Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi has said NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s admission that some 5,000 sorties were flown from European bases in support of US military aggression against Iran proves that Europe formed part of the infrastructure of that aggression.
In a post on X on Thursday evening, Gharibabadi wrote that the NATO chief’s remarks demonstrated Europe’s role in enabling the illegal US campaign.
“Governments that placed their territory at the disposal of the United States cannot evade their responsibility,” he said. “This participation will not go unanswered.”
Rutte has repeatedly acknowledged that thousands of US military flights, between 4,000 and 5,000, departed from bases in Europe during the US-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic, which began on 28 February.
He described Europe as a “platform of power projection” without which Washington could not have conducted the operation.
Countries including Italy, Romania, the United Kingdom, France and Germany were cited in connection with the use of bases, airspace, tankers and logistics.
Iran has consistently described the US-Israeli assault as an unprovoked act of aggression in flagrant violation of the UN Charter and international law.
Tehran has stressed that providing territory, bases or infrastructure to an aggressor state itself constitutes participation in the act of aggression, as recognized under United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi separately warned European officials in New York of the severe and long-term consequences of facilitating and supporting US and Israeli war crimes, both in Gaza and against Iran. He noted that submitting to a bully never satisfies that bully.
MOSCOW – Hackers from the United States, France and Singapore attempted to disrupt the remote electronic voting process during the recent State Duma elections, with malicious web traffic originating from IP addresses in over 30 countries, including the UK and Ukraine, Russia’s largest digital services provider Rostelecom said on Friday.
“The most intense attacks originated from networks in unfriendly countries. Malicious traffic came from IP ranges in more than 30 countries, including the UK and Ukraine. Notably, the US, France and Singapore were identified among the primary sources of attacks on the electronic voting infrastructure,” the statement read.
Rostelecom maintained secure communication channels and infrastructure at polling stations during the three-day voting period last week. It set up video surveillance across 89 regions and ensured the cybersecurity and uninterrupted operation of the federal remote electronic voting platform.
Tech experts repelled more than 3,000 waves of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks reaching speeds of up to 1.7 Tbps, blocked over 170 million malicious attempts targeting web services, and prevented unauthorized access to the infrastructure. Efforts focused primarily on preventing voting results from being altered or disclosed prematurely.
The intensity and volume of the attacks exceeded those seen during the previous electoral process in 2024, Rostelecom said. The primary targets were e-government systems, including the Unified System of Identification and Authentication (ESIA) and the Gosuslugi state service portal, as well as Rostelecom’s infrastructure, the remote electronic voting (DEV) system, and the Central Election Commission (CEC).
A 30-year-old English instructor of Algerian nationality was taken into police custody Tuesday on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and violence against boys and girls ages 3 to 5 at a private Catholic nursery school in Paris, according to sources close to the investigation. More than 20 complaints have since been lodged in the case.
The man, identified as Yasser G., worked for the Cap English Institute and taught introductory English sessions at École Saint-Laurent in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. The Paris judicial police’s Brigade for the Protection of Minors opened an investigation in early July after parents of a 3-year-old girl filed a complaint, according to BFM TV.
Attorney Hugo Latrabe confirmed his client was in custody.
11 staff members are accused of sexual assaults and rapes at the Saint-Dominique nursery school, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.
"Look at that school behind us, that’s the school where my 3-year-old daughter was raped by several after-school care staff members,"… pic.twitter.com/unvnP8SUjM
The alleged acts occurred during 30-minute English-language classes for children. Since a 2019 education law, French kindergarten students may receive early language lessons. The instructor entered the school alone, taught small groups in a first-floor “yellow” room without the regular classroom teacher present, and left around 10:45 a.m.
The case comes amid a broader series of investigations into alleged abuse by staff at Paris-area nursery and after-school programs, which Remix News has previously reported on.
The first girl told her parents the teacher was “mean” and had touched her private parts. The family alerted school officials through the École Directe app on May 11. In an email to parents that was later obtained by reporters, management referred to “a filing of a complaint for alleged serious facts in the context of English interventions in kindergarten.” It said “all steps taken with the judicial authorities” had been initiated and that “the alleged person was instantly suspended from all activity as a precautionary measure.” A psychological support unit was also announced.
Parents say the school’s initial response was delayed and inadequate. Management described the first report as “mixed” and gathered children in small groups to ask whether the teacher had been mean to them, a step parents say should have been left to trained investigators. No report was made to the Paris prosecutor’s office at that time, and the instructor was not immediately suspended.
