DOJ Steps in to Prosecute Murder of LAPD Officer

LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos-R.I.P.

Once again, the Los Angeles Police Department, like so many other departments across the county, is mourning one of their own. Fernando Arroyos (27), an off-duty LAPD officer, was shot and killed Monday as he and his girlfriend were house hunting in the Florence-Firestone area of Los Angeles. Four men, members of the Florencia 13 street gang, are charged with his murder. The full story is below.

 https://news.yahoo.com/federal-prosecutors-charge-alleged-gang-033354839.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

Aside from the obvious loss of an officer's life, it is so significant that the Department of Justice-even under a liberal Democrat administration- has seen it necessary to step in and take over the case when murders, including cop-killings, are normally handled by the local district attorney.

But in this case, the LA district attorney is a radical leftist named George Gascon, who doesn't believe in treating criminals harshly. In this case, Gascon's office reportedly declined to use any enhancements to the murder charge against the 4 men. So the police have chosen to refer this to the federal government for prosecution using whatever charges the federal law has at its disposal against organized street gangs. Not exactly a ringing endorsement for Mr. Gascon. 

One would think that this would be a wake-up call to the city and its residents, who voted Gascon into office even though he had already shown he was not fit for the job after his dismal performance as DA in San Francisco. But LA and San Francisco are in two worlds of their own.   

Milan: Worse Than Originally Thought

Reader warning: Graphic material. Translation by Fousesquawk.

With each passing day, the New Year's Eve fiasco in Milan appears to have been even worse than originally thought. More complaints are coming in from women who report being attacked by a mob and sexually assaulted. Presently, there are two young men in custody, but that number will hopefully grow. Italian police are actively searching for many other perpetrators. More and more, this is starting to look more like what occurred in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2015-2016.

In translating the below article from Il Giornale, I pondered whether I should even post this. It is graphic and disturbing reading as to what was done to these young women by these animals. In the end, I decided it must be reported (with all due respect to the privacy of the victims). These are not isolated incidents. Ever since the Europeans opened their doors to millions of these young men from the Middle East and North Africa (and other places like Afghanistan and Somalia), this is what they have had to deal with. How many women will be assaulted, groped, and raped before people wake up? How many innocent people will be butchered, stabbed, run over, shot, bombed, or beheaded before people wake up?

 https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/milano-decine-denunce-nei-verbali-tutto-lorrore-2002022.html

Dozens of complaints- In the reports, all the horror

14 January 2022-0:600

Hunt for head of the pack: a 45-year-old who directed the assaults. Release of the detained, to be decided today

Luca Fazzo

Live accounts of a mass rape: With the crudeness, at times indigestible, that the judicial files are forced to contain. In the arrest order for Abdallah Bouguedra and Abdel Ibrahim, the two youths of Maghrebian (N. African) origin, arrested for the violence of New Year's Eve in Milan, frames (images) have been reported that go beyond what has emerged up to now, and that will (influence) the decision as to the requested release of the two, expected today.

One witness tells of having seen a victim surrounded by a mob of men on the east side of Duomo Square, among whom, was "a man in a red jacket who shouted at the girl, intent on tearing her clothes and tugging her". When the police finally arrived, the pack dispersed, "leaving the girl on the ground, naked on the lower part of her body and with her pants down to her feet". She is the victim of whom at the Mangiagali Clinic, "doctors discovered evident abrasions on both her breasts and her genitals, as well as blood and swelling on various parts of her body". The victim, interviewed at 3:55 in the morning, said that "the group succeeded in lowering her pants and touching her vagina, also inserting fingers inside (the vagina)."

This maniacal fury directed at the most intimate parts of the victims seems to be a constant modus operandi of the pack. Paying the price shortly after, a girl found herself at the entrance to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele (the "good shopping area" of Milan), and who, the day after, told of "being literally run over from behind by a wave of men who groped her violently in her intimate parts, putting their hands on her backside, anus, and vagina to the point of tearing her pantyhose." Another girl explains that "on that evening, she was wearing a dress and remembered feeling hands behind her shoulders grabbing at her stockings at the height of her vagina and buttocks."

