Under the guise of “secularism”, the Mayor of the French city of Lyon Grégory Doucet did not attend the traditional ceremony of the Vow of the Aldermen dating back to 1643.

His “secular” inconsistency was once again exposed in broad daylight on Tuesday, September 8. The EELV member of Lyon Doucet, under cover of “secularism”, refused to attend the ceremony of the Vow of the Aldermen, an old Catholic tradition but still popular dating back to 1643.

He thus became the first mayor from Lyon in decades to miss this major event in Rhone’s cultural calendar. Surprisingly, however, the very next day, the city councilor laid the first stone of the Gerland mosque.

And Grégory Doucet even boasted about his presence at this decidedly non-secular event. On Twitter, he posted a photo of himself, trowel in hand, with the message: “Freedom of conscience should not suffer any more attacks. Public authority has the duty to protect the faithful who want to practice their religion, just as it must protect those who do not want to practice. Or who do not want to believe.”

On Tuesday September 8, the ecological mayor had explained that he did not wish to participate directly in the Catholic ceremony of the Vow of the Aldermen because of the “interpretation” that he had of “the rules of secularism”.

Possibly realizing his misstep, he then tempered his remarks by declaring that he would nevertheless speak at the end of the ceremony, to mark the importance of “dialogue with each religious community”.

This news had obviously delighted his majority, in particular his assistant for Culture Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert, who had always expressed her opposition to this tradition. The president of the Métropole de Lyon Bruno Bernard had also announced that he would not be present.

For the Vow of the Aldermen, celebrated every September, the mayor of Lyon presents a symbolic shield to the city’s archbishop during a ceremony at the Fourvière basilica, where many elected officials from all sides usually gather. The basilica is listed as a historical monument, registered to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is considered as the emblem of the city of Lyon, and welcomes over 2,5 million pilgrims and visitors each year.

This particular tradition dates back to March 12, 1643 when, to ward off the plague, the Aldermen had vowed to erect two statues to the Virgin and to climb the hill of Fourvière each year to offer the sanctuary, during a mass, a golden shield and seven pounds of white wax.

The annual pilgrimage was made until 1789 when it was abolished. But it again became an official practice and a custom at the end of World War II.

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Matteo Salvini, leader of the Italian opposition League party, was assaulted by an Congolese woman at a campaign event in Tuscany on Wednesday, with the woman tearing his shirt and breaking his rosary

Salvini was in the area campaigning for his party due to regional elections that will be held on Sept. 20-21. 
 
Italian parties, without exception, condemned what happened, however, the police are being criticized for their handling of the situation.

Salvini was campaigning on the streets of Pontassieve, near Florence, where video shows the woman pulling and then tearing off the shirt of the anti-immigration politician and then subsequently tearing off the rosary worn around his neck.

The assailant, who is believed to be a 29-year-old migrant woman from the Congo, shouted in Italian, “I curse you” before police remove the woman.

According to Italian sources, she lives and works in Italy with a residence permit. A police official told the Italian ANSA news agency she was in a “disturbed state”, and instead of arresting her, they issued her a caution. The police claim that her actions did not appear “premeditated” as she was walking home from work when she randomly found herself walking next to Salvini.

The Directorate for Counter-Terrorism Investigation (Digos) has launched an investigation to clarify what happened in Pontassieve.

Salvini later said on social media that he had not been harmed.

“I have no anger, no desire for revenge, just sadness,” he wrote.

The incident was condemned by all major parties. Giorgia Meloni, president of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI), pointed at the ruling parties, saying she believed that those responsible should be found among those who portray their political rivals as enemies. Luigi Di Maio, a leading politician of the ruling party of the Five Star Movement (M5S), also called the events unacceptable and expressed solidarity with Salvini.

Elections will be held in seven Italian regions on Sept. 20-21. In Tuscany, which has been led by the left for fifty years, the League and the Democratic Party of the Left (PD) candidate for the presidency of the region are head-to-head in the polls.
 
In 29 days, Salvini’s trial will begin for alleged “kidnapping”, charges that are tied to his refusal to allow migrants to disembark from a migrant NGO rescue ship on to Italian soil. 

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Austria is experiencing rapid demographic changes, with almost one in four people in Austria now of foreign origin, according to the APA agency. Over the last ten years, the foreign share in the total population has increased by more than a third.

Currently, 2.07 million people living in the country came to Austria or were born to immigrants out of an overall population of 8.8 million, according to Echo24.

The share of people with an immigrant background has increased by about 35 percent since 2010. That is primarily due to the migration wave in 2015 when Austria provided protection to approximately 118,000 migrants. To put this into perspective, that equates to more people than the number of citizens in Austria’s sixth-largest city, Klagenfurt.

