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German prosecutors will not file criminal charges against a 22-year-old Afghan man accused of stabbing a German history student to death in the city of Trier in July, arguing that a psychiatric evaluation found he was not criminally responsible when he killed the victim. The parents of the victim have spoken extensively with the media, describing their anguish over their son’s murder and calling for political change in Germany, including political cooperation with Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to protect citizens.

The Trier Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that it had applied to the Trier Regional Court for a security proceeding aimed at permanently placing the suspect, Sajad Mirzaee, in a closed forensic psychiatric facility. They cited a preliminary expert report that diagnosed Mirzaee, who arrived in Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied minor refugee, with a schizophrenic disorder that left him unable to control his actions, according to Welt newspaper.

🇩🇪 The grieving parents of Marius Dick, the 22-year-old German student stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant last week, demand action from politicians to stop such attacks.

"Stop remaining silent. Do not leave the elephant in the room unaddressed!" pic.twitter.com/JsFXBAtu16

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) July 22, 2026

The victim, 22-year-old Marius Dick, was a military history student from Landstuhl. He was murdered on July 15 on a sidewalk along Robert-Schuman-Allee. Police said the two men did not know each other before the stabbing.

Mirzaee allegedly pushed Dick from the sidewalk in a random attack and stabbed him multiple times with a large kitchen knife. During the attack, one blow struck Dick’s heart. Emergency services attempted to save Dick but he died shortly after arriving at a local hospital. Mirzaee was arrested close to the scene.

Prosecutors classified the act as manslaughter committed in a state of lack of criminal responsibility, which means Mirzaee cannot be tried in court.

The regional court must still review the placement application in a closed psychiatric facility but Mirzaee is being held provisionally in forensic psychiatry.

Even though Mirzaee’s asylum application was rejected in 2017, German authorities imposed a deportation ban to Afghanistan, which meant Mirzaee was allowed to remain in the country. Mirzaee later received a permanent residence permit in 2023, meaning he could stay in Germany indefinitely.

Dick’s parents, Elke and Thomas Dick, had previously told EuroNews in October that they did not think the suspect would be found fully responsible for the murder of their son. During the interview, Thomas Dick and his wife Elke said the family viewed the killing as murder and wanted a criminal conviction.

“It would be very unsatisfactory for us if things went in this direction and a judgment were made in this sense. This was a murder for us, and he should be convicted as a murderer,” said Elke Dick.

Notably, Elke Dick is involved with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, which has been highly responsible for Germany’s immigration crisis. In fact, the migrant who murdered their son came in under Angela Merkel’s tenure in 2017 and was never deported. She stated that she received hostility for her role in the party from those who said she “deserved” what happened to her son.

The father questioned why the CDU does not at least work with the AfD on certain key issues, telling Welt: “The AfD has so many voters – they’re all supposed to be evil? We don’t talk to them? Even if we disagree, we still have to work together. You have to look for majorities to find majorities. This also means sitting down at a table with the AfD and talking about overlaps. Please do something! Anything else is a political failure.”

Elke Dick agrees, stating: “I’ve seen it that way before too: You can’t simply exclude people who were elected lawfully and in large numbers. That’s not possible; that’s against the will of the people. The politicians have sworn an oath: ‘For the good of the German people.’ People only ever talk about the AfD, but not with it.”

Elke also described the first moments of horror when she learned of her child’s death.

“Thomas was already waiting for me at the door. That was strange. When I came into the apartment, I saw the police officers and the chaplains. My husband said to me: ‘Marius is dead.’ I collapsed in front of the kitchen and all I could do was scream: ‘My child, my child, my Marius, this can’t be.’ A world collapses inside you; it tears your heart out,” she said.

A number of German commentators point to what seems to be a trend involving foreigners killing victims in Germany and then being sent to psychiatric facilities instead of prison. Columnist Anabel Schunke wrote on X about the murder: “Just for the record: A state that shoves almost every foreign knife-wielding thug into a psychiatric ward instead of deporting them back to their home-country shitholes is no longer capable of delivering justice through punishment.”

“The go-to main argument from the left is always: Yeah, but they should be tried here and serve their sentences here, otherwise they’d just pose a danger back home. But feeding these people here with our tax dollars in the loony bin even after such a bestial crime—that’s totally fine,” she continued.

