Immigration Activist Stabbed to Death By Immigrant She Was Housing

Lionel Du Cane
National File

Medical Student, Audrey Coignard, 27, was stabbed to death on September 16th allegedly by a man believed to be an immigrant and ex-partner who was staying at her home.

Coignard was brutally stabbed fourteen times and found in a pool of her own blood at her home in Saint-Ouen, near Paris.

Coignard, a medical student in Caen, volunteered for activist causes, offering assistance to migrants at different locations in Normandy, Northern France.

According to the local outlet, Ouest-France:

Former medical student at the University of Caen, she was also very committed to migrants from Caen and Ouistreham “she helped and treated.” A tribute could be paid to him in the coming days in Caen and a Leetchi kitty has already been opened to support the family. Colleagues of the young woman greet “an adorable woman” and a professional “who invested 300% in everything in which she believed”.

Aside from providing direct assistance to migrants, Coignard had also worked for causes opposing deportations.

#PCMadness

Sadly, this isn’t the first time a pro-immigrant activist in the Western World paid dearly for the causes they support.

A Norwegian socialist said he felt guilty for the deportation of a Somali man who had raped him.

In Colorado, earlier this year, a pro-immigrant activist, Sean Buchanan, a father-of-five, was killed by an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation.

Last year, a Swedish feminist mother refused to report an Afghan man–27 years her junior–she was dating to authorities after he molested her daughter.

How utterly insane that these people would want these child molesters and rapists to remain in their countries so as to enable them to rape and/or murder more innocent people. What is the difference between them and Catholic Bishops who simply moved paedophile priests from one parish to another when they got caught?

Coignard’s funeral was due to be held on September 25. Coignard’s murder was the 107th ‘femicide’ (female spousal murder) of the year, in France.

Italy's Salvini - Italy's Saviour or Europe's New Mussolini?

Specter of Mussolini evoked as Italy’s Salvini orders full census & expulsion of Roma ‘illegals’

FILE PHOTO: Italian Roma meet the right-wing Lega Party leader, Matteo Salvini, in the camp of Via Germagnano on February 1, 2018. © Lapone/Fotogramma/Ropi / Global Look Press

Italy’s interior minister and leader of the right-wing Lega party, Matteo Salvini, has told his officials to “prepare a dossier” on the country’s Roma and plans to expel the undocumented among them. The move has provoked outrage.

“At the ministry, I have them preparing a dossier on the Roma issue in Italy,” Salvini, who is one of the leaders of the ruling Eurosceptic coalition, told the regional TeleLombardia broadcaster. He then added that the dossier would involve a “census of Roma in Italy,” which will help the Interior Ministry to “see who, how, how many.”

The minister went on to vow that all Roma who have no valid documents and reside in Italy illegally would be “expelled,” under agreements with other states, while Italian Roma “unfortunately have to be kept at home.” He also rushed to explain that his initiative has nothing to do with racial profiling.

“We will have a register and not a profile,” Salvini said, adding that the ministry has “no intention” of “profiling [these people] or taking the fingerprints of anyone.” He then explained that the major aim of the census is to monitor the situation in the Roma camps across Italy, including the illegal ones, as well as to “protect … thousands of [Roma] children, who are not allowed to attend school regularly because their kinfolk prefer to involve them in delinquency.”

“We also want to control how the millions of euro that come from European funds [to help Roma in Italy] are spent,” the minister said, as he listed the goals of his initiative.

‘Outrageous racism’

The move was immediately slammed by Italy’s left-wing politicians, who branded it “ethnic cleansing” while describing the idea of a dossier on the Roma community “chilling.”

“We cannot allow a census for a race,” Emmanuele Fiano, an Italian MP from the center-left Democratic Party said, as cited by La Repubblica daily. “People can be divided … by their behavior, by their choices but not by their birth. It did not end well 80 years ago,” the politician said, apparently referring to the times of the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and calling on the current government “not to try it again.”

“The way is short from a census to a concentration camp. Salvini apparently decided to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the racial laws,” Chiara Gribaudo, an MP from the Democratic Party, wrote in a tweet, in another reference to the Mussolini era.

“The majority of the Roma are EU citizens,” Nicola Fratoianni, another MP and the leader of the Italian Left Party, said, adding that conducting such a census would be akin to “profiling the French people living in our country.” He also went as far as to implicitly call Salvini a “racist and [an] idiot.”

