A 26-year-old railway security guard remains in a medically induced coma after a violent altercation with an alleged fare dodger ended with him falling from a moving regional train. Meanwhile, public outrage is growing as the suspect has been set free by a regional court, despite prosecutors asking for his arrest.
Airedin M. was working aboard a German regional train between Offenburg and Karlsruhe on July 17th when he checked the ticket of a male passenger, who claimed he could not show his digital ticket because his phone battery was dead. Witnesses also described the man as heavily intoxicated.
Federal police were contacted, and the situation briefly calmed. However, the dispute soon reignited when the passenger allegedly stood up and attacked the security guard. During the struggle, both men fell to the floor near one of the train’s doors. According to witnesses, the suspect punched and kicked Airedin M. next to a train door, which opened during the assault, causing the guard to fall from the train while it was traveling at approximately 120 km/h.
The young father suffered life-threatening injuries, including a severe traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures to his left leg. He remains in intensive care at a Karlsruhe hospital, where doctors placed him in a medically induced coma because of the severity of his condition. Police arrested the suspect following the incident.
Relatives are hoping the victim will one day recover enough to return to his wife and one-year-old son.
The handling of the suspect has become a major source of public anger. Authorities say the 36-year-old has previous convictions primarily for violent offenses and is currently serving a suspended sentence on probation. Despite prosecutors seeking an arrest warrant, the Karlsruhe District Court rejected the request, allowing the man to remain free.
The decision not to detain the suspect has sparked protests in Airedin’s hometown of Mannheim. More than 200 friends and acquaintances gathered outside the Karlsruhe public prosecutor’s office, expressing disbelief that a man with a reported history of violent convictions and who was already on probation was not held in custody.
Another demonstration is now being organized outside the Karlsruhe District Court. Airedin’s friend, Enver Krachoolu, questioned the justice system’s response, asking, “What more has to happen before train staff and passengers are finally given more safety and such perpetrators are consistently locked up?” The protest, originally planned for Thursday, has since been postponed until Sunday.
Germany’s railways are facing a growing public safety crisis, with violent incidents, arson attacks and various acts of sabotage soaring.
While the aging dictator of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega this week announced he was suspending elections indefinitely, Europe seems to be on a similar path – as Victor Orban’s Hungarian Fidesz Party was raided Wednesday and had their servers confiscated, and Romanian Presidential elections were anulled 2024. Now, Germany seems to have discovered a new strategy – as legacy parties are simply excluding candidates from the patriotic AfD party from elections.
Local elections are set to take place in the state of Lower Saxony, home of Volkswagen and surrounding the Free City of Hamburg, on Sept. 13, where the Alternative for Germany party is currently polling at about 20% behind Christian Democrats and Social Democrats at about 25% each. Nationally, the AfD is currently the strongest party in the polls at about 29%, and may even win a majority in the East German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which elect new state parliaments and state governments in September.
So the failing legacy parties are resorting to ever more repressive measures. Along with the ever-present threat of Antifa violence, debanking, and media slander, efforts have been underway to ban the largest opposition party outright. Since the German secret political police have not been able to prove the AfD is a danger to democracy in court, these efforts by the ruling Social Democrats seem doomed to fail.
Therefore, ahead of the Sept. 13 local elections in Lower Saxony, the ruling red-green coalition changed the election rules in February, allowing local election boards to ban individual candidates if they have “doubts in their loyalty to the constitution”, however that may be defined. Also in February, the Lower Saxony secret political police (Verfassungsschutz – Office for the Protection of the Constitution) announced it was classifying the local AfD as “confirmed far-right”.
A temporary injunction against this decision filed by the AfD was struck down in June.
Now, as the election approaches, local election boards in Lower Saxony have started examining and even banning AfD candidates from running. At least 11 AfD candidates are currently being investigated for allegedly lacking “loyalty to the constitution”, without any legal recourse or opportunity to defend themselves. The only reason for banning them offered is that they are AfD members, so they must be “far-right” and therefore a danger to democracy.
On Tuesday, July 21, AfD Bundestag member Martin Sichert was banned from running for county board member in Friesland by the very parties he is running against.
