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https://x.com/NewsNowYorks/status/2073427211898556481

https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-israel-armenia-genocide-recognition-gaza/

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hit back at Israel on Tuesday after the country unanimously voted on Sunday to formally recognize the Armenian genocide.

The recognition and the subsequent spat is the latest episode in a worsening relationship between the two countries, which has taken a nosedive with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.

“We do not give the slightest heed to the slanders about our country from the murder network that has the blood of 73,000 innocent Gazans, most of them children and women, on its hands,” Erdoğan said after a cabinet meeting. “In our history there is no genocide, no massacre, no oppression, and no colonialism.”

Under discussion is the Ottoman Empire campaign that is estimated to have killed more than 1 million Armenians and is widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Numerous EU members recognize the events as a genocide, and in 2015 the European Parliament passed an anti-genocide resolution marking the events’ centenary.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/henry-nowak-protest-charges-against-ex-soldier-from-gosport-dropped-8767883

A former soldier charged following riots in Southampton has been released by the courts.

Matt Styler from Orange Road in Gosport had been charged with one count of assaulting a police officer, to which he had pleaded not guilty. The 50-year-old was arrested in connection to the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton on June 2.

The protest, held after Vikrum Digwa was jailed for life - with a minimum term of 21 years - for the murder of teenager Henry Nowak, started out peaceful, but turned violent as demonstrators headed towards St Denys Road, where 23-year-old Digwa had lived.

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/french-teen-louis-dead-beating-group-youth-immigration-background-dispute/

A 17-year-old French boy named Louis died after five youths lured him into a premeditated ambush at a construction site in Narbonne, southern France, and subjected him to a brutal beating of extreme cruelty, which they filmed and circulated online.

The attackers repeatedly punched and kicked Louis as he lay defenceless on the concrete floor, with footage appearing to show one suspect stamping on his head and another striking his face several times. He was abandoned unconscious overnight and found the following morning with severe head and facial injuries, bleeding from his nose and ears. Louis died in hospital on 23 June after spending three days in an induced coma.

Five suspects aged between 17 and 19—three minors and two adults—were identified partly through the footage and placed in pre-trial detention. Prosecutors said the evidence suggested Louis had deliberately been lured to the unfinished building and that the ambush had been planned in advance.

The case has since triggered fierce controversy over how French media have described the suspects’ origins. Mainstream reports have generally referred to them as ‘young people’, disclosed only their first names and surname initials, or described them as French nationals and local youths without discussing their backgrounds in greater detail.

Reports on social media and by alternative news outlets have suggested that the suspects are of immigrant origin, possibly French-born second- or third-generation descendants of immigrants, with some reports specifically alleging Algerian, Tunisian, Spanish, and Italian backgrounds. The news outlet Visegrád 24 circulated a photograph said to show one of the suspects wearing a football shirt with a Palestinian flag.

Other reports focused on material said to have been taken from the suspects’ social media accounts. RMX News reported that videos showed two of them handling firearms, dealing or consuming drugs, inhaling nitrous oxide, and drinking spirits. Separate footage was also said to show three members of the group filming themselves aboard a train after the attack.

The controversy intensified after another video emerged showing an earlier assault on Louis. In the footage, a speaker says: ‘Wallah, look at little a**holes like him. One slap and we knocked him out.’ Some interpreted the reference to people ‘like him’ as possibly referring to white French youths, with some describing the fatal attack as an anti-white killing or using the term ‘blancocide’.

French outlet Frontières raised the possibility of a racial motive and reported that additional footage showed suspects returning to the site to film themselves beside Louis as he lay unconscious and bleeding. Prosecutors have said that the evidence available to them does not indicate a racial motive. The motive for the fatal ambush remains undetermined.

Louis’s brutal killing sparked strong reactions from several leading politicians, particularly on the right.

National Rally president Jordan Bardella said Louis had been ‘lynched to death with unimaginable violence’, filmed by laughing attackers and left to agonize overnight. He described the teenager as the symbol of ‘a country adrift’ and argued that France would have to break with three decades of failed policies to restore order.

Marine Le Pen similarly condemned the murder and declared that the ‘everyday barbarity’ confronting French citizens could no longer be minimized, relativized, or concealed. She blamed successive governments for failing to impose swift and effective punishment, thereby allowing a sense of impunity to spread.

Reconquête leader Éric Zemmour characterized Louis’s death as a ‘francocide’, a term he uses for killings that target native French citizens in the context of mass immigration.

From the government, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin also addressed the case, saying there had been a ‘rejuvenation of violence in France’. He placed Louis’s killing within a broader pattern in which increasingly young offenders were becoming involved in exceptionally serious and deliberately filmed acts of violence.

All five suspects remain presumed innocent pending trial.

https://x.com/RMXnews/status/2062848450970923237

All the videos posted yesterday were cut to only show the police beating the activists and did not show what occurred immediately prior.

Like this one here https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1tllsjv/comment/oniblfr/?context=3

Not justifying the police response but it does appear the activists are going out of their way to restrict traffic at the airport and I have no idea why they would choose to do that having just arrived back from torture or whatever else they say they experienced in Israel

https://x.com/uiyui_jk/status/2057444909549064417?s=20