Following the attack on the CSD in Berlin: Abdul Ballout, a terrorist who is currently wanted, is believed to be an IS supporter

Abdul Ballout. Photo: Berlin Police

Following the terrorist attack during Christopher Street Day in Berlin, the police are searching for a suspect using a photograph and checking at all German borders. Abdul Ballout, aged 21, is alleged to have driven a car into several people in the Tiergarten area at around 10 pm on Saturday evening. One woman died in the attack. According to information obtained by the newspaper BILD, the 21-year-old is a German citizen of Lebanese origin. He was born in Berlin in 2005.


According to information obtained by BILD, Ballout is known to the police for offences including grievous bodily harm and extortion with the intent to rob. He is also said to be a supporter of the terrorist organisation Islamic State. The 21-year-old was released from a youth detention centre as recently as May.

The man is described as follows:
slender build
approximately 1.90 metres tall
black hair
wearing a black hoodie and white trousers

Please do not under any circumstances approach the person in question if you see him, and avoid direct contact. Abdul Ballout may be armed and dangerous! Contact the police emergency number 110 immediately.

“The man is known to the police and is believed to be linked to the Islamist community in Berlin,” police spokesperson Florian Nath had previously stated. The suspect is said to have been released from youth detention as recently as May 2026. It is not yet clear whether he was driving the vehicle. The empty car, which the police spokesperson described as having been severely damaged, was seized in the vicinity of the crime scene.
Anyone with information regarding Abdul Ballout’s possible current whereabouts is asked to contact the Berlin Police tip-off portal or any police station.

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One woman killed after a reckless driving spree at the CSD in Berlin; the perpetrator is believed to be an Islamist known to the police

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Terror at Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin! The event was called off in the evening after a vehicle ploughed into a crowd at the Tiergarten. According to the authorities, 16 people are currently receiving medical treatment. According to fire service spokesperson Dominik Pretz, three of the victims are in a life-threatening condition and eight have suffered serious injuries. For one person, help came too late: a woman was fatally injured. The circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear.

The incident took place at around 10 pm near Lennéstraße in Berlin.

Investigators have identified a suspected perpetrator and have already taken initial action against him. According to the police, the man currently under suspicion is known to be associated with Islamist circles. The search for him is currently in full swing.

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Van Driven Into Pride Parade Crowd in Berlin, One Dead, Several People Injured

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Berlin’s Christopher Street Day LGBTQ+ pride parade was forced to end early on Saturday evening after a van was driven by an unknown motorist into a crowd of people, injuring several.

UPDATE 1050: Berlin Police said that they are conducting an “intensive manhunt for suspects” after a vehicle was driven into a crowd of people in the Tiergarten area. The force said that “one or more suspects” are currently being searched for “at full throttle”.

UPDATE 1045: German newspaper Bild has reported that at least one person has died after a van was driven into a crowd at the annual pride parade in Berlin. According to the paper, Berlin police said that 14 people are currently being treated for injuries, including some who were seriously wounded.

The original story continues as follows…

According to German daily Bild, a white van was driven at high speed into a crowd of people in the central Berlin area of Tiergarten at around 10 pm local time during the annual  Christopher Street Day (CSD) pride parade.

One of the largest such events in Europe, held in commemoration of the Stonewall Riots on Christopher Street in New York City, the parade typically draws over a million attendees.

According to a spokesperson for the Berlin Fire Department, dozens of emergency personnel, including paramedics and physicians, were rushed to the scene. It is currently unclear how many people were injured in the incident or their condition.

Police are said to still be searching for suspects. Speaking to Bild, witnesses said they saw a man exit the white van and flee the scene on foot. There is currently no other information about the suspect or potential motive.

Shortly after the incident, the organisers of the pride parade announced that they would be cancelling the rest of the event.

In a statement, Berlin Police said: “We are currently deployed with numerous police forces as well as rescue units from the Berlin Fire Department in the Großer Tiergarten. It is presumed that a vehicle has driven into the Tiergarten here, has struck and injured several people. The injured are currently being treated by rescue personnel.”

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UK’s National Crime Agency Launches Investigation Into Itself over Leaked Financials of Farage’s Reform Party

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Britain’s equivalent of the FBI has launched an investigation into itself after financial details of members of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party were leaked to the press.

