A blasphemous blood-red sculpture of Jesus Christ crucified holding an Uzi machine gun in each hand had to be moved after triggering an uproar from Catholics offended by the grotesque image.
Initially displayed outside during an arts festival in Marseille, France, the sacrilegious sculpture by James Colomina, titled “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” was intended by the provocative artist to convey an anti-violence message.
The artist stated on Instagram, “We invented religions, laws, and principles. Then we invented a thousand reasons to break them.”
According to a report by French pro-life social media commentator Ad Vitam, the organizers of the festival cited the “risk of vandalism and a desire to avoid offending the religious convictions of residents.”
🚨Marseille, 12 sept. 2026 James Colomina installe « Tu ne tueras point » à L’Aérosol (La Tulipe, 15e) : un Christ rouge de 2 m tenant un Uzi dans chaque main.
Placée d’abord en façade, l’œuvre a été rentrée à l’intérieur face aux réactions.
“The visual shock of a sacred figure [and] automatic weapons has produced exactly that effect: immediate media visibility and removal from the street. The outright removal should have BEEN DONE,” concluded Ad Vitam’s report.
Migrant serial rapist, Wasim Esam Hajress, just won a major court victory that dramatically reduced the potential length of his prison sentence.
A Danish high-court ruling has overturned an indefinite detention order against 43-year-old Wasim Essam Hajress, a man previously judged too dangerous to release due to five rapes he committed. He has now gone from what could have been a life sentence to a fixed prison sentence of two and a half years, a shocking judicial and legal reversal.
In December 2025, the Court of Viborg, Hajress was found so dangerous that the court ruled he should be locked up indefinitely. However, now, the Western High Court, based on an unanimous decision, has taken a different view and has changed the district court’s indefinite detention judgment to a prison sentence of two and a half years.
It is important to note the “indefinite detention” was not the same as a life sentence but theoretically allowed the man to be detained for the remainder of his life. It is generally used in severe cases when a convicted person is considered a serious threat to society and likely to reoffend.
It is also not the standard practice to impose indefinite detention for rape in Denmark but because of Hajress’s violent history of rape, the district court felt that it was necessary as he is too dangerous for the Danish public.
According to Special Prosecutor Malene Christensen of the Attorney General in Viborg, the high court, contrary to the city court, considered that there was no basis for indefinite detention, according to Danish news outlet Presse-Fotos.
Since 2003, Hajress has been convicted of a total of five rapes on Danish soil, which include but are not limited to the following cases.
In July 2006, he detained a woman and attempted to rape her in an apartment in Copenhagen. She fled naked after being robbed of her clothes.
In October 2006, he detained a 16-year-old girl and raped her with penetration in an elevator in Huntingvej on Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
In April 2018, he raped a 19-year-old woman in a basement room in Roskilde.
In 2024, he forced a woman in Silkeborg to perform oral sex on him and then raped her.
Hajress also faces a deportation order and a lifelong entry ban.
Atta lived at Marienstraße 54, a four-story apartment building in Hamburg.Google Maps
by Giulio Meotti
Everyone remembers what they were doing that day.
But what they were doing the day before, no one remembers.
The day before, we Europeans were mocking George W. Bush for confusing Slovenia with Slovakia.
The day after, we would all have called ourselves Americans.
Three months later we were already all anti-American.
What were the leaders of the nineteen Muslims who crashed into the Twin Towers doing “the day before”?
They were here, in our European Middle-earth.
All the emotion packed into newspaper articles and television reports on this latest anniversary now serves only to numb us to the more dramatic truth. The day before and the day after.
How did we get there? And where do we stand today?
At 10:18 p.m. on September 12, 2001, American authorities sent Germany a list of the 19 suspects.
Two of them were residents of Hamburg: Mohammed Atta, who piloted the Boeing 767 into the North Tower at 8:46, and Marwan al-Shehhi, who minutes later crashed a second plane into the South Tower. The third, the Lebanese Ziad Samir Jarrah, who had piloted the third plane headed for Washington but crashed in a Pennsylvania field thanks to the passengers’ brave revolt, also lived in Germany.
