French government puts pro-Milei libertarians under surveillance

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Argentinan President Javier Milei (R) Screengrab youtube

Influential libertarian accounts on social media in France are under government surveillance, it has been revealed.

News outlet Franceinfo reported that the Élysée is worried about the success of the ideology carried by Javier Milei, Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Specialised companies have been tasked by the French state with monitoring influential accounts that convey a libertarian discourse on social networks, to better understand their doctrine.

“Libertarian theses are gradually penetrating public opinion in France, outside a microcosm”, Franceinfo wrote.

“The libertarian current, in its extreme form, that of far-right Argentine President Javier Milei, consists in wanting to cut state spending, or even annihilate it, cultivating a hatred of public services.”

Other ‘problematic’ libertarian tendencies are the promotion of “total freedom of expression”, which would allow people to “even make racist remarks”.

Paris is allegedly worried to see the libertarian ideology spread in wider circles and could lead to broader political disputes.

“More and more intellectuals or opinion leaders, on the Right, as well as journalists, who are identified as credible, share on X the publications of certain accounts – often tinged with racism, which criticise the system, believe that we pay too much tax, sometimes followed by tens of thousands of subscribers,” the news outlet wrote.

“Since the election of Donald Trump in the United States, the international context has been worrying at the highest level”.

In France, right-wing politicians have been learning from the popularity of Javier Milei, who has created a successful economic turn-around in his country.

Éric Ciotti, the former president of the centre-right Les Républicains, suggested cutting spending with a chainsaw, in line with Milei’s election campaign.

During the Ambassadors’ Conference in Paris on January 6, which outlined France’s diplomatic priorities for 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron criticised Musk’s alleged influence on European political affairs.

“Ten years ago, if someone had told us that the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks would support an international reactionary movement and directly intervene in elections, including in Germany, who would have imagined it?” he said.

Today, Musk is leading the efforts on cutting government waste with the DOGE department.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/03/french-government-puts-pro-milei-liberarians-under-surveillance

Are the Europeans asking for another European war?

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By Andrea Widburg

European politics are driven by a fusion of leftism, arrogance, and a desperate desire to avoid a repeat of WWI and WWII, the two most destructive wars in European (and probably world) history. However, national character may be destiny, because, if British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has a say, they’re lining up for a repeat.

Most people know that WWI started because of a cascade of events, each of which, if stopped, could have prevented that blood debacle.

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was visiting Sarajevo, Serbia, a city then located in the Austro-Hungarian empire, when Gavrilo Princip, a member of a movement that wanted Bosnia to gain independence from the empire, assassinated him. The Austro-Hungarian foreign minister used the event as an opening to declare war on Serbia, an act he would have German support. From that point forward, a combination of bad timing, stupidity, and various machinations by bad actors on all sides led directly to a conflation.

Russia responded to the Austro-Hungarian declaration by preparing for war against Germany, so Germany preemptively declared war against Russia. At this point, France began mobilizing to aid Russia against Germany. Germany therefore also declared war on France. Germany followed this declaration by invading Belgium, at which point Great Britain got involved. While Great Britain had no beef with Serbia, Russia, or France, it had previously committed to defend Belgium. Therefore, it declared war on Germany. From there, the cascade was unstoppable:

Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia on August 5; Serbia against Germany on August 6; Montenegro against Austria-Hungary on August 7 and against Germany on August 12; France and Great Britain against Austria-Hungary on August 10 and on August 12, respectively; Japan against Germany on August 23; Austria-Hungary against Japan on August 25 and against Belgium on August 28.

Italy eventually joined, too. The war ended only when America entered on the British side, breaking a trench war stalemate that, in all likelihood, would eventually have favored Germany. Along the way, of course, the Bolsheviks took over Russia.

WWI resulted in over 17 million military and civilian deaths. It was also the perfect vector for the Spanish Influenza, which killed around 25-50 million worldwide. By paving the way for the Bolshevik takeover, it laid the groundwork for the approximately 100 million who died in the 20th century because of communism. And of course, WWI paved the way for WWII, which saw almost the entire European Jewish population erased (6 million dead), along with the deaths of around 70 million other people, both civilian and military.

