For centuries, the Irish fought British Protestants and, eventually, southern Ireland prevailed to become the independent Republic of Ireland. However, there’s a new theocratic overlord headed their way, and they don’t seem inclined to fight this time. Preemptive surrender appears to be the chosen pathway, at least for those people in Galway who were told the most common boy’s first name in their city.
‘Dealers told the rioters to stop the violence so that they could resume drug dealing’
It wasn’t President Macron who brought six days of rioting in France to an end, nor the brave bands of mothers who called for calm in some of the inner-city estates. It wasn’t even the presence of 45,000 police and gendarmes on the streets that persuaded the rioters, arsonists, vandals and looters to stand down. Instead, it seems that it was the drug gangs who decided enough is enough. Having so many boys in blue patrolling the streets was bad for business and so gang leaders exerted their influence and ordered the young hoodlums back to their bedrooms.
I have wondered at the sudden de-escalation.
Following the killing of a 17-year-old boy, France is once again the scene of riots that reflect the gulf between traditional France and the suburbs — the result of immigration over the last 40 years.
Nahel Merzouk was killed by police. He was being chased in Nanterre, near Paris, by two policemen on a motorcycle for traffic violations and refusal to stop the car he was driving. After Merzouk was forced to stop the car due to traffic congestion, the policemen approached his car and drew their weapons. Merzouk then drove off, at which point one of the policemen fired his weapon at the car, fatally wounding Merzouk. If Merzouk had followed the orders of the police, he would not have died.
The suspects arrested in Germany had also been collecting money for Islamic State since April 2022 and repeatedly transferred it to the group abroad.
German police arrested seven people on Thursday on suspicion of founding a terrorist organization with the aim of carrying out high-profile attacks similar to Islamic State, prosecutors said.
The Turkmen, Tajik, and Kyrgyz nationals arrested in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia had known each other for a long time and entered the country from Ukraine shortly after the war began in 2022, said prosecutors.
A gang member behind the savage ‘honour’ killing of a young woman who rejected an arranged marriage, dramatised in a TV show starring Keeley Hawes, is still too dangerous to be released and deported, it’s been ruled.
Mohamad Hama, then 30, is serving life after being found guilty of murder as part of a gang of thugs who tortured, raped and strangled 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, in January 2006.
Two Pakistani men have today been jailed for life in Greece for gang-raping a British 18-year-old woman on her sunbed after she went for a morning swim on holiday.
The two men, aged 27 and 24, raped the Briton, who has not been named, on a beach in Rethymno, a city on the north coast of Crete, in July 2022.
h/t kiki9
Two Canadian women and three children on way home from detention camps in Syria
OTTAWA – Two women and three children who were temporarily missing in Syria after failing to board a repatriation flight to Canada in April are finally on their way home.
The women and children were among a group of 19 people Canada agreed to bring home from Kurdish-operated prison camps in northeastern Syria in January.
They have been held for years at displaced persons camps in a region now controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
Stupid move allowing murder cultists into your home.
Last summer, Sir Salman Rushdie told a German magazine that some normality was finally returning to his life. Two weeks later, he was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York. The incident was a cruel reminder that, despite all the time elapsed and normality resumed, the fatwa against him was every bit as valid as the day it was announced: Valentine’s Day, 1989.
A spectre is haunting Europe. In France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and even Switzerland, the rule of law is being challenged by the rule of gangs. Disaffected young people cut off from society feel nothing but nihilistic contempt for it. Higher temperatures and social media are creating a heated summer. Judging from recent events in Paris and Stockholm, this year could be the worst so far.
The rise of gang violence is associated with immigration. Europe has shown itself incapable or unwilling to control the influx of migrants, some of them genuine asylum seekers, others simply opportunists. Nor have European politicians succeeded in dealing with the problems created by immigration, despite spending billions on social projects. A European summit on immigration in Brussels last week ended without even a joint declaration. Emmanuel Macron was unable to attend. He was preoccupied with riots across France, following the fatal police shooting of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old boy, in suburban Paris
Last week we learned that a woman in a park in Skegness was dragged into the bushes and raped by a 33-year-old male. The man had arrived in the UK illegally on a small boat just 40 days earlier.
Strangely, I can find little anger about this. The story was reported in a couple of papers but there were no fulminating editorials or emergency questions in the House. Jess Phillips hasn’t found room to grandstand about it. Nor have Yvette Cooper, Stella Creasy or any of those other Labour MPs who like to shake their heads in disgust as the Home Secretary explains that the British taxpayers can’t forever foot the hotel bills of illegal migrants.
Radical youth movements are mobilising across the nation
While France’s week of violent riots at first seems a retread of the banlieue uprising of 2005, in one respect it has displayed a new development, under-discussed in Anglophone media, which was absent a generation ago. Namely, the first evidence of a Right-wing counter-mobilisation against the rioters. In provincial cities like Lyon, Angers and Chambéry, groups of masked and hooded youths have appeared, dressed in black and armed with batons and pepper spray, to confront the rioters and the Left-wing demonstrators supporting them.
I saw a couple of videos purporting to show such activity but was unable to vet them. The military has launched an investigation after “rumours” began to circulate that soldiers from a nearby base masked up and delivered bound rioters to the police in Lorient – Riots: the army opens an investigation into the supposed help of marine commandos to the police in Lorient
In six nights, the rioters have already caused over €1 billion worth of damage.
After a week of race riots the likes of which haven’t been seen in France for decades, the urban violence that engulfed more than 220 towns and cities across the country has exacted a colossal human and material cost, leaving thousands of cars, buses, and trams torched, hundreds of buildings destroyed, and hundreds of law enforcement officers injured.
In a report published on Monday, June 3rd, by the Ministry of the Interior that quantified the extent of the material damage and the number of arrests that occurred in the previous six nights, it was revealed that more than 5,600 vehicles were set ablaze, some 1,300 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and more than 3,300 arrests were made across the country.
Uncontrolled immigration and the erosion of cultural identity pose a critical threat to the concept of nation-states in a globalised world
I have been meaning to write about West Europe for some time now, but issues like the Prigozhin march to Moscow, or the recent US visit by PM Modi demanded more immediate attention. But now with the France riots that are gradually spilling over to neighbouring states like Belgium, it is back to Europe and, probably time for a glimpse into what these riots are indicative of.
West Europe, through France, is having a sneak peek at how its moment of reckoning will look. The proverbial chickens have come home to roost, and there is nothing that their governments can do or are willing to do about it. They can best put it under the carpet and pretend that all is well. For instance, instead of calling for a ban on rioters, French President Macron has called for a ban on the internet. No internet means no coverage of the destruction and mayhem caused by the rioting immigrants. What you do not see does not exist.
The riots that have ravaged France in recent days have given Éric Zemmour a second wind. The leader of the right wing Reconquest Party has been on the airwaves and in the newspapers, saying, with a touch of schadenfreude, “I told you so.”
🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen: "At a time when our country has just been ransacked and pillaged, I would like to ask you the question that all French people are asking: what have you done with France?"#Emeutes #Nahel #FranceOnFire #FranceBurning #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/7IMai3FLNk
— European Insider (@Europa_Insider) July 4, 2023
President Macron has a penchant for talking up the value of greater unity in Europe, going so far last year as to launch a “European Political Community” for no apparent reason other than love of a pointless rendezvous. What the French president failed to bank on is how Europeans’ frustration with entrenched social crises would in the summer of 2023 move the European political needle decisively to the right.
Fontenay aux roses (92) : des véhicules incendiés #emeutes #nahel pic.twitter.com/lRwjdXkPob
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) July 3, 2023