The attack killed 2,977 people; the youngest was two years old, the oldest eighty-five. The first victim was Daniel Lewin, an Israeli former special-forces soldier who tried to disarm the terrorists and was slashed to death.
They had dealt a mighty blow to the Great Satan, mightier than even the producers of the most implausible action thrillers could conceive, with five box cutters and the cost of two movie tickets.
A mature, liberal, wealthy, cultured, pacifist and multicultural European democracy discovered in the meantime that it was the most fertile ground for those who wanted to destroy it.
The “soft underbelly” was no longer a journalistic phrase. It had become an anatomical description of Europe.
At the time, no one in Germany talked about Islam or immigration. People thought, with the former Nazi and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Günter Grass, that all the world’s problems were those six million Israeli Jews who refused to leave their historic homeland.
Eckart Werthebach, former president of the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s domestic intelligence service), said after the attacks: “We were strongly focused on right-wing extremism, so that other forms of extremism did not receive the necessary attention.”
We were so taken with our imaginary fascists that we failed to see.
No one noticed anything. And how could they, right?
Mohammed Atta was a diligent Egyptian student who sat in the front row. He was the son of a Cairo lawyer who arrived in Germany at 24 to study. He already spoke German almost perfectly; he had learned it at the Goethe-Institut in Cairo. An example of “integration.”
The other attacker, Shehhi, came from the Emirates, studied naval architecture, received a military scholarship, wore designer clothes, rented a Mercedes for a weekend outing, spoke German. Ziad arrived in 1996 from Lebanon. He grew up in a Western environment, attended a Christian high school, studied aeronautical engineering in Germany, drank alcohol, had a girlfriend.
Taqiyya in action.
Atta lived at Marienstraße 54, a four-story apartment building in Hamburg.
An investigation by Die Zeit now recounts:
“The deputy president of Hamburg’s Verfassungsschutz later had to admit that at the time none of his staff spoke Arabic.”
“No one spoke Arabic”.
Hamburg – and Germany as a whole – was therefore a risk-free environment for Islamist terrorists. It was full of Arabs, but the intelligence services were asleep.
German officials, mindful of the Nazi past, would also say they had been reluctant to target mosques for fear of “accusations of racism and Islamophobia.”
Hamburg enjoyed the reputation of a tolerant, super-multicultural, open and wealthy port city. Precisely for that reason it was perfect. The terrorists did not have to hide in a cave. They only had to look like what they partly were: foreign students in a democracy that considers suspicion a greater sin than error.
Today, Hamburg authorities today record 1,610 Islamists ready for violence in the city. “The Caliphate is the solution,” they demonstrate in Hamburg’s squares. The police have stated that “invoking the advent of the Caliph is not a crime.”
A few weeks ago Abdul Ballout used a van to kill at Berlin Pride. The bigger story, however, is another. Abdul left Germany in 2025 to join ISIS in Syria. He was arrested in Lebanon and imprisoned for three months before doing a waltz back to Germany, where he was arrested again. He was not imprisoned, but was handed over to an organization called “Violence Prevention Network” to attend a “deradicalization” course that receives substantial federal funding in Germany and is a founding member of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN).
“The day everything changed” thus became “the day everything went back to how it was before,” only even crazier and more suicidal.
The Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud is therefore right when, for this anniversary, he wrote in Le Point about the erased truth:
“The terrorists were no longer those who crashed the planes into the towers; it was America that had erected its towers on the flight path of airliners. They were no longer Islamists on a suicide mission with their verses, but Muslims in grievance mode at the end of a long chain of reactions to America’s planes crashed against the Muslim world. It was no longer a murderous hijacking, but the repair of an injustice.