Schunke noted that many of these suspects are released early, and in other cases, they are brought outside the closed psychiatric clinics for various activities, including in cases with no supervision even for murderers.

“And as for the argument that the psych ward is often worse than prison: I’d just like to remind everyone that the Somali murderer of Dr. Joachim Tüncher got unsupervised leave from the psych ward after a short time and was released after just a few years. With meds, these types get declared harmless pretty quickly. That’s not punishment. That’s a goddamn joke. Might as well just slap a postage stamp on their asses and ship them home,” she wrote.

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Levels of honour-based abuse have soared to record-high levels in England and Wales, new Government data has revealed.

The Home Office figures record a significant rise in rates of forced marriage and female genital mutilation, among other offences, in the year ending in March.

Under the police and Crown Prosecution Service definition, honour-based abuse encompasses violence, threats, intimidation and coercion carried out to defend the perceived honour of an individual, family or community.

Police forces across England and Wales logged a record 3,145 honour-based abuse offences over the past 12 months.

The total marks a seven per cent increase from the 2,949 cases documented in the preceding year.

However, the Home Office warned that the figures were “likely to only represent a fraction” of the true number of offences taking place, as its statistics capture only those crimes reported to and recorded by officers.

Female genital mutilation cases saw a 51 per cent rise, with 166 offences recorded, 57 more than the 109 logged the previous year.

That figure was the highest annual FGM total since the twelve months to March 2021.

Controlling and coercive behaviour was the most common offence category, accounting for 22 per cent of all recorded cases.

Assault occasioning injury made up 14 per cent, while stalking and threats to kill each comprised 8 per cent.

Forced marriage offences edged up slightly to 129, four more than in the prior reporting period.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service recorded the highest number of offences of any force, with 625 cases, a fifth of the national total.

West Midlands Police followed with 395 offences, or 13 per cent, and Greater Manchester Police registered 254, representing eight per cent.

The age profile of the victims of the abuse was also revealed through a freedom of information request.

Over the five calendar years from 2021 to 2025, at least 100 children aged 12 or younger were referred to the government’s forced marriage unit, which accepts referrals from police, social workers, educators, relatives and victims themselves.

Of those, 62 were aged ten or below, and 27 were no older than five.

Officials characterised honour-based abuse as a “hidden crime,” noting that many victims are reluctant to approach police or other agencies.

In February, Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy warned about honour crimes and abuse going “unpunished” as he suggested Sharia courts were contributing to a rise.

Rebecca Paul MP, a Conservative member of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said the growth of honour abuse was “unacceptable in modern Britain”.

“Close-knit clannish structures within isolated, unintegrated communities allow such violence to continue unreported and unchallenged,” she said at the time.

The Home Office added that enhanced training and improved awareness among officers may also be contributing to the rising figures.

A Home Office Spokesperson said: “Honour-based abuse leaves victims with lasting trauma. Yet too often it goes unidentified, masking its true scale.

“We are strengthening our response through new multi-agency statutory guidance, supported by a statutory definition of ‘honour’-based abuse.

“This will help police and other agencies better identify and tackle this abuse while helping victims to come forward. We are deploying the full power of the British State to halve violence against women and girls within a decade,” they said.

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In a way, it’s true: Germany is getting the ‘cultural enrichment’ it truly deserves. A country that not only revels in its intellectual and cultural decline but has also become a stronghold of cultural Marxists – and despises nothing more than its own culture – naturally attracts the stars and starlets that match its intellectual pretensions. Thus, our self-proclaimed celebrity scene is teeming with high-and-mighty left-wingers who exist solely for their own sake, public moralists, state puppets, faceless nobodies and professional dimwits, all of whom would be nothing without the appropriate political stance.
One of them is a certain Yasin Mohamed, 35, a self-proclaimed ‘reality star’ simply because he once appeared on RTL2’s ‘Love Island V.I.P.’ – though who actually knows that dating show anyway? Mohamed is tanned, tattooed up to his neck and wears a showy nose ring. Apparently, he was even a professional basketball player at one point. He left the programme with a certain co-star named Sophie Imelmann (30), and their romantic holiday continued in Greece. There, however, the Muslim man became violent; a rape occurred, which ultimately resulted in a trial at Munich Magistrates’ Court.