Following accusations of illegally leaking banking information relating to Reform UK, including transactions involving deputy leader Richard Tice, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Friday that it has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for investigation, The Telegraph reported.

Earlier this month, a report from the Sunday Times accused Reform leader Nigel Farage of having failed to publicly declare financial support from longtime ally George Cottrell in the year leading up to the 2024 snap election, during which Mr Farage was mostly retired from frontline politics. While the party has denied that Farge broke any rules, questions have been raised, given Cottrell’s previous conviction for wire fraud in the United States and the alleged failure of Reform to declare the donations to the parliament.

Additionally, The Guardian revealed that Cottrell had also provided a brief loan of £80,000 to TisunInvestments, the real estate firm owned by Reform MP Richard Tice. Cottrell’s mother was also revealed to have donated £1 million to Tice’s think tank Britain Means Business, of which half was donated to Reform by Tice.

The transactions were reported flagged to the NCA under its suspicious activity report (SAR) scheme, which requires banks to flag large transactions.

However, Mr Tice said he was only made aware that the transactions had been flagged after he was approached by journalists from The Guardian, who also knew of other transactions from different bank accounts. He claims they would have been able to access such information only through leaks from the National Crime Agency.

Commenting on the investigation into the agency, Mr Tice said: “This is the first considered response from the NCA and it indicates they clearly have a problem and they are begging for more time before we serve the court papers.

“Now that we have finally got a response, it shouldn’t be that difficult to work out whether someone has accessed my files and sent them on, and if so, who. We are outraged and will simply not tolerate this.”

Following the leaks of the donations to Mr Farage from Cottrell and a £5 million gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne to pay for the Brexit leader’s personal security, Farage announced that he would resign from Parliament and stand in a special by-election to allow his constituents in Clacton to decide his political fate.

However, in a remarkable act of political collusion, the other major parties have decided to boycott the election in a blatant attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the voters of Clacton.

Last year, former top advisor to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, predicted that the British deep state would take drastic measures to undermine Reform and prevent Nigel Farage from becoming prime minister, as was attempted with President Trump.

“They’ll leak medical records, they’ll leak tax records, they’ll bug his phone and leak that. They’ll do anything they need to, and by the way that’s going to be happening all across Europe in parallel and they’ll all be telling themselves ‘we’re fighting fascism together’,” Cummings remarked.

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Female Soccer Player Reveals She Was Retaliated Against for Voicing Concerns About Women’s Team with FIVE Trans-Identified Male Players

A young woman who previously played soccer in Australia’s Premier League has come forward to reveal that she was retaliated against for having expressed opposition to playing against a women’s team that includes five trans-identified males. During an interview with radio host Ben Fordham of 2GB in Sydney, Sophia explained that after she had refused to play in a match against the Flying Bats, she was “iced out” and benched by her own team.

The Flying Bats describe themselves on their website as “the biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club in the world.” Originally founded in 1985 as a football club for lesbians, they now welcome “everybody from across the rainbow family… [and] especially encourage trans and gender-diverse folks to join us, with research showing that access to safe community sport can help improve the mental and physical well-being of minority and oppressed groups.”

In March 2024, Reduxx reported that five male players, who identified as transgender or non-binary, joined the team for the winter 2024 Premier League of the North West Sydney Football Association (NWSFA) that was to take place over the coming months.

The team dominated the pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup, netting a $1,000 prize. With the news that the men had joined, racking up victory after victory, 24 women dropped out of playing in the league in protest. The decision was influenced by reports that the men had repeatedly injured some of the female players to the point of no longer being able to play football.

By August, the Flying Bats had won the NWSFA Premier League, having gone the season completely undefeated. They hadn’t lost a single game among the 17 they had played, although six of those were because the opposition had forfeited the game in silent protest.

Sophia, now 20, was 18 at the time when her football club decided they would not be among the six teams to forfeit the match against the Flying Bats. However, Sophia, who told Fordham she was “scared” to compete against the men, told her teammates she would refuse to play against them.

“So my local club decided not to forfeit, although a lot of other clubs did,” Sophia said. “We were expected to play against [the Flying Bats] on a Sunday, and I flat out refused. I said, ‘No, thank you, I just don’t feel comfortable.’”

“Put aside ethics and beliefs, let’s just look here at the main issue,” Sophia continued. “I was 18 at the time, a young girl, and I was expected to go against a team that had five biological males on the team. Males’ muscle mass, bone density, the effects of testosterone after puberty – they are physically stronger, it’s a known fact whether we want to believe it or not.”

Fordham and Sophia then discussed their impressions after seeing videos of the male athletes on the Flying Bats team during matches.

“When I was seeing the videos of them playing against other clubs, I was scared,” she told Fordham. “My dad, my whole family were backing my decision to not play.”

Sophia went on to explain that she told her teammates directly that she refused to play against the “inclusive” women’s team, and expressed her reasons for doing so. “This actually led me to being a little bit iced out. Then, following the Flying Bats games, I was starting on the bench. My whole years of playing soccer, I never was a player who had to start on the bench… With that local club, I had got a Golden Boot, for scoring the most goals in one season.”

Despite attempts by sporting authorities to restrict spectators from filming during matches – even going so far to have allegedly been performing bag searches prior to admission – videos have been leaked and circulated showing the male athletes competing against women.

In particular, one clip depicts trans activist Riley Dennis – who stands over 6 feet tall – tripping and injuring a female player during a competition. At the time, Dennis was playing for the Inter Lions FC, but later moved to the Flying Bats.

On May 21, 2023, during a game between Inter Lions and the St. George football clubs at the Majors Bay Reserve, Dennis launched his smaller female opponent towards a metal fence using an aggressive tackle as the two chased down the ball.

Reduxx was provided footage of the match, which showed the female player laying on her side, unmoving, as the trans-identified male player casually walked away. The month prior, Dennis was said to have injured another female player, who reportedly had to seek hospital attention as a result of her injury.

Dennis is one of two trans-identified male football players who has been engaged in a lawsuit against women’s rights advocate Kirralie Smith. In December, Smith was found guilty by a New South Wales court of “unlawfully vilifying” Dennis for referring to him with male pronouns and raising public awareness of his inclusion in women’s sports after learning of injuries sustained by female players.

In a similar circumstance, another, though as-yet-unnamed male player for the Flying Bats, is said to have broken a female player’s leg in two places.

Reduxx spoke with Frank Parisi, president of St. Patrick’s Football Club, who confirmed that after “a clumsy tackle from behind,” a woman playing for his team “had her leg broken in two places, and she’s no longer playing football.”

“One of our players rushed over to try to help her, she was screaming in so much pain. At that time, she made a derogatory remark to the Bats player, which we apologized for. [She was] suspended. The Bats player, nothing happened to [him].” Parisi clarified that following this incident, the player was suspended from matches for a total of eight weeks.

Knowledge of injuries sustained by female players during matches with the Flying Bats, Parisi said, had at the time resulted in at least 20 women self-excluding from his own football club alone.

In response to growing opposition, heads of Football New South Wales (FNSW) and North West Sydney Football (NWSF), John Tsatsimas and Matthew Geracitano, convened a meeting in March 2024 and required the attendance of all football club presidents under their jurisdiction. During the March 20 meeting attendees were told that a decision to boycott participation by forfeiting matches against The Flying Bats would result in “disciplinary action” being issued.

Additionally, Geracitano sent an email to all club presidents citing policies put forward by eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant in the Online Safety Act 2021. The email states that possible violations of the legislation include “publishing private or identifying information about an individual with malicious intent to cause serious harm,” and cautions that “individuals responsible for posting seriously harmful material” can be fined up to $111,000.

More recently, the women of the Northern Suburbs Football Association were reportedly forced to sign an agreement that explicitly barred them from forfeiting matches against the Flying Bats LGBTQIA+ football club. The Northern Suburbs Football Association (NSFA) is a newly-created group which includes the NWSFA, and is intended to host the Women’s Super League – intended to replace the Premier League as the top division. In a press release at the time, the associations said that the leagues would be made up of 14 teams total, taken from both associations.

A whistleblower who contacted Ben Fordham in April stated that the NSFA had forced all players in the Super League to sign a disturbing agreement.

“The agreements state that teams will not forfeit playing the Flying Bats, who have the male-born players. This does not sit well with me,” they said in a statement read out on the station. The whistleblower noted that the NSFA had a newly appointed president, and wished to retain anonymity out of fear of repercussions.