“To the moral lever of History, twisted to the extreme, was added the erosion of the sociology of justification, the colored-hair wokisms, Fanonism as justification of violence and Third-Worldism, the right to revenge. Then, in a hijacking of the hijackings, came ‘Palestinism’, the theory of total chaos: everything can be destroyed, America deserves every punishment for its pro-Jewish and anti-Muslim positions.
“And the theory of legitimate attacks saw the light again, in a lobotomizing cancellation of time: the war in Gaza in 2025 justified, in the mad synchronicity of this theory, the 9/11 attacks. The 3,000 dead caused by Bin Laden were the collateral effect of the war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews, between Good and Evil. The 9/11 hijackers became members of Hamas, on a mission of liberation and decolonization by air.
“9/11 is now erased, relegated to the rank of a news item. In the current universe of trans-Islamism, a controversial image of a UFO would have more impact and credibility than a video of 9/11. By now, in this quantum time that compresses truth and dispenses with the real as with chronology, 9/11 is a consequence of the war after October 7 and is therefore justified. And if one can believe in God without ever having seen Him, one can no longer believe in 9/11 in the name of the fight against Islamophobia. It is a right to a somersault, an act of faith, an intimate decision, an interpretation or a choice. The full expression of democracy.
“Let us repeat it: the 9/11 attacks in New York never happened. And if they did happen, the Twin Towers should not have been in the path of the Saudi pilgrims.”
It was Silvio Berlusconi after 9/11 who said that our culture was “superior” to theirs. But he was condemned and dismissed. And today no politician dares to utter those words anymore. Culture? Superior?
The day after the fifth anniversary of the destruction of the Twin Towers, a great Pope said that Islam was different from Greco-Judeo-Christian civilization, that holy war was inside its sacred texts and that Muhammad brought the sword. He too was condemned. And today no cardinal dares to utter those words anymore.
While people were jumping from the towers, I remember changing the channel and elsewhere, in Gaza and Ramallah, they were celebrating in the streets. Sweets were being distributed, as after October 7, the Israeli 9/11.
Anyone who saw those images must have understood.
But now we all cheer for those savages and the ignoble Flotilla, one of whose English faces, Moazzam Begg, praises Osama bin Laden as a “voice of freedom.”
Now young Westerners read Bin Laden’s writings and approve.
Now, for the anniversary of 9/11, Western public television stations ask not to speak of “terrorist attacks.”
The horrors of Hamas on October 7, 2023 also triggered a wave of sympathy similar to 9/11: but toward the Palestinian Arab perpetrators, not toward the 1,200 Israeli victims. Which, if related to the American population, corresponds to more than 40,000 dead.
This bleak picture leads me to ask: what will the 50th anniversary of 9/11 be like? I fear that the only people who will still care will be those who lost someone that day.
Our soft underbelly has not hardened. We have merely grown accustomed to living with our vulnerability, calling it, the better to digest it, a virtue.
Hamburg, for example, the city of the 9/11 attackers, already today has more mosques than churches.
Islamization advances at a brisk pace and the anniversary reminds us how ideologies aspire to power: with open violence, with subversion or with strategic tenacity.
And thank goodness The Economist this week puts Islam and Europe on the cover to say there is nothing to worry about, that the problem is “Islamophobia.”
London was hit four years after the Twin Towers and the British government has just dumped its principal ally against terrorism: Israel.
That morning the Islamist terrorists planted a poisonous seed that continues to grow throughout the West. “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will prefer the strong horse,” Bin Laden used to say.
Something tells me we are not the strong horse and that we are losing.
Meanwhile the head of Britain’s MI5, McCallum, warns of “the next 9/11 that will happen where we are not looking.”
Looking up at London Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, the dome of St. Peter’s or the Sagrada Família, who has never imagined, at least once, immediately erasing that terrible thought, the shadow of a plane heading toward those symbols of the hated West?
Manchester Museum has removed the remains of Asru, an ancient Egyptian temple musician, after displaying her for 200 years | MANCHESTER MUSEUM
A museum has pulled a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy from public display after bosses said the decision “aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes”.