Here he describes what happened in English:
Jetzt aufgrund des großen medialen Interesses auch in Englisch, was da gestern im Wahlausschuss passiert ist: pic.twitter.com/RlauBD5goA
— Martin Sichert, MdB (@Martin_Sichert) July 22, 2026
On Wednesday, AfD candidate Reinhild Goes, a board member of the AfD youth group “Generation Germany”, was also banned from running for Mayor in the town of Nörten-Hardenberg, even though election officials had recommended approving her. No reason was given by the election board.
Frau @reinhild_goes wurde jetzt ebenfalls von der Wahl ausgeschlossen. Weil sie allein schon wegen ihres jugendlichen Alters rein gar nichts auf dem Kerbholz hat, verzichtete man auf eine Begründung. Niedersachsen versinkt im rotgrünen Totalitarismus. pic.twitter.com/xgaFdk85MA
The first example of such a ban was the mayoral candidate in Ludwigshafen Joachim Paul, who was also banned from running on equally specious grounds.
America spends trillions on NATO to protect democracies including Germany. But it is has just prevented an opposition candidate from running for mayor for frivolous reasons including his praise for "Lord of the Rings." This is a clear violation of NATO's Charter. pic.twitter.com/KdTB4S1GX6
Last September, Paul was invited to the White House with AfD Bundestag vice-chair Beatrix von Storch to describe his case.
“Since the legacy parties continue down this undemocratic path, I have reported this new case there as well,” von Storch wrote on X. “I assume they will be interested, since the Trump administration has made clear they expect NATO to respect democracy and the rule of law.”
French investigating magistrates have formally added racism as an aggravating circumstance to the charges arising from the high-profile killing of 16-year-old Thomas Perotto in Crépol, marking the first official recognition that the deadly attack may have been motivated by anti-White hatred.
Le Figaro reported that the magistrates in Valence informed the parties that all 14 people implicated in the case now face charges of murder or attempted murder aggravated by racism. The decision follows further questioning of the accused earlier this summer and comes as the judicial investigation reaches its conclusion ahead of a possible trial next year.
The addition of the aggravating factor could result in any sentence imposed on the defendants being significantly higher.
The racial character of the attack had been disputed since the investigation began, despite witnesses reporting that members of the knife-wielding group shouted about wanting to “kill White people.”
Thomas, a promising rugby player, was stabbed in the heart during violence outside a community dance in the rural Drôme village on the night of Nov. 18-19, 2023. He died while being transported to the hospital. Two other men were critically injured, while several additional victims suffered stab wounds.
The suspects were part of a group that had traveled from the La Monnaie neighborhood of Romans-sur-Isère to gatecrash the village celebration. Although much of the French media initially portrayed the violence as a spontaneous brawl between young people, witnesses described a coordinated attack involving a larger group of Black youths armed with knives.
“They took out the knives, they were there to kill,” one witness said at the time, as cited by Paris Match. Another local resident reported that members of the group shouted: “We are going to kill White people.”
The General Alliance Against Racism and for Respect for French and Christian Identity, or AGRIF, an advocacy group that led the fight to have the aggravating factor of racism recognized on the charge sheet, said its lawyer Jérôme Triomphe reviewed the extensive case file and submitted 30 pages of observations intended to establish what it described as the anti-White and anti-French racist motive behind the violence.
According to AGRIF, those submissions prompted the judges to reopen consideration of the issue and add the racism aggravator, which prosecutors had previously declined to invoke.
“The judges have reopened the investigation and added to the file the aggravating circumstance of racism, which the Prosecutor had refused to invoke and which had not, until then, been discussed,” the organization said, welcoming what it called an important decision for the continuation of the case.
“Anti-white racism has finally been recognized,” it added.
Le Parisien reported that 11 of those charged, including one who was a minor at the time, have been referred to the juvenile court in the Drôme region.
German citizens do not approve of surrogacy despite a recent campaign to legalize it, according to a new poll.
Citizens in Germany do not view the inability to have children as a justification for surrogacy, according to a recent representative survey conducted by INSA-Consulere on behalf of the Evangelical News Agency IDEA. INSA-Consulere interviewed 2,005 adult German citizens via an online panel from July 17 to 20.
