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Migrant crossings into Europe spiked in May: report The number of migrants seeking to enter the EU tripled in May compared to the previous month. It's a sign traffic along Europe's migration routes is picking up again after a lull brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 14, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) European border agency Frontex recorded a sharp increase in migrants hoping to enter the EU last month, German media reported Sunday. The spike comes after coronavirus lockdowns and widespread border closures cut the number of potential asylum-seekers able to reach […]

Knife crime looms larger than virus in Greek refugee camp

June 11, 2020 Natasa Papanikolaou

(AFP) Inside Greece’s largest asylum-seeker camp on the island of Lesbos, the coronavirus is an oft-heard threat that has kept migrant facilities around the country under lockdown since March. But knife crime is the real killer. Whereas COVID-19 has yet to surface […]

Channel migrants: Windsurfing boards used as makeshift raft

June 10, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Four migrants have tried to cross the English Channel on a makeshift raft made from two windsurfing boards tied together, and using shovels as paddles. They were spotted in difficulty by a DFDS ferry off Calais at about 06:25 local time, […]

Applications for asylum in EU plummet during pandemic

June 10, 2020 Lena Masri

(Reuters) Asylum applications in Europe fell to the lowest level in April for over a decade as borders closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, European Union figures show, compounding the challenges of people fleeing conflict and persecution. The number of […]

Border Force staff ‘will face violence’ when fingerprinting migrants

June 9, 2020 Ben Robinson and Paul Kenyon

(BBC) UK Border Force officers will face violent attacks after the government told them to take the fingerprints of migrants who try to board Eurotunnel trains, a trade union has said. The Home Office order was made to staff at the terminal […]

Court orders dismissal of Trump Muslim travel ban challenges

June 8, 2020 Denise Lavoie

(AP) A federal appeals court on Monday ordered a lower court to toss out legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s 3-year-old ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries, finding that a judge misinterpreted a Supreme Court ruling that found the ban has […]

Stranded migrants grabbed knives, threatened to blow up gas cylinder — Abela 'They gave me 30 minutes or else they would kidnap the crew'

June 7, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Times of Malta) Migrants on board a government-chartered tourist boat off Malta occupied the kitchen, grabbed knives and threatened to blow up a gas cylinder and burn rubbish, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Sunday. “They gave us half an hour to […]

Migrants allowed to disembark from tourist boats amid takeover fears Government 'not willing to endanger lives of crew' after 'commotion' on board

June 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Times of Malta) Some 425 migrants who were being held offshore on four tourist boats were finally allowed to disembark on Saturday-Sunday night amid fears of a takeover on one of them. Some of the migrants had been held at sea for […]

Europe rights body urges Malta to stop keeping rescued migrants offshore

June 4, 2020 Chris Scicluna

(Reuters) Europe’s leading human rights body urged Malta on Thursday to allow disembarkation of more than 400 migrants being held on four former tour group boats just outside the Mediterranean island’s territorial waters. Some of the migrants have been held at sea […]

Migrant crossings hit single day record

June 3, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) More than 160 migrants travelled across the Channel in small boats in 24 hours — a record for a single day. The Border Force intercepted seven boats on Wednesday, while 11 men were detained on a beach at Samphire Hoe in […]

Rescued migrants stranded on chartered Maltese tourist boats

June 3, 2020 Frances D'Emilio and Rene Rossignaud

(AP) More than 400 migrants are living aboard pleasure cruise vessels bobbing in the sea off Malta, many of them for weeks now. But for them, it’s no pleasure, only uncertainty over their fate and they aren’t cruising anywhere. Rescued from human […]

Tents and razor wire: Cyprus struggles with migrant influx

June 2, 2020 Paul Raymond

(AFP) In the thick of the coronavirus lockdown in Cyprus, authorities gave a group of asylum seekers a stark choice: move to an overcrowded camp or go home. The Mediