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(AFP) After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the coronavirus. “I paid 2,000 euros ($2,430) for the crossing,” […]
(AFP) Germany said Friday it would allow deportation of Syrians to their war-ravaged homeland from 2021 if they are deemed a security risk, five years after a massive refugee influx. The EU’s biggest economic power and most populous member allowed in hundreds […]
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(AP) The EU’s top migration official confirmed Wednesday that she retains confidence in the embattled head of Frontex, amid pressure on the bloc’s border and coastguard agency for an independent investigation of allegations it was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants. Asked […]
(Reuters) Greece urged Turkey on Tuesday to do more to thwart irregular crossings of migrants into its territory, saying recent arrivals, particularly from Somalia, appeared to be coordinated. More than half of arrivals on the Greek island of Lesbos from Nov. 1 […]
(BBC) Five children, including a baby without socks or shoes, were among migrants who crossed the English Channel in small boats in near-freezing conditions. The Home Office said 111 people arrived in five boats, with the French stopping 35 people from making […]
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(CBC) The emotional wounds from a sexual assault at the hands of a Lower Mainland imam four years ago continue to affect the daily life of his victim, who says if immigration officials and the B.C. Muslim Association had intervened sooner, the attack […]
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(Radio France) Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris, has denounced what she called “urban separatism” and said eradicating Islamism was impossible without breaking up France’s urban ghettos. “We can’t eradicate Islamism if we do not break up […]
(Deutsche Welle) Vienna’s regional court on Thursday sentenced a 44-year-old Iraqi to life in prison for attempting to derail high-speed passenger trains in Germany. The man had been living in the Austrian capital as a refugee with his wife and four children since 2013. The […]
(BBC) A suspected people-smuggling gang accused of bringing hundreds of people to the UK in small boats has been broken up, the Home Office says. A 36-year-old British Syrian man was detained at his flat in north-west London on Thursday morning, bringing […]
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(AP) European Union lawmakers lashed out Tuesday at the head of Frontex over allegations that the border and coast guard agency helped illegally stop migrants or refugees entering Europe, calling for his resignation and demanding an independent inquiry. The lawmakers grilled Executive […]
(BBC) Sixteen migrants in a small boat were intercepted by Border Force officials in the English Channel on Monday, the Home Office has confirmed. French authorities managed to prevent “more than 200 people” from making the journey on the same day, it […]
(AP) Emergency services in Spain’s Canary Islands say 68 people from North Africa have been the first migrants to arrive in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago since authorities dismantled a squalid makeshift camp that had brought criticism and shame to the government. One […]
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(AP) Spanish authorities have dismantled a makeshift camp for migrant processing that for over three months was known as the “dock of shame” for holding thousands of Africans in squalor after they arrived in the Canary Islands. The Spanish government’s delegation in […]
(AFP) Sixty-four migrants including a pregnant woman and several children were rescued in the English Channel in the past 24 hours as they were seeking to reach Britain aboard rickety vessels, French maritime authorities said Sunday. A first group of 45 migrants […]
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(BBC) Migrants, bundled in blankets and foil, have arrived in Dover after journeying across the Channel. Temperatures at the Kent port hovered around 7C while a woman and a group of men were seen being helped ashore by Border Force officials. The […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s current general deportation stop to Syria should not be extended, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday, urging that individual case-by-case decisions be made “at least for criminals and those considered a threat.” In 2012, Germany passed a ban on […]
(Detroit Free Press) The owner of a Sterling Heights hotel who is Muslim and of Pakistani descent alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that city officials targeted and drove him out of business because of his faith and ethnicity and because he had […]
(BBC) A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration by supplying small boats to people smugglers. It follows an arrest in October as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into a criminal network. Officers […]
(AP) A row over where to house African migrants increasingly arriving by boat on Spain’s Canary Islands deepened Thursday, when the mayor of the most affected town urged the Spanish government to transfer them out of local hotels. More than 20,000 West […]