Manchester Museum has removed the mummified remains of Asru, an ancient Egyptian temple musician, after displaying her for 200 years.
The remains had been exhibited at the institution since 1825 and were the last mummified human remains still on public display at the museum.
A museum spokesman said the decision “reflects changes in how we think about our responsibility towards ancestors, museum collections and the communities they represent”.
Bosses said they consulted Egyptian colleagues, diaspora communities and museum visitors before taking action.
But the spokesman told the BBC: “However, the decision to remove Asru from display aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes.”
Inscriptions on Asru’s coffin identify her as a musician who served in an ancient Egyptian temple, with her death dated to around 650 BC.
Her remains and coffin were discovered at the ancient city of Thebes, in modern-day Luxor, before eventually coming into the possession of Manchester traders William and Robert Garnett.
The pair donated the remains to the Manchester Natural History Society, a predecessor of Manchester Museum, in 1825.
Asru’s body was subsequently unwrapped and put on public display.
The decision comes amid a growing debate over whether ancient human remains should continue to be exhibited in British museums.
Some Egyptian academics have argued that displaying mummified bodies is unethical because ancient Egyptians preserved their dead in preparation for the afterlife rather than for public exhibition.
Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum removed Egyptian mummified remains and South American shrunken heads from display in 2020 amid concerns about reinforcing “racist or stereotypical thinking”.
A 2025 report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations also called for an end to displays of human remains without consent, linking the practice to “museums’ participation in colonial regimens of exploitation”.
However, some academics have pushed back against the trend.
Jasmine Day, president of the Ancient Egypt Society of Western Australia, has previously warned of a “wave of conservatism and risk aversiveness sweeping through the world of museums”.
She has argued that while ancient Egyptian remains should be treated respectfully, removing them from public view risks accommodating modern discomfort surrounding death.
The British Museum, which holds more than 100 mummified remains, has said it follows Government guidance to ensure human remains are “always treated and displayed with respect and dignity”.
Asru’s remains are now being kept in storage while Manchester Museum considers their future.
Options include retaining the remains or repatriating them to Egypt.
They never cared about animals or the environment.
Translation: The Greens don’t care if these barbarians in Ceuta kill me. Riposte Laique
After horrifying images of Muslim migrants who had invaded the Spanish North African territory of Ceuta killing a baby dolphin went viral, animal rights activists rallied to their defense.
“The party rejects the instrumentalization of the suffering of a people or of its animals to foment hatred,” Spain’s Partido Animalista (PACMA) party declared. The party whose former name was the ‘Animalist Party Against the Mistreatment of Animals’, was willing to defend animal abusers as long as it advanced the greater cause of Muslim migrants invading Europe.
But that makes PACMA no different than the feminists and gay rights groups advocating for Muslim invaders to enter Europe. Baby dolphins, once the most ironic image of beleaguered animals on whose behalf environmentalists once rallied in the streets, demanding the dismantling of modern industries, and the end of tuna fishing, are now just another sacrifice.
As the siege of Ceuta continues, more images continue to emerge of the animal cruelty that typifies Islamic culture. Beyond the scenes of Muslim migrants beating a baby dolphin to death with a stick, there are more scenes of animals from house pets to geese to an octopus being killed by laughing Muslim mobs demonstrating their control over the beaches of Spain.
Local animal welfare groups report that dogs and cats have been disappearing, seagulls once plentiful on the beaches seem to be absent La Gaceta reports that the bodies of numerous mutilated cats have been turning up “missing half their bodies or pierced with an awl, as well as abused cats”. Islamic scripture is particularly negatively disposed towards dogs, the best friend of civilized man, however cruelty to a wide range of animals has become commonplace in Muslim societies whether these animals are considered ‘clean’ or ‘unclean’.