Why does all this matter? Because of what Keir Starmer said when Zelensky (egged on by Democrats from the Deep State and Congress) walked away from a Trump-brokered agreement that was a start to ending the war:

The Prime Minister said Britain and France were developing a “coalition of the willing”, and that talks would “intensify” to create security guarantees that include British troops on the ground in Ukraine and fighter jets.

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Sir Keir said Britain was “doubling down” on support for Ukraine and pushed for a greater contribution from European allies to continent-wide security, but needed “US backing”.

He also announced a new £1.6-billion-pound deal that would allow Ukraine to purchase 5,000 air-defence missiles using export finance.

I don’t care if Europe finally steps in to fund the misbegotten war, since America’s already spent tons of money with no direct benefit to itself. Trump’s proposal about mineral rights was an effort to recover some benefit for all those taxpayer dollars (at least half of which ended up vanishing). America’s contribution to funding the Ukraine war—and it’s carried most of the funding compared to Europe—has always been all about keeping Europe happy. So, now, let Europe pay.

But boots on the ground? Really? Has Starmer learned nothing from history? What we’re witnessing is a territorial squabble over land along Ukraine’s Eastern flank. It never should have come to this (we can thank Obama for this disaster), but having Europe go head-to-head with Putin will not make things better; it will only make them worse. Europe is rapidly becoming a “too dumb to live” continent.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/are_the_europeans_asking_for_another_european_war.html

Hamas is a conscious adherence to abomination. Not to a mistaken vision of good, but a deliberate and religious celebration of evil

by Giulio Meotti

About twenty people on the ground. Some tied up. A terrorist in yellow boots approaches and starts splitting heads like melons with a rocket launcher. Gasps. Spasms. Contorted faces. Stunned faces of those awaiting death. A terrorist laughs raucously. Allahu Akbar. Then they show the camera the black flag with the shahada. I apologize, but it is important to see what they do not want us to see.

We are in Congo, where more than 70 bodies of Christians, including women, children and elderly people who had been taken hostage by Islamists, were found tied up and beheaded inside a church.

It is no different, perhaps just more efficient, than the video of the Thai farmer beheaded with a hoe by a cheerful civilian in Gaza on October 7.

But those who strangle and mutilate the bodies of two children will not hesitate to do the same to adults.

The Israeli journalist Myriam Schermer of i24News found the most appropriate words about the Bibas family, buried today in Israel: “It was a Black Mass”.

Black Mass. A conscious adherence to the abomination. Not to a mistaken vision of good, but a deliberate and religious celebration of evil.

It brings to mind what Carl Gustav Jung said in April 1939:

“We do not even know whether Hitler will found a new Islam, he is like Mohammed. The mood in Germany is Islamic, bellicose and Islamic. They are all possessed by a barbaric god”.

In the appendix to “Wotan”, Jung wrote a prophetic text in 1946, which speaks of Nazi Germany, but which seems to speak of us:

“We are living in times of great upheaval. This critical state of affairs has such a tremendous influence on the psychic life of the individual that the physician must follow its effects more carefully than usual. A veritable witches’ sabbath. Everywhere revolutions, violent alterations of the map, political returns to medieval or even ancient prototypes, totalitarian states overwhelming their neighbors and surpassing all previous theocracies in their absolutist claims, persecutions of Christians and Jews, wholesale political murders, and a cheerful pirate raid on a peaceful and semi-civilized people.

