Thousands of Romanians gathered on Friday outside the parliament building in Bucharest, which also houses the country’s Constitutional Court, to protest the court’s annulment of the November presidential election.
Outsider populist Calin Georgescu was the runaway leader in the election, but the court nullified the entire vote over allegations of Russian interference.
Georgescu, invariably described as a “far-right populist” by international media, shocked the Romanian political establishment by roaring into first place in pre-election polling. His success was all the more remarkable because his campaign spent very little money on advertising; in fact, he claimed he spent nothing at all.
Georgescu built an enormous following on social media, running as an admirer of American President-elect Donald Trump, a skeptic of funding for Ukraine, an economic nationalist, a Christian conservative, and a very spirited critic of left-wing billionaire George Soros. Polls showed him drawing heavy support from religious conservatives and people frustrated with the bottomless corruption of Romanian government.
One of the major criticisms raised against Georgescu was that he spoke admiringly of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who loves his country,” although he insisted he did not agree with Putin’s agenda.
Georgescu was dismissed as a fringe candidate by Romanian media until he suddenly burst into the lead in polls, then won the first round of the presidential election with 23 percent of the vote. Political analysts confidently predicted he would be crushed in the second round, as lower-ranked candidates dropped out and the anti-Georgescu vote consolidated around a single champion — but suddenly, he was leading in the second round by a seemingly unsurmountable margin.
A week before the second-round vote was to be held, declassified Romanian intelligence documents were released that accused Georgescu of benefiting from 25,000 phony TikTok accounts created by a Russian disinformation campaign. The documents also claimed Russia disrupted the Romanian election system with a massive cyberattack.
Romania’s top prosecutor announced these allegations would be investigated as “electoral crimes” and then, two days before the vote, the Constitutional Court nullified the entire election. Enraged Georgescu supporters flooded the streets, complaining about a stolen election and rigged system. They returned to their protests on Friday, waving Romanian flags and chanting: “We voted, you stole from us … Give us back the second round.”
Demonstrators also argued the administration of President Klaus Iohannis was illegitimate because it should have ended on December 22 following the election. Some of the marchers called for Iohannis to be arrested and denounced members of his government as “traitors.”
Georgescu himself did not attend the protest, although he sent a video message to his supporters and asked the Constitutional Court to “urgently review the decision that has thrown Romania into chaos.”
Georgescu did not join the marchers because he was on his way to “the heart of Europe, to the highest courts,” as he put it, to file legal challenges against “great European institutions” that supported nullifying the election. He was most likely talking about the European Court of Human Rights, which is located in Strasbourg, France.
The protest coincided with Georgescu’s lawyers filing a formal request for the top court to reverse its annulment decision. A similar request was filed by fellow populist candidate George Simion, who notched a disappointing fourth-place finish in the election after the meteoric rise of Georgescu.
“We have been living in a dictatorship since December 6. We are here to defend democracy,” Simion told reporters when he joined the protests in Bucharest.
“I am with the Romanians, not with a person. We do not support Mr. Georgescu. I wonder why Mrs. Lasconi is not here,” he said, referring to former journalist and mayor Elena Lasconi, who finished second in the nullified election.
Lasconi has criticized the election nullification, saying the court “trampled on democracy” with an “illegal and immoral” ruling. She said on Wednesday she will run again, despite heavy pressure from the current government coalition for her to drop out and clear a path for whoever their consensus candidate might be. The coalition is currently having trouble coming up with someone to run.
Several journalists said they were harassed by the protesters and pelted with trash, prompting a response from the police, who said “acts of aggression and intimidation” would be investigated and punished.
A new election in Romania has been scheduled for May 4, with a runoff vote on May 18 if necessary. Current polls suggest a majority of Romanians disagree with the annulment of the November election, and there is every chance Georgescu could win the new vote. Georgescu has urged Romanians to sign a petition demanding not a new election from scratch, but the aborted second-round runoff that would have seen him facing Lasconi, the second-place finisher in November.
A trans-identified male convicted of murdering two men and feeding their corpses to pigs has filed a legal complaint seeking a retrial, alleging that the attorney appointed to him by the state of Oregon failed to “controvert false evidence,” and that his Sixth Amendment rights have been violated. Vietnam war and US Navy veteran Susan Monica, born Steven Buchanan, was found guilty of the two murders, as well as two counts of abuse of a corpse in the first degree, and in 2015 was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison.
Buchanan is currently serving his lengthy sentence at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison known for having a history of abuses against female inmates. He is listed under his feminine name, Susan Monica, and is described as being “female” in official records.
In 1991, Buchanan purchased a 20-acre farm in Oregon where he would kill two handymen in 2012 and 2013 before feeding their corpses to the pigs he owned at the property.
