Saturday, 24 May 2025

An egregious Anti-Israel UN grifter


Francesca Albanese, a Grifter and an Antisemite

And someone who tries to hide her funding from Hamas-linked groups.


Francesca Albanese is the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights In the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It’s the perfect job for her, because she is a deep-dyed antisemite, who was accusing Israel of “war crimes ”and “genocide” even before the war in Gaza. An early adopter, you might say. Albanese is also a grifter, who has hidden payments made to her by pro-Hamas groups, eager to show their appreciation for her support for the terror group. More on Albanese can be found here: “Watchdog probe finds Albanese lied about funding sources for Australia, NZ visits,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, May 

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories accepted around $20,000 in payment from pro-Hamas groups to fund her trips to Australia and New Zealand in late 2023, as revealed by UN Watch on Wednesday.

Francesca Albanese’s mandate was renewed last month despite extensive opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, the Netherlands, and Hungary. When asked about her trip to Australia in November 2023, Albanese said it was funded by the UN. In July, she said she had nothing to hide and welcomed an inquiry into the matter.

However, the UN Watch NGO revealed that her trip was funded by several groups, including the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFPA), Free Palestine Melbourne, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), and Palestinian Christians in Australia.

AFPA publicly announced on its website that it paid for Albanese’s visit to Australia….

In other words, when first asked who had paid for her trip in November 2023, she flat-out lied, claiming the UN had funded it. She no doubt thought that the UN would confirm her lie. Perhaps she thought she was so useful to the UN as a tireless promoter of anti-Israel animus that the organization would vouch for her story. After all, why would someone like UN Director-General Antonio Guterres, who insists that Israel has committed “war crimes,” want to be forced to fire someone like Francesca Albanese, who is so accommodating, so much on the same wave length as Guterres, in her hatred of the Jewish state?

“Albanese has compounded her misconduct, accepting funding from Hamas-supporting organizations and then lying by claiming the UN paid for her trip,” said UN Watch director Hillel Neuer. “She continuously abuses her position at the UN to spread antisemitic rhetoric and amplify Hamas propaganda through social media, TV, and her false reports.”

UN Watch filed complaint regarding trip’s funding

UN Watch filed a complaint regarding the funding for the trip, after which the UN secretariat referred the matter to the special rapporteurs’ Coordination Committee. The committee, according to UN Watch, is primarily comprised of Albanese’s allies, such as Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to health, from South Africa, who has claimed Israelis are “barbaric, evil, and deserving of hell on earth.”

Well, that should be quite a useless investigation of Frederica Albanese, who will be cleared of all charges by her friends and fellow antisemites on the committee. These include Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, who — in case you were thinking he might actually be studiedly neutral, has described Israelis as “barbaric, evil, and deserving of hell on earth.” Dr. Mofokeng, go ahead, tell us what you really think.

In short, the UN’s own investigation into Francesca Albanese’s acceptance of $20,000 from Hamas-linked groups will be a farce.

Additionally, the United States mission to the UN sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres stating that it opposed the renewal of her role due to her “virulent antisemitism, which demonizes Israel and supports Hamas.”

Despite the committee finding that Albanese did lie about her funders and the US opposition, her mandate was nevertheless renewed. According to UN Watch, the committee also found that Albanese expressed antisemitic views on social media but, despite this, insisted she “is not antisemitic.”…

This is the logic of Alice In Wonderland, Albanese expressed antisemitic views on social media but, the committee says, “she is not antisemitic.” The committee investigating who paid the $20,000 to pay for her trip to Australia and New Zealand should not stop there, but find out how many other trips she has taken that may have been financed by Hamas supporters, or Hamas itself, or Iran, or Qatar. And who has been paying a salary to Francesca Albanese all these years, given that she receives no salary from the UN itself? Isn’t anyone interested in finding out? Isn’t it just possible that she has been on the take — the recipient of large sums from grateful Arabs and Muslims — all this time?

What does it take to get this horror fired? She accuses the IDF of using dogs to rape Palestinians — a charge so preposterous that even the Palestinian spokesmen themselves have not made it, and yet she still keeps her lofty position, as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is intolerable.

In February 2024, she said the October 7 massacre was a “reaction to Israel’s oppression” and called Gaza “the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century.”