On May 22, the director emailed parents seeking to extend Cap English classes to Wednesdays. Children therefore had about three additional hours with the instructor between May 11 and the end of the school year. Parents of the first girl filed a formal complaint June 22 and notified the school the next day. Cap English then suspended the man and the school reported the matter to prosecutors.
The instructor was not arrested over the summer while investigators conducted child interviews under a lengthy protocol. He had obtained a new position at a management school for the start of the academic year, according to reports.
“We were told not to say anything, not to leak to the press to allow the investigation to move forward,” one mother whose child is not among the alleged victims said. “We are all in shock, we explained to our daughter what happened because the students also talk about it among themselves. Many parents are afraid that the school will struggle and eventually close if the cases are publicized, I believe that this also unfortunately explains the silence. The atmosphere is very tense at school, management communication has been catastrophic from the start. It has to come out.”
The same mother said “drastic measures have since been taken by the new management, no more recourse to external organizations like Cap English, and above all no more hiring of male caregivers for children.” The original director is on sick leave and has been replaced by an interim manager.
Other parents expressed similar anger. One father described “a lot of stress, anxiety… There is a lot of incomprehension.” He said “it’s dramatic that a person was able to act in an ‘industrial’ manner.”
A mother who attended a July meeting said the director repeatedly called the information “mixed,” adding that this “put the parents who were there in a state of irritation even though it’s very clear, a child doesn’t invent things like that.”
Cap English said in a statement published by Le Monde that “one of its former instructors at a private school in Paris has been implicated in serious acts that appear to fall under the penal code.” The company added: “He was immediately removed from all activity with students as a precautionary measure as soon as the school principal informed Cap English of the alleged facts.”
It said required background checks had been completed at the time of hiring “without any information coming to its attention that would have barred him from working with minors” and that it would cooperate fully with investigators.
School management declined to comment Tuesday. The Diocese of Paris, which oversees the Catholic school, did not respond to inquiries.
An African illegal migrant is accused of raping an 8-year-old girl in the French city of Brest in August 2026. He remains in pre-trial detention and has already been issued a deportation order.
The suspect is a 41-year-old man from the Comoros who lives in Le Mans without legal status and was visiting Brest. Prosecutors say the alleged attack happened in an apartment after the child’s mother had left. The girl also described a similar incident earlier in August.
The young victim and her mother went to the Brest police station on August 29, 2026 to report the events that occurred that morning.
According to prosecutors, the man had come to “see friends” in Brest, including a friend at the victim’s apartment. The Comorian suspect allegedly took the child to another room in the apartment when her mother left.
He then undressed her while putting “his hand over her mouth to prevent her from making any noise.” The child then described the man raping her, according to French news outlet Actu.
Afterwards, he “gave her cakes” in order to silence her, prosecutors allege.
After the mother and daughter filed a complaint with police the same day as the alleged rape, the African suspect was arrested.
In police custody, the suspect told police he had “made a mistake” and he had “rubbed” his penis against the little girl, but claimed he did not penetrate the girl.
“I’m not a rebel, I’m not a bad guy, I’m not a killer,” he told police.
While the suspect requested to be released before his trial, the court rejected his request and he remains in pre-trial detention. The Rennes appeals court refused to release him, citing the risk of him reoffending.
He has been charged with rape and sexual assault of a minor and for intimidation of a child to prevent her from reporting the incident.
The Comorian man has been in France illegally since 2021 and was unemployed when the alleged rape occurred. Following the alleged rape, he was issued with a deportation order.
Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what archaeologists have uncovered at the Hôtel-Dieu, on the Île de la Cité, the island in the Seine where Notre-Dame stands. The wall runs for about 20 meters (roughly 65 feet) and shows clear signs of having burned […]
L'Azerbaïdjan a gracié le Français emprisonné Martin Ryan, selon un décret présidentiel publié mercredi. Cet homme d'affaires âgé de 38 ans avait été condamné en mars à dix ans de prison pour "espionnage", dans un contexte de tensions entre Bakou et Paris.
An Algerian migrant has been sentenced to ten years in prison for raping a child and sexual assaults on 3 other children
A 36-year-old Algerian migrant, who worked as a security guard, has been sentenced to ten years in prison after a Savoie criminal court found him guilty of aggravated rape of a child and sexual assaults on minors.