“Wotan disappeared when his oaks fell and reappeared when the Christian God proved too weak to save Christendom from fratricidal massacre. Our mania for rational explanations is obviously rooted in our fear of metaphysics, for the two have always been hostile brothers. A hurricane has broken loose while we still believe the weather is fine. The disturber of peace is a wind that blows into Europe from the vastness of Asia, that strikes on a broad front from Thrace to the Baltic, scattering the nations before it like dry leaves or inspiring thoughts that shake the world to its foundations. When the wind blows, it shakes everything that is insecure, outside and inside. What do all the beauties of the past from totally different levels of culture mean to the man of today, when he is confronted with a living and unfathomable tribal god such as he has never experienced before?”.

This is why the men and women of Gaza have not only made the calm and cool decision to bring their children to celebrate around the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, strangled to death by their captors and buried today in Israel. The children also disfigure the faces of the Bibas family in the obscene poster made by Hamas, while a religious monster with a beard sings the praises of war.

Black Mass, we were saying. A ceremony in which the blood and suffering of innocents is offered to evil in a voluntary reversal of all morality. Hamas is not stupid, it has not committed any “communication error”. The debauchery and sadism serve to whet the darkest appetites among their Western supporters.

The aim is also to force human rights defenders into embarrassed silence: Save the Children, Amnesty, Oxfam and the other acronyms. The Red Cross seems like a ghost on those stages decorated with multilingual propaganda slogans against “Zionism”.

After being held in environments full of lice, bedbugs, mold and mildew, barefoot for 500 days and wearing shoes for the first time on the day of release, strangled, bound, gagged with cloth until they suffocated, hung upside down, fed animal feed, the women turned into domestic slaves of polygamous terrorists for sixteen months, these hostages are brought into public view.

And it looked a lot like the slave auctions in the American South during the years before the Civil War.

In 2000, two Israeli soldiers took a wrong turn and entered Ramallah in the ‘West Bank’. They were dragged from their car to a police station, where they were violently murdered. One of the bodies was then thrown out of the window by the angry mob that had gathered and chopped his body into pieces.

In 2004, Arab terrorists opened fire on the Hatuel family’s car near their home in Gaza when Jews were still living there. They shot and killed Tali Hatuel, who was eight months pregnant, and her four daughters, ages 11, 9, 7 and 2, at close range.

In 2011, five members of the Israeli Fogel family, including two children, ages 11 and 4, and a 3-month-old baby, were massacred in their beds by two terrorists from a nearby Arab village. The baby’s head was almost severed from his body.

Support for the jihadist Palestinian Arab cause has completely thrown the West off its moral compass.

Then I heard the hymn to life of an Israeli father, Yarden Bibas, at the funeral for his wife and two children. He does not ask for revenge, he does not speak of lands or war or history or borders, but of a wife he was unable to defend and of two children who taught him to be a father.

I do not know if the civilization of life can defeat the culture of death that Jung speaks of, but if it can, only the Israeli Jews can do it.

If the civilization of life can defeat that of death, only the Israelis can do it | Israel National News

UK: The Deputy Prime Minister’s Islamophobia definition risks introducing ‘blasphemy laws through a back door’ claims ex-Labour MP: ‘We have to be free to criticise religion!’

Angela Rayner’s latest definition of Islamophobia risks introducing “blasphemy laws through a back door”, a former Labour MP has claimed.

Lord Walney, who served as the government adviser on political violence and disruption until last month, warned that Islamist extremism and Islamist terrorism is “the greatest threat this country faces”, even after the Southport riots, and Labour must continue to recognise this.

Labour ministers have established a “working group” to come up with an official definition of Islamophobia – or anti-Muslim hatred – over the course of the next six months.

Former Tory minister Dominic Grieve will chair a new council to carry out this task to advise the Deputy Prime Minister’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to advise officials on a definition.

However, such a redefinition has been widely criticised and could risk “a chilling effect on free speech”, the Tories warned.

Lord Walney claimed that the Government should be “prepared to talk about the nature of the Islamist threat facing the country, where that manifests itself in violence, but also in the erosion of our values and the undermining of our way of life that Islamist extremists can pose”.

He expressed concern that politicians have remained hesitant on the matter.

