Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ireland arrested the man who tweeted about the bus groper, then put the teenage witness under fire

00:00:00.000 You're fighting for freedom! 0.98

00:00:03.060 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:14.600 Oh, hi everybody, Ezra Levant here.

00:00:17.320 The trial has wrapped up in Bray, and I'm actually back in Dublin now.

00:00:21.820 I'm talking about the trial of Kirk Loco, who's been prosecuted for a tweet.

00:00:25.860 A tweet that was actually pretty accurate, even though the government calls it fake news.

00:00:32.080 I was there all day. The trial's not over.

00:00:34.800 There'll be one more day on Thursday where Kirk Loco himself will take the stand

00:00:38.800 and there'll be some final arguments made.

00:00:40.540 I expect the judge will have the verdict right there in the moment.

00:00:44.580 What was interesting is this afternoon, the star witness was a 14-year-old girl at the time

00:00:55.860 who was in the city bus when the refugee pulled his pants down a bit

00:01:04.400 and groped another girl and blocked another girl from exiting.

00:01:11.420 These aren't just allegations.

00:01:12.820 The migrant himself testified to a few of them,

00:01:18.480 coming up with laughable excuses about why his belt was undone

00:01:22.620 and his pants were down low and just really, really weird and creepy stuff.

00:01:28.720 And so obviously a pest such that the bus driver himself pulled over the bus,

00:01:37.100 went upstairs to intervene. It was a double-decker bus.

00:01:39.540 The bus driver said in 30 years of driving a bus, he's only had an incident like this maybe five times.

00:01:45.500 It was quite something. But it was all the government's case. Remember, they're prosecuting Kirk Loco for talking about what a migrant did on a bus. They didn't prosecute the migrant. They prosecuted Kirk for talking about it.

00:02:04.000 It was a moral inversion. The police and the prosecutor kept talking about the victim. And I thought, oh, you surely mean the girls, right? No, they meant the migrant. And they talked about vulnerable people. They didn't mean teenage girls being predated upon by migrants. They meant these migrants.

00:02:26.680 So it was fascinating to me to see one of the 14, there were two teenagers on the bus who felt harassed by this migrant, and one of them took the stand today.

00:02:42.480 And what a credible, powerful, plain-spoken, honest witness.

00:02:48.440 She was so impressive.

00:02:49.820 But what was so appalling was to watch the prosecution try to destroy her credibility, basically calling her a liar. 0.99

00:02:59.560 Oh, well, he wasn't actually exposing his genitals, just his pubic hair. 0.99

00:03:04.340 Sorry to be all gross and everything. 0.89

00:03:06.120 But this is the way this prosecutor tried to destroy the testimony of a girl who was 14 years old at the time.

00:03:14.740 And it struck me, this whole trial, there were probably a dozen different police involved.

00:03:24.180 Kirk Loco was arrested several times over a tweet.

00:03:26.580 I mean, they raided his house with a search warrant for his whole house.

00:03:31.420 What? For a tweet?

00:03:33.060 And there's so many, the men and women, in fact, the most senior officers involved were women.

00:03:39.240 and then to see the rage with which they attacked the actual victim the 14 year old girl who was

00:03:47.620 afraid of being groped on the public bus and it was so bad the bus driver had to pull over and

00:03:52.540 intervene they attacked her they tried to discredit her and i immediately thought of rotherham the

00:04:00.740 city in the united kingdom about a quarter million people were over the course of a number of years 0.97

00:04:04.760 1,400 different girls were raped by Muslim rape gangs. 0.97

00:04:11.340 But because it's so politically incorrect to say so, 0.99

00:04:14.640 the entire community denied it, covered up,

00:04:18.460 in fact, accused people of making it up.

00:04:20.880 Or if they knew it wasn't made up,

00:04:22.900 just demanded people shut up in the name of community cohesion.

00:04:26.660 And I saw the same mindset today in Bray, Ireland.

00:04:31.520 My point is, in Rotherham, 1,400 girls were raped as the entire political, media, police class turned a blind eye.