Before that, Sophie had insisted to him that she did not want to have sex, as she was afraid of becoming pregnant and of contracting diseases. Mohamed did not take her “No!” at face value and penetrated her twice without a condom. Mohamed was sentenced to one year and eight months’ probation and 200 hours of community service; as is so often the case, he denies all the allegations. The judge, however, ruled that this was not a harmless assault.
The prosecution had even sought a sentence of two years and eight months, though this would not have included a suspended sentence. Imelmann had previously made her allegations public on Instagram. After the hearing, she broke down in tears. She was wearing her lucky charm around her neck. Mohamed, on the other hand, has lost several scheduled TV appearances; amongst other things, he is no longer allowed to appear on RTL’s ‘Dschungelcamp’.

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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been told that transport minister Óscar Puente was the subject of corruption allegations just two hours before Puente resigned on November 3, according to the Madrid daily El Debate.

The newspaper reported that Diego Rubio, the head of Sánchez’s cabinet at the Moncloa, passed on the information at 7pm that day. Puente, who had insisted for a week that he would not step down over the Urda train crash, announced his departure before the standing committee of the Congress of Deputies at about 9pm.

The allegations concern Puente’s time as mayor of Valladolid, a post he held from 2015 to 2023. They centre on Francisco Javier Meléndez Juárez, owner of Patatas Meléndez, a potato company based in Medina del Campo in Valladolid province.

According to the information Rubio is said to have received, the businessman asked Puente to lobby the Spanish Government for subsidies for his firm and Puente did so. In return, the newspaper reported, Meléndez invited him to lavish meals and later to gatherings with prostitutes at his home.

El Debate said it had placed the former minister at the property on at least one occasion. It also reported the existence of a 12-page notarial deed dated May 17, 2024 in which a participant described the parties and listed the properties where they were held, and said that person had confirmed Puente attended once and that prostitutes were present.

The paper identified two public grants to the company: €200,000 from the industry ministry on June 6, 2023, 11 days before Puente left Valladolid town hall, and €2 million from the State credit institute ICO on May 9, 2025, with Puente already in government, under a scheme tied to the economic fallout of the Ukraine War.

Asked about the allegations, Puente questioned whether the reporter was serious and dismissed the material as not being information at all, El Debate reported. Rubio declined to comment.

Meléndez acknowledged hosting Puente at his homes in Valladolid and Alicante but denied that prostitutes were present, describing the former minister as a humble man.

Puente had rejected calls to resign as recently as October 30, saying he had Sánchez’s backing, after the October 28 collision between a Renfe high-speed train and a stationary Iryo service near Urda in Toledo province killed 69 people.

It was the second fatal high-speed crash on the Madrid-Andalusia line this year, after 46 people died at Adamuz in January. Rail unions had accused him of making an Adif control centre worker a scapegoat.

The revelations come as Sánchez’s Socialists face a general election on November 29 and as the Guardia Civil investigates whether the Government’s communications office was behind the leak of control centre audio recordings from the crash.

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Following an attack against a group of ten to 15 young Catholic men in the French city of Rouen which involved anti-Catholic and anti-White remarks, National Rally politician Marine Le Pen stated that the only reason France is even aware of the attack is because “Cnews exists.”

“Whatever one may think of it, fortunately CNEWS exists to talk about the assault on young Catholics in Rouen to the cries of ‘dirty white’ and ‘dirty fascist,’ a manifestation of anti-White racism that almost no other media has discussed. Refusing to talk about and condemn all forms of racism is refusing to condemn racism,” she wrote on X.

Quoi qu’on puisse en penser, heureusement que CNEWS existe pour évoquer l’agression de jeunes catholiques à Rouen au cri de « sale blanc » et « sale facho », manifestation d’un racisme anti-Blancs dont quasiment aucun autre média n’a parlé.

Refuser de parler et de condamner tous…

— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) November 4, 2026

Le Pen is now panning the selective media silence around the violent attack the previous Saturday night near Rouen’s Saint-Romain fair. CNEWS has run a number of reports about the racist attack and due to its role as an actual national television news channel, it reaches millions of French viewers.

On the evening of Oct. 31, around 11 p.m., a group of roughly ten to fifteen young Catholic men in their early to mid-twenties were heading toward the fair near the Docks 76 area after celebrating birthdays. They had been singing Catholic hymns, including “Resucitó, Alleluia,” while walking or after leaving a bus.