“I think people within Westminster and Whitehall would not necessarily understand, or be confident to articulate a difference between Islamism and Islam and the vast majority of Muslims who practice that faith and would have no truck with Islamism,” he told The Telegraph.

However, Rayner’s planned definition goes against his suggestions and could even risk bringing in “a blasphemy law by the back door”.

The Labour Party’s own definition of Islamophobia – which was created in 2018 – has received criticism for suffocating free debate, as Lord Walney admitted that it was developed by “well meaning people” whose path was derailed by “less well-meaning people” to come up with a definition that would “curtail discussion”.

If that same definition was embedded into legislation, the peer warned that it would “literally brand taboo the subject that we need to be talking more about to protect ourselves”.

He added that ministers must express their opposition “more clearly” to allow people to criticise religion more freely – “which we do all the time to Christianity”.

Although he insisted that burning of sacred texts is “abhorrent and disrespectful”, he stressed that it must not be illegal.

The ex-adviser added that he preferred the term “Anti-Muslim Hatred” over “Islamophobia” as he indicated that the second term has the power to implement “unintended consequences”.

“You have to work that bit harder if you’re going to call this Islamophobia. You’ve got to work that bit harder to make the distinction and to carve out freedom of speech and make sure that you don’t introduce a blasphemy law by the back door,” he said.

Last week, Angela Rayner said that the increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes is “unacceptable and has no place in our society” which is why the Government has plans to tackling such hatred to create a society “where everyone feels safe and welcome”.

She confirmed that the group will be chaired by Dominic Grieve, accompanied with his “years of legal and government experience”.

Meanwhile, Grieve admitted that “Islamophobia is as challenging to define as its existence is undoubted”.

He also addressed the need to balance “addressing the lived experience of those who are victims of it and the right of British Muslims to feel heard and protected as equal citizens of our country, with the unwavering requirement to maintain freedom of thought and expression under law for all”.

He continued: “The group’s proposed definition must be compatible with the unchanging right of British citizens to exercise freedom of speech and expression – which includes the right to criticise, express dislike of, or insult religions and/or the beliefs and practices of adherents.”

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/angela-rayner-islamophobia-definition-labour-extremism-religion

Austria: Out of consideration for Muslims? Pupils have to do without carnival doughnuts

Parents of pupils at a secondary school (NMS) were probably more than irritated when they were told that their children would have to do without the doughnuts they were supposed to receive as a reward for taking part in the carnival parade.
Specifically, it is about the NMS Haid (Linz-Land district): This school informed parents that the doughnuts would be donated to a kindergarten and a retirement home. However, the school is also referring to Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, which began yesterday, Saturday.
As reported by the newspaper Kronen Zeitung, however, the school’s approach is anything but usual, with the mayor of the municipality of Haid bei Ansfelden saying: ‘This is the first time I have heard that the doughnuts are being passed on. In fact, the municipality, which procured the doughnuts – more than 1,000 of them – had even asked how many pupils the pastries were to be bought for.
As in so many other schools in the country, a large proportion of the pupils at NMS Haid are of foreign origin and of Muslim faith. Many parents therefore fear that the school’s announcement was made out of consideration for the many Muslim pupils. The response from headmistress Anita Jovic: only sweets that are left over will be passed on.

However, Jovic also received numerous messages from the parents of Muslim pupils who did not want their children to take part in the carnival parade. This is also tolerated, she says, and extra teachers are even assigned to deal with the Muslims during the parade.
Dealing with customs and traditions is always a controversial topic, especially in schools with many immigrant pupils. The Freedom Party takes a clear stance on the issue and repeatedly speaks out in favour of upholding local traditions – and ultimately also in favour of carnival doughnuts.

Aus Rücksicht auf Moslems? Schüler müssen auf Faschingskrapfen verzichten – Unzensuriert

NORWAY: Gay Politician Who Pushed Gender Identity Reforms Commits Suicide After Admitting To Child Pornography Charges

A prominent gay politician who was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography last fall has committed suicide after having admitted to the charges. Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen, a former member of the Sámi Parliament, was arrested in November for acquiring images of children being sexually assaulted, and had led the Norwegian Sametinget’s work on gender identity reform.