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The slide towards authoritarianism in Hungary is happening right now

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What is an “illiberal democracy”? Ever since Viktor Orbán coined the term, it has sparked endless debate. In reality, though, the answer is simple: It is the opposite of a liberal autocracy. And what is a liberal autocracy? Even simpler: It is what his successor, Péter Magyar, has been putting in place since taking power on May 13, 2026, under the complicit silence of Brussels and other European capitals that, until recently, were crying “totalitarian wolf” every other day.

Sorry to disappoint you, but Hungary’s autocratic drift is happening now, not before. In the span of two highly productive weeks, Péter Magyar, the darling of the self-proclaimed virtuous camp, managed to force out the country’s legitimate president after harassing him from the moment of his election victory, prevent half of the opposition from running in the 2030 parliamentary elections, remove four Constitutional Court judges from office, pull the plug on the news output of the public media and launch a judicial raid on the offices housing Fidesz’s servers in order to seize all of its databases, taking its website offline. An autocratic grand slam achieved in record time.

Let us take a closer look. The first victim of what might be called the Magyar whirlwind was president Tamás Sulyok, who had been elected by the Hungarian parliament in February 2024 and whose term was supposed to run until 2029. His powers were extremely limited, and he exercised them with restraint and neutrality. He oversaw an exemplary transition to the new government, without obstruction or delaying tactics of any kind. And yet Magyar had targeted him from the moment of his victory speech and did everything possible to force him to resign, setting a May 31 deadline for him to stand down. He even went so far as to forbid his ministers from appearing in photographs with the president during the formation of the government and had him removed from official pictures, as in the good old days of Comrade Stalin. When Sulyok refused to step down, the new all-powerful Prime Minister simply terminated his mandate through a constitutional amendment, justified by a “serious loss of public confidence”. As if that were not enough, a megalomaniac Magyar, governing the country as though it were a reality show, then proposed on Facebook that Judit Polgár, the eight-time Olympian and chess grandmaster, replace him, after 16 public figures put her name forward. Embarrassed by the suggestion, she immediately declined on the same social network.

Checkmate was not achieved, but that did nothing to curb Magyar’s destructive zeal. First, he decided to pull the plug on the news output of public media on July 7 while it was “cleaned up” and purged of all pro-Orbán elements. It is true that these public television and radio channels were deferential to the previous government, but one has to admit that turning on the television and finding a black screen displaying the message, “Public media must not lie. We apologise for having done so for many years,” with its distinctly Maoist undertones, is hardly reassuring. Coverage on the public sports channel ran on undisturbed.

Meanwhile, the hyperactive Magyar found another way to decapitate the opposition: Amending the Fundamental Law to limit MPs to three terms, or 12 years. In principle, why not? The problem is that this rule is being applied retroactively all the way back to 1990. As a result, half of the current opposition would be barred from running again, while Tisza’s 141 MPs, who are all political newcomers, would be unaffected. After the “Lex Orbán”, the 16th constitutional amendment, adopted on June 15, a tailor-made measure that permanently bars the former prime minister from office by capping the premiership at eight years counted back to 1990, the new government has clearly developed a taste for retroactive legislation. Never mind that this is Autocracy 101.

The next target? The Constitutional Court, which Magyar describes as being filled with “Orbán puppets”. The solution? Impose a retirement age, retroactively, as you may have guessed, in order to remove four of the court’s 15 judges on September 1, including its president, Péter Polt, who was Orbán’s prosecutor general until 2025. That is enough to bring the remaining judges into line. And to cap off these eventful two weeks, investigators raided the offices housing Fidesz’s servers on July 21, as part of an inquiry into an alleged 17 billion forint (about €46 million) fraud at the National Cultural Fund, seizing the party’s internal communications network, databases and internal messaging infrastructure. As of this writing, Fidesz’s website remains offline. The next day, the prosecutor general resigned, saying he would not let his office become an instrument of political struggle.

Is this alarming? Without a shadow of a doubt. Is it surprising? Not really, because the Polish Government under Donald Tusk has been using similar tactics since returning to power in December 2023, and almost no one seems particularly troubled by it. Police raids on public television, the dismissal of the national prosecutor without the approval of the president, the refusal to recognise Constitutional Court rulings since 2024 and what critics describe as arbitrary arrests around the former justice minister and some of his associates, the minister himself having been granted asylum in Hungary before a Warsaw court ordered his detention in February: The list is long but far from exhaustive.