Witnesses and the victims reported that the atmosphere shifted abruptly when someone shouted that there were “fascists,” after which a larger group approached them, according to French news outlet Valeurs Actuelles.

Video of the attack also went viral on X.

"Bande de blancs de fils de pute"

Attaque raciste anti-blancs près de Rouen. Zéro interpellation. Zéro message de SOS racisme. Zéro condamnation à gauche. Zéro reportage dans les médias subventionnés. pic.twitter.com/L1isXv7e0A

— Geronimus lll 🇨🇵 (@Geronimuslll) November 1, 2026

The attacking group consisted of dozens of young men, many in black tracksuits and appearing to be of North African origin. The group began screaming a number of anti-White comments Victims stated in police complaints and a number of media interview that the group of North Africans screamed: “Fascists, dirty whites, we’re going to f**k your mothers, we’re going to kill you,” “dirty white.”

One attacker also screamed: “I’m 16, I’m Muslim and we’re going to f**k your mothers.”

The confrontation turned physical: punches, kicks, and a beating that left several men on the ground. At least three or four required hospital treatment.

One suffered an orbital fracture on his left eye. Other victims suffered facial hematomas, nosebleeds, and concussions.

A photo of one of the victims showed a serious injury to his eye.

One victim also lost consciousness when he returned to his home.

Four men filed formal complaints for violence motivated by race, ethnicity, nation, or religion.

The Rouen public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and have already found with three witnesses. Rouen’s mayor, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, stated that if the violence was motivated by the religious songs the victims had been singing, it would represent “a serious attack on the principles of freedom of conscience and religion.” He publicly condemned the attacks without reservation.

Victim Pierre-Alexis Michau, speaking on CNEWS, recounted: “I heard ‘dirty fascists, dirty whites, I’m Muslim and I’m going to fuck your mothers.’”

“I am French, I am Catholic. From centrist or left-wing media, we received no message, not even of support, no word at all,” he stated.

🇫🇷🔴 A group of French Catholics were viciously attacked and hospitalized in the city of Rouen.

“Dirty Whites. We’re going to f**k you!" their assailants, reportedly North Africans, screamed.

Now, the victims are speaking out.

Follow: @RMXnews pic.twitter.com/DKcyEkPswr

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) November 4, 2026

Other accounts, first detailed by Boulevard Voltaire and later expanded in Valeurs Actuelles after review of complaints and medical reports, described the attack as unprovoked beyond the singing and the group’s appearance.

So far, no arrests have been made in the case. As Remix News has reported in the past, CNEWS remains a major target of the left in France. In 2023, the Macron government was already moving to revoke the broadcast license of CNEWS.

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by Giulio Meotti

The Islamist despises the West as decadent and unbelieving; the radical Leftist despises it as capitalist and colonial. In their rejection of the Western order, they make common cause.

Now we discover that:

The German Left won thanks to the support of terrorists and their friends.

On election night they all celebrated together.

After the criticism, the Left fearfully distanced itself from its new friends.

As one might have expected, the new friends did not find it amusing.

The Left is afraid that disloyalty will bring retaliation and is even afraid to name them in an interview.

Perhaps some of them have read what was done in Iran to their left-wing allies after the revolution.

Perhaps they remember a famous Scottish left-wing academic, Malcolm Caldwell. He said that communism in Cambodia represented “the promise of a better future for all.” In December 1978 Pol Pot invited Caldwell to take part in a tour of the country. A few hours later he was killed.

We are seeing a recurring pattern across the entire West.

-In Michigan, a key American state, the Islamist Democrat Abdul El-Sayed just won the senatorial election.

-In France the Left uses “sensitive neighbourhoods” to reach the second round of the presidential elections, and we have seen how the riots are stirred up by well-funded far-left groups.

-In England Labour is electing Muslims to Parliament to compete with the Greens, who elect Islamists who shout “Allahu Akbar.”

-In Sweden the Islamic vote has revived a Left in crisis.

Now, far from the ridiculous accusations of racism that the global Left hands out left and right, an explosive piece of news is shaking Berlin.

The future mayor of Berlin, Elif Eralp, admits she is afraid of the pro-Palestinians who elected her.

The explosive revelation is fromDer Spiegel.

