According to much of the coverage in the French and international media, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the perpetrator of Saturday’s terror attack in Paris, killed a “German” tourist, and he did so to avenge the killing of Muslims in “Palestine and Afghanistan”. Or maybe even just Palestine. According to the latest coverage in the French media, Rajabpour-Miyandoab was upset that the Eiffel Tower had been lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag (this occurred nearly two months ago) and thus chose to attack in the vicinity of the famous landmark.
But the almost entirely unreported facts of the matter are as follows. The “German” tourist was in fact Filipino or, more exactly, Filipino-German, though he appears to have grown up in the Philippines and to have merely ‘inherited’ German citizenship from a German father. He was visiting Paris with his Filipina girlfriend and another, older Filipina woman (perhaps the young woman’s mother). Neither of the two women were injured in the attack.
The group of visitors can be seen in a photo taken from the young woman’s Facebook page below.
The victim, who has only been identified as “Collin” in French news reports, is Collin Christian Bröter. His own Facebook page is here. His LinkedIn Page is here. He identifies himself on his LinkedIn page as a “Philippine Registered Nurse” and the location is still given as “Bauang, Ilocos Region, Philippines”.
It is clear from the information and entries on the pages that Bröter was educated in the Philippines and was still working there until very recently (2022).
He appears to have moved to Germany in January of this year, taking up work at a nursing home in Uelzen in Lower Saxony. German citizenship law is largely based on the so-called jus sanguinis or ‘right of blood’, meaning that German citizenship is ‘inherited’ at birth from a German parent. This will presumably have facilitated Bröter’s move to Germany.
His Filipina girlfriend Lyn is also a registered nurse, who, according to her Facebook page, lives in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony. All of the communication on Bröter’s social media pages is in Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, or English.
As will be obvious from the above photo, Rajabpour-Miyandoab will have had no idea that Bröter was “German” or had a German passport. But he may well have had some idea that Bröter and the two women were Filipinos, and, in any case, he would have had no doubt that they were East Asian.
Why is this relevant? It is relevant because there is an Islamic-State-affiliated Islamic insurgency in the Philippines and Rajabpour-Miyandoab pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the video he recorded prior to his attack.
Indeed, just hours after Rajabpour-Miyandoab killed Bröter on Saturday evening in Paris, a Catholic mass was bombed on Sunday morning in the Philippines in a terror attack for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility. Rajabpour-Miyandoab, moreover, dedicates his video message to mujahideen fighting to establish Islamic rule all around the world, explicitly including “the guardians of the religion in East Asia”.
Why is the fact that Rajabpour-Miyandoab attacked a group of Filipino tourists being covered up? In light of the foregoing, there is a very real possibility that he deliberately chose to attack them precisely because they were Filipino or East Asian. On the other hand, the idea that he killed a “German” tourist to avenge Palestinians killed by Israel is obviously absurd.
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The only anti lockdown candidate standing that I am aware of is Laurence Fox and he will lose his deposit
He won’t if people vote for him. I know this is controversial to some but what have you to lose? A Labour or Conservative MP will have exactly the same pro-WEF, pro-Climate change, pro 15 minute cities, pro-lockdown policies, so why not vote for someone else?
Exactly.
Oh I totally agree
Just find it immensely sad and frustrating that support for mainstream parties on both sides of the political spectrum remains so high despite their obvious disregard for the support base they pretend to represent
The implication of the article is that support for the ULEZ will damage them at the expense of the Tories. While this may be true, I don’t see it as an especially good thing. Journalists from the political right need to come and and tell people they shouldn’t vote Conservative
As will the Lib Dems and Greens were they to win.
Exactly. There is nothing to gain whatsoever by voting for establishment parties- quite the reverse those voting for establishment parties are delusional fools who encourage the scoundrels to double down on their evil agendas.
UKIP wanted to talk about a strategy for all centre right challengers to come together but Reclaim and Reform UK are so far up their own backsides they refused to engage.
Aren’t all political parties a fair way up their own backsides? I’m suspicious of any party that didn’t firmly oppose lockdowns and fake vaccines from the start.
I think that Piers Corbyn is standing too….
