Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

Please note: All my writings and comments appear in bold italics in this colour

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Saturday, 9 August 2025

Immigrant Crime Rates in the UK - Chris Philp; What to Tell, When to Tell - Problem for UK Cops and Home Sec

 

UK Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp Speaks Out on Immigrant Crime


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Chris Philp is a Conservative politician and Shadow Home Secretary, who wants the truth about Muslim crime, and its punishment, to no longer be hidden by the government and the police, but made available to an increasingly anxious public. More on his views can be found here: 


‘Labour must act over shocking asylum seeker rape revelations'

by Chris Philp, Express

We have been told by the left that allowing high levels of immigration is a matter of compassion and that to question it is somehow wrong. We were lectured by human rights lawyers like Keir Starmer that numbers don’t matter and nor does our own culture.

But as we witness waves of immigration without integration, no one in good faith can now accept the left’s arguments any longer. It has never been clearer that the public has had enough of uncontrolled immigration.

Rising crime, strained communities, public sector costs running to billions and pressure on housing can be traced back to failures in immigration policy. Parallel societies have developed in some parts of the country, with completely separate cultures and social norms that bear no relation to British life.

Muslims do not want to integrate into British society. They are happy to pocket every conceivable benefit offered by the generous welfare state, which has caused great expense to the Exchequer, but they know that, as the Qur’an instructs, they “must not take Jews or Christians as friends, for they are friends only with each other.” They also cannot be expected to integrate into a society fashioned by non-Muslims, who are “the most vile of created beings.” They live in the U.K., but to the precise extent that they hold fast to Islam, they cannot become truly British.

Evidence has recently come to light that certain nationalities have a very high propensity to commit crime. Afghan men, for example, are around 20 times more likely to commit sex offences than average. Congolese nationals are many times more likely to commit violent crime. And yet the full data on this issue is still not available.

This is precisely what had happened with the grooming gang scandal. They operated within a conspiracy of silence and cover up for years, because the majority of perpetrators were of Pakistani origin. Concerns around the demographics were dismissed as racist. We Conservatives have made clear this can never happen again.

Labour doesn’t want the public to know just how much of the crime in the U.K. is committed by Muslim migrants, nor what sentences they were given, nor whether at the end of their sentences they were deported. It realizes that if the awful truth were known, an enraged British public would demand that Muslim migration be stopped, a position that not Labour, but the Conservatives and Reform parties, embrace. Labour’s current leader, Keir Starmer, was head of the Crown Prosecution Service during the years when there was almost no prosecution of the Pakistani grooming gangs; that’s a period of his life that he wishes could be forgotten.

Chris Philp has made the case for informing the public, that is starting to show up in numbers at the well-appointed hotels in picturesque villages where so many of these Muslim immigrants are now being housed, to protest this state of affairs. The public no longer fears being tarred with the word “racist.” Labour is sinking in the polls, in large part because of its failure to confront the Muslim migrant problem in all of its aspects, from the cost to taxpayers of supporting them, to the crimes they commit in such profusion. Kemi Badenoch, Shadow Prime Minister, and Nigel Farage, head of the Reform Party, are hoping to take Starmer’s place, and both are eminently sensible on the immigrant question.

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UK: Police deny cover-up of fact that rape suspect was Muslim migrant, blame Home Office ‘national guidance’


The Warwickshire police coverup, although blatant, isn’t an isolated incident. There have been concerted efforts across the West to hide the fact that Sharia-adherent Muslims hold values that are markedly different from those of Western free societies.

It should not be up to the state and the state police to decide whether to keep the public in the dark about who exactly is committing crime, in an attempt to protect the government from public accountability. The bottom line is that the UK government wants to fool the public into thinking that its open-door migration project was a success, instead of the catastrophe that it was and is. Innocent people are being stabbed, murdered, raped and groomed at alarming rates due to the reckless unvetted migration policy of the UK’s treasonous government. Holding on to power at any cost is the goal of corrupt governments everywhere, and that is the reason for this “national guidance.”