Multiple new outlets reporting on the case referred to Buchanan simply as a “woman,” without mentioning his transgender status or the fact he is a biological male.
“You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Judge Timothy Barnack told Buchanan during sentencing. “I don’t know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people. It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer.”
Now, Buchanan has filed a writ of habeas corpus demanding to be let out of prison, citing errors in the original trial. Buchanan, referring to himself as “Ms. Monica” in the complaint, alleges that “the trial court barred Ms. Monica from airing her concerns about counsel,” and that the court, which denied his motion for a substitution of counsel, “failed to honor Ms. Monica’s conditional request that if her counsel was not relieved, she be permitted to represent herself.”
In 2012, Buchanan hired 59-year-old Stephen Delicino to assist him with tasks on the farm in exchange for financial compensation and accommodations. According to Buchanan’s testimony, the two became involved in a physical altercation after Buchanan discovered that Delicino was in possession of two of his guns. During a confrontation over the alleged theft, Buchanan has claimed that a gun misfired, striking Delicino in the back of the head and killing him.
Reduxx has learned that a trans-identified male convicted of multiple murders is serving a 50-year sentence in a women's correctional facility in Oregon.
Steven Buchanan, who identifies as a woman named "Susan Monica," fed his victim's corpses to pigs.https://t.co/e03LleYsVB
However, Buchanan’s story regarding the death of Delicino has been inconsistent. He has variously asserted that Delicino shot himself in the head, and alternatively that he had shot the victim in self-defense — before his remains were eaten by Buchanan’s pigs. What was left of Delicino’s corpse would later be found by investigators in plastic bags on the property.
The following year, Buchanan hired Robert Haney, 56, as a handyman by placing an advertisement for hired help. In the summer of 2013, Haney’s children became concerned when they could not contact their father, and filed a missing persons report with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
In the legal filing requesting a retrial, Buchanan argues that his Sixth Amendment rights have been violated, and as such he is entitled to a retrial. Buchanan argues this on the basis that he was not allowed to properly represent himself and that he was not granted an alternative counsel when he complained about the state-appointed attorney who represented him in court, Christine Herbert.
According to Buchanan, Herbert “failed to controvert false evidence” that he had sold a shotgun to a pawn shop shortly after being contacted by investigators looking for Haney.
On May 22, 2014, Buchanan sent a request to the trial court seeking new counsel, and wrote on an inmate request form from the jail: “I need a new lawyer. Yesterday my investigator came to see me and would not talk to me until I signed a release form for mental health… I want someone to find out where Robert Haney was for the 6+ weeks he was missing before he turned up in my pig pen and prove me innocent.”
The main issue Buchanan had with his state-appointed counsel, Christine Herbert, was that “she seamed [sic] more interested in me being insane than in[n]ocent.”
In response to multiple requests from Buchanan for a change in his representation, the court denied his motion for new counsel. Jackson County Judge Timothy Barnack speculated that if he were to give Buchanan new counsel that he “may not like what they have to say, either” and would “keep asking for more and more attorneys.”
Buchanan further contests that a jailhouse informant incarcerated with him had sabotaged his case when testifying in court that he had admitted to shooting Haney after he refused to leave Buchanan’s property. While awaiting sentencing, he was held among female inmates at Jackson County jail. A former cellmate of Buchanan’s, Jordan Farris, testified in court that Buchanan had confessed to the grotesque murders.
Farris also described getting “chills” after receiving a birthday card from Buchanan signed, “from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County.”
Because the state’s attorney, Herbert, had also represented Farris in a felony methamphetamine case, Buchanan accused his legal counsel of a “conflict of interest” and suggested that Farris had “embellished the story” in hopes of gaining a plea deal.
Monica giving an interview from Jackson County jail in 2015. Photo: KTVL 10.
While claiming to be innocent, Buchanan argues in his writ that he shot the first victim, Delicino, in self-defense after a physical altercation, and that his pigs ate the corpse afterwards. The second victim, Haney, Buchanan claims, was “close to death or already dead” when he found the man being consumed by pigs, and then “shot him out of mercy.”
Bizarrely, however, Buchanan’s filing describes how, on January 5, 2014, Deputy Donald Adams of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department visited his farm to investigate a missing person report lodged by Haney’s son. At that time, Buchanan states he had commented on wanting “to obtain a government grant to research how pigs consume human bodies.”
Astonishingly, in his own legal complaint, Buchanan states: “While the officers were at Ms. Monica’s property they requested to look around. She asked: ‘Where’s your warrant?’ During this encounter Ms. Monica spoke of killing people and feeding them to her pigs and clarified that she was joking.”
