Portugal: Lisbon Shocked by Beheading

Rossio Square, Lisbon

Lisbon is in shock over the murder and beheading that occurred in their city sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, the decapitated body of a man was found on a street in the center of the city. The next day, a man showed up at a police post in a city hospital with the severed head and confessed to having killed the victim. It appears that the alleged perpetrator, an  African engineering student, and the victim, a Portuguese citizen of African origin, had hooked up sometime Tuesday night for a homosexual encounter that went wrong. The exact motive for the crime at this point seems to be a disagreement between the two, which is not further detailed.   

The article below from Noticias ao Momento is translated by Fousesquawk.

Man who delivered severed head confessed. Met the victim a few hours previous.

The man who was detained on Thursday, after having delivered to the São José Hospital the head of the body found decapitated on Patio Salema (street) at Rossio (Square) in the center of Lisbon on Wednesday, confessed to the crime. The victim and the attacker (only) met each other on that night (Translator: Tuesday).

The information was provided by CNN Portugal, which reported that the victim and the attacker became acquainted on the night of the crime, which was motivated by a disagreement of an as-yet-to-be-determined nature. Both are foreigners, according to that channel.

Noticias ao Minuto (news outlet) has learned that the victim is a citizen of African origin.

The suspect, who is an engineering student (29), confessed to having committed the homicide and the mutilation with a kitchen knife on a public street. Besides this, he detailed every moment of the crime, as well as what he did in the hours that followed up to leaving the head of the victim at a police post in the São José Hospital at 3:30 pm today.  As reported by CNN-Portugal, the head was inside a backpack.

The individual confessed to being involved in the incident. He was turned over to the custody of the Judicial Police, the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the Public Security Police (PSP) told Noticias ao Minuto.

The man will be brought to court on Friday for the application of enforcement measures.

The decapitated body was found at 6:45 am on Wednesday, as confirmed to Noticias ao Minuto by the PSP.

Austria: Turkish-Aligned Mosques in Vienna Accused of Embezzlement of Donations for Sex Parties

In Vienna, there is a scandal brewing concerning certain imams connected to mosques aligned to the Turkish government agency, Diyanet, which oversees mosques in Europe frequented by the Turkish diaspora. It is alleged that certain imams and other mosque leaders in Vienna have been using funds donated by their faithful to pay off prostitutes for sex orgies.

The Turkish governmental agency, Diyanet, oversees (Islamic) religious matters, including mosques in Europe frequented by Turks residing in Western European countries. Diyanet has been accused of spying on the Turkish diaspora in Europe in an attempt to influence them to support the regime of Recep Erdogan.

The article below in Heute (Austria) is translated by Fousesquawk.

First prayer, then sex orgy

Vienna mosque paid escort girls with donations

In a Vienna Diyanet mosque, donations were allegedly misused for escort women and orgies. The Ministry reacts.

-From Newsdesk Today

August 1, 2025 at 15:24

Caption: Donations and alms were spent on escort women and parties.

Escort women instead of prayer: The Turkish presidium needs to clear it up. In a Diyanet mosque in Austria, an imam (Islamic cleric), religious officers, and local personnel allegedly embezzled donations for several years.

Specifically, they allegedly booked the escort women and then had orgy parties with them, as the Turkish news outlet, Sözcü, reports.

Escort parties in Vienna

The scandal goes back 5 years and has its roots in the federal capital, Vienna. Even then, alms and aid money were used for parties with escort women. The case is as yet not cleared up, but there are explosive new details.

Money for parties instead of pilgrimages

A recent investigation has revealed specific accusations. The Diyanet mosques, religious authorities of Turkey, collected donations on Fridays and holidays, but did not record them all in the records.

In addition, a large part of the collections for pilgrimages, offerings, sale of religious books, and funeral funds was allegedly spent on entertainment events.

4 escort women booked for orgies

More specifically, with these collections, at least 4 escort women were repeatedly booked. Subsequently, an orgy took place with them.

To conceal the expenses, they allegedly recorded them as "residence permit expenses, rents, and expenses for imams".

Caption: Among other things, the organization collected money with this flyer.

But there is more. Inspectors who showed up to check up and investigate the case tried to bribe the accused. They were also reportedly offered pleasure events and excursions to cover up the case.

Two people dismissed

For two people in the organization, there are harsh consequences. FMK (person's initials), a religious advisor and leader of 63 ATiB Organization (Austria-Turkish-Islamic Union) who was working for the Diyanet Foundation in Vienna, and MS, a religious advisor, were dismissed, according to Sözcü.

The exact name is not found in the media reports, but it is a fact that one of the two people is a relative of a former AKP (Union of European-Turkish Democrats)  minister. Diyanet attributes the dismissal of both to "lack of discipline and incompetence".

Austrian authorities investigating

The authorities in Austria are now reacting to the alleged scandal. There is an investigation now underway into the foreign funding of ATiB. Moreover, the Ministry of Integration, through the Office of Culture, has requested an explanation from the association, according to (their) statement responding to an inquiry by Heute.  

Germany: Afghan on Trial for Stabbing Death

Here's another Afghan success story out of Germany. In Mönchengladbach, a 25-year-old Afghan named Hekmet S. is on trial for the stabbing death of another Afghan man, with whom he was staying. Hekmet S. already has a criminal record for grievous bodily injury and had been on parole.

The obvious question is, why was this man still in Germany?

The article below from Welt is translated by Fousesquawk.

Afghan takes in Afghan acquaintance- and is murdered with 31 stab wounds

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Caption: Mönchengladbach: The regional court, which is also the seat of the district court

A 20-year-old was killed by more than 30 stab wounds as he sat unsuspectingly on the sofa. In Mönchengladbach, a 25-year-old Afghan is standing trial for this. He already has a criminal record.

Barely half a year after a deadly knife attack on a 20-year-old in his apartment, a process has begun in the case in Mönchengladbach. The prosecution accuses the 25-year-old Hekmet S. of manslaughter, bodily injury, and resisting police. The presiding judge explained at the beginning of the proceeding that, "a permanent stay in a psychiatric (facility) or preventive detention may be in consideration."

The man allegedly stabbed the victim, Abdul A., with brute force 31 times on February 5 as he sat unsuspecting on the sofa in his living room. The victim then dragged himself, injured, through the entire residence. That is reported by Bild-Zeitung (newspaper).

The motive or the cause is still unclear. The defendant made no statement in response to the accusation. He reportedly was staying with the victim after he was evicted from his own residence the day before because of violence against a roommate.

The defendant had a prior record

Two days after the crime, the Afghan was arrested at the Stuttgart Central Train Station. According to the indictment, he reportedly violently and repeatedly resisted the police there.

According to a statement by a parole officer, the defendant and victim knew each other because they had been working together at a large mail-order company. According to court documents, the defendant already has a relevant prior criminal record.

According to Bild's information, S. arrived in Germany in 2016. In 2020, he was convicted of dangerous bodily injury. At that time, the victim was critically injured. The Afghan received a juvenile sentence of 5 years. In 2023, his remaining sentence of 448 days was changed to two years' parole, which ended in September.