PCC writes to Home Secretary asking for ‘clearer communications guidance’ for police forces

by Paul Jacques, Police Professional, August 7, 2025:

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, and Mohammad Kabir, 23, have since been charged in connection with the reported rape on Tuesday July 22. Both are due to appear at Warwick Crown Court on August 26.

The case has prompted strong public concern and commentary around the release of information, including the immigration status of those accused.

The leader of Warwickshire County Council, Councillor George Finch, shared a letter on social media alleging the suspects were asylum seekers and accusing the Warwickshire Police and the Home Office of covering it up.

Chief Constable Alex Franklin-Smith responded by stating the force “did not and will not cover up such criminality” (see https://policeprofessional.com/news/warwickshire-police-responds-to-cover-up-accusations-over-nuneaton-rape/).

Mr Seccombe said: “This is a horrific crime and my thoughts continue to be with the victim and her family at this incredibly difficult time.

As PCC, I am holding Warwickshire Police to account and will continue to do so.  In the past few days I have sought and received clear assurances around the investigation, the safeguarding of the victim, and how wider community concerns are being addressed.

“I’ve also questioned the approach taken to public communication, as that has been the focus of much debate.

“Like all forces, Warwickshire Police finds itself in a difficult position of trying to carefully balance the legal safeguards which protect the integrity of the judicial process, while maintaining public order and simultaneously ensuring that public confidence is maintained through transparency and honesty.”

He added: “Currently police forces are in an invidious position when deciding what can and should be disclosed in sensitive cases, given that the national guidance is silent on both the ethnicity and immigration status of suspects.

“It is very easy to criticise and suggest that the balance of disclosure hasn’t been correct, but it is much harder to take these decisions on the ground.”…

He said: “It is imperative that police forces have revised guidance as soon as possible, so everyone has the clarity needed on what information will be released, when it will be released and by whom, for any incidents going forward”….




Monday, 3 March 2025

258 trafficked people freed from Myanmar internet scam compound - IJM

 

It appears that phone and internet scamming may be the fastest-growing industry in the world, except for the War Industry.


Nearly 260 Workers Freed from Myanmar Scam Compounds Identified as Trafficking Victims in Thailand



IJM praises collaboration between Thai authorities and non-profit organization partners.

Bangkok, Thailand — Last week, 260 people from 19 different countries working in industrial-scale, online scamming operations based in Myawaddy, Myanmar were released by an ethnic armed militia group and handed over to Thai authorities across the border in Mae Sot, Thailand. These scamming complexes are notorious for trafficking victims into horrific working conditions involving constant surveillance, threats of physical punishment, and beatings. Over the weekend, Thai officials identified 258 of the freed individuals as human trafficking victims under Thailand’s National Referral Mechanism for protecting victims of trafficking.

In coordination with local non-profit organizations and Thai authorities on the ground, IJM Thailand rapidly mobilized a team on Saturday morning to respond by assisting victim identification and response efforts at the border. IJM staff are providing translation services, assisting survivors, and working with local officials to support the Thai government Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) tasked with identifying victims of trafficking. “The hope is that strengthened government victim identification in forced scamming cases will lead to better protection for migrant workers overall," says an IJM casework staff who assisted the MDTs during the victim identification process.

“This is the beginning of one of the largest releases of victims from the scam compounds in Myanmar, with hundreds or thousands expected to be freed in the coming weeks. We’re grateful for the Thai government and the non-profit organizations we partner with, who have been working tirelessly to support survivors of forced labour in online scam operations,” said Andrew Wasuwongse, Country Director of International Justice Mission (IJM) Thailand.

“We also commend the Thai government's decisive action by focusing attention on the scam compounds, including cutting off the supply of Thai-side electricity and internet to the compounds in Myanmar. We urge the Thai government to maintain the electricity and internet cuts and expand enforcement to include likely illegal internet connections, including the use of internet signal repeaters. These actions will strengthen Thailand’s commitment to cracking down on the criminal scam syndicates that have been operating with impunity for too long,” he added.

The majority of the identified victims of trafficking were from countries across Asia and Africa, including the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, China, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Taiwan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, and as far away as Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Brazil.