What “oppression” did Palestinians in Gaza suffer before October 7? There had not been a single Israeli to “oppress” the Gazans for two decades; all the Israelis had pulled out of the Strip in 2005. As for this “most shameful concentration camp” canard, before October 7, 19,000 Gazans entered Israel every day to work, receiving wages three to four times what they would have earned in Gaza, and had the October 7 atrocities not occurred, the government of Israel was planning to increase the number of Gazans allowed in to work. Tens of thousands of Gazans before that date also entered Israel every day to conduct business. And Gazans were also able to move out of that so-called “concentration camp” by going to Egypt through the Rafah Border Crossing. None of this has made the slightest impression on the hate-filled Francesca Albanese.

What can be done about Francesca Albanese? First, a committee made up not of her friends, but of an ad hoc group of lawyers and accountants, should be brought in by the U.N. to examine the sources of Albanese’s support: who has been paying her a salary, who has been providing money for her luxury travel around the world? The US should threaten to withhold payments to the UN if it does not agree to allow such an investigation. And once that investigation is complete, Albanese should be fired, because her lying about the $20,000 she was given by Hamas-linked groups in Australia is reason enough. No further scandal is needed. Don’t worry about her. She can always find work as the UN correspondent for Al Jazeera.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/francesca-albanese-a-grifter-and-an-antisemite/

In 2022, Albanese reportedly addressed a Hamas-organised conference in Gaza in which she stated: 'You have a right to resist this occupation'

In 2022, Albanese addressed a Hamas-organised conference in Gaza in which she stated: 'You have a right to resist this occupation'

According to the Times of Israel, Francesca Albanese is officially banned from entering the country. The Interior Ministry refused to issue her a visa

Francesca Albanese is officially banned from entering Israel. 

United Nations expert on Palestine Francesca Albanese (pictued) has said she doesn't blame Hamas for the conflict in Gaza and compared it to her children misbehaving

United Nations expert on Palestine Francesca Albanese said she doesn't blame Hamas for the conflict in Gaza and compared it to her children misbehaving

Ms Albanese admitted the surprise October 7 Hamas attack on Israel was a 'war crime ' after it killed 1200 Israelis and foreign nationals, and injured 5000 more. A hostage is pictured being captured and taken away by Hamas

Ms Albanese admitted the surprise October 7 Hamas attack on Israel was a 'war crime ' after it killed 1200 Israelis and foreign nationals, and injured 5000 more. A hostage is pictured being captured and taken away by Hamas

Asked if she blamed Hamas for increasing the death toll by militarising civilian areas, Francesca Albanese said she didn't blame anyone as 'blame was not legal language'

She said the attacks on Israel by the Palestinians were a 'natural' response to the Israeli rule

She said the attacks on Israel by the Palestinians were a 'natural' response

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Peter Wertheim slammed the UN legal expert's claim Israel had no right to defend itself under international law

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Peter Wertheim slammed the UN legal expert's claim Israel had no right to defend itself

Ms Albanese said the UN's self-defence laws only apply in war when a country comes under threat from another state

Ms Albanese said self-defence laws only apply in war when a country comes under threat from another state


Friday, 23 May 2025

New North Korean Destroyer Capsizes and Sinks on Launch, as Kim Watches in Horror


A launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer went horribly wrong in front of 'supreme' leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim watched on in horror as the 5,000-ton ship capsized and sank after failing to launch properly.

He declared the mishap a 'criminal act caused by absolute carelessness' that 'can not be tolerated'.

The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).confirmed that during the ceremony on 'a serious accident occurred'.

In a statement KCNA said: 'Operational negligence caused the ship to capsize.

Kim said: 'This is a serious accident and criminal act that should not have happened and can not be tolerated'.

A launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer went horribly wrong in front of 'supreme' leader Kim Jong Un, according to state media. Pictured: A different naval destroyer unveiled in Nampo, North Korea, last month

A launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer went horribly wrong in front of 'supreme' leader Kim Jong Un, according to state media. 

Kim (pictured last month) watched on in horror as the 5,000-ton ship was severely damaged after failing to launch properly

Kim watched in horror as the 5,000-ton ship was severely damaged after failing to launch properly

The ship that held the launching ceremony this time appears to be of the same class as the 5,000-ton destroyer Choi Hyun-ho that North Korea launched last month.

Jo Chun Ryong, a secretary in the ruling Workers' party, claimed the ship was equipped with the 'most powerful weapons' and was built 'within 400-odd days'.