And while Magyar carries out his campaign, the European Commission is clearing the way for the release of the funds it had conveniently frozen from Orbán since his last electoral victory, with EU finance ministers signing off on a €10 billion recovery envelope on July 10, celebrating that Hungarians have “chosen Europe” and that the rule of law is being restored. Orwell, if only you could see us now…

The lesson is clear: In Brussels, all means are considered acceptable when dealing with a dissenting government, including the instrumentalisation of the rule of law and its selective application. The method may be subtle, but the pattern has now become far too obvious: Demonise certain governments from all angles so that their successors can freely commit all kinds of violations, as long as they remain obedient to the EU. It is a reflex that reveals Brussels’ authoritarian streak whenever someone dares to challenge it. Of course, Hungarians wanted a change after 16 years, and Magyar won the April 12 election decisively. But let us hope they do not come to regret that choice too quickly while being told loudly and repeatedly that democracy has returned, when in reality it is beginning to dis

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Patient Wants To Live But Doctors Say Otherwise–A Paradox in the End-of-Life Care Debate in France      

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No sooner had France passed its law authorising euthanasia than a borderline case emerged in the press, bearing witness to the deadly spiral into which the country is being drawn. It undoubtedly illustrates the concerns of those who had been warning of a gradual shift in decision-making power towards the medical profession.

At the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, Rémi, a man who emerged from a coma following a serious accident, now consistently asserts that he wishes to continue living. However, his doctors consider that the treatments keeping him alive constitute “unreasonable obstinacy” and have initiated proceedings to have them withdrawn. The Council of State has just ruled in their favour, in a decision containing a chilling phrase: “the patient’s will ends with the law.”

The case is emblematic and clashes head-on with the debates of recent weeks on consent to die. Here we are faced with the opposite scenario: when a patient is conscious, clearly expresses a desire to live and has the support of their family, who should have the final say?

Rémi’s story is extraordinary. Following an accident that caused severe neurological damage, he was left in a coma. Against all odds, he woke up but his condition remains extremely serious: he is dependent on life-support treatment and suffers from a severe disability. But he is able to communicate and states unequivocally that he wishes to continue living.

His family shares this wish and refuses to allow treatment to be withdrawn. Doctors at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital nevertheless consider that continuing treatment constitutes unreasonable obstinacy within the meaning of the Claeys-Leonetti Act, which set out the medical and legal framework for patients at the end of life, until the passing of the Act of July 15th on assisted dying. In their view, continuing treatment would merely artificially prolong an existence with no prospect of significant improvement.

This disagreement led the family to launch a legal battle aimed at preventing the medical decision from being carried out. Following internal hospital procedures, the family lodged an urgent appeal with the Council of State to suspend the decision to withdraw treatment.

The appeal challenged the medical assessment that the legal criteria for “unreasonable obstinacy” had been met. In particular, the family argued that Rémi is now capable of expressing his wishes, that he is explicitly asking to live, and that this wish should take precedence.

The Council of State did not accept this argument. It upheld the doctors’ assessment and confirmed that the conditions set out in the Public Health Code had been met to authorise the withdrawal of treatment.

It is in this context that the high court states that “the patient’s wishes are subject to the law,” a phrase that sums up the philosophy adopted: the patient’s expression of will is not, in itself, sufficient if the legal criteria permitting the withdrawal of treatment are deemed to have been met.

This case highlights a paradox rarely mentioned in the debate on end-of-life care.

For months, advocates of the legalisation of euthanasia have emphasised patient autonomy and absolute respect for a patient’s wishes when they wish to die. Yet, in Rémi’s case, the opposite occurs: a patient asks to live, but this wish is not enough to prevent the withdrawal of treatment.

Under French law, the decision does indeed rest with the doctor, following a collegial procedure designed to assess whether treatment has become futile, disproportionate or serves no purpose other than the artificial prolongation of life. The family is consulted, but has no right of veto. Its role consists essentially of bearing witness to the patient’s prior wishes when the patient is no longer able to express them.

The Rémi case thus illustrates the limits of the power of relatives when faced with a medical decision. Even when they unanimously oppose the withdrawal of treatment, their opposition is not sufficient to prevent it from going ahead if the courts consider that the legal procedure has been followed.

