Police in the French city of Toulouse have arrested a man in connection to a church desecration in which verses from the Islamic Qur’an were written on the walls of the church.
The church vandalism is said to have taken place several months prior in a church just north of Toulouse bordering on the Borderouge district. The suspect, a 25-year-old male, is believed to have taken part in the vandalism, France Bleu reports.
Around a dozen officers from the elite tactical National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) are said to have raided the home of the 25-year-old on Monday, forcing themselves into the man’s apartment by knocking down the door. The suspect did not resist arrest and was placed into custody.
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The arrest comes just under a year after another church in Toulouse, the Notre-Dame du Taur, was vandalised by an individual who wrote “Allah u Akbar” on the doors of the building.
Protège ton église (Protect Your Church), a group that aims to protect churches and holy sites in France, wrote: “This desecration is reminiscent of the place of Islamism in the acts of Christianophobes and the danger that this phenomenon represents for our churches and Christians around the world. France remembers Father Hamel murdered with this cry.”
Jihadists murdered Father Jaques Hamel in his own church in July 2016. The Catholic priest was later declared a martyr by Pope Francis.
Church attacks in France have become a major issue in the last several years, with a report from March of last year claiming that there are as many as three attacks on churches or graveyards per day on average, with a total of 1,063 cases in 2018.
While some attacks have been in connection with robberies, others have less clear motives, such as an attack in November that saw human faeces smeared into prayer books at a church in the commune of Tarbes.
It’s no question MSNBC has been begging for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. So, how does MSNBC legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks handle the issue of impeachment? By giving money to a Democratic Party House member who would later vote for impeachment.
Just how scared are New York officials of the public finally focusing on their sanctuary policies, which harbor some of the worst criminals of other countries? Scared enough to lie about it.
On January 6, residents of the Richmond Hill neighborhood in Queens, New York, were shocked to discover Maria Fuertes, a 92-year-old well-known woman in the neighborhood, lying in the street just after midnight. It wasn’t until several days later that medical examiners realized she was actually murdered. Police also said they found a surveillance video of a man knocking her to the ground and assaulting her. On January 10, NYPD announced the arrest of Reeaz Khan and charged him with sexually assaulting and then murdering Fuertes.
ICE issued a statement on Monday revealing that Khan is an illegal alien from Guyana who should never have been in the country. The immigration agency also publicized the fact that Khan was arrested on November 27 for assault and criminal possession of a weapon, just six weeks before the murder. ICE issued a detainer request, but the NYPD, in compliance with New York’s illegal policies of restricting communication with ICE, released him without bail after the arraignment.
Local media is reporting that Khan also had a prior criminal history, which means this illegal alien was able to continue committing crimes and cycling back onto the streets. Had federal law been followed, Khan would have been in removal proceedings, and Fuertes would still be alive.
Given the 2,500 murders and 14,500 sexual offense charges among those subject to ICE’s detainers every year, rapes and murders that are 100 percent preventable undoubtedly happen every day in every sanctuary city. But this murder was so shocking and high-profile that New York officials couldn’t led it slide without a response. So, they flat-out lied and said ICE never requested a hold and they knew nothing of his immigration status. The New York Times quotes an NYPD spokeswoman claiming they “did not receive an ICE detainer in regard to this individual” after he had been arrested on Nov. 27.
The problem with that statement: ICE has a copy of the detainer request stamped 7:42 on November 27:
“It is the height of hypocrisy for NYC to blame ICE for this tragic crime. The mayor & police chief have continually celebrated that they don’t honor ICE detainers, & to deflect the criticism for this completely preventable murder is incredibly disingenuous & shameful… (1/2) pic.twitter.com/zTQIBIfoR9
…ICE could’ve wallpapered the precinct with detainers & #NYPD would still not have honored them.” –Matthew Albence, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2/2) pic.twitter.com/EPoqsAINmH
What is self-evident from this episode is that sanctuary politicians cannot withstand a sustained debate and direct exposing of the severity of the criminal alien problem. In the abstract, when talking about immigration in general, they openly brag about the need to protect illegal immigrants and how evil ICE is, as acting ICE director Matthew Albence observed in his comment. They openly flaunt and even delegitimize the concept of a detainer, as if somehow ICE and immigration law are less legitimate than a DEA or ATF detainer request for drug or firearms violations. But when light is shed on the fact that ICE’s detainer policy applies exclusively to those arrested for crimes, and there are many of them, their public posture becomes untenable.
