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Letting a Corsican hero represent himself

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Earlier today, we posted a video, perhaps somewhat of a smear piece, on a Corsican Facebook Vid-blogger who has a very large following.

Many worthy comments followed.

Oz-Rita explained that the German media company that made it is horrifically biased to the left as well as antisemitic.

Sunshine posted a link to the whole video he made, explaining that DW had in fact used an excerpt of it out of context to make him look bad.

M posted the Youtube version of it in French.

So Ava Lon has translated it for us and here is the titled version so we can decide for ourselves.

Sign of the times: Since 2000 France pulled down 33 Christian churches. In their place they erected more than one thousand mosques

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Original translation by Ava Lon

From this Polish Language Website

The Muslim community in France consists of 5 to 7 million people. One thing is certain – in the coming years, this community will grow. Sign of the times: in France, Christian churches are being closed and torn down . Since 2000, 33 such buildings were razed to the ground. In their place, new mosques grow, like mushrooms after the rain. In the mentioned period, a little more than one thousand were built. Is the most secular country in Europe likely to become the largest Muslim country in Europe?

Yesterday, the media showed images of the pacification of the faithful gathered in the Church of St Rita in Paris. Faithful, who defended the temple from demolition. Unfortunately, in the coming years, we might see more of these images. Since 2000 France pulled down 33 Christian churches. Instead, like mushrooms after the rain, mosques are appearing. This is a natural consequence of the fact that there’s fewer and fewer Christians in France. They are being replaced by Muslims, who currently form a community of 5 to 7 million (depending on whether we are talking about official or unofficial data).

Muslim community will undoubtedly grow. There are at least two reasons – the first is their fantastic birthrate. Fertility of Muslim women is much higher than of any other group. The second reason is immigration. Many of the immigrants coming to France believe in Allah. Thus, if there will be more of the followers of Islam in France, why shouldn’t there be more mosques built?

In this context, it is worth quoting the words of Dalil Boubakeur, dean of the Great Mosque of Paris, which at last year’s convention of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) demanded a doubling of the number of mosques in France: – “We have 2,200 mosques, and we have to double their number in two years” – he said during the official speeches. In order to justify his request Boubakeur noted that these 2,200 mosques are not enough for the largest Muslim community in Western Europe. I wonder whether the European Union will be able to somehow subsidize this project?
source: Wprost.pl 4 August 2016
source: tprincedelamour (twitter.com)

Corsicans fight back. Again. And again, the state is on the other side

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Remember last December when muslims were using their mosques and bookstores to break local laws, police did nothing so the people of Corsica acted?

Oz-Rita did this video for us then:

And the people of Corsica show once again that they are prepared to fight for law and order and European freedoms and values.

And then today, this happened:

And then this happened right after that:

Corsica may be the place to watch.

Thank you M, Ava Lon, Gates of Vienna and all who contributed to the materials in this post. More to come today.

Terrorism: BFMTV and Le Monde won’t broadcast any more images of terrorists

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A original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks!

From BFMTV France:

While the [terrorist] attacks are increasing in France, the debate on a possible “glorification” of terrorism has been revived in the French media. BFMTV and Le Monde have decided not to broadcast pictures of the authors of the attacks. Elements of reflection.

Can the media image of the attackers influence candidates for jihad, and push them to take action? After the attacks of Nice and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, the debate was revived in the French media, including by Jérôme Fenoglio, editorial director of Le Monde, which published an editorial this morning to this effect.

“Following the Nice attack, we will not publish any more photographs of authors of the killings, to avoid the possible effects of posthumous glorification,” says the reporter, who calls for a “lot of introspection” in the French media.

A position shared and adopted by BFMTV on all media. Following the attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, the channel has decided not to publish the photograph of Adel Kermiche, the suspect of the murder of the father Hamel. [Is he still a suspect if he was killed at the scene? — translator]

“Faced with the accumulation of attacks in France, we do not want to create a rogues’ gallery of terrorists. So we stop publishing their photos, which does not prevent a work of investigation on their profile and their background. The only exception to this principle is the wanted posters, the search notices from law enforcement, that can help investigators,” commented Alexis Delahousse, deputy managing editor of BFMTV.

Shortly after the attack on 14 July in Nice, a petition was even officially launched to ask the CSA [Superior Council of Audiovisual (Content), a French institution whose role is to regulate the various electronic media in France, such as radio and television. Its predecessor, the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle, was created by the Socialist Party] to control the dissemination of such images. If this petition already has 70,000 signatories, the debate is however not new.

Photos that cause a scandal

Back in 2012, many readers and viewers were moved by the publication of photographs of Mohamed Merah, the perpetrator of the killings of Toulouse and Montauban, where we saw the terrorist laughing at the wheel of his car.