Unlike geese and seagulls which are being eaten by the invaders, cats appear to be taken and tortured for sport by Muslim migrants who may have anticipated inflicting their cruelty on the local population in Ceuta only to find them barred in their homes and are torturing cats instead.
Some local workers report that the migrants “kill them for pleasure.”
While some social media reports claim that the migrants have been eating cats, doing so would be a violation of Islamic law. The killing of cats appears to be purely malicious.
But what is truly revealing beyond the savage cruelty is the willingness of animal rights activists and leftists to excuse it.
“We shouldn’t focus on the dolphin when people are starving,” a Spanish TV hostess insisted, and “must focus on the migrants” who are only trying to survive. “Of course I love marine life, I’m passionate about dolphins… but focusing on the dolphin when there are people starving kids on the streets is just misplaced.”
In reality, the invading migrants are not starving, nor as she falsely claimed, dying of thirst.
“They’re not hungry, I can tell you that, because they’re fed every day,” a cleaning worker said.
Starving people don’t have the energy to parade around a baby dolphin for the cameras on their $900 iPhones for half an hour before finally killing it.
The dolphins, the cats and dogs, and other animals, wild and domestic, join the long list of causes that leftists pretended to care about before they stopped pretending to care about them, like the working class, women, gay people, Jews, unions, and the environment in general.
Why is the cause of Muslim migrants more important than that of everything else? It’s not.
The reason why the cause of importing invaders into America, Europe and the rest of the free world tops all others is because the real agenda isn’t protecting any single groups, but using them as weapons to destroy capitalism, the middle class and the identity of western civilization.
That is the only way to ensure the completion of the radical revolutions of over two centuries.
Everything else is simply a means to that end. Leftists don’t protest about the environment because they care about whales, dolphins, trees or the planet, but because it’s a means of destroying free enterprise and the middle class. The moment that they discover a better weapon than the environment to enable their revolutionary cause, the dolphins can all go hang.
That is what we’re seeing in Ceuta.
The same cause for which leftists in recent years vandalized cars, paintings and statues across America and Europe, the one which they claimed threatens the survival of the planet, stops mattering the moment that a horde of Muslim migrants storm their way onto Spanish soil.
If environmentalists really cared about the planet, they would be fighting against mass migration. Mass migration to America under the Biden administration by around 11 million migrants led to the emission of a grand total of between 2,200,000 and 11,000,000 million metric tons of CO₂. The drop in mass migration between 2023 and 2025 amounts to a net carbon savings of between 271,245 and 2,260,375 metric tons of CO2. It would take over 21 square miles or 13,980 acres of utility-scale solar panels to achieve the same effect. We would have to cover the entire island of Manhattan or 10,575 football fields with solar panels to achieve the same carbon reduction that Trump’s deportations did.
Are environmentalists celebrating that Trump saved the planet? Of course not. They want open borders. And they want them because they’re a tool for bringing America to its knees.
Leftists don’t want to ‘save the whales’, they want to destroy America and Europe.
The same radicals who vandalized art museums for the environment are now okay with Muslim migrants killing baby dolphins because the issue was never the issue… the issue is destroying western civilization.
The French public continues to sour on President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity has fallen to a record low as the race to replace him in the Élysée Palace is starting to ramp up.
The latest survey from Ipsos bva-CESI has found that President Macron’s popularity rating in France stands at just 16 per cent, a new record low after falling from 21 per cent in July, Le Figaro reported.
Even among supporters of Macron’s centrist governing bloc — the Horizons, Modem, and Renaissance parties — only 53 per cent still have a favourable view of the president.
The picture is similarly bleak for Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who only 20 per cent of the public have a favourable opinion of, down from 27 per cent in July.
All government ministers are currently underwater in the polls, with Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin leading the pack at just 38 per cent popularity, followed by Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez at 25 per cent, and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot at 12 per cent.
