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A Ghanaian tourist has won the right to live in Britain despite never attending her own wedding ceremony.
Francisca Boateng, 42, secured her immigration appeal after claiming her “proxy” marriage to a German citizen living in Britain had lasted long enough to qualify her for UK residency.
Boateng met Fatao Sualihu, a German citizen, while holidaying in Britain in August 2018.
After returning to Ghana and divorcing her then-husband on Christmas Eve 2018, she arranged a “proxy” wedding in Kumasi on New Year’s Eve.
This was possible as her German husband’s settled status enabled her to claim the same residency rights.
The Home Office challenged the evidence of the proxy wedding, questioning photographs with “slightly blurry superimposed” dates.
Officials also raised concerns about a “haphazard” set of papers provided by Boateng’s former husband.
The case has sparked fresh criticism of the immigration tribunal system following a series of controversial rulings.
Despite the Home Office’s concerns, Judge Joseph Neville ruled that Boateng had met the “burden of proof” requirement.
“I find it to be more likely than not that a customary marriage did take place on Dec 31 2018 as claimed by [Boateng] and that it was a valid marriage under Ghanaian law,” he said.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said allowing proxy marriages to count “seems to contradict any notion of common sense”.
“The courts are wrongly adopting ever wider definitions that allow people without deep connections here and who have not made a meaningful contribution to the UK to stay here permanently,” he said.
A new “common sense approach” was being developed, he added.
A Home Office spokesman said: “While we do not routinely comment on individual cases, as the tribunal decision clearly indicates, we contested this case twice and will always seek to uphold our immigration rules.”
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Another day, another shocking/horrific/laughable (delete as applicable) case of the British state failing to carry out the public’s wish of stopping ludicrous migrant asylum claims. This time, a Nigerian woman succeeded on her ninth attempt to secure asylum in the UK—not, this time, because of her son’s dislike of foreign chicken nuggets, but because she joined a terror group.
Upper tribunal judge Gemma Loughran ruled that because the 49-year-old woman joined the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—which, as the British government itself reports, has been implicated in acts of violence against the state and other actors—she had a “well-founded fear of persecution” in Nigeria.
The judge overturned a previous ruling by lower tribunal judge Iain Burnett, who said that the woman joined the group purely “in order to create a claim for asylum.”
That a migrant should believe becoming a member of a terror group is a sure way of being granted asylum is itself a sign of the gross failure of the British state to maintain a safe border.
The Daily Telegraph, which was the first on the story, splashed today with the line: “Join a terror group, stay in the UK.”
Commentator Ian Acheson said the case was another example of the judiciary colluding in the exploitation of the asylum system, describing this as “the low trust society in action.” And Tory peer Daniel Hannan highlighted that this was merely the latest in a long history of wrong asylum verdicts.
Reasons for illegal immigrants to be allowed to remain in Britain: “The Caribbean sun is too hot for my husband” “My son doesn’t like foreign chicken nuggets” “One of my illegitimate kids is trans” Now this. We are a joke country. https://t.co/pG42eh1L7mpic.twitter.com/MwdVOjySlu
In recent days, border experts from the Migration Watch and Centre for Migration Contol think tanks have told europeanconservative.com that immigration tribunal judges need stripping of their powers to work on behalf of illegal migrants regardless of the rules determined by Parliament. This would likely depend on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Convention of Human Rights, which Labour prime minister Keir Starmer says will “never” happen under his watch. So much for his ‘desire’ to clamp down on illegal migration.
Nine Slovenian and Croatian Socialist MEPs have called for the cancellation of an ongoing exhibition in the European Parliament, commemorating the Foibe Massacres.
According to the MEPs, who wrote a letter to EP President Roberta Metsola urging her to cancel an exhibition, the content was controversial and misleading.
The commemoration exhibition was organised by the right-wing Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) at the EP in Strasbourg, bringing attention to the mass killings and deportations organised by far-left Yugoslav Partisans during and immediately after the Second World War.
Around 300,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the region.
Partisans targeted ethnic Italians and anti-Communists, often in retribution for the crimes committed by Italian fascists.
In their longwinded letter, the Socialist MEPs said they had concerns about the exhibition, which was inaugurated on February 10.
“Unfortunately, our concerns have not only been confirmed, but the content of the exhibition is much more pressing than it was initially possible to conclude when it was announced,” they said.
They added that next to MEPs, the professional public – historians – also were indignant.
The MEPs claimed: “It is quite clear that there is a complete discrepancy between the facts and the information stated on the exhibited billboards.