There was no immediate comment from South Korea's military on the revelation of the new warship sinking.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14737565/Serious-accident-unfolds-launch-warship-North-Korea-Kim-Jong-criminal-act.html

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted Kim as saying that the accident “brought the dignity and self-respect of our state to a collapse” and those in charge would face severe consequences. North Korea has one of the world’s most atrocious human rights records and routinely imprisons people in labor camps or executes them for alleged infractions much less significant than embarrassing Kim with a major military error.

North Korea prides itself on its military, redirecting much of its government budget to its illegal nuclear weapons program while forcing its populace to live in squalor. It has tested nuclear weapons seven times, most recently in 2017, but also regularly fires missiles into the neighboring East Sea/Sea of Japan or into the Pacific Ocean to intimidate its enemies, most prominently South Korea and the United States. It is unclear why KCNA reported on the embarrassing incident, confirming the failure to its domestic audience that does not have legal access to news sources outside of those run by the Kim regime.

Kim attributed the failure to “irresponsible errors” and listed “relevant officials of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee, the Mechanical Institute of the State Academy of Sciences, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the central ship designing institute and other relevant units and the Chongjin Shipyard” as those responsible for the accident. The report noted that Kim ominously vowed that those he deemed responsible would “have to be dealt with … and censured.”

South Korean officials told reporters that the accident could have been the product of Kim pressuring military officials and mechanics to hit unrealistic deadlines for the full preparation of the ship.

Experts suggest that the accident may have stemmed from Kim Jong-un’s impatience.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/05/22/criminal-act-north-korea-admits-to-major-naval-accident-at-military-event/

Analysis of pictures taken on Thursday suggest the ship is now partially submerged and covered with bright blue tarpaulins

The ship is now partially submerged and covered with bright blue tarpaulins





Thursday, 22 May 2025

French Government Report on How Muslim Brotherhood is Destroying Europe


Fifth Column: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrated European Institutions, Islamic Associations, Migrant Communities in Bid to Destroy West, French Gov’t Report Finds



An explosive report from the French government alleges the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood network has embarked upon a decades-long effort to forge a fifth column in France and across Europe through infiltrating government institutions and radicalising Muslim communities, while veiling their true intentions with supposedly noble causes such as fighting “Islamophobia”.

Starting in the 1950s with the emerging “religious consciousness” among Islamic immigrant workers, the Muslim Brotherhood has since “designed the matrix of political Islamism adapted to be established in the West,” a report commissioned by the French government has found, according to the national paper of record Le Figaro.

Paris intelligence said that after facing pushback in the Islamic world in the middle of the last century, the Egypt-founded Muslim Brotherhood turned its sights on Europe, initially in countries like the UK, Germany, and Switzerland and later spreading to Belgium, Italy, and France in a bid to restart the Islamic “Western conquest strategy”. Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna is cited as having then said: “We will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland and fight to defeat it until the whole world cries out in the name of the Prophet.”

The report found that the Muslim Brotherhood has not only clandestinely taken control of local Islamic institutions, thereby often controlling all aspects of many Muslim’s lives, but it has also actively infiltrated government programmes in France and the European Union, often using hot button issues such as “Islamophobia” — a term coined by the Muslim Brotherhood — to both rally support as well as masking their true efforts of “subversion” of the West under a cloak of legitimacy.

According to the paper, radical Islamists connected to the Muslim Brotherhood have embarked on a “strategy of entryism of European institutions” using an activist and lobbying network through the Council of European Muslims (CEM), such as Islamic Relief Worldwide and the European Council of Imams, as a base to influence local governance and as a springboard for members to infiltrate broader EU institutions in France and elsewhere.

The very same European institutions then become a “major source of funding” for groups tied to the Muslim Brotherhood movement. The report noted that the French Ministry of Higher Education has recorded an increase in alerts of potential EU funds being directed to paying for the “financing of projects contrary to republican values and relating to radical Islamism.”

Perhaps more concerning given the historic waves of mass migration from Islamic countries over the past decade, the Brotherhood has built up a massive influence dragnet throughout Muslim communities in France and throughout Europe to radicalise more people to their cause.

Often targeting impoverished Muslim areas, trained Brotherhood operatives are installed as managers of community shops, sports groups, private education, personal development services, employment assistance firms, and even dating sites, it is stated. Per the report, this is done with the aim of “supervising the life of the Muslim” and spreading adherence to practices such as forcing women to wear a veil, having men grow their beards, and the observation of Ramadan fasting.

