The prefecture of Paris is worried about two new rallies planned this weekend in front of the Embassy of the United States and on the Champ de Mars. The organisers of the tribute to US race riot symbol George Floyd, are seeking to unite several ultra-left organisations, anti-white movements and anti-police collectives.

During the demonstration on June 2, banned by the Paris police headquarters, organised by Assa Traore, the sister of Adama Traoré who died after a police check, the police services had anticipated the arrival of 7 000 up to 10 000 people, in the high range. In reality, 23 000 to 25 000 people showed up in front of the Paris court, the Tribunal de Grande Instance, blocking the ring road, burning trash bins and attacking the police. At the end of this demonstration, the municipal police station of Clichy was set on fire.

According to several sources in the intelligence services, between 10 000 and 20 000 people are expected this Saturday, June 6 in Paris. And “several tens of thousands” will gather for another event, according to these sources, on Sunday at the initiative of SOS Racisme in particular, with a possible concert.

Since the death of the Malian Adama Traoré, public debate has been intoxicated by the extremist version put forward by the Traoré family, who despite the expert reports has repeatedly accused the police of killing their brother. His sister had called for an illegal march to coincide with US race protests this week.

A total of four autopsy reports have been issued for Traoré. Despite claims to the contrary, a French legal report in 2020 showed that Traoré was high on drugs and that there was tetrahydrocannabinol in his blood. The official medical report listed heart failure as cause of death. A report commissioned independently of law enforcement, however claimed asphyxiation as the cause of death.

Race activists argue that his death was the direct result of excessive use of force by the police and this has sparked major protests in Paris, Lyon, and Toulouse under the slogan Justice pour Adama.

These protests have styled themselves after the American Black Lives Matter movement, and are focused on the alleged disproportionate rates of police violence inflicted on blacks and Arabs. But in the US – with 325 million inhabitants – only 10 unarmed black people died at the hands of law enforcement last year.

This prompted Fox host Tucker Carlson to expose the media lies about race violence directed at black people.

Maghreb singer Camélia Jordana, after accusing the police of racist violence, incited crowds to take up arms at the illegal Traoré protest.

On Tuesday, June 2, the singer was seen leading the illegal demonstration demanding “justice” for Adama Traoré. She called for armed revolt.

With her fist raised in a Black Power salute, Jordana, in the middle of a crowd of more than 20 000 people, sang: “Revolution has come! Time to pick up the gun!”

Jordana was also involved in a drug control altercation on the banks of the Seine on Sunday, May 31.

After declaring that black and Arab youths in the suburbs “are massacred for no reason other than their skin colour” by the police, Jordana got involved in a police control for the use of narcotic drugs, attacking the officers who had stopped a suspect involved in multiple assaults and haranguing passers-by.

These demonstrations, held in the midst of a health crisis in France, should be prosecuted and condemned for deliberately endangering the lives of others and involuntary killings, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France and Member of Parliament for Essonne, told Valeurs Actuelles.

“The demonstrations that pretend to the death of Adama Traoré in July 2016 are sadly ironic: many people demand an investigation and harsh penalties for recklessness or clumsiness which led to the death of this person… while committing a serious and repeated offense.”

He pointed out that “judicial expert reports in the presence of all the parties concluded that the police were innocent”. But the family now denies the probative value of these analyzes by producing “non-adversarial expertise” – that is to say an expertise carried out by a person paid only by the civil party and without the knowledge of the respondents.

According to Dupont-Aignan, this not a credible argument. “For good measure, family members added a complaint for failure to assist a person in danger. However, this qualification is erased before manslaughter because the same facts can only give rise to a single criminal conviction, generally the most serious offense.”

He said the protesters have probably heard of the Covid-19 pandemic and they know that by coming together they promote the of spread of the Coronavirus and that part of the infected risks death. “At least one person is likely to die as a result of such a gathering.”

Article 1 of Decree No. 2020-548 of May 11, 2020 also prohibits meetings of more than ten people and requires staying at least one meter from the others on public roads.