This is a lesson for the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress. If they had a sustained legislative and budget battle over cities harboring other countries’ murderers and rapists, it would change the landscape of politics. The Trump administration could highlight numberless cases every day and use them as rationale for cutting off funding.
The number of foreign criminals being harbored by New York is truly shocking and represents a national crisis in need of federal intervention. During fiscal year 2019, ICE only arrested 2,477 illegal aliens in the New York area of responsibility. For comparison, ICE made 5,382 administrative arrests in the Salt Lake City area of responsibility. Even the St. Paul and Detroit field offices made more arrests than the NYC field office. The New York metro area contains the most illegal aliens of any metro in the country, according to Pew. And given that ICE almost exclusively targets illegal aliens with criminal arrests and convictions, that means all those thousands of illegal alien criminals missing from the New York arrest data are out on the streets.
If the Trump administration doesn’t focus like a laser beam on stopping sanctuary states, it’s only going to get worse. Under a new policy, New York’s DMV not only notifies any illegal alien of ICE interest in their whereabouts, but they block access to DMV records by any law enforcement agency in the state that doesn’t certify that it will not share information with ICE, a direct violation of federal law. Thus far, 78 police agencies have been blocked because they have yet to submit a certification.
New York state officials are restricting a “government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual,” in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1373. They are also in violation of §1324, which prohibits them from harboring, shielding from detection, concealing, encouraging, and inducing illegal immigration, as well as engaging in a “conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts” and aiding and abetting “the commission of any of the preceding acts,” which are punishable with up to 10 years in prison. It’s time for the Justice Department to drop the hammer.
If New York is allowed to remain a state in rebellion against ironclad federal powers dealing with the foundation of public safety of the entire federal union, we truly have no federal constitutional system left. States have the same power to undermine the federal government’s power over immigration as they do to interfere with interstate commerce. In other words, they have no such power. It’s time for the federal government, which has a penchant for inserting itself where it doesn’t belong, to finally impose its will where it does belong.
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On the eve of the House Democrats’ vote to transfer their articles of impeachment against President Trump, Democrats heading up the impeachment effort released new documents of evidence they say requires further investigations. Among the materials are a series of WhatsApp messages between Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and Republican congressional candidate Robert Hyde — whose name has not previously come up in the impeachment inquiry — in which he discusses supposedly surveilling U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Amid Democrats’ demands for an investigation into Hyde’s “disturbing” and “outrageous” messages to Parnas, the landscaper-turned-congressional candidate has responded to the “definitely laughable” allegations that he was “surveilling” a U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
The messages between Hyde and Parnas among the materials released by the Democrats Tuesday evening include the following messages from Hyde — all sent between March 23 and 29 — and interspersed with links to various articles, some related to Yovanovitch:
Wow. Can’t believe Trumo [sic] hasn’t fired this b*tch. I’ll get right in that … She under heavy protection outside Kiev … They are moving her tomorrow … The guys over they [sic] asked me what I would like to do and what is in it for them … Wake up Yankees man … She’s talked to three people. Her phone is off. Computer is off. … She’s next to the embassy. … Not in the embassy … Private security. Been there since Thursday … They know she’s a political puppet …. They will let me know when she is on the move … I mean where if they can find out … That address I sent you checks out … It’s next to the embassy … They are willing to help if we/you would like a price … Guess you can do anything in the Ukraine with money … What I was told …. Update she will not be moved special security unit upgraded force on the compound people are already aware of the situation my contacts are asking what is the next step because they cannot keep going to check people will start to ask questions … If you want her out they need to make contact with security forces … From Ukrainians … Nothing is changed she is still not moving they check today again … It’s confirmed we have a person inside … Hey brother do we stand down?? Or you still need intel be safe … She had visitors … It’s confirmed we have a person inside … Hey broski tell me what we are doing what’s the next step
To the message about paying Ukrainians, Parnas responded “LOL.” To some of the other posts, Parnas simply replied “interesting” and “perfect.”