Similar reactions were observed in the aftermath of the attack on 14 July in Nice, during which 84 people were killed by a truck careening at full speed along la Promenade des Anglais. The press then diffused a more “advantageous” photo of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the author of the killing. We see him lying on the beach and showing off his muscles in a triumphant pose.

A vision all the more shocking, since at the same time several videos showing the victims of the attack — injured or dead — circulating on social networks. However, the decision not to broadcast the photographs of bombers poses several deeper questions. Several jihad specialists question and doubt the effectiveness of such a measure in the fight against radicalization. And David Thomson, RFI journalist and the author of a book on the lives of several French jihadists (The French jihadists, ed. les Arènes), doesn’t expect a decrease in terrorism.

A view reinforced by the fact that for several years ISIS has disseminated its propaganda with its own media channels. On social networks or via its QAMA agency, the terrorist organization propagates, after every attack or almost all, pictures of those responsible, rendering obsolete any attempt of the traditional media to “obscure” them.

This editorial choice designed to avoid an effect “star Terrorist Acts” will however not affect the terrorist intensity in France

— David Thomson (@_DavidThomson) 27 July 2016

Besides the problem of any possible “glorification” of terrorism, there’s the problem of the conspiracy theory. After every attack, every major event, the conspiracy-mongers from all sides attack the official version and try, usually by misinterpreting images, to discredit the facts. How to fight against these theories and their authors, while casting a veil over the pictures of the terrorists?

Should their names be removed?

On 27 July, following statements of Le Monde and BFMTV, it was the turn of Europe 1 to decide not to broadcast pictures of terrorists, and adding banishment of their names, a first in the media.

@ Europe1 decides not to mention on the air the names of the authors of the killings. Their photos will no longer appear on europe1.fr

— Henry de Laguérie (@henrydelaguerie) 27 July 2016

Problem: the media and the judiciary are not on the same wavelength. While during the day on Tuesday the media were broadcasting the initials of one of the alleged perpetrators of the attack of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Prosecutor François Molins gave the full name of the man killed on the steps of the church.

Once the investigation is officially launched, and these elements published by the justice, what impact the non-dissemination by the media of these can have on the public, at a time when social networks often transmit information faster than traditional channels? This is the position taken by BFMTV, and assistant editor Alexis Delahousse explains that “if François Molins gives the name, then we will too.”

Again, the conspiracy theory is not far away. On Twitter the extreme right regularly calls authors of articles about the various facts or acts of terrorism, and in which full names are not given. Each time, the press is suspected and accused of deliberately withholding these names in order to cover up the extent of the particular case.

@franceinfo [French news agency] You may reveal the name of the Islamist # of #Magnanville https://twitter.com/FrkGuiot/status/742586297592713216 …

— Franck GUIOT (@FrkGuiot) 14 June 2016

Martyrdom video of terror tard in Germany, and priest in France decapitated in Church

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1, Standard mumbldy “Martyrdom” video of another jihadi planning to kill as many unbelievers as he can and claim that it was a pious act.

The good news is he only killed himself so far. Sadly he injured 11 and the German government, suffering from total logical and moral inversion, have banned backpacks at festivals. Pretty soon the only thing allowed will be women in burkas.

2. Priest beheaded in a small town church in France. Killers were bearded and shouted Allah Hu ackbar. Which is a surprise as they usually shout: “Not enough social programs or  leftist policies preventing people from offending me” when doing these attacks.

The Express has the story here. 

The SUN UK here

Update from Fdesouche 

(Thank you Ava Lon for the translation)

Through its news agency QAMA, organization Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen (Seine-Maritime). In its statement, published Tuesday, July 26, hours after the murderous hostage taking occurred during the Mass, the organization suggests the attack was perpetrated by “two soldiers”.

”Officially, no identity of the two hijackers is formally established, we are ensured by the Interior [Ministry]. But the name of one of the attackers circulating. It is, according to our information, a man who wanted to visit Syria in 2015 and who was arrested by Turkish police before being handed over to France and imprisoned in 2015. He had then an electronic bracelet attached in March 2016, a provision intended as an alternative to incarceration. The terrorism prosecutor had appealed the decision, but without success.

 

French government forced Nice authorities to lie to the media, public about attack

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This is really quite stunning. It may have to be watched a couple of times till the impact sinks in of the degree of deception an allegedly democratic government uses to control its own people while endangering them.

Thank you Ava Lon for the translation.

Nice attack: when justice minister demanded the mayor destroy 24 hours of footage

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An original translation by Ava Lon

From Le Figaro

INFO LE FIGARO – An urgent legal requisition was sent to urban supervision center of Nice Wednesday, July 20. The Paris prosecutor evokes a desire to “avoid the uncontrolled dissemination of these images.”

