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After some deliberations, on February 14 the French government and National Assembly managed to pass a bill that includes an Article 4 that essentially creates a new crime of “provocation to abstention from medical care.” It reads as follows:Art. 223-1-2 . – Provocation to abandon or abstain from following therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment is punishable by one year of imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros, when this abandonment or abstention is presented as beneficial for the health of the persons targeted when it is, in the state of medical knowledge, clearly likely to result in serious consequences for...

An Alabama mom has been accused of punishing her seven-year-old son by making him walk home from school before accidentally running him over with her car. Sarai Rachel James, 27, was charged with aggravated child abuse on February 8 over the cruel punishment, according to Marshall County Jail records. She picked her son up from school in Boaz, northern Alabama, around 3.30pm, when she learned he had got into trouble with the principal earlier that day. There were two women in the car along with the boy - James and an unnamed 53-year-old woman who has also been arrested, police...

A California grandfather was shot in the face and killed while trying to apologize for a minor fender bender in a Walmart parking lot. Jonathan Mauk, 59, was going to the store in San Bernardino County to run some errands on February 5 when he accidentally backed his Chevrolet Camaro into another woman's car, who was leaving her parking spot. The impact was minor - and the woman, Shawntece Norton, 36, was left with a scratch on her vehicle. But as mechanic Mauk got out of his car to apologize, Norton stepped out of and shot the man in the...

The city of Denver has long had a problem with violent crime. Officials there like to blame guns for the issue simply because the offenders use firearms. However, the problem is that this focus on guns is a focus on the wrong thing. Bad actors will get guns no matter what you try to do. Colorado, for example, requires background checks on every transfer of a firearm, while Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill last year raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21. That law is on hold thanks to a lawsuit, but it’s still legally...

A California woman who stabbed a man she was dating 100 times and killed him, before turning the knife on herself and her dog, has been handed 100 hours of community service. Bryn Spejcher, 32, was given the astonishingly low sentence following psychiatrists' ruling that the tragedy was '100 percent' caused by cannabis-induced psychosis, which she suffered after taking two hits of the victim's bong. The judge ruled that Spejcher 'experienced a psychotic break from reality' and 'had no control over her actions' when she killed Chad O'Melia, then 26, on Memorial Day weekend 2018. She will spend the 100...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Cocoa woman was arrested on Sunday after a robbery was reported at a local convenience store, according to the police department. In a probable cause affidavit, police said they were called to the store at 2009 N. Cocoa Blvd. around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. Upon arrival, police were told that two women — identified as Mercy Thomas, 23, and Timetrea Smith, 28 —had entered the store, and began throwing food and damaging merchandise, the affidavit says. Surveillance footage showed Thomas yelling at a couple in the store before throwing a container of mac-and-cheese and some...

A man in Florida has been charged with battery after he threw his Subway sandwich at an employee because it had not been cut into two pieces. Alberto De Barros ordered a sandwich at a Subway in Stuart, Florida on Tuesday, Jan. 9, but was "upset" with the sandwich artist upon discovering that the sandwich had not been sliced in half. According to a probable cause affidavit, Cassandra Tia Pierre-Louis, the employee, told De Barros that she would no longer be serving him after he "began causing a disruptive scene." Rather than walk away, the 54-year-old decided the right thing...

Plane passengers have been horrified after a fellow traveler pooped their pants on their flight - and left the feces 'spread out like peanut butter' all over the seat. One of the disgusted travelers took to Reddit to share their dismay over the situation - and it quickly went viral, while sparking some suggestions that it may have been a fabricated story. The Reddit user explained that they were on an early morning Delta flight from Birmingham, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with their eight-year-old daughter on Christmas Eve, and about 20 minutes after takeoff, they started to smell something 'terrible.'...

A distressing video shows the moment a goon carrying a metal rod struck a woman as she was pushing a baby in a stroller along a street in Southern California — just hours before cops say the same attacker bludgeoned a 60-year-old woman in the head. The back-to-back assaults occurred Thursday in Long Beach, leaving one of the victims bleeding profusely from a head wound. The first incident took place shortly before 10 a.m. and was caught on surveillance video. The footage showed the suspect running up to a woman walking with a child and smashing her in the back...

Suspects captured by troops in Gaza Strip detail incidents of Hamas’s use of civilians for terror operations, including one in which group forced men to hospital to hide among them The Israel Defense Forces on Monday released new interrogation videos of Palestinian terror suspects who were captured by troops in the Gaza Strip, detailing Hamas’s use of civilians as cover for terror operations. Israel has repeatedly said Hamas was using civilians as human shields, including by locating operations bases under hospitals, launching rockets from schools and shelters, building tunnels shafts under children’s bedrooms, storing weapons in and around schools and...

An off-duty cop has been shot dead over $83.45 worth of stolen beer when he confronted three suspects robbing a convenience store. Sergeant Philip Dale Nix saw the trio shoplifting from a Sheetz on Sandy Ridge Road in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday. He was allegedly gunned down by Jamere Justice Foster, 18, and died in hospital despite the efforts of a second off-duty policeman and a paramedic. 'He was a loving husband, father, son and brother with 22 years of service to the department and this community,' Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson said. 'We ask for prayers for the...