Since 2022, IJM’s team in Thailand has supported survivors trafficked into forced scamming. Often working together with other NGOs, IJM staff have supported the government’s comprehensive victim identification process at the border or in Bangkok. Many people who have been trafficked face significant uncertainty as they await formal recognition as trafficking victims.

Gavesh*, a survivor of forced scamming who was trafficked to Myanmar, released, assisted by IJM, and repatriated back to Sri Lanka in 2023, expressed relief to IJM upon hearing the news: “I’m glad that more people are coming out of the compounds. I know they went through horrific experiences. I hope that even more victims will be freed and safely returned to their home countries.”

Over the past few years, thousands of people from more than 60 countries around the world have fallen victim to traffickers, lured to scam centers with promises of high salaries advertised as white-collar jobs located in Bangkok or elsewhere in the region. In most cases, criminal scam syndicates deceived individuals into traveling to Thailand for seemingly legitimate jobs, only to be trafficked across the border into Myanmar, and forced to work in exploitative working conditions.

IJM’s offices in Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia (through a local partner) are working with government agencies and embassies to facilitate the rescue, repatriation and care of survivors, as well as investigation by law enforcement partners into the cross-border human trafficking networks involved. Since 2021, IJM has assisted close to 500 individuals determined to be victims of forced scamming in Southeast Asia. IJM also supports the government’s criminal justice system response, which has led to the convictions of 15 perpetrators involved in forced scamming to date, including one trafficker in Thailand sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.

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About International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission partners with local authorities in 33 program offices in 19 countries to combat slavery, violence against women and children and police abuse of power. IJM’s mission is to protect people in poverty from violence by rescuing victims, bringing criminals to justice, restoring survivors to safety and strength, and helping local law enforcement build a safe future that lasts. Learn more at: IJM.ca or IJM.org.




Saturday, 24 February 2024

The perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Godreche calls French Film Industry - Pedocriminality - Trafficking of Young Women

 

French actor Godreche speaks out

 against film industry sex abuse at

César awards ceremony


France's annual movie awards ceremony took a somber turn Friday with a standing ovation for actress Judith Godreche who spoke out against sexual violence in the film industry.

Judith Godrèche speaks during the 49th César film awards ceremony at the Olympia in Paris on February 23, 2024.

© Stéphane de Sakutin, AFP

By: NEWS WIRES

"Why accept that this art that we love so much, this art that unites us, be used as a cover for illicit trafficking of young women?" Godreche told the 49th Cesar Awards ceremony.

Police opened an investigation earlier this month after Godreche filed a complaint for sexual violence against French film director Benoit Jacquot, 77, with whom she had a relationship in the late 1980s when she was a minor.

Reuters could not reach Jacquot for comment. He has told Le Monde newspaper his first sexual relationship with Godreche happened after her 15th birthday, the legal age of consent in France. Godreche told French media she was 14.

In his interview with Le Monde, Jacquot, who is 25 years older than Godreche, denied any violence towards her.

Leftist union CGT Spectacle held a protest outside the Cesar venue.

"Judith Godreche has had the courage to talk about her story ... about the sexual violence so many women have suffered in a professional environment," CGT said. 

Culture Minister Rachida Dati – one of the first in the audience to stand after Godreche's remarks – said this week that the French film industry was only now becoming aware of "collective blindness that lasted for years" regarding sexual violence in French cinema.

She told Le Film Francais that art was no excuse for crime. "We are not talking about art, but pedocriminality," she said.

Godreche, who starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 "The Man in the Iron Mask", had a breakout role in a 1986 Jacquot movie.

The allegations come just weeks after Gerard Depardieu came under fire for making lewd comments about women in a TV programme. The actor has been the focus of accusations of sexual violence in recent years. He has denied wrongdoing.

(Reuters)

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Thursday, 4 June 2020

Madeleine McCann Paedo Suspect ‘Staked Out Her Apartment for Four Days’ Before She Vanished

Dan Sales Mike Sullivan
The Sun, UK

THE prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann may have staked out the family apartment for four days before she vanished.

New photos and details about German paedophile ''Christian B'' match the description of a mystery man spotted nearby at least four times.

Madeleine vanished in Portugal when she was three years old Credit: Handout

Suspicious members of the public had told police about a blond male with a pockmarked face, but he was never found.

