(NL Times) The 22-year-old man arrested for stabbing people at random at the foot of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam said he was in a state of psychosis at the time of the incident. The Public Prosecution Service currently suspects that Ayoub […]
(AFP) A German court handed a 10-year jail term to a Syrian former militia leader on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed under former president Bashar al-Assad. The man, named only as Ahmad H., 47, had come to Germany […]
(Dutch News) Immigration minister Marjolein Faber has finalised three pieces of legislation that will be put to the vote in Friday’s cabinet meeting, broadcaster NOS has reported. Ministers have already given their informal blessing to the plans, sources in The Hague told […]
(Swiss Info) Swiss lawmakers want to ban the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah in addition to the Palestinian organisation Hamas. After the Senate, the House of Representatives also voted on this measure on Tuesday. It adopted a corresponding motion from its Security Policy […]
(Dutch News) Far-right leader Geert Wilders has told reporters he is not prepared to give another millimetre on legislation to curb the number of refugees coming to the Netherlands and that without fast action, his party will be finished with the cabinet. […]
(NL Times) The risk of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands remains “substantial,” the fourth most severe threat level out of five, according to the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV). There is a “realistic” possibility of an attack, particularly because […]
(Dutch News) Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has spoken out about anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in a wide-ranging interview with the Volkskrant, in which she reflected on a turbulent year in the capital’s history. Halsema said she is “worried about human rights and […]
(AFP) French prosecutors on Monday sought jail terms of between one and 16 years for eight people on trial over the 2020 beheading of a school teacher by an Islamist radical that shocked France. The harshest sentence was reserved for a defendant […]
(AFP) Four people arrested over the weekend had been inspired by the Islamic State and were planning to carry out a “terrorist attack” targeting civilians, North Macedonia prosecutors said Monday. The four were detained in separate raids across the country on Sunday […]
(AP) Germany’s foreign minister is warning anyone involved in atrocities for the ousted Syrian government against seeking refuge in her country, saying they would face “the full force of the law.” Germany has been a major destination for Syrian refugees over the […]
(AP) Four men suspected of planning terrorist attacks were arrested Sunday in western North Macedonia, authorities said. Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski said the arrests were made during raids on several locations in the western towns of Struga and Gostivar. The four men […]
(JNS) The White House’s first-ever “U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate,” which the Biden administration announced on Thursday, runs for 67 pages. It features “more than 100 executive branch actions and more than 100 calls to action to every […]
(Jerusalem Post) British Muslim influencer Mohammed Hijab, known for his anti-Israel political activism, is suing Zionist political commentator Douglas Murray for defamation, a Thursday report from the Jewish Chronicle revealed. The cause for Hijab’s lawsuit is a column piece penned by Murray […]
(Brussels Times) There are around ten Belgian citizens in the Islamist group that ousted Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria last week, according to Belgium’s interim Foreign Minister Bernard Quintin (MR). In a shock chain of events, the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded eight months in prison against a suspect who allegedly spoke about a “Jew hunt” while attacking Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam following a match against Ajax on November 7. Another suspect who shared […]
(NL Times) The first day of trials against a group of five suspects accused of violence in Amsterdam around the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match on November 7 began on Wednesday, largely with claims of innocence. Several of the suspects faced allegations […]
(Swiss Info) Hamas will become a banned group in Switzerland for five years. After the Senate, the House of Representatives accepted a government proposal drawn up after the attack by the Islamist group on October 7, 2023. The House of Representatives accepted […]
(Sky News) Six people have been charged with being members of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party after an investigation by counter-terrorism police in London. The two women and four men were arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 on Wednesday, 27 […]
(Brussels Times) The province of Flemish Brabant has been accused of discrimination for banning full-body swimsuits at the Halve Maan provincial domain in Diest, according to a ruling by the Flemish Human Rights Institute on Monday. In July 2023, a community centre […]
(DPA) German police arrested three men on suspicion of plotting an Islamist attack, authorities announced on Tuesday. The men procured an assault rifle and ammunition, among other preparations, according to the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation. Two of the suspects are […]
(BBC) A woman has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an inquiry into material taken into a prison. Counter Terrorism Policing North East also charged three other individuals following an investigation at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster. Rhea Wood, 35, […]
(AFP) Britain, Germany, France, Italy and several other European countries said Monday they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. While Berlin and other governments said they were watching the fast-moving developments […]
(AFP) Three young suspected Islamic extremists have been charged with terror offences in France over an alleged bomb plot, prosecutors said on Sunday. The three men aged between 19 and 20 are thought to have become radicalised while watching extremist videos online […]
(ITV) An asylum seeker who allegedly professed to be the Prophet Muhammad and threatened to get a knife to kill someone in Belfast has been jailed for three months. Prosecutors said Zakariya Hurre made stabbing gestures at members of the public before […]
(Canadian Press) A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City is being held in a detention centre hundreds of kilometres from Montreal, where he says the French-speaking guards don’t understand him. Muhammad Shahzeb […]
(AFP) Muhammad was the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales last year, topping the annual rankings for the first time, the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Thursday. The name, which has been in the top 10 […]