“It is an untrue and extremely harmful presentation of the half-past history of Slovenia, Italy and Croatia at a time when generations throughout Europe suffered immense pain, especially because of the fascist regime,” they said.
They went on to say that the region saw the first resistance against fascism arise in the early 1920s.
“The National Liberation Resistance and the Partisan Army of Yugoslavia are still considered the most successful European resistance movement against fascist tendencies.
“It is therefore very clear that the foundation of today’s free and sovereign Europe is the value of anti-fascism,” they said.
In their disagreement with the content of the exhibition, the Socialist MEPs added: “It is utterly outrageous that a minority of individuals driven by intentions of division — and evidently also the incitement of hatred — are allowed to showcase manipulations within the central institution of the European Union: the Parliament.
“This is both controversial and extremely harmful. The consequences of such actions do not simply ‘fade away’ after their conclusion—in this specific case, an exhibition on the Foibe massacres—but rather generate new attempts to undermine the fundamental principles of the EU. ”
The MEPs claimed the Italians wanted to subvert “the principles of the European community — a community whose very foundation is rooted in the victory over Nazi-fascism”.
They added a letter from Slovenian historian Dr Nevenka Troha, niece of the well-known Communist politician Lidija Šentjurc, who repeated the claims.
The letter was signed by Slovenian and Croatian Socialists, Greens and Liberals.
In reaction, Carlo Fidanza, head of the Fratelli d’Italia-ECR delegation said: “The request by Slovenian and Croatian left-wing groups to remove the exhibition commemorating the Foibe massacres and the Italian exodus from Istria, Rijeka, and Dalmatia is a dark moment for the European Parliament.”
He added that it was a “sad confirmation that some still refuse to acknowledge historical truth and honour the victims of Tito’s atrocities, even 80 years later”.
“During the inauguration of the exhibition, organised by Stefano Cavedagna and the Fratelli d’Italia delegation with support from Anvgd and Comitato 10 Febbraio, all participants emphasised the importance of reconciliation.
“The presence of Slovenian colleagues from the EPP, whose previous government helped uncover hundreds of foibe in Slovenia where Tito’s regime killed thousands, was particularly significant. The foibe were an Italian and European tragedy, and a few pro-Tito nostalgics will not erase it from memory again,” Fidanza said.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella spoke about what he called the tragic silence that could be defined as “a concealment of history” during a commemoration on February 10, Italian public outlet Ansa reported.
He labelled it a dark page in history and went on to condemn Marshal Tito’s Communist crimes but also those of fascism first and then of Nazism.
“In the areas of the eastern border, after the fascist oppression, responsible for a harshly segregationist policy towards the Slavic populations, and the barbaric Nazi occupation, the Communist dictatorship of Tito was established, inaugurating a ruthless season of violence against the Italians residing in those areas,” Mattarella said.
“What happened to the people of Rijeka, the Istrians and the Dalmatians” was a story “that has defeated the conspiracy of silence and that no attempt at denial or justification can ever hide or erase”.
Al tempo di questa foto, un triste tempo, Egea, la bimba con la valigia con su scritto “esule giuliana” che commosse il mondo in quanto simbolo dell’esodo istriano del Dopoguerra e delle #foibe, aveva da pochissimo perso il papà massacrato dai titini.
The Italian President went on to highlight that eventually, Tito turned “on the anti-fascists, the comrades in ideology: In the face of the proposal of the new Yugoslav regime of sovereignty over the Julian territories, being Italian became an obstacle, if not a fault.
“The memory of the victims must be preserved and honoured,” he said, adding: “Naturally – after so many decades and in profoundly changed historical and political conditions, it would lose its authentic value if it were subservient to the resumption of divisions or rancour.”
On social media, Deputy Italian PM Matteo Salvini said: “Even today, some people try to rewrite history, through shameful outrages and acts of vandalism, but the memory of those innocents cannot be erased.
“Memory is a duty, truth is a right. Today and always, let us honor our fellow countrymen victims of one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, because without memory there is no justice,” he said.
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani commented: “Memory does not mean recrimination or revanchism [a policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory].”
Tens of thousands of deaths and ten million refugees, but no one seems to have heard of it. And how could they? No one talks about it in this sort of Animal Farm 2.0 that has become the Western conscience and its media, where “all victims are equal but some are more equal than others”. The woke West is obsessed with the white man to the point that Goldman Sachs had a policy of excluding companies with boards of directors composed exclusively of white men from initial public offerings (IPOs).