With just over seven months until French voters head to the polls to select their next president, with Macron being prevented from running again by term limits, the unpopularity of the governing coalition may represent a drag for those seeking to pick up the neo-liberal, globalist mantle, such as former prime ministers Gabriel Attal and Édouard Philippe.
According to the Ipsos survey, the French public does not appear satisfied with the current crop of candidates vying to become the next President of the Republic.
The pollster found that this is true of “declared candidates from all sides”. However, the poll found that voters would be the least satisfied with the election of far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon at 70 per cent dissatisfaction.
This was followed by 61 per cent for Green party leader Marine Tondelier and 60 per cent for liberal former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal at 60 per cent.
Former PM and current Mayor of Le Havre, Édouard Philippe, who has been hailed as the best hope for the liberal-centrist bloc to retain power, has seen his negative rating soar by 12 points since July to 57 per cent, while his support has declined by 4 points to 19 per cent.
Even though a slight majority, 52 per cent, said they would be dissatisfied with the election of National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, she fares better than all other candidates currently in the field.
This broadly aligns with other recent polling, which has consistently found that the anti-mass-migration leader is on pace to win both rounds of France’s presidential election next April.
Sixteen months into his term as Chancellor, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has managed to become the most unpopular German leader in recorded history.
He came to power after the highly unpopular Olaf Scholz, but in all the most vital aspects, Merz is a faithful continuation of the Globalist policies of his predecessor.
So, with high taxes, crippling ‘green’ ideas, out of control migration, and constant warmongering for Ukraine – to name but a few problems – Merz is sinking in the polls, as he watches the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) surging, even winning the vote in the Saxony regional poll.
It’s gotten so bad for Merz that, now, 78 percent think he should leave office.
“Things are currently coming thick and fast for Chancellor Friedrich Merz: In Saxony-Anhalt, his CDU was slapped down, the AfD is running away from it in nationwide polls, and the SPD is threatening a major reform dispute. As if that were not enough, it is now becoming even more uncomfortable for the chancellor personally.
Because: Only a meagre 14 percent (just one in seven) consider Merz to be the right chancellor. 78 percent are now against the CDU chairman in the Chancellery. Particularly dramatic: Even in his own ranks, support is dwindling. 58 percent of Union voters are against the chancellor, only 36 percent for him. This is the result of a new INSA survey for BILD.”
Yes, you read it right: almost six out of ten voters from his own party now reject his leadership.
His faithful implementation of the Globalist mandates emanating from Brussels and Strasbourg guarantees him a future as EU commissioner or at some fancy think-tank – but, as a Chancellor, Merz’s career seems all but over.
“Merz’s popularity has been melting away for more than a year. In mid-2025, significantly more than 30 percent were still satisfied with his work. At the beginning of September 2026, it was only 16 percent.”
CDU names like Markus Söder, Hendrik Wüst and Alexander Dobrindt are frequently mentioned as alternatives to Merz.
Labour’s EU reset is the UK government’s strategy to improve and rebuild cooperation with the European Union. But how much do we REALLY know about it? In her explosive report “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”, economist Catherine McBride OBE explodes many of the claims made by Labour about the benefits its EU Reset will bring and reveals the astounding costs and surrenders the UK will make if Labour gets its way.
The Portuguese activist and founder of the group “Reconquista,” Afonso Gonçalves, could reshape Portuguese politics.
The right-wing Portuguese Reconquista movement would win 5.2 percent of the national vote if it were to register as a political party, according to independent polling firm Intercampus. Remigration activist Afonso Gonçalves, who founded Reconquista, told Remix News that the poll shows the remigration movement could garner significant support from Portuguese voters who have grown tired mass immigration.
“Despite all the lies, slander, false accusations and tyrannical state persecution, Reconquista and its founder are currently polling at 5.2 percent without even being a registered political party yet. The Portuguese people are tired of feeling like foreigners in their own homeland. We will not be ignored any longer,” Gonçalves told Remix News.
Mass immigration is the number one issue driving the growth of the remigration right across Europe. In Portugal, the demographic change has not only been dramatic but also extremely rapid compared to other Europe countries.