Video footage of a 4-hour long police interrogation with Buchanan recorded on January 6, 2014, shows him presenting inconsistencies in his narrative and expressing concern for the welfare of his pigs. When asked about Haney’s death, Buchanan insisted that he happened upon his pigs already consuming Haney, while alive, and that this prompted Buchanan to fatally shoot him.
“He had been gone for over a month. I came down to feed my animals, and I heard this moaning. His guts were out, but he was still alive… I didn’t think he was going to live. I went up and got my rifle and shot him in the head… And I just left him there. You know that pigs will eat anything if you give them the opportunity,” Buchanan said.
“He was being eaten, what I believed to be, alive,” Buchanan told detectives during the interview. “I put him out of his misery. I do that for my animals and this was the first time I did it for a human being and I knew it was wrong but if it were one of my pigs suffering out there, I would have done the same thing.”
Buchanan admitted that he took the remainder of Haney’s body, including his skull, and placed it in a plastic bag in his barn. He then drew a map to direct police to his remains.
State Police forensic anthropologist Veronica Vance testified that Haney had suffered three to four gunshot wounds to the head. His legs had been chopped off with an ax, though it was unclear whether this occurred before or after Haney’s death. Additionally, his thigh bones showed signed of having been gnawed on by an animal.
During a polygraph portion of the interrogation, Buchanan defecated in his pants. He then slipped up and told an officer he “left them,” referring to multiple corpses instead of only Haney’s, which ultimately led to the discovery of Delicino’s body. While drawing up a map of the farm, Buchanan confessed, “Right there, about three feet down, there’s part of another body.”
Police located the remains of the two victims on Buchanan’s property in the locations he had provided during the interrogation. Investigators excavated large portions of his property, but no other human remains were discovered.
Buchanan told police that Delicino had attempted to steal a gun from his farm, and that an argument broke out after he confronted the handyman about the theft. He claimed Delicino then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head multiple times, while running outside and falling into a pig pen.
“He grabbed a little pistol and he said that he [didn’t] want to go back to jail, and he decided he was going to kill himself. He shot himself in the head, and then he ran out. That was when it got even worse… and he emptied the gun in his own head,” Buchanan told law enforcement.
“Do you think I believe your story?” an officer asked Buchanan.
“No. I don’t believe my story… It’s too stupid,” Buchanan said.
During the interrogation, Buchanan admitted, “I do not value human life very much… My feeling is the only thing wrong with the planet is there’s people on it. If not for us, all the other animals, even dodo birds, would be here.”
On January 13, 2014, lead investigator Detective Eric Henderson again interrogated Buchanan, at which point the pig farmer’s story regarding Delicino’s death drastically changed. In the new narrative, Buchanan shot Delicino multiple times in self-defense after the hired handyman allegedly attempted to kill him.
Vietnam veteran Steven Buchanan at his farm in Oregon. Buchanan now claims to be a woman and calls himself Susan Monica.
In Buchanan’s revised explanation, Delicino had stolen a rifle from him worth approximately $300. Some time later, Delicino announced he would be leaving the farm. In a 2022 podcast interview, Buchanan said, “I had tried several times to get him to stay where he was and move in with me.”
The two then allegedly began to argue over “who he had sold the rifle to,” leading Delicino to “go nuts,” according to Buchanan.
“He thought I was going to have him arrested for stealing. I didn’t know it at the time, but he had hit me so hard with the butt of a rifle that he busted my right breast implant.”
Buchanan claims that Delicino attempted to kill him, and it was then that he shot him in the head. He continued to shoot Delicino, he said, because of “this thing called death grip.”
“When he didn’t let go, I went ahead and I shot him a couple more times,” Buchanan said. “I couldn’t believe it, but he was still holding onto my leg really tight. And I didn’t know it at the time, but I’m pretty smart, but you know, nobody knows everything. So I’ve learned that as I had heard about this thing called death grip… after some time, I realized that he was dead after the first shot.”
Detective Henderson, who directed the investigation, told the court during trial that Buchanan had admitted to killing over a dozen victims in a similar manner. “She told me that if she told me about the 17 others that she would spend the rest of her life in jail,” said Detective Henderson, referring to Buchanan as a woman.
During the 2015 court proceedings, Buchanan insisted on cross-examining witnesses, including Detective Henderson. While questioning the lead investigator, KOBI-TV NBC5 reported that Buchanan threatened to kill Henderson and feed him to his pigs. He then attempted to pass off the remarks as a joke.
Buchanan has a documented tendency to lash out with similarly dark “jokes.” During the January 6 police interview, Buchanan angrily responded to Eric Fox, the Deputy Medical Examiner, after being asked the whereabouts of a former tenant.
“So you know he still exists and he hasn’t disappeared, he’s not deceased on your property?” Fox asked.