The timing gives this decision particular political significance. Just a few days after the passing of the law establishing a right to assisted dying, many opponents are denouncing what they perceive as a growing imbalance in favour of the medical profession. In their view, the Rémi case demonstrates that the safeguards put forward during parliamentary debates do not allay all concerns. A system in which a conscious patient may have their wish to live set aside on the basis of a medical assessment reveals the extent of the power entrusted to doctors in end-of-life decisions.

Grégor Puppinck, director of the European Centre for Law and Justice, emphasises that “this is the first time that doctors have decided to withdraw treatment, against the expressed wishes of a ‘conscious’ patient, thereby causing their death.” A few years ago, the Vincent Lambert case made headlines because doctors had decided to end the life of a man in a vegetative state against his family’s wishes. But the situation, however contentious, was quite different: Vincent Lambert had not regained consciousness and, unlike Rémi, had never clearly expressed his wish to live.

What we are witnessing here is a gravely serious reversal of the principle of autonomy: individual will is invoked when it leads to a request for death but may be disregarded when it involves a request for continued care.

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Islam, Marxism, tyranny ascendant

Canada, the U.K., and France are rapidly morphing into Muslim nations.

Iran is run by a motley collection of itinerant thugs and Islamic terrorists. Russia is run by an extreme authoritarian. China, North Korea, Cuba, and various other nations have a communist government. Daniel Ortega is a dictator, like many others, one who recently announced he was suspending elections in Nicaragua. The EU renders the will of the people in several European nations effectively moot. 

In Hungary, Victor Orban’s Fidesz Party was recently raided, their servers confiscated. Romanian presidential elections were cancelled back in 2024. And the beat — or beatdown — goes sadly on. 

In Germany, efforts are underway to outright ban the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, that nation’s largest opposition party. The ruling Social Democrats and their Brownshirts SS Stasi political police have hilariously been attempting to prove that the AfD is a danger to democracy, largely the way rabidly insane Democrats have said about President Trump and his supporters here in the United States.

Local ruling authorities have gone so far as to change the election rules, allowing local election boards to ban individual candidates if they purportedly harbor “doubts” about “their loyalty to the constitution.”

Meaning, they pose a threat to their power.

“Socialism” is on the rise in Europe, including in formerly sane and conservative countries like Hungary. And it is indisputably having a moment in the United States. That is because leftists, like the practitioners of Islam, never rest, never flag — and will never do so — in their manically obsessive quest to destroy freedom and prosperity.

Simply put, if either one of these two ideologies were ever to prevail across the West, the world would enter a new Dark Age, economically, morally, politically, and spiritually. That is what happens when those in power seek to deny the unalienable rights granted to us by our Creator. And that is what happens when those currently in power allow it to, whether through greed or suicidal empathy. 

Here in the U.S., the Democrat party would suspend elections in a heartbeat if the people in it thought they could get away with it. And “RINOs” (Republicans in name only) might let them get away with it, sooner rather than later. It is ironic that Democrats claim the same of President Trump and his supporters, who actually are trying to uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, among other founding principles. 

As for Germany? Germans must push back, bigly, if they want to ensure they retain some liberty and rights, like the right to vote for whom you want. Or there will be no Alternative for Deutschland. Not now. Not ever. 

Islam and Marxism share one depraved goal: the utter destruction of the West and its values. If these twin malignant afflictions were to prevail, it would plunge the earth into darkness and despair. And even the earth wouldn’t be big enough for the both of them. What then?

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‘Manipulating The System’?: Southport Child Killer Rudakubana Transferred to Psychiatric Hospital As Attack’s Second Anniversary Looms; he ‘had visits from Muslim Imam at Belmarsh’ before moving to ‘cushy’ secure hospital

Victims’ families have accused the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana of manipulating the system after it was revealed the child murderer had been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital.

The murderer of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar Axel Rudakubana has been transferred from Belmarsh Prison, a high-security facility that holds some of Britain’s most notorious terrorists, to Broadmoor hospital. Today called a ‘secure psychiatric unit’, the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane in west London keeps criminals under lock and key while treating them for mental health issues that can’t be accommodated in prison.

The Guardian, which originally reported Rudakubana’s transfer, stated the decision to move the killer was based on an assessment that “he could not be managed safely in a prison environment” and “People in psychiatric units such as Broadmoor are treated as patients rather than prisoners”. There is a cost associated with this, and for the time Rudakubana spends in Broadmoor, the annual cost of his incarceration is reported to surge from £60,000 to £300,000 ($400,000).