00:04:43.000 Here in Ireland, the entire political force were trying to silence the girls who were complaining and rename the sex pest as a victim. 0.53

00:04:58.220 and they actually raided the house of a guy who tweeted about it but to watch these 50 something

00:05:06.280 year old female sergeants and officers leading the charge it reminded me of one of the things in 1.00

00:05:13.820 orwell's 1984 that the most vicious members of the party were women and i thought that was an 0.99

00:05:19.940 unusual thing for orwell to write but i saw it today yeah there were male cops who were going

00:05:25.960 along with it, but the real zealots, the real zealots who were heartbroken for the migrants

00:05:32.260 and stony-faced to the girls were senior female officers. I don't understand the phenomenon. I'm

00:05:40.280 just telling you what I observed. I don't understand it, but I saw it. I actually managed to interview

00:05:47.240 one of these young women outside the court. Now, I did not use her name, and we're going to blur

00:05:52.820 her face we'll have that video up for you probably tomorrow it was incredible she was such a

00:05:57.380 principled young woman i asked her about rotherham she didn't know what it was what what 14 year old 0.98

00:06:02.500 does it was so gross what happened to her the migrant was a sex pest the migrant 0.98

00:06:10.100 groped her friend the migrant did terrible things but the police were far worse it was 0.99

00:06:17.620 their job to protect young women and instead they flipped the script and tried to destroy

00:06:23.860 the credibility of young women this was one of the strangest worst trials i've ever seen

00:06:30.180 in my life if you want to help us go to irishfreespeech.com 0.97

00:06:34.420 And I think one of the most interesting parts of the hearing today was one of the women on

00:06:49.040 the bus. And when I say women, I mean young women. They were just teenagers who felt this

00:06:55.620 harassment. One of them actually took the stand very bravely, I thought, and to watch the police

00:07:02.500 And the prosecutor tried to tear her apart and turn her into the aggressor was actually quite shocking.

00:07:09.900 I promised this young lady that I would not name her and that we would blur her appearance.

00:07:15.460 But she has agreed to talk to me, a very brave woman indeed.

00:07:18.840 Well, thank you so much for talking with me.

00:07:21.280 And I promise we won't identify you.

00:07:23.200 It took some courage to go up there on the stand.

00:07:27.280 And why don't you start by telling people what you saw that day on the bus?

00:07:32.380 Now, don't name the man who exposed himself, because that's a rule.

00:07:37.320 You're not supposed to name a refugee who's in trouble with the courts, which is sort of hard.

00:07:41.440 But why don't you just tell us what happened?

00:07:43.280 So I was getting on the wintery tree at Lachlan Starran Hospital, coming back from seeing a friend.

00:07:49.100 And when I got on the bus, I greeted the bus driver, I paid for my ticket, and I went upstairs and I took my seat.

00:07:54.620 So this was a double-decker bus?

00:07:55.920 A double-decker bus.

00:07:56.880 and not too long after I want to say about 10 minutes a woman had approached me saying

00:08:02.320 not to alarm you but there's a man on the bus he's exposing himself and he sat beside me and

00:08:07.680 had touched himself so obviously being a young woman alone on the bus I became alerted and

00:08:14.860 I stayed in my seat to not cause any disruption or to I just thought it was best to stay in my seat

00:08:23.000 and he

00:08:25.040 he was at the back of the bus

00:08:28.820 but one of my friends

00:08:30.700 had gone on and

00:08:32.420 she was with her friend and they offered me to sit with them

00:08:34.840 so I wasn't alone

00:08:35.580 and you were at the time you were 14?

00:08:38.220 at the time I was 14

00:08:39.040 and I took

00:08:42.460 their offer and I went

00:08:44.720 and I sat with them at the back of the bus

00:08:45.860 and that's when I saw the man

00:08:48.300 he was sitting disorderly

00:08:52.360 it looked like as though he was intoxicated or so disorderly is that what you mean by drunk

00:08:58.440 yes is that what you mean okay yes like disorderly drunk and intoxicated it's like not sober really

00:09:05.560 by the looks of him and he was um he was a migrant from from nearby a new town man yes you know okay

00:09:12.360 now this next part and i i don't mean to use this language and i'm sort of sorry to use it

00:09:16.760 with you as a minor but it is what a lot of the court case turned on today

00:09:21.160 there was a tweet that he had exposed himself and you mentioned that was said

00:09:25.660 did you see him and what was he doing what was he like were his i hate to say it but were his

00:09:32.300 pants down no his pants weren't all the way down you could see um partial bits as in like say

00:09:38.600 cubica you could see that and his shirt was lifted a little bit due to the way he was sitting he

00:09:43.060 slouched and that's all i saw and in in court you mentioned his belt did you say it looked like it

00:09:49.840 was undone yeah from my point of view it looked undone now the prosecutor really went after you

00:09:56.300 on that because he wanted to challenge i know this sounds crazy and i this is the last i'll 0.87

00:10:00.940 ask about it but the prosecutor really grilled you on well his pubic hair genitals are you sure 0.98

00:10:05.620 he was exposing himself it was just his pubic hair that's super gross to me yeah what did you 0.97

00:10:10.960 think of that they were grilling you about your experience with this guy i think that they forgot