Together with the obsession of the pack for the female body, from statements reported in the arrest decree signed by public prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo, numerous other details emerge that confirm that the two arrests are only the beginning of the hunt for the perpetrators. The statements of the victims and their friends clearly describe other protagonists of the attacks: including one whom some point out as the "leader". "A man of about 45 years of age, bald, with light-colored eyes, light complexion, wearing a black shirt with yellow, Versace-type decorations." He spoke Italian but with the same accent as the boys in the pack. And while the number of potential suspects grows, so does, unfortunately, the number of victims. In the offices of the prosecutor and the police, reports and complaints continue to arrive from girls who had to suffer the violence of the pack. The reports come from various parts of Italy because on New Year's Eve in Milan, young men and women arrived from afar, convinced they would be able to celebrate the new year serenely in the heart of a safe city. They were mistaken.

Let's Go........Duce!

 Hat tip Vlad Tepes

The below video shows Benito Mussolini speaking in Taranto (That's in Italy for all you UC Santa Cruz Community Studies and History of Consciousness majors) on September 7, 1934.  Using a little poetic license, I decided to have some fun by adding my own English sub-titles. Of course, I admit that in this clip, Il Duce exhibits considerably more energy than Old Joe Biden, aka Brandon, and no, the crowd was not shouting, "F-you, Duce!", but as Old Joe would say, "....but anyway....".

Enjoy.

Italy: Where Are the Feminists?

Hat tip HeHa

 Photo: Two victims of sexual assaults in Milan's Piazza del Duomo on New Year's Eve
              

In the wake of the Milan sexual assault incident(s) on New Year's Eve, Francesca Galici, a reporter for Il Giornale, has written an op-ed asking, "Where are feminists?" Galici raises the point that the feminists on the left are always silent when it comes to the matter of sexual assaults in Italy committed by Muslim immigrants. We have similar issues in the US where our leftist feminists have nothing to say about how women are treated in Islamic societies.

The below article is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/lassordante-silenzio-delle-femministe-rosse-sulle-molestie-2001306.html

The deafening silence of the feminists regarding the molestations of New Year's Eve

11 January 2022-11:50

There have been no sit-ins and explicit demonstrations against what happened in Milan on New Year's Eve, while the number of victims of the herd of foreigners rises to 9

Francesca Galici

The events of New Year's Eve in Milan continue to stir public opinion for the gravity of what happened in Duomo Square shortly after midnight. With the passage of days, even more women have found the courage to report molestations suffered at the hands of the herd of foreigners who followed a plot similar to the well-known events in Cologne in 2016, even if fortunately, to a lesser extent.

What causes reflection, among other things, is the deafening silence from the left, which never misses the chance to claim the feminist battle over pronouns, but doesn't use the same energy to condemn what Milan is becoming due to a policy that forces cultural integration, which, in many cases, is evidently not desired by the same immigrants.

Alessandro Morelli, vice minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, has been attacked by the left in the last few days for having denounced the gravity of the events. Morelli has stressed how what happened in Milan is the result of the lack of true management of immigration in Milan on the part of the left which, on the other, hand, blames all responsibility on "society".

The work of the police in the last few days has been huge, the investigators have traced 18 of the members of the herd who, between December 31-January 1, molested at least 9 women in the center of Milan, near Duomo Square, transforming a night of partying into a nightmare. "Scenes similar to those of Cologne, with a planned attack, surrounding and groping," notes the Lega (party) municipal counselor, Silvia Sardone. The context in which the events played out becomes increasingly clear, exactly for this reason, as the (Lega) star lays out, "ensure the shameful silence of the feminists of the left, always ready to tear their clothes for feminist ends, but always silent in the face of this violence, the result of a culture incompatible with our society."

It's not the first time that the left prefers to close itself off in silence rather than expose itself by denouncing the gravity of acts done against women at the hands of foreign citizens. "Exactly like the case of Saman,"* continues Silvia Sardone, "we find ourselves faced with a consolidated idea, the result of traditions and Islamic religious teachings, which provides for the submission of women". A situation that Italy cannot accept, that Milan cannot be seen as the scene of a similar barbarity. "Milan cannot become the avant-guard of an idea of women being oppressed and their rights stomped upon. The Pd (Partito Democratico) and their comrades need to figure out this real problem as quickly as possible, which breeds particularly in the multi-ethnic (city) peripheries and in certain Muslim environments, rather than chasing after utopias like integration, which in fact, has always shown itself to fail and which so many immigrants don't even want," concludes Silvia Sardone in her statement.

