(DPA) Police in Germany are still searching for a motive as they investigate a man who attacked several people at a private European Championship party in a small town. The incident happened on Friday night in Wolmirstedt, in the central state of […]
(Kurdistan 24) The French anti-terrorism prosecution announced on Friday that a French jihadist who returned to her country in August 2021 from Syria is being tried on terrorist charges, including crimes of genocide against the Yezidi minority. Following an interrogation session on […]
(Deutsche Welle) A man attacked several people in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, including at a private party to mark the opening of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament, before he was shot and killed by the police. German police said Saturday that […]
(CityNews) About 71 per cent of Muslim women surveyed in Quebec considered leaving the province for work due to the [effects] of Bill 21, during the pandemic. This is according to a new study published by the National Council of Canadian Muslims […]
(NL Times) Two major international operations to break up the propaganda and communications channels of terrorist organizations were carried out this week, leading authorities in 13 countries to take action against servers, web hosting services and websites, Europol announced on Friday. The […]
(AFP) A French court on Thursday confirmed the prison sentences of two men who were sentenced to 18 years in jail over the harrowing 2016 terror attack in Nice that killed 86 people. In 2022, French judges ordered prison terms for eight […]
(Euronews) The national police of Spain and France conducted a simulated terrorist attack exercise ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The surprise exercise, called Operation Optimus, aimed to enhance response capabilities. It was overseen in Spain by the General Information […]
(DPA) Authorities in Germany have moved to ban a Muslim association based in the central city of Braunschweig, accusing the group of spreading extremist views. Police also launched several raids aimed at the Braunschweig-based German-Speaking Muslim Association (DMG) on Wednesday morning, which […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday France needed a new debate on secularism rules that ban religious symbols from classrooms and some sports, as he sought to rally support before snap elections. “There is this feeling that secularism is not always well […]
(DPA) The threat of Islamist terrorist attacks in Germany is currently significantly higher compared to previous years, partially due to the Gaza war, according to Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. “The risk of jihadist attacks is higher than it has been for a […]
(Dutch News) The threat of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands has increased slightly over the past few months but remains at level 4, or substantial, the government’s counter-terrorism agency NCTV said on Tuesday. Level four means there is a realistic likelihood […]
(AFP) French Muslim basketball player Diaba Konate Tuesday said she had hoped to represent her country at the Paris Olympics but did not stand a chance because she wears a headscarf. “Despite my desire and skills, I’m … not actually allowed to […]
(Deutsche Welle) A suspected supporter of the Islamic State (IS) was arrested a week before the start of the UEFA European football championship in Germany, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said Sunday. According to a spokesperson for the Karlsruhe authority, the suspect […]
(AFP) A Palestinian man has been charged in France with financing terrorism and complicity in attempted murder over suspected links to attacks against Israelis in the occupied West Bank in 2023, a source close to the case said Thursday. He is being […]
(DPA) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to allow the deportation of serious criminals to Afghanistan and Syria again, he told parliament on Thursday, following the recent death of a police officer who was stabbed at an anti-Islamic rally. “Such criminals should be […]
(NL Times) Khaled Al N. from Joure allegedly confessed to killing his 18-year-old daughter Ryan in emails sent to the Telegraaf. The Syrian man said he took his daughter’s life and fled to Istanbul. Sources previously told the newspaper that Ryan’s very […]
(Radio NZ) The Supreme Court has declared the then National-led government broke the law in 2016 when it cancelled a woman’s passport on national security grounds. The crown has been ordered to pay the woman $30,000 to cover her legal costs, but […]
(NL Times) Ryan Al Najjar, an 18-year-old woman from Joure whose body was found a week ago in [Lelystad], was the victim of an “honor killing,” people who know the family told the Telegraaf. According to them, Ryan’s father killed her because […]
(Brussels Times) The Antwerp Criminal Court is due to issue its verdict on Wednesday in the trial of an alleged terrorist group accused of plotting to murder the city’s mayor, Bart De Wever, who also chairs the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA). The suspects […]
(AFP) Germany said Tuesday it was considering allowing deportations to Afghanistan after an asylum seeker from the country killed a police officer and wounded five others in a knife attack. Deportations to Afghanistan have been stopped since the Taliban retook power in […]
(NL Times) The police arrested two men for involvement in the death of 18-year-old Ryan al Najjar from Joure. The young woman’s body was found in the water along the Knardijk in Lelystad a week after she disappeared from her hometown. Al […]
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities say they believe there was an Islamist motive behind a knife attack at an anti-Islam rally in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Friday during which a police officer was killed. The federal prosecutor, Germany’s highest prosecuting authority […]
(AFP) Anti-terrorism prosecutors in Germany will take over the investigation into a knife attack in Mannheim that killed a police officer, a spokeswoman told AFP on Monday. She said the office took on the case due to the “singular importance” of the […]
(AP) A foreign citizen was detained in Romania’s capital on Monday after allegedly attacking the entrance of the Israeli embassy with a Molotov cocktail, causing a small fire but no casualties, local media and police reported. A 34-year-old man was apprehended by […]
(DPA) A German police officer has died two days after being stabbed at an anti-Islam gathering in the western German city of Mannheim, authorities said Sunday, as police responded to demonstrations held in the wake of the attack. The public prosecutor’s office […]
