France: Vehicular Attack by Chechen in Caen: Two Dead

Caen Train Station

On Wednesday night in the city of Caen in northern France, a Russian national of Chechen origin was arrested on charges of murder and attempted murder after he allegedly drove his car into a group of people standing at a bus stop in front of the train station. Two people were killed and nine injured. The suspect, 26, was arrested later that evening in a coastal town about 20 kilometers away. Under questioning, he told police that he had been the victim of a violent attack earlier that evening in front of the train station. The suspect remains in custody while police dig further into his story and determine his exact motivations.

The prosecutor's office is ruling out terrorism, and possible motives include a lover's dispute or animosity between the Chechen and Afghan communities. One of the victims is Afghan. The below article, from Le Monde, which does not mention the victims' nationalities, is translated by Fousesquawk. Other news sites state that the victims are of French, Afghan, Egyptian, and Bangladeshi nationalities.  

Caen: A car plows into pedestrians, two dead and nine injured

An individual plowed into a group of about ten persons while driving his car on Wednesday, August 26, around 10 pm in the area of the railroad station. The suspected perpetrator was arrested. "The hypothesis of a terrorist act is ruled out," according to the National Prosecutor's Office.

-Le Monde with Agence France Presse

Posted 27 August 2026 at 09:37, updated 27 August 2026 at 20:14. (Republication of article dated 27 August 2026 at 00:26)

Caption: Police at the scene where a driver struck a group of about ten people in the train station area, near a bar in Caen on  August 26, 2026.

A second person is dead after a driver deliberately plowed his car into a group of people on Wednesday, August 26, near a bar in Caen, while behind the wheel of his car before being arrested. "The toll now stands at two persons deceased and nine injured," the prefecture of Calvados confirmed to Le Monde on Thursday morning.

"On August 26, 2026, around 10:10 pm, a vehicle struck a group of persons, ages 17-36 years, who were at a bus stop opposite the Caen train station. A man of about 30 died at the scene, a second person, aged 28, died during the night at the CHU (hospital) in Caen, and some ten men were injured, of whom several suffered fractures to the lower limbs," the National Prosecutor, Joel Garrigue, explained Thursday morning in a statement.

The driver of the vehicle, a Russian national of Chechen origin, 26, was arrested in Ouistraham, a town located about 20 kilometers away on the coast, also according to the prosecutor. According to his initial statements, "he had been attacked in front of the Caen train station earlier in the evening, "he added.

During his interrogation, the suspect "talked about violence that he had been subjected to in front of the train station before the incident. His statements will, obviously, be thoroughly checked," the prosecutor continued. The man was not intoxicated at the time of the incident. "The suspect is (....) in regular (immigration) status in France and has no criminal convictions," he added.

Murder investigation

"The hypothesis of a terrorist act is now excluded," stressed the National Prosecutor Thursday evening. "All other hypotheses are now being explored without favoring or confirming any of them," he added in a statement announcing the extension of custody of the suspect until Friday evening.

"The terrorist angle is definitely ruled out; it was not an attack," declared the mayor of Caen, Aristide Olivier (independent right), during a press conference Thursday afternoon. Nor was there any "actual connection" between this tragedy and narco-trafficking, the mayor said, the area of the train station being known for its insecurity. The elected official had mentioned the angle of "a lover's quarrel," without giving further details. 

The findings made at the locations, and several witness statements gathered, indicate that the vehicle did not attempt to brake, nor did it take evasive measures; on the contrary, it allegedly altered its course in order to make contact with the victims and strike them, Joel Garrigue related. "Not all of the hospitalized victims have been questioned, and the statements of the suspect have to be investigated and clarified in order to understand the motives of his act, which could be ascribed within the context of animosity between the Chechen and Afghan communities," he added. 

An investigation has been opened, "on charges of murder, attempted murder, and intentional violence with a weapon, and is continuing to determine with precision the sequence of tragic events," the statement concludes.  

Hasan Piker's Latest Outrageous Words

Just a few months ago, perhaps even a few weeks ago, I had no idea who this guy, Hasan Piker, was. Amazingly, this character has risen to prominence at warp speed, especially given his association with Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El Sayed, who doesn't even have the courage to disassociate himself from him.

Rather than recite the litany of disgusting things this creep has said over the past few years, I am cross-posting the latest article from Algemeiner, a Jewish publication.