“What do the good souls of Hamas say about Christians being torn to pieces?”, I asked myself four years ago. The question was rhetorical, the good souls have shown us that they don’t give a damn about Jews and Christians. Instead, what do they say about blacks being torn to pieces? This question is more pertinent, because the good souls are supposed to be the champions of oppressed peoples in the Third World.
A real genocide is underway in Sudan. And as often happens in an Islamic country, two factions are fighting for power after the departure of dictator Omar al-Bashir. And as often happens in an Islamic country, it never ends well.
“Bodies piled up in makeshift cemeteries can be seen from space,” writes the Economist. 640,000 people are suffering from one of the worst famines in history, a real famine.
For the first time since the term “genocide” gained legal status under the United Nations Convention in 1948, the world’s attention has been captured by a fake genocide, ignoring a real one raging at the same time. Hamas propaganda that preys on the minds of the stupid and gullible in our societies is largely to thank for this sordid outcome, which leaves an indelible stain on Western civilization.
Hadi Matar entered, softly singing the pro-Palestine anthem “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” in the court where he has been on trial for stabbing the writer Salman Rushdie in the summer of 2022, he would have been joined by those present.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, legions of Westerners enrolled in Jihad, like Greta Thunberg, sing along with the terrorists.
One of the dancers performing at the Super Bowl halftime show (with Donald Trump present) waved a combined Sudanese-Palestinian flag that read “Gaza” and “Sudan.”
Perfect snapshot of the gullible Western moron: his friends don’t give a damn about Sudan.
A Washington Post report on Sudan reports bodies piled up in mass graves and women being tortured and raped for fun. “The Arabs call us ‘rats’ and attack us while shouting Allahu Akbar,” says one survivor who escaped the massacres.
Are there protests in Milan, Paris, New York or London? Camps at Columbia and Oxford? Is Greta Thunberg organizing Sudanese sit-ins in Amsterdam? Where is Amnesty International? And the Pope? No professors, journalists, writers, “Jews for Peace” and Judith Butler-style feminists? And the UN “special rapporteurs”?
Ah, the UN.
In 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted 17 resolutions on Israel and only six on the entire rest of the world, including North Korea, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Russia, and the United States over the embargo on Cuba. At the UN, Israel is evil by definition. In 2024, out of a total of 23 UN General Assembly resolutions criticizing countries, 17 of them, or three-quarters, focused on a single country and the world’s only Jewish state. Since 2015, the General Assembly has passed 141 resolutions against Israel, which is more than double the number of resolutions condemning all other countries together. And the UN Human Rights Council (from which Israel withdrew this week) has passed 104 resolutions against Israel, compared to 99 against all other countries.
The Palestinian Arabs received $40 billion. And what did that bring? A terrorist organization that controls close to 2 million people and slaughtered 1,200 of the other side in a single day.
Many were outraged by the Red Cross’s handshake with Hamas terrorists, its lack of any aid to the hostages. So I went to look for the Red Cross guy: in Geneva he his picture has him with a keffiyeh. No surprise there.
There is a part of the West that is in trouble, very badly indeed.
But Bruno Tertrais is right when in Le Figaro he says: “The Palestinian cause is the apogee of geopolitical wokism, it unites anti-Westernism, anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism.”
This is why there is no other cause – not the Kurds, not the Tibetans, not the Uighurs, not the Sudanese, not the Ukrainians, not the Armenians, not the persecuted Christians – that attracts gullible Westerners.
And they are so obsessed with the white man that when one morning in 2025 three skin-and-bone Jews were paraded in front of Islamic terrorists after 16 months of darkness in the tunnels, now unable even to walk, there was no public campaign of collective indignation. Nothing, everything passes muster before us in the atonement of Western guilt. The only worthy response was the video projected in Times Square in New York.
“When Africans die by the hundreds of thousands in Sudan, no one bats an eyelid,” writes Pascal Bruckner in the weekly Le Point. “In a certain progressive mythology, the Palestinian is our only last ‘noble savage‘, innocent even when he kills and slaughters. He is the great Christological icon whose beatification process has been ongoing for fifty years. Hearing members of Hamas, Hezbollah and their supporters shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ and propose to eradicate Jews, Christians and infidels throughout the world makes your blood run cold.”
In Sudan, there are no Jews to blame. There are “only” mass massacres of thousands of blacks, rapes, atrocities and millions of displaced people, and most of the killers are Arabs.