The report found that these efforts are often coordinated through mosques, which offer Qur’anic education courses to guide the “quest for identity of young Muslims.” Currently, there are at least 114 Qur’anic schools directly tied to the Brotherhood, while hundreds more were also of a fundamentalist bent.

It also found that at least 280 Islamic associations have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in the effort to act as an effective governing body for such populations in France, ranging from charitable, educational, professional, youth outreach, and financial organisations, to control all aspects of life.

At least 139 mosques are said to be directly linked to the radical Islamist group and act as the “main emanation of the Brothers in France”. This represents around seven per cent of all places of worship for French muslims, or 10 per cent of those built since 2010. According to the report, the “overall attendance at mosques affiliated or close to the movement amounts on average to 91,000 faithful on Fridays.”

In addition to being a powerful weapon in using the principles of liberalism against the EU, the various political campaigns associated with Brotherhood-tied groups, such as those against “Islamophobia”, have also served to “legitimise” the Muslim Brotherhood within Muslim populations. “This new respectability has accentuated the development of ecosystems at the local level,” the report found. On top of Islamophobia and the supposed victimisation of Muslims in France, the movement has also propped up campaigns against Israel, and promoted Islamic finance and Halal food practices.

Commenting on the findings, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau warned: “The ultimate objective is to tip all of French society into Sharia law… this is unacceptable, since it is completely incompatible with the principles of the Republic and the objectives of national cohesion”.

The Paris intelligence paper found that the Muslim Brotherhood’s subversion efforts extend beyond France. Belgium, the home of the EU capital Brussels, is described as the Brotherhood’s “European crossroads,” with a “close network of associations and organisations.”

Germany and Austria are also said to be active hotspots, given their status as “historically the first lands of establishment of the movement” in Europe. Meanwhile, North Europe, including the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden, is characterised as a “smaller but real territory of establishment of the movement”. For its part, the United Kingdom is branded “an advanced post of the Middle Eastern movement.”

Countries in the Balkans, many of which are actively seeking membership in the EU, have large Muslim populations, and have a living memory of the Yugoslav war, have become ” the main prospect for the development of the movement in Europe,” the French report warned.

Pointing to the creation of the EU-funded ‘European Council for the Holy Quran’ in Sarajevo — before its relocation to Milan — the report said that there is a risk of further funding through Brussels’ Erasmus education programme in the Balkans would not only present a risk to the EU but also play into the hands of Muslim Brotherhood’s goals within the region.

In addition to receiving European Union money through various channels, the Islamist network also receives funding from the broader Muslim world, the report claimed. This was notably true of Turkey, which is alleged to provide “essential logistical and financial support to the European branch of the Brotherhood”.

Ankara also has also acted as the “rear base” for the European network to launch political campaigns, such as the 2020 boycott of French products following President Emmanuel Macron’s speech against “separatism” in the wake of the jihadi migrant beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty for showing his class a caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammed.

The report, which is set to be presented to President Macron and the Defence Council on Wednesday, was light on what to do and how to untangle the vast subversive Muslim Brotherhood network, given that it is often technically operating within the bounds of the law.

Other challenges included the focus of authorities on terrorist attacks rather than slow subversion, the fear among officials and the population of being accused of “Islamophobia”, and the “cult of secrecy” tactics deployed by the Brotherhood.

The prefect of Hauts-de-Seine, Alexandre Brugère, said that Islamist groups in France often deploy the infamous practice of ‘Taqiya’, which allows for lying to obscure their true religious goals.

According to Brugère, mosques throughout the country often employ lawyers to scan sermons to avoid falling foul of the law. “The fight does not take place on equal terms,” he said, “We are in a liberal democracy and a rule of law. We fight with lead weights hanging from our feet.”

“Underground Islamism turns liberal rhetoric against our regime of freedom, with the complicity of certain political forces,” Interior Minister Retailleau added.

The report cited a prominent Muslim activist, who is said to have noted that the European legal environment allows for the use of the “model of a decent Muslim, which is considered a good model for spread of Islam in a positive way without drawing attention… to the fact that we are Islamising the West.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/21/fifth-column-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrated-european-institutions-islamic-associations-migrant-communities-in-bid-to-destroy-west-french-govt-report-finds/

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Greta Thunberg Aims to Save Hamas


Greta Thunberg, If You Can Stand Her

She missed the boat, literally. She wasn’t on the good ship “Conscience”.



