“In fact, after a while, when you’re thirsty, when you’re hungry, it’s the law of the strongest that reigns. And others will take the place of our values, of this freedom of speech, of action, of this equality between men, and of this fraternity, of this culture, of this society. Nature abhors a vacuum,” warned the military chaplain

A leaked video of a French military chaplain addressing paratroopers in a cathedral has circulated widely on social media. In the clip, the chaplain makes disparaging remarks about leftists, tells soldiers to keep fighting for their national heritage, and warns of the risk that French values and culture could be displaced.

The clip, recorded during a Saint-Michel Mass on Oct. 7, 2025, shows Father Romain Ghandour speaking to soldiers of the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (3e RPIMa) at Carcassonne’s Saint-Michel Cathedral. Soldiers can be heard laughing and applauding as he delivers his pointed remarks. The clip was leaked and published by Le Canard Enchaîne news outlet.

The video was released in mid-September 2026, nearly a year after the Mass.

Saint-Michel is the patron saint of paratroopers and airborne troops in the French army, which explains why the regiment was gathered in the cathedral. Christophe Barthès, then a municipal election candidate and later elected mayor of Carcassonne for the right-wing National Rally, was among those present.

Ghandour begins by invoking the names and dates of men and women who died so that France would remain “a beautiful country,” one in which architects could continue building “basilicas, cathedrals, housing, and fortified castles.” He contrasts that heritage with the present: instead of knights, he says, “we put incompetent people. We put people who eat seeds, people who lecture everyone, ideologues.”

The phrase “people who eat seeds” is widely understood as a jab at what he presents as weak or overly ideological leftists.

The line that has drawn the most attention comes next: “Calm down, lefties! Quiet! Breathe through your nose!” The assembled soldiers respond with laughter and applause.

He then warns that if they lose courage and conviction, “we will be ridiculed” and “this beautiful country that is France will be mocked, and others will take our place.”

He continues: “In fact, after a while, when you’re thirsty, when you’re hungry, it’s the law of the strongest that reigns. And others will take the place of our values, of this freedom of speech, of action, of this equality between men, and of this fraternity, of this culture, of this society. Nature abhors a vacuum.”

While he never directly mentions the “Great Replacement,” many commentators have taken this remark to be a direct reference to the phenomenon, which is not only a reference to mass immigration, but also relates to the constant replacement of technology, culture, society, and peoples through all spheres of modern life at an ever accelerating pace.

Ghandour closes by telling the soldiers to “keep fighting” and “continue to have the courage of your convictions, as I am trying to do at this Mass.”

As of the video’s release, there has been no detailed public statement from the army’s Catholic chaplaincy or the Ministry of the Armed Forces on whether the remarks violate rules on political neutrality for military clergy. French military chaplains of all recognized faiths operate under a framework that is supposed to respect both freedom of conscience and the state’s neutrality. The 3e RPIMa, based in Carcassonne since 1962 and part of the 11th Parachute Brigade, is an elite unit within the French military.

The left has often been skeptical, and even hostile to, the French military, which has been seen as a bastion of support for the right in the country.

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The first conviction in the brewing Paris after-school child sexual abuse scandal was handed down this week, with a former childminder being found guilty of sexually assaulting students as young as five years old.

This week, the Paris criminal court found that 38-year-old “Mickaël M.” has sexually assaulted nine children at the Vigée Le Brun school in the 15th district of Paris between September 2022 and January 2024, Le Monde reported.

The abuse was first raised when the mother of a six-year-old girl at the school told her that Mickaël had grabbed her “buttocks” on two occasions. An investigation soon identified eight other children who said that he had touched their genitals or buttocks on the school playground or during school outings.

While he admitted to the facts during a trial last month, he claimed not to remember committing any offences.

According to Le Figaro, he told the court: “I can’t explain it… if the kids said it, it must have happened. I don’t question their word.”

Although he claimed to have never been sexually attracted to children, prosecutors undermined this claim by noting that he had used his phone to search for the term “pedophile”. He was also said to have been active on an online forum which discusses child pornography.

He later admitted to the court that there was “a risk of doing worse” had he not been arrested.

He was given a sentence of five years in prison; however, it is likely that he will serve only one year under house arrest with an electronic ankle monitor, followed by a further ten years on probation and monitoring. He will also be barred from ever working professionally with children again and from any government position.

The case comes amid a broader scandal involving after-school programmes across the French capital, with the Paris prosecutor’s office currently investigating over 200 potential cases. Since the start of the year, 132 people have been suspended from their roles by the city, including 52 on suspicion of sexual violence.

The potential widespread sexual abuse of children in the care of the state has put a cloud over the governing Socialist Party, including former Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her successor Emmanuel Grégoire, who was serving as Hidalgo’s deputy during the time in which most claims of abuse were made.

On Tuesday, Hidalgo appeared before a Senate hearing, where she acknowledged a “collective failure” to protect children.

Former Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo appeared before a French Senate hearing on September 15 and acknowledged what she called a “collective failure” by institutions to protect children. However, this did little to quell the anger of parents, who claim that their concerns were consistently ignored by City Hall.

Responding to Hidalgo’s testimony, parents group SOS Periscolaire said per Reuters: “We are unfortunately not surprised by these answers, which always point to the failures and responsibilities of others, but ⁠never her ​own.”

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A serial sex offender who claims to identify as a woman has been sentenced to a maximum of three years and four months for assaulting a woman and attempting to rape her as she was walking home. Benjamin Charles Jones, who previously used the name “Lisa Jones,” but is now referring to himself as “Willow,” had just been released from a women’s prison one month prior to being arrested for the sexual assault.