(ANSA) Italian police said Thursday that they have arrested a 19-year-old woman while she allegedly was trying to leave Italy to join Islamist group ISIS. Hafsa Bakari Mohamed, who was born in Kenya and is resident in Milan, was detained at Bergamo’s […]
(AFP) German police carried out sweeping pre-dawn raids Wednesday targeting an alleged Iraqi-Kurdish criminal network accused of smuggling migrants by boat from France to Britain. More than 500 officers searched locations in multiple western German cities in an operation coordinated with Europol […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium’s terror alert level remains at 3 (out of 4), according to the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAM) on Tuesday. There are no specific threats to the Christmas markets, which are gradually opening as the festive season approaches. “The […]
(Times of Malta) The email bomb threat made on Monday to many schools in Malta was “nonsense, absurd and mysterious,” the imam of the Muslim community in Malta said on Tuesday. The threat that a bomb had been hidden in a school […]
(AP) German authorities have arrested a Lebanese man accused of being a member of Hezbollah and working for groups controlled by the Lebanese terror organization in Germany. Federal prosecutors say the suspect, identified only as Fadel R. in line with German privacy […]
(AFP) Swedish prosecutors said Monday they had charged three people with alleged ties to the Islamic State (IS) of plotting terrorist acts, including against Jewish interests, and seeking minors to carry them out. The trio, as well as a fourth suspect, were […]
(AFP) France’s hardline interior minister on Friday said Britain could no longer “sub-contract” Channel border security out to Paris, with no end in sight to the flows of migrants heading across the waterway. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is set to meet with […]
(Deutsche Welle) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Thursday called for “great vigilance” at Germany’s popular Christmas markets. However, she stressed that there was no “concrete” evidence of a threat. What did Faeser say about the threat to Christmas markets? Faeser said […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss government has rejected demands from two parliamentary security policy commissions to ban Hezbollah. The group does not meet the same conditions as Hamas, the Federal Council says. Hezbollah should be put on the same footing as Hamas, according […]
(Yle) Finland will take in 500 quota refugees next year as part of the UNHCR’s resettlement programme, the Interior Ministry confirmed in a press statement released on Thursday. The statement also revealed the allocation of the quota, meaning which refugee groups will […]
(NL Times) Riots in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district that culminated in multiple assaults and a tram being set ablaze were announced on social media the night before, district sources told the Telegraaf. The violent incidents on November 11 involved hundreds of youths who […]
(AP) A youth suspected of planning to build pipe bombs to carry out an Islamic extremist attack has been arrested in western Germany, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, whose name and exact age weren’t released, was arrested on Tuesday evening, prosecutors in […]
(Yle) The Finnish Parliament has voted in favour of a government proposal to draft a specific law banning the practice and preparation of female genital mutilation (FGM). FGM refers to the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for […]
(Sky News) Seven people have been arrested in London as part of a counter-terrorism investigation into suspected activity linked to the proscribed group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A 59-year-old woman, a 27-year-old man, a 31-year-old woman, a 62-year-old man, a 56-year-old man […]
(Brussels Times) Antwerp police are considering monitoring the Jewish neighbourhood in the city with smart cameras to detect violent anti-Semitic incidents in advance. The Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 and Israel’s subsequent criticised military offensive against the Gaza Strip, and later […]
(NL Times) Activist Mohammed Khatib of the pro-Palestinian organization Samidoun will speak via a video link at a protest in Wageningen on Friday. The Netherlands denied Khatib access to the country last month when he was invited by Radboud University employees to […]
(BBC) A terrorist friend of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been freed from jail. Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was a childhood friend of Abedi, was released from HMP Full Sutton in East Yorkshire on Tuesday when his sentence came to an end. […]
(DPA) The German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday brought charges against four alleged members of Hamas, arrested late last year, for membership in a foreign terrorist organization. The office in the western city of Karlsruhe said they have been active for […]
(AFP) France’s justice minister said on Monday that he was “resolutely opposed” to a bill aimed at removing “apology for terrorism” from the criminal code, a move that has attracted condemnation across the political spectrum. The hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) proposal aims […]
(Al-Jazeera) United States President-elect Donald Trump is encouraging a Florida legislator who celebrated the killing of an American citizen by the Israeli military to run for Congress. Trump said in a social media post on Sunday that if State Senator Randy Fine […]
(Yle) Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) has requested that the Interior Ministry review its plans on how Finland’s refugee quota will be allocated next year. Finnish media reported last month that the Finns Party has proposed reducing the number of quota […]
(Yabiladi) In a joint and coordinated security operation, Moroccan and Spanish authorities successfully dismantled a Daesh-affiliated terrorist cell operating in the Sahel region. The operation, conducted on Friday by Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), affiliated with the General Directorate of […]
(Sky News) Hundreds of people affected by the Manchester Arena bombing cannot continue legal action against MI5, judges have ruled. More than 300 people, including survivors and those bereaved by the 2017 attack at an Ariana Grande concert, brought a case to […]
(Belga) The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office has 13 open cases involving Belgian suspects accused of participating in the genocide of Yazidis. Attacks were carried out by the terrorist organisation Islamic State (ISIS) in northern Iraq in 2014. This information was confirmed by […]
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