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* Link provided by Fousesquawk.

Italy: Two Charged in New Year's Eve Attacks in Milan

Italian police have charged two young men, ages 18 and 21, with participation in the sexual attacks that occurred New Year's Eve in Milan.

The below article from today's Corriere della Sera is translated by Fousesquawk.

https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/22_gennaio_12/capodanno-milano-18enne-fermato-le-violenze-ho-visto-vittime-accerchiate-ma-non-ho-fatto-niente-82df0e4a-73c0-11ec-947d-d1048d2c4770.shtml

New Year's Eve in Milan, the 18-year-old arrested for violence: "I saw the girls surrounded, but I didn't touch them"

By Editorial Staff, Milan

The young man responded to the questions of gip (preliminary investigation judge) from the San Vittore jail: "I didn't touch the girls. Then I got scared and left". The Egyptian father, in Milan for two years, lives in the Comasina zone.

                                                            Abdallah Bouguedra, 21, and Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim, 18 

"I saw that they surrounded these girls, but I didn't participate." He defended himself. He said he "did nothing", that he didn't "touch" the girls, that he saw the people crowded together, and then he ran. That he only watched. A spectator, not a molester: "I am a good person, I have always worked." Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim, the 18-year-old arrested in the evening at Milan for the attack case in  Duomo Square on New Year's Eve, together with the 21-year-old Abdallah Bouguedra, resident of Turin, was interrogated by remote (with the help of an interpreter) by the preliminary investigating judge, Raffaella Mascarino. The young worker, second-generation Italian, father Egyptian, (resident) in Milan for two years in via Bovio (street) in Comasina, is locked up in the San Vittore jail. His lawyer, Iacopo Viola, has requested house arrest. The judge must decide on the request for approval of pre-trial custody in jail requested by the prosecutor. 

Interrogation at San Vittore

Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim reconstructed, step by step, the entire sequence of attacks but said that he did not participate in any type of violence. "I was there, I saw it, but I wasn't involved." The 18-year-old, heard by the preliminary investigating judge in a hearing to validate the arrest and assisted by attorney Jacopo Viola, told of having met friends at the Duomo and having observed the entire scene from afar. "I had just arrived and I met with some people I knew," he said. After a short time, the 18-year-old's friends reportedly "surrounded the girls," The "mess" reportedly "happened from 12:30 on". The boy confirmed having seen, "the girl dressed in red," while she was trying to defend herself, and "spit in the face of someone,".  After the attacks, the 18-year-old said he was  "scared" and went off to take the Metro.

The lawyer

"He responded and had a cooperative attitude with the judge," attorney Viola said at the end of the interrogation. "It is a delicate situation that involves one (who is)  barely an adult. I can say that he admitted being in the square, but denied the accusations. I have requested house arrest." The judge has reserved the decision on accepting the measure from the Milan Prosecutors Office and to apply pre-trial detention in jail.

The father: "Three months ago, he lost his brother"

"My son is a good boy, a worker who recently lost his brother," Ahmed, the father of the boy, told reporters in front of the building on the periphery (of Milan) where he lives with Abdelrahman. "My son has suffered, only 3 months ago, he lost a brother."  He works with plasterboard and has a clean record. That evening, he went out to have fun with friends, I am sure he is innocent, and that everything will be cleared up," he added.

The 21-year-old "from Turin"

As for Abdallah Bouguedra, the 21-year-old arrested in Turin, in the arrest decree issued by the Milan prosecutor, it reads, "he demonstrated a clear and conscious adherence to the criminal actions of the group of men who attacked the two 19-year-olds at McDonald's, "unequivocally inserting himself  as an active participant  in the sexually violent conduct of the group." "The brutally of the conduct of Abdallah B. shows the marked dangerousness of the subject, who, if freed, could commit other crimes of the same nature, also exploiting the force of intimidation of the violent group of which he is a part."  For the asst prosecutor, Letizia Mannella and the prosecutor, Alessia Mengazzo, "the same considerations must be made in reference to the conduct carried out by Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim." The latter is also under investigation for his alleged participation in the sexual attack on a group of 4 friends from Tuscany, aged 18-19, at the entrance to the Vittorio Emanuele II Galleria.  