“By meeting, these demonstrators therefore commit the crime of manslaughter by recklessness and even by manifestly deliberate violation of a particular obligation of prudence or safety imposed by law or regulation,” he said.

If these demonstrators are not arrested, it would would mean a double standard applies to French citizens based on race.

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The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently published its sixth monitoring report on Switzerland.

ECRI is the human rights monitoring body of the Council of Europe — not to be confused with the European Union. The Council of Europe calls itself the “continent’s leading human rights organization.”

ECRI was founded in 1994 by the heads of state of the Council of Europe with the mandate, among other things, to “review member States’ legislation, policies and other measures to combat racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance, and their effectiveness”.

The organization is composed of “members designated by their governments… on the basis of their in-depth knowledge in the field of combating intolerance”. They should have … expertise in dealing with racism… and intolerance. ECRI’s members are nominated in their personal capacity and act as independent members”.

ECRI’s monitoring of Switzerland, since its first report about the country was published in 1998, is an illustrative example of the organization’s persistent efforts — and considerable success — over the past two decades in limiting free speech in Europe.

Already in its first report, in 1998, ECRI, despite admitting that “a decrease in manifestations of racism and intolerance has been noted over the last 2-3 years” and that “overt manifestations of [racial prejudice and xenophobia] are rather rare,” told the Swiss media to promote specific narratives:

“It would seem necessary to make the mass media in Switzerland aware of their responsibilities concerning the problems of racism and intolerance …initiatives for combating racism and intolerance by the mass media (eg by presenting some positive cases of a fruitful co-existence between different groups)… are to be encouraged….Codes of conduct in the various media professions, whereby the media practices self-regulation, would seem most desirable”.

Two years later, in its second report on the country, the organization still conceded that, “open manifestations of racism are quite rare in Switzerland.” Nevertheless, ECRI was “concerned that a climate of intolerance or xenophobia towards non-citizens and those who are different from the native Swiss population appears to persist”. No substantial documentation was offered as basis for the allegation — ECRI even criticized in the same report that “little information is systematically collected in Switzerland regarding the extent of racism and discrimination” — but none seemed to be needed, as ECRI’s motivation appeared to be political:

“There still seems to lack [sic] an acceptance of Switzerland as a truly multi-cultural society whose members may feel a sense of Swiss identity alongside another cultural or ethnic identity”.

Throughout the years, ECRI has stressed the media’s central role in promoting specific, politicized agendas. In 2009, in its fourth report, the organization called for the introduction of what is by now a prevalent European practice, especially in Sweden, of not mentioning the ethnic origins of criminals:

“A widespread and recurring problem in the Swiss media is the practice of mentioning the origin of a person suspected or convicted of a criminal offence even when this information is irrelevant. With a concern for transparency, the police admittedly give the media ‘objective’ information on suspects, including their age and nationality, which the media pass on without always questioning its relevance. In some cases, however, this approach seems much harder to justify…”

By 2014, the concept of “hate speech” had found its way into ECRI’s fifth country report on Switzerland:

“Muslims, Black people, the Yenish and the Roma perceive a considerable deterioration of their situation and of the political climate. Refugees, cross-border workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons are also the targets of hate speech. In particular, the Democratic Union of the Centre (UDC) party, which remains the largest at federal level (scoring 26.6% of the vote in 2011), has continued to use extremely intolerant images and language…”

In the same report, the organization also addressed what it saw as insufficient judicial crackdowns on hate speech:

“ECRI considers that the authorities, in particular the prosecution services, should adopt a zero tolerance attitude in respect of all racist statements by politicians… The more freedom politicians are given to make racist statements with impunity, the fewer scruples members of the general public will have about making racist comments…”

Once again, ECRI focused on the media:

“ECRI recommends that the Swiss authorities develop an action plan in close cooperation with media representatives…to tackle the established routines … that can lead media coverage… to have a stigmatising effect on vulnerable groups, in particular Roma and people of colour…”

The organization, however, noted with satisfaction that its earlier recommendations had been followed:

“ECRI is pleased to note that a number of online newspapers have adopted self-regulatory measures, such as more systematic moderation of comments, abolition of anonymity for posters and the automatic closure of the accounts of persons who resort to racist discourse”.