''Christian B'' is known to have been carrying out burglaries on holiday villas and apartments at the time and had been living at a run-down shack nearby.

A source said: “These sightings have been a mystery for years and have been the subject of numerous police appeals.

“With a suspect now in custody it seems like they may have finally been solved.”

The first sighting was on April 30, 2007 — two days after the family arrived in Praia da Luz at the Ocean Club.

A man matching the suspect's description was seen in sunglasses at 8am staring at the apartment.

The German, who lived in Portugal for many years, is currently in jail for an unrelated crime

On May 2 a blond male was seen acting strangely at the complex’s reception at midday, without any clear reason to be there.

With a suspect now in custody it seems like they may have finally been solved.

About an hour later a British witness then clocked a blond man with a pal visiting the Habana seafront internet cafe, a five-minute walk from the apartment.

A Netflix documentary last year revealed more about the pair in an interview with another holidaymaker, Jayne Jensen.

She described the moment her sister pointed out two blond men lingering near the Ocean Club on May 3.

This was the final sighting before Madeleine vanished.

Jayne said: “She was walking just slightly in front of me and then she stopped and looked back at me and motioned with her head.

“I caught up with my sister and said, ‘What was that about?’ She said, ‘Well, two single blond men on their own’, which made me chuckle. But they were wrongly placed.

“And that was that, until later that day when we had heard that Madeleine was taken, it was only then, piecing back — who were these guys?”

Suspicious members of the public had told police about a blond male with a pockmarked face, but he was never found

There had also been a big increase in burglaries in the resort, peaking the month before Madeleine disappeared. Two break-ins were in the same block as her family’s apartment.

And an intruder carried out one on April 16 after knocking on the door and asking for the “German family”.

In 2009 police put out a new artist’s impression of a “very ugly” man seen by a British tourist as he apparently watched the apartment the day before she vanished.

In 2013 Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood appealed for information about the two men on Dutch TV’s Opsporing Verzocht, similar to Britain’s Crimewatch. He said: “A man or two men were seen lurking around the apartments. We are really keen to understand firstly if they are linked. The first e-fit we are showing is of a man wearing sunglasses.

“He was seen on April 30 at about 8am in the morning in the rear passageway behind Madeleine’s apartment looking in the direction of the apartment. Again on May 2 at about lunchtime by the main reception area.

“The second e-fit is of a man who was seen on the afternoon that Madeleine disappeared at around 4pm.

He was seen on April 30 at about 8am in the morning in the rear passageway behind Madeleine’s apartment looking in the direction of the apartment.

“He was coming from an empty apartment two down, 5C, and he walked off towards the main road. We’re really keen to understand who that was.

“That links back to a sighting at 2.30pm where two men who were bare-chested wearing swimming trunks and with blonde hair were seen by two witnesses.”

German investigators confirmed this week their new suspect is white, around 6ft with short blond hair, and has scars and pockmarks on his face.

On Wednesday they revealed he was in contact with someone else just half an hour before the abduction.

The caller was not in the Praia da Luz area when they rang the suspect at 7.32pm. The call ended at 8.02pm.

Police gave the suspect’s number as +351 912 730680 and the mystery caller’s as +351 916 510683.

Meanwhile, pictures of the paedophile's 1980s VW camper van and a 1993 left hand-drive Jaguar XJR6 with German number plates helped pull in 400 responses after they were shown in Germany’s Crimewatch.

The Jag was suspiciously re-registered in another name the morning after Madeleine disappeared.

The suspect may have staked out the family apartment for four days before she vanished Credit: Doug Seeburg

Before ''Christian B'' moved into the van, he lived for six years with a partner in a ramshackle hillside retreat close to the Black Rock peak above Praia da Luz beach.



Detectives fear a heavily scratched wooden post in the building may be where he chained victims.



Surrounding grounds are dotted with deep freshwater wells.



A British woman whose mother owns property next door told The Sun: “There was something weird about him. You get a feeling about people that it’s hard to explain.

“I was only 14 at the time that Madeleine disappeared and I never really felt threatened by him, but something wasn’t right. I never saw his VW camper van but can clearly remember seeing him in the big Jaguar.”