With Democrats calling for an investigation into his alleged “surveillance” of Yovanovitch — who Giuliani reportedly wanted removed from her post because she would hamper his call for investigations into Burisma and the Bidens — Hyde posted a message on Facebook Tuesday, mocking the Democrats’ allegations.
“I was never in Kiev,” Hyde wrote, as reported by Politico. “For them to take some texts my buddy’s and I wrote back to some dweeb we were playing with that we met a few times while we had a few drinks is definitely laughable.”
Speaking with NBC News Tuesday, Hyde said that he’d been drinking when he sent some of the messages. In a phone interview with “America This Week with Eric Bolling” on Wednesday, Hyde laughed off the latest Ukraine scandal in which he was the unlikely star.
“We were playing,” Hyde said. “I thought we were playing. I didn’t know he was so serious.”
“We sent some colorful texts,” he said. “It’s kind of unfortunate the left had to get their panties in a bunch.”
Asked if he was really surveilling Yovanovitch, Hyde said, “Absolutely not. Are you kidding me? I’m a little nasty [expletive], excuse my language. Come on, you know me, Eric.”
As pointed out by The Daily Beast, Hyde also made some comments about being warned in advance about Parnas. “Listen, I was told a long time ago who Lev was by a lot of people down in communities throughout this country who would pull me aside, have meetings with me, and tell me to stay away from the guy,” he said. “Honestly, I was never a close associate with Lev Parnas. Did I like his character and did we have laughs and joke a bit? Of course. But to try to throw me under a bus somehow for joking around on WhatsApp? I’d love to see Adam Schiff’s texts on WhatsApp.”
In its report on Hyde’s “wild backstory,” NBC notes that after getting himself into “Trump’s world” in 2016 via various big donations, Hyde “ditched his landscaping company to open a ‘government and public relations’ consulting company called Finley Hyde & Associates in December 2018.” In August, he announced that he was running for Congress in Connecticut’s 5th District.
A man who claims to be a member of the dangerous MS-13 gang was released from prison thanks to New York’s bail reform law, only to be arrested the same day for committing the same crime that landed him in jail in the first place.
Eusebio Jax-Mejia, 21, was jailed on January 1 after stealing a vehicle from Dutchess County and then giving Walton police a fake name. At the time, he was imprisoned on charges of “criminal possession of stolen property in the 3rd degree, a class D felony and false impersonation, a class B misdemeanor,” WBNG reported.
Jax-Mejia was released Tuesday thanks to New York’s bail reform law, which has allowed numerous criminals to go free after their arrest rather than sit in jail for their crimes. The law was intended to ensure that the jail system wasn’t allowing wealthy individuals more freedom than low-income criminals who couldn’t “buy” their way out of prison. But large bail amounts would be set to prohibit dangerous people from returning to the streets, but now some of those people are being let loose to commit the same crimes that landed them in prison in the first place.
Just hours after Jax-Mejia was released, he was arrested again for stealing a vehicle – this time a vehicle from outside the Delaware County Public Safety building, WBNG reported. This time Jax-Mejia was charged with “grand larceny in the 3rd degree, a class D felony,” the outlet reported.
In a statement posted on Facebook, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office addressed Jax-Mejia’s arrest and took a shot at the bail reform law.