On the other hand, ECRI was unhappy that “the follow-up given by the authorities to complaints concerning racist comments on the Internet was still inadequate”. It recommended that “the Swiss authorities give one or more police units… responsibility for actively combating hate speech on the Internet…”

ECRI’s curious battle to limit free speech, especially that of the media, continues. In its sixth and most recent country report on Switzerland, ECRI berated the media for focusing too much on news items such as the construction of minarets or radicalization, deeming it “intolerant discourse against Muslims”:

“ECRI… notes a sharp rise in intolerant discourse against Muslims particularly in the media. This is believed to be linked to legislation or legislative proposals that affect Muslims in particular… a study which was carried out by the University of Zurich from 2014-2017 on the quality of media coverage of Swiss Muslims in 18 print media outlets… noted that 25% of articles concerned religious symbols in the public space (such as the construction of minarets or wearing the headscarf or Burqa) and 21% concerned radicalisation, while only 2% reported on the daily life of Muslims and 2% covered successful integration… The reporting predominantly condemned a lack of will to integrate and a tendency to radicalisation among Muslims and called for more controls and sanctions. Another study …showed that 85% of Muslim respondents experienced the representation of Islam in the media as rather or very negative. Further, 88% were particularly clear on the responsibility of the media for the deteriorated attitude of non-Muslims towards Muslims”.

The organization said that:

“… states should raise awareness of the dangers posed by hate speech… by combating misinformation, negative stereotyping and stigmatisation; developing educational programmes for children and youth, public officials and the general public; supporting NGOs and equality bodies working to combat hate speech; and encouraging speedy reactions by public figures to hate speech”.

The organization emphasized self-regulation as the “appropriate” approach to “tackling hate speech” especially through the application of “codes of conduct”, and even regulation in some cases, which they believe should apply to both politicians and the media:

“ECRI considers that the use of self-regulation can be an appropriate and effective approach to tackling hate speech…. parliaments, political parties, business organisations, cultural and sport associations… should make it clear that the use of hate speech…is unacceptable and take action to prevent and sanction such use. ECRI specifically stresses the importance of codes of conduct in self-regulatory schemes…political leaders and members of parliament should… adopt relevant codes of conduct. Regarding the media and Internet, where the vast majority of hate speech is generated… ECRI recommends both regulation and self-regulation…”

ECRI noted that Swiss journalists already have a code in place that states that they “must avoid any allusion by text, image or sound to a person’s ethnic or national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation as well as to any illness or physical or mental handicap that could be discriminatory in character.”

As for the Internet, ECRI noted that Swiss authorities had informed the organization that they were “seeking cooperation with relevant Internet service providers to improve the identification of authors of hate speech and to have such content removed as quickly as possible…”

ECRI has done a good job helping Europeans kill free speech.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15859/switzerland-free-speech

The District Court in Litoměřice in the north of Czechia sentenced Libyan immigrant Abdallah Ibrahim Diallo to two years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl and stealing her mobile phone in 2019.

However, according to experts, Diallo is mentally ill, so the court has decided that he should enter treatment in a psychiatric hospital before serving any prison time. It is unclear how long he will be placed in a psychiatric facility or at what point he will be released to a prison.

While the Libyan did not confess to the crime, there was irrefutable evidence that he was responsible for the rape.

“It is proven that the crime, as described in the indictment, actually happened. The incriminating evidence consists of a detailed statement of the victim, the DNA of the accused man found on her body and clothes, and the fact that he had her phone in his possession,” said the chairwoman of the court, Alexandra Šetková.

The Libyan man originally arrived in the Czech Republic by train from Germany where he unsuccessfully applied for asylum. On June 18, 2019, he raped the then 15-year-old girl near the village of Lukavec in the north of the Czech Republic.

Initially, no psychiatric report was requested but doubts about the defendant’s mental state arose due to his strange behavior in custody. Experts then confirmed that the man suffered from schizophrenia, but stated that his control and cognitive abilities at the time of the crime were not non-existent but only in a reduced state.