Greta Thunberg has received all sorts of acclaim for her work as an environmental warrior that began when she was scarcely out of grade school. But now that she’s 22, and has saved the planet, she’s gone on to other things. Would you be surprised to find out that she’s now going to make the world safe for Hamas? British journalist Brendan O’Neill takes her to task for her latest cause, and the malignancy of her attack on the tiny, embattled Jewish state that is now fighting a seven-front war for its survival. More on O’Neill’s dismemberment of Thunberg can be found here: “Greta Thunberg’s moral siege of Israel,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, May 7, 2025:

Why isn’t Greta Thunberg sailing an aid ship to Sudan? Things are dire there. Two years of war have given rise to ‘catastrophic hunger levels’. The horrors dwarf ‘those in Ukraine, Gaza and Somalia combined’, reports Deutsche Welle. And yet the benighted Sudanese have failed to win the favour of the world’s best known eco-brat. Her boat is destined not for Africa but for the only strip of land that matters to the virtuous of the West: Gaza.

Sweden’s prophetess of doom is back in the news. She’s making waves with her plan to sail to Gaza. She and others from the turbo-smug keffiyeh classes had planned to sail on a boat called – wait for it – Conscience. Rumour has it they called it that because ‘Aren’t We F**king Wonderful?’ was too long for the hull. But their moral expedition has been put on hold after a drone fired on their boat in waters off Malta, causing damage but no casualties.

Actually, Greta missed the boat, literally. She wasn’t on the good ship “Conscience,” part of the Freedom Flotilla that was going to “break the Israeli siege” of Gaza by bringing humanitarian aid. Something else kept her from going, but if physically she was not present, in spirit she was definitely there. She’s been a hater of Israel much of her short life.

Information is sparse. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) that’s organising this virtue-fest in the Med says 30 people were onboard at the time – the Maltese government says 16 were. Greta says Israel fired the drone, yet another ‘crystal-clear example’ that it doesn’t give a toss about ‘international law and human rights’; Israel is staying schtum.

The single drone launched by the IDF was carefully programmed so that it would not harm anyone aboard the boat, only the boat itself, rendered unfit, apparently, for further service. Thunberg claims that the IDF’s stopping a ship that is attempting to run Israel’s blockade, and thereby helping the terror group Hamas, shows Israel doesn’t care about “international law and human rights.” It is the IDF that is respecting international law, and before she makes an even bigger fool of herself, Greta Thunberg should read, neatly laid out before her, the discussion of Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, that can be found below in this article. And it is Israel that supports “human rights” by developing an elaborate plan to ensure that civilians in Gaza will receive the aid they need, without so much of it being stolen by Hamas.

Of course, no one wants to see Greta or her activist pals come to any harm. I’m glad that they haven’t. Yet it would be wholly wrong to describe this expedition as merely about delivering aid, as simply humanitarian. The aim of these seafaring Israelophobes is less to ‘help Gaza’ than to weaken Israel’s hold over the enemy territory it has seized in its bloody war with Hamas.

Like the Turkish Mavi Marmara, a ship that in 2010 tried to break an earlier blockade Israel had thrown up around Gaza to prevent the smuggling of weapons, this ship’s sole intent was to weaken Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid, as a way to weaken its hold on Gaza. In fact, we do not know if Thunberg’s ship may, in addition to such aid, also have been bringing in weapons to help Hamas. It wouldn’t surprise me.

The FFC is open about its desire to interfere with Israel’s war effort. It says it wants to ‘break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza’. So this isn’t just about handing food boxes to hungry Gazans – it’s about frustrating Israel’s encircling of Gaza as it hunts down the army of anti-Semites that butchered more than a thousand people on 7 October 2023….