A never-ending massacre of Christians being “killed for sport” is happening in Nigeria, yet the world .. largely deaf to the matter. ... the deaths of more than 100 Christians – as the world remains virtually silent. ... The Christians were killed in a wide swath across an invisible line that separates the mostly muslim north and the predominately Christian south in the country’s Plateau State. .. Christians represent 46% of Nigeria’s population. “There was yet another Christmas massacre of Christians in Nigeria yesterday. The world is — silent. Just unbelievable,” tweeted leading evangelist the Rev. Johnnie Moore ... More...

By not punishing shoplifters, looters, rioters, and other criminals, Democrat cities have turned many of their neighborhoods into food deserts. (1/5) #FoodDesert #BLM #shoplifting #riot #looting #crime #softoncrime #socialjustice #poverty #hunger #liberal #progressive #Democrat https://web.archive.org/web/20201121054539/https://old.post-gazette.com/pg/08358/937017-85.stm https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-longfellow-neighborhood-almost-food-desert-after-riots/570928442/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200609190703/https://www.wbez.org/stories/in-chicagos-poorest-areas-recovery-may-be-long-if-it-comes-at-all/4ec11642-b45f-4c32-9e48-66ab206d14d5 https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/emails-reveal-frustration-with-city-led-sodo-food-desert/PXM5GXPPDJEBJO4J6TAJZADOPY/ https://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/those-food-deserts-may-become-food-wastelands (2/5) https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Fk1zrva8R_wJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/06/02/minneapolis-school-asked-people-donate-food-students-after-looting-closed-stores-miles-cars-lined-up/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://komonews.com/news/local/crime-prompts-sodos-only-grocery-store-to-close https://www.fox29.com/news/looting-forces-germantown-stores-to-close-leaving-residents-with-limited-access-to-food https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/03/chicagos-south-side-left-with-few-food-options-after-weekend-violence/ (3/5) https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/02/black-girls-break-bread-steps-in-as-looting-leaves-food-deserts-even-worse-off/ https://abc7chicago.com/looted-pharmacies-grocery-stores-remain-closed-while-residents-scramble-for-essentials/6227663/ https://thesource.com/2020/06/06/chicago-food-deserts-grow-on-citys-south-side-due-to-looting-during-recent-protests/ https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Walgreens-to-close-5-more-S-F-stores-citing-16528444.php (4/5) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walgreens-close-five-stores-san-francisco-theft-shoplifting/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-5-more-locations-san-francisco-over-shoplifting/8434183002/ https://blackdoctor.org/looters-leave-more-food-deserts-in-black-communities https://web.archive.org/web/20210601041405/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/04/neighborhoods-where-stores-were-destroyed-become-food-deserts-overnight/ (5/5)

Muslim terrorists have tremendous help from their terrorists brethren, mainly Iran, but including godless communists, plus Russia, by which and we daily see what happens as a result:Hamas has developed a vast arsenal in blockaded GazaAP News Mar 25, 2019 — Over more than a decade, the Islamic militant Hamas group has built up a large arsenal of rockets and missiles. It started with crude short-range projectiles and now possesses rockets that can strike virtually anywhere in Israel…Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, prompting Israel and Egypt to impose a blockade on the territory, largely to prevent the militants...

Three teenagers have been arrested for beating an Ohio father of three to death. Columbus police say the incident happened at 7 p.m. on Dec. 6. The three young men allegedly engaged the victim, 53-year-old Donnie Smith, inside a Kroger grocery store, WSXY-TV reported. The suspects were asked to leave by security after getting into an altercation with patrons inside the store, and then the fight continued outside, police said. Smith was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he later died. One of the friends who was with Smith at the time told WSXY the group was “trying...

As nativity stories go, it could hardly be more modern, more brave or more touching. Devoted couple Emily Patrick and Kerry Osborn are pregnant with each other’s babies, and will give birth within weeks of each other. In a pioneering case, the first of its kind known in Britain, the women swapped embryos – both fertilised by the same sperm donor – during IVF treatment. Now Emily, 38, a creative producer, will give birth to a son who is biologically Kerry’s at New Year. School teacher Kerry, 35, will follow in February, giving birth to a little boy grown from...

A savage brawl involving half a dozen people erupted on a Long Island highway after a car crash — with wild footage showing some of the men swinging large wooden sticks. The violent fracas broke out in the middle of the Sunrise Highway in North Lindenhurst after two trucks crashed Wednesday around 12:35 p.m., officials said. Three people were arrested. All of the men involved “are known to one another,” and two of them are relatives that live together, according to Suffolk County Police.

The Georgia high school football player found dead the day before his team was due to play its first state championship in 25 years was discovered shot multiple times in the woodland, his family has revealed

A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — the site of one of the nation’s worst mass shootings — was savagely beaten by a gang of teens in a brutal caught-on-video attack, which landed the youngster in hospital. The unidentified student was pummeled by at least a half dozen teen thugs before he was picked up and hurled onto the pavement head first near the Parkland, Florida campus — leaving him sprawled out motionless on the ground, video footage posted by TMZ on Wednesday shows.

A 20-year-old Detroit mother allegedly punched and knocked out a female Kroger worker as her one-year-old child watched from a shopping cart. Shelby Parham, from Detroit, Michigan, has been accused of attacking a 49-year-old Kroger worker who lost consciousness and suffered a head injury after the assault. The wild beating was captured on nearby security cameras at a Kroger in St. Clair Shores on Tuesday. In the video, Parham can be seen walking up to the unnamed clerk and punching her in the face, sending her flat to the ground, while her one-year-old baby witnessed the incident from a shopping...