civilisation-eroding power of open borders, the violence of recent weeks has been nothing short of “barbarism”. National Rally leader and 2027 Presidential election favourite Marine Le Pen responded to footage of a female police officer being chased down as “unbearable” and stated, “Marseille, Lyon, Grenoble, Besançon, Nîmes, Strasbourg: everywhere in France, the situation is deteriorating”.
The riots are not about conditions in high schools, she said, but they are left-wing violence “organized by professionals”. Funding for schools is actually considerably higher in the multicultural, urban areas that are rioting now, Le Pen added, stating the true “France of the forgotten” are poor white rural regions, “not the suburbs where billions from the urban policy have been pouring for years.”
Le Pen’s deputy, the rapidly rising Jordan Bardella — who, aged just 31, stands ready to challenge for the Presidency in her place if lawfare attempts to put the NR leader behind bars succeed — went further and decried the attacks on teachers, police officers, and fire fighters as “lynchings” by “barbaric” migrant gangs attacking France itself.
Bardella said: “If the State does not severely punish these unspeakable acts, if we do not quickly regain control of our migration policy, France will definitively tip into chaos” and added that images of riots are the result of “decades of mass migration”.
Éric Ciotti, the former leader of the centre-right conservative legacy party Les Républicains, who was ousted in a coup by centrist elements in the party for his willingness to cooperate with Le Pen’s RN, also pointed to clear signs in the protests that they have little to do with education policy. Responding to riot footage of multicultural youths chanting “In the name of Allah, we kill them”, Ciotti said it was a “call to murder against a backdrop of communal hatred that characterizes a significant part of these riots.”
Ciotti, who is the Mayor of Nice, also observed that “antisemitic fury” was to be seen “spilling out” where the riots were held, with Palestinian flags and chants frequently seen. French newspaper Le Figaro reported on one such instance of extremist chants where youth sang a song glorifying Islamist terrorists who attacked France, including Mohamed Merah, who killed seven, including three schoolchildren executed at point-blank range, and Salah Abdeslam of the Bataclan attacks that killed 130 across Paris.
More is expected today. Anticipating ugly scenes, Paris Police, on the order of the Interior Minister, have banned Gaza protests in the city today, the anniversary of the October 7th 2023 attacks against Israel. The Jerusalem Postnotes a government statement said: “In a context of heightened terrorist threat and while antisemitic acts remain at a historically high level in our country, such a demonstration on that day poses significant risks of disturbances to public order”.
The news portal NIUS comments: “We’re now expected to pay a plastic tax because Lars Klingbeil can’t make ends meet with a trillion euros in debt and 500 billion euros in taxes – and at the same time, this so-called finance minister, this complete failure, redistributor and socialist, spends 188,000 euros on make-up and a hairdresser. I really lose my temper when I look at this government.” Illustration GROK youwatch
German finance minister Lars Klingbeil has spent €188,000 of public money on photographers and make-up since taking office on May 6, 2025, according to a written answer from his own ministry.
The figure was given by Dennis Rohde, a Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician and parliamentary state secretary at the finance ministry, in reply to a question from Hauke Finger, a member of the Bundestag for the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
It covers the period from Klingbeil’s appointment to September 24, 2026.
Tichys Einblick, which published the answer exclusively on October 5, reported the breakdown. The sum works out at about €11,000 a month.
Most of the sum, €165,035, went on external photographers and €22,656 on visagists, stylists and make-up artists.
The ministry said it uses outside photographers “to illustrate its communication” and has a framework contract with a photo agency.
Make-up is commissioned where the photographs require it, and on some occasions under separate service contracts.
That framework is not a small one. The ministry tendered photo and video services for 2026 and 2027 across the EU at up to €620,000 including VAT, with the option of a further 24 months. The documents provide for between 175 and 225 assignments a year and cover make-up, styling and hairdressing, as well as business-class travel for photographers and their assistants.
The yearly split shows both lines rising.
Photographers cost €78,436 from May 6, 2025 to the end of that year, and €86,599 from January to September 24, 2026.
Make-up cost €9,078 in 2025 and €13,578 so far this year.
The costs were incurred while Klingbeil “publicly rambles on with little credibility about the levered debt brake, the lack of budget consolidation and the growing pressure to save,” Finger said.
He called it a case of “preaching water and drinking wine” and said styling costs were up by half in 2026.
“That is not what credible fiscal policy looks like.”
Klingbeil, who is also vice-chancellor and SPD co-leader, has made consolidation a theme of his time in office while presiding over record borrowing. His draft budget for 2027 set spending at €543.3 billion, against €524.5 billion this year, with new borrowing of €110.8 billion, and left gaps of €51 billion in 2029 and about €60 billion in 2030 still to be closed.
The debt brake itself was loosened in March 2025, before he took office, when defence spending above 1 per cent of economic output was exempted from the borrowing limit and a €500 billion infrastructure fund created.
AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla said: “Lars Klingbeil is no Robin Hood, but the Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes from one and from the other as well.”
Klingbeil had given up smoking, Chrupalla added, “but apparently not yet sugar.”