Asked whether the desire to have a child justifies surrogacy, 41 percent of respondents answered “no.” Thirty-six percent said “yes.” Nineteen percent were undecided (“Don’t know”), and five percent did not provide an answer.
Opposition to surrogacy is particularly pronounced among Christians – albeit with differences between denominational groups.
Among members of the Free churches, comparable with Evangelical churches in the U.S., 62 percent state that the desire to have a child does not justify surrogacy. In comparison, only 31 percent said the opposite. Forty-four percent of Catholic respondents opposed surrogacy and 35 percent supported it. Among the mainline Protestant churches, 41 percent opposed surrogacy and 38 percent condoned the practice. The survey did not differentiate between practicing and non-practicing Christians.
With regard to political leanings, the strongest opposition to surrogacy was found among supporters of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (48 percent) and the Christian Democrats (46 percent), while support for surrogacy was strongest among the left-wing Greens. However, even among supporters of the Green Party, “yes” and “no” votes were split equally at around 41 percent each.
The survey shows that surrogacy remains a contentious issue that divides Germans across party lines. The recent scandal of CDU (Christian Democrats) politician Jens Spahn (photo above), who had acquired a baby boy via surrogacy with his homosexual “husband,” sparked renewed debate about the topic.
Spahn had bought the child from a U.S. surrogate to circumvent the prohibition in Germany and despite having previously opposed legalizing surrogacy. Due to the massive backlash, including from within his own party, he resigned from his position as the leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. However, he remains a member of the German Parliament and of the CDU.
Proponents of surrogacy have used this opportunity to launch a media campaign in favor of legalizing surrogacy in Germany. Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, who was nominated to become a judge on the country’s constitutional court last year but was ultimately rejected due to her extreme leftist views, is among the strongest proponents of legalizing surrogacy.
Brosius-Gersdorf argued that the German constitution would grant women the “right” to become a surrogate if she so wishes.
“Freedom and the individual – that is at the core. Their autonomy, their self-determined actions. In other words, human dignity – which is now frequently cited as an argument against the legalization of surrogacy – is not the limit; it is the very basis for self-determination,” the jurist said.
“And if a woman decides – in a self-determined, autonomous, voluntary, and well-informed manner – that she wants to serve as a surrogate mother, then in my opinion the state must not prohibit that,” she concluded.
Politicians from the AfD and CDU sharply criticized Brosius-Gersdorf for her statements, expressing gratitude that she was not elected to the constitutional court.
“It’s a good thing that the AfD blocked this person from becoming a constitutional court justice,” Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of the AfD parliamentary group, wrote on X.
France has been left in shock after an 80-year-old pensioner was raped and robbed by a Moroccan teenager as she was walking home.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested and taken into custody on Tuesday following the attack in Rennes earlier this month.
The 80-year-old had been returning from an evening out with her daughter when a young man is said to have approached her on a scooter.
The stranger then insisted he escorted her back to her property in the Colombier area of the French city.
After the 80-year-old refused, the young man is said to have followed her home.
Once she entered the building, she was attacked by the man, who pinned her against the wall before forcibly kissing her.
The teenager then raped her.
Following the sick attack, the stranger is said to have stolen a piece of gold jewellery from the woman before fleeing the scene.
French police promptly launched an investigation into the events, reviewing CCTV footage and taking DNA samples.
The suspect in custody has been described as a Moroccan national believed to have been born in the north African country in June 2010.
He is believed to be living in France legally.
A police source told CNEWS the teenager was in possession of cocaine at the time of his arrest.
His custody was extended on Wednesday, “in view of a court appearance scheduled for tomorrow,” Rennes prosecutor Frederic Teillet said.
The 16-year-old has been described by French authorities as unaccompanied and homeless.
The Division of Territorial Crime (DCT) has now taken control of the probe, which remains ongoing.
The brutal attack comes just weeks after a bombshell new survey revealed that the vast majority – 72 per cent – of the French public believe crime has spiralled out of control in the country.
The poll by CSA for Le Journal du Dimanche last month found that Republicains voters believe the notion most strongly – with 92 per cent – followed closely by 83 per cent of National Rally supporters.