Buchanan snarled and leaned in as though about to strike Fox, and said, “Well, you’ll have to find him, won’t ya?” He then chuckled awkwardly and blamed his “stupid sense of humor.” During a separate interview, Buchanan quietly remarked, “I see my stupid sense of humor become a reality.”
The former tenant, who lived at Buchanan’s property for four years, would go on to tell local news that the farmer killed his cat and two dogs, and that he believed he had fed them to his pigs.
This is the second attempt by Buchanan to secure a mistrial. In February 2018, he filed for a post conviction review, but was denied on the basis that his attempts to represent himself mitigated his complaints about his counsel’s effectiveness.
It is unclear how many men claiming a transgender status are currently being held in women’s facilities in Oregon state. As Reduxx previously reported, a man in custody for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend had been briefly transferred to the Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Facility, but was quickly moved back to the male estate just weeks later for unknown reasons.
Zera Lola Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, has received a “vulnerable” designation by an Oregon Court, entitling him to special protections and privileges due to his gender identity. He is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory.
Dutch Bishop Robert Mutsaerts has criticized the Catholic hierarchy for focusing on “climate change” and social justice issues instead of the salvation of souls. He said that young people are attracted by traditional liturgy and not by Pope Francis’ “synodality.”
In a blog published in December, Bishop Mutsaerts said that this negative trend has dominated the Catholic Church since the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council.
“How did it get to the point where we see what we see today in church circles? Rainbow flags, LGBT activists dancing around the altar, second-rate bands playing pop music, sermons that are an expression of political correctness rather than anything else?” he pointedly asked.
“How is it that beauty and truth have given way to ugliness and opinions? Ugly buildings, whitewashed walls, iconoclasm, and poorly acted performances that pass for liturgy. Kneelers and communion rails have been removed. The mystery, the sacred, the supernatural had to give way to horizontal flatness.”
The bishop said that he sees a hunger for tradition and transcendence in young Catholics.
“But this has not yet caught on in Rome,” he mused. “There, they are preoccupied with the new buzzword synodality.”
“The leadership of the church resembles Demas, who left Paul out of love for the secular world,” he stated. “And Judas, who thought the money spent on Jesus would have been better spent on the poor. This resonates well with the liberals. They are like those who cry out for Barabbas, the activist who strove for a secular utopia. They say: ‘We take matters into our own hands.’ Jesus, on the other hand, did the will of the Father and chose the cross. That seemed like a failure, but it was the cross that brought redemption.”
Bishop Mutsaerts said people have left the Church in the past 60 years “because the church has let them down.”
“’Yes,’ says the church, ‘we are committed to the environment, to climate change, to diversity, to the poor and issues like that.’ More emphasis is placed on this than on a dignified liturgy, on sacrality, on the call to conversion, and on prioritizing the salvation of souls. People forget that this is precisely what gives people the nourishment they need to truly perform works of mercy.”
“Since the 1960s, the Church has portrayed the faith as ridiculous, no longer naming its core,” the bishop said. “Look at the liturgical abuse that is the order of the day. I am regularly terrorized at Confirmation Masses by choirs singing only Top 2000 songs. I once experienced the choir, accompanied by a deafening band, singing exclusively songs by Bruce Springsteen. ‘Because the Night’ was the offertory hymn. At the end of the Mass, it was clear to me: we will never see these confirmands in church again.”
“At another Confirmation Mass (Nijmegen), the priest refused to give Communion to a confirmand because he wanted to receive Communion on the tongue. That’s actually very clerical: this priest makes his own rules and imposes them on the faithful,” he continued.
“This has been the problem of the Church since the Second Vatican Council: the Church does not teach what the Gospel teaches. We are afraid to proclaim Catholic views. Which priest still talks about ‘salvation’ and the ‘forgiveness of sins?’ We prefer to distance ourselves from it. We apologize for a colleague who stands guard and prays outside an abortion facility.”
“The Pope banned the traditional Latin Mass in Chartres and Notre Dame and added an LGBT pilgrimage to the program of the Holy Year in the same week,” the Dutch bishop stressed.
“We strive so much for ‘freedom and happiness,’ but in practice, this seems to lead to debauchery and dissatisfaction. What is needed are norms and values that we share. Where do we get this from? Norms and values that apply to everyone and at all times. Yes, there is such a thing as the truth that applies to everyone. And yes, we can know it. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle already knew this. This natural law has a supernatural origin that the secular world knows nothing about.”
He said the “dialogue with the world” opened at the Second Vatican Council has led many in the Church hierarchy to “relativize or even deny the timeless truths of the Church.”
These truths “would merely be figments of the imagination of Thomists and other outdated theologians.”