Parents defend him

The parents of Abdallah Bouguedra also defend him. "Our son is a good boy, he didn't do anything." "Leave us in peace or we will call the Carabinieri," they add responding to the call box of their residence, an apartment in the housing areas of the northern periphery of Turin. In the home of the young man, a second-generation Italian of North African origin, the investigators from the Milan police, with the help of colleagues from the Turin police hqs, found the clothes the young man was wearing on New Year's Eve. 

The FBI Under Fire (January 6)

Hat tip Town Hall

On January 11, 2022, Jill Sanborn, Executive Asst Director for National Security in the FBI, testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the events of January 6, when the US Capitol was overrun. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) pointedly asked her if any FBI agents or their informants engaged in illegal acts or urged others to do so before or during the riot. Cruz also asked her whether a certain Ray Epps was an FBI agent or informant. Sanborn's repeated answers were that she could not answer the question. Cruz also asked Sanborn whether any FBI agents or "those in service" of the FBI actively encouraged acts of violence on January 6. Sanborn: "Not to my knowledge, Sir"

 https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/01/11/ted-cruz-fbi-january-6-riot-n2601698

As a retired DEA agent, I take no pleasure in criticizing another law enforcement agency. In the past, I have supported their attempts to fight Islamic terrorism in the US, and I still do. I believe that most FBI agents are honorable people who have also been troubled by much of what has happened over the last several years in their agency. But something is wrong at the FBI. In my mind, though J. Edgar Hoover is long gone, he created a culture that still exists to some extent. That is the attitude that they are the premier law enforcement agency in the world and that they can do things other agencies are not allowed to do.

Reading between the lines, my impression is that Ms. Sanborn is attempting to protect sources and methods, and it is true that this is legitimate to a point. But her answers are troubling in that it leads to the conclusion that FBI agents and/or their informants, operatives, or whatever you want to call them, were, in fact, among the crowd on January 6 and that they were more than just observers present to document any crimes and identify any law breakers-which would have been legitimate.

As to Ray Epps, whoever he is, Sanborn's unwillingness to answer the question as to whether he was a "fed", would seem to imply that Epps did have a relationship to the Bureau, agent, informant, or otherwise. Given his alleged statements and actions that day at the Capitol, this is indeed troubling.

Sanborn's final answer ("Not to my knowledge, Sir") is also troubling and may even approach perjury. In her position, she is in a position to know the answer to all of Cruz's questions. If she doesn't, she should be replaced on grounds of incompetency. Surely, she prepared for her appearance before the Committee. Surely, she was briefed by her colleagues before appearing.

If the answers to all of Senator Cruz's answers were "no", Sanborn would have or should have said so in no uncertain terms.

Of course, given who is in charge in Washington and who is the attorney general (Merrick Garland), I don't expect anything much to come out of this in terms of charges or discipline against Sanborn.

I also want to reiterate that I am not excusing anybody who engaged in violence and destruction at the Capitol on January 6. It was wrong, and those responsible should be prosecuted no matter who they were or what their motivation was. I still suspect (though I have no proof) that there were some Antifa types there egging the crowd on. That does not excuse those who broke the law. That does not excuse those who attacked and beat police officers that day.

But if the FBI had actual agents or informants in the crowd inciting or encouraging violence, this must be brought out.

France: Pedestrians Dragged by Car for Laughs (Video)

 Hat tip Fria Tider, Vlad Tepes, Miss Piggy, and Gates of Vienna. Translation by Fousesquawk.

On Monday, we posted a story on a group of Arabs who used their car to drag two pedestrians along the street in the Paris area until they fell on the road as the car's occupants laughed and drove off. On Tuesday, police announced the arrests of two suspects.

The Swedish blog, Fria Tider, also picked up on the story and published video taken by the suspects themselves and posted on social media. Outraged citizens sent the video to the French police. 

The video is below, now with English sub-titles.

Two Arrests in Paris Car-Dragging Case

Yesterday, we reported that at least two people were dragged along the street by a  car occupied by two or more Arabs, who filmed the victims running along with the car until they were released and fell on the street as the attackers laughed.

French police have arrested two suspects, with previous records, identified only as Amin B., age 24, and the passenger who filmed the acts, identified only as Davnys F., age 23. 

