"It is largely in the last few weeks - as civilian deaths have exponentially increased and Western countries' appetite for Israel's attacks has waned - that the BBC has made more effort to humanise Palestinian civilians.
"For many, this feels too little too late, and shows that the positions taken by governments in the UK and US have undue influence on coverage. The BBC didn't provide context on the background of the current crisis, including 75 years of occupation, the Nakba*, or the asymmetric death toll across decades."
Six people have been remanded in custody over the killing of a French teenager whose death at a village dance party sparked political controversy in France, prosecutors said on Sunday (Nov 26).This occurs alongside a similar sequence of events over in Ireland: Riot breaks out in Dublin, Ireland, after Algerian migrant stabs group of children outside school
Last weekend a 16-year-old pupil, identified only as Thomas, was stabbed when a group of outsiders descended on a festive crowd gathered in Crepol, in the southeastern region of Drome, for a dance party in the village hall.
He died on his way to hospital. Eight others were injured.
On Tuesday, nine suspects including three minors were detained in connection with the teenager's murder.
Three are minors, the others are aged between 19 and 22.
After 96 hours in police custody, the suspects were transferred to the Valence courthouse on Saturday.
The public prosecutor's office had requested the opening of an investigation into charges including attempted murder and "murder in an organised gang."
Nine people have been placed under investigation "in accordance with the request of the public prosecutor", prosecutor Laurent de Caigny said in a statement, without providing further details.
"Six people, including two minors, were remanded in custody," he added. "Three people, including one minor, were placed under judicial supervision."
On Saturday, the prosecutor said that the motive and the details of the crime had not yet been established in full.
According to the preliminary investigation, an altercation that began inside the dance hall, possibly linked to a remark about the hairstyle of one of the suspects, continued outside. More young people arrived in one or two cars.
What were these armed 'outsiders' doing descending on a village party at 2am?
Nine witnesses reported hearing remarks aimed against "white people", said the public prosecutor.
However, de Caigny said that the investigation cannot at this stage state with certainty that the victims have been targeted on the basis of their race, ethnicity, or religion.
Most of the suspects admit to having been in Crepol, but deny having stabbed anyone.
On Wednesday, more than 6,000 people marched in the southeastern town of Romans-sur-Isere in memory of Thomas.
Around 2,000 people attended the teenager's funeral in the village of Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse on Friday.
Even before the arrests, far-right politicians had been quick to blame the attack on youths from immigrant backgrounds from public housing.
"Now anti-white racism is hitting our countryside," Marion Marechal, the leading candidate for the far-right Reconquete! party of ex-presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour in next year's European elections, has claimed on X, formerly Twitter.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees previously reported that since the start of the full-scale war, approximately 6.3 million people have fled Ukraine. BBC Ukraine, referring to an analysis of Eurostat information, writes that according to open-source data, 4.2 million Ukrainians have received temporary protections in the EU, with 18.3% (768,000) being men aged 18 to 64. BBC Ukraine reports Exxpress obtained data on men aged 18 to 60.Evidently a huge number of men do not feel that the Ukraine the Kiev-junta is overseeing is worth risking their life for. This is reasonable, because the Ukraine that they were living under for a decade and more, prior to the Western fomented escalation, was considered to be the most corrupt country in Europe, and the nefarious goings on in the country have gotten unfathomably worse since:
Previously, the BBC reported, citing data from Poland, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and Slovakia, that between February 2022 and August 31, 2023, 19,740 men had illegally crossed the Ukrainian border.
Comment: See also: France: Protests & riots erupt after murder at village party by gang of youths, locals report 'anti-white' slurs during knife attack