Take the testimony of one of those millions of people who fled Sudan for neighboring Chad, a young woman named Maryam Suleiman. He spoke of the day the Rapid Support Forces, the rebranded version of the Janjaweed, the Arab militia responsible for the massacre in Darfur two decades ago, raided his village. The gunmen lined up men and boys as their leader declared: “We don’t want to see black people, we don’t even want to see black garbage bags.” Then he shot a black donkey.
I thought about that black donkey and then about organizations that might be in a position to attract attention, like Black Lives Matter, but they are silent. The same people who took to the streets when George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis did not say a word against the organized murder of tens of thousands of black men and women in Sudan.
The Jew in Wokism is just another white man (although more than half of Israelis are not). And if an Arab kills a black man, so be it.
A bit like in Nigeria, where over 3.000 Christians are killed just for being Christians every year and not even an eyebrow is raised.
They invented a “genocide in Gaza” to defend the cutthroats who howl “Allahu Akbar”.
A Syrian migrant has been charged with stabbing his estranged wife and daughter on a playground in the German city of Hersbruck last July. It is unclear why the charges in the case took so long to be issued, but prosecutors and the judge have not yet decided whether there will be a trial.
The suspect stabbed his wife several times in the head and upper body. When his 15-year-old daughter tried to stop him, she was also stabbed in the stomach and arm.
The woman and her daughter were said to have only survived due to the intervention of emergency services, as both had to undergo emergency surgery, according to German newspaper Antenne.de
The prosecutor’s office has charged a 40-year-old man with a knife attack on his estranged wife and daughter on a playground in Middle Franconia. He is accused of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm in three cases, said a spokeswoman for the prosecution.
A Syrian migrant has been charged with stabbing his estranged wife and daughter on a playground in the German city of Hersbruck last July. It is unclear why the charges in the case took so long to be issued, but prosecutors and the judge have not yet decided whether there will be a trial.
The suspect stabbed his wife several times in the head and upper body. When his 15-year-old daughter tried to stop him, she was also stabbed in the stomach and arm.
The woman and her daughter were said to have only survived due to the intervention of emergency services, as both had to undergo emergency surgery, according to German newspaper Antenne.de
The prosecutor’s office has charged a 40-year-old man with a knife attack on his estranged wife and daughter on a playground in Middle Franconia. He is accused of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm in three cases, said a spokeswoman for the prosecution.
The suspect is said to have stabbed the woman several times in the head and upper body in Hersbruck last July. According to the prosecutor’s office, she only survived thanks to an emergency operation. The Syrian is also said to have stabbed his 15-year-old daughter in the stomach and injured her arm when she tried to stop him from committing the crime. She also had to undergo emergency surgery.
The woman and her daughter were likely saved by a friend of the mother, who intervened and suffered cuts when she tried to pull the Syrian away, according to the public prosecutor’s office. The 12-year-old son also jumped in and tried to hold his father back, when a number of passers-by jumped in to stop the man as well.
The 40-year-old fled the scene on foot, but police were able to arrest him a short time later in the city center. He has been held in custody since the attack but has made no statements to the police.
The public prosecutor argues the attempted murder happened because ” the ex-partner did not want to accept the separation due to excessive possessiveness.”
Germany has been hit with a wave of stabbings within the last week. On Sunday, a 21-year-old Iranian migrant stabbed a 63-year-old woman while the woman was out walking her dog in the port city of Wismar.
The victim suffered a leg wound but her life is not in danger. The police found the knife still on the man, but there is no motive yet known.
The Iranian will likely be placed in a rehab center or a psychiatric clinic for now, according to police. The Iranian is known for other crimes, but the details of these crimes have not yet been released.
Also this week, Somali double-murderer Liban M., who killed Jonas S. and Sascha K. in a drugstore in October 2022, has now stabbed another occupant in his psychiatric facility in Klingenmünster, resulting in multiple stab wounds that were not life-threatening. An attempted murder case has been opened.
A man suspected of crashing a car into a crowd in the German city of Munich on Thursday has been identified as a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, a police spokesman said.
At least 28 people were injured in the incident, the spokesman said, 10 days before Germans head to the polls in a key election with migration high on the campaign agenda.
Following Bild‘s earlier claim of internal police information that the man held by police over the driving of a car into a trade union demonstration was an Afghan, this fact has now been confirmed by the Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann. He said the Kabul-born Afghan “asylum seeker” was already known to police for drug crimes and theft.
The number of people known injured has also been increased to 28 and Herrmann said it is being treated as a presumed deliberate attack. That the car accelerated into the protest, having passed a police car, and that a police officer shot at the vehicle was also confirmed.