There had been no reforms, only savings and, “above all, in the end, increases for the citizens”, he said. “They all have to pay more or get less in return.”
Reform, he said, meant putting the state under an obligation: “not only that the citizen is squeezed, but that the state above all finally starts to save with itself.”
Three foreigners were placed under arrest for killing a goat in the Polish city of Wałbrzych. However, Polish prosecutors now want to drop the case.
The incident occurred in late 2025 outside a restaurant in Wałbrzych that was closed for renovation and not operating, authorities said. A witness called police, who arrived and detained the men, two citizens of Bangladesh and one of India, at the scene.
Chief Inspector Marcin Świeży of the District Police Headquarters in Wałbrzych said the men told officers that such behavior is normal in their countries and they did not know it is prohibited in Poland.
The goat was intended as a meal for two of the men, according to Do Rzeczy. The Indian citizen said he is a vegetarian and pleaded not guilty.
In Poland, goats and other livestock may be killed for food only under rules that implement EU animal-welfare law, chiefly Council Regulation No. 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing. The core requirement is that the animal be spared avoidable pain, distress, or suffering.
Unlike in many Third World countries where animals are slaughtered on the streets, often in extreme pain and fear, in the EU, the animal must remain unconscious until death. Bleeding must then be performed promptly and effectively. Slaughter outside a registered slaughterhouse is tightly restricted, and home or backyard killing for personal consumption is generally not permitted except in narrow, authorized circumstances, for example, certain emergency or remote situations under veterinary supervision.
Despite the clear violation of law, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Wałbrzych filed a motion seeking conditional discontinuance of the proceedings against all three foreigners. Prosecutor Mariusz Pindera said the outcome depends in part on the court’s assessment of the degree of “social harmfulness” of the act.
“If the court finds that it was not significant, it may grant the prosecutor’s request,” he said.
he court confirmed it received the application but has not yet considered it, in part because of a judge’s illness. No hearing date has been set, and no substantive decision has been issued regarding the men.
A 40-year-old man has been arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting two women inside a Planet Fitness women’s locker room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Laquan Holland was arrested on Thursday morning after police responded to a report of an assault in progress at the gym in Porter Square.
According to reports, Holland, who was a member at the gym, entered the women’s locker room where he sexually assaulted a woman and prevented her from leaving the area. Holland then attacked a second woman after she attempted to intervene to save the first victim.
Holland faces two counts of assault to rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, and one count each of kidnapping and witness intimidation. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday and was ordered held pending a hearing scheduled for later this month.
Holland was known to police, with court records showing that he had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 in 2006.
Planet Fitness has said that Holland’s membership has since been cancelled. The franchise group said it was working with police on the investigation. The club is located in a building owned by Lesley University, which clarified that no students or staff were involved.
The incident has brought renewed attention to the fitness franchise’s notably lenient policies with respect to locker room access.
According to its website, all members may use the locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, and any other facilities/programs “based on their self-reported gender identity,” a guideline that many have argued has contributed to other disturbing incidents in the women’s areas at multiple Planet Fitness locations across the United States.
In September of 2023, a strikingly similar incident occurred at a Planet Fitness in Monroe, Georgia.
As Reduxx reported, JaKorbie Dixon, 25, was arrested after allegedly exposing himself to a 15-year-old girl and a 19-year-old female employee in the women’s locker room of a Planet Fitness. The girl’s aunt said Dixon pulled back the shower curtain, stood naked in front of her young niece, and called after her to stay as she tried to leave.
When the family complained, staff allegedly acknowledged previous reports about Dixon, but said he had a right to use the women’s locker room under the gym’s gender self-identification policy. The family’s attorney said Dixon was allowed to continue using the women’s facilities because he “identified” as female. The same report described two separate incidents involving the employee: Dixon allegedly summoned her to the women’s locker room while naked, then exposed himself to her again weeks before the girl’s encounter.
A man has been arrested in connection to multiple indecent exposure incidents in a women's locker room at a Planet Fitness in Georgia.
Staff said that JaKorbie Dixon had a "right" to use the women's facilities even after exposing himself to a teen girl.https://t.co/tHKQr0nkiz
Judy Walcott said she spotted the man hanging his belongings outside a shower and told the front desk the encounter made her uncomfortable, but a staff member said there was nothing he could do due to Planet Fitness inclusivity policies.
When she raised it again, a second employee called her transphobic and told her to leave. The club later cancelled her membership of more than a decade. Walcott said an employee submitted the cancellation request in her name, marked “Nondiscrimination Trans,” and forged her signature. She later returned to use her paid membership, and staff called police; she received a no-trespass order.
A woman in New Hampshire had her @PlanetFitness membership revoked for "transphobia" after complaining to staff about a male using the women's locker room.
The man was later identified online as a transgender registered sex offender.https://t.co/aF0wcaS9gQ
The man was later identified as Christopher Beaulieu, a registered sex offender. Court records reviewed by Reduxx showed Beaulieu began transitioning while serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a child aged 13 to 16.
He later received feminizing hormones and changed his legal name to “Crystal.” He was later convicted of failing to keep authorities informed of identity changes required by his sex-offender registration.