“He had at least the basic awareness that raping is illegal,” the judge said.

Although Diallo originally faced up to ten years in prison, given his mental illness, the public prosecutor proposed a sentence of around three years. The final sentence the judge gave amonted to two years.

The court then recommended treatment in a psychiatric hospital as the defendant could be dangerous to himself and the people around him if he was placed in prison right away.

However, the mild verdict infuriated many people, including members of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party.

“Mental disorders have become hugely popular when trying to excuse the crimes of illegal migrants. How many times have we heard from Western Europe that foreigners committing the most heinous crimes suffer from a mental illness?! Unfortunately, we are now witnessing the same scenario in our country as well,” the party wrote on Facebook.

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By Andrea Widburg

Project Veritas ought to be called Project Fortitudo so as to recognize the mind-boggling bravery of an undercover operative who infiltrated the Rose City Antifa organization in Portland, Oregon, one of the oldest active Antifa groups in America.  The anarcho-leftist Antifa specializes in violent street fighting, putting at extreme risk anyone who goes into the group with a hidden camera.

That’s the risk a Project Veritas investigator took, beginning sometime in the past, but at least eleven months ago.  (To protect the investigator’s identity, the year in which he began his undercover operation is bleeped out.)

Although Antifa has leapt to prominence in the past few days, as it’s joined forces with Black Lives Matter to wreak havoc in American cities, conservatives have been aware of it for some time.  For most of us, Antifa became a concern beginning with the Berkeley rioting when the Berkeley Republicans invited conservative speakers, such as Milo Yiannopoulos and Ben Shapiro, to the U.C. campus.  Even the Washington Post noticed that Antifa had a problem.

Antifa members showed up and engaged in extreme violence, including setting fire to the campus.  As a hint that Antifa is the paramilitary arm of the Berkeley Democrat party, the mayor told the police to stand down as Antifa and other leftist organizations beat conservatives with poles, pepper spray, and fists.  Rose City Antifa gets the same sweet treatment from Portland’s mayor.

No wonder, then, that some of the most extreme Antifa violence in America has taken place in Portland.  Andy Ngo, who has taken it upon himself to document what Antifa is doing, was so badly assaulted at a Portland riot that he suffered a brain bleed, something that can lead to death or permanent mental disability:

During the current riots, this is what Antifa is doing in Portland (warning: graphic):

You’ll want to keep the above image in mind as you watch the Project Veritas video, which opens with images of Antifa violence, not just in America, but around the world.  (It even includes a quick shot of the above video.)  The video describes how people are processed and trained to become full-fledged Antifa members.  Joining requires identity-verification interviews and training.

What’s shocking about the video is how the people doing the training are focused on violence, societal disruption, and hating Trump.  Lecturers tell trainees that the “whole goal of this, right, is to get out there and do dangerous things as safely as possible,” obviously meaning that Antifa members should bring the danger to others without harming themselves.

To give a sense of the violence inherent in Antifa, Project Veritas shows the moment that Nicholas Cifuni, in the “Recon and Tactics” class, tells his trainees to “practice things like an eye gouge.  It takes very little pressure to injure someone’s eyes.”  Cifuni also reminds his trainees that their job isn’t just to land a picture-perfect kickboxing blow.  Their job is “destroying the enemy.”

Something that’s just as jarring, although less interest-grabbing than obscenities and eye-gouging, is the investigator’s sense that Antifa is well funded and has an international organization:

They were getting this tradecraft from someone else, someone with much more experience, someone who did this for a living. Caroline, which [sic] is the founder of RCA, moved to Sweden with her husband, who is a dual citizen. So, there is a back and forth with a European connection. …

With RCA, it seems much more structured. Almost like a company or like a business. So, I feel like there is some type of outside funding, influence, or resources being used.

As is the case with all Project Veritas investigations, more videos will follow.  The more Americans who see them the better, because it will help them understand who is taking over their cities and why President Trump was right to label Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/project_veritas_begins_its_antifa_expose_.html

The European Union will find itself under renewed migration pressure as coronavirus movement restrictions are lifted and people smuggling on the Balkans route is expected to rise anew, the Vienna-based International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) said in its latest update.