“The foreign population has doubled in the last six or seven years, and in the last 12 years it has tripled, because in 2014, we had around 400,000 legal immigrants, already a few hundred thousand — like 600,000 or 700,000 —naturalized citizens that are from an immigrant background. So, in total, we had just short of 1 million immigrants if you count naturalized citizens. So, it has tripled in 12 years and doubled in six years,” said Gonçalves.
In total, the Reconquista founder said there are 3 million foreigners or people with an immigration background in the country, including 2 million legal immigrants and 900,000 people who already acquired citizenship. On top of that, there are approximately 100,000 illegal immigrants.
The polling data shows, however, that Reconquista has most of its support from young people, a trend seen in other European countries, including Germany and France. However, even among the general population, the favorability rating for Reconquista is at 27 to 28 percent, which means the party has ample runway for growth.
“If you consider the people who have a very positive or positive opinion about us, that is almost one-third among the youth, so 18 to 34, and in the overall population it’s at 27 percent or 28 percent,” he said.
This support may also have to do with Gonçalves’ high-profile social media actions, which have gone viral on numerous social media platforms.
🇵🇹🔴 Portuguese activist @AfonsoJFG was detained by police for protesting against mass immigration.
"Not in our country! Portugal belongs to the Portuguese people!"
Gonçalves was detained by police for an hour and released. He was never charged, but was actively protesting… pic.twitter.com/MkyQv2R8ue
It is important to note that Gonçalves said his movement is not yet actually a party, however, the poll is serving as a sort of public litmus test to gauge how such a party would perform in a general election in Portugal.
Meanwhile, Gonçalves said his movement has built strong relationships with other parties in Europe.
“We have very strong and friendly relationships with Alternative for Germany. We also have friendly ties with Vox in Spain, Restore Britain in the United Kingdom, so I would say that these are our biggest and strongest connections internationally,” he said.
🇵🇹❕ "The Portuguese never asked to be replaced by hundreds of thousands of invaders who don't share their culture, religion, or way of life."
His potential party would mark a major sea change in “business as usual” on the right-wing spectrum of parties that already exist in Portugal, especially in relation to the Chega party. Notably, Reconquista takes a strong stand against immigration from former Portuguese colonies and is opposed to legal immigration.
“We are different because we are formally defending remigration. Chega just defends controlling migration; we defend reverting and inverting the immigration influxes. We defend remigration, and we also criticize migration from our former colonies – so countries like Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde, etc. These countries are the highest representatives in terms of immigration to Portugal. Chega doesn’t criticize them because they want to attract their votes,” he said.
Gonçalves noted that immigration from these countries represents major problems, as “they represent the highest per capita levels of criminality, representation amongst people who are jailed, and also the highest absolute numbers of immigrants to Portugal.”
Gonçalves warned that these groups “are also the most heavily politicized, they despise our history, and a lot of them feel a sense of vengeance against our people and form an ethnic bloc of voting that has the potential of turning the Portuguese liberal democracy into a tribalistic, let’s say, Balkanized democracy that doesn’t serve the will of the people, for sure at least not the will of the native people.”
Major challenges still exist for Gonçalves and any potential party. For example, while he has garnered ample attention on social media, that attention has also brought censorship, persecution from the Portuguese state, and an authoritarian debanking blitz. In short, he is arguably the most persecuted political activist in Portugal and among the most persecuted in all of Europe.
“Our movement is censored on YouTube and TikTok. So for example, me, I have lost four YouTube accounts and 16 TikTok accounts, and I’ve never been able to regain access to these accounts. Regarding other types of censorship and persecution, we’re being heavily, tyrannically persecuted by the Portuguese state. I have been debanked; I’ve lost access to all of my Portuguese-based bank accounts, the funds were frozen, and I’m not allowed to open a new bank account. So I’m very heavily censored in terms of banking. I’ve also been deplatformed, we’ve been illegally detained, we’ve had our events illegally disallowed, and we are persecuted by the Portuguese regime in that way,” he said.