The court found him guilty of sexually assaulting his then-7-year-old stepdaughter in 2020, forcing an adolescent to perform fellatio, of sexual assault on another minor, and of sending a photograph of his genitals and a video to a friend of one of the victims. The most serious acts occurred at the home he shared with his then-wife during an evening in November 2020 in Saint-Pierre-d’Albigny.
Four minor girls were identified as victims. None were named in the reporting, according to French news outlet Le Dauphine.
The three-day trial before the Savoie court ended with a conviction on all counts: aggravated rape of a minor, sexual assaults on minors, and corruption of a minor. The public prosecutor, Christophe Dubois, had asked for 12 years. The court also imposed a permanent ban from French territory and registration on the national sex-offenders file.
The defendant, an Algerian national who had been living in France illegally since his divorce from the mother of one of the victims, maintained his innocence throughout. On the first day, he told the court, “I am innocent. All of this is just lies!”
The next day, he told a civil party: “I am not the kind of person who touches minors.”
Court-appointed psychologists and psychiatrists described him as psychologically normal, with no mental disorder.
In his closing argument on Sept. 16, prosecutor Christophe Dubois opened with a blunt assessment: “This trial leaves a bitter taste with an accused who never stopped contesting the facts.”
Dubois said the gravity of the potential sentence made it tempting for the defendant “to flee reality given how heavy the sentence he faced was.”
La reculade de la direction de Radio France dans l'affaire de Charles Sapin et de sa chronique illustre une nouvelle fois le mal de notre République : l'incapacité de l'élite publique (en l'espèce celle de Sibyle Veil, patronne de Radio France) à manager correctement ses équipes, malgré les leçons de "courage" et de "responsabilité" dont elle aime si souvent à se targuer.
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Par franchise, je commence cette chronique en signalant que je suis contributeur sporadique (et bénévole) à Valeurs Actuelles. Certains pourront penser que cette collaboration (bien légère au demeurant, et sur des bases saines, puisque je ne cache pas mon mépris pour la transformation progressive du journal, comme du JDD, en chronique des chiens écrasés par les Arabo-Musulmans qui prépareraient une imaginaire guerre civile contre les Français de souche) influence les lignes qui suivent. Libre à eux de le penser...
Mais ils se trompent.
Je vais épargner aux lecteurs la diversion que je vois partout (je pense au post d'Alexandre Devecchio sur Linkedin, qui en constitue une brillante illustration) où il est de bon ton d'accabler la gauche "sectaire" qui a mené la fronde, et de louer les intentions paraît-il louables de la pourtant défaillante Sibyle Veil, patronne de Radio France.
Pour ma part, comme je n'ai nul service à demander à Sibyle Veil, et nulle intention de bénéficier des ondes de Radio France, je me permets de traiter ce qui me semble le point essentiel : l'échec managérial majeur que représente le renoncement final à une chronique hebdomadaire de quelques minutes confié à un intervenant qu'une intersyndicale a décidé de se payer.
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Avant l'été, en bouclant sa grille de rentrée, Céline Pigalle, directrice de France Inter depuis mars, cherche un éditorialiste politique qui représente « les idées et les valeurs de la droite républicaine », en pendant de Camille Vigogne, du Nouvel Obs. Elle pense à Charles Sapin, alors au Point. Entre-temps, il rejoint Valeurs actuelles comme directeur adjoint de la rédaction. Elle l'appelle ; il lui dit qu'il y va pour en changer la ligne ; elle maintient.
Le recrutement est annoncé le 26 août, à Radio France et à France Télévisions. Première chronique le dimanche 30 août. Le 2 septembre, les salariés votent la grève. Le 3, Sibyle Veil refuse tout retrait dans Le Monde. Le 10, Céline Pigalle s'explique au micro de la médiatrice et pose elle-même la clause de sortie : « s'il se produisait quoi que ce soit d'équivalent à ce qui s'est produit dans le passé dans ce journal, il faudrait arrêter ». Grève les 13 et 14 septembre. Le 19, la direction propose de transformer l'édito en séquence de débat ; Sapin refuse et s'en va. Bilan : deux chroniques, aucun incident d'antenne, et une clause de sortie actionnée sans que sa condition ait été remplie.