The report, compiled by Martin Hofmann, warns that by autumn, the number of migrants seeking to enter the EU will again have reached the levels of the previous year when there was a surge in migrants from Venezuela and Columbia, who submitted asylum requests in various EU member states. The surge from the two South American countries was due to growing social and political problems in those countries and the fact that their citizens did not require visas to travel to Spain before the movement restrictions.

The ICMPD report also stated that the negative economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could also be a contributing factor in the rise of migration, as more people will be left in untenable economic conditions and even many members of the well-schooled middle classes of Africa and the Middle East may try their luck by attempting to reach the EU.

Morocco and Libya will probably take center stage, while people smuggling on the Balkans route — a lucrative proposition for organized crime groups — may surge again. At the same time, Turkey has once again threatened to send the country’s estimated 4 million migrants to Europe once the coronavirus crisis ends, which has prompted Greece to seal its land border with Turkey by expanding fencing across the entire Greek side of the Evros River.

Slovenia says 10,000 migrants are seeking to enter EU on Balkans route

Hofmann said a lot will depend on how individual EU member states will regulate foreigners’ access to their labor markets, but it is also likely that the more expensive or hazardous migration routes — such as the Mediterranean — will also see increased traffic.

The ICMPD report also stated that actual migrant numbers will depend on a significant degree on the amount the EU is willing to pay Turkey to keep migration in check. One day before the report was released, Austrian Minister of Interior Karl Nehammer, during a meeting with the region’s ministers of interior, proposed that the countries along the Balkans migration route be given additional support to protect their borders.

The meeting was attended by relevant officials of Austria, Bosnia-Hezregovina, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia, and it was indirectly triggered by Slovenian police reports warning that currently more than 10,000 people are seeking to enter the EU via the Balkans route. Slovenia has responded by sending over 1,000 police officers to the Croatian border.

In the past two weeks, as Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina gradually ended their respective movement restrictions, the number of migrants on the move has increased significantly.

Just before the outbreak of Covid-19, Frontex, the EU’s border agency, said that illegal border crossing had increased by 27 percent year-on-year.

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The dark history of the radical Left’s enforcement arm.

With riots and civil unrest metastasizing across the United States, the president declared he intends to designate Antifa as a terrorist group. Predictably, the talking heads rushed out to declarethat Antifa doesn’t really exist, and even if it did the president couldn’t possibly target it using that legal designation. They argueAntifa is an amorphous blob of discontents, not a functioning organization, and certainly not one which could be designated and targeted for concentrated counterterrorism enforcement.

As usual, the Twitterati don’t know what they are talking about. Reality is both simpler and more complex.

To begin at the beginning: Antifa—real name: Antifaschisitsche Aktion—was born during the street-fights of the 1932 Weimar Republic. It was founded by the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD), although various Communist “anti-fascist defense” units were associated with the KPD much earlier.

Anti-fascist Action’s sole purpose was to help the KPD combat other political parties for control of the streets in the revolutionary politics of the rapidly failing Weimar Republic.

And yes, they fought the Nazis.

But they also fought liberal parties, conservative parties, and anyone and everyone who got in their way. While these early antecedents were short-lived, it is useful to view Antifa in this context. More than anything, Antifa exists to serve as a tool of revolutionary politics in a failed (or failing) state.

Antifa would reestablish itself in the early 1980s, also in Germany, out of Autonomism. Autonomism is an anti-authoritarian anarcho-Marxist ideology associated with the Communist urban guerilla organizations of 1970s and ’80s Europe like Red Army Faction and the Red Brigade. Autonomism would find a home among the young punks of Germany’s squatters’ rights movement. Around this time, Antifa tactics like the “black block,” where large numbers of rioters dress in black and move together in formation as part of a larger protest, were developed.

Coming to America

Antifa would form in a similar fashion in the United States, but under a different name.