“This led to a completely horizontal translation of the Gospel. Metaphysics was jettisoned, and the focus was exclusively on community. The result is a flat liturgy in which there is no longer any room for sin and forgiveness. The blame was shifted onto others,” Bishop Mutsaerts said.
In today’s Church, at least in Western Europe, the mainstream view says “it should be about social justice, about soup kitchens, about action,” he continued.
“Yes, mainly action. We stand up against discrimination and racism and take part in the social debate on climate change. We are naturally inclusive and diverse and fly the rainbow flag. Of course, we don’t talk about abortion, euthanasia, and mutilation of [so-called] transgender people. The distinction between the sacred and the profane has completely disappeared.”
“Young people, in particular, have sensed this very well and have voted with their feet,” the bishop said. “If the liturgy is an incoherent mess, if you are not asked to reorganize your life, if forgiveness and sin are forbidden words, then what are you doing there?”
“Good liturgy, clarity, and warmth make all the difference. Young people are looking for answers to questions.”
“No wonder young people hungry for meaning, forgiveness, and truth are not at all interested in Laudato Si’, Fiducia Supplicans, and synodality,” the bishop added.
“Parishes and dioceses that think they are focusing on this do not attract young people. Where do you find them: in parishes where things are simply traditional, where the Holy Mass is still Holy Mass, where the sacred is in the forefront, where the liturgy is clearly separated from the secular. You discover things there that you didn’t know before. It is a movement towards beauty, truth, holiness, towards devotion, towards places where the sacrament of Confession is offered and the Rosary is prayed. That’s where I see families, that’s where I see young people, that’s where I see the future of the Church.”
If you were scandalized by the European powers sweeping in to force Romania to cancel its Presidential Elections out of fear of right-winger Calin Georgescu, you better buckle up, according to former European Commissioner—and wannabe tyrant—Thierry Breton.
A Eurofanatic and enthusiast for censorship online, Breton had to resign from the EU after unsuccessfully trying to keep the Elon Musk/Donald Trump podcast from being broadcast.
In an interview on Thursday, Breton said that Elon Musk’s ‘interference’ in the upcoming elections in Germany ‘could lead to a cancellation of the election results.’
“This interference is also worrying European leaders. While the results of the first round of the Romanian presidential election have been annulled against a backdrop of Russian interference, the threat of Elon Musk intervening in favor of the AfD in Germany raises fears of the worst.”
Breton said that freedom of speech is a ‘fundamental element’ in Europe, commenting on Musk podcast with Alice Weidel on X – but…
“Thierry Breton nevertheless called for keeping calm in the face of this situation that is developing in Germany, mentioning the example of Romania. ‘Let’s enforce our laws in Europe when they are likely to be circumvented and if they are not enforced can lead to interference. We did it in Romania and it will obviously have to be done, if necessary, in Germany’, he concluded.”
There we have it – he ‘calmly’ suggests overriding the popular vote in Germany if it does not fit his Globalist point of view.
“’From the moment it is broadcast in Europe with a regulated platform, Elon Musk has to follow European rules. With the AfD, we have to follow them. It is obvious that we will take all measures to ensure that he respects the law. If he does not respect it, there are fines and the possibility of ban’, he continued, recalling that Elon Musk must comply with European rules.”
Algeria has immediately returned an Algerian influencer who was deported by France back to where he came from, aggravating diplomatic tensions between both countries.
The North African country’s authorities refused to accept their own national, influencer, who posts under the name “Doualemn”, and put him on a back plane to France moments after he landed, turning his deportation into a practically useless return trip of a few hours.
He was later placed in an administrative detention centre in Île-de-France, on January 9.
He had been forced to leave France for allegedly inciting hatred and violence.
Doualemn was one several Algerians with a significant following on social media who had recently called for attacking people connected to the Algerian opposition.
The influencer, whose real name was given as Boualem N, is a resident of Montpellier. He reportedly has 138,000 followers on TikTok.
He had warned people on his channel not to demonstrate against the Algerian regime in France on January 1 and called for an activist named Cohen to be killed because he had “shared” his video.
That led to his expulsion from France, as was the case with two other so-called influencers posting as “Zazouyoucef” and “Imadtintin”. They had similarly called for attacks on sympathisers of the Algerian opposition and made anti-Semitic comments.
Imadtintin was arrested after he posted a video that garnered nearly 858,000 views. In the recording, he said: “I swear before Allah, we are going to rape you all, in Algeria and in France. Here, those who know how to handle weapons will finish you off… No one will defend you in France.”
He also called for people to be “burned alive, killed and raped on French soil”.
On January 9, a French-Algerian TikToker in her 50s, Sofia Benlemmane, was taken into custody for allegedly having disseminated hate messages and threats.