In the past few days, Piker has blamed the explosion of anti-Semitism on Jews themselves, or more specifically, Jews who identify with and support Israel. In his words, which I suspect were carefully chosen so as not to constitute illegal incitement, he has speculated that continued support for Israel will cause Jews to become the victims of violence. (You can view the video clip in the above article.)

As if they weren't already.

This man is a disgusting anti-Semite. He previously stated that America deserved 9-11, which gives you a further look into his psyche.  His sarcastic "retraction" of that statement before a live audience and their reaction to it, as also shown in the video clip in the article, says volumes about him and his followers.

Germany: Attempted Rapist Even Gropes Arresting (Female) Officer

Hat tip Gates of Vienna

Heidelberg in happier times

What could be safer than walking your dog in a cemetery in Heidelberg, Germany at 10 in the morning? That's what I used to think, but times have changed in Germany, as in the rest of Western Europe, thanks largely to Germany's former chancellor, Angela Merkel, who opened the floodgates to Germany in 2015 and urged her EU partner nations to do the same with disastrous results that continue to this day. 

On Tuesday, August 18, a woman was walking her dog through a cemetery when she was accosted by a 24-year-old man from the Gambia. The man allegedly grabbed her by the breast and dragged her into a nearby cornfield, where he attempted to rape her. She managed to break free and escaped. Within the next few minutes, the man allegedly attempted to do the same with two other women in separate incidents. Both managed to break free from the man and escape. Passersby called police, and the man was quickly found and arrested. As if that wasn't enough, during the arrest, the suspect allegedly groped a female officer in the crotch. He now sits in a Heidelberg lock-up awaiting trial.

Trivia fact: The Gambia is 96% Muslim.

The article below from Wochenblatt is translated by Fousesquawk.

Several attempted sexual assaults in Heidelberg: 24-year-old remanded to custody

August 20, 2026, 15:25

Editorial team

Posted by Ralf Vester

Caption: A 24-year-old man is in custody following alleged sexual assaults in a field in the Pfaffengrund Cemetery in Heidelberg. The Heidelberg Criminal Police are investigating the crimes as other incidents. Photo: Federal Criminal Police in Bad Bentheim. Uploaded by Wochenblatt Editorial Team.

Heidelberg: On Tuesday, August 18, around 10 am, a 24-year-old man allegedly attacked a woman in a field at the Pfaffengrund Cemetery in Heidelberg, report the Mannheim Police headquarters and the Heidelberg State Prosecutors Office. The woman was walking with her dog. The man, who was unknown to her, initially grabbed her on the breast and then tried to drag her into a nearby cornfield. With loud resistance, the woman managed to break loose and run away.

Between 10:25 and 10:30 am, the 24-year-old man allegedly grabbed two other women walking by the hands and wrists in two separate incidents. He also tried to drag them into the cornfield. Both women resisted vehemently, causing the suspect to let go of them in both cases.

Passersby rushed to assist and called emergency services. After an immediate search, the police arrested the 24-year-old a short time later. During the arrest, the man, from the Gambia, allegedly groped a female officer in the crotch. The next day, the accused was brought before a magistrate at the Heidelberg courthouse.

A custody order was issued at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office for suspicion of multiple attempted sexual attacks, sexual harassment, and other charges. The custody order was carried out, and the 24-year-old was taken to a detention facility. The investigations into the crimes and other incidents in connection with the accused are ongoing.

Italy: Most Boat Arrivals of Illegal Migrants Linked to German NGOs

Below is our translation of an interesting article appearing today in Il Giornale. Between the years 20-22 to the present, most of the illegal migrants arriving in Italy by sea have come courtesy of German NGO boats. This is hardly a surprise, given the 2019 episode involving the German vessel, Sea Watch 3, and the arrest of the ship's commander, Carola Rackete, but it has also been noted in the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine.

As they might say in Italian, "Grazie mille, Germania!" 

German ships invade Italy: They have brought us 27,000 migrants

-Francesco Giubilei

August 24, 29026 at 12:00

More than half of migrants arriving in Italy from the Mediterranean with NGOs have been brought to land by German ships. Since the installation of the Meloni government in 2022 to today, 22,500 migrants out of a total of 40,281 have entered Italian territory through German NGOs and another 4,500 have arrived at our ports on board boats belonging to humanitarian organizations from other countries, but bearing the German flag.

