An unnamed North African asylum seeker who stabbed 70-year-old priest Jos Vanderlee with a knife now risks three years in prison.

The attack occurred in the Saint Servaas Church in Lanaken, Belgium, and dates back to July 31, 2016, however, it was only last week that the asylum seeker began appearing in criminal court for the crime, reports Dutch news portal Het Laatste Nieuws.

The defendant, who only had his initials of A.D. released to the public, is well-known to the police for previous criminal acts. He is believed to be from Libya.

On the Sunday in 2016, the asylum seeker went to ask for help at the Saint Servaas Church where Vanderlee resides.

“He spoke both a mix of French and English and asked for ‘aid’,” said Vanderlee.

The priest also provided him with bread and a bottle of water, at which point the asylum seeker left.

A few hours later, however, he knocked at Vanderlee’s door again.

“He then asked if he could take a shower and then get a cup of coffee.”

Vanderlee had his doubts, but eventually decided to let the asylum seeker in. He allowed the man to take a shower inside his house.

Once out of the shower, the man asked Vanderlee for money, which Vanderlee denied him. 

While the priest was making coffee for the asylum seeker, the man took out a knife and attacked the priest from behind.

“I heard him rummaging in his carrying case, but I was standing with my back to him. I was not quite trusting the situation anyway. I looked back and saw him with a gigantic knife right in front of me. Had I turned around two seconds later, he would definitely have gotten me,” the priest said.

The two began fighting one another, but the priest managed to defend himself successfully and the asylum seeker fled. The priest suffered wounds to his hands and tendons and was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Vanderlee is well-known in Lanaken and responsible for eight parishes in the region.

A few months later, the asylum seeker was arrested, at which point he denied that he took part in any crime.

However, last week at his first criminal court hearing, almost four years later, he admitted that he wanted to stab the priest. During his hearing, he said that he regretted what he did.

“This was not the intention. I’m sorry,” he said.

It is unclear why the case took so long to reach the trial stage. The asylum seeker now faces three years in prison.

The 2016 stabbing of Vanderlee occurred only a few days after French Catholic priest Jacques Hamel was stabbed to death by two men who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. The 85-year-old priest was killed at the altar inside his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, located in Normandy, France. His two attackers, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean, both 19, took five hostages before slashing the priest’s throat inside the church.

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Because these, in their opinion, behaved “too western”, five men and one woman – all Chechen citizens – are said to have systematically persecuted, denounced, threatened or even injured women. The six self-appointed guardians of public morals were arrested and are believed to belong to a hierarchically structured group which, since at least the beginning of the year, has been trying to “remind” Chechen women in Vienna and Linz, and in some cases their partners or families, to behave in accordance with the moral concepts. The police assume that there are both further victims and further perpetrators.The incident became known after a woman concerned had contacted the police. Thereupon other women contacted the police and the police started an investigation. The victims – ten are known so far – reported that a photo in swimwear or a relationship with a person of non-Chechen origin was sufficient for the group to be targeted. If this had occurred, the perpetrators had acted systematically, a police spokesman said on Thursday.First, the members of the group are said to have searched their circle of acquaintances, but also social media. If there were indications of ” wrongdoing”, someone was sent out to talk to the respective woman. If this did not work, family members were also included in the threats, according to the police. Furthermore, pictures of the women are said to have been hung in mosques to denounce them. According to the police, if the women did not give in, further threats and also violence followed, whether at home or at work. According to the police, the crimes were rather initiated by the older members of the group.The “guardians of public morals” known so far are between 19 and 37 years old and are said to have committed the intimidation, but also bodily harm in at least ten cases since about the beginning of the year. After detailed investigations, the five men and the woman were arrested in the night hours of the 17th of June in a coordinated, simultaneous raid at the suspects’ home addresses, according to a statement by the Vienna State Police Department.When officers of the Vienna State Criminal Investigation Department, supported by the special unit Cobra and the task force for combating street crime in Linz, seized mobile phones that had presumably been used for communication in certain messenger services, they seized various gas and alarm guns, knives and 5,000 euros in cash. Whether the weapons were used in the threats to the women, the police could not say on Thursday. However, the suspects are said to have posed with them on social media.The suspected perpetrators were charged with numerous criminal offences, in particular suspicion of multiple assault, coercion and criminal association. The police assume that there are other victims as well as other perpetrators. The investigation is ongoing.

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A police officer has told residents in the no-go zone of Montpellier that if they are sick of violence and verbal abuse from local youths, they should either move or adopt the vigilante methods used in Corsica and handle their own problems.