Mikkelsen was arrested on November 4 by police and charged with having shared and acquired material showing sexual abuse of children. Mikkelsen admitted to the charges in the local court for Salten and Lofoten in Nordland, Northern Norway, and was facing a prison sentence of up to one year.

However, Norwegian media has now reported that Mikkelsen committed suicide on February 13. Mikkelsen’s public defender, Mette Yvonne Larsen, confirmed the death to news outlet VG.

“As a defender, I would like to emphasize that Mikkel Eskil was charged with downloading and sharing abuse material where the level of punishment would have been in a few months to 1 year in prison. The charge was not extended at any time and the police did not investigate him for other matters either. The case was in the final phase and it was agreed that it should go as a confession case,” Larsen said.

Leading up to Mikkelsen’s suicide, national news outlet NRK reported that authorities had begun questioning him again, three months after his arrest, from a “new” approach, but did not specify the nature of the interrogation.

Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen at Bodø Pride, just months before his arrest on child pornography charges

Mikkelsen was a prominent LGBT activist and politician who hailed from the small community of Tysfjord, a municipality with wracked by child sex abuse scandals. Despite having a population of less than 2,000 people, Tysfjord has been the location of hundreds of child sex abuse cases from 1980 to 2017. In 2016 alone, 151 criminal cases were opened by the police involving 82 victims and 92 defendants.

In 2018, Mikkelsen was named LGBT Person of the Year at the Norway’s national Gay Gala.

Mikkelsen is a former Sámi politician and member of the Sámi Council. He represented the Norwegian Samers National Association (NSR) at the Sámi Parliament, or Sametinget, from 2017 to 2024. During his time in this role, he led the Sametinget’s work on its first LGBT plan, which was published in April 2023.

In its introduction, the Sametinget report on gender equality states: “Prejudice and hatred have their roots in many centuries of Norwegianization and oppression. Social norms and gender roles have changed significantly in just a few decades. We stand in a cultural tension between traditional Sámi society and today’s expectations of modernity.”

Section 2.2, “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,” opens with a photograph of Mikkelsen receiving his awared at the 2018 Gay Gala.

The section begins by stating: “Sexual orientation and gender identity have been particularly challenging for many in Sámi communities. In the process of this work, it has become clear that it is important to develop concepts in the Sámi languages, which makes it easier and more natural to talk about topics and have important debates about sexual orientation and gender identity in Sámi.”

The passage goes on to provide a definition of “gender identity” as “a person’s internal experience of being female, male, both female and male, or neither.”

The text further describes the term “transgender,” stating: “an umbrella term for people who have an appearance or identity that expresses a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth.”

https://reduxx.info/norway-gay-politician-who-pushed-gender-identity-reforms-commits-suicide-after-admitting-to-child-pornography-charges/

Europe Is Giving in to the Censorious Demands of Islam

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In July 2023, an Iranian man burned copies of the Bible and Torah outside the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen. The Danish authorities granted Medhi Zaman permission, and the demonstration was mostly disregarded by the general public.

However, in both Denmark and Sweden, insulting Islam is treated differently. Last month, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi asylum seeker living in Sweden, was awaiting trial for a series of public burnings of the Quran. The 38-year-old anti-Islam activist did not attend court because, on January 29th, Momika was shot dead in what appears to be a retaliatory attack.

Although Momika’s protest is supposedly protected under Swedish law—the country scrapped its blasphemy laws in 1970—exceptions are made if the protest is viewed as incitement. He was awaiting a verdict on a charge of ‘agitation against an ethnic group.’ The protest sparked outrage in muslim-Majority countries. The Scandinavian Quran burnings were cited by Turkey as why they delayed Sweden’s NATO membership for months. The Swedish embassy in Baghdad was attacked and its ambassador was expelled. 