It also revealed that the majority of backers of President Emmanuel Macron’s own party – 62 per cent – now believe crime in France is spiralling out of control.
The survey even found that the majority of left-wing French residents agree that authorities are losing their grip on crime, with 55 per cent in total.
Some 58 per cent of backers of Jean-Luc Melenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise party, alongside just over half of Socialist supporters.
The only cohort who did not believe that France is facing a crisis akin to Mexico were Green Party voters, with just 45 per cent.
A French modelling scout linked to the late, disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in mysterious circumstances at his suburban home outside Paris.
Daniel Siad, 69, was under investigation in France alongside several countrymen accused of colluding with Epstein to traffic and abuse women. Rape allegations were also under investigation.
Algeria-born Siad had not yet been questioned by investigators, but had denied the allegations, saying he wanted to be heard and give his version of events to clear his name and make public other elements of the case, FRANCE24 via AFP reports.
“An investigation to determine the cause of death was opened on Monday evening following the discovery,” the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said Wednesday while confirming the death of the suspect.
An autopsy will be carried out as part of the probe, the FRANCE24 report makes clear. It added:
Targeted by several complaints, including allegations of rape, Siad was the subject of an investigation conducted by the office specialising in combating human trafficking.
Siad’s name appeared in more than 1,000 documents released as part of the declassified Epstein files.
Two former models previously told AFP that Siad groomed them with the aim of delivering them to Epstein in one case in the 2000s and another case in the 1990s.
He allegedly likened his efforts to recruit women to fishing.
“In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick, some time no fish,” Siad wrote to Epstein in 2014.
Siad had insisted he was a victim and the American convicted sex offender had “taken advantage of his trust.”
French authorities in 2020 arrested modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel after allegations he procured women for the U.S. billionaire.
He was found dead in prison in 2022 and the 76-year-old’s “apparent suicide” by hanging bore striking similarities to Epstein’s death in August of 2019.
He too died by hanging in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, as Breitbart News reported.
A Tunisian man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping two young women after posing as a tattoo artist and luring them to an isolated farmhouse near Milan.
As reported by Il Giorno, the victims had met at a residential center for troubled girls and formed a close friendship. The younger girl, who was 17, wanted the name of her 18-year-old friend tattooed on her arm as a symbol of their bond.
The pair met the 33-year-old man in Milan last spring after he claimed he could carry out the tattoo. Instead, he took them to a farmhouse, where he assaulted them and held a knife to the throat of one of the victims during the attack.
The prosecution had sought a 14-year prison term, but an Italian court handed down a 10-year sentence at a preliminary hearing in Milan following an expedited trial. The court also ordered the defendant to pay an interim award of €25,000 to each victim.
The man had been arrested in Spain and is now being held in Milan’s San Vittore prison.
After the verdict was delivered, he began protesting loudly inside and outside the courtroom. Speaking in Arabic, he complained about the severity of the sentence and shouted that it amounted to “death” for him.
France’s Rassemblement National (RN) leader Marine Le Pen has accused Hungary’s government of undermining the rule of law, warning that democratic principles are being eroded, with the “blessing” of those who believe to be in the “camp of the good.” She added that new prime minister, Péter Magyar is “protected by the European Commission.”
The comments were made in response to recent developments involving Hungary’s main opposition party, Fidesz. On Tuesday, July 21st, prosecutors arrived without prior notice at a facility hosting Fidesz’s servers and seized the party’s communications systems and databases.
In a statement shared on X, Le Pen said that “violations of the rule of law in Hungary are multiplying” and argued that democracy “does not belong to any camp,” adding
It has only rules, and those rules are being trampled on by Hungary’s new Prime Minister, who is protected by the European Commission.
Les violations de l’État de droit se multiplient en Hongrie avec la bénédiction de ceux qui se pensent dans le « camp du bien ».
La démocratie, elle, n’a pas de camp. Elle a juste des règles que le nouveau Premier ministre hongrois, protégé de la Commission européenne, est en… https://t.co/WMeG7aLEWy
Le Pen’s commented on the state of democracy in Hungary by sharing a tweet by Fidesz MEP Kinga Gál, co-chair of the Patriots for Europe group in the EP, of which RN is also a member, who accused the Hungarian authorities of using legal measures against the country’s largest opposition party.
