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Germany: Bavaria train attacker handed 14-year jail sentence The 28-year-old pulled a knife on four passengers on a high-speed train in the southern state of Bavaria last November. The trial focused on whether his attack was motivated by Islamic extremism or schizophrenia.

December 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) The man who carried out a knife attack on a German high-speed train was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday. A court in Munich found that Abdalrahman A. was culpable despite claims he was mentally ill at the time. […]

Former British Daesh bride ‘will die without medical aid’ in Syrian camp, neurologist warns

December 4, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Arab News) A former British Daesh bride detained in a prison camp in northeast Syria will die without medical intervention, with the UK government’s inaction amounting to “barbarism,” a neurologist told the Times. The woman in her 40s, who is known by […]

Seattle man tried to join Islamic State group, gets 4 years

November 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A 22-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join the Islamic State group last year. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he […]

Barber shop owner sent COVID grant money to Islamic State fighters, court hears

November 24, 2022 Duncan Gardham

(Sky News) A barber shop owner sent £25,000 to Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria after claiming thousands of pounds in COVID grants, a court has heard. Tarek Namouz, 43, from west London, had received money from the government to assist his […]

Legislation seeks to ensure halal, kosher foods available in hospitals, schools

November 21, 2022 Madhu Krishnamurthy

(Daily Herald) As suburban families prepare to come together this week for Thanksgiving meals, among the meat options they might find at the grocer are halal and kosher turkeys. Halal (permissible) and kosher (pure, proper or suitable for consumption) meats and foods […]

Police attack: Deradicalisation centre wanted ‘full psychological follow-up’ of suspect

November 15, 2022 Maïthé Chini

(Brussels Times) The deradicalisation centre for the support and care of anyone affected by violent extremism and radicalism (Caprev), which followed up on the suspect of the knife attack — Yassine M. — that killed one police officer and gravely injured another […]

Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye, use of hand after knife attack

October 23, 2022 Isabel Keane

(NY Post) Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after he was repeatedly stabbed during a literary event in upstate New York two months ago, his agent said. The 75-year-old author, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic […]

Euthanasia for Brussels attack victim

October 8, 2022 Colin Clapson

(VRT) Six years after the events the Brussels attacks have claimed a further victim. Shanti De Corte, aged 23, underwent euthanasia, because of the insufferable mental pain she was in. At the time the bombs exploded at Brussels Airport Shanti was standing […]

Family of Brussels terror attack victim in shock over media report

October 6, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Brussels Times) The family of one of the victims of the 2016 Brussels Airport attacks has reacted with shock to a report on “forgotten” victims, broadcast on Wednesday evening on RTBF. The reaction came from relatives of a 23-year-old woman from Kontich […]

Experts criticize Netherlands’ approach to female genital mutilation care, prevention

October 2, 2022 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Proper care for women who have undergone female genital mutilation is the most effective way to ensure they do not have their daughters circumcised, experts say. However, Dutch insurance does not always reimburse operations to reverse the circumcision and medical […]

Daesh ‘Beatle’ dodges US supermax prison in ‘kick in the teeth’ to victims

September 27, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Arab News) Daesh “Beatle” El Shafee El-Sheikh has avoided serving prison time in a US supermax prison after being moved to a lesser penitentiary following conviction, the Mirror reported. The terrorist, who grew up in Britain and had his citizenship stripped in […]

Manchester Arena attack: Criminal injury compensation claims rejected

September 26, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Up to half of the claims for criminal injury compensation made to the government following the Manchester Arena terror attack have been rejected. From 741 applications resolved by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), 331 did not result in compensation being […]

Islamic preacher Khandaker Rahman discharged from mosque rape trial

September 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Swiss court sentences ‘IS’ knifewoman to nine years

September 19, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Swiss woman was given a nine-year jail term on Monday for slashing two people in the name of the Islamic State group but her sentence was suspended so she can undergo psychiatric treatment. The criminal court judges found the woman, […]

A Maine doctor whose brother died fighting for ISIS joins the National Guard

September 6, 2022 Kathleen O'Brien

(Bangor Daily News) Dr. Jabbar Fazeli has wanted to enlist in the U.S. armed forces since he was granted asylum in the U.S. more than 20 years ago. Now 55, he’s finally going to serve. On Tuesday, the Iran native and longtime […]