Denmark was once a shining example of Enlightenment rationalism. When the government abolished all types of censorship in 1770, it asserted its citizens’ right to free speech. This was demonstrated when it vigorously defended Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that published a dozen satirical cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in 2005. Despite the potential backlash and the threat to life, the administration remained steadfast in its protection of journalistic freedom.Things have changed, and it appears that certain accommodations have been made for Islam. In response to a series of book burnings, the country introduced what is widely referred to as  “the Quran law” in December 2023. Those who burn or defile holy texts face a fine and a maximum sentence of two years in prison. In January, two Danish citizens were the first to be charged under the new law. Both were accused of ‘inappropriate treatment of a Quran’ at a political festival in June of last year.

Despite the European Court of Human Rights having stressed on numerous occasions that freedom of expression constitutes “one of the essential foundations of a democratic society”, and that “it is applicable not only to ‘information’ or ‘ideas’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population,” there are still  several EU members states that still punish  ‘insult to religion,’ as noted on the website of End Blasphemy Laws. 

Britain has also formally abolished its blasphemy laws. However, the police’s attitude towards those who ridicule Islam’s holy book has remained mostly unchanged since 2008, when blasphemy was removed from the statute books. Last month, a man in Manchester was arrested on suspicion of a ‘racially aggravated public order offence’ after live-streaming himself burning a Quran. Then, just a few days ago, Metropolitan police charged a man with the same offence after a Quran was allegedly burned outside the Turkish consulate in central London, despite the activist being attacked by a man wielding a knife who objected to his protest and reportedly spat on him. 

In 2023, an autistic 14-year-old boy was suspended from a school in West Yorkshire when a copy of the Quran was scuffed. So great was the anger in the local Muslim community that the boy’s mother appeared at a local mosque begging for forgiveness after his life was threatened. To compound the humiliation, her ‘sinful’ hair was covered to avoid any offending worshippers. The Batley Grammar School teacher who drew the wrath of Muslims in 2021 for displaying his students an illustration of the prophet Mohammed is allegedly still in hiding.

When Labour MP Tahir Ali urged Sir Keir Starmer to prohibit the desecration of the Quran and other Abrahamic religious texts during Prime Minister’s questions, it was obvious which faith he was talking about. Ali is ideologically captured by the electorate—57.5% of Ali’s Birmingham constituency of Hall Green and Moseley are Muslim. Between 2011 and 2021, the Muslim population of England and Wales increased by more than a million, reaching almost 4 million, or approximately 6.5% of the population, and is estimated to rise to 17.2% by 2050. 

In response to Ali’s proposal for a law to safeguard Islam from mockery, Prime Minister Starmer stated: “I agree that desecration is awful and should be condemned across the House. We are … committed to tackling all forms of hatred and division, including Islamophobia in all its forms.” 

Our ruling class’s support for state-mandated multiculturalism has culminated in the creation of a new de facto blasphemy law: Islamophobia. During its time in opposition, the Labour Party adopted the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims (APPG) definition of Islamophobia, a version of which looks likely to be implemented by the government, according to the Sunday Telegraph. An APPG report defined it thus: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”

Following a string of Quran burnings in Scandinavia, the Guardian described the stunts as evidence of a ‘racism crisis.’ One of the Muslim women interviewed called book burning an example of ‘Islamophobia.’ 

However, Islam is a belief system, not a race. There are nearly two billion Muslims in the world, many of whom come from different ethnicities. When you criticise Islam, you are criticising an ideology, not a specific racial group: conflating race and ideas is an efficient technique to silence opposition. 

The real problem for Europe is definitely not imaginary Islamophobia, but Islam itself. Many convincingly argue that Islam is a religion that is inherently opposed to Western values. This was also evidenced by a survey done in March of last year: 52% of Muslims in the United Kingdom support legislation outlawing the display of images of the Prophet Mohammed within the next twenty years. 

If you live in the West, you must adhere to its laws and values. If this means tolerating somebody burning a religious text, then so be it. Living in a free society demands a trade-off. 