The Interior Minister’s actions were also sharply criticized by the former Italian Prime Minsiter Paolo Gentiloni, who tweeted: “Yesterday refugees, today Roma, tomorrow guns for everyone. How hard it is to be bad.”

Various Italian NGOs were equally critical of Salvini’s initiative. "The interior minister does not seem to know that a census on the basis of ethnicity is not permitted by law," Carlo Stasolla, president of the Associazione 21 Luglio, a group which defends the rights of the Roma community, pointed out. He also added that the data on those who “live in formal and informal settlements already exist while the few undocumented Roma are effectively stateless, and therefore cannot be expelled.”

The controversy soon moved beyond the Italian borders; the Party of European Socialists (PES), an umbrella group uniting left-leaning parties from the EU and Norway, also lambasted the initiative. “Disgusted by Salvini's announcement of a Roma census. We can't tolerate this shameless profiling,” the group said in a Twitter post.

Kenneth Roth, the CEO of Human Rights Watch, an international humanitarian NGO, also assailed the Italian minister with criticism. “Outrageous racism is the honest way to describe an interior minister (and party leader) who says it's "unfortunate" that Italy cannot deport its Roma citizens,” he said. 

New ‘Hitler’ or ‘effective’ minister?

People on social media were mostly critical of the interior minister’s initiative; many accused him of having “no heart,” called him racist and even compared him to the German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Others, however, praised Salvini’s “effective” actions in tackling migration and expressed their support for his policies. Some people also cited the results of an opinion poll conducted by the Italian SWG market research company for an Italian private TV Channel La7, which showed that public backing for Salvini’s Lega party is on the rise. “Anti-immigration stance is paying off,” they said.

Salvini had obtained more results regarding the migrants issue in two weeks as a minister of the Interior, than Mogherini in 4 years as High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs. That's the proof that  national states have much more power than the weak EU.

Salvini had already provoked controversy with his policies earlier in June, when, apparently in line with his election promises, he refused the docking of the migrant rescue ship ‘Aquarius’ with 629 people on board and redirected the vessel to the Island of Malta. The move was followed by a spat between the Italian government and the EU, with Rome accusing Europe of “not showing solidarity” with Italy on the migration issue.

The Roma people living in Italy account for 130,000-170,000, or 0.23% of the total Italian population, according to data provided by the Catholic University of Milan (UCSC). About 50 percent of them are Italian citizens.

Canada to Admit Nearly 1mn Immigrants by 2020 to ‘Prosper & Grow’

FILE PHOTO: Syrian refugees hold Canadian flags as they take part in a welcome service at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto

© Mark Blinch / Reuters

Canada will take in 310,000 immigrants next year as part of the government’s new plan to raise immigrant intake by about 13 percent over the next three years and admit nearly one million newcomers by 2020.

“Everyone has been of the opinion we need more workers, we need more skilled workers, we need more people to power our economy, address our real skills shortages, address our real labor market shortages and also address the regional nature of some of these requirements,” Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said on Wednesday. “So we’ve listened.”

“Our government believes that newcomers play a vital role in our society,” Hussen said, adding that five million Canadians are set to retire by 2035 and “we have fewer people working to support seniors and retirees.”

Under the government plan, the number of economic migrants, family reunifications, and refugees will amount to 330,000 in 2019, and 340,000 in 2020. Dory Jade, the CEO of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants, applauded the new measure, noting that the challenge is to increase those numbers.

“Canada will greatly prosper and grow once the 350,000 threshold has been crossed. Nevertheless, we are witnessing a very positive trend,” he told CBS Canada.

Well, at least Jade's company will greatly increase and prosper.

The plan came under fire from opposition Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel, who said it failed to address some key issues, including making integration work.

“It is not enough for this government to table the number of people that they are bringing to this country. Frankly the Liberals need to stop using numbers of refugees, amount of money spent, feel-good tweets and photo-ops as metrics for success in Canada’s immigration system,” Rempel said, as cited by the Toronto Star.

Rempel said the authorities “urgently need to bring Canada’s immigration system back to order by stopping illegal immigration… ensuring integration into the Canadian economy and our pluralistic society measured by things like language proficiency, mental health support plans for survivors of trauma, and employability.”