Il y a bien là une reculade, très différente de l'attitude suivie lors de la grève historique de 63 jours, fin 2019 et début 2020, contre 299 suppressions de postes et 60 M€ d'économies imposées par le gouvernement, ou de l'attitude lors de l'affaire Meurice, licencié en juin 2024 pour « déloyauté répétée », après une mise en garde de l'Arcom et la réitération à l'antenne, le 28 avril, de sa blague sur Nétanyahou — alors même que la plainte pour provocation à la haine avait été classée sans suite au printemps. Radio France a sanctionné au-delà de ce que la loi exigeait.
Ceci pose la question des raisons expliquant la reculade dans l'affaire Sapin.
Celle-ci illustre bien le "courage" managérial à géométrie variable en vigueur dans certains milieux parisiens - instabilité managériale qui tétanise tant de cadres intermédiaires et nourrit la méfiance quotidienne de ceux-ci dans les fonctions qui leur sont confiées. Beaucoup le savent : avoir un patron énarque (mais polytechnicien, HEC ou Saint-Cyrien, ce n'est guère mieux), dans l'administration, suppose d'apprendre un langage codé. Officiellement, le patron est un héros de guerre, dans la pratique, il est absorbé par des calculs politiques où son déroulement de carrière indique plus ou moins secrètement le Nord de sa boussole décisionnelle.
L'affaire Sapin le confirme.
L'énarque Sibyle Veil à la manoeuvre
Dans le déroulement de cette crise, la directrice générale de Radio France, Sibyle Veil, n'a guère mouillé la chemise. Pourtant, elle est un poids lourd de la caste au pouvoir en France, et l'on peut penser que son rôle, vu la dimension politique de l'affaire, consistait à prendre position et à tenir la ligne de front.
Mais cette énarque illustre bien le pourrissement de la caste par l'intérieur. Par cette expression, je ne la vise pas personnellement, et je ne pense pas en l'espèce qu'elle soit pire que les autres. C'est tout notre sujet : le management par l'énarchie est devenu une question de système, de culture, de modèle transmis à l'école, où la personnalité de ceux qui sont aux responsabilités importe au fond assez peu. Le processus managérial à suivre laisse peu de place à l'innovation individuelle, il repose tout entier sur des "marqueurs" collectifs auxquels il vaut mieux ne pas déroger, même si l'on s'appelle Sibyle Veil, née Petitjean, et que l'on est camarade de promotion d'Emmanuel Macron.
Je soutiens en revanche que le système managérial des grands corps de l'État est vicié de l'intérieur. Il consiste à prendre le moins de risque possible pour ne pas nuire à sa réputation et à sa carrière, mais à faire grief aux subalternes des risques qu'ils n'ont pas pris pour servir la notoriété du chef. Je l'ai soutenu la semaine dernière, je le confirme par l'exemple aujourd'hui.
Dans l'affaire Sapin, Sibyle Veil a parfaitement déroulé le manuel de management en vigueur à l'ENA.
D'abord, elle a laissé Céline Pigalle en première ligne. Certes, Sibyle Veil a donné le change dans une interview au Monde début septembre, mais là encore, le geste mérite d'être compris.
Donner une interview au Monde, ça ne se refuse pas, surtout si cela donne l'occasion de jouer aux héros des temps modernes, imposant la "pluralisme" à une maison qui n'aime pas ça, ou qui limite sa compréhension du pluralisme à la gauche bobo des beaux quartiers. Cette interview était par ailleurs l'occasion de signaler aux "politiques" que la directrice générale avait bien entendu les messages passés (souvent maladroitement et de façon contre-productive, au demeurant) par la commission Alloncle.
Bref, Sibyle Veil a pris une part d'énarque dans le conflit : elle s'est montrée dans la presse, elle a fait de belles phrases, puis elle a rangé son carquois et elle a fait machine arrière pour retrouver la paix sociale.
Pourquoi avait-elle mieux tenu en 2020 ? Parce que le plan d'économies était une commande politique.