The changes wrought by mass migration are easily noticeable, especially in the area of education. The proportion of pupils whose first language is not German increased between 2010 and 2019 from about 17 percent to more than 24 percent.

In cities with an even larger migrant population, this difference is even starker. For example, in what has been labeled a major integration failure, the Austrian government released statistics showing that 51 percent of all students do not speak German at home or as they go about their daily lives The influx of foreigners has also caused strains to the Austria’s welfare system as half of all minimum welfare recipients are foreign nationals as of 2018.

Austria’s rising migrant population has also been tied to rising crime, with former Austrian Family Minister Juliane Bogner-Strauss indicating that over 200 women were murdered in Austria in 2017, and most of those murders were conducted by foreigners despite them making up a smaller foreign share of Austria’s population. 

She said of 203 suspects involved in the murder of women, 126 were foreigners, and of those foreigners, 62 were asylum seekers.

She noted that this was a “clear trend” and that, “You have to take appropriate measures.” 

More broadly speaking, police statistics show that in 2019, 40.1 percent of all criminal suspects were foreigners, as well as 42.8 percent of all convicts and 57.9 percent of all people newly imprisoned in the country.

Austria’s Vienna was the city with the most criminal suspects of foreign origin, with 51.4 percent identified as foreigners in 2018.

Migrants are also experiencing an unfavorable situation on the labor market. Due to the coronavirus crises, the unemployment rate of people with an immigrant background was 74.2 percent higher in June 2020 compared to June 2019. For ethnic Austrians, this indicator rose by 48.8 percent.

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Unknown persons knocked over six high-quality gravestones, some of them more than 100 years old, in the Old Cemetery in Fronhäuser Street in Dillenburg (photos above). Some of the gravestones broke in the process. The damage caused between Monday, August 24 and Sunday, September 6 is estimated at about 30,000 euros. The Dillenburg police station is asking for information in this matter by calling 02771/90-70.

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A few days ago the British Museum, the cultural institution that has done the most to bring together under one roof the largest number of ancient finds (from the Rosetta stone to the Parthenon friezes, even if many were stolen from their rightful owners), eliminated the bust of its founder, Sir Hans Sloane, guilty of ties to slavery, in homage to Black Lives Matter. The same fate could now happen to the statue of Charles Darwin in the main hall of the Natural History Museum in London.

The naturalist, known for progressive ideas for the time on child rearing, slavery, racism and the exploitation of child labor, in reality was a “racist” and his work is associated with and compromised in the empire.

An investigation by the Sunday Telegraph reveals that the museum is preparing to launch a revision of the section dedicated to Darwin, but not only:

They will target the large collection of Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who introduced the “binomial nomenclature” (Species plantarum, 1753), accused of deeming Africans “indolent”.

Sir Hans Sloane’s flora samples are also targeted, as they come from Jamaica and North America, West Africa and South Asia.

Michael Dixon, the director of the museum, told staff: “The Black Lives Matter movement has demonstrated that we need to do more and act faster, so as a first step we have commenced an institution-wide review on naming and recognition.”

Miranda Lowe, the museum’s crustacean curator, also said: “Museums must accept that they have taken advantage of slavery.”

Some collections are considered “problematic”, such as those deriving from Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos on the famous ship Beagle, cited now by a curator as one of the many “colonial scientific expeditions” of UK.

There are samples collected by Sir Joseph Banks, since the botanist had sailed with Captain James Cook in the service of the empire. Even the famous ceiling of Hintze Hall, famous for the skeletons of the blue whale and the diplodocus dinosaur, is “problematic” because it contains depictions of cotton, tea and tobacco, “the plants that fueled the economy of the British Empire.”

Museum managers want to get rid of the “legacy of colonies, slavery and empire” by renaming or removing these traces in the institution.

In the name of anti-racism, English past and culture are subjected to a pounding campaign of revisionism. They are all racists now: from Charles Dickens to Winston Churchill, including the medal of one of the highest honors conferred by the Queen. It depicts an Archangel defeating Satan. But it looks like a white man towering over a black man (“remember George Floyd”, activists say).

Even the director of the British Library has just said that “racism is a creation of whites” and has promoted cultural change at the institution.

Liz Jolly approves the reforms proposed by the Working Group on Decolonization, for whom even the British Library building itself is an imperial symbol because it resembles a warship. They recommend reducing the number of European maps, accused of being “instruments of power,” and the revision of the bust of Beethoven, symbol of the “supremacy of Western civilization.” Music collections should also be diversified.