Europe 1 was able to talk with one of the victims, a 67-year-old retiree named Ali. The below article from Europe 1 is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.europe1.fr/societe/pietons-traines-en-voiture-un-retraite-porte-plainte-deux-individus-interpelles-4087187

Pedestrians dragged by car: A retiree files complaint, two individuals arrested

By William Molinie, 11 January 2022, updated at 15:27, 11 January 2022

The police have arrested two individuals suspected of having dragged pedestrians by car on the streets of Noisy-le-Sec, in Seine-Saint-Denis, and of having filmed the scene. In a complaint statement that Europe 1 had access to, a retiree aged 67, tells of having been dragged about 100 meters.

Some facts that many internet users had reported on the government platform, Pharos. In Seine-Saint-Denis, at Noisy-le-Sec, a motorist had fun by catching some pedestrians while driving, forcing them to run so as not to fall. According to information (received by) Europe 1, two individuals have been arrested: The driver, Amin B., 24 years of age, and the passenger who filmed the scene, Davnys F., 23 years of age. In all, three victims have now been identified, including a retiree, first name, Ali, age 67.

The retiree being held wanted to get a coffee.

In the complaint statement of the retiree that Europe 1 had access to, the man tells of going to the bar Pyramids at Noisy-le-Sec Sunday around 7:45 to get a coffee. "A Renault Clio vehicle with 4 young men, ages 20-25 years. They asked me for a cigarette. I then approached the car to give them one", he explains in his complaint. "He grabbed my hand, he wouldn't let me go, he accelerated," he explains to the Europe 1 microphone.

It was then that the 67-year-old retiree went a distance of about 100 meters, "before the driver let go. "I fell headfirst on the ground-tarmac. I knew the driver by sight, I had already seen him in another bar," adds Ali. (He) is injured in his legs, arms, face, and hips, but his prognosis is not life-threatening*. In total, Ali has 45 days of temporary interruption of his work (ITT).

"If you withdraw your complaint, the guy will give you 1,000 euros tonight"

In front of the Europe 1 microphone, the retiree confirmed that a person who came to the police station Tuesday morning offered him money. "He told me, 'if you withdraw your complaint, the guy will give you 1,000 euros tonight' (Monday). I told him, 'I am not withdrawing my complaint, I am not interested, I have things to take care of," Ali says. The retiree from Noisy-le-Sec explains that the police told him to avoid returning to the cafe, while waiting for the case to play out. "It seems that the guy has an older brother who is a bigger bandit than him. I don't want to take a stray bullet or be attacked again," adds the 67-year-old retiree. 

The suspects known unfavorably by police

According to Europe 1's information, the same individuals implicated have committed the same acts against two other victims, one not yet identified, another, a woman, having filed her complaint Tuesday morning. The suspects are both known unfavorably by the police, the second, who took the video, on probation and for recidivism for group violence with a gun. 

*Translator's note: The French term, "engagé" is an official medical prognosis. I have chosen the term, "life-threatening" as the closest English equivalent. Others may choose, "serious".

What Is There to Celebrate in Europe on New Year's Eve?

This article first appeared in New English Review.

Here in the US, it seems as I get older, it makes more and more sense to stay home on New Year’s Eve. It’s not just that in most of the country, it’s cold outside, but with drunks driving around and police looking for drunk drivers, it’s just better to stay at home and watch people like Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon get plastered and make fools of themselves on TV for the enjoyment of a million other fools gathered on Times Square freezing their asses off.

It’s a lot worse in Europe.

Thanks to the lunacy of Western European leaders and their masters in the Brussels-based EU, New Year’s Eve in European cities is starting to bring back images of World War 2. Millions of immigrants, migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and fortune seekers, from mostly Muslim countries, have ensured that once safe European cities are now becoming more like Chicago, Portland, or Minneapolis. Or should I say, like Damascus, Mogadishu, or Kabul?

But that’s just warming up for New Year’s Eve.

In recent years, thousands of French people can look forward to having their cars set on fire. It’s now a tradition, sort of like the barricades of French Revolution lore.

In other countries, the clock strikes 12 to the sound of fireworks going off, not vertically, but horizontally-aimed at other people- as the young rascals riot and set things on fire.

But it gets much worse.

On New Year’s Eve 2015-2016 in Cologne, Germany, hundreds of the aforementioned newcomers stormed the square next to the famed Dom cathedral and sexually attacked some hundred or so German women. Police were unable or unwilling to intervene. This in the country that had led the way in admitting asylum-seekers from Syria and other hell-holes as then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, infamously predicted, “Wir schaffen dass” (We can do this.)