Ce n'est pas moi qui le dis, c'est elle, au JDD, le 14 décembre 2019, au vingtième jour de grève : « Au moment où le montant des économies était décidé par l'État en 2018, je me suis battue pour défendre tout ce que Radio France apporte à la société, mais aussi pour qu'on ne me dicte pas la façon de procéder. » Le pouvoir la soutenait et avait l'initiative ; il ne lui restait qu'à tenir. Et elle tenait, dans le même entretien, avec des mots qu'on relit aujourd'hui avec intérêt : « Non, ce serait irresponsable. […] L'immobilisme, lui, n'est pas à l'ordre du jour. Ce projet prépare l'avenir de Radio France, il n'y a pas d'alternative. »
Et ceci, qui vaut pour toute grève, y compris celle des 13 et 14 septembre : « Il ne doit pas y avoir de disproportion entre mobilisation réelle et mobilisation ressentie. » Elle chiffrait alors elle-même : 25 % de grévistes le premier jour, 2 à 3 % ensuite. Quel fut le taux des 13 et 14 septembre ? 12% sur le groupe, 38% sur France Inter. C'est l'ordre de grandeur de la première semaine de 2019, celle qu'elle avait traversée sans bouger avant d'en tenir soixante-deux autres.
Quand il s'agit d'obéir à un ordre, l'énarque est toujours plus courageux que quand il s'agit de réaliser ses propres initiatives.
Pourquoi avait-elle mieux tenu dans l'affaire Meurice ? Parce que l'Arcom faisait levier et menaçait.
Courageuse comme une énarque, donc
Revenons-en au fil : nous voyons ici se dessiner le courage managérial propre à l'énarchie.
Quand il s'agit d'appliquer des décisions prises par d'autres, l'énarque peut tenir sa ligne, avec plus ou moins d'adresse. Mais si l'affaire tourne mal, il peut rejeter la responsabilité du naufrage sur les donneurs d'ordre et dégager la sienne.
Quand il s'agit d'appliquer ses propres décisions, l'énarque se montre beaucoup plus prudent. Il aime bien se montrer dans les journaux pour faire des effets d'annonce. Mais si l'affaire tourne mal, son réflexe est de chercher des lampistes pour payer à sa place, c'est-à-dire pour endosser l'échec.
Tel est le courage managérial de ceux à qui le pouvoir administratif est confié. Une seule obsession : ne jamais se mettre en danger personnellement, se dérober toujours à la responsabilité ultime de ses propres actes.
On September 10, 2026, Algeria announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. The Rupture That Was 50 Years in the Making The UAE ambassador was given 48 hours to leave the country, and as of September 11, Algerian airspace was closed to all Emirati aircraft. The official reason was “provocative and […]
Le ministère de l'Économie et des Finances a annoncé, samedi, que le niveau d'endettement de la France continuerait de se creuser pour atteindre les 119,3% du produit intérieur brut en 2026 et 121,7% en 2027.
« La liberté a un nom : UÇK ». Slogan de l'Armée de libération du Kosovo au centre-ville de Pristina, devant la cathédrale orthodoxe à l'abandon, février 2023.
Les chambres spécialisées pour le Kosovo ont condamné le 16 septembre dernier l'ancien président de la République Hashim Thaçi et son principal comparse, M. Jakup Krasniqi, à 25 ans d'emprisonnement pour « crimes de guerre ». Elles ont également condamné deux autres anciens hauts responsables de l'Armée de libération du Kosovo (UÇK en albanais), MM. Kadri Veseli et Rexhep Selimi, à des peines un peu plus courtes (18 et 13 ans de prison). Tous plaidaient non coupables et peuvent faire appel.
Des magistrats internationaux composent ce tribunal de droit kosovar, délocalisé à La Haye. L'acte d'accusation visait la période du conflit armé qui a opposé l'UÇK aux forces de la République de Yougoslavie, entre avril 1998 et août 1999. À l'issue d'une très longue enquête, après l'audition de 156 victimes et 30 000 pages de procédure, les juges ont conclu que les quatre accusés « sont pénalement responsables, en raison de leur contribution significative à une entreprise criminelle commune, de crimes de guerre pour détention arbitraire à l'encontre [d'au moins] 385 personnes, traitements cruels à l'encontre de 49 personnes, torture à l'encontre de 303 personnes et meurtre à l'encontre de 96 personnes. »
Reprenant la formule de l'historien Howard Zinn, « aucun drapeau n'est assez grand pour couvrir la honte de tuer des innocents », les magistrats ont souligné qu'une cause ou un contexte de guerre ne saurait justifier de s'en prendre à des civils, en l'occurrence essentiellement de supposés opposants d'autres partis albanais et des membres de minorités (Serbes et Roms pour l'essentiel). Les chambres relèvent aussi que « ce procès s'est déroulé dans un climat permanent d'intimidation des témoins ».