‘IS’ knifewoman’s defence rejects ‘terror’ label in Swiss trial

September 1, 2022 Agnès Pedrero

(AFP) Swiss prosecutors requested a lengthy prison term Thursday for a woman who slashed two people in the name of the Islamic State group, while her lawyer argued she was insane and not a “terrorist.” Lead prosecutor Elisabetta Tizzoni called for the […]

Germany places Somali in psychiatric care over knife attack

July 26, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A German court on Tuesday committed a Somali man to a psychiatric hospital, after he knifed three people to death in the southern city of Wuerzburg last year. Nine other people were injured in the attack in the Bavarian city in […]

Germany: Würzburg attacker still highly dangerous, says doctor A psychiatrist has told a German court that the man accused of carrying out multiple fatal stabbings in June 2021 suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Three people were killed and nine others were injured in the attack.

July 22, 2022 Nik Martin

(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Friday heard that the man who allegedly killed three people and injured nine others in the southern central city of Würzburg last summer is mentally ill and still very dangerous if he does not undergo successful treatment. Somali national Jibril A., […]

Norway orders forced psychiatric probe of shooting suspect

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Norwegian court on Wednesday decided that a suspect behind a shooting in Oslo that left two dead and 21 wounded would be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. “The court believes that an investigation in an institution is necessary […]

Norwegian man convicted of killing 5 in bow-and-arrow attack

June 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A man was found guilty Friday of murder and attempted murder for fatally stabbing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. The Buskerud District Court sentenced Espen Andersen […]

Actor seen praying minutes before causing £10k of damage to Glade of Light Arena memorial (LINK ONLY)

June 22, 2022 EoI News

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Derby doctor who asked Muslim woman to remove veil found guilty of misconduct (LINK ONLY)

June 7, 2022 EoI News

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UK warned it is failing to adapt as terror threat shifts from groups to lone attackers (LINK ONLY)

June 4, 2022 EoI News

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GPs failing Asian victims of ‘honour abuse’ over racism fears (LINK ONLY)

May 29, 2022 EoI News

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Ban on legal aid for terrorists ‘could backfire’ (LINK ONLY)

May 24, 2022 EoI News

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Man in Norway bow-and-arrow attack pleads guilty to murder

May 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A man charged with killing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and attempted murder. “I admit criminal guilt for the entire charges,” […]

Alarm as leak reveals Prevent ‘carrying the weight’ for mental health services (LINK ONLY)

May 17, 2022 EoI News

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Former UF student accused in terror case attempts to convert trial judge to Islam 'This is a huge shocker. I was not expecting that from anyone in my class.'

May 6, 2022 Meleah Lyden

(Florida Politics) A thirst for information led him to an ISIS website. There, he discovered how to meet with radical Islamic groups to decide which among them the American could assist. He bought a one-way ticket from Orlando and arrived in Istanbul, […]

Man charged in ISIS-inspired plot found mentally competent

May 3, 2022 Michael Kunzelman

(AP) A Maryland man has become mentally competent to stand trial more than two years after he was charged with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Rondell Henry’s attorneys […]

VIA Rail terrorist Chiheb Esseghaier wants to abandon appeal

April 28, 2022 Michele Mandel

(Toronto Sun) After more than seven years of fighting his conviction as a would-be al-Qaeda terrorist who dreamed of derailing a Toronto-bound passenger train, Chiheb Esseghaier now wants to abandon his appeal. Ontario’s highest court, though, is wisely taking his latest wishes […]

Somali man on trial in Germany over fatal stabbings

April 22, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Somali man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of stabbing three people to death and injuring several others, with prosecutors seeking to have him placed in psychiatric care. The suspect, an asylum seeker with a history of mental […]

Convicted Islamic State terrorist worked security at Austria’s largest vaccine site

April 14, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A 21-year-old who was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a coworker has been revealed to be a former Islamic State terrorist who managed to obtain a security job at Austria’s largest Chinese coronavirus vaccination site. The 21-year-old was arrested in January […]

LynnMall attack: Security fears trumped mental health support

April 11, 2022 Phil Pennington

(Radio NZ) The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat. Ahamed Aathill Samsudeen stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket […]

Man, 24, admits £10,000 vandalism of Manchester Arena bombing memorial (LINK ONLY)

