(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, […]
(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 […]
(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday said he opposed a proposal put before parliament to ban young girls wearing the Muslim headscarf, saying such a move risked being “stigmatising” for the minors. The issue of tightening legal limits on the wearing of […]
(Sky News) A man from Afghanistan has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting three women in Southampton, as well as entering the UK illegally. Sohail Amiri, 30, is accused of approaching a woman and trying to kiss her in Upper Shaftesbury […]
(ITV) A woman in Jersey is facing terrorism charges, accused of using social media to invite support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Both groups are proscribed terrorist organisations, which means it is an offence to promote them. The case against Natalie Strecker, 50, […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court said Friday it had ordered psychiatric internment for a Moroccan man who murdered a church official in a 2023 machete attack that horrified the country. Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court dismissed terrorism charges for the attacks at two […]
(NL Times) Police arrested an individual on Thursday morning for allegedly making death threats against writer and columnist Lale Gül, according to Gül. The Central Netherlands Police have declined to comment on the matter. The 28-year-old Dutch-Turkish author gained recognition in 2021 […]
(NL Times) Authorities failed to fully monitor Ayoub M., the suspect in the fatal stabbing at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge, in the months leading up to the attack, according to a joint report from the Dutch Inspectorate of Justice and Security and the […]
(AFP) Sweden’s migration minister said Thursday that the country would cooperate with Damascus to increase deportations of Syrians convicted of crimes in Sweden, saying it was a condition for some aid. “These are Syrian nationals who are in Sweden, who have committed […]
(NL Times) Today, the trial starts against Mohamed (23) and Muhanad al N. (25), suspected of involvement in the honor killing of their 18-year-old sister, Ryan. Their father, Khaled al N., is the main suspect in his daughter’s brutal death, but is […]
(Jewish News) A British-Palestinian doctor who has become infamous for her rants about “Jewish supremacy” in the UK has had her licence to practice medicine suspended for 15 months while the General Medical Council (GMC) investigates her conduct. The decision, announced by […]
(ANSA) Turin imam and Egyptian citizen Mohamed Shahin has been served an expulsion order from Italy to Egypt because he is an alleged anti-Semitic fundamentalist who has allegedly legitimised the extermination of the Israeli people, according to the decree issued by the […]
(Brussels Times) A 27-year-old man from Menen, West Flanders, was sentenced again on Wednesday to 15 years in prison by the Ghent Court of Appeal for attempting a terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIL). Abubakar S., of Chechen origin, […]
(Jerusalem Post) Over a billion Swedish kronor, or more than $100 million, in taxpayer-backed funds intended to support preschools and schools in Sweden have been siphoned off through an Islamist-affiliated network engaged in welfare fraud, an investigation by the Swedish newspaper Expressen […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Criminal Court has sentenced two men from the Balkans, the so-called “Frères de Genève” [the Geneva Brothers], to 30 and 53 months in prison for their support of the Islamic State group. However, the court on Monday acquitted […]
(NL Times) Dutch writer and television commentator Lale Gül, 28, will soon lose her personal security protection, she told the ANP on Thursday. Gül said she was informed of the decision in a meeting with the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security […]
(BBC) An Afghan national has admitted raping a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. Ahmad Mulakhil pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to one count of raping a child under the age of 13. He had previously denied the charge. Mulakhil, 23 and of […]
(Portugal News) The Constitutional Affairs Committee has deemed unconstitutional a proposal by the Chega party to amend the 2026 state budget, which aims to prohibit the allocation of public funds for the construction of mosques. The 1st Committee met this morning, before […]
(DPA) Austria is set to ban girls under the age of 14 from wearing a headscarf in school next year, Integration Minister Claudia Plakolm said on Thursday. The draft law, which is set to be debated in parliament soon, is to apply […]
(AFP) Sweden on Thursday charged a 23-year-old Swedish-Syrian man with several “terrorist crimes,” including attempts to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State (IS) group, prosecutors said. He is also accused of both financing and attempting to finance IS through cryptocurrencies, […]
(ITV) A man accused of hatching a terrorist attack to “kill as many Jewish people as possible” only pretended to go along with the plot so he could “sabotage it” and “take the evidence to the police,” a jury has heard. Walid […]
(Jerusalem Post) An 18-year-old from south London appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism after officers arrested him at Gatwick Airport as he tried to board a flight to Istanbul; prosecutors said he planned […]
(AFP) An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said. The man, who holds dual Swedish and Syrian citizenship, had sworn loyalty to the […]
(ITV) A man accused of a terror plot was “very happy” running an Italian restaurant in Norfolk before he moved to the north-west of England, where he allegedly planned to target a mass gathering of Jews, a court has heard. Tunisian national […]
(Reuters) Britain proposed sweeping changes to its policy on asylum seekers on Monday, the latest European country to announce tighter rules on migration in recent years. Here are details on how some other countries are changing their rules: Push for reinterpretation of […]
