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Croatian Official Calls for Mainstream Media Outlets To Be 'Declared Terrorist Organizations'
A Croatian official has called for major mainstream media outlets to be deemed “terrorist organizations” due to “fake news and hate they spread.”
Mislav Kolakušić, a former judge and politically independent member of European Parliament (MEP), slammed a variety of prominent media organizations along with European Union bodies in a blistering speech on the floor this week in Strasbourg, France.
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Underage Girl Sexually Assaulted by Afghan Migrant Near EU Parliament
An ‘asylum seeker’ from Afghanistan was arrested for sexually assaulting a young girl on a tram a short distance from the official seat of European Parliament, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded recently in Strasbourg, France, where the legislative body of the European Union meets monthly.
A 15-year-old girl had just boarded a local train in the city center when a foreign...
Pursuit at Germany-France Border After Turkish Migrant Steals Car With Disabled Child Inside
A Turkish migrant previously known to authorities is suspected of stealing a car with a disabled child inside and fleeing from Germany into France, hitting more than a dozen vehicles along the way, according to reports.
The harrowing incident unfolded just before 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon in Kehl, a border town in Germany on the Rhine River.
A woman parked her BMW at a train station for a quick errand,...
Muslim Delivery Man Who Refused Service To French Jews Deported Back To Algeria
French immigration authorities deported a 19-year-old immigrant from Algeria who was jailed for refusing to deliver food to Jews after it was discovered he was living France illegally:
Dhia Edine D. was sentenced in January to four months in jail for declining to deliver food made by a kosher restaurant in Strasbourg while he was working there as a food courier for the Deliveroo delivery company.
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3 killed, 13 injured in Strasbourg Christmas market Muslim terrorist attack
At least three people were killed with another 13 injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a Christmas market in central Strasbourg, France.
Strasbourg gunman, identified as a 29-year-old Muslim named Cherif Chekat who had a criminal history, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” according to public prosecutor. Four people have been detained on suspicion of having links to the suspect, who is on the run.
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French cities overwhelmed by refugee flow, Mayors ask govt to step in urgently
The mayors of seven major French cities say they have been “backed up against a wall” by an unending influx of refugees. Paris must address the strain on the areas, which are struggling to accommodate new arrivals, they wrote.
The mayors of Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse and Nantes have called out the government for inaction, asking it to do more to tackle the refugee...
Hungary Won't "Compensate" Immigrants
The Hungarian government has refused to “compensate” two Bangladeshi invaders—as ordered by the European Court of Human Rights because they were detained while illegally crossing the Hungarian border in 2015.
Earlier, the court had ordered the Hungarian government to pay two Bangladeshi invaders pretending to be refugees €10,000 euros ($10,772 dollars) each in “compensation” because they...
EU Parliament backs TTIP resolution
Despite vocal criticism, the EU Parliament has approved a non-binding resolution on the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, bridging a gap in protracted negotiations on the secretive trade pact between the EU and the US.
The resolution was approved by the majority of the parliament with 436 ‘Yes’ votes coming up against 241 ‘No’ votes in Strasbourg...
Pope Francis calls Europe 'old infertile granny', wants its population replaced with immigrants
Pope Satan does it AGAIN! After a series of recent evil declarations such as support for the divorce of families and homosexuality, now the Pope is calling for “old infertile” Europeans to accept their dying fate and welcome immigrants coming in mass mostly through Italy, the hell’s gate of Europe. Among these illegal immigrants there could be run away terrorists, rapists, murderers,...
UKIP cruising towards 2nd parliamentary seat
Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party is being forced to adjust its political sails to the success of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which is campaigning for Britain to end its relationship with the European Union.
Opinion polls in the lead-up to next month’s by-elections indicate UKIP, with its pledge to tame immigration and exit the EU, winning the support of some 25 percent...
Cameron says UK may quit ECHR ‘to keep country safe’
Britain could quit the European Convention on Human Rights so it can legally “chuck out” people threatening the country and its way of life, UK PM David Cameron said. Critics doubted Cameron’s honesty, saying such move would mean quitting the EU.
In the first public statement of its kind, the British prime minister told BBC1 that he was ready to cut ties with the Strasbourg court, to prevent...
Rapist Wins Right to Stay in UK
A 24-year-old Nigerian rapist has successfully avoided deportation from the UK after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that expelling him would violate his right to family life. Despite not having a partner or children, the court ordered the British government to allow him to stay and cover £3,500 of his legal bills.
The rapist, identified only as AA, had been convicted at the age of...
Britain should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights
Many ECHR judges never spent a day on the bench in their home countries.
What specific benefits accrue to the United Kingdom as a result of our adhesion to the European Convention on Human Rights? It ought to be the most basic question of all, yet it is almost never asked. Most politicians, together with virtually the entire legal establishment, take our continued membership as a datum or given; yet...
British Eurosceptic thrown out of EU parliament
A British member of the European parliament was thrown out of a debate on Wednesday, after quoting Nazi slogans in German in the chamber.
‘Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer (One People, One Kingdom, One Fuehrer),’ said Godfrey Bloom from the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which wants Britain’s exit from the EU.
He was speaking in Strasbourg, France, during a debate on plans...
New EU foreign policy chief lambastes 'Israeli occupation'
Catherine Ashton
Government officials in Jerusalem harshly criticized the new European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, for her scathing remarks about the “Israeli occupation” in her maiden speech.
Ashton on Tuesday leveled scathing criticism at Israeli policy in her first speech as the European Union’s first high representative...