Âgé de 58 ans, M. Thaçi a participé à la fondation de l'UÇK dont il fut commandant en chef. Après l'intervention de l'Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord (OTAN) et le retrait des forces serbes, il a été premier ministre de la province à plusieurs reprises, puis président de la République du Kosovo de 2016 à 2020, un État non reconnu par les Nations unies.
Présenté comme son « ami » par Bernard Kouchner, alors ministre des affaires étrangères, M. Thaçi a été très longtemps soutenu par les Occidentaux, et particulièrement les Français, en dépit des graves accusations dont il faisait l'objet depuis longtemps. En mars 2018, il était à Paris pour remettre la « médaille présidentielle du jubilé » à l'ancien président Nicolas Sarkozy et « la médaille de l'Ordre de la liberté » à l'ancien premier ministre Alain Juppé. Il indiquait à l'époque sur son compte Facebook : « L'avenir du Kosovo est assuré grâce à des amis issus de tout l'échiquier politique français qui, au fil des décennies, ont soutenu et encouragé la consolidation et le renforcement de l'État kosovar. » Lors des cérémonies du centenaire de l'armistice de novembre 1918, à Paris, il fut placé tout près du président Emmanuel Macron, dans la tribune principale des personnalités, tandis que le président serbe — un pays allié de la France pendant la première guerre mondiale — était relégué à une tribune secondaire.
A leaked video of a French military chaplain addressing paratroopers in a cathedral has circulated widely on social media. In the clip, the chaplain makes disparaging remarks about leftists, tells soldiers to keep fighting for their national heritage, and warns of the risk that French values and culture could be displaced.
The clip, recorded during a Saint-Michel Mass on Oct. 7, 2025, shows Father Romain Ghandour speaking to soldiers of the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (3e RPIMa) at Carcassonne’s Saint-Michel Cathedral. Soldiers can be heard laughing and applauding as he delivers his pointed remarks. The clip was leaked and published by Le Canard Enchaîne news outlet.
JUST IN: A video has been leaked of a French military chaplain roasting leftists and warning of the Great Replacement in front of French paratroopers in the city of Carcassonne.
"Calm down, lefties! Quiet! Breathe through your nose!"
The video was released in mid-September 2026, nearly a year after the Mass.
Saint-Michel is the patron saint of paratroopers and airborne troops in the French army, which explains why the regiment was gathered in the cathedral. Christophe Barthès, then a municipal election candidate and later elected mayor of Carcassonne for the right-wing National Rally, was among those present.
Ghandour begins by invoking the names and dates of men and women who died so that France would remain “a beautiful country,” one in which architects could continue building “basilicas, cathedrals, housing, and fortified castles.” He contrasts that heritage with the present: instead of knights, he says, “we put incompetent people. We put people who eat seeds, people who lecture everyone, ideologues.”
The phrase “people who eat seeds” is widely understood as a jab at what he presents as weak or overly ideological leftists.
The line that has drawn the most attention comes next: “Calm down, lefties! Quiet! Breathe through your nose!” The assembled soldiers respond with laughter and applause.
He then warns that if they lose courage and conviction, “we will be ridiculed” and “this beautiful country that is France will be mocked, and others will take our place.”
He continues: “In fact, after a while, when you’re thirsty, when you’re hungry, it’s the law of the strongest that reigns. And others will take the place of our values, of this freedom of speech, of action, of this equality between men, and of this fraternity, of this culture, of this society. Nature abhors a vacuum.”
While he never directly mentions the “Great Replacement,” many commentators have taken this remark to be a direct reference to the phenomenon, which is not only a reference to mass immigration, but also relates to the constant replacement of technology, culture, society, and peoples through all spheres of modern life at an ever accelerating pace.
Ghandour closes by telling the soldiers to “keep fighting” and “continue to have the courage of your convictions, as I am trying to do at this Mass.”
As of the video’s release, there has been no detailed public statement from the army’s Catholic chaplaincy or the Ministry of the Armed Forces on whether the remarks violate rules on political neutrality for military clergy. French military chaplains of all recognized faiths operate under a framework that is supposed to respect both freedom of conscience and the state’s neutrality. The 3e RPIMa, based in Carcassonne since 1962 and part of the 11th Parachute Brigade, is an elite unit within the French military.
The left has often been skeptical, and even hostile to, the French military, which has been seen as a bastion of support for the right in the country.
