(Breitbart) Three men between the ages of 21 and 28 have been sentenced for their activity during the Easter riots in the city of Norrköping earlier this year which followed a burning of the Islamic Qur’an by anti-Islam activists. The Norrköping District Court sentenced […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Thursday that 26 migrants, who had been crammed into two cars driven by suspected smugglers, have been detained near the southern border with Greece. A police statement said the cars were near the town of Valandovo […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia have detained 44 Syrian migrants, including 14 minors, found carefully hidden in a truck near the southern border with Greece, authorities said Tuesday. The truck driver was arrested on suspicion of belonging to a migrant-smuggling ring. A […]
(AP) A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant Tuesday of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists in the eastern city of Chemnitz four years ago. The arson attack in October 2018 happened a few weeks […]
(Anadolu) Hate crimes in the UK are on the rise because the government “tends to try to appease the far right by adopting some of their positions,” according to a prominent Muslim scholar. Anas Altikriti, CEO of Cordoba Foundation, told Anadolu Agency […]
(AFP) Spanish police said Saturday they have broken up a gang suspected of smuggling Albanian migrants including children into Britain, hidden as stowaways in dangerous conditions aboard ferries and merchant ships. Officers arrested seven suspects, all Albanians from an “important criminal organisation,” […]
(Jewish News) The Metropolitan Police have dropped their investigation into [an] antisemitic attack directed at Jewish passengers as they celebrated Chanukah on a bus in central London. In a statement to Jewish News, the Met confirmed their probe into the incident, footage […]
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(BBC) A 30-year-old man has been arrested as part of an investigation into the smuggling of people across the English Channel in small boats. The Albanian national was detained by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers in Surbiton in south-west London. He is […]
(AP) Serbian special police raided a makeshift camp near the border with Hungary and detained alleged people smugglers found there Wednesday along with weapons, money and about 200 migrants. The police operation by the Tisa River came two days after the governments […]
(NY Post) A lawyer who torched an NYPD patrol car during the George Floyd riots is begging for a reduced sentence — whining that she was drunk and dealing with “unprocessed trauma” at the time, according to court documents. Urooj Rahman, 33, […]
(Yle) The Kanta-Häme District Court has cleared a total of seven defendants — comprising police officers and security guards — of all charges in relation to an incident in which female asylum seekers claimed they were forced to remove their head coverings. […]
(Reuters) Czech police chasing a vanload of migrants fired warning shots on Thursday as they began checks on the border with Slovakia to combat a sharp rise in people, mostly Syrians, heading illegally to western Europe. Police intercepted over 100 migrants and […]
(AP) Austria announced Wednesday that it will start checking travel documents at its border with Slovakia following a similar decision by the Czech Republic to keep migrants from entering without authorization. The checks were set to start at midnight Wednesday and initially […]
(AP) The Czech government has decided to renew checks at its border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration. The new measure becomes effective on Thursday at 27 border crossings between the two European Union countries that belong to Europe’s visa-free […]
(BBC) The recent disorder in Leicester did not only involve Hindus and Muslims, the city’s head of police has said. Temporary Chief Constable Rob Nixon warned against “broad, sweeping comments” about the unrest. Tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the […]
(ANI) A famous UK YouTuber named Mohammed Hijab has come across as instigator-in-chief in violent incidents in the UK city of Leicester that saw targeted attacks on Hindu community members, Global Order reported. The cycle of violence was triggered last month after […]
(BBC) Police have charged a further five men in relation to disorder in Leicester. They were all arrested in the days and weeks before 17 September, when major disorder broke out involving hundreds of people. A total of 47 people have been […]
(BBC) An independent review is to take place into recent unrest in Leicester, the BBC has learned. Officers have arrested 47 people since 28 August amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Major disorder broke […]
(AFP) French police have busted a major people-smuggling ring that has been sending migrants to Britain in dinghies, seizing more than a dozen boats and 700 life jackets in a raid, French officials said Thursday. The ring, run by Iraqi Kurdish migrants, […]
(BBC) A man sentenced for carrying a knife at a protest in Leicester at the weekend said he was influenced by social media. Adam Yusuf, 21, received a suspended jail sentence after admitting possessing a knife at a march on Sunday. The […]
(BBC) An imam who raped a schoolgirl in a mosque has been unconditionally discharged. Khandaker Rahman, 67, from Cwmdu, Swansea, was found to have committed the crimes by a jury at Swansea Crown Court in June, after a trial of facts, as […]
(BBC) Fifteen people have been arrested in an operation to “deter further disorder” in Leicester. There was large-scale unrest on Saturday amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said it had been sparked by […]
(BBC) Large-scale disorder broke out in Leicester on Saturday, with police and community leaders calling for calm. Officers tried to hold back crowds amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said two arrests had […]
(Breitbart) German anti-terror police in northern Hesse have carried out a series of arrests against a gang accused of smuggling Syrians and also helping radical Islamic State terrorists enter Europe. The elite anti-terrorist unit GSG 9 executed six arrest warrants on Tuesday, […]