As the Frankfurter Allgemeine, one of the leading dailies in Germany, writes, "This means that the percentage of migrants coming by sea on board German rescue boats and boats of third countries bearing the German flag amounts to almost two-thirds of all the arrivals by private humanitarian organizations since October 2022". This is a striking figure also because in the same period between October 2022 and July 2026, Italian and Spanish NGOs have transported a little less than 4,700 and a little more than 5,600 migrants to Italian territory, respectively; in short, directly or indirectly, almost 64% of the arrivals by private rescue boats could be traced to Germany.

The question brings to light particular relevance in the debate on so-called Dubliners and the possibility that Germany sends migrants back to Italy who crossed the borders of the European Union from our country. It that were the case, the government could leverage the activities of German NGOs also because, as the stopping and levying of fines on Sea Watch and the words of Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi demonstrate, the German NGOs often disregard "the obligations of law specified during operations at sea," according to which, "rescue activities at sea must be managed and coordinated by the competent nations and not by NGOs".

For years, German organizations like Sea Watch, Sea-Eye, SOS Humanity, and Mission Lifeline have carried out operations in the Mediterranean, bringing migrants to Italian ports and even receiving public financing from Germany. The Bundestag had allocated 2 million euros from 2023-2026 to support what was defined as "civil rescue at sea", and among the beneficiaries were SOS Humanity, Sea-Eye, and SOS Mediterranee. The government of Friedrich Merz interrupted the financing, but the German NGOs benefited from it for years however, disembarking migrants in Italy and thus placing the cost of receiving them to the Italian state. This has led to speculation that the Meloni government will ask for economic compensation from Germany to compensate for the costs sustained from the management of migrants arriving with German NGOs, an important negotiating lever given fears of reentry into Italy of migrants who entered Germany but initially arrived in EU territory through our country.

In reality, the debate between Italy and Germany is of interest to all the northern European countries and countries of first arrival in the Mediterranean, highlighting how the only real solution to the migration problem is to stop the departures and prevent the migrants from illegally entering Europe, a mechanism fueled by NGOs that every year bring tens of thousands of illegal migrants via the Mediterranean.

France: Palestinian Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Sexually Attacking Girl on Bus

Hat tip Gates of Vienna

Toulouse

It's an all-too-often occurrence now in Western Europe. A guy named Ahmed, in this case, a Palestinian from Gaza no less, gets on a bus in the Toulouse area of France and sees a 16-year-old girl he decides he wants to have sex with. Ahmed (last name undisclosed) proceeds to sit next to the 16-year-old girl and begins touching her in all the wrong places. Passengers intervene, free the unlucky damsel in distress from the clutches of the fiend, and throw him off the bus. The gendarmes arrive and place him in handcuffs as he is trying to board another bus, no doubt in search of another young girl to victimize.

Appearing in court, Ahmed admitted that he had a problem behaving around girls. If one considers what Hamas did to Israelis on October 7, 2023, one might get the impression it is part of the DNA for men from Gaza. I wonder where this guy was and what he was doing on October 7, 2023.

Ahmed is now serving a 6-month jail sentence (hopefully with a cellmate named Bubba) to be followed by deportation. He is not allowed to return to French territory for 2 years. So I guess in 2028-2029, Ahmed will be back in the news in France.

Bubba

The article below from Le Journal du Dimanche is translated by Fousesquawk.

Toulouse: Gazan sentenced for sexual attack of a minor on a bus 

In June, an adolescent was sexually attacked on a Toulouse bus. Her attacker, a 29-year-old Palestinian, has been sentenced to 6 months in prison and banned from French territory for 2 years.

 -Mickaël Cléraux

08/17/2026 à 18:23

The axe has fallen. On Thursday, 13 August, a Palestinian, who arrived in France in 2025 after fleeing Gaza, was sentenced to 6 months in prison by the correctional court of Toulouse for having sexually attacked a 16-year-old adolescent on a Haute-Garonne bus last June 18, La Depeche reports. 

The incident goes back to that morning when the man boarded at Cugnaux. Initially standing, he observed the adolescent, then sat down by her side. He rubbed his shoulder against hers, took her Tisseo pass, which was between her legs, before putting his hands on her thigh, then her chest. Several passengers reacted and enabled the young girl to get up. One of them removed the individual, whose first name was Ahmed, and kept him from reboarding. When he tried to board the next bus, police arrested him.

His initial explanations were perplexing: He mentioned perceiving a "sign" from the adolescent that she wanted to meet him and said he felt an attraction "at first glance". In court, the tone changed: "I have reflected. I would like to apologize. I have trouble behaving with girls. That day I was distracted and behaved badly." The president of the court challenged him: "Do you realize that she is traumatized?"