00:10:16.040 my age for a moment. I was only 14. I do not have any familiar, like, familiar anything

00:10:26.800 with male genitals. I don't. I mean, now your mom testified also and said that you were 0.75

00:10:32.840 physically shaking when you got off the bus. Oh yeah, that's correct. It was scary because

00:10:37.540 as a woman coming up to me saying that she, and in all honesty, this woman, she remained

00:10:44.340 so calm when she was trying to approach me as she could see i was younger and and if that if the man

00:10:50.500 had sat beside me i don't know what i would have done now the prosecutor was really trying to attack

00:10:55.860 your credibility i felt like he was trying to confuse you or or flip it around yes they called

00:11:03.060 the man the victim they called him the victim repeatedly and i found it so confusing they never

00:11:09.780 called you the victim what do you think of that um i think that they have their roles mixed up

00:11:14.320 hopefully we can get them unmixed and the right story you know there there was a lot of cctv

00:11:21.620 footage which i thought was very interesting i didn't know there were that many cameras on a bus

00:11:25.160 but he went through the whole thing minute by minute or second by second yes and he found

00:11:30.820 about five seconds where it looked like you were smiling and he was trying to make it like you were

00:11:35.560 having a grand old time.

00:11:37.240 A blast.

00:11:37.720 I thought that was really creepy.

00:11:40.100 The weight got lifted off my shoulders as I was accompanied by friends.

00:11:43.920 I wasn't alone.

00:11:45.200 So at least if something hypothetically did happen, then I would have people with me.

00:11:48.900 Let me ask you one last question. 0.99

00:11:51.120 I saw a couple of female policemen, including fairly senior. 0.98

00:11:54.700 There was a sergeant there.

00:11:56.000 And I saw these women and I saw these men and I saw this prosecutor.

00:12:00.440 and they were all making excuses for this man and other men and migrants who had filmed very young 0.59

00:12:10.040 girls at a sports event yes and they were making excuses for them and they were trying to destroy

00:12:15.340 your credibility i don't know if you sensed that they were trying to undermine you and all i could

00:12:19.640 think about was if this is what our police are doing they're turning a blind eye to the real

00:12:25.100 problem yeah and i can only imagine what else they've covered up yeah it's it can be very

00:12:30.120 disappointing as uh i've been in newtown my whole life so my mom bought my house probably about 30

00:12:34.880 years ago um we're very friendly each other is all like a big happy family um you know what guards

00:12:41.380 all of them that's that's what you call the police around here the guards yeah we know all the guys

00:12:46.780 we're friendly with them yeah because they like they have helped you know my family in different

00:12:51.080 situations like if we're seeing each other in the shop we'll obviously have a conversation 1.00

00:12:55.400 say hi we're very friendly are you worried about ireland i mean there's a ton of migrants like 1.00

00:13:01.980 this guy um yeah i could say i'm getting a little bit worried i don't think that all migrants are 1.00

00:13:06.420 bad um it's just the ones that come and disrespect our country and our people when all well our 1.00

00:13:15.580 government is trying to do is help them i don't want to say where this guy was from because i'm 0.99

00:13:19.220 not sure if i'm allowed to mention that but he came from a place where women are not treated well

00:13:23.420 where women don't have freedom are you worried that there's people coming to ireland who come

00:13:29.360 from countries where women are not treated equally it's a hundred percent that people from those

00:13:34.580 countries are coming to ireland they're coming all over the world well listen i don't want to keep

00:13:38.820 any longer and i want to just like let our viewers know that i i got your mom's permission to talk

00:13:44.200 to you and then i think you did very well today i was actually very impressed and you came across

00:13:48.580 very credibly but to watch the prosecutor and the cops try and chip away at you in my mind i was

00:13:55.060 thinking now i know how rotherham happened i don't know if you know what that is but there was a place

00:13:59.920 in the uk where 1400 girls were abused and over such a period of time and it only happened because

00:14:07.340 the police and the prosecutors and the journalists and the politicians were all too worried about

00:14:13.560 being called racist yeah yeah that's a but it could definitely be um a big thing to be called

00:14:21.320 so you do have to be careful what you say and what you believe um but i do think that there's

00:14:28.200 men that are coming into this country that they don't have the highest values of women they don't

00:14:32.360 respect women as much as they should but if that's what happens over in their country

00:14:36.920 then i hope that they can people can learn to achieve that in their country and not bring it

00:14:42.280 Great talking with you. I thought you did very well.

00:14:46.280 Nice to meet you.

00:14:57.280 I think we have to pick, we have to cut to change the power.