She was held over accusations of making “death threats and public incitement to hatred”, Nelson Bouard, interregional director of the national police, told news agency AFP.
A TikTok influencer who goes by the pseudonym ‘Zazouyoucef’ has been accused of calling for the shooting of opponents of the Algerian regime in France. https://t.co/nuV9c0asYA
Despite Doualemn being in favour of the Algerian regime, the country did not allow him in, citing an “exceptional law” of 2008. That provided for the exclusion from the territory of any national likely to represent a threat, including terrorism.
According to French officials, cited by news outlet Europe 1, the Algerian authorities seemed to have “gone beyond this law”, and abused their power.
French police sources told the news outlet that the officers who had accompanied the influencer on the flight were forced to return with him. Leaving him there would have violated international law and risked their own arrest and detention, they said.
Doualemn entered France illegally in 1988 at the age of 23. According to the deportation order, hel has been convicted multiple times for common criminal offences.
In 2010, he was granted legal residency as the parent of a French child.
French government officials said: “It is a terrible signal that Algeria is giving to France,” adding he suspected the move was designed to aggravate France.
“It is clear that Algeria is seeking to humiliate France,”said interior minister Bruno Retailleau, stressing that relations with Algeria had “reached a single extremely worrying point”.
Valérie Pécresse, President of the Île-de-France region, denounced what she called a “new, unbearable provocation”.
Many on the Right have been demanding firm measures against Algeria, in particular the end of the Franco-Algerian agreement. That is a bilateral treaty that governs migration, residency and employment rights for Algerian nationals in France, providing them with specific privileges compared to other non-European Union foreigners.
Jordan Bardella, President of France’s right-wing National Rally (RN) party, said: “Faced with the openly hostile attitude of Algeria, which has regularly refused to take back its unwanted nationals, we must finally be clear-sighted and dare to take a stand: Freezing private fund transfers, suspending the issuing of visas, ending public development aid, challenging the Franco-Algerian treaty of 1968.
“France must finally earn the respect of a country that has long since exceeded all limits of indecency.”
Face à l'attitude ouvertement hostile de l'Algérie, qui refuse de récupérer ses ressortissants indésirables, il faut enfin être lucide et oser le bras de fer : gel des transferts de fonds privés, suspension de la délivrance des visas, fin de l'aide publique au développement,…
Eric Ciotti a right-wing MP allied with the RN, said: “France cannot accept to be humiliated in this way by Algeria.
“The only response is the immediate revocation of the 1968 agreements and no longer welcoming a single Algerian in France.”
Hard -ight MEP Sarah Knafo said it was time “to divorce Algeria for good”.
“But the problem is that we had custody of the children and we continue to pay child support. So we are doing what we should have done: firmness and an end to naivety,” she added.
Doualemn’s lawyer laid the blame on the French GGovernment.
He told the daily Le Figaro that the administration had “rushed his deportation” to avoid it “being examined by a judge”.
Doualemn’s trial is scheduled for February 24 in Montpellier.
France and Algeria’s diplomatic contacts have been further on the edge since the December 17 arrest of the 75-year-old French-Algerian writer and regime critic in Algeria, Boualem Sansal.
France has declared it stood squarely behind Sansal and announced a new partnership with Morocco, a geopolitical enemy of Algeria.
Algeria said it regarded the clampdown on the three Algerian influencers as part of that.
Regarding France’s support of Sansal, the People’s National Assembly, the lower house of the Algerian parliament, strongly condemned the remarks made against Algeria by French President Emmanuel Macron.
In late December, it expressed its “firm condemnation of the irresponsible statements issued by the French President, which constitute a flagrant interference in the internal affairs of Algeria and an attack on its sovereignty and dignity concerning an issue related to Algerian laws”.
Said Cherrah, 26, was sentenced to 11 years for a brutal acid attack against his ex-girlfriend, but his attacks against her didn’t end there. (Facebook)
A Moroccan national living in Italy was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Como court on Thursday for stalking and permanently disfiguring his ex-girlfriend in two brutal acid and knife attacks — but shocked the courtroom by shouting from the dock to his victim, “I have to kill you. I’ll be out in three years anyway!”
As reported by Il Giornale, Said Cherrah, a 26-year-old Morrocan with a residence permit, ambushed his ex-girlfriend near her workplace in Erba on Nov. 23, 2023, despite being the subject of a restraining order for previous threats and violent behavior.
Armed with hydrochloric acid, he threw the corrosive liquid at her, causing severe and permanent injuries and scarring to her face. The attack was carried out despite a previous arrest and legal restrictions and was only stopped when nearby workers intervened after hearing her agonized screams. Cherrah was arrested on the scene.