The German weekly asked for an interview with Eralp, the Linke (German for “Left”) candidate who won in Berlin.

By mistake, the staff of the Turkish-origin politician also forwarded the email exchange used to prepare the answers. Eralp writes that she is afraid to talk about Ibrahim Ibrahim, a pro-Palestinian Arab activist close to Hamas who appeared in the photos of the German left-wing party’s election-night celebrations.

“My husband is afraid of these people and so am I; I cannot put my family at risk,” writes the new mayor of Berlin, who asks whether the interview can be cancelled and complains that she should never have accepted it.

When the Left comes to power it discovers that those same circles are not docile instruments, but intolerant, violent, fanatical, and capable of intimidating even those who legitimised them on the political stage.

That a politician who aspires to lead the Berlin Senate is trembling in her boots throws a precise light on the real balance of political forces. And it seems that they are somewhat different from the way politics and the media like to make us believe.

In Sweden the Minister for Housing, Mehmet Kaplan of the Greens, had to resign after his Islamist links in Turkey came to light.

According to the report of the French parliamentary commission of inquiry, “political Islam is not a fantasy, not an extrapolation, but a real, documented and visible threat.” Rima Hassan, a Member of the European Parliament, has a bodyguard who is also an activist of Urgence Palestine, an Islamist and antisemitic organisation whose founder, Omar al Soumi, praised the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” the name given by Hamas to 7 October.

La France Insoumise Party’s deputy Thomas Portes met Haitham Abdo, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organisation according to the European Union, during his visit to Lebanon. La France Insoumise Party deputy Ersilia Soudais visited pro-Hamas and Intifada influencer Elias d’Imzalène, in Paris.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal boasted that “the Palestinian cause has entered the minds of Westerners.”

“Free Palestine” is no longer merely a declaration of war on Israel. It is a declaration of war on the entire West. Or on what remains of it.

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France is entering a new threat era as two groups with relatively little in common — middle-class European leftists on one hand and unassimilated migrants on the other — have successfully coordinated in recent rioting, which will only become more frequent and violent in coming years, warns a top spy.

Only those blinded by incompetence or ideology could have been surprised by recent violence in France, yet even so the new ability of disparate leftist and disaffected groups to coordinate to cause chaos has been impressive, the former head of French CIA or MI6 homologue Pierre Brochand has said.

‘Far-Left Fascism’ on the Streets Is Bankrupting France, Warns Police Union Chiefhttps://t.co/WfqhrXg0FZ

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 3, 2026

Brochand, a career diplomat who has been French ambassador to Israel, Hungary, and Portugal, was a junior diplomat in Vietnam in the 1970s including being present for the Fall of Saigon, and led the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE) between 2002 and 2008. Speaking to French newspaper of record Le Figaro last week, the veteran intelligence chief warned that “public order is now constantly challenged by… perpetrators who are in a state of cultural alienation and national disloyalty.”

Noting the emerging dynamic between indigenous French hard-left activists and dispossessed migrants, Brochand said he was among those who had underestimated “the potential for impetus, coordination, and action” on the “extreme and ultra-left” such as “black bloc” Antifa. Such groups have now “emerged as a credible force of subversion in major cities”, he said, noting they had taken on something of a leadership role, coordinating action by other groups that may have little in common otherwise.

The “shock troops” of the left are protesting students and experienced rioters, he said, who remain “for the most part, of middle-class European origin”. Added to that, further, are “young people from the suburbs” — French euphemistic language for unintegrated migrant communities — said Brochand, who noted the “endlessly” repeated, near-ubiquitous emergence of phrases like “wallah” [“I swear by Allah”] in crowd and riot footage of recent weeks.

These groups “travel together while displaying a rather limited degree of interaction” said Brochand, noting: ” To paraphrase Zhou Enlai, ‘they sleep in the same bed, but don’t share the same dreams’.”

Under the coordination of the hard left, relatively peaceful protests can be parlayed into ultra-violent riots by deploying these groups in times stages, in a tactic seemingly bespoke-made to exhaust police.

Brochand likened the tactic to a multistage space rocket, which launches on stacked boosters, discarding each as it becomes exhausted in turn. In this model, each subsequent stage may have less mass or be less powerful than the last, but building on the momentum it can fly ever-higher. The marches, the spy chief said, start with “peaceful marches by locals; in the afternoon, followed by “political” acts of vandalism by the far left in the evening, and then looting by “young people from the suburbs” by night.