Ahmed, quoted by the newspaper, describes a chaotic life on the street, squatting, consuming cocaine and alcohol, according to him, "to lesson the psychological suffering" before social assistance allowed him to obtain housing in Cugnaux. However, the psychiatric report paints a harsh picture: The doctor notes in him a personality prone to doing whatever he wants whenever he wants," a judgment neither diminished nor impaired, and concludes that "he is incurable." 

The prosecutor denounced the man "driven by a sense of omnipotence," and asked for 18 months in prison, while the defense argued that he "was a lonely and suffering man with the mind of a child." The court eventually sentenced Ahmed to 6 months in prison, with continuing detention, a ban from French territory for 2 years, and a permanent ban on all activity around minors.

 

Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Says Campus Antisemitism is "Fake"

 Liberal Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is charging that investigations and lawsuits brought by the Trump Justice Department and Department of Education against universities for allowing antisemitism to run rampant on campus are "fake". The poor universities are being "framed" by the Trump administration, according to Raskin, who himself is Jewish. 

Haley Van Erem, a former Justice Department attorney from 2015-2023, has alleged that DOJ and Health and Human Services unfairly investigated Harvard, Columbia, and Brown Universities on allegations of campus antisemitism. The Justice Department has responded that Van Erem was not involved in the investigations into those specific universities and stands by its actions.

I cannot speak with any authority on Harvard, Brown, and Columbia other than what I have read and posted on this site. In my opinion, however, Columbia has stood out as the absolute worst when it comes to campus antisemitism in recent years. Harvard and Brown have been featured many times as well on this site. It sems to me that their failures to protect Jewish students from bullying and intimidation on campus are well-documented.

I can speak with some authority as to UC Irvine, where I taught part-time from 1998-2016. I have personally witnessed and written about incidents on that campus on countless occasions. And the problem did not end in 2016. I have occasionally returned to campus on occasions that drew my interest, such as the 2024 encampment set up by Hamas supporters following the October 2023 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas. 

If Raskin wants to conduct an investigation on this matter, he can send one of his representatives to talk to me. I will even be happy to come to Washington and testify before his judiciary committee. I am confident that I have seen and heard many things that Ms. Van Erem never has. I promise it would be an education for both of them.

The Toxicity of Rashida Tlaib

This article first appeared in New English Review.

 

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is arguably the most obnoxious person in Congress, and given the number of obnoxious people inside the beltway, most of whom reside in the Democrat party, that is quite an accomplishment. She is angry, foul-mouthed, and a Jew hater to boot. Given her Palestinian heritage, that pretty much comes with the DNA.

This week, Tlaib has once again crossed the line of decency with her tweet reminding us of the 12^th anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014.

The facts are these: On the day of the incident, Brown had just stolen items from a local convenience store and manhandled the clerk as he walked out the door. A police officer, given the description, spotted Brown walking down the middle of the street and stopped him. While the officer was still seated in the patrol car, Brown punched him, reached in the car, and tried to take the officer’s gun away from him. The struggle continued outside the car, and while the officer was pointing his gun at Brown (justifiably given the circumstances at this point), Brown tried to bullrush the officer, who, justifiably fearing for his life, shot and killed Brown.

What followed was nights of rioting in Ferguson, an investigation by the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, and their finding that the shooting was, in fact, justified. Claims that Brown had raised his arms and said, “Don’t shoot” were disproven. The officer subsequently resigned his position in the midst of death threats to the department and has basically disappeared in fear of his life. But 12 years later, along comes Tlaib with her tweet that Brown was “murdered”. What is she trying to do, start more riots?  Perhaps Tlaib is now trying to inspire her followers to track the former officer down (which is one reason I am not mentioning his name, although it was made public).

The fact is that Tlaib is a toxic individual who, time and time again, embarrasses her party, which now seems incapable of feeling embarrassed given the recent success of their most extreme elements in recent primary elections. The fact that she keeps getting re-elected in the 12th Michigan district, which includes parts of Dearborn and Detroit, speaks volumes about her constituents.

 

Spain: Moroccan Troops Thwart Another Migrant Attempt to Storm Spanish Border

-EFE

In the wake of the recent storming of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (on the North African coast), in which some 70,000 migrants entered the enclave illegally (most have since returned), Spanish authorities had information that another wave was expected today. Sure enough, hundreds attempted to storm into Ceuta, but this time, they were thwarted by Moroccan troops. Reportedly, 111 people were arrested by Moroccan authorities, two of whom were Moroccans and 109 were Sub-Saharan Africans.