They couldn’t then, and they can’t now. Germany has a mess on its hands. Its citizens fear going out at night, riding trains, and Jews are once again subject to attack on the streets if they wear Jewish garb. Similarly, Jews in France and Sweden are leaving for safer continents. I could go right down the list of Western European countries.

But let’s get back to New Year’s Eve.

This year-just last week- in Milan’s famed Piazza del Duomo, site of the glorious Duomo cathedral, dozens of young men-speaking Arabic- sexually groped several women, Italian and German, according to the latest reports, until police could intervene. There are no reports of arrests just yet. They scattered in all directions as police responded. The cops are still trying to identify and locate the perpetrators.

How ironic that Milan and Cologne boast of what are arguably, Europe’s two most spectacular and iconic cathedrals. While not on the same scale of the Cologne attacks, the Milan attacks are bringing back memories of what occurred in Germany 6 years ago. Most Italian news reports of the attacks make specific mention of what happened in Cologne.

Ironically, due to the Covid restrictions in effect in Italy, Piazza del Duomo should have been deserted New Year’s Eve, but silly me. The rules only apply to the natives.

One might think or hope that for Italy and Western Europe, this would be the last straw, and that they would close their borders and send the miscreants back. Don’t count on it. Riots, rapes, murders, car attacks, knife attacks, physical attacks on Jews, synagogues, churches, even terror attacks resulting in mass loss of life have not deterred the leftists running Western Europe (the Eastern European leaders refuse to go along with the madness.) In spite of Covid and the aforementioned problems, the flow continues uninterrupted. Germany has just accepted 11,000 of the nice folks passing through Belarus into Poland, while the ships continue to arrive at Lampedusa from across the Mediterranean, and hundreds at a time storm the fences of the Spanish North African enclaves at Ceuta and Melilla.

And it all comes together in one big celebration on New Year’s Eve. But Europeans won’t have to wait 355 days for the fun to start again. It’s becoming a daily event. As they might say in Munich: “Every day is the Oktoberfest!”

 

 

Italian Police Identify 18 Suspects in New Year's Eve Incidents in Milan

Multiple news sources are reporting that Italian police have identified 18 suspects in the sexual assaults that took place in Milan on New Year's Eve. Fifteen of the suspects are (young) adults and three are minors. According to Il Giornale (translation pending), all are either foreigners or Italian citizens of North African extraction. It is not immediately clear how many are actually in custody.

 https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/milano/milano-violenze-sessuali-capodanno-perquisiti-18-giovani-3-2001284.html

*Update: Here is our translation of the above article from Il Giornale. Note that the article uses the word "perquisiti" (searches) rather than arrests. As stated, It is not entirely clear how many are actually in custody. It appears that the Italian press can only report that 18 young men have been identified and that their residences are being searched. More details should follow in the next day or so.

Molestations at Duomo, 18 young men searched: Here is who they are

11 January 2022-09:29

All are 15-21 years of age. They are both foreigners and Italians of North African origin.

Valentina Dardari

Following the investigations of the Public Prosecutor of Milan, who is searching for the perpetrators of the sexual attacks committed on New Year's Eve in Milan's Duomo Square against at least 9 victims, the State Police have announced that searches pertaining to 18 boys are in progress. 

Also, 3 minors among those searched

Specifically, there are 15 adults and 3 minors, aged 15-21 years of age, held responsible for the (attacks) on the night of December 31 for various reasons. The searches, in progress between Milan and Turin, involve boys who are both foreigners and Italians of North African origins. At the moment, however, for various reasons, only 12 of the 18 boys being searched are being investigated for group sexual violence, robbery, and aggravated injuries.

The investigation, still in progress, for the time being, has ascertained three different episodes of violence committed that tragic New Year's Eve against 9 girls present in the principal square of the capital of Lombardy to celebrate the arrival of the new year. The searches are being carried out by the National Police, coordinated by the National Prosecutor of Milan, as well as the National Prosecutor for Juvenile Court in Milan, and also includes the participation of police officers from the Milan Section of Judicial Police, the Mobil Squad of the Turin police hqs, and the Crime Prevention Departments of Lombardy and Piedmont.