Despite the nature of the offense, Cherrah was put under house arrest while awaiting trial. Unsurprisingly, the defendant ignored the conditions and in December 2024, revisited his ex-girlfriend and stabbed her in the back, leaving her wheelchair-bound.
At the time, his trial for the acid attack was already underway.
Cherrah arrogantly addressed the prosecutor during cross-examination, saying, “Don’t look at me like that” as he displayed little remorse throughout the trial.
The courtroom fell silent as Cherrah addressed his ex-girlfriend, who was present and confined to a wheelchair as a result of his previous attacks. In Arabic, later translated into Italian, he added, “Why aren’t you dead? I have to kill you, sooner or later I’ll get out.”
His threats prompted immediate intervention by prison police, who removed him from the courtroom to prevent further escalation.
Cherrah will soon face another trial for the December 2024 stabbing attack, in addition to serving his current 11-year sentence.
The University of Exeter, one of the UK’s top 24 universities (and among the world’s top 100), has been warning undergraduates since January that they may “encounter uncomfortable views and content” in their studies of Homer.
Former prime minister Boris Johnson, who studied Greek and Latin, responded: “Is the University of Exeter saying their students are so weak-minded that they cannot appreciate Homer?” Yes, they are.
In September, Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” – one of the most important books in the history of world literature that Harold Bloom considered “second only to Shakespeare” – was censored for its “expressions of Christian faith” at the University of Nottingham.
And Joyce’s masterpiece “Ulysses” was censored at the University of Glasgow (not Tehran), where Joyce’s 800-page account of an ordinary man’s day in Dublin was deemed offensive for its references to “race, gender and identity.”
The assault on Western culture and civilisation is proceeding apace and even the father of literature is now banned. Homer is being subjected to the usual incomprehensible criticisms, even though The Iliad remains the source of our civilisation and literary and cultural tradition.
And perhaps that is why he is under attack.
Just read “How the World Made the West” by Josephine Quinn, a leading professor of ancient history at Oxford, who wants to destroy everything that generations of scholars and university students have been taught to be proud of, namely Western values and achievements. Quinn tells us that there is no such thing as “Western civilisation”. The world made the West, not the other way around.
The capitulation of the cultural establishment to woke progressives appears complete.
First, students at the famous School of Oriental Studies at the University of London (SOAS) are asked to ban Plato, Aristotle and Socrates. These philosophers had a serious “fault”: they were white and also exponents of “colonialism”. Then Socrates and Aristotle are “racists and colonialists” according to the famous London university, which draws up a blacklist of Western thinkers to be replaced with Indian feminists and Nigerian “gender theorists.”
Now Cambridge University also teaches students that the Anglo-Saxons are a “myth” to be overcome in order to build an “anti-racist” civilization.
One of the goals of this ideology is to break Western supremacy by studying “invisible” peoples, led by Islam.
Greece was the first to pronounce the word “Europe”, and therefore to shape the idea of it. It is found in a poetic hymn, as old as Homer’s Iliad. By sponsoring his oracular temple at Delphi, Apollo informs us that they will all come to worship him, “from the Peloponnese, from Europe and from the islands battered by the wave.”
This is why this anti-Homeric obsession is ultimately a destructive will aimed towards Europe.
And if the woke nihilists seem to have little in common with the ayatollahs, they seem to share their obsession with Homer.
A warehouse of half a million books was discovered in a hangar in Tehran, including Homer’s “Iliad”. The Islamic Revolution did not like them, and confiscated them in 1979.
For those of you who are not yet convinced that the destruction of culture is seen as the key to imposing the dictatorship of political correctness, you can read “Humanism and Democratic Criticism” (2004) by the late American-Palestinian Arab intellectual Edward Said. He describes American universities before the 1980s: cradles of the cultural and literary tradition of the West, where Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, Augustine and Dostoevsky were devoutly read.
Said recounts with satisfaction how in the space of twenty years this tradition was destroyed to create a new “humanism” and cites as a model the “regeneration” of Columbia, where he had become a professor. It was a gigantic emptying of heads to remake them from scratch.
And something else was put in those heads.
They are offended by the literary rapes in Ovid, but not by the real rapes of Hamas. First they erase Ovid, then they bring in Jihad. The French historian Georges Bensoussan is right, “Israel destabilizes the psyche of the West and Islam.”
Richard Seaford, professor emeritus of Classics at the University of Exeter who now censors Homer, has refused to write for Israeli academic journals. “Professor Seaford, I am the editor of Scripta Classica Israelica,” Daniela Dueck of Israel’s Bar Ilan University wrote to him. “We would like to include a review of the book in our volume… Would you be interested?” Seaford’s response: “I can’t accept because I joined the academic boycott of Israel.”
They censor Homer, boycott Israel, and justify Jihad. One of Exeter’s professors, Ilan Pappé, says he “admires” October 7.