The article below by the Spanish newspaper El Independiente is translated by Fousesquawk. Curiously, the Moroccan French-language newspaper, Le Matin, says nothing about the incident.

CEuta and Melilla

Morocco says it has intercepted hundreds of migrants trying to reach Ceuta

Moroccan security forces on Saturday thwarted an attempt to cross illegally into the Spanish city of Ceuta by hundreds of migrants, mostly sub-Saharans, who had been hiding on the outskirts of the border city of Fnideq (Castillejos in Spanish).

Moroccan security sources told EFE that the incident took place in a mountainous area, on the outskirts of Castillejos and southwest of Ceuta. According to the same sources, the Moroccan agents dispersed the migrants, who remain in the area.

Meanwhile, in recent days the border has been reinforced with the installation of a fence in the final section of the breakwater, where previously there was only the breakwater, and a floating barrier, both containment elements to allow the rejection at the border of migrants who try to swim by sea after the Supreme Court ruling that prevented them (from entering) in this way.

The Ministry of the Interior, for its part, has reinforced the city by land, sea and air with about 150 officers of the National Police and the Civil Guard.

Among the troops sent are three groups of the Reserve and Security Group (GRS) of the Civil Guard, each of them composed of 18 agents and a sergeant, as well as a group of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) of the National Police, made up of 50 troops.

In addition to this land deployment, there are resources aimed at reinforcing surveillance and actions in the maritime field, including the Civil Guard's Río Segura patrol boat, which has been deployed to Melilla with a crew of 25 people.

Germany: A German Father Speaks Out for the Victims

Hat tip Remix News (Hungary) and Gates of Vienna

I am cross-posting a powerful new article from Remix News, a conservative English-language news site in Hungary that reports on incidents of serious migrant crime in Europe. This article contains powerful video statements by German activist Michael Kyrath, who works on behalf of hundreds of German families who have suffered serious crimes, including rapes and murders of their family members at the hands of migrants in Germany. Kyrath's own daughter, Ann-Marie (17), and her boyfriend were stabbed to death by an illegal Palestinian migrant in 2023 on a train between Kiel and Hamburg. 

In this article, English-subtitled videos show Kyrath describing the problem and also telling his interviewers about a 10-year-old girl who was gang-raped by three Syrians who urinated on her and smeared her with feces, a case that was not even reported in the German press, according to Remix. In one video, he is excoriating former German chancellor Olaf Scholz to his face for the feckless handling of the problem by him and the entire German government. It was another former chancellor, Angela Merkel, who opened the gates to millions of Syrian (and other) "refugees", overwhelmingly young men, during the Syrian civil war. The results in Germany and Western Europe have been catastrophic in terms of violent crime, not to mention terrorism. Yet, Merkel remains unapologetic to this day.

To the question of treatment and rehabilitation of these migrant offenders, almost all of whom come from Muslim countries, Kyrath points out that German psychiatrists are neither trained nor equipped to treat Middle Eastern patients since the psychology of their culture is so different.

I urge everybody to listen to Mr Kyrath's words. They are powerful and give a chilling description of the situation in Germany.

Swastikas Return to UC San Diego

At the University of California at San Diego, swastikas and "KKK" were spray-painted on the walls of a Jewish fraternity building sometime between August 7-8. The chancellor of the university, Pradeep Khosla, has condemned the incident and promised that if caught, the perpetrators will be prosecuted.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that swastikas have appeared at UC San Diego. It happened in May 2023 and in November 2022.

It seems Chancellor Khosla has a problem on his campus.

France: Migrant Stabs Two Police Officers in Toulouse

This past Monday, in the French city of Toulouse, an unidentified man, assumed to be a migrant accosted a patrol car, insulting the officers, yelling, Allahu Akhbar", and making terrorist threats. When the officers got out the vehicle, the man pulled a knife and began attacking them, injuring two officers who were taken to the hospital and had to be stitched up. The suspect has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital because his condition was deemed "incompatible" with custody in a jail. 

So life goes on as normal in today's France.

The below article from Le Figaro is translated by Fousesquawk. (Note: The reference to President Thomas Wilson is not a misprint. Thomas was the real first name of President Woodrow Wilson.)