Foreigners and North African Italians

The investigations of the investigators, which are based on viewing the images from the surveillance systems and the statements of passersby and the victims, as well as analysis of videos posted on social media, have led to the identification of 18 alleged members of the herd of boys who sexually molested 9 young women. As previously stated, only 12 of the boys are being investigated for now. For purposes of the investigation, the work of experts from the Scientific Police from the Lombardy Regional Cabinet, who used specialized personnel and particular software for facial recognition, is very important.

For days, the victims have told what occurred on that nightmare night. In the last testimony of yesterday evening, one of the two students molested in Milan, guest of "4th Republic (Show)", told what she felt in those moments, surrounded and stripped by the herd, along with her friend. The girl told of falling to the ground, pushed by the crowd, and of feeling at least 30, or maybe 50 men touching her body and breast with their hands, after which, her bra was torn off. Fortunately, the girl, due to the cold, had thought of wearing a pair of shorts under her skirt.

France: Pedestrians Dragged by Car for Laughs

Hat tip Fria Tider, Vlad Tepes, and Gates of Vienna. Translation by Fousesquawk.

*Updated 1-11-22. Two suspects are now in custody. Translation of article below is pending.

https://www.europe1.fr/societe/pietons-traines-en-voiture-un-retraite-porte-plainte-deux-individus-interpelles-4087187

On Sunday night in Seine-Saint-Denis, a municipality in Eastern Paris, a vehicle with at least two men dragged two pedestrians along the street until they fell on the road. The driver lured the victims to the car by asking them for a cigarette, then grabbing their hands and continuing to drive. 

In addition, these men videotaped what they did and posted it on social media, from which it was reported to the police. At this time, police are attempting to identify and arrest the occupants of the vehicle.

In the photo below, you can see one of the victims as he is running along the car and trying to free himself before collapsing on the street. This image was published by French police. In addition, the Swedish blog, Fria Tider, in reporting the story, posted the video the perpetrators had placed on social media. That video shows a second victim (wearing a mask) also running alongside the car before falling to the street. All this as the perpetrators laughed hysterically. In the video, and as reported by Europe 1 (France) below: The driver tells the victim, "Wallah (I swear by God in Arabic), you're going to run" (in French).

"Evening giggles"

The below article from Europe 1 is translated by Fousesquawk. Sub-titling of the above-referenced video is pending.

 https://www.europe1.fr/faits-divers/seine-saint-denis-un-automobiliste-samuse-a-trainer-des-pietons-en-roulant-4087040

Seine-Saint Denis: A driver has fun dragging pedestrians while driving

January 10, 13:57, Europe 1 with Agence France Presse

An investigation has been opened after the dissemination of a video showing a driver who has fun by grabbing and dragging two pedestrians until they fall, Sunday at Noisy-le-Sec (Seine Saint-Denis), we have learned Monday through police sources. Multiple reports have taken place on the Pharos Platform.

An investigation has been opened after the dissemination of a video showing a driver who has fun by grabbing and dragging two pedestrians until they fall, Sunday at Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), we have learned Monday through police sources. Multiple reports have taken place on the Pharos Platform. "An investigation has immediately been initiated to identify the perpetrators of this gratuitous attack," tweeted the prefecture of police in Paris, indicating that it resulted from multiple Internet reports on Pharos, a platform created in 2009 to report illicit content and behavior online.

Tweet:

Prefecture of Police

The Prefecture of Police thank the internet users who transmitted this video on the Pharos reporting portal. An investigation has immediately been initiated to identify the perpetrators of this gratuitous attack.

A video captioned, "Evening giggles"

The amateur video, captioned, "Evening giggles", joins two extracts which each last a few seconds. The passenger films the driver, who holds onto a man while continuing to drive, which forces the victim to run until falling to the ground. Then it is the turn of another man to be subjected to the same. "Wallah (Arabic for 'I swear by God'), you are going to run!" the driver tells him. "Stop your bullshit!"" Stop, I'm going to fall!" the pedestrian begs, held by the hand.

The scenes provoked hilarity on the part of the occupants of the vehicle. One of the victims, in his 60s, filed a complaint for the events that played out early Sunday morning, indicated a police source. The man was lightly injured in sprawling onto the road and suffered head and body contusions, she (police source) stated. The perpetrators were being actively sought Monday. 

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 Hat tip HeHa

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