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MATT GOODWIN: At 1.50pm, the police stormed in. Clad in body armour, with stun guns strapped to their belts, the officers pushed past the assembled Press, barged through the audience and silenced a democratic forum for the sharing of ideas. But this was not North Korea. This was the Carnegie Hotel in Brussels yesterday, where the annual National Conservative Conference (NatCon) had been brought to a terrifying and abrupt close on the instruction of three left-wing mayors of districts in the Belgian capital. Along with hundreds of others, I found myself holed up inside the hotel for much of the afternoon, fearing for my safety. The hours were long and tense - and, at times, dangerous. Deciding against a violent eviction of the auditorium, the police instead formed a cordon outside the hotel forbidding entrance to the premises. Through glass doors I saw some officers hiding their faces behind balaclavas. These armed agents of the EU's capital city bellowed intimidatingly that anyone who left the venue would not be allowed back inside. This was siege warfare - and hundreds of us were effectively being held prisoner. Our crime? Holding mildly Right-of-centre views.

Police today barricaded the entrance to a right-wing political conference as a local mayor tried to shut down the event attended by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman. The two-day 'National Conservatism' gathering in Brussels descended into chaos as authorities attempted to enforce a ban. As well as Mr Farage, the ex-UKIP leader, and Mrs Braverman, the former home secretary, other keynote speakers were due to include Hungarian PM Viktor Orban. But the future of the conference was thrown into jeopardy following an order issued by Emir Kir, the mayor of Brussels district Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. He said he was banning the event from taking place in the Belgian capital 'to guarantee public safety'. 'In Etterbeek, in Brussels City and in Saint-Josse, the far-right is not welcome,' Mr Kir added. Police were seen inside the 'Claridge' venue around midday - as Mr Farage took to the stage to deliver a speech - and officers held talks with conference organisers. It was reported that attendees had been given 15 minutes to leave the venue. But officers did not appear to force the event to shut down and speeches continued. Event organisers later claimed that police were 'not letting anyone in' and posted a video on social media of a police barricade outside the venue. Eric Zemmour, the controversial former French presidential candidate, was said to have been denied entry with his keynote address postponed 'possibly indefinitely'. In his address to the conference, Mr Farage lashed out at the 'monstrous' efforts to shut down the gathering on its first morning. He warned: 'We are up against a new form of communism.' Mrs Braverman attacked the 'thought police' who were trying to close the event.

When a group of strangers descended on a vibrant crowd of around 400 people in Crepol, in the southwestern Drome area, the 16-year-old high school student named only as Thomas was stabbed. He died on his way to the hospital. Eight others were wounded, two of whom were seriously wounded. Far-right activists have been posting videos online claiming they were shot during the dance and claiming that they allowed for the identification of two of the attackers. The videos' authenticity has not been established. The assassination of the young in France has caused controversies and political controversy, with the far-right today referring to the assault as anti-white nationalism.

Oumar N, a man who has left a woman dead after he assaulted her numerous times at his Cherbourg, France, has been charged with sexually assaulting his sister. Oumar N. broke into the woman's home in Cherbourg, France, and struck her repeatedly in the face and across her body. According to Le Figaro, the terrified woman was thrown across the room and assaulted'several times' by the attacker, who also used the broomstick to sexually assault and torture her. The victim has sustained serious burns as a result of the 'barbaric attack', including a perforated colon, small intestine, and diaphragm as well as fractured ribs. According to a police source, Oumar N. is now under scrutiny for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old sister last year.

In a sickening situation that has sent shockwaves throughout France, a 29-year-old woman was assaulted several times, often with a 29 inch long broomstick - and tortured by an 18-year-old man. According to authorities, the perpetrator, who remains anonymous, was seized by the neck and struck repeatedly in the chest and across her body after breaking into her house in Cherbourg, a port city in Normandy, on August 4. According to Le Figaro, the terrified woman was thrown across the room and raped'several times' by the attacker, who also used the broomstick to sexually assault and torture her. The woman was naked and in a bloody mess on the floor of her apartment before she was rushed to contact her phone and call medics who had rushed her to Pasteur Hospital in Cherbourg. The 'barbaric' assault left the 29-year-old victim with serious injuries, including a perforated colon, small intestine and diaphragm, as well as fractured ribs.

EXCLUSIVE: The parents of a missing French child, Émile Soleil (left), are being investigated by an extreme-right wing politico as fears of his safety continue. It's been almost a week since the two-year-old boy vanished without a trace from Haut-Vernet, an Alpine hamlet south of Grenoble, where he was staying with his grandparents. Investigators have ruled out no evidence, while lawyers have expanded their probe to other areas of France after a thorough search of the countryside around Vernet yielded nothing. Now Mail Online has learned that Colomban Soleil (top right), Émile's father, was jailed in 2018 for 'an attack on immigrants.'

More than €1 million (almost £900,000) has been raised for a French policeman who 'executed' a teenager during a traffic stop, much more than the €189,000 donated to the victim's devastated family. On Tuesday, pan-wide riots were sparked after a cop shot Nahel Merzouk (right), a 17-year-old with an Algerian background, at point blank in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Many, including members of Nahel's family, said the assassination was symptomatic of widespread bigotry against ethnic minorities in France, and Nahel's grandmother said she was 'heartbroken' by the policeman's unconditional love. More than 40,000 people have pledged money to the officer's online fund, which was launched on Gofundme.com by a far-right media commentator. €3,000 was the most single donation, which was anonymously given. The collection easily beat the €189,000 raised for Nahel's family, who lived with his mother Mounia (inset) on a housing estate in a west Paris suburb.

Thousands of people have been caught in cities from Paris to Marseille, fighting with police, setting fire to buildings, and in some cases, even firing guns into the air. The unrest, sparked by Nahel M.'s police shooting, appeared to have come to a close on its sixth night, but fires and vandalism hit public buildings, cars, and municipal garbage cans around the country overnight and into Monday morning. All in all, there were 157 arrests overnight, out of a total of 3,354 arrests in all since June 27, though 45,000 officers were deployed around the country to combat violence fueled by rage over discrimination. Macron has joined forces on social media platforms that have posted shocking videos of vandalism and fires in a variety of cities. He said that Snapchat and TikTok were being used to orchestrate resistance and that they were used to organise unrest and act as conduits for copycat violence.

Following Friday's bloodbath, prime suspect William M., 69, remained in jail in France's capital, and the names of the deceased were announced. They include Emine Kara, the leader of the Kurdish women's movement in France, who was refused asylum in the country earlier this year. Kurdish nationalists chastised her by arguing that the French authorities are not doing enough to shield her. Mir Perwer, a famous Kurdish singer exiled in France, was also shot and killed, as was Abdullah Kizil, another dissident. All of the victims were identified by the European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress, which is headquartered in Belgium.

Officials warn that the main avenue in the French city center could turn into a 'battlefield' for the much awaited match between Argentina and Argentina in the final. With Morocco, the country's former Patriarchate, France has the world's largest Moroccan population outside of the country, with an estimated 1.5 million people. With fireworks and flares lit, streets ground to a halt, and riot police deployed to quell any potential violence, each result of Morocco's surprise victory over the tournament's penultimate stage has been welcomed in the capital.