(NL Times) Justice Minister Foort van Oosten (VVD) will pursue a formal law to prohibit visible religious symbols, such as kippahs or headscarves, for special enforcement officers (BOA’s) following a sharply critical advisory from the Council of State. The Council of State […]
(BBC) A charity run that stopped women and girls over 12 from taking part is “reviewing its policies” after a backlash. The Muslim Charity Run, held in east London’s Victoria Park last month, was billed as an “inclusive 5km race” welcoming “runners […]
(Jerusalem Post) Germany has filed charges against a Syrian national on allegations of ISIS membership, Germany’s public prosecutor general at the Federal Court of Justice stated on Friday. “The accused is sufficiently suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization,” the public […]
(Jerusalem Post) The principal of an Arabic school in Berlin, who has previously expressed opposition to Hamas and installed Israeli-Palestinian peace programs at the school, was nearly killed on Friday after being pushed in front of a train, he told the German […]
(Brussels Times) Belgian IS fighter Sammy Djedou, who is believed to be dead, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday by the Brussels Assize Court for genocide and crimes against humanity. Djedou left for Syria in 2012 and committed serious crimes against […]
(France 24) Ten years after the worst terrorist attack on French soil, President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday led a day of commemorations for the victims of the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks, which killed 132 people, including two survivors who later died […]
(Radio France) As France marks 10 years since the 13 November Paris attacks, security experts warn the jihadist threat has shifted to a younger generation drawn in through algorithm-driven feeds. Radicalisation is now happening faster and earlier, with teenagers lured by online […]
(Brussels Times) A Brussels court has found Belgian jihadi Sammy Djedou guilty of genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, marking a historic first for the country. Djedou, a former Islamic State fighter, was long believed to have been killed […]
(AFP) A Danish court put two Swedish [men] on trial on terrorism charges for having thrown two hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen last year. The two men, aged 18 and 21, have also been charged with aggravated assault and […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Wednesday that police had arrested another alleged member of a Hamas cell plotting attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions. The man, identified as Lebanon-born Borhan El-K., was arrested late Tuesday while entering Germany from the Czech Republic, the […]
(DPA) The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg said he had begun a hunger strike on the second day of his high-security trial on Tuesday. “I […]
(Syriac Press) In a landmark ruling that underscores Europe’s growing pursuit of accountability for atrocities committed during the rise of the Islamic State, Sweden’s Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of Lina Ishaq, a 52-year-old woman of Iraqi-Christian origin, for genocide, […]
(AFP) A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., […]
(DPA) The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg admitted on Monday that he was behind the wheel during the incident. “I am the one that […]
(AFP) French magistrates were Monday investigating the ex-girlfriend of a man jailed for the deadly November 13, 2015, Paris attacks over an alleged jihadist plot, prosecutors said. But Salah Abdeslam himself was not involved in any plot, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office […]
(Brussels Times) An investigating judge and her team on Monday reviewed five direct testimonies that allowed them to argue that ex-jihadist Sammy Djedou subjected three “abaya” (female captives) to sexual slavery from 1 November 2014 to 31 December 2016, while living in […]
(World Israel News) A Hamas terrorist who took part in the October 7, 2023, massacres successfully claimed asylum in Belgium and is now living freely in the European country as a refugee, according to a report from a Belgian watchdog organization. The […]
(Radio France) French anti-terror prosecutors have charged and jailed three young women suspected of plotting a jihadist attack — the first alleged plot involving female suspects in several years. The trio, all around 20 years old, were formally placed under investigation and […]
(AFP) France’s anti-terror unit said Saturday three people were in custody as part of an investigation into a suspected terror threat linked to Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving perpetrator of the devastating November 13, 2015, Paris attacks. On Thursday, France will mark […]
(Belga) Convicted terrorists or hate preachers who are residing in Belgium illegally may soon be subject to a lifetime entry ban, the Council of Ministers decided on Friday. Currently, such an entry ban can only be imposed temporarily. “The door will be […]
(Arab News) The latest row surrounding France’s ban on religious symbols at school has erupted after a group of Muslim schoolgirls visited the National Assembly wearing hijabs. Yael Braun-Pivet, the assembly’s speaker and a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance Party, […]
(AFP) A Belgian jihadist accused of acts of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria — and presumed killed in conflict — went on trial in absentia Thursday in Brussels. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Islamic State […]
(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam, who is serving a life sentence in France for his role in the 2015 Paris attacks, was briefly taken into custody as part of an investigation into the illegal possession of an item in prison. According to France’s […]
(AP) Austria’s domestic intelligence service has uncovered a weapons cache in Vienna that is believed to be linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for use in “possible terrorist attacks in Europe,” the government said Thursday. A 39-year-old unidentified British citizen allegedly […]
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