A regional court in the southern German city of Ulm on Tuesday sentenced a 27-year-old man to life in prison for murder and attempted murder following a knife attack on two schoolgirls last year.
The killing, as the girls walked to catch their morning school bus, prompted a wave of shock and anger across Germany.
The air in several major Canadian cities on Monday smells like burning campfires.
Air quality has plummeted during recent weeks because of wildfire smoke, made worse by the adverse effects of climate change in an “unprecedented” fire season. But as Canada battles environmental emergencies, advocates are asking if the country is ready to play its part in a global crisis of climate migrants.
A migrant smuggler has boasted that there is nothing European leaders can do to stop people from making illegal and highly dangerous journeys to the continent. The criminal insisted that “not even the Prophet himself could prevent the Harka”—the name given to illegal immigration in Tunisia.
Twenty-nine-year-old Hassan (not his real name) has made a lot of money through what he described as his “illegal travel agency.” At the top of a chain in which a number of “coordinators” collect “customers” from Tunisia and send them off in small boats, he has played an important role in the significant rise of illegal crossings to Italy, increasing four-fold in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period the year before.
The Dutch farmers’ party has called for a cap on asylum seekers in the Netherlands as polls predicted it would challenge the prime minister’s party to become the country’s strongest political force in a general election.
The Farmers-Citizen Movement (BBB) came from nowhere to become the largest party in all 12 Dutch provinces in regional elections in March after a campaign dominated by large-scale tractor protests against compulsory farm buy-outs to hit EU climate change targets.
How the Left annihilated Sweden.
Center-Right Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has finally declared a drastic shift in the immigration policy of a once-peaceful country that has become a haven for the most violent foreign gangs, due to its infamous open-door welcome at the height of the migration crisis that has continued since 2015. Kristersson announced that Sweden is changing its “migration policy to the EU’s strictest.” The Sweden Democrats were handed a virtual no-win predicament when they joined the government in 2022, caused by the previous Socialist Democratic Party. “Almost all 5,000 gang members” in Sweden are migrants, and their proliferation is threatening to get worse without state intervention.
“The images of a little girl and her grandmother attacked in broad daylight in Bordeaux are unbearable,” Marine Le Pen said. “How many videos like this does it take for the power to react?”
Quelle horreur. Bordeaux aujourd’hui. Voilà ce qu’ils ont fait de notre pays. Français, réveillez-vous. pic.twitter.com/isuIzeHM96
— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) June 19, 2023
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday said the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States is constitutional.
The Supreme Court in its decision noted that the agreement does not violate Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom – the Right to life, liberty and security of a person.
A little good news.
Italian special forces have stormed a cargo ship sailing from Turkey to France after about 15 migrants armed with knives attempted to hijack the vessel.
The asylum seekers, whose nationality has not been disclosed, had allegedly sneaked undetected on to the roll-on, roll-off cargo ship, named Galatea Seaways, in the hope of reaching Europe.
The vessel, designed to carry vehicles and sailing under a Turkish flag with 22 crew members, set off from Topçular in Turkey on 7 June and was headed for Sète in southern France, Italy’s defence ministry told the press.
Dozens of refugees were on Friday in a standoff with the Home Office over the cramped conditions at a hotel in Westminster.
Some 40 asylum seekers staged a protest outside the accommodation in Pimlico on Wednesday and Thursday night when they were allegedly asked to bunk “four to a room”.
h/t TB
Fifty migrants packed into a floundering rubber dinghy in the Channel were picked up by a Border Force vessel today after refusing to be rescued by a French Navy warship.
In a two-hour operation, Border Force vessel Ranger raced from the Kent coast to the centre of the Channel to bring the ‘agitated’ migrants into Dover.
Videos and maritime radio messages between Ranger and the warship Formentin, obtained by the Mail, reveal a high level of collaboration between the French and British over organising the flimsy dinghy’s journey safely to the UK.
h/t Mauser
The Irish tourism industry is on the verge of collapse after government figures suggested that up to 10,000 jobs may be lost due to using hotels to house refugees. Potentially billions have been lost as regional towns are set to miss out on lucrative summer trading.
The Republic of Ireland has struggled with an influx of refugees the past year, with 83,000 claiming asylum in 2022, compounding the country’s already pre-existing housing shortages.
French politicians have warned about the risk posed by the country’s increasingly violent and toxic rows over immigration after the mayor of a seaside town resigned following death threats and an arson attack on his home, and far-right groups protested over an asylum-seeker centre in his town.
Yannick Morez announced he was stepping down as mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, in western France, and would have to stop his work as a local doctor, weeks after his home was targeted in an arson attack that burned two cars and the front of his family house. The arson attack is under investigation, but Morez complained of a “lack of support from the state”.
Which nation will ignite all of Europe? So many to choose. UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy?
Keep an eye on Fdesouche for what’s really going on in France.
Your government has declared war against you. They will smear you as a racist for standing up for yourself and your family and daring to question mass immigration.
Undocumented migration is already a problem for the White House. Next week it is expected to get much worse
Officer Sanchez of the El Paso police department on the US border with Mexico is bracing for a leap into the unknown.
He and his colleagues are already flat out dealing with thousands of illegal migrants crossing into the United States but they are expecting a surge in the number of arrivals after a controversial Trump-era entry restriction known as Title 42 expires in four days’ time.
“The fact is that on Thursday and after that, we don’t really know what is going to happen,” Sanchez said. “There could be a lot more people here, and that is a real concern.”
Sitting at the bus and gas station in Plattsburgh, N.Y., 24-year-old Naomie shakes her head. She spent more than a year on what she calls le chemin de l’enfer, the road to hell, to escape persecution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and meet up with a long-lost uncle in Montreal, only to end up exhausted and without any money back at this convenience store in upstate New York.
Naomie fled her country to neighbouring Angola in 2021, after she was raped by her stepfather, a soldier. In Angola, with next to no resources for asylum seekers, she met a man in a market who said he was willing to help her and rented a little place for her to stay. Naomie says she didn’t know he was married and that when his wife found out, she called on a group of bandits who stormed her home in the night. One of the men also raped her.
Decaying bodies have been washing up on the shores of Libya in recent days, a continued sign of both the tragedies related to the increase in migration across the Mediterranean and the inability of the EU to prevent them.
Africa News reports that 34 bodies have washed up on Libyan beaches in the last week, likely those of migrants who died at sea.