(DPA) Germany’s anti-Islamic Pax Europa movement is planning further public gatherings despite Friday’s knife attack in the city of Mannheim that left a police officer critically injured. Next Saturday, the group will set up a booth outside the train station in the […]
(AP) A German court on Saturday ordered a 25-year-old man born in Afghanistan held on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack at an event organized by a group opposing “political Islam” that left six people injured. The victims […]
(Budapest Times) Hungarian authorities have taken into custody a minor on charges of posting online propaganda content promoting the Islamic State terrorist organisation, the central investigation office of the prosecution said on Wednesday. The prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation based on […]
(Swiss Info) The Geneva public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday demanded a three-year prison sentence for Tariq Ramadan, 18 months of which would be mandatory, in an appeal trial. It believes the Islamic scholar is guilty of raping a woman in a hotel […]
(Swiss Info) Swiss political parties have spoken out in favour of the Federal Council’s proposed ban on the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The rightwing Swiss People’s Party felt that the draft law did not go far enough in the consultation procedure. The […]
(TVP) A migrant attempting to illegally cross the border from Belarus into Poland stabbed a Polish soldier on Tuesday, the deputy interior minister reported. The soldier was immediately taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. The attack occurred during a […]
(ANSA) Police in Turin on Tuesday arrested Halili Elmahdi, a 29-year-old suspected of being the main author of Italian-language ISIS propaganda, sources said. The Moroccan national, who allegedly carried out radicalisation and proselytising activities on the internet, faces charges of terrorism association. […]
(Arab News) A British Foreign Office minister said on Monday some Muslims in the UK wanted to “challenge the values” of the country. Anne-Marie [Trevelyan] was speaking after right-wing politician Nigel Farage, the honorary president of Reform UK, told Sky News on […]
(ANSA) The ruling rightwing League party has tabled an amendment to the government’s security decree calling for Islamic rites inside cultural centres to be celebrated in Italian. According to the League, this would help prevent religious propaganda and radicalisation and therefore possible […]
(Swiss Info) The 61-year-old Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was acquitted of rape and sexual coercion, will be back before judges in Geneva on Monday. The public prosecutor’s office and the plaintiff had appealed against the court’s decision last year. As the […]
(Times of Israel) London’s Metropolitan Police is attempting to identify a man seen walking through the capital city wearing a Manchester United soccer shirt with the word “Hamas” and a large 7 emblazoned on the back, seemingly in reference to the October […]
(Euronews) A 27-year-old Moroccan man was arrested and taken into police custody following a knife attack that injured four people in the Lyon metro on Sunday afternoon. “An individual armed with a knife injured four people in the Lyon metro between the […]
(DPA) German authorities have detained an 18-year-old man after he allegedly discussed carrying out a knife attack on a synagogue in the south-western German city of Heidelberg. The suspect, who comes from the town of Weinheim, is being held on suspicion of […]
(NL Times) According to BBB parliamentarian Mona Keijzer, “Jew hatred is almost part of the culture” in countries where Islam is the dominant religion. The BBB’s “prime minister candidate” said that on the talk show Sophie & Jeroen while discussing asylum seekers […]
(ANSA) A middle school teacher in the northern city of Treviso has exempted two Muslim students from studying Dante on the grounds that it is a religious work that clashes with their Islamic faith, local dailies reported Friday, sparking a major row […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Federal Criminal Court today sentenced two sisters living in the canton of Vaud to suspended prison terms for having travelled, along with a minor son belonging to one of them, to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic […]
(AFP) Italian police said Wednesday they had disrupted a Turkish criminal operation “with terrorist purposes,” arresting 19 individuals including a major boss associated with recent attacks in Turkey. Hundreds of police carried out the arrests in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Turkey, police […]
(Sky News) The mother of a victim of the Manchester Arena bombing has walked from the venue to Downing Street to deliver a letter calling for new terror laws. Figen Murray’s son, Martyn Hett, was one of 22 people killed when terrorist […]
(NL Times) A slim majority of parliamentarians voted on Tuesday in favor of a motion calling for the Cabinet to criminalize the statement, “From the River to the Sea.” The measure passed 74-73 during a roll call vote in the Tweede Kamer, […]
(AP) Austria’s leader praised Britain Tuesday as a “pioneer” in outsourcing asylum proceedings to places outside Europe, citing a U.K. bill to send migrants to Rwanda as he hosted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Vienna. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative party has […]
(JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden called it “outrageous” for the International Criminal Court to pursue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Washington “fundamentally rejects” the decision of the court in The Hague. Rep. Ilhan […]
(Jerusalem Post) A total of 38% of students at Russell Group universities, a prestigious collection of 24 UK universities, stated that they believe Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel were an “understandable act of resistance,” according to a poll commissioned by StandWithUs […]
(Vijesti) A 14-year-old citizen of Montenegro planned a terrorist attack on Jakominiplatz in the Austrian city of Graz, writes the Kleine Zeitung. After searching her house, the police found a knife and an ax and Islamic State propaganda material. The 14-year-old pleaded […]
(ITV) Detectives investigating the stabbing [of] an Iranian journalist outside his south London home have said they are “making various international inquiries.” However, police looking into the attack on Iran International reporter Pouria Zeraati have not said which country they believe the […]
(Sky News) Two police officers who took a two-hour break to get kebabs on the night of the Manchester Arena terror attack have been given final written warnings. The inquiry into the atrocity had heard suicide bomber Salman Abedi may have been […]
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