April 6, 2022 EoI News

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Fake Croydon University Hospital cardiologist jailed for sharing Isis propaganda (LINK ONLY)

March 14, 2022 EoI News

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Four terror arrests in Bari and Cuneo COVID-19 a soldier of Allah sent to strike west, say Albanians

March 14, 2022 Unlisted Author

(ANSA) Italian police on Monday arrested four Albanian men who have lived in Italy for many years on suspicion of plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Italy. The arrests were made in the southern city of Bari in Puglia and the northern city […]

New Mexico terror trial in limbo years after compound raid

March 10, 2022 Morgan Lee

(AP) A federal judge on Thursday sought to evaluate the mental health of a woman charged with kidnapping, firearms and terrorism-related counts — nearly four years after authorities arrested her and four other adults from an extended family at a squalid New […]

US sends home suspected ’20th hijacker’ from Guantanamo

March 7, 2022 Ben Fox

(AP) A Saudi prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center who was suspected of trying to join the 9/11 hijackers has been sent back to his home country for treatment for mental illness, the Department of Defense said Monday. Mohammad Ahmad al-Qahtani […]

Isle of Wight NHS staff leaving over lack of halal meat

March 7, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) NHS bosses are appealing to Isle of Wight businesses to stock halal meat in a bid to help retain health staff. Muslims make up less than 0.4% of the island’s population and no butcher sells halal meat, a cornerstone of the […]

Derbyshire doc accused of making Muslim woman remove veil faces medical tribunal (LINK ONLY)

February 24, 2022 EoI News

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Complex calendar at Paris attacks trial again disrupted by Covid

February 22, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) The Paris trial of 20 men accused of involvement or complicity in the November 2015 attacks which cost 131 people their lives has again been adjourned for a week following positive coronavirus tests among the prisoners. Hearings are now scheduled […]

Rights group: Canada blocking return of citizens from Syria

February 22, 2022 Zeina Karam

(AP) Canadian authorities are preventing a Canadian woman and a child detained in a camp in Syria from returning home to get life-saving medical treatment, contradicting policies that allow such repatriations, a prominent rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch identified the […]

UN experts urge Canada to repatriate seriously ill national from Syria

February 10, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Xinhua) A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Canada to urgently repatriate from Syria a woman who has life-threatening illnesses. The woman, named Kimberly Polman and a Canadian national, has been detained at various camps since March 2019 […]

Berlin highway attack suspect kept at psychiatric clinic

February 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A Berlin court has ordered a man who deliberately drove a car into other vehicles on a highway in the German capital in 2020 held at a psychiatric hospital, ruling that he can’t be held criminally responsible for his actions. The […]

Sarah Halimi’s killer is let out on day release — and could soon be freed (LINK ONLY)

January 27, 2022 EoI News

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Public safety minister calls for removal of Hillier ‘hate’ tweet about Alghabra

January 25, 2022 Joan Bryden

(Canadian Press) Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling on Twitter to remove a tweet from an Ontario politician who labelled federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra a “terrorist.” Mendicino said Tuesday the tweet from Independent MPP Randy Hillier is “Islamophobic” and amounts […]

Germany tries Syrian doctor for crimes against humanity

January 19, 2022 Yann Schreiber and Michelle Fitzpatrick

(AFP) German prosecutors accused a Syrian doctor Wednesday of torturing detainees and killing one of them while working in military hospitals in his war-torn homeland, on the first day of a landmark crimes against humanity trial in Frankfurt. The accused, 36-year-old Alaa […]

Manchester Arena inquiry: Reduced first aid training ‘a deliberate choice’

January 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A police force which responded to the Manchester Arena bombing was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training at the time, the inquiry into the attack has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was […]

Paris attacks trial halted after suspect gets Covid

January 17, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The trial over the deadly November 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been suspended after a second suspect tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the case told AFP on Monday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, accused of helping prepare the massacres […]

Manchester Arena inquiry: Bataclan attack doctor explains response

January 17, 2022 Mat Trewern

(BBC) A doctor has told the Manchester Arena inquiry how he treated casualties at the 2015 Bataclan theatre massacre despite the on-going threat around him. The inquiry into the 2017 bombing is looking into whether embedding doctors with armed police could speed […]