Elderly BC couple murdered by trio of Sikh cleaners in their Abbotsford home

 

Abbotsford murder victims’ daughters say suspects exploited immigration loophole

By Angela Jung & Amy Judd  Global News

Posted June 11, 2026 8:12 pm

 Updated June 12, 2026 10:20 am

 3 min read

The daughters of a couple murdered in their Abbotsford, B.C., home in 2022 say the federal government has failed them.

“I’m sure our parents begged for mercy and were not shown that, and yet the irony of a fateful clause in this case, in which they can get released from jail, possibly after 15 years, just does not seem just to us,” daughter Sandra Barthel said.

“It’s very ironic, even Canada has such a problem with people coming in and committing crimes. It’s all over the news right now, and we’re basically, by allowing this to happen, or even considering this to happen, you’re just basically giving a free ticket to people to come in and commit crimes and spend their 15 years and be eligible for parole, so it just, it seems like there’s no justice.”

In May, three men were found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of 77-year-old Arnold De Jong and 76-year-old Joanne De Jong.

The court earlier heard that Arnold died by asphyxiation, with his entire head and face wrapped in duct tape, while Joanne was bludgeoned and had her throat slashed.

The three men, including Gurkaran Singh, all in their 20s, were arrested in December 2022, after the De Jongs’ bodies were found in their Abbotsford home that May.

Prosecutors say the suspects had done cleaning work there before the home invasion, and that the men killed the couple before stealing cheques, credit cards and a power washer.

During the trial, the court heard how two of the three men were in Canada on international student visas and at least one of them never attended one class.

“Had they followed the policies and regulations of Immigration Canada with the student visas, and they were not following that, and going to school, that they should have been deported, and they wouldn’t have been here,” daughter Heather Hoogland said.

“They would have been kicked out of Canada. They would not have been here. The crimes wouldn’t have been committed. My parents would still be here.”

Mohkam Singh Malik, Surrey’s Livability, Social Equity, and Public Safety Committee member, said action could have been taken.

“The government identified this was an issue, but they didn’t act on it, and they haven’t been acting fast enough on it, and it’s the same outrage that I know many communities in Surrey feel when we’re dealing with this extortion crisis,” he said.

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In a statement to Global News, Lena Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada, said the government has a clear position.

“Serious crimes deserve serious consequences, whether they are committed by a Canadian or a non-citizen. When foreign nationals commit serious crimes in Canada, they are charged, convicted, and serve their sentence before being removed from the country. To combat crime in communities, the Government of Canada has introduced a suite of important criminal justice bills in the current session of Parliament.”

Diab said that due to privacy legislation, they cannot comment on specific cases.

“However, we can say that we are taking steps to strengthen the integrity of the International Student Program. In late 2023, we introduced a series of reforms to do just that. These included reducing overall volumes, enhancing front-end verification through the letter of acceptance system, and eliminating pathways such as the Student Direct Stream to improve program integrity and restore confidence.”

In November 2024, regulations also required post-secondary designated learning institutions to report the enrolment status of international students twice annually and then earlier this month, the government launched a pilot project to strengthen compliance across the temporary resident program, including for international students.

The project will run until August 2026.

The trio was convicted of first-degree murder, which carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Toor’s lawyers have applied for a constitutional challenge, which can happen when there are multiple murder victims.

It’s expected counsel for the other two will join the challenge.

That hearing is set for the first week of September, further delaying sentencing.

Migrants in France > 1 boy dead, 16 injured by knives after racist brawl

 

Murder of Thomas in Crépol: the prosecution requests that 11 people be tried for "homicide"

The murder of 16-year-old Thomas on November 19, 2023, sparked widespread outrage across the country. [Nicolas Guyonnet / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP]

By CNEWS

Published on 12/06/2026 at 15:58 - Updated on 12/06/2026 at 15:58

The Valence prosecutor's office has requested that eleven people be sent to trial for the homicide of a teenager, Thomas, during a dance in Crépol (Drôme) in November 2023.