(AFP) In a normal year, it would be high tourist season for the Canary Islands, but a huge influx of migrants has given the archipelago “a bad image,” bar owner Miguel Gonzalez grumbles. With migrant reception centres completely swamped after the arrival […]
(Reuters) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Wednesday expressed support for the Paris chief of police after clashes broke out during the dismantling of a new migrant camp in the French capital this week. French police opened a probe after photos and […]
(BBC) Four small boats carrying 54 migrants have crossed the English Channel this week, the Home Office said. Eleven people reached the UK in one boat earlier, with 43 entering British waters in three vessels on Monday. A further 200 people were […]
(AFP) After three years, Said El Hallaji finally got to hug his brother Lehcen as they were reunited at Arguineguin, a once-quiet Canary Islands port now overwhelmed with migrant arrivals. More than 18,000 people have landed on this Spanish archipelago over the […]
(AFP) French authorities on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the “brutal” removal by police of a camp of migrants in central Paris, as parliament gave initial approval to a new security law condemned by activists as eroding press freedom. Interior Minister Gerald […]
(Kathimerini) The 27-year-old from Syria who allegedly confessed to police that he was a member of ISIS will appear before an investigative magistrate after asking for a deferral on Monday. He appeared in court on Monday morning wearing a bulletproof vest and […]
(Kathimerini) A 27-year-old Syrian man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization is due to testify to an Athens magistrate Monday, following his arrest in the Greek capital last Thursday. The unnamed suspect entered Greece in March 2018 […]
(AFP) Police used tear gas as they dismantled a new migrant camp in the centre of Paris set up to house hundreds of refugees evacuated from makeshift suburban shelters without being relocated. Volunteers had helped set up around 500 blue tents at […]
(AP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey sees itself as a part of Europe, but he called on the European Union to “keep your promises” on issues such as the country’s membership bid and refugees. He spoke before an […]
(AP) Spain’s foreign minister met Sunday with Senegal’s president in the West African country’s capital Sunday to discuss the sudden increase of Senegalese migrants attempting to reach the Canary Islands by boat. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya met with President Macky […]
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(AFP) Spain will set up emergency camps for up to 7,000 migrants as part of a plan to tackle the huge influx of arrivals in the Canary Islands, the government said Friday. The plan also involves reinforcing Salvamento Maritimo’s coastguard rescue teams […]
(AP) A 27-year-old Syrian man accused of taking part in executions carried out by the Islamic State group was arrested Thursday at a refugee camp in Greece’s capital. Authorities said the suspect was arrested at the camp in Athens early in the […]
(BBC) Sixty-nine suspected illegal immigrants and three crew members have been arrested after a fishing boat was intercepted off the coast of East Anglia, says the National Crime Agency. It has launched a people smuggling investigation after Border Force officials intercepted the […]
(AP) Greece is abolishing the practice of holding asylum-seeker children and teenagers who arrive in the country without parents or guardians in protective police custody, the migration minister said Wednesday. The practice, which saw newly arrived unaccompanied minors held in police stations […]
(Reuters) Greece, on the front line of migration into Europe, promised on Wednesday to build new reception centres for asylum seekers and cut the maximum stay in camps on its now-overcrowded islands. The country bore the brunt of a large influx of […]
(AP) Spain’s government is scrambling to manage the steady stream of migrants to its Canary Islands from West Africa by opening a second holding camp, officials said Wednesday, as political tensions rise in the Atlantic archipelago. The establishment of a second temporary […]
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(AP) Authorities in western Greece said Tuesday that four people were arrested after the coast guard intercepted a yacht transporting 36 migrants illegally to nearby Italy. The yacht was stopped and searched off the coast of the western Greek island of Lefkada. […]
(AP) Spanish rescue services said Tuesday they intercepted more than 320 migrants in 10 boats found off the Canary Islands archipelago. The service said the steady stream of boats were located off the island of Gran Canaria between midnight and early morning. […]
(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared a migrant street camp outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris where around 2,000 people, mainly Afghan and African, had been living in cramped tents. Dozens of police were deployed to carry out the […]
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