Refugee advocacy groups also expressed disapproval over the fact that the annual immigration level will be lower than the 360,000 cap they pushed the government to adopt.

“We have an opportunity to offer protection to more people who are in desperate need, people who are fleeing for their lives,” Loly Rico, president of the Canadian Council for Refugees, said in a statement last week.

“Opening our doors to more refugees is not only the right thing to do because it saves lives, it is also good for Canada as refugees contribute in so many ways to our country.”

There's no question Canada needs immigrants to replace an aging population in the work force. 

It's good that we can rescue people from war and poverty as long as we rescue them from war and poverty and not import war and poverty with them.

The Liberal government has shown that they have little control over immigration and I haven't seen anything in this report to indicate that that will improve any time soon.

Hungary’s Orban: Send Illegal Immigrants to non-EU Camps ‘on Island or in North Africa’

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban © Kacper Pempel / Reuters

The EU should reverse the influx of illegal migrants by rounding them up and sending them to camps outside its borders, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said in an interview as his country holds a referendum on mandatory EU migrant quotas.

The Hungarian leader’s hard stance against immigration reflects a deep divide in European opinion, which has been highly polarized by the huge influx of refugees that started last year.

On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted she would like to “turn back time” to better prepare herself, the German federal government “and all those in positions of responsibility for the situation we were rather unprepared for in the late summer of 2015.”

“I would also like to turn back the clock… what a good idea,” Orban said. “But the problem is that it is not possible.”

On October 2, Hungarians will vote on Brussels’ plans to distribute some 160,000 refugees and migrants among the 28 EU member states, a ruling which was passed last September. Hungary was among four nations that voted against the step, and it has legally challenged it.

Hungarian President Janes Ader said in a statement posted on his office's website on Tuesday that the vote will be about the following question: "Do you want the European Union to be entitled to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?" as cited by Reuters.

Speaking with the Hungarian news website Origo.hu, Orban suggested there should be an effort to try and reverse the flow of arrivals.

“Those who came illegally, they must be rounded up and shipped out,” Orban told the website. “We must set up large refugee camps outside the EU, with armed security and financial support provided by the Union. Everyone who came illegally must return there. There they can file for asylum. Until then, they must remain in large, non-EU camps. This could be an island, it could be a coastal area in North Africa, but the security and supplies of that area must be guaranteed by the EU in its own interest.”

Orban is protecting Hungary from cultural suicide that most EU countries have lovingly embraced. 

Finding an island that's habitable with no residents or residents willing to be invaded is not going to be easy. Whether an island or North Africa, it will mean an increase in drownings as people will set out again to make it to Italy.

Liberal-minded people will find the idea offensive, but what they are doing now is worse, and allowing huge numbers of Muslims into Europe will be the end of Europe within 2 generations.

Orban said he believed the refugee crisis was a result of the emerging phenomenon of a “global village,” in which the world has come so closely together this has made some people think they have a right to go anywhere they please.

“But I belong to those who do not want their piece of the world’s civilization to change, and in particular do not want to change the culture of a piece of land that we call Hungary. I love this country.”

Orban’s latest remarks have already drawn criticism.

“This merely makes clear what we have understood about the Hungarian government’s policies all along — they want a zero refugee policy, even if that means mass deportations,” Helsinki Committee co-chair Marta Pardavi told the Financial Times.

Last week, Luxembourgian Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told the Die Welt newspaper that “Hungary is not far from an order to shoot refugees” and suggested that the country could be “excluded” from the EU for treating refugees “nearly as bad as animals.”

Orban has made a number of controversial remarks about asylum seekers in the past, such as suggesting pig’s heads be placed on top of the fence along Hungary’s border to better repel refugees. Recently, the Hungarian government has also released leaflets depicting some areas in London, Paris, Brussels and other European cities as no-go zones that have too many migrants whom “the authorities cannot keep under control.”

Hungary, a member of the EU, took a restrictive approach to the refugee crisis that started last year. In September 2015, it erected a razor-wire fence on its border with Serbia to stem the refugee flow and a month later it built another on the border with Croatia.

In June this year, Hungary allowed police to send back all illegal immigrants detained within 8 km from the fence and also further limited the number of daily entries for migrants to 30.