00:14:59.280 To change the world, we have to be afraid.

00:15:01.280 I'm at 200-300% of the agreement.

00:15:04.280 These are extrem-right militants to then reject the fault on the left.

00:15:08.280 So the videos that we saw, you think that it's people who

00:15:11.040 are masked to make it happen to people of extreme ghoul?

00:15:14.820 Yes, yes, yes, it's also what a lot of videos like that.

00:15:18.020 Hello everyone! We're in direct!

00:15:38.280 of october 17 when rioters have smashed vandalized burned down so many businesses

00:15:49.000 across the city not just in paris but across france this seems to be a newspaper stand that

00:16:00.640 was just set on fire if you look on the other side there is multiple bus stops who got smashed one

00:16:11.680 after one on the other side we saw multiple businesses that they are repairing their windows

00:16:19.840 who got smashed and i was talking with one of the worker and what he was explaining is like all the

00:16:25.840 window have to be replaced and for one window the cost is about 4 000 to 5 000 euro a lot of

00:16:37.120 items in the shop was stolen looted by the protesters i don't think we can call them

00:16:44.880 protesters i think we should call them vandals and rioters so we are here today a day before

00:16:54.160 the second act, as they call it, they are supposed to mobilize

00:16:58.240 again. We don't know yet if we will see the same kind of scenes

00:17:02.240 that we saw, but we will show you around the aftermath that

00:17:07.280 are still visible.

00:17:12.320 Savez-vous, c'était quoi?

00:17:14.320 C'est armé, il est travaillé ici, mais regarde, il est cassé.

00:17:17.360 C'était un ami à vous qui travaillait ici?

00:17:19.360 Oui, oui, c'est à lui.

00:17:21.280 What do you think about it, the people who put on fire?

00:17:24.280 No, it's not good.

00:17:25.280 No, it's not good.

00:17:26.280 Have you talked to your friend who works here?

00:17:28.280 How do you feel about that?

00:17:30.280 Yes, he was shocked. He's at the house now. He doesn't work. It's good.

00:17:34.280 He's working because of that?

00:17:35.280 Yes, he's working here.

00:17:37.280 At 7am he was open, at 19pm he was closed.

00:17:40.280 But now there's no water here because of...

00:17:43.280 He was closed when he was put on fire?

00:17:46.280 Yes.

00:17:47.280 Yes.

00:17:48.280 Look, it's there.

00:17:50.520 During the riot on October 17,

00:17:54.320 some of the rioters used some of the paving stone.

00:17:59.160 They removed it to use it to use, again, businesses.

00:18:05.100 They used that against the window

00:18:07.900 in order to smash the window

00:18:09.960 and to be able to enter and start looting.

00:18:14.500 So as you can see, just behind me,

00:18:16.840 We have the Monument of the Republic.

00:18:19.880 It represents Marianne, the female symbol of the French

00:18:24.680 Republic, representing liberty and Republican values.

00:18:29.920 Almost every time that there is a far-left protest,

00:18:35.100 this monument is being invaded by a massive graffiti,

00:18:40.060 and the state has to clean it up every time.

00:18:44.520 So, as you can see, the monument has been cleaned up since October 17.

00:18:51.520 But let's see how long this monument will stay clean.

00:19:14.520 What do you think about it?

00:19:16.520 What do you think about it?

00:19:18.520 What do you think about it?

00:19:20.520 What do you think about it?

00:19:22.520 What do you think about it?

00:19:24.520 There are people who have talked about it,

00:19:26.520 who have just talked about it,

00:19:28.520 who have tried to defend their store,

00:19:30.520 but they...

00:19:32.520 I would say that we can't do a revolution

00:19:34.520 without fear.

00:19:36.520 There will be people who will lose,

00:19:38.520 but it's a war.

00:19:40.520 You think you're in a war right now?

00:19:42.520 Capitalism.

00:19:43.520 Oui.

00:19:44.520 Oui, la guerre du pouvoir, le capitalisme, surtout la guerre

00:19:46.520 des riches.

00:19:47.520 Pensez-vous que le 17 octobre, c'était vraiment en lien

00:19:49.520 avec les lycéens ou c'était complètement quelque chose de

00:19:51.520 différent?

00:19:52.520 Tout le monde est dedans, en fait. Tout le monde est responsable.

00:19:55.520 Les lycéens, c'est la petite étincelle qui va allumer le feu.

00:20:12.520 and businesses because he believes he is at war against capitalism I would not

00:20:21.740 say that this is France I will say that this is Paris because Paris in itself

00:20:27.640 it's another kind of like world where mainly the people here are leftist but

00:20:37.720 But this is what friends have become.