Distressingly, images from the scene show a baby stroller upended near to where the car came to a halt.
What is now being called an attack by the authorities comes just one day before the Munich Security Conference is due to take place in the city a short drive away. Attended by global leaders, the event is seen as a major meeting for security policymakers and practitioners and is due to last until the end of the weekend.
Whatever a government publicly desires, it appears as though the lawyer classes will always find one human rights clause or another to do the opposite.
There have been numerous calls this week for Parliament—and therefore, ultimately, the British people—to have control over who can settle in the UK, rather than judges. This comes after a court granted Palestinian migrants the right to live in the country.
A family of six seeking to leave Gaza and join a brother in Britain applied through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees and were originally refused on the grounds their case was outside the programme’s rules. Understandable, given that they are Palestinian, not Ukrainian.
But a report in the Telegraph reveals that this decision has since been overturned by an upper tribunal judge—the son of a former ‘anti-Israeli’ Guardian journalist—on the basis of their right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
This judge, said Alp Mehmet of Migration Watch UK, “epitomises the thinking of our courts and judges when it comes to immigration and asylum.” He told europeanconservative.com:
They see themselves as the ultimate decision-makers and guardians of the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. The rights of the British public, who foot the hefty bill, are overridden and trampled on with alacrity.
Critics are particularly concerned by this ruling because of the door it opens to more Gazans being granted the right to live in the UK under a scheme set up for Ukrainians.
“We do not want more pro-Hamas, antisemitic attitudes being brought into the UK,” said Reform chairman Richard Tice, noting that “other Arab nations will not accept them, and nor should we.”
NO NO NO
Another insane judge ruling
We must not accept Gazans into the UK
Other Arab nations will not accept them, and nor should we.
We do not want more pro Hamas, antisemitic attitudes being brought into the UK https://t.co/yvXiJqNuvr
Think tanker Sam Bidwell added that after this case, and many others like it, the immigration tribunal system should not simply be reformed but scrapped altogether. Mehmet agreed, telling this publication:
It is high time our immigration judges made their way out of the self-serving cloud cuckoo land they now inhabit.
The home office claims there is no resettlement scheme for Palestinians, and that such cases will be contested, but it is easy to imagine their disputes being thrown out of court. Likewise, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer said today he thought the ruling was wrong, but is unlikely to be able to overturn it.
The ruling is further proof that Starmer’s migration rhetoric is of little-to-no worth while ECHR rules continue to apply—not that any more proof was needed. This could be said to make a mockery of democratic systems, though the government is within its rights to democratically withdraw from the ECHR, if it so wishes.
A trans-identified male in Dortmund, Germany, is facing scrutiny after winning over €250,000 over the course of 240 separate discrimination lawsuits. Many have accused the man, who has been unemployed for 12 years, of using Germany’s strict protections for those who self-identify as transgender to enrich himself.
Apart from three internships and one short-term job, the trans-identified man has been unemployed since 2012 and receives public welfare. While Germany has strict privacy laws that have resulted in the man’s identity being censored, Reduxx can reveal his name as Alina Steffen.
In a recent interview with Westphalen Blatt, Steffen claimed to have applied for over 1,577 jobs over the last eight years, but reported he has struggled to find a position. But critics have accused Steffen of running something akin to a racket, labelling him an “AGG-hopper.” The German slang term refers to individuals who do not apply for a job with the intention of actually taking it up, but rather to receive compensation for alleged violations of anti-discrimination laws.
Steffen has been known to apply for jobs he does not actually qualify for throughout the North Rhine-Westphalia region. For example, in one instance he applied for a job which was a one-hour drive from his home despite the fact he does not have a driver’s license and cannot drive.
But the moment Steffen receives a rejection from a job he applies for, he files a lawsuit citing a violation of the German Equal Treatment Act (AGG). Steffen has also filed lawsuits for jobs he never applied for, but found to be “discriminatory” in advance by focusing on minor errors in the job advertisements.
For example, in one case, an advertisement omitted to specify that people of “diverse” genders can apply, and only stated that “male and female” applicants were welcome. Steffen sued over this omission and won.
Despite being on welfare, the hefty compensation awarded to Steffen by labor courts in various districts is not offset against his welfare benefits and is tax-free. As a result, Steffen is collecting welfare and raking in hundreds of thousands of Euros in court awards.