Panic and incomprehension in the office of mayor of Nice. Wednesday at 11 am, the Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT) sent two agents who manage video surveillance of the city, with a requisition citing Articles 53 and L706-24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Article R642-1 of the Penal Code asking them for a “complete” erasure of 24 hours of images from six cameras named and numbered, but also of all the scenes from the beginning of the attack that took place on the Promenade des Anglais, on the night of July 14 .

“This is the first time we are asked to destroy evidence.”

The state agents of urban supervision center of Nice are stunned. “This is the first time we are asked to destroy evidence, says a source close to the investigation.The center of CCTV and the city of Nice could be prosecuted for this and also the officers in charge of the device don’t have jurisdiction to engage in such operations. “

The request is all the more astonishing that since the last Friday the SDAT sent its servers to recover the 30,000 hours of CCTV related to the events.
A backup operation that will extend even on several days. “We do not know if giving a destruction order while we are in full backup is not going to affect the whole system,” the investigators say with concern.
“This was done in this particular case to prevent the uncontrolled spread of these images.” said The Paris prosecutor.
Contacted by Le Figaro, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the information and said: “this was done in this case to prevent the uncontrolled  and unchecked dissemination of these images.” The national police is reminding us that “out of the thousand cameras in Nice, 140 had elements interesting for the investigation.The police recovered 100% of them.The Judicial Police and prosecutors have asked for the pictures from these 140 cameras to be deleted, to prevent malicious use of them, concern for the dignity of the victims and to prevent the resumption of these images by jihadist websites for the propaganda purposes.”Finally, at the chancery, it is specified that the application of an “complete” erasure  is explained by the inability to make partial destruction of such equipment.
Images shared by several services
The day after the tragedy of the Promenade des Anglais, the police officers had come to make a first review of the cameras that were filming the event directly. This led to a first report sent to the Interior Ministry. Strangely, it would be these same cameras that are affected by the requisition of SDAT.
By Saturday, the Elysee [French White House] had requested copies of the footage of the attack. An authorization was granted by the Paris prosecutor. “It is not shocking that the president had wanted to see the attack. Will we have to ask the Elysee to return the CD that was sent to them? “Asked someone close to the investigation.In any event, these videos are currently shared by multiple services, namely those of the police and the national gendarmerie, the police and firefighters.

Jihad attack in the city of Nice France, well planned and possibly by group

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This French news item pretty much crushes the narrative on this muslim jihad event.

ABC has this article which clearly spells out the same facts.

The truck driver who killed 84 people on a Nice beachfront had accomplices and appears to have been plotting his attack for months, the Paris prosecutor said Thursday.

Prosecutor Francois Molins said five suspects currently in custody are facing preliminary terrorism charges for their alleged roles in helping 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel in the July 14 attack in the southern French city. Molins’ office, which oversees terrorism investigations, opened a judicial inquiry Thursday into a battery of charges for the suspects, including complicity to murder and possessing weapons tied to a terrorist enterprise.

The suspects are four men — two Franco-Tunisians, a Tunisian and an Albanian — and one woman of dual French-Albanian nationality, Molins said. The driver was a Tunisian man who had been living in Nice for several years.

France: Argenteuil: a counter-terrorist operation in two locations

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This is an original translation by Ava Lon

From this URL

Argenteuil: a counter-terrorist operation in two locations

A counter-terrorism operation took place at Argenteuil in the Val d’Oise. No weapons were seized.

Antiterrorist operation was conducted Wednesday afternoon by the ISB and the Raid in Argenteuil, Val d’Oise, at the request of the Special Prosecutor.
This is unrelated to the attack on 14 July in Nice, said a judicial source. No weapons had been seized earlier this afternoon, she added.
The operation targeted “three objectives” in various parts of the city, according to another police source. An alleged jihadist Kriket Reda, was arrested last March in Boulogne, but weapons, five Kalashnikov rifles, had been found in his apartment in Argenteuil.

VIDEO ARCHIVE. Project bombing: Reda Kriket indicted, the story of his arrest

Man in custody after shouting “Allah akbar” on Channel beach

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Original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks.

From this French news site, BMFTV:

A man in a djellaba was taken into custody Monday after shouting “Allah akbar” and “I’ll kill you all!” on a Normandy beach, in the English Channel.
Witnesses raised the alarm in the early afternoon after hearing the man making threats on the beach Jullouville, not far from Mont-Saint-Michel. The individual was arrested about twenty minutes later.

A bomb squad intervened to check the contents of his backpack left behind. In a statement, the prefecture of the Channel also emphasized that the individual was carrying “no weapons”.