Last Friday, residents of the Hauts de Massane district made repeated phone calls to police over incidents of youths breaking into houses and garages, stealing, throwing rocks at vehicles, and screaming profanities at inhabitants.

“I called because they started throwing rocks at the vehicles in the residence’s car park. There was a rising crescendo of screams and vulgarities,” one local said. She claimed the police responded by saying that throwing rocks was not a priority for them, France Bleu reported on Tuesday.

The officer allegedly said: “You know when you live there, you have to find out before you buy.”

“You need to have people in your residence who have the balls to go to the basement, to sort this out your own way, with the Corsican method,” the officer added, referencing vigilante justice.

Another person reported a similar encounter with police at a local police station who also recommended they move somewhere else.

“You don’t have to live there. Anyway, people are not normal in this neighbourhood. You only have to move somewhere else, and live with normal people,” the man claimed the police officer had said.

In recent months, even during the strict Chinese coronavirus lockdowns, no-go neighbourhoods across France have erupted into rioting and violence, primarily directed at police.

In La Cité Charles-Schmidt apartment complex in Saint-Ouen, located in the notorious no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, residents even made a deal with local drug dealers to leave them alone in exchange for the criminals keeping their noise down at certain hours.

As growing violence and crime escalates across neighbourhoods in France, some, including populist Marine Le Pen and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, have begun to use the term “ensauvagement” — describing a descent into savagery and lawlessness — to characterise the growing trend.

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The Dutch town of Scheveningen has become something of the epicenter of the chaos and violence in the Netherlands. Enforcement personnel have been beaten with batons, and on the pier, people are shot and stabbed. There have already been several deaths.

The picturesque little coastal location is no longer what it once was, Dutch daily De Dagelijkse Standaard reported. The fishing village, swallowed up by the Hague, has become a paragon of violence, the breaking of Corona rules, and even murder. This week, a Rotterdam youth, who was stabbed on the pier, died. There are also videos to be seen where grown men with drawn pistols run back and forth and shots are heard.

And on the beach, it is the same story. When nobody is drowning in the sea, parking attendants are nearly knocked senseless with batons because they simply monitor compliance with parking and Corona regulations. The beach is used as a public trash bin, and any spot has become an open-air campground. The government cannot control the total anarchy, as it appears from all images and reports.

The municipality has been forced to send in forest rangers to restore some calm. A local political party in the Hague now calls Scheveningen a “free state, an El Dorado for troublemakers who can go around undisturbed.” The PVV said that this “last bastion of sobriety is going down the drain”, thanks to “weak left-wing administrators, including the VVD.” According to MP Machiel de Graaf: “This is the last straw.”

A few days ago in Nieuwe Meer in Amsterdam, on Saturday afternoon, around half past four, the 24-year-old Bas van Wijk from Badhoevedorp was shot dead.

Van Wijk had come to the Nieuwe Meer with a large group of friends but a group of Turkish men started a fight with them on a crowded jetty. One of the young men forced an acquaintance of Van Wijk to give up his expensive Rolex watch and threatened the Dutch group with a gun, according to friends of Van Wijk.

When Van Wijk said something about this, he was shot right in front of a play tower for small children, according to witnesses. The Turk shot Bas a second time and as he fell down, the shooter walked over to the friend and took his watch.

The death of Bas – a white man – is said to have barely caused a stir, while George Floyd’s death in the United States sparked worldwide protests and dominated the media for months. PVV leader Geert Wilders tweeted: “Where is the fuss now?”

One of the victim’s friends said that the police have been “careless with the description” of the immigrant shooter. “Those guys had a light-coloured skin,” he said. “But the police wrote ‘light skin colour.” In a Facebook post, the perpetrator was described as “probably Turkish”. Despite this, the police still claim that they cannot give a description.

Meanwhile, the Burgernet tweet from 8 August described the perpetrator as “white”. It smacks of an ideologically motivated reluctance to describe the gunman.

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It’s okay. His life doesn’t matter. It’s a life that doesn’t begin with a B.

I noted previously that Black Lives Matter rioters had attacked the Ronald McDonald House, where sick children and their families stay, during their Chicago riots. But here’s how they affected one sick child.

Owen Buell of Joliet has gone through a lot in his short toddler life.

In February, Owen was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma, a type of cancer most commonly found in children age 5 or younger.

He’s had chemotherapy, and he had the first of two stem cell transplants on July 8.