I don’t know much about what his economic policies would be, but he was a star during covid.
He’s continuing to be a star in speaking out about the agenda – has a raft of unpaid ULEZ fines which he continues to refuse to pay.
Good to hear. I think I’d vote for him just for that.
You still think a by-election matters? Where have you been for the last three years? The entire political class of the Western world is moving in lockstep and gets its orders not from the party or the people but from the WEF at Davos.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it is a conspiracy FACT.
MP’s don’t need orders, just a keen sense of self-preservation, some proclivities that make them suggestible, or an ideological mindset that aligns with Other Interests. Less likely to generate incriminating documentation.
Then why do they go to Davos and why can’t you know what they are talking about with the global elite? Why is every major political party rep in every country saying they same things? I grew up wathing the politics of the 1970s, MPs had al the things you stated but completely differing views of even members of their own parties. Now you could most MPs in any rosette and they’d be fine with party policy.
Wake up my friend, time is getting short.
It was an observation that we’d be lucky to find any document making this explicitly clear. People can easily prove to themselves whether their MP will represent them. I have and he doesn’t.
Why is a candidate considered mofe favourably because they are/were:
born in Hillingdon Hospital
educated at a local comprehensive
raised by a single-mother
in South Ruislip and Ruislip Manor
the first person in his family to go to university
a former charity worker
I can think of several much more important qualities in a candidate.
As a comprehensive schooled pupil myself I would think that (and several other of those traits) would make them less suited in fact.
“A policy that was introduced to create cleaner air in the city centre”
No, it wasn’t. It was introduced to force the closure of shops, convert them to housing and create a 15 minute neighbourhood in which there would be few or zero cars. Read “Absolute Zero” by UK FIRES, page 5, for further details.
https://ukfires.org/absolute-zero/
Correct.
Absolutely, Allmouth.
Air “pollution” is at all-time record LOW levels. So the premise for this scheme is weapons grade bolix.
But we have “Conservatives” who conserve nothing, “Labour” who don’t care a fiddler’s fart about working people and “Liberal Democrats” who are absolutely illiberal and actively anti-democratic. Ony Gang”Green” stand out as having an appropriate name – albeit most of their policies are actually environmentally damaging.
Vote for ANYONE other than the LibLabCon artists. Or spoil the ballot.
A more emphatic response to the whole charade would be the best choice, but won’t happen.
Down with the Tories… but hold on, no… down with Labour even more! Let’s side with the underdogs… Vote REFORM!!! Oh, shucks, they’re pro-vaccination, where are we going to go from here? C’mon Nige, we need you to form another party, or Richard Tice to form a coalition with the Conservative party, yes that would be nice. But we’ve got to get rid of that pro-vax dogma somehow. You gotta be anti-lockdown, you gotta be pro-choice, you gotta be pro-personal freedom. Perhaps, just perchance, Westminster politics isn’t the best arena to satisfy all the above criteria. Maybe the punks of the 1960s were right all along, and maybe the hippies and beatniks to boot. It doesn’t matter which way you vote, you get the same greenwashed slime either way. I suspect Joseph Goebbels is turning in his grave as we speak, smugly and posthumously acknowledging the current establishment’s inability to match up to the best of 1940’s National Socialist Propagandists.
The woke, greenwashed left, as satirized and caricatured by Kier “What Is A Woman?” Starmer, was always doomed to face such a dilemma as this, as it has unthinkingly placed itself between a “rock” (the ULEZ scheme, part of the unchallenged Net Zero Sense agenda) and a “hard place” (the Labour Party’s supposed allegiance to those whom it represents – the struggling working class majority).
I’m not sure there is a shovel, nay, a JCB digger, large and powerful enough for Mr Starmer to dig himself out of the chasm he has dug himself by not challenging the ruling party and the prevailing agenda over the past three years.
The “Green Agenda”—- Central planning with the planet as the excuse.———– You can be sure that the fence sitter in chief (Starmer) who waits to see which way the wind is blowing before deciding if men are women or if children are foxes will squirm like the social justice pretend to save the planet parasite he is on this issue as on all others. ——-Starmer needs to be viewed through a microscope like all other parasites in the hope we can one day find a cure.
Dangerous Men