Do you think Greta Thunberg has any idea what Israel’s temporary blockade is all about? It’s to pressure Hamas to return, dead or alive, the remaining hostages. Is that an unacceptable aim? Israel only began the blockade when it knew that there was a three-months supply of humanitarian aid in Gaza, not yet distributed; when those three months come to an end, I am certain some humanitarian aid will be renewed, though it will be delivered to the Gazans in such a way that Hamas can’t steal any of the aid for itself. Why has Greta Thunberg not joined a group to protest the terror group’s holding not just the Israelis hostage, but the people of Gaza hostage as well? The Israelis have prepared an elaborate plan, using a private contractor, to make sure that all humanitarian aid that in the future is brought into the Strip will be under guard, and brought by a private contractor directly to several distribution centers, where that aid will be given to the people of Gaza while Hamas will be prevented from seizing any of it. Thunberg doesn’t care about Hamas’ theft of humanitarian aid; she wants the world’s indignation directed solely at Israel. She no doubt considers Hamas’ acts on October 7 to be “legitimate acts of resistance.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/greta-thunberg-if-you-can-stand-her/

Greta Thunberg, 21, sparked massive outrage after yelling 'f*** Israel and f*** Germany '

Greta Thunberg, 21, sparked massive outrage after yelling 'f*** Israel and f*** Germany ' 

Greta Thunberg and German activist Hassan Ã-zbay (L) speak at a solidarity with Palestine event in Mannheim, Germany

Greta Thunberg and German activist Hassan Ã-zbay (L) speak at a solidarity with Palestine event in Mannheim, Germany


Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Syrian Knifeman Stabs 5 Football fans in Germany


Police hunting for Syrian national, 35, after five football fans were stabbed outside a German bar in 'planned' attack

Police are searching for a Syrian national who attacked and injured at least five people in Germany.

Named in local reports as Mahmoud Mhemed, 35, the suspect stabbed the football fans with a knife in front of the Cuties bar in the western city of Bielefeld.

Four men, aged between 22 and 27, and a woman, aged 26, were attacked by Mhemed as they stood in front of the bar in the early hours. 

Police said four of the victims suffered serious injuries and were being treated in different hospitals. Two are reportedly in critical condition.

Horrified onlookers attempted to knock the attacker down but Mhemed managed to flee the scene, leaving his backpack behind amid the chaos.

According to local police, as per German newspaper Bild, the bag contained 'personal documents and a bottle containing an unknown liquid that smelled of gasoline,' among other things. 

This chilling discovery led to cops believing that the suspect had not acted spontaneously, but had planned the attack and equipped himself for it.

Police spokeswoman Katja Küster: 'The background to the crime and the suspect's motive are currently unknown. 

German police are searching for a Syrian national, named locally as Mahmoud Mhemed, who attacked and injured at least five people in Germany on Sunday

German police are searching for a Syrian national, named locally as Mahmoud Mhemed, who attacked and injured at least five people in Germany

Police and forensic investigators are on the scene following an attack in the western city of Bielefeld, Germany, Sunday May 18, 2025

Police and forensic investigators are on the scene following an attack in the western city of Bielefeld, Germany

Four men, aged between 22 and 27, and a woman, aged 26, were reportedly attacked by Mhemed as they stood in front of the bar in the early hours of this morning

Four men, aged between 22 and 27, and a woman, aged 26, were reportedly attacked by Mhemed as they stood in front of the bar in the early hours of the morning

The suspect attacked people indiscriminately. Investigations are currently underway at full speed in all directions. 

Later police raided Mhemed's apartment in Harsewinkel but he was not there, sparking the force to launch a public manhunt.

Local residents told Bild that they had seen the man there that morning. 

Police have described Mhemed as 5ft 2in to 5ft 5in tall, with a stocky build. He has black hair, brown eyes, and was wearing a black hoodie, white T-shirt, black pants, and black baseball cap at the time of the attack.

Investigators have warned: 'If you encounter the suspect, please immediately call the police emergency number 110. 

'Please keep your distance and do not endanger yourself. It cannot be ruled out that the suspect is armed.'    

German news agency DPA earlier reported that the revelers were soccer fans from a local team who defended themselves against the attacker before he fled. 

The city's Arminia Bielefeld soccer club won its match on Saturday, and with it became 3rd division champions.

According to police, the attacker may have also been injured in the face.

Bielefeld police said in a statement that they found several knives at the scene of the attack and that they have activated a witness hotline asking people to upload videos and photos of the attack. 

Party leader of the right-wing German party AfD, Alice Weidel, wrote on X that the knife attack is a result of the Christian Democrats' failed policies in the region.

'CDU leader Friedrich Merz refuses to deport Syrian citizens who no longer have valid grounds to be considered refugees. I wish all those injured a speedy recovery', she said. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14725073/Police-hunting-Syrian-national-35-five-football-fans-stabbed-outside-German-bar-planned-attack.html