However, European countries, once the foundation of enlightenment thinking, have opened their borders and collectively accepted the censorious demands of Islam. Britain—the birthplace of liberty philosopher and advocate John Milton—has a long history of liberty, free expression, and the right to blaspheme. But after importing large numbers of people from countries with dictatorships or theocratic regimes, we seem to be forced to give up on these historically European principles. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/europe-blasphemy-laws-censorious-demands-of-islam

A man armed with a knife attacks police officers during a night-time check in Saint-Martin-Boulogne, France. An officer opens fire and injures him. The person has several criminal convictions and is said to have shouted ‘Allah Akbar’

It was 4.15 a.m. on Saturday morning, March 1, when three police officers from the Brigade Anticriminalité (BAC) from Boulogne-sur-Mer stopped on patrol in a car park at the foot of the René-Descartes residence, a few metres from Rue Marlborough in Saint-Martin-Boulogne.

‘They had spotted a suspicious man in a car,’ reports Grégory Claudevel, senior representative of the Alliance union in the region. ‘When the police officers questioned him from their vehicle, he insulted them,’ explained Boulogne prosecutor Guirec Le Bras. He added that the man ‘accosted them so that they would come towards him’. At that moment, ‘he pulled out two knives and made death threats’. (…)

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(…) and threatens the officers, shouting ‘Allah Akbar’. (…)

According to the prosecutor’s account, the police officers from the Brigade Anti-Criminalité were in an ‘area affected by burglaries’ when they saw the man and approached him from their vehicle. The man then pulled out two knives and made death threats. As the man ran off with his weapons, they followed him, whereupon he ran towards them and told them to shoot. A first police officer used a stun gun twice and then a laser pointer (LBD), which had no effect.

The man backed away and then jumped at the police officers a second time. Another police officer then fired two shots from his firearm, injuring him in the thigh. The police officers later discovered that the man had ‘wrapped his upper body with cardboard boxes’.

The 40-year-old was already known to the judiciary and had been convicted four times between 2012 and 2023 by the criminal court in Boulogne-sur-Mer for driving under the influence of drugs, drug abuse, death threats and insulting a person of public authority.

Le Parisien

Un homme armé de couteaux agresse des policiers lors d’un contrôle la nuit à Saint-Martin-Boulogne (62). Un agent ouvre le feu et le blesse. L’individu est un multi-condamné et aurait hurlé « Allah Akbar » selon Le Parisien – Fdesouche

Murder in the White House

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Years ago, someone suggested Murder in the White House, a book by Margaret Truman, the President’s daughter. Honestly, I never read it. At the same time, I probably don’t have to after watching the Zelenskyy visit with President Trump and VP Vance.

Let me tell you what happened because it was something to watch, or “good television” as the president said. This is the story:

Conversations about a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia came to a screeching halt Friday, after a tense meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led to a canceled press conference, a minerals deal off the table and Trump asking the Ukrainian president to leave, a White House official confirmed.

Trump accused Zelenskyy of “disrespecting” the U.S. during their Friday meeting, and said the Ukrainian leader was not ready to secure peace for his country. 

“I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday. “I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.” 

It was worth watching. Like most of you, I was expecting the usual back and forth and we will see you at a press conference later. What we got was something else:

1) The leader of Ukraine is totally out of touch with reality. He can’t win a military victory. The war is destroying his country and killing who knows how many. It would have been smart to smile, say thanks to U.S. taxpayers, and express concerns in private. Instead, he picked a fight with the wrong guy.

2) The leader of the U.S. is not afraid to walk away from a bad situation. He did and the White House staff had a free lunch today. Wonder what was on the menu? I have not tried Ukrainian food.

So what happens next? I believe that Zelenskyy, or his replacement, will come back to finish the deal. It’s the only hope that Ukraine has.

Well, I guess that I won’t have to read about the murder in the White House after all. I saw it on TV and it was great.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/murder_in_the_white_house.html