A 30-year-old woman reported being raped Sunday night in the restrooms of a restaurant in Paris’s affluent 16th arrondissement. French police quickly arrested a 40-year-old Syrian-born suspect with Brazilian nationality after he fled the scene, according to French news reports citing sources close to the investigation.
The alleged assault occurred around 10:45 p.m, Sept. 13, at a restaurant on Avenue Kléber. Investigators said a man approached the woman inside the establishment, forcibly pulled her into the toilet stall and raped her. He then fled in a black Skoda with two other men, heading toward the Arc de Triomphe.
Officers from an anti-crime unit responded to the restaurant to gather descriptions of the suspect and the vehicle. The victim was taken to a hospital for medical examinations.
A patrol later spotted the car on Avenue des Champs-Élysées near the George V metro station and stopped it around 11:10 p.m. The main suspect was taken into custody.
The two other men in the car, both also born in Syria and aged 41 and 42, were brought to a police station for questioning.
The suspect is a 40-year-old man born in Syria who holds Brazilian nationality, Le Figaro reported, citing a source close to the case. The investigation was assigned to the 1st District of the Judicial Police.
French media described the account as a reported rape under investigation. No charges had been publicly detailed in the days immediately after the arrest, and the restaurant was not named in published reports.
The case drew rapid attention on social media after activist Claire Geronimi posted about it Monday, noting the suspect’s Syrian birthplace and framing the assault as part of a pattern of attacks on women.
“Another woman assaulted. Once again, the same questions that some stubbornly refuse to ask. Full support for this victim. We must be able to live, go out, and return home without fear,” she wrote on X.
Une femme de 30 ans violée dans les toilettes d’un restaurant à Paris.
Le suspect, âgé de 40 ans et né en Syrie, a été interpellé après avoir pris la fuite.
Encore une femme agressée. Encore une fois, les mêmes questions que certains refusent obstinément de poser.
France's education minister described the incident as one of 'extreme gravity,' and offered his full support to the teacher, her colleagues, students and the their families.
France's education minister described the incident as one of 'extreme gravity,' and offered his full support to the teacher, her colleagues, students and the their families.
Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data.
According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on Île-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, and 38 percent of physical assault.
In addition, foreigners account for 61 percent of sexual violence cases on Paris public transport and its surrounding regions.
National figures for foreigners committing crimes on public transport are lower but still high, approximately 76 percent of simple-theft suspects are foreigners and 71 percent of all theft suspects are foreigners.
Some groups are highly overrepresented among foreigners.
Maghrebi nationals, for instance, account for about 40 percent of theft suspects in transport nationwide, while making up roughly 2 percent of the national population, according to data analyst Marc Vanguard.
Des chiffres CHOC sur l'insécurité viennent de sortir.
Dans les transports en commun, les étrangers représentent 87% des mis en cause pour vols simples en Île-de-France, et 76% sur la France entière.
INSEE’s latest estimate puts foreigners at 9.1 percent of France’s population in 2025, or around 6.3 million people. Their share is higher in Île-de-France, especially in the multicultural Seine-Saint-Denis department, but the crime for foreigners is still disproportionately high.
In total, police and gendarmerie recorded 104,880 victims of theft, violence, or payment fraud in public transport nationwide in 2025, down 2 percent from 2024 and 22 percent from 2016 — the lowest level in a decade, including the pandemic years.
A Brazilian tourist was subjected to a vicious sexual assault on a French train on Wednesday morning, and only escaped being raped thanks to the intervention of a brave woman who filmed the assailant to scare him off.
Theft without violence still accounts for 77 percent of those victims. Thefts and payment frauds fell but recorded physical and sexual violence rose slightly, jumping 3 percent. Drug-use and trafficking suspects in transport rose another 5 percent after the sharp Olympic-year jump in 2024.
It should be noted that among the “French” perpetrators, their potential migration background is not recorded. There are approximately 10 million people in France with a foreign background, including second-generation citizens with a migration background. As a result, a French citizen who is an ethnic Algerian, for instance, would be recorded as a French perpetrator in all crime statistics. France does not keep data on the race of crime suspects, as required by national law.
More broadly speaking, there are estimates that foreigners and French citizens with a migration background account for two out of three crimes in France.
This public awareness campaign in France shows a White man as the harasser on a bus.
French interior ministry stats from recent years have shown that 69% of violent crimes, including sexual assaults and harassment, on public transport in the greater Paris region were… pic.twitter.com/H3fRwEWtK2
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