National conservative parties continue to make sizable gains across Europe, with the French populist Right especially looking to break all previous records during June’s EU elections, according to claims by a fresh poll.
The “nationally and politically representative” survey, conducted by Portland Communications of over a thousand voters across five countries each (France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands) says that populists are looking at major breakthroughs nearly everywhere.
Two years ago, Éric Zemmour was the most talked-about man in France and a serious contender to be the ninth president of the Fifth Republic. A controversial journalist turned incendiary politician, he vied with Marine Le Pen for second place behind Emmanuel Macron in the polls. Crucially, he seemed to have something she lacked – an ability still to appeal to the Catholic bourgeoisie while tapping into widespread anger at mass immigration.
But then Russia attacked Ukraine, the mood of Europe changed, and Zemmour’s political fortunes sank as quickly as they had risen. He finished a distant fourth in the first round of the presidential election, with 7 per cent of the vote. The experience did not put him off running for high office, however, and today he is back in campaign mode looking ahead to the European elections in June and beyond.
From Fdesouche (Note Google Translate) – Lyon: an attack foiled, Sofiane K. threatened passers-by with a knife. This is an S file known for radicalization and with a psychiatric history
This Saturday, an attack was foiled in the city of Lyon, late in the morning. A 28-year-old young man named Sofiane K was arrested by the police while threatening passers-by. The suspect is listed as S for radicalization reasons.
An attack was foiled this Saturday, February 3 in Lyon late in the morning. According to information from CNEWS, the attacker is 28 years old and is called Sofiane K. He was already known to the police and suffers from a psychiatric history, schizophrenia.
From DW – Three people were injured in a knife attack at prominent Paris train station Gare de Lyon, French police have said. Police said the attack did not appear to be terror-related.
For days, nationwide protests have flared in Europe’s largest agriculture producer, with farmers angered in part by red tape and environmental policies they say are hurting their bottom lines and rendering them unable to compete with less stringent neighbours.
Across France, farmers have used tractors and trucks to block roads and jam traffic. They plan to step up their pressure campaign by establishing eight chokepoints along the major arteries to Paris on Monday afternoon.
🇫🇷 French Farmer reinforcements spotted en route to Paris early this morning.
Support the Farmers they feed us all
Viva la France 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/35hfMOPgn1
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 29, 2024
The situation in France
Protesting farmers blockade the capital. Taxi drivers are joining them. pic.twitter.com/0kQmiX4PcU
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) January 29, 2024
President Macron’s government has promised wide-ranging concessions to farmers as it seeks to curtail protests that have led to dozens of roadblocks across France.
Gabriel Attal, 34, the prime minister, was sent to a dairy farm in Montastruc-de-Salies, in the southwest, in an attempt to calm the anger that has blazed through the countryside.
Attal said the government “has got the message loud and clear”, adding that agriculture was its No 1 priority. “We are going to act on all fronts.”
INCREDIBLE SCENES
The farmers have lined up hundreds of tractors in protest on Le Touquet beach where French President Macron has a holiday house.
SHARE – You won't see this on the media 👇 pic.twitter.com/DiFuX7hiC3
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 26, 2024
Five years after the Islamist attacks that cost a gendarmerie officer his life, the trial against the terrorism co-conspirators opened in Paris this week.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame died at the hands of terrorists in the Islamist attacks in Trèbes and Carcassonne in March 2018 after exchanging himself for a hostage. The freed hostage explained that she had found faith through the sacrifice of Lieutenant-Colonel Beltrame.
A total of 90,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed throughout the country this weekend
French authorities warned of a “very high” terror threat on New Year’s Eve due to the war in Gaza as Germany also braced itself for violence.
Gérard Darmanin, the French interior minister, said on Friday that 90,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed throughout the country during the upcoming festivities.
“I’ve requested a very strong mobilisation of police forces and the gendarmerie under the context of a very high terrorist threat, of course due to what’s happening in Israel and Palestine,” Mr Darmanin said.
The French equivalent of MI6 was glamorised in The Bureau, an internationally acclaimed television series, but in recent years it has been spooked by a series of intelligence failures.
The head of the Directorate General for External Security has been replaced after the agency was blamed for failing to anticipate the Russian invasion of Ukraine and coups in several former French colonies in west Africa. French spies were also caught out when Australia abruptly abandoned a big submarine deal in 2021.
The 18th-century epigrammatist and aphorist Nicolas Chamfort famously described his country, France, as “the perfected civilization.” Nowadays, the nearly six million Muslim economic migrants and their children in France have contributed much to the undoing of that civilization, spreading fear and insecurity. From the annals of Muslim mayhem, carried out against French people, here is one recent story: “‘Dirty White’ – Thugs stab young French father 9 times, leave him with 40 stitches,” by John Cody, Remix News, December 15, 2023
Just days before Christmas, a significant anti-terrorist operation in France led to the arrest of five individuals, averting a potential Islamic terror attack. Conducted by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) across Meurthe-et-Moselle, this timely intervention showcases the ongoing efforts of French authorities to ensure public safety during a season of heightened alert. Amidst rising global tensions, and with Christmas just days away, this operation stands as a critical juncture in the ongoing fight against Islamic terrorism.
The increase in Islamist attacks in France in recent months has particularly affected the teaching profession. State schools have long been a symbol of the French nation and the Republic, which explains this focus by terrorists.
Since the beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty in October 2020, who was murdered for commenting on cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammed in a lesson on freedom of expression, terrorist acts targeting teachers have increased in France.
About 430 Americans of Yazidi background and Nobel laureate Nadia Murad accused French conglomerate Lafarge of supporting brutal attacks on the population through a conspiracy with the Islamic State, according to a complaint reviewed by AFP.
The civil suit, filed in a New York court by attorneys that include human rights lawyer Amal Clooney references a $778m US Department of Justice fine and guilty criminal plea in October 2022 by Lafarge, which was acquired by Swiss company Holcim in 2015.
Yazidi plaintiffs asked the court to find Lafarge liable for violations of the US Anti-Terrorism Act and assess compensatory damages, plus attorneys fees.
Paris, December 2, 2023. 9 pm. A man shouting “Allahu Akbar!” (“Allah is the greatest!”) stabbed a German tourist walking along the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, an area considered safe. On the way to the hospital, the victim died. The murderer, again shouting, “Allahu Akbar!”, attacked two more people, seriously wounding them, before the police arrested him. A government press release quickly mentioned that the killer was a French citizen, born in France, with the exceedingly French first name of Armand.
Staff have gone on strike at a school near Paris saying they fear for their lives after Muslim pupils and parents voiced anger towards a teacher who displayed a Renaissance painting of nude women.
After the recent murders of two teachers by jihadi terrorists, staff at the middle school at Issou, on the Seine west of Paris, are worried that they too could be attacked.
Nearly 4 in 10 Muslim students in France opted against unequivocally condemning the stabbing of teacher Dominique Bernard by an Islamist extremist on Oct. 13 in recent polling.
The Ifop survey asked a weighted sample of 1,805 students in French state education between the ages of 15 and 17 the following: “A teacher, Dominique Bernard, was murdered by an Islamist of Ingush origin in a high school in Arras. When you think of the perpetrator of this assassination, what is your reaction?”
They’re just being good Muslims. Murder pleases Allah.