Starting a party under such conditions represents a major challenge, however, founding a party could help formalize Gonçalves’ movement and create a venue where he can more powerfully pursue a remigration agenda. After all, it is generally easier to ban, debank, and censor an individual than an entire political party.
With remigration as his core issue, his party will have a sharp wedge issue to peel off voters from other rival parties. Remix News has conducted interviews with Chega officials in the past, including party leader André Ventura. He signaled he is open to some legal immigration to support certain industries.
“I don’t know how it is in all the countries, but in countries like Portugal, Spain, and even France and Italy, countries that I know best, the economy needs some level of immigration for areas like agriculture or tourism, hotels, and restaurants. With massive tourism activity, we need some immigration, but massive illegal immigration or even massive immigration, both legal and illegal, can both bring problems,” Ventura told Remix News at the time.
However, Gonçalves has long argued that it is this type of legal immigration that is contributing to the greatest demographic upheaval in Portugal. While the polling data shows there is a pool of receptive voters, there are also powerful business and lobbying interests involved in tourism, construction, agriculture, and other industries who will actively oppose remigration.
The poll was conducted by the independent pollster Intercampus and commissioned by Reconquista. As Gonçalves noted, it is the “most famous, the most credible” polling agency in the country, but he says they have a tendency to undervalue right-wing parties, which he says could be a sign that support for his party could be even higher than 5.2 percent.
Radiet Meles smuggled himself into the UK by hiding in a lorry through the Channel Tunnel in 2015 | GWENT POLICE
An Eritrean migrant who entered Britain illegally has been convicted of raping a woman after authorities failed to deport him from the country following an earlier sexual offence.
Radiet Meles, 35, who is a former Eritrean soldier, was found guilty by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court after a five-day trial.
Despite serving a five-year prison sentence for the attempted rape of an unconscious woman at a house party in Newport, South Wales, Meles was neither deported nor monitored upon his release.
The registered sex offender was instead permitted to return to Newport, where he went on to attack another woman.
Meles arrived in the UK clandestinely in 2015, concealed inside a lorry that passed through the Channel Tunnel.
After just two days in custody, he was taken to Newport, where he later found work at a car wash and an Amazon distribution centre.
His first conviction came in February 2019, when he was acquitted of rape but found guilty of attempted rape after sexually assaulting a heavily intoxicated woman who was unconscious at a house party.
At sentencing, Judge Christopher Vosper QC said: “After your release, it’s likely you will be held in an immigration detention centre. As a consequence of this offence and sentence, the Home Secretary is likely to make a deportation order in your case.”
That deportation never materialised.
The incident that led to his first conviction took place on August 13 2018, when the victim had been drinking in Newport city centre before attending a house party with others.
Prosecutor Heath Edwards told the court: “The complainant herself has little clear recollection of the events or the chronology at this time as she was heavily intoxicated.”
He added: “The next memory she has of the events that night is of her being awoken in the back of an ambulance by a police officer and being told that the defendant had been having sex with her.”
Mr Edwards continued: “That was not something that she had consented to she was far too drunk for that.”
Judge Vosper told Meles during sentencing: “You saw that the victim was heavily intoxicated and, to all intents and purposes, she was unconscious.
“You had formed an intention to take advantage of her if you could.”
Meles was taken into custody in March this year after police responded to reports of an assault on another woman.
He denied both rape and assault by beating, but a jury at Cardiff Crown Court returned guilty verdicts on both counts following a trial lasting five days.
During his earlier trial, the court heard that Meles speaks virtually no English and that imprisonment would be a “burdensome experience” given his distance from his home country.
He required a Tigrinya interpreter throughout the proceedings.
Now residing at West Park Road in Newport, Meles has been told to expect a “lengthy custodial” sentence when he returns to court for sentencing in November.
