(Brussels Times) The federal prosecutor has demanded a ten-year prison sentence for a man being prosecuted for attempted murder with a terrorist motive, among other charges. On the evening of 17 January, a 35-year-old man from Borgerhout recklessly drove his car at […]
(ITV) The brother of a man accused of plotting to kill Jewish people at a mass gathering in Manchester has told a jury that he thought he was being “abducted or kidnapped” when police came to arrest him. Bilel Saadaoui claimed six […]
(Jewish News) The central role played by an MP who campaigned to have Israeli football clubs thrown out of European competitions in the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a game against Aston Villa has been confirmed by police chiefs […]
(AFP) Two minors, including a Russian national, have been placed in custody in Paris on suspicion of plotting an antisemitic attack, according to judicial and press sources. The Russian, a Chechen 16-year-old who came to France with his mother four years ago, […]
(BBC) A Green Party councillor and chair of one of the region’s biggest mosques faces a possible three-year charity suspension imposed by the Charity Commission after sharing a social media post about the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel. Abdul Malik was […]
(European Conservative) Last May, two brothers allegedly bound their 18-year-old sister in packing tape, gagged her, and drowned her in a swamp. This was an honour killing, motivated by what the girl’s brothers saw as her “westernisation.” During the trial last week, […]
(Dutch News) An Amersfoort man who stabbed another man to death on the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam last September and seriously injured a second should be jailed for 20 years, followed by psychiatric prison, the public prosecution department said at his trial […]
(NL Times) The trial against Ayoub M. from Amersfoort, the man suspected of a fatal knife attack at [Erasmus] Bridge in Rotterdam in September last year, starts in the high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport on Monday. The now 23-year-old man is facing […]
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