The truth? Darwin taught us that there are racists, but not races. Beethoven set brotherhood and unity among men to music. Explain it to the new anti-racists, who would like to be able to ask to remove the Parthenon Friezes, because the Greeks were great slave- owners.

It would be funny if it weren’t so terribly serious. The goal of this movement, which cloaks itself in words like “justice”, “tolerance” and “anti-racism,” is actually to conduct a great trial and bonfire of Western culture.

Israel should worry. Not because this poses any kind of threat to the Jewish state. But if a culture, like Britain’s, embraces minority worship, historical revisionism, and ideological violence, the next step after the statues will be to ask for what they consider a living symbol of colonialism. And the first answer will be the small state of Israel.

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A 15-year-old Iraqi man caused a major police operation last Friday after he suddenly stepped onto the Lazarett Street in Essen, thereby disrupting a patient transport. After the car came to a halt, the 15-year-old spat in the direction of the driver and then gave him the finger.Thereupon the driver got out to confront the Iraqi, who suddenly pulled a knife and threatened with it. A physical confrontation resulted, in which another witness helped to finally restrain the 15-year-old. Even when several policemen arrived, the man from Iraq behaved aggressively and disrespectfully. The knife was confiscated, he is now awaiting criminal charges.

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Germany has experienced a number of high-profile murders of young women in recent years at the hands of migrant men who entered Germany following the 2015 migrant wave. While the cases made headlines, true statistics involving how many murders refugees and migrants have been responsible for remains elusive.

Some of the most well-known cases involve 19-year-old medical student Maria Landenburger, who was raped and drowned in Freiburg by a refugee as well as 15-year-old Mia Valentin, who was murdered by an Afghan asylum seeker after she broke off their relationship. There is also the case of Susanna Feldman, a 14-year-old German-Jewish girl murdered by an Iraqi migrant.

In addition, the terrorist attack at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market was also perpetrated by a refugee, Anis Amri, who entered Germany with over the 1.8 million refugees admitted to the country since 2015.

To this day, however, the exact number of people who have been killed by asylum seekers and refugees since 2015 is unknown. Although the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has published data in its annual report on “Crime in the context of immigration”, it does not contain exact data on the perpetrators, including their nationality, their residence status and when they entered the country.

The report only addresses those migrants that arrived as refugees in Germany as of 2015 and not many of the other migrant groups, such as Germany’s large Turkish community, many of which arrived before 2015.

There are still some hints of how many murders are perpetrated by migrants, but little details about each crime. For example, the BKA has indicated that Germans are much more likely to be the victim of crime perpetrated by a migrant than the other way around despite migrants making up a far smaller share of the population.

A 2019 report from the BKA states that “In the area of ​​murder, manslaughter, and contract killings, 230 Germans fell victim to a crime in which at least one suspect immigrant was involved.” This was an increase of 105 percent compared to 2017, which saw 112 such cases.

“Of these, 102 people were victims of an accomplished deed,” the report states.

Although refugees who arrived in Germany only make up only 2 percent of the population, they account for nearly 15 percent of all violent crime, as of 2019. Overall, foreigners and immigrants combined accounted for nearly 40 percent of murders suspects in Germany in 2019. 

An Alternative for Deutschland member of the Bundestag, Harald Weyel, has asked the federal government for all the data on the five-year anniversary of Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders in 2015.

Specifically, he wanted to know from the government how many fatalities there had been after crimes “in which the suspects or the convicted perpetrators were tolerated refugees, asylum seekers, quota refugees or refugees with subsidiary protection status who had been in the country since Sept. 1, 2015”.

The answer from the responsible Federal Ministry of the Interior, which Junge Freiheit has received, was extremely short: “The federal government has no statistical information on the constellation mentioned in the question.”

State Secretary Hans-Georg Engelke referred Junge Freiheit to the above-mentioned BKA report for additional information.

Weyel sees the non-response as a sign that the federal government does not want to deal with the negative consequences of the wave of asylum.

“When it comes to cheering reports of an alleged new immigrant economic miracle, or to protecting refugees from supposed blanket judgments and general suspicions, [Chancellor Angela Merkel] and her ministers always have exact data figures. But if you ask about the victims of mass immigration, suddenly no data exists. It seems that the government doesn’t care about the deadly consequences of its asylum policy,” Weyel told Junge Freiheit.

In other cases, however, it makes every effort to adequately honor the victims of deadly violence. For example, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) tweeted the first names of the nine victims half a year after the attack in Hanau in mid-August, supplemented with the promise that they would never be forgotten.

“A similar gesture on the anniversary of the Amri attack, on the other hand, is in vain. Apparently there are first- and second-class victims for Mr. Maas,” said Weyel, who was referring to the 12 victims of Berlin’s Christmas market attack.

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