Former neighbours said he made money selling cars and “disappeared without a word” in 2006.

The British owner of the building has told how it was left in a “disgusting” and “absolutely vile” state.

The German paedo lived in this house just five miles from where Madeleine vanished Credit: Solarpix

Wigs and exotic clothing were found strewn around the property with smashed computer hardware when the paedophile abruptly moved out.

The owner, who asked not to be named, said in a statement: “The house was occupied for a period of time by what seemed like an ordinary young couple trying to get by in Portugal.

“Living in England, we had relatively little interaction besides talk of the house, the land and any maintenance issues. We met in person when passing through on family holidays to the Algarve.

“At a later date we discovered that the man’s girlfriend had parted company and returned to Germany. In 2006, my neighbour contacted me in the UK to say that the house had been left ramshackled and abandoned.”

In June 2014, Scotland Yard detectives backed by a team of specially trained dogs excavated scrubland around 300 yards from the building but unearthed no clues.

Have they investigated the wells? Mind you, it sounds like a job done on demand for a perverted client. Most likely she was whisked out of the country that night. If she was passed on to another, there is no reason to conclude that she is dead. Although, the alternative might be worse.



Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Europe's Nigerian Mafia

by Judith Bergman

Italian intelligence has named the Nigerian mafia "the most structured and dynamic" of any foreign crime entity operating in Italy, according to the Washington Post.... What distinguishes the Nigerian crime networks is their severe brutality...

Black Axe has also spread to Canada, where a 2015 report by the Globe and Mail described it as a "death cult"... linked to "decades of murders and rapes.... In the US, the FBI recently linked a series of financial frauds to Black Axe.

"...traffickers tell victims of human trafficking to apply for asylum and then get a status to be able to stay here in Germany, but they continue to be exploited in prostitution." — Andrea Tivig, Terre des Femmes, Infomigrants.net, March 15, 2019.

"In addition to a common fondness for crime, the culture of immigrant gangs is a cocktail of religion, clan affiliation, honor, shame and brotherhood... The harder and the more brutal [you are], the stronger you are, and then you create awareness of yourself and attract more [people]". — Naser Khader, member of the Danish Parliament for the Conservative Party and co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement, Jyllands-Posten, November 22, 2018.

In policy debates, the detrimental effects of migration on crime, particularly gang crime, do not receive nearly the attention -- if any -- they deserve. They should.

It is no wonder that the Nigerian mafia has become so prominent in Italy: the country has been one of Europe's front doors for migrants entering Europe. Pictured: An inflatable boat attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy with 47 African migrants on board, as it is being rescued by the Dutch-flagged Sea Watch 3 off Libya's coast on January 19, 2019. (Photo by Federico Scoppa/AFP via Getty Images)

One of the fastest growing criminal networks in Europe is now the Nigerian mafia, which is spreading its criminal activities across the continent. It consists of rival groups such as Black Axe, Vikings and Maphite. Most recently, authorities in Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Malta conducted an international operation directed at two of the major Nigerian mafia groups. Police accused the gangs of human-trafficking, drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, sexual violence and prostitution.

According to a June 2019 report by the Washington Post on the Nigerian mafia in Italy:

"They hold territory from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. They smuggle drugs and traffic women, deploying them as prostitutes on Italy's streets. They find new members among the caste of wayward migrants, illicitly recruiting at Italian government-run asylum centers."

The Nigerian mafia, according to the report, is "trafficking women by the tens of thousands". Italian intelligence has named the group "the most structured and dynamic" of any foreign crime entity operating in Italy, according to the Washington Post.

"Some experts say that as many as 20,000 Nigerian women, some of them minors, arrived in Sicily between 2016 and 2018, trafficked in cooperation with Nigerians in Italy and back home."

It is no wonder that the Nigerian group has become so prominent in Italy: the country has been one of Europe's front doors for migrants entering Europe.

What distinguishes the Nigerian crime networks is their severe brutality -- Italian police have described them as using "urban guerilla warfare" to hold on to territory in Italy -- and their use of voodoo rituals. According to a July 2017 report by the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM), sex trafficked victims give an oath "sealed with a voodoo ritual or a rite of initiation (the victim is committed to honouring her agreement)" to their traffickers and also harbor "a fear of retaliation by traffickers on the victim's family members back in their country of origin".