(AP) Police in Switzerland said Tuesday that they found 23 migrants packed into the back of a delivery van during a traffic check on a highway. The Italian-registered vehicle was stopped early Monday morning as it headed northward on the A2 highway […]
(BBC) A National Crime Agency (NCA) officer who made offensive remarks about Muslims was unfairly sacked, an employment tribunal has found. Abbey Brooke made the comments at a training session led by Abrar Javid, a Muslim community leader in Rotherham. The tribunal […]
(Breitbart) The leader of the Swedish Islamic Nyans Party has been revealed to have been convicted and fined for violent crime by a Turkish court over an incident that took place in 2009. Nyans leader Mikail Yüksel is said to have been convicted […]
(Yle) Seven police and security guards of the Häme Police Department are facing charges for forcing female asylum seekers to remove their head coverings for registration photos. The indictment in the trial, which opened in the Kanta-Häme District Court on Wednesday, concerns […]
(Yeshiva World News) Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a 41-year-old Staten Island man has been convicted of charges of felony attempted assault, misdemeanor assault and menacing for a 2018 unprovoked attack against three Jewish men wearing Hasidic clothing that […]
(Free Beacon) Federal law enforcement officials have identified a high number of individuals with Middle Eastern names traveling with Mexican passports, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Since the beginning of 2022, nearly […]
(i24) The National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported on Monday the murder of a Jewish man earlier in August by a Muslim suspect northeast of Paris. “The BNVCA was requested by many correspondents who see information circulating about the murder […]
(Radio Free Europe) Bulgarian authorities said police detained 141 migrants attempting to enter the country without permission, all of them believed to be men originating in Afghanistan. Police on August 28 said they would boost security along the Eastern European EU nation’s […]
(Albuquerque Journal) Muhammad Atif Syed pleaded not guilty Friday to three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shooting deaths in July and August that rocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community. Syed, 51, entered the not guilty plea through his attorney during a […]
(AFP) Two police officers were killed Thursday as they tried to stop a bus carrying migrants in Bulgaria, authorities said, as the government made a renewed promise to crack down on illegal migration. The bus, which was carrying 47 passengers, including children, […]
(AP) Cyprus police have arrested five Syrians on suspicion of people trafficking after a police patrol boat plucked them and 32 of their countrymen from the sea when their rickety boats sank close to the island’s southeastern tip. Police say the five […]
(ANSA) Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter on Tuesday removed a video of a Guinean asylum seeker raping a Ukrainian woman in Piacenza Monday, which had been controversially re-posted by conservative leader Giorgia Meloni in a post vowing to boost law and order in […]
(Brussels Times) Several people have been arrested in Molenbeek after consecutive days of fighting on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, reported Bruzz. The clashes seem to be the result of a dispute between two Syrian families and involved between 50 and 100 people, […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia have detained 26 migrants thought to have entered illegally from neighboring Greece, and arrested a suspected smuggler who had been driving them in a van toward the northern border with Serbia. A police statement said the migrants […]
(Albuquerque Journal) A grand jury has indicted Muhammad Atif Syed on three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings that rattled Albuquerque’s Muslim community and drew international media attention. The grand jury indictment — made public Monday — added a […]
(AP) The far-right candidate who aspires to be Italy’s first female leader came under fire Monday from opponents for posting a pixelized video that purports to show a woman being raped by an asylum-seeker. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of […]
(Breitbart) A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive. The armed man, said […]
(BBC) A Metropolitan Police firearms officer is facing a dangerous driving charge over a crash involving parked vehicles that happened as he responded to the Streatham terrorist attack in 2020. PC Paul Fisher’s unmarked police car is said to have hit three […]
(AP) An Afghan refugee charged in the shooting deaths of two Muslim men and suspected in the killing of two others was ordered held without bond pending trial as prosecutors argued Wednesday that he was a danger to his own family and […]
(Reuters) National Muslim groups have linked the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico over the past year to sectarianism, but Muslims who knew the victims and suspected gunman point to revenge and personal feuds as possible motives. Police last week […]
(Daily Beast) A man has been arrested in France after being found with his father’s decapitated head in one hand and the knife that was presumably used to remove it in the other, police near the Lyon suburb of Saint-Priest say. The […]
(Breitbart) A 34-year-old Afghan migrant accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at an Italian beach has been released by a judge just a day after his arrest. The Afghan admitted to touching one of the girls while swimming but was able […]
(Albuquerque Journal) Federal authorities believe a son of the man accused in the high-profile shootings of Muslim men around Albuquerque may have played a role in at least one of the killings alongside his father. Shaheen Syed, 21, who used to go […]
(AP) In the six years since he resettled in the United States from Afghanistan, the primary suspect in the slayings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque has been arrested several times for domestic violence and captured on camera slashing the tires of […]
(Time) When police in Albuquerque announced that they were investigating whether the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in the city were connected — or even targeted — it set off panic from many in the Muslim community. Some isolated at home, […]
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