French President Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to institute an early voting amendment in France shortly before 2022 presidential elections have been dashed by a French Senate committee over fraud concerns.

“The senators will not appreciate at all that the amendment was submitted so late, and they will reject it,” predicted a minister to the LCI news channel on Tuesday.

And it did not take long for senators to confirm that, as on Wednesday, Feb. 17, the Senate Law Committee rejected the government’s amendment to allow early voting for the 2022 presidential election.

In a press release, the committee explained that it is “unthinkable to radically modify rules of the presidential election by an amendment submitted at the last minute and towards the end of the parliamentary term, without either political forces or the State Council voting on it.”

“From a substantive point of view, it is believed that the government’s amendment would probably raise suspicions about the trustworthiness of the presidential election and call into question the legitimacy of the elected president. In fact, voting machines have been subject to a moratorium since 2008: only 66 municipalities are equipped with them, and other municipalities prohibit acquiring voting machines,” added the committee in the press release.

Concerns over fraud

Furthermore, the committee members put forward several counterarguments, including the risk of fraud. Opponents of the amendment share concerns of fraud, as well.

“The week before the poll, voters would go to an office equipped with a ‘voting machine’, the count would take place on Sunday. Why do that if not to commit fraud?!” tweeted the former member of the National Front (FN).

The Senate Law Committee also brought up the argument of lack of information as the election campaign end 24 hours before voting day, but it would have been possible to vote up to a week earlier.

“A voter who voted in advance could no longer change his vote, even if he would like to do that in the light of new information,” the committee wrote. “If a part of the French public votes eight days earlier, can you imagine the leaks likely to undermine the trustworthiness of the voting? It is surreal and not desirable,” said French Communist Party (PCF) deputy Sébastien Jumel.

Opponents of the government also see the proposal as a way to favor urban and easy-to-get voters who incline to the current government parties.

“The government’s initiative has enough potential to feed all the fantasies of electoral manipulation,” pointed out the rapporteur of the commission Stéphane Le Rudulier.

https://rmx.news/article/article/fears-of-fraud-french-senate-rejects-macron-s-push-for-early-voting-in-2022-presidential-election

In a letter to the editor, university professor emeritus Dr Bruno W. Reimann from the Institute of Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen sharply criticises his colleagues who ignore or deny the problem of Islamic anti-Semitism in Germany.

Here is the wording of the letter to the editor:

The phenomenon of the new, Islamic anti-Semitism makes it clear what cultural ‘gain’ the migrant immigration of non-Europeans is associated with. Society is regressing.

In the “nationwide comparative inventory of anti-Semitism in schools” by Salzborn and Kurth, there are either no references to the problem of religious, specifically: Islamic anti-Semitism, or it does not seem worth mentioning to the researchers. Whoever is to blame for this deficiency, it is impossible to pass over so succinctly a problem that is a pressing problem for schools. There is everyday anti-Semitism in the schools. The word “Jew” has become a “common swear word” (A. Schenk) in German schoolyards; a schoolgirl is insulted because she “does not believe in Allah”; an 18-year-old schoolgirl with Arab roots said: “Hitler was a good man, because he killed the Jews”.The Minister of Education, Karliczek, noted “increasing religiously motivated discrimination and acts of violence in schools”.It is a religious anti-Semitism that is firmly rooted in the cultures, the mentalities, the socialisations of the migrants from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Muslim Africa. As early as 2008, Thomas Schmidinger noted that “old European anti-Semitism is being carried back to Europe in its Islamised form.”Well-intentioned educational programmes are no solution. In contrast to the ‘old’ anti-Semitism on the right-wing political spectrum, the new religious anti-Semitism leads to the centre of society, into which migrants are being pushed by various programmes to promote integration. This is linked to a resurgence of religion. Christianity, which has become weak, is confronted with an emotionally driven Islam. Public debates make this strikingly clear: Is pork allowed in canteens? Are teachers allowed to wear headscarves? Should a Muslim holiday be introduced in Germany? And much more! With all this, modern Western culture is falling behind the level of secularisation it has achieved, the marginalisation of religion. In this way, cultural rationality gains are put at risk. Addressing this, as well as the partial Islamisation of this society in general, has become taboo, also because of the “fear of providing a platform for the right-wing” (Ahmad Mansour).

http://www.giessener-zeitung.de/giessen/beitrag/136726/der-neue-islamische-antisemitismus-vor-allem-in-den-schulen/

In 2020, more than a fifth of underage refugees in the cathedral city of Germany have disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, the incompetent mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker seems to have embraced a motto for asylum seekers: No Covid, no borders, no plan.

An official announcement from the city administration reads: “In 2020, 86 underage refugees escaped while they were being temporarily taken into care”. These are 86 people from the group of so-called UMAs – unaccompanied minors – of whom there were a total of 397 in Cologne last year.

What has become of the “escaped” migrants is still unknown. However, the costs for such a UMA are known: 6800 euros per “guest” per month. This naturally explains the zeal of the supervising social and welfare associations.

Among other things, the AfD parliamentary group in Cologne wants an inquiry into the subject:

What exactly does the administration understand by “escaped” in this context?
What does the city of Cologne know about the whereabouts of these children and young people?
Were some of them – and if so, how many? – picked up again?
What financial consequences does the city draw from this process?
Have the payments to the supervising social organizations (Caritas, Diakonie, etc.) been reduced by the number of “escaped UMAs”?

Especially in view of the immense costs that the city puts into the supply and care of asylum seekers every year, noted the AfD parliamentary group chairman Stephan Boyens: “According to budget planning, Cologne will spend over 800 million euros on refugees in the next four years. The city is left with over 50 percent of the costs. Examples like this show once again how carelessly Cologne spends taxpayers’ money.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/19/every-fifth-unaccompanied-minor-in-cologne-has-gone-missing/

During the time between February 13, 2021 and February 14, 2021, there was damage to a cross at the St. Kastor church in Rengsdorf. The head of a Jesus figure and some fingers were cut off by unknown perpetrators. Is there anyone who made any suspicious observations during the time in question?

Witnesses are asked to report any possible clues to the Straßenhaus police by calling 02634/9520 or by email: pistrassenhaus@polizei.rlp.de.

https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117709/4841345