“This is just one of many examples of the failed so-called bail reform legislation that was enacted on January 1st. Dangerous criminals throughout New York State are being released after committing violent, felony-level acts only to re-offend and continue to commit dangerous felony-level acts, creating victims and wreaking havoc in their wake,” said Sheriff Craig DuMond. “Does Governor Cuomo and our State Legislature really believe that dangerous criminals who are immediately released will not re-offend and instead show up for court? Real victims are being created by the hour and real lives are being lost. When will they come to their senses and fix the problems they created? The people of New York State are crying out and their voices are falling on deaf ears. The first duty of any public official is to provide for the safety of the people they represent and, currently, they are failing miserably. I call upon the Governor and State Legislature to put politics aside and immediately address the dangerous pieces of bail and discovery reform.”
The Daily Wire has reported previously that one person has already died due to the bail reform law. Jonathan Armand Flores-Maldonado, 27, was killed after Jordan Randolph – a man with a lengthy criminal history that includes numerous drunk driving offenses – was released from prison. Randolph had been arrested for failing to obtain the court-ordered ignition interlock device for his car. He was released on January 1 and 11 days later was involved in a crash that killed Flores-Maldonado. Randolph was charged with a DWI in connection with the crash.
Scott Olson / Getty ImagesFormer President Barack Obama speaks to guests at the Obama Foundation Summit on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology on Oct. 29, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
By Jack Davis Published January 16, 2020 at 8:03am
A former national security advisor in the Obama administration did what congressional Democrats will not do — praise President Donald Trump for the decisive step Trump took in ordering the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
James Jones, a retired Marine Corps general, was former President Barack Obama’s national security advisor in 2009 and 2010, according to the Washington Examiner.
“What the administration did in the Soleimani case is absolutely correct,” Jones told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.
“This was a powerful step. We’ll see where it goes,” he added, as the Examiner reported. “It’s a complicated region, but I think history will say that this was the right thing to do.”
Although Trump has faced a partisan backlash, Jones said Sunday that Trump should tune out the criticism, according to Newsweek.
“I would not listen to the appeasers of the world who kind of want to calm the waves,” he said.
WATCH: Former Obama national security advisor Gen. James Jones praises @RealDonaldTrump decision to strike Iranian terrorist Soleimani as “absolutely correct” and a “potential game-changer.”
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“As articulated by the president, it’s a potential game-changer,” he said. “I would not let up, though. I would not let up.”
Jones said it would be wrong to want to “get back to normal business and then you have Iran using its proxies to spread terror around the world, interdict shipping, shoot down drones and things like that.”
“Those days I think are over and I hope Iran understands that,” Jones said.
Jones said that during his tenure, the Obama administration had its focus on al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in 2011.
“I think the Obama administration tried to find the terrorist that was the most wanted guy in the world,” he said. “Soleimani is now the next guy, so I give [Trump] credit for doing that and I think it was the right thing to do.”
Jones also said that Iran is now reeling, with domestic protests having flared up after the regime admitted to shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 people aboard.
“It’s clear that the regime in Iran’s had a very bad couple of weeks,” Jones said. “And one of the things that people don’t talk about too much is the degree of unrest that there is in the country, which I think is significant.
“So, you take the removal of Soleimani, you take the accidental downing of the civilian aircraft coupled with the amount of popular unrest — the needle towards possible collapse of a regime has to be something that people think about,” he said. “It’s probably not politically correct to talk about it, but you have to think about it.”
Trump took a combative tone about Soleimani’s killing during a Tuesday rally in Milwaukee:
“He was the king of the roadside bombs,” Trump said, referring to the improvised explosive devices used against U.S. troops in the Iraq War.
“Great percentages of people don’t have legs right now and arms because of this son of a b—-,” Trump said.
“And the Democrats should be outraged by Soleimani’s evil crimes, not the decision to end his wretched life.”
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