For the veteran spymaster, mass migration to France and demographic change is playing a massive and undeniable part in the present unrest, and as that change accelerates violence will only grow. He told the paper:

…for the same demographic reason, a non-European component will gradually gain the upper hand, effectively merging the two branches of the protest movement… A majority of non-European births (in 2040) and population (in 2070) inevitably define our future.

What I know of the world allows me to assert that such a scenario will not be a benevolent one… These [violent] eruptions have already occurred. They are likely to recur, with increased frequency and intensity, in an increasingly hostile climate, as the relentless steamroller of demographics takes its toll.

In my view, this is less a prediction than a certainty.

In the meantime, general violence and looting by protesters is poisonous to civilisation, Brochand said, because it undermines trust in the majority in the capacity of the state — which they fund through taxes to protect them — to keep the peace. Comparing the change in public trust towards institutons to the aftermath of a “run on the banks”, the spy warned growing violence is like a “weapon of mass destruction against social trust, the foundation of everyone’s well-being” and becomes “very difficult, if not impossible, to stop when the number of victims exceeds a certain threshold.”

Given the police have struggled to keep control at times in the past month, Brochand signalled his congratulations to regular French people for their reserve so far. Noting they are not cowards but rather have been commendably restrained, the former spoy boss said the main population has not generally taken the law into their own hands, yet.

Warning that a widespread feeling that self-defence was necessary in the face of a failing state, Brochand stated this brings “apocalyptic, irreparable consequences”.

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Óscar Puente has resigned as Spain’s transport minister, six days after a high-speed rail collision near Urda, in Toledo province, central Spain, killed 69 people and injured about 200.

Puente announced his departure at the close of a four-hour appearance before the Permanent Deputation of the Congress of Deputies, the body that sits while parliament is dissolved. Nothing in the session had hinted at it.

Reading from prepared notes, he said a minister “cannot continue in his post with an accident of this kind”. He also withdrew as the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) lead candidate for Valladolid in the parliamentary elections on November 29.

Both Puente and Moncloa, the Prime Minister’s office, said the decision was his own. Puente said he had informed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez only minutes beforehand.

The crash on October 28 occurred when a Renfe AVE high-speed service bound for Seville struck the rear of a stationary train run by private operator Iryo. Puente told MPs that the control centre of Adif, the State-owned infrastructure manager, had let the Renfe train continue after the LZB automatic safety system failed.

Among the dead was former People’s Party (PP) employment minister Fátima Báñez, the CEOE employers’ confederation confirmed.

It was the second deadly accident on the Madrid-Seville high-speed corridor this year. On January 18, 46 people died near Adamuz, in Córdoba province, Andalusia, southern Spain.

For almost a week the government maintained that Puente had Sánchez’s full backing. The minister claimed that support himself in the Moncloa press room only hours before he quit.

Yet Sánchez had not offered a single public gesture in his favour in his many appearances after the crash, the paper noted.

Pressure from the government’s own allies had become hard to ignore. Every parliamentary group except EH Bildu urged Puente to go during the session.

Sumar spokeswoman Verónica Martínez Barbero told him that, although he was not to blame, political responsibility was his. Gabriel Rufián of Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Mikel Legarda of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) pressed the same demand.

The electoral calendar added to the strain. Sánchez is due to return to the campaign trail with a rally in Valencia on November 6.

El Debate argued he could not credibly appear there with Puente still in post. Socialists in the region had demanded, and eventually obtained, the resignation of regional president Carlos Mazón over his handling of the deadly floods of October 2024.

Polls conducted after the crash pointed in one direction. A Target Point survey for El Debate, carried out on October 28-30 among 1,024 people, put the PSOE on 25.5 per cent and 99 to 103 seats in the 350-seat chamber.

The PP stood at 31.8 per cent with 131 to 135 seats, while national-conservative Vox reached 19.9 per cent and 68 to 72 seats. Sigma Dos, polling for El Mundo, also placed the Socialists at around 100 seats.

Across six polls published on November 1-2, the combined PP and Vox tally ranged from 197 to 206 seats. That is well above the 176 needed for a majority.

The figures extend a trend visible well before the crash. In June, some 75 per cent of Spaniards said they wanted fresh elections, Brussels Signal reported.

