AstroStelar [he/him]

I tried looking it up and found articles saying it was sold to a Dutch truck builder instead: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/06/19/van-hool-terrein-overnemer-gevonden/

I remember reading one of the original articles claiming this kidnapping and one of the children in question was from Crimea lmao

I found a Dutch news article about the incident in the Netherlands. I’m Dutch but for mental health reasons I don’t check Dutch news at all and I hadn’t hear of this until now.

The woman’s husband, Wesam Miqdad, was stuck in Greece for years in legal limbo, so he moved to Germany where he married the woman in question, who is Syrian, then they moved to the Netherlands and applied asylum there.

In a Facebook post he said that he had destroyed furniture in his room in a fit of rage, which is what prompted the police intervention. In a Facebook post he said it happened after his appeal was rejected and that he would be definitevely deported to Egypt, but his wife would be sent to Germany and Miqdad would receive a 2-year travel ban to the EU. The fate of their child was up in the air.

Note: Al Jazeera says that the fit of rage was in response to news of a killed relative in Gaza, perhaps it was a one-two punch of the reasons given by the husband and wife.

Police have said that they’ve received anonymous threats over this and that the officer that threw her to the ground had to go in hiding; Dutch news media blur the profile of the guilty officer. Okay…

According to Miqdad the incident has impacted his family deeply and has made him to no longer want to live in the Netherlands: “I don’t want a residency permit from you. Keep it. I just want my daughter.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites_in_Paraguay

Where I saw it first, people honed in on the “We don’t have the right to ​repeat [1917]” part as further proof of the CPRF being controlled opposition or “SPD in WW1” social chauvinists, pointing to other instances of “Zyuganov asking Putin to do socialism”. However people on Lemmygrad and other communist parties seem to view them favourably. I remember hearing more young people becoming members. Then there’s the mess of establishment Russian politics being essentially this photo: Three massive flagpoles in Saint-Petersburg, flying the flags of the Romanovs (beloved by ultranationalists), USSR and Russian Federation; behind them is the supertall headquarters of Gazprom.

So what is the situation with the CPRF? What do they stand for and would they be more than socially conservative social democrats if they ever supplant United Russia, electorally? Is the party evolving behind the scenes? And are their pleas to the bourgeoisie just political theater and not to be taken seriously?