We know the phrase attributed to Aristotle: “Apathy is the last virtue of a dying society.” We would do well to remember that.
A trans-identified male who, on a drug-fueled rampage, hacked at passersby with an axe in 2017 has been released on parole after serving a portion of his sentence in a women’s prison. Evie Amati, previously known as Karl Amati, was 24 when he walked into a 7-11 in Sydney and indiscriminately assaulted two customers with an axe.
In the early hours of January 7, 2017, Amati entered the Enmore 7-11, where he suddenly bludgeoned Ben Rimmer and Susan Hacker with a 2 kilogram axe he had brought with him. The brutal attack was captured on CCTV footage and shows Rimmer bleeding profusely from the head, and Hacker falling to the ground, after the assault. Once outside the shop, Amati swung at pedestrian Shane Redwood, who dodged the attack by using his backpack as a shield.
Rimmer had begun vomiting blood, as the injuries to his face cause such severe bleeding that he nearly drowned. He sustained a fractured nasal bone, eye socket and cheek bones, and underwent hours of reconstructive surgery. His injuries required the insertion of plates and screws, and he will spend the rest of his life with four titanium plates in his face.
Karl ‘Evie’ Amati prior to identifying as transgender.
A bone in Hacker’s skull was broken into multiple parts, and she had to wear a supportive cervical collar for months. She continues to experience nerve pain, and has said that the attack also impacted her daughter, who developed a fear of going outside after dark.
Amati would later blame his actions on a variety of personal factors, including: complications from a genital surgery he underwent in Thailand in 2014; a failed Tinder date with a woman; depression; and a mixture of drugs. However, during court proceedings it was revealed that he had purchased the axe two months prior and had been practicing his swing on his furniture.
Approximately one hour before the attack, Amati had made an eerie post to his Facebook account which read: “One day I am going to kill a lot of people… Humans are only able to destroy, to hate, so that is what I shall do.”
The message was similar to one he had sent directly to his female date one hour before the attack, writing: “One day I’m going to kill a lot of people for hating something so innocent.”
In 2018, a New South Wales District Court convicted Amati of wounding with intent to murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder and attempting to wound with intent to murder. He was sentenced to nine years in jail with a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years, after his lawyer argued that his transsexual surgery had caused him immense pain and contributed to his attempt to kill random strangers.
But Amati’s term was increased to a possible maximum of 14 years in 2019 after an appeal found that the original sentence was “so manifestly inadequate that it is an affront to the administration of justice.” Rimmer came forward to challenge the sentence, telling the court, “If I hadn’t turned my head at the last minute, she would have cut my head in half … She went there to kill. It’s only pure luck that I’m alive and she’s not remorseful. She’s intelligent … calculating,” he said, referring to Amati with feminine pronouns.
Amati was reported in Australian press as a “woman,” and feminine pronouns were used to refer to him in court. His lawyer, Charles Waterstreet, had argued that Amati had been “out of her mind” at the time as a result of drugs and prescription medication.
Amati after beginning to identify as a “woman.” Photo source: FACEBOOK
Amati testified that his mental health had declined after he began taking female hormones. However, the jury rejected the claim of Amati’s “mental derangement”. He had claimed to have no recollection of the brutal assault and said he had been hearing voices in his head which told him to “kill and maim” and “start the rise of hell on earth.”
After experiencing what he perceived to be rejection and revulsion from his date only hours before, Amati stated that he “really had one more memory … that voice that had been telling me to kill and maim, and inflict pain on people, and start the rise of hell on earth.”
“I recall everything going quiet and feeling that voice come inside and I remember that smile, the smile that was not mine, a sinister smile that plastered my face that I couldn’t control and then I black(ed) out.”
Sometime between 2018 and 2019, Amati had been involved in fights at the all-female Mary Wade Women’s Correctional Centre where he was being detained. During the appeal against Amati’s short sentence, it was revealed that he and a female inmate had a physical altercation after the inmate told Amati he belonged in a male prison.
One of the reasons provided for this dispute was the fact that Amati had chosen to abstain from taking female hormones and was said to be “de-transitioning.”
Prior to his release, Amati was assessed as having a “low to medium” risk of reoffending by NSW Community Corrections.
Prison gender self-identification laws have become a significant discussion in Australia following a 2022 protest by female inmates in Victoria against a trans-identified male they were being incarcerated with.
While the name of the transferred inmate was not initially released, Reduxx found that the details from the criminal’s background mirrored that of Lisa Jones, a trans-identified male who had been sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in 2021. Jones had previous convictions for child sex offenses.
Despite the women’s protest, the practice of placing males in women’s prisons across Australia continues, with different states regulating their own policies.