Jones, who previously served a sentence in Germany for sexually assaulting a child, appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court last Thursday, where prosecutors explained that on the evening of September 8, he grabbed a 31-year-old woman as she walked past St. Mary’s cathedral in central Sydney.

CCTV footage recorded the attack as Jones pulled her by her waist into a hidden corner. When she demanded to be let go, Jones replied, “I want to f–k you. Just let me f–k you.”

As the woman struggled to get free, Jones pulled down his pants and attempted to force an object into her mouth to silence her. When she was finally able to break free, she ran towards bystanders who helped her flag down a police car. After a brief search, law enforcement arrested Jones.

According to courtroom reports from the Sydney Morning Herald, Jones was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. He reportedly told a psychiatrist that he lived in an “astral world,” and that the devil had made a bargain with his “sex spirit,” and forced him to “engage in sex rituals.”

But when Jones was standing before the court, he reportedly exclaimed, “I identify as transgender and queer… I had nothing to do with it.”

The woman shared the effect of the “unprecedented, unexpected, and aggressive act” in a victim impact statement she read to the court.

“The experience permanently made me more aware of a risk in public spaces and more cautious in situations where I previously felt at ease,” she said.

“I had always walked freely without fear or intimidation, and this experience fundamentally changed my sense of safety. I had become more prepared, but also more vigilant, knowing that one’s life can be suddenly disrupted by extreme violence, even when simply trying to get home.”

Judge Troy Anderson described the crime as “intentional and, frankly, very frightening”. However, during sentencing he took into consideration Jones’ diagnoses of schizophrenia, gender dysphoria, historic substance abuse and depression and anxiety. In Sydney, the maximum penalty for rape, or an attempt to commit it, falls under the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), and carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years; whereas Jones, a repeat criminal on the sex offender registry, was handed a three-year sentence. With time already spent in custody, Jones will be eligible for parole in just two months, on November 21.

Disturbingly, Jones’ most recent attack on a woman shares many similarities with a previous attempted rape he committed in 2021. In that case, Jones stalked a woman as she was walking home on Lennox Street in Richmond before grabbing her and attempting to rape her. While pinning her down, Jones repeated: “Why won’t you lay down and have sex with me?”

The woman had been on a phone call with her mother at the time, and began screaming her location into the receiver before Jones snatched the phone away and disconnected the call.

Jones put his hands down the woman’s underwear and tried to pull down the victim’s jeans, but she was able to successfully fight him off as bystanders came rushing to her aid. Jones was ultimately detained after some bystanders chased him down as he tried to flee the scene.

“I didn’t do anything, it was her fault,” Jones said.

While hearing the case, Judge Pardeep Tiwana told Jones, “You physically restrained her despite her screams for help and telling you to stop, you persisted.” Tiwana added that it was a “brazen and opportunistic” attack against a complete stranger.

During the trial, it was revealed that Jones had a prior record for sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl in Germany, for which Jones served six years in a male prison there prior to being deported to Australia in 2018.

Jones denied accountability for the attack, but was sentenced to three years and three months, and was placed in a women’s prison to serve his sentence in July of 2022. Within weeks, female inmates at the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre launched a petition to have him removed out of fears for their own safety.

According to the petition, many women prisoners have been victims of sexual assault and as a result, many “carry significant trauma associated with this experience.”

The petitioners said they have no prejudices against transgender individuals but were concerned for their safety, as Jones was said to have a “working” penis in addition to his history of violent sexual assault. Upon learning of Jones’ transfer, “the mental well-being of many of the women was severely compromised. They became visibly upset as they were triggered and traumatised.”

They addressed the Minister for Corrections, the Department of Justice and Community Safety, Corrections Victoria and the Ombudsman when asking for the matter to be handled swiftly.

“We feel threatened, unsafe, distressed and traumatised with this current situation. Accordingly, we demand that (the inmate) be immediately removed from the Murray unit,” the petition read. “We consider this petition a matter of urgency and would therefore appreciate your prompt response.”

However, the female inmates’ protest was ignored by lawmakers and authorities. While it is unclear how many trans-identified male transfers are currently housed at Dame Phyllis Frost, Reduxx has reported on another sex offender who is serving a shockingly lenient 4-year sentence there for creating horrific child sexual abuse material of his own child and distributing it to a pedophile lover.

Autumn Tulip Harper, who was anonymized in court records as “Hilary Maloney,” was in a BDSM-inspired relationship with the sex offender, who he referred to as his “Master.” The American offender encouraged Harper to sexually abuse his daughter for his own gratification, and praised him for doing so, calling him a “good girl,” and saying how “impressed” with him he was.

According to Australian police, Harper created at least 77 files that were identified as child sexual abuse material between May and June of that year, after his devices were seized in a raid on September 15, 2023. The images of his daughter, who he had abused on at least 19 separate occasions, were sent to the American pedophile over Discord, which has gained a reputation for allowing the grooming of children in various chat rooms on its platform.

During the trial, Dr. Rajan Darjee, a forensic psychiatrist, framed Harper as if he were a “female” who had been “pressured” into the offending by a sinister male pedophile. Darjee claimed Harper had no sexual attraction to children, and would not need any “specific interventions to prevent further sexual offending.”

The judge in the case, Nola Karapanagiotidis, allowed Harper’s supposed experience with “gender dysphoria” and “transphobia” to serve as mitigating factors, and accepted the argument from the defense that he had abused his own daughter solely to be “validated… as a woman and a sexual person.” The four year and nine month sentence handed out was a significant reduction from the potential maximum of 25 years, with an ability for parole after just two years and six months. Following his conviction, Harper was placed in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s correctional facility.

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