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Brussels lockdown orgy: Hungarian EU lawmaker and diplomats among 25 men busted by police during ‘gang bang’
1 Dec 2020 17:05
Jozsef Szajer has resigned from Fidesz. © REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/ file photo
A member of the European Parliament and several diplomats were caught by police at an illegal lockdown “orgy” in a bar in central Brussels, with local media reporting that the lawmaker tried to flee the scene through a window.
Officers reportedly encountered 25 naked men enjoying a drink-and-drugs-fuelled “party of legs in the air” when they raided the venue on Rue des Pierres in the Belgian capital on Friday night. “We interrupted a gang bang!” a source told the Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure (DH).
MEP József Szájer admitted in a statement on Tuesday that he was at the “private party” and the “misstep” was “strictly personal.” “I ask everyone not to extend it to my homeland, or to my political community,” he added. Szájer has resigned from Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party.
The public prosecutor’s office said that a passer-by had reported to the police that he had seen a man that he was able to identify fleeing along the gutter.
“The man’s hands were bloody. It is possible that he may have been injured while fleeing. Narcotics were found in his backpack,” the public prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “The man was unable to produce any identity documents. He was escorted to his place of residence, where he identified himself as S. J. (1961) by means of a diplomatic passport.”
Gatherings of more than four people are prohibited in Belgium and a curfew is in place in a bid to limit the spread of Covid-19. All those present at the party received fines for breaking the restrictions. The Brussels public prosecutor's office was informed of the incident and decided to release the interested parties without further charge.
Szájer said in his statement that police gave him “an official verbal warning” and brought him home. He said he had not taken drugs and added that he was “sorry” and that he “deeply” regretted breaking coronavirus regulations. “It was irresponsible on my part. I am ready to stand for the fine that occurs,” he said.
Orban lashes out at Hungarian MEP’s ‘gay gang bang’ in Brussels,
calling it ‘indefensible’ & ‘incompatible with values’
2 Dec 2020 18:10
(L) Jozsef Szajer © AFP / PETER KOHALMI; (R) Viktor Orban REUTERS /Handout / Zoltan Fischer/Hungarian Prime Minister's Press Office
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has described the conduct of MEP Jozsef Szajer – caught in an apparent gay orgy in Brussels – as “incompatible with our values,” after Szajer resigned from Orban’s conservative Fidesz party.
Szajer resigned from his post on Sunday, two days after police in Brussels raided a male-only orgy for breaking lockdown rules and found the MEP shimmying down a drainpipe away from the 25-man party. He issued an apology on Tuesday, calling his “misstep”“strictly personal.”
Szajer then quit Fidesz altogether, party leader Viktor Orban told the Hungarian Magyar Nemzet newspaper on Wednesday.
“The actions of our fellow deputy, Jozsef Szajer, are incompatible with the values of our political family,” Orban told the paper. “We will not forget nor repudiate his thirty years of work, but his deed is unacceptable and indefensible.”
Fidesz is a right-wing party, and prides itself on its commitment to Christian and family values. Homosexuality is not outlawed in Hungary, but same-sex marriage is forbidden. Szajer himself helped draft Hungary’s new constitution in 2011, which explicitly defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. An amendment introduced last month ensured that only straight couples could adopt children.
According to a 2019 survey, less than half of Hungary’s population think that homosexuality “should be accepted by society.” Similar attitudes exist to immigration, and Orban has counted on the votes of these social conservatives to stay in power since 2010, and earlier, between 1998 and 2002.
As such, the “gang bang” scandal was held up in western media as an example of the alleged hypocrisy of Hungary’s right-wing. Within Hungary, Fidesz has attempted to downplay the story. The party released a statement calling his resignation as MEP “the only right decision,” while Justice Minister Judit Varga told reporters that after the resignation, “all the rest is his personal matter.”
Fired NEXT president arrested on child sex abuse charges
Anna Del Savio, Pamplin Media Group
December 02, 2020
PMG PHOTO: ANNA DEL SAVIO - NEXT Renewable Fuel President Lou Soumas answers questions from the audience at a town hall held in Columbia City on Aug. 6, 2019.
The former president of NEXT Renewable Fuels was fired after being arrested on child sex abuse charges in Texas.
Lou Soumas ran the renewable fuel company, which is in the process of building a bio-fuel production facility at Port Westward outside Clatskanie.
Soumas was fired by NEXT's board of directors on Wednesday, Nov. 25. The company announced the termination on Monday, Nov. 30.
NEXT's executive chairman, Christopher Efird, said that the board's decision "was based on information that came to light late last week concerning a personal matter involving Mr. Soumas and is completely unrelated to NEXT. However, we are confident in our decision that immediate termination was necessary."
Efird said that the information leading to Soumas' firing came to him late in the evening on Nov. 24, and the board met early the next morning. Efird declined to say if Soumas' termination was related to the criminal charges.
Soumas was arrested on Nov. 13 on two felony charges. The first charge, indecency with child sexual contact, carries a sentence of between two and 20 years. The second charge carries a sentence of two to 10 years.
Soumas was indicted on both charges in January, but a spokesperson for the Fort Bend County District Attorney's Office said that the indictment would not have been made public until Soumas was arrested.