According to Antifa lore, an effort by young punks to expel neo-Nazis and white supremacists from the music scene led to the formation of Anti-Racist Action (ARA), beginning in the Midwest and then spreading outward. As chapters formed in various cities, regional councils and networks were formed, such as the Midwest Anti-Fascist Network (MAFN) in 1995.

But present at the birth of ARA were members of America’s long-time revolutionary clique, with roots going all the way back to the domestic terror group Weather Underground. Consulting the young anti-racist punks in the formation of ARA were members of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC). Several separate ARAs would go on to form one of the largest Antifa networks in the country, Torch Antifa, whose website was registered by a former JBAKC member.

JBAKC was formed as a front for the May 19th Communist Organization (MCO), itself founded out of the remnants of the Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, the FALN and other terrorist groups of the ’60s and ’70s. (May 19 was chosen since it was the birthday of both Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh.)

Following a split in the Weather Underground leadership over whether to emphasize class or racial struggle, the MCO emphasized working for “black liberation.” Members of the MCO were responsible for several bombings and robberies in the 1980s, including the infamous 1981 Brinks Armored Car Robbery.

JBAKC used its newsletter “Death to the Klan!” to highlight street fighting with Klansmen, accuse Reagan officials of white supremacy, endorse MCO bank robberies as “expropriation,” and promote communist insurgencies taking place in Nicaragua and El Salvador. It is important, again, to keep in mind that this was all done under the guise of “fighting white supremacy.”

The logic of JBAKC and the May 19th Communist Organization, and the same ideology which drives Antifa today, was that at its core the United States was founded on white supremacy, and therefore needs to be destroyed. Their “Cops and Klan Go Hand in Hand” slogan suggests there is no distinction between neo-Nazis and America’s institutions.

Antifa Today

Of course, in the age of the 1619 Project, such positions are no longer held just by members of underground Communist terror organizations. They are de rigueur in newsrooms, faculty lounges, and among the staff of mayors’ and attorneys general’s offices.

The modern Antifa movement advances the robust legacy infrastructure of the revolutionary Left through a belief in the efficacy of loose organization. The basic building block of direct-action organizing is the “affinity group,” which is exactly what it sounds like: a group of like-minded people who share a common objective. Pro-Antifa website CrimethInc notes:

This leaderless format has proven effective for guerrilla activities of all kinds, as well as what the RAND Corporation calls “swarming” tactics in which many unpredictable autonomous groups overwhelm a centralized adversary. You should go to every demonstration in an affinity group, with a shared sense of your goals and capabilities. If you are in an affinity group that has experience taking action together, you will be much better prepared to deal with emergencies and make the most of unexpected opportunities.

Multiple affinity groups can organize into what are described as “clusters” of affinity groups. Members of individual affinity groups may be members of other radical Left organizations and call upon them for assistance. Antifa members are likely to have ties to political organizations with Antifa support committees such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), The International Workers of the World (Wobblies), the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), or any number of other local and regional radical Left organizations or collectives. Antifa draws resources and recruits from them all.

Where necessary, multiple clusters planning large actions may utilize “spokes-councils” to coordinate. Each affinity group or cluster may send spokespersons to negotiate on the general goals of the action. These methods are no less organized for being non-hierarchical and help Antifa avoid police and law enforcement investigations, as well as preserve the above-ground support structures from facing criminal consequences for the acts they enable.

Antifa is in many ways an improved iteration of prior militant leftist guerilla organizations. While the Weather Underground wrote high-profile manifestos and their members became household names, they were also forced into hiding by aggressive, but largely traditional, law enforcement methods. In part, they failed because they misjudged how ready society was for their message, banked everything on militant action, and gave up mass organizing. Antifa, with its anarchist outer structure and plausible deniability, allows the radical Left to have their cake and eat it too.

And now, with the successful promulgation of the radical message of America as bastion of white supremacy by presidential candidates, cable news anchors, and generations of tenured professors, Antifa is unlikely to lack for recruits and support—rhetorical or otherwise—any time in the near future.

In all turbulent periods of revolutionary politics, whether the 1930s, 1970s, or today, the ability to project force on the streets to punish enemies is a valuable asset. For the Left today, Antifa is that force.

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