And even when Owen went to a nearby Ronald McDonald House, he returned to the hospital for three days due to an infection his central line, said his grandmother, Jackie Moore of Florida.

Owen has had “a feeding tube, numerous ports, bone marrow tests, stem cell extractions, major abdominal surgery,” according to The Help for Baby Owen Buell and his Family Facebook page, which Moore moderates.

So you can imagine how excited his family was to celebrate his second birthday Monday. Moore even shipped a 3-foot-tall stuffed llama to Owen’s home to surprise him because Owen loves llamas.

Except Owen didn’t get to see the llama.

This is the part where the suburban white women reading Robin DeAngelo and Ta Nehisi Coates are supposed to insert a crack about Owen’s privilege to prove that they have no soul before sharing a Kamala Harris dancing meme.

Owen and his parents, Brian Buell and Valerie Mitchell, were at a Ronald McDonald House in Chicago. The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago was supposed to discharge him on Monday, but that didn’t happen because of the riots, Moore said.

The hospital website said some clinics might be canceled “due to unrest in the city.”

Moore said she’s upset, not just for Owen and his parents, but also for the other families at Ronald McDonald House with children who are also fighting for their lives.

“Can you imagine those kids being inside and listening to this?” Moore said.  “They can still look out the windows and hear the sirens and hear the gunshots. It’s terrifying.”

The Democrats and all the Black Lives Matter allies have a lot to be proud of.

Maybe they can spare a few dollars from the bail funds for Black Lives Matter rioters for Owen’s GoFundMe.

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A violent domestic dispute on Saturday at 8.30 p.m. caused the suburban train service to come to a standstill for more than half an hour between Bergedorf and Hamburg central station. A 31-year-old had beaten his partner (30) so brutally on the train that other passengers intervened, called the police and the train driver stopped the train at Nettelnburg station.The young couple had already clashed at Bergedorf station in front of the passengers in the crowded suburban train S 21. The two of them had been sitting next to each other in one of the benches, their daughter was next to them in the pram in the corridor.

The initially verbal quarrel of the Bergedorf couple with Afghan roots quickly became louder and finally turned into violence: the man hit the head of his partner with his fists. The force of his blows was so violent that the woman fell from her seat into the aisle, where he continued to hit her with targeted blows. The 30-year-old suffered a broken nose bone, a brain trauma to the skull and a laceration to the eye.Her partner only let go of her when a young man from the group of shocked passengers intervened. He managed to stop the beating and to calm the man down. When the train stopped at Nettelnburg station, the 31-year-old was brought out of the train without resistance by the police officers already waiting there.The woman was also taken to the platform, where she was cared for by an ambulance crew and finally taken to Bethesda Hospital for in-patient treatment. Separated from her only by an emergency blanket to protect her from being seen, her partner faced interrogation by the police while still on the platform. He was eventually released, but will soon have to stand trial for grievous bodily harm. The daughter remained with her mother.The incident on the train was so violent that even a second ambulance had to be called: On the platform a 16-year-old witness gasped for breath. She was treated by the paramedics on site and finally handed over to her mother’s care.In order to determine the exact circumstances of the crime, the police force responsible for suburban railways, started extensive investigations. “On the platform, various witness statements were taken. Now we are in the process of evaluating the video material from the train,” said Federal Police spokesman Rüdiger Carstens yesterday.

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OPEN LETTER to
Alexander Wehrle, President of the 1.FC Köln

Dear Mr Wehrle,
as a German-Jewish activist I am engaged in the fight against anti-Semitism.

As a woman from Cologne and wife of a passionate FC member, I was simply bewildered.
Of course it’s right and important these days to take a stand against racism, but you have to look carefully at who you’re making common cause with.
The operating organisation of the Cologne mosque, the DITIB, the extended arm of Erdogan, by no means stands for the values for which the 1 FC Köln is known.
In a mosque of the Turkish religious association DITIB, children have even performed a battle scene from the First World War – in military uniforms and with toy guns.
Even the Turkish-born Green politician Cem Özdemir explains:
“In its present state DITIB does not belong to Germany.”

Mr Wehrle, with this action you are not setting an example of tolerance and cosmopolitanism, against racism.
Instead, you are showing, at best, a dangerous ignorance of political Islam.
And I certainly do not need to mention the view Erdoğans followers in Germany also share about Jews and Israel.
By the way, the Cologne synagogue has a much longer history in this city, but it is not shown on the jersey. Kinda strange, don’t you think?

You should give it some thought and revise this measure, for the sake of the club and its credibility.
Best wishes,
Malca Goldstein-Wolf

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