According to the 2017 IOM report:

"Over the past three years, IOM Italy has seen an almost 600 per cent increase in the number of potential sex trafficking victims arriving in Italy by sea. This upward trend has continued during the first six months of 2017, with most victims arriving from Nigeria".

In its report, IOM estimated that 80 per cent of girls, often minors, arriving from Nigeria -- whose numbers soared dramatically from 1,454 in 2014 to 11,009 in 2016 -- were "potential victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation".

The Nigerian mafia has not limited its operations to just Italy. It has spread as far north in Europe as Germany and Sweden. In London, a trio of Black Axe members was found guilty of laundering almost £1 million, which had been stolen through phone and email fraud. The Nigerian mafia, specifically the group Black Axe, has also spread to Canada, where a 2015 report by the Globe and Mail described it as a "death cult" originating in Nigeria, where it has been linked to "decades of murders and rapes, and its members are said to swear a blood oath". In the US, the FBI recently linked a series of financial frauds to Black Axe. According to the news report, "In the United States and around the world, the group is responsible for the loss of millions of dollars through a variety of elaborate cons".

In Sweden, police has described Black Axe as "one of the world's most effective crime syndicates". Swedish media recently ran a story that shows how Black Axe operates: A 16-year-old Nigerian girl was promised a job in Sweden as a hair stylist. When she arrived, Black Axe forced her to work as a prostitute, after she had gone through a voodoo ritual. "We have your blood now", Black Axe members told her, "If you run we will always find you".

In 2018, three Nigerians were prosecuted in Malmö for luring Nigerian women to Sweden with the promise of jobs and then forcing them into prostitution after making them go through a voodoo ritual that involved the eating of a raw chicken heart. According to the Swedish prosecutor, the voodoo ritual is a way to control and exploit the trafficked victims, who believe in voodoo.

Similar rituals went on in the UK in 2018, when a trafficker sought to traffic Nigerian women from Nigeria to Germany and in Spain, also in 2018, when a trafficking ring of 12 Nigerians was arrested, also for forcing women into prostitution and putting them through similar voodoo rites. In Germany, according to a recent report by Deutsche Welle, a growing number of Nigerian women are ending up as prostitutes in one of Germany's largest red-light districts in Duisburg, and according to Barbara Wellner of Solidarity with Women in Distress, "Nigerian human traffickers are responsible for smuggling in most of them".

The number of Nigerian women trafficked into prostitution in Germany, while still relatively small, has been growing in recent years, according to a March 2019 report by Info-Migrants. In 2013, just 2.8% of known victims were from Nigeria. That went up to 5% in 2016 and up to 8% in 2017. According to the report, which quotes Andrea Tivig from the women's rights organization, Terre des Femmes, the traffickers use the asylum system:

"I've heard reports in Italy... that traffickers tell victims of human trafficking to apply for asylum and then get a status to be able to stay here in Germany, but they continue to be exploited in prostitution."

The Nigerian mafia groups form just one part, albeit very troubling, of the total picture of imported migrant gang crime in Europe. As previously reported by Gatestone Institute, migrant gang crime already poses a threat to European citizens. In November 2018, Naser Khader, member of the Danish Parliament for the Conservative Party and co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement, wrote in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten:

"In addition to a common fondness for crime, the culture of immigrant gangs is a cocktail of religion, clan affiliation, honor, shame and brotherhood... The harder and the more brutal [you are], the stronger you are, and then you create awareness of yourself and attract more [people]".

In Sweden, migrant gang crime has become an almost insurmountable problem: some commentators there have described the situation as "war". Denmark is increasingly fighting migrant gang crime. In Germany, where the migrant gangs are known as criminal family clans, authorities expect to be fighting the problem for decades to come.

In policy debates, the detrimental effects of migration on crime, particularly gang crime, do not receive nearly the attention -- if any -- they deserve. They should.

Judith Bergman, a columnist, lawyer and political analyst, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.