A new legal twist in this case that sparked a wave of emotion. The Valence prosecutor's office has requested that eleven people be tried for the homicide of Thomas, who was killed at the age of 16 at a dance in Crépol (Drôme) in November 2023, according to a source close to the case.

The prosecutor's office had sent its final requests to the judges in charge of the investigation on Thursday in the investigation into the highly publicized death of Thomas Perotto, a 16-year-old high school student stabbed in confusing circumstances.

Fourteen men, some of whom were minors at the time of the events, have been charged with "voluntary homicide" and "attempted voluntary homicide as part of an organized group." All deny having delivered the fatal blow.

The Valence prosecutor's office declined to comment at this stage but promised to release a statement of its indictment once all parties have received it. The defense and the civil parties will then be able to submit their observations. The investigating judges, who completed their investigation in mid-May, will then have to issue an indictment order, either following or rejecting these recommendations.

From bladed weapons to the "winter ball"

On the night of November 18-19, 2023, young people, some from the working-class neighborhoods of Romans-sur-Isère, clashed with a group of young people from Crépol at the end of the village's "winter ball".

In a confused context, the first group had pulled out knives and seriously injured four people, including Thomas Perotto, a rugby enthusiast, who died during his transport to the hospital.

A virtual reconstruction was held between September 22nd and October 1st. At its conclusion, Denis Dreyfus, the lawyer for the organizing committee of the evening and for some forty civil parties, noted the "code of silence of this entire group of young people who do not want to speak".

On the same subjectMurder of Thomas in Crépol: two years after the tragedy, where does the investigation stand?Read

In an interview with Ici Drôme Ardèche in early June, prosecutor Laurent de Caigny had mentioned "strategies of confiscation of speech between the various defendants", which make "very difficult to be able to present (...) a linear account of this terrible night".

Background of the Incident - According to GrokA group of young men (mostly from the La Monnaie housing project in nearby Romans-sur-Isère, known for delinquency issues and largely of North African immigrant descent) arrived at the event uninvited. The situation escalated from a verbal altercation/brawl into violence involving knives. Thomas Perotto (a local rugby player) was stabbed in the heart and throat and died en route to the hospital. Around 16 others were injured (some seriously). Witnesses reported anti-white slurs from the attackers (e.g., references to "killing whites"),

Politics in Europe > Bank of England drops Churchill from banknotes; New far right party in Italy a pain for Giorgia

Politics in Europe is greatly affected by the influence of Islam, either to accommodate it or to confront it. 

Bank of England drops Churchill from banknotes, as he promotes a ‘backward-looking vision of the UK’

Jun 10, 2026 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer30 Comments

Britain’s civilizational suicide is taking place, as you might expect, under the politest of veneers. These affairs don’t have to be messy and loud, now, do they? Every act of cultural surrender and self-abnegation is taking place with the most rational of explanations. And so as that once green and pleasant land goes gentle into that good night, it is comforted by the thought that as its demise approached, it never once lapsed into anything so tasteless as “racism,” “Islamophobia,” or a desire to preserve (heaven forfend!) its own history, heritage, and national character.

The latest polite self-erasure of Britain comes from the venerable Bank of England itself, which has unveiled a grand plan to remove images of national heroes such as Winston Churchill from the nation’s currency. After all, with Britain in the process of denying and setting aside all that it has ever been or aspired to be, it simply won’t do to have British heroes on British banknotes.

The lesson of this is clear: There are no British heroes. There are heroes of Islam, and of Pakistan, and their images would have replaced those of the British heroes on the British banknotes were it not for the fact that Islam prohibits such images, so as to avoid the temptation to idolatry. And so a stopgap measure has been decided upon instead.

Sir Winston Churchill, Central Office of Information, Public domain

Bank of England axed Churchill, Turing, and Austen from notes after being told they were ‘not representative of the UK’s cultural and natural diversity'

by Olivia Allhusen, Daily Mail, June 6, 2026:

The Bank of England dropped Winston Churchill and other famous Britons from future banknotes after research warned that historical figures could be seen as ‘elitist and divisive’, it has emerged.

 Charles, are you reading this?