Why did it take 11 months to arrest him?
Soumas has since been released on bond. A Texas judge granted Soumas' motion to amend the bond conditions to allow him to return to his Portland residence.
Efird said the Port Westward project "will continue without interruption. We have very strong teams on the ground in Oregon and Houston and are moving forward full speed," Efird stated in the company's announcement.
Soumas has been the main figure in NEXT's public presence in Columbia County, appearing at numerous Port of Columbia County meetings and open forums in recent years.
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French figure skating champ faces felony charge in Florida for allegedly sending intimate photos to minor
10 Dec 2020 12:01
Renowned French pairs skater Morgan Ciprès is facing a felony charge following sexual abuse allegations voiced by the family of an underage girl who was training with him at the same rink.
The Florida state attorney’s office has filed a felony charge against Ciprès, who allegedly sent pictures of his penis to a 13-year-old girl in 2017 while preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the US with his skating partner Vanessa James.
According to USA Today, a warrant has been issued for the skater’s arrest, with his crime being reported as a third-degree felony, which carries up to five years in prison.
The controversial incident, which led to a huge scandal at the time, occurred in December 2017, when the 2019 European champion allegedly sent two lewd photos to a 13-year-old female skater who was training at the same rink in Florida.
According to local reports, a coach at Wesley Chapel's, Advent Health Center Ice Rink, Vinny Dispenza, had asked the girl and her teammate – another underage girl – to message Ciprès asking him to send the photos in exchange for a pizza that Dispenza said he would pay for.
The skater sent two revealing photos from his verified Instagram account. This triggered independent investigations by the US authorities and the US Center for SafeSport, which battles all forms of abuse in sport.
Ciprès’s coaches, John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana, were reportedly aware of the incident and tried to keep the girl’s family from reporting the abuse, because it could have negatively affected the skaters’ preparation for the Winter Games, in which they finished fifth.
The attorney for the girl and her family, Andrea Lewis, said the charge was “the first step towards justice for the victim and her family. No child should ever have to go through anything like this.
By filing felony charges against Morgan Ciprès, the State of Florida has sent a clear message to him and other men who prey on children.”
Former Vancouver Whitecaps and Team Canada soccer coach charged with multiple sex offences
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Bob Birarda is facing charges of sexual exploitation, sexual assault and child luring
Karin Larsen · CBC News ·
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 10:25 AM PT
Birarda was the head coach of the Canadian U-20 women's national team and Whitecaps women's team in 2007 and 2008. He was also an assistant coach with the Canadian Olympic women's team in 2008 (Canada Soccer)
Former Vancouver Whitecaps and Team Canada women's soccer coach Bob Birarda has been charged with several sex offences against four individuals, according to the B.C. Prosecution Service.
The charges include six counts of sexual exploitation, two counts of sexual assault and one count of child luring.
The offences are alleged to have occurred over a 20-year span between Jan. 1, 1988 and March 25, 2008, at or near North Vancouver, Burnaby and West Vancouver.
None of the allegations has been proven in court and the names of the complainants are protected by a publication ban.
Whistleblower and former Whitecaps player Ciara McCormack said she was shocked to hear Birarda had been charged. "It's obviously been a very long journey for a lot of us," she said. "There's still a part of me that's very upset about all the cover-ups that went on for years and allowed him to be on the field, and all the lives that were negatively impacted by him."
McCormack is not a complainant in the case but she did bring the story to light in Feb. 2019 in a blog post titled "A Horrific Canadian Soccer Story," which alleged abusive behaviour and harassment on the part of Birarda a decade earlier.
Soon after, a dozen former Team Canada players published a joint statement alleging Birarda had sent sexualized text messages to players, made sexual comments to players, touched players inappropriately and used his position of power to make sexual advances.
Fan backlash
The allegations triggered a public backlash against the Vancouver Whitecaps, with fans staging walkouts during MLS games at BC Place Stadium to protest the club's inaction in addressing the accusations.
"I'm so incredibly grateful," said McCormack. "Because if they hadn't done what they did, our voices wouldn't have been amplified and I don't know if these charges would have even happened."
Birarda was released from his duties as head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps women's team and the U-20 Canadian women's team in 2008 with little explanation.
At the time the Canadian Soccer Association called it a mutual parting of ways.
Within months he was back coaching girls at a club team in Tsawwassen, B.C.
He continued coaching girls soccer until February 2019, when he was suspended from Surrey, B.C., club Coastal FC after McCormack's blog when viral.
'The system failed us'
McCormack says the Canadian Soccer Association and Whitecaps still have a lot to answer for.
"The individual behaviour of people within both those organizations was disgusting," she said. "The Canadian Soccer Association has not addressed it and his coaching licence has not been suspended."
"The system ... failed all of us and it's still failing players because nothing has changed."
Birarda coached the Whitecaps and U-20 Canadian team in 2007 and 2008. He was also an assistant coach with the Canadian Olympic women's soccer team in 2008.
CBC has reached out to the Canadian Soccer Association and the Vancouver Whitecaps for comment.
Birarda made his first appearance in North Vancouver Provincial Court on Wednesday. His next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 28, 2021.
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