While the treatment inside is mandatory, the group representing victims’ families have expressed concern that Rudakubana — who the court heard attempted to decapitate one of his child victims yet was found competent to stand trial and offered no insanity as a defence — is cynically gaming the system to improve his own conditions for his 52-year ‘life’ sentence.

A statement on behalf of the families released on Friday said:

The three families we represent have been made aware of this development in the last 48 hours. It is safe to say that whilst this news would devastate them at any time, the fact that this has occurred as we approach the second anniversary, in our view, is another move by AR who would appear to be attempting, once again, to manipulate the system.

We have been given the barest of details and whilst we are supporting the families through this we are urgently seeking a meeting with the appropriate authorities to understand the situation before commenting further.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage also responded, noting that Rudakubana was sane enough to stand trial and “This outrageous decision must be reversed.”

A spokesman for the government responded to the criticism and stated: “High-security hospitals are not places of freedom. He will remain under constant supervision in a high-security psychiatric unit, and be returned to prison as soon as possible. The transfer of an offender follows a robust independent clinical assessment.”

The second anniversary of the July 29th 2024 Southport attack, when Rudakubana killed three children and attempted to murder ten other people, is next Wednesday.

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Axel Rudakubana received visits from a Muslim Imam at Belmarsh prison before he was moved to a “cushy” secure hospital, it is understood.

The Southport killer was taken to psychiatric facility Broadmoor in Berkshire after authorities admitted he was unable to be “managed safely” behind bars in the category A prison.

The Ministry of Justice confirmed the move was made following a clinical assessment under the Mental Health Act, adding Rudakubana was unlikely to ever be released.

Now, the life that awaits him at Broadmoor has been unveiled – and it comes complete with reading, watching films, and around-the-clock care in the newly-renovated complex.

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Foreign nationals now make up nearly half of Germany’s prison population

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Foreign nationals now account for almost 45 percent of Germany’s prison population, with the proportion approaching 60 percent in Berlin and Hamburg, according to figures obtained from all 16 state justice ministries.

An analysis by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung found that 27,000 of the 60,408 people held in German prisons or pretrial detention as of March 2026 did not possess German citizenship. That puts the nationwide foreign-prisoner rate at a record 44.8 percent, up from roughly 30 percent in 2015.

The figures count dual nationals and foreign-born individuals with German citizenship as Germans, meaning the true number of foreign-born prisoners is likely to be far higher.

The highest rates were recorded in the city-states. Foreign nationals made up 59 percent of Berlin’s inmates and 58 percent of Hamburg’s. More than half of prisoners in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse were also non-German citizens.

Rates were considerably lower in eastern Germany, where approximately one in four prisoners in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia lacked German citizenship.

The German newspaper reported that foreign prisoners most commonly came from Eastern Europe and Arab nations. Their share of the prison population is disproportionately above the number of foreign nationals in Germany’s general population, which stands at just under 17 percent.

The German Association of Prison Officers warned that the changing prison population is placing growing pressure on an already strained correctional system.

“Language barriers are a major problem,” association chairman René Müller told the newspaper, explaining that interpreters are not always available and translation technology cannot replace the direct communication needed to address prisoners’ problems and prepare them for release.

“Our officers are finding it increasingly difficult to rehabilitate inmates and are struggling to connect with them,” Müller said.

He warned that communication failures can increase aggression, encourage prisoners to retreat into isolated subcultures, and raise the risk of Muslim inmates being radicalized behind bars.

Bavaria’s Justice Ministry similarly cited language difficulties and “culturally determined behaviors” that can produce serious conflicts between prisoners and staff.

Remix News reported on this back in 2024, when it was estimated that German prisons cost taxpayers approximately €4.14 billion annually, with around €1.82 billion spent incarcerating foreign nationals. At the time, foreign prisoners already made up more than half of the inmate population in several states.

Alternative for Germany lawmaker Martin Hess said those figures demonstrated the consequences of the country’s migration policies.

“Around 15 percent of people living in Germany are foreigners. However, their share of suspects, convicted persons, and prisoners is disproportionately high,” Hess said at the time.

The former police officer called for stricter deportations and a complete reversal of Germany’s migration policy, arguing that foreign criminality imposes both a security risk and a major financial burden on taxpayers.

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