Within hours of the resignation, Sánchez recast it as an act of integrity. In a post on X he praised Puente for facing the crisis before stepping aside “out of dignity” and said politicians like him showed “we are not all the same”.

A Moncloa statement issued later that evening repeated the line, saying neither all politicians nor all parties were alike. El Debate predicted the phrase would become the Socialist campaign slogan.

The opposition rejected that reading. The PP said the resignation had been driven by the polls rather than by dignity or concern for the victims.

The party added that the real problem lay with whoever had put the country’s infrastructure in the hands of former transport minister José Luis Ábalos and then of Puente.

On November 4, PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo urged Sánchez to follow his minister’s example. “Apply it to yourself,” he said.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal said the Prime Minister was hiding behind his “henchmen” while the responsibility remained his own.

Puente’s name will nonetheless still head the PSOE ballot paper in Valladolid. Candidacies were published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on November 3 and, under a 1977 ruling by the Central Electoral Board, ballots are not reprinted when a candidate withdraws. Should he be elected, the seat would pass to the next candidate on the list.

The outcome matters beyond Spain. The Irish Times has described Sánchez’s coalition as the most prominent left-wing government among the EU’s 27 member states.

The government has yet to say which minister will take on the transport portfolio until polling day.

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Plaid Cymru, Wales’ self-styled nationalist governing party, seems to have forgotten which country their taxpayers live in. 

In a £300,000-a-year foreign aid project, the Welsh government has shovelled out taxpayer money to schemes that include beekeeping classes for disabled Ugandans, “financial literacy” training for LGBTQI+ Ugandans and sending them money for trees.

This was called out by Reform UK Wales back in June of this year, when the party put forward a motion to end all Welsh government international spending – but this was rejected by members of the Senedd. Since then, the scheme has not slowed down and the minority administration is seeking new projects in Africa to bankroll.

Cai Parry-Jones, Reform’s finance spokesman in the Senedd, said: “It’s ridiculous the Welsh government spends money on these projects abroad, and it’s no wonder Labour were booted out of Wales for wasting money like this.

“The new Plaid government also supports this international spending, so expect more of the same. It’s time we put the Welsh people first. Welsh money should be for Wales. Full stop.”

This follows on from yet more wasteful foreign aid spending inflicted on the British people by the UK Labour government. 

With Andy Burnham approving £40 million for infrastructure and green energy projects in Caribbean countries this Tuesday, it begs the question: why does our political class seem to think that its first duty is to improve people’s lives in every country but Britain’s?

The Prime Minister’s response to all this wasteful foreign aid spending appears to be to do more of it.

As he plans to devolve more funding to regional authorities, the Welsh government is demanding that he gives them greater powers over Wales’s finances. This would give it even more power to waste Welsh taxpayers’ money on projects abroad that, according to the Wales and Africa Grant Scheme, which has been receiving Welsh government funding since 2013, “deliver benefits to Wales and Africa”.

How do initiatives like radio phone-in programmes to “introduce Montgomeryshire farmers to Ugandan farmers”, at the cost of just under £20,000, benefit the Welsh people?

The grant scheme justifies the £25,000 of taxpayers’ cash spent on inclusive beekeeping by stating that: “We will train organisations in Uganda, Ghana and Wales in disability-inclusive beekeeping to reach marginalised people and develop a disability-inclusive beekeeping training package.” 

Meanwhile, Welsh patients wait for treatment and public services are stretched to breaking point. Plaid – like Labour before them – prefer to finance initiatives for other country’s citizens rather than their own.

This all ends under Reform. Charity begins at home – and Welsh money belongs in Wales.

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An old stained-glass window and the collection box were damaged at the Sainte-Barbe Chapel in Le Faouët (Morbihan). The incident was discovered on Friday, October 30, by a volunteer, as reported by *Ouest-France* on 3rd of November.

The lower part of the stained-glass window was smashed. The mayor, Christian Faivret, has filed a criminal complaint, and the local council has consulted the architect from “Bâtiments de France”.

The chapel’s stained-glass windows date from 1512–1515. Four of the six window openings still feature their original stained-glass panes, which are remarkable examples of 16th-century Breton stained-glass art.

Ouest-France, 3 novembre 2026. / Fdesouche