The director of the Bielefeld labor court, Joachim Kleveman, estimated that Steffen has so far won approximately €250,000 (approx. $257,000 USD) from various discrimination suits. Due to welfare checks, Steffen must regularly provide lists of his compensation payments. This year, Steffen has already reported winnings of €25,000.
Most recently, Steffen successfully sued ND-Rack, a company from Langenberg that distributes roof tents for cars and other camping-related gear. Niusreported on the case, noting that in his application, Steffen described himself as being 50% disabled, and a “male to female” transsexual as well as “intersex.”
Stell dir vor, du hältst hier als Mittelständler dieses Land am laufen, schaffst Arbeitsplätze, zahlst einen Haufen Steuern und deine Regierung piesackt dich permanent mit irgendwelchen Gesetzen, die in der Regel nichts weiter als ein Einfallstor für Irre darstellen, um aus… pic.twitter.com/1YHaGVYADa
Steffen justified his lawsuit before the labor court by arguing that he was rejected because of his disability and sexual identity. He also felt discriminated against due to his age, as the company advertised that it was looking for workers for its “young team.”
Moreover, the position was not reported to the employment agency, which is legally required for jobs that could be suitable for people with disabilities, and he demanded €7,500 in compensation.
Nikolaj Dudenko, the CEO of ND-Rack in Langenberg, explained that he did not intend to discriminate against anyone and only read the first sentence of the application.
“We receive 450 applications a year. I immediately filter out all applicants who live more than 30 kilometers away because experience shows they quit after a year,” he told RTL West. He did not read further and rejected the application immediately. He was not aware that he was required to report the position to the employment office.
During the hearing, Dudenko tried to offer Steffen a position, but the man declined out of fear of being dismissed during the probationary period. The court suggested a settlement of €3,750 in compensation. The CEO felt this was unfair and accused Steffen of using the discrimination lawsuits to enrich himself. He ultimately offered €2,500 in compensation, but Steffen insisted on €3,750 as per the court’s suggestion. The entrepreneur reluctantly accepted the settlement.
According to the State Labor Court in Hamm, Steffen’s repeat litigation does not constitute an abuse of law.
Recently, another hearing took place at the labor court in Hagen. In this case, Steffen is suing a printing company for discrimination. According to RTL West, his application was rejected due to insufficient qualifications, not, as he claimed, because of his transexuality.
Eine #Transfrau aus #Dortmund klagt auf Schmerzensgeld – wegen angeblicher #Diskriminierung bei einer Jobabsage. Doch vor Gericht in #Hagen wird am Freitag (07.02.) erneut klar: Sie hat schon mehr als 200 Mal geklagt – und fast immer kassiert. Ein Anwalt spricht von… pic.twitter.com/ciu6Fag2FK
“The reason I generally do not want to appear before the press is that I am withdrawing from public life because I am very much discriminated against in private, laughed at on buses, and insulted in the city because of my transsexuality,” Steffen said.
Alina Dünnebacke, responsible for personnel at the printing company, explained she had rejected the applicant due to having inadequate qualifications. But despite arguing that Steffen was clearly incapable of performing the job, the company paid out a small settlement of €700.
In addition to his lengthy history of court battles, Steffen is a self-published author who sells ebooks for less than one euro on neobooks.com. Among his publications are books on job hunting, including one titled “The Professional Application.” The book describes itself as offering expert advice on finding a job. Another book written by Steffen is called “Tips for the Perfect Job Interview.”
Early on Wednesday morning, a 15-year-old was arrested in Bolzano on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist organisation. He is accused of several serious offences, including the manufacture and use of explosive devices and the dissemination of extremist content.
The investigation was launched following information about the young man’s extremist activities. A house search revealed incriminating material: two computers, a smartphone, an axe and evidence of his membership of a group. According to investigators, the teenager was active in extremist Telegram groups. A so-called ‘week of terror’ was planned there, in which a defenceless person was to be murdered and the act filmed. The 15-year-old is said to have actively worked on the realisation of the plan and planted the group’s symbols in public places. He also experimented with explosives and documented his attempts on video.
Shortly before his arrest, he sent a message to the group: ‘I have the police on the door’. Investigators discovered disturbing material on his smartphone: videos of acts of violence, school massacres and extremist propaganda content, including recordings of the Islamic State. They also found child pornography. His internet research focussed on the emotional state of terrorists during their acts and the perception of pain suffered by suicide bombers, the police reported in a press release.
After the police measures were completed, he was transferred to a juvenile detention centre in Treviso. Investigations to uncover further connections are ongoing.