Documents show officials were advised that figures including wartime leader Churchill, codebreaker Alan Turing and novelist Jane Austen were viewed by some as ‘not representative of the UK’s cultural and natural diversity’.

The research, carried out by market consultancy Savanta in October last year, suggested portraits of notable Britons risked promoting a ‘backward-looking vision of the UK’ that could prove divisive.

Instead, researchers recommended nature-themed designs, arguing that images of wildlife and the natural world would be less controversial and more broadly appealing, The Telegraph reports.

The findings were delivered months before the Bank announced plans to replace historical figures on the next generation of banknotes with images celebrating nature.

The move will mark the end of a tradition that has seen prominent Britons appear alongside the monarch on banknotes for more than 50 years.

The Bank has maintained that the decision was driven primarily by security concerns and public preference rather than the Savanta report.

Writing in The Telegraph this week, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said the organisation’s ‘foremost objective’ was maintaining the security of banknotes and combating increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting techniques….

Churchill, Alan Turing, Jane Austen. What's wrong with those three heroes? Well, Alan Turing was gay, Jane Austen was a woman, and Churchill sometimes spoke, or wrote words like the following about Islam:

I have tried to gild war, and to solace myself for the loss of dear and gallant friends, with the thought that a soldier’s death for a cause that he believes in will count for much, whatever may be beyond this world. But there was nothing dulce et decorum (“It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.”) about the Dervish dead. Nothing of the dignity of unconquerable manhood. All was filthy corruption. Yet these were as brave men as ever walked the earth..... —The River War, 1899 (I: 220-21)

Roberto Vannacci and His Party Futuro Nazionale

Jun 10, 2026 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald7 Comments

Roberto Vannacci, described formulaically as “far-right,” is an Italian general turned politician. He has just announced he has left La Lega, a right-wing party that Matteo Salvini heads, in order to form his own party, Futuro Nazionale (National Future). Right out of the gate, his party is polling at 4%, and is gaining vertiginously in popularity, taking votes away from both La Lega and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia. His anti-Islam message is being rapturously received by large crowds. In the next election, Meloni may have to enter into a coalition with Vannacci’s party. And in exchange for his support, Meloni will have to adopt even more stringent anti-Muslim-immigrant measures than she has until now. More on the rise of Robert Vannacci can be found here: 

Former General’s New Rightwing Party Rocks Italy, Becomes a Stone in PM Meloni’s Path to Reelection

by Paul Serran, Gateway Pundit, June 8, 2026:

Roberto Vannacci, European Union, Attribution

Futuro Nazionale’s polling is still modest, but enough to throw the upcomig [sic] election into a turmoil.

Former General Roberto Vannacci has created a new ‘far-right’ party, called Futuro Nazionale, and the movement has become a real problem for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Reuters reported:

“Just four months after deserting Meloni’s coalition ally, the League party, the former general says he has attracted ​almost 100,000 paying members to his new movement, which is polling at around 4% and rising.

That may sound modest, but in a tight election due next year ‌it could be enough to decide whether Meloni wins a second term, leaving her with a difficult conundrum – should she embrace him, and risk scaring away her more moderate supporters, or shun him, and hope that his momentum will fade.”

Vannacci has become known for his uncompromising anti-EU views, while accusing Meloni and her allies of ‘going soft’….

Vannacci’s hostility to the EU reflects his anger at the EU assigning to its members a quota of migrants that each country must take in; he believes, like the former prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, that the EU has no business interfering with what should be the sole prerogative of the nation-state.

Vannacci’s sudden appearance as the head of a new party, one based on a single issue, the large and increasing presence of Muslims in Italy, which he says fills him with alarm, is one more sign that in Europe more people have awakened to the Muslim demographic threat. When he says “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow to see crowds of people praying to Allah in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo. Italian schools must not close for Ramadan, and I don’t want mosques in schools,” he is expressing not just his own fears, but those of millions of his countrymen. Let us hope Meloni, to stay in power at the head of a coalition including Fratelli d’Italia and Futuro Nationale, will adopt his hardline views on Islam and on those whom Oriana Fallaci, that brilliant left-wing journalist, scathingly described as “the sons of Allah.”

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