Gál described the prosecutors’ conduct as “unprecedented” since Hungary’s democratic transition in 1990.
Gál argued that, after failing to weaken Fidesz politically, the Tisza government is now attempting to undermine the party through legal means. She said
In a democratic state governed by the rule of law, this is unacceptable.
The criticism from Patriots comes after several other instances of legally shaky steps pushed by the Magyar government that we have extensively reported on.
Kelvin Mackenzie, Britain’s most famous tabloid newspaper editor, interviews New Culture Forum Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on Andy Burnham’s appointment as Prime Minister. This interview was recorded for Kelvin’s show on the exciting new YouTube channel UK LIVE.
In ten, twenty, or thirty years’ time, we won’t be able to tell our children – or our grandchildren, or ourselves for the longest-lived and luckiest among us – that we didn’t see it coming.
Spain is the emblematic case of tactical success within the best definition of “decadence” – that of Ross Douthat of The New York Times in his book The Decadent Society. Douthat’s thesis, in short, is that Western civilization is decadent without being doomed to collapse.
The question is the one posed by the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud: “Why does the heart of the Arabs tend to support Spain in the 2026 World Cup final? Spain as an icon of the ‘Arabs’, of Muslims and Palestinians. Sánchez, an anti-Westerner in the heart of the West?”
Spain’s economy is galloping better than others (estimated growth of 2.6 percent, driven by consumption, services, and record tourism levels). The country dominates all the sports that bring glory and money (it is number one in football, tennis, and motorcycling) and, aside from the brazen corruption of the left in power, it is envied by many in Europe.
But at what price? Spain wins in the short term but hands the long term over to those who never accepted the defeat of 1492.
When a country is for sale, it begins to sell its foreign policy.
When Iran requested an urgent UN debate to condemn the United States and Israel, China, Cuba, Russia, North Korea and… Spain joined the vote. Yes, Spain.
In Europe, Spain is the asset of the Chinese regime.
Spain has not only armed Iran. It has sided with Tehran in the war, and Iran has thanked Spain.
Spain buys weapons from Erdogan’s Turkey. Hamas has praised Spain.
If Madrid were not in Europe, one would say it is more like a Middle Eastern emirate.
The price of the sale is well known. The peninsula that stopped Islamic expansion at the gates of Europe is transforming, with postmodern elegance, into the financial outpost of regimes that do not hide their expansionist ambitions.
In 2022, Qatar announced 5 billion in investments in Spain. Since then, the flow has not stopped. Another 327 million from Qatar for “sustainability.” And before that, another billion into a joint fund.
Then another two billion from Oman.
While Spain aligned itself, in international forums, with actors hostile to the West – Iran, Hamas, China and other authoritarian regimes – it welcomed capital that brings with it worldviews incompatible with the legacy of the Reconquista. The peninsula that managed to expel the Jews in 1492, also ended eight centuries of Islamic rule and ushered in the European Atlantic era. It now seems to be reopening its doors, not with the sword but with contracts and demographic flows.
Just read El Mundo:
“It is almost impossible to trace the path of petrodollars in our country, but it is estimated that current investments in Spain may amount to around 20 billion euros in active investments. Of what is on the table, of what is ultimately visible, the four largest economies of the Persian Gulf account for more than 10 billion euros just in listed Spanish companies.”
Spain, which was invaded by Muslims in 711 AD and remained under Islamic rule for eight centuries, is returning to Al-Andalus.
Will they succeed with money and demography? I do not rule it out.
Demography.
The New York Times seizes the opportunity to praise Lamine Yamal as the face of the “new Spain”: Muslim, son of Moroccans, multicultural. “In the last five years, more than four million immigrants have arrived in Spain, a country of fewer than 50 million inhabitants. This year, more than one million immigrants have come out of the shadows after the government invited them to regularize their status.”
Spain’s plan to naturalize illegal migrants will be “the largest measure in European history.” 1.3 million applications have been submitted, more than double the 500,000 expected by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
1.3 million out of 49 million inhabitants: if this is not the Great Replacement, it is very close to it.
