Open Season on the Jews of France

Yet another French Jew is murdered in an anti-Semitic hate crime.

In what has become a disturbing, and all too familiar occurrence in France, another elderly French Jew has been murdered in an unprovoked attack motivated by antisemitism. On May 21, an 89-year-old Lyon resident named René Hadjaj was defenestrated from the 17th floor of the apartment complex where he resided. The perpetrator has been identified as a 51-year-old male of Algerian origin named Rachid Kheniche. Hadjaj was said to have been wearing a kippah at the time of the assault.

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The uncomfortable truth about France’s ‘local youths’ – Blaming Liverpool fans for the Champions League chaos is misleading

“… Local youths” has become a familiar PC byword in France for what the thinking class is actually referring to: minorities. Their presence was confirmed by BBC reporter Nick Parrott, who filmed groups of French Arabs and Sub-Saharan immigrants trying to force their way into the arena. This led to security closing a number of stadium gates and preventing fans with tickets from entering. Other groups of thugs were filmed storming the gates, while security forces were nowhere to be seen.”

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Mila trial: Six people convicted of harassing French teenager over anti-Islam videos

Six people have been sentenced for harassing a French teenager online after she criticised Islam in social media videos.

The Paris court had found the suspects guilty of sending hate messages and death threats to a 16-year-old girl — identified as Mila.

They were given punishments ranging from a three-month suspended sentence to a four-month prison term under an electronic bracelet.

Judges heard how Mila was the target of a “tidal wave of hatred” after she posted a video online in January 2020.

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Eagles of Death Metal tell Paris terror trial how band ‘ran for their lives’

The frontman and the guitarist for the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal have told a Paris court how they watched from the stage in confusion and horror as terrorists opened fire on the crowd at their sold-out concert at the Bataclan in 2015.

Jesse Hughes, the band’s singer, and Eden Galindo, a guitarist, both said the attack, which left 90 people dead, had changed their lives for ever.

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French Elections: The Bad And The Not So Bad

“Like the remake of a bad movie,” says a voter in Sarcelles, one of Paris’s many “underprivileged” suburbs that, having formed the “red belt” of the French capital for decades, have now shifted to far-right populism.

The second and final round of the French presidential election last Sunday was, indeed, a remake of the contest five years ago when a then little known Emmanuel Macron handily defeated the far-right champion Marine Le Pen on her second bid for supreme power. But whether or not it was a bad remake remains to be seen.

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What did Macron promise Muslims to get their votes?

For votes, just to give one example, communities obtain the necessary permits to open mega mosques. France flubbed its last chance.

“Is the Muslim vote decisive?”, the Algerian writer Kamel Daoud asked himsel in the French weekly Le Point. Yes, judging by Macron’s victory (85 per cent of Muslims voted for him) and seeing what had happened the week before the second round vote.

Speaking with The New York Times, Éric Coquerel, an MP from Mélenchon’s party who won 69 percent of the Islamic vote in the first round, said Muslim voters would benefit Macron. For Julien Talpin, sociologist at the National Center for Scientific Research, the mobilization of Muslims is “something completely new”.

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Macron elected for second term as French president, leads Le Pen 58.2%-41.8%

Emmanuel Macron was elected to a second term as French president on Sunday evening with 58.2% of the vote, according to an estimate from the Ipsos polling institute. His far-right challenger Marine Le Pen won 41.8% of the vote in an election that saw the country’s highest abstention rate in 50 years.

‘Marine, Marine’ – Le Pen hails historic result for far right

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France and Germany evaded arms embargo to sell weapons to Russia

Paris and Berlin sent Moscow £230m of military hardware, including bombs, rockets and missiles, that is likely being used in Ukraine

France and Germany armed Russia with €273 million (£230 million) of military hardware now likely being used in Ukraine, an EU analysis shared with The Telegraph has revealed.

They sent equipment, which included bombs, rockets, missiles and guns, to Moscow despite an EU-wide embargo on arms shipments to Russia, introduced in the wake of its 2014 annexation of Crimea.

The European Commission was this month forced to close a loophole in its blockade after it was found that at least 10 member states exported almost €350 million (£294 million) in hardware to Vladimir Putin’s regime. Some 78 per cent of that total was supplied by German and French firms.

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Midday turnout at 26.41% as Macron and Le Pen vie for French presidency

Midday turnout at 26.41% as Macron and Le Pen vie for French presidency

French voters head to the polls on Sunday in the second and final round of the country’s presidential election, with President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen facing off in a rematch of their 2017 duel. Midday turnout stood at 26.41%, according to the interior ministry, almost 2 points less than at noon in the vote five years ago.

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France says Russian mercenaries staged ‘French atrocity’ in Mali

The French army says it has filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies near a Malian military base to falsely accuse France’s departing forces of leaving behind mass graves.

The video, filmed with a drone and seen by AFP on Thursday, shows what appear to be white soldiers covering bodies with sand near the Gossi base in northern Mali.

The claim came after a Twitter account using the name Dia Diarra, who describes himself as a “former soldier” and “Malian patriot”, posted pixelated images of corpses buried in sand and accused France of atrocities.

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Suspected 2015 Paris attacks accomplices go on trial in Belgium

The 13 men and one woman are accused of supporting the self-avowed Islamic State combatants before their attacks on the evening of Nov. 13, 2015, and afterwards for the one attacker who survived and returned to Brussels.

Nine accused were present on Tuesday, seven seated at the front of the court, two led in by guards to closed glass boxes.

Two accused are believed to have died in Syria.

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Let’s check in on France…

Lyon: police surrounded and vilified by around fifty threatening individuals in the Guillotière district

Paris: at the Foire du Trône, gangs of young people try to loot the stands

Saint-Denis (93): a college teacher assaulted by a student in the middle of class

Night of violence in Laval: thirty cars vandalized and burned.

Plaisir (78): the police station attacked with mortars by around twenty individuals

Canadians know nothing about Islam and would welcome even more Muslim migration if only we knew the truth!

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Headscarves enter French election fray as Muslim women confront Le Pen, Macron

Muslim headscarves took centre stage in France’s presidential campaign on Friday as both finalists in a tightly contested April 24 run-off were confronted by women in headscarves who asked why their clothing choices should be caught up in politics.

France is home to western Europe’s largest Muslim population and many Muslims feel the presidential campaign has unfairly stigmatized their faith.

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who trails the incumbent in the polls, has said she will ban headscarves in public and fine women who flout the ban.

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