00:20:42.280 People are now ready to use violence and to just destroy everything

00:20:47.820 because they believe that the end justifies the mean.

00:20:53.540 So I also had an interview with a young man of 15 years old.

00:20:58.360 So we'll hide his identity because he is a minor.

00:21:02.720 He says that October 17 was the result of the far right.

00:21:07.720 and not the far left.

00:21:37.720 I don't want to manipulate totally.

00:21:39.720 Of course, I'm not for the pillage and the irradiation.

00:21:45.720 But in any case, we are a lot of TV.

00:21:49.720 And these are not the young people who have caused this.

00:21:53.720 These are the extrem-right militants,

00:21:56.720 to then rejeter the vote on the left.

00:21:58.720 So, the videos that we saw,

00:22:00.720 you think that these are people who are masquing

00:22:02.720 to make it happen for people extrem-right?

00:22:04.720 Yes, yes, yes. There are many videos like this.

00:22:09.900 Other people are coming for them as young teachers,

00:22:13.720 individual books.

00:22:14.720 If they are completely wrong.

00:22:29.240 What do we say next video?

00:22:34.240 several of these acts, we see it's people who are either

00:22:40.320 of the second generation of immigrants. What do you have to 0.79

00:22:44.320 say about that?

00:22:46.360 I think that it's really just the prejudice and really

00:22:50.420 racism. It's not to believe what we see on TV. It's really

00:22:55.360 the police who are dressed, or if we see young people, if they

00:22:59.240 If they really wear masks, it's because the police

00:23:04.240 release a lacrymogène gas and they don't want to breathe.

00:23:08.240 So they put a mask, they try to protect themselves.

00:23:12.240 I remember that there are assaultive grenades

00:23:15.240 that are used.

00:23:16.240 Excuse me, but we are young, we are children.

00:23:21.240 We are not terrorists to use war weapons. 0.99

00:23:29.240 13, 12, is actually the same thing that a cab, all cops are bastard. So now, you know. 0.99

00:23:36.540 Dites-moi, vous étudiant, pouvez-vous nous dire quelles sont les revendications des étudiants?

00:23:43.300 Bien, c'est qu'il y a des lycées en banlieue qui sont dans des états vraiment plus qu'insalubres.

00:23:50.720 Vous avez le plafond qui est tombé sur la tête avec des élèves, vous avez des eaux usées,

00:23:54.000 vous avez des rats, vous avez des cafards. Il y a le manque de moyens de personnel.

00:23:57.940 So, well, there are not many nurses, there are not many teachers, there are not many

00:24:03.940 chairs.

00:24:04.940 In fact, there are not enough chairs, so in fact, it does not want the child to go

00:24:09.940 to study.

00:24:10.940 So, although France could arrange all that, but it would prefer to send millions to Israel

00:24:18.940 and Ukraine than to think about youth and children. 0.99

00:24:24.940 So, so far, all the graffiti that we saw, it's either a cab, that is all cop, or bastard. 0.99

00:24:32.160 We have here a burn the prison. 0.99

00:24:35.760 A little bit further, we have a call for murdering cops.

00:24:40.840 And there is more and more graffiti who are emerging from the far left and not the far right.

00:24:48.660 So the young man who think that all this was caused by the far right,

00:24:53.880 i don't think he actually had a closer look of what is across the city as graffiti this is

00:25:04.280 literally a movement that is emerging from the far left political movement so here we have a sign

00:25:14.760 that say October 17 this boutique was destroyed reopening when the condition will allow it.

00:25:28.760 And they were saying that this is not an artistic board, it's literally to protect the business

00:25:36.360 behind it. Something that shocked me the most is that last time that my cameraman Guillaume Roy

00:25:42.920 and i came here in france it was during the french legislative elections and it was also

00:25:50.440 during the olympic games and we didn't see as much homeless and tents across the city

00:25:57.800 and just for locating you we are a few minutes from the place de la republic and we saw multiple

00:26:07.720 tents on the side of the streets because last time they actually cleaned the place up but i'm really

00:26:18.680 shocked to see as much tents and i need to show you the amount of trash in the park next to it

00:26:29.320 you're going to be really, really shocked.

00:26:34.960 Yes, we are in France and not in a third world country.

00:26:39.460 We travel all the way here to show you the other side of the story.

00:26:43.620 If you want to support our journalism, unfiltered journalism,

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00:26:52.760 Thanks for supporting our work on the ground.

00:26:59.320 Shame on you, you sensorious bug. 0.92

Rebel News Podcast - October 23, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ireland arrested the man who tweeted about the bus groper, then put the teenage witness under fire

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