And then El Mundo speaks of 3 million regularizations.
And we Europeans will all pay the consequences. Do we only remember Schengen when it suits us?
Spain – together with Italy and Greece – is the spearhead of the collapse of the birth rate in Western Europe. Today in Spain there are 1,027 villages with no children under the age of five. This is not taken from a film, but from an article in El País. 13 percent of Spanish municipalities have not registered a single birth since January 1, 2012. And 633 municipalities in Spain have no children under the age of eleven. In 420 municipalities there is not a single inhabitant under the age of fifteen.
Leader in tourism, Spain has turned sun, coasts, culture, and nightlife into a powerful industry. Barcelona, Madrid, the Costa del Sol, and the islands generate wealth. But this success reveals a great fragility: the country has become a “theme park” for foreigners (Arabs, Chinese, Russians) with a dependence on unstable global flows. Tourism exalts the hedonistic exteriority of the country, while the interior depopulates. It is a “picture-postcard country” economy that lives off past identity rent without renewing it biologically.
Barcelona and Madrid shine, the coasts teem, sporting successes feed a national pride that masks the demographic void.
Sánchez dismisses any “humanitarian” argument and admits that mass immigration has the sole purpose of demographic replacement: “Without immigration, Spain would lose 19 percent of its GDP by 2050 and 22 percent by 2075. While others use migration for political purposes, we are implementing a migration policy.”
No longer rhetoric, but a crude admission: without massive migratory flows, the social model implodes. A declared demographic engineering that trades cultural cohesion for quantitative growth.
An “American” model applied with a Mediterranean flavor: import labor to sustain welfare and consumption. It works, at least in the short term.
In 2025, the Muslim population in Spain is around 2.5 million.
With a net immigration of 300,000 Muslims per year and an average fertility rate close to 2.9 children per woman (compared to 1.2 for the rest of the population), the projection for 2050 is clear: 11 million Muslims out of a total population of 55.8 million.
That is 20 percent of the national population.
This is not speculation: it is a scenario in line with Pew Research Center projections and the latest Eurostat data.
Spain is winning the GDP race by paying the price of explicit replacement.
The signs are everywhere.
“The Monumental de Barcelona converted into a Mosque.”
This is not a joke. It is the proposal of Hasan Izquierdo, a convert to Islam and mayoral candidate for Barcelona for the Andalusian Party, an Islamist formation that aims to reconvert Spain into Al-Andalus.
All this in a country that regained its freedom through arms – the Reconquista that ended in 1492 and represents its national epic. Without it, Spain would today be nothing more than an appendage of Morocco.
From 720, Muslims crossed the Pyrenees and conquered southern France. They were stopped at Tours and Poitiers by the Franks of Charles Martel. The Carolingian dynasty and the Holy Roman Empire began. The liberation of the Iberian peninsula had started from the small Christian kingdom in the north of Spain, which, with Pelayo, had resisted the Muslims.
Islam has not changed. The Christian world has.
The number of Islamic places of worship in Spain has doubled in five years, reaching 1,400 (excluding private prayer rooms), twice the 700 of 2021.
From Salt, “the Spanish city with more mosques than Catholic churches,” to Catalonia, where in ten years the number of mosques has gone from 55 to 292, to Melilla, the first Spanish city to exceed 50 percent Muslim population since the Reconquista, the numbers are reversing.
The Spanish newspaper La Razón has accused Gulf funders, such as Qatar, of being a source of the Islamization of Spain.
The president of the European Jewish Congress, Ariel Muzicant, has meanwhile told Jews that it is better if they avoid Spain.
After five centuries, it is the return of Al-Andalus.
Western decadence, as Douthat intuited, is not collapse but a golden twilight in which tactical successes – GDP, medals, investments – hide the loss of the collective soul.
The question is whether the country still possesses the spiritual and demographic energy for a new Reconquista – not armed, but cultural and biological. Or whether, fascinated by its own elegant and corrupt decline, it will prefer to become a province of a soft caliphate financed by oil and legitimized by the global left.
The question is not whether it works, but what will remain of this sick Western organism that takes stimulants.