"Reference to a terrorist ideology". Intoxicated individual taken to psychiatric hospital: What we know about the attack on two city police officers in Toulouse

By Leopold Paitier

Posted August 11, 2026 at 10:16, updated August 11, 2026 at 16:16

Claiming to be asking for information, the individual insulted and threatened the officers before brandishing several knives. According to Le Figaro's information, the attacker reportedly said "Allahu Akhbar" several times.

What were the attacker's motivations? The question occupies the investigators the day after the knife attack that occurred in Toulouse. The incident occurred on Monday around 13:30 when an individual accosted three city police officers on patrol on Rue Austerlitz in the center of the Pink City, a few steps away from the heavily-frequented President Thomas Wilson Square. The patrol lowered the window of their vehicle before the man began insulting the officers, threatening them, then brandishing a knife, several sources close to the case report to Le Figaro. According to them, the individual reportedly said several times, "Allahu Akhbar". On social media, the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, the perpetrator also made "remarks of a terrorist nature", information confirmed by the Toulouse Public Prosecutor's Office, which told Le Figaro that the "subject made remarks making reference to a terrorist ideology." 

The scene, filmed by residents and widely spread on social media, is chilling. We observe the officers-exited from their vehicle- attempting to control a man who seems completely out of control. In a construction area, where congestion does not allow an arrest under optimum conditions, the police succeed in disarming the individual before he could brandish a second knife, then a third.

During the long minutes, the officers made use of tear gas to neutralize the man, refraining from drawing the service weapons due to the large density of passersby around them, explained a source close to the case. On another video that Le Figaro has been able to view, we finally see the individual on the ground, his hands behind his back, a knife lying nearby. He had been able to wound two of the officers with the knife.

Transferred to psychiatric hospital

Placed immediately into custody, the individual, "apparently a foreigner and still unidentified", according to the prosecutor's office, was reportedly transferred overnight to the psychiatric ward of Purpan Hospital, according to several corroborating sources. A decision of the prosecutor's office, which informs us that "his condition was judged incompatible with continued custody for reasons covered under medical privacy," it stated. At the time of the incident, the man was "slightly intoxicated", the prosecutor's office indicated, adding that toxicological tests are under way. "Inquiries at the international level" have been launched to establish his identity. 

As for the two officers injured, they were reportedly taken to Rangueil Hospital. One of them required several stitches on the neck. The individual had, according to our information, "aimed for the carotid artery without success". The female police officer reportedly received three blows from the knife that were stopped by her protective vest, but reportedly was injured in both arms, also requiring stitches. 

Aside from the physical toll, the question of the perpetrator's motives is now occupying the investigators. The repeated cries and the remarks of a "terrorist" nature made at the time of the incident could lead to the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) taking over the case. "It is necessary to verify the remarks made by the assailant prior to considering a transfer (of the case) to PNAT," stated the Toulouse Prosecutor's Office. When contacted, the PNAT indicated it was "monitoring" the case but not taking it over at this stage. According to our information, this hypothesis is not likely.

Germany: Migrant Groups in Mass Brawl in City Center

Hat tip Gates of Vienna

Düren (in happier times)

On Sunday, two groups of migrants went after each other in the city of Düren, located near Cologne. It is not known what nationalities the migrants are. Reportedly, the groups attacked each other with axes and baseball bats as horrified residents watched. Two arrests have been made thus far.

The below article from T-Online is translated by Fousesquawk. While this article does not mention that the two groups are migrants, numerous other sources identify them as migrant clans. The article contains a video of the incident (Viewer warning: Graphic).

Apparently with axes and baseball bats

20 people beat each other in German city center

From T-Online   Posted August 11 2026 at 09:26

Residents watch as numerous people brutally attack each other on the street. Police arrest two men.

Several people were injured, some seriously, in a mass brawl on Sunday evening. As reported by police, up to 20 people attacked each other near the Bonnerplatz (square) in the center of the city around 18:50.  

The police stated that "blunt instruments" were used in the brawl. Social media posts circulating and posted by residents showed the men involved go after each other, apparently with axes and baseball bats. In addition, a man lying on the ground is kicked and punched.

The police reported that a total of 6 people were seriously injured and were taken to nearby clinics. Two other seriously injured people refused treatment. The officers arrested a 22-year-old from  Düren and a 23-year-old from Cologne.

A police spokesman told T-Online that the videos on social media had a great importance for the investigation. They are now attempting to identify more suspects and interview witnesses. As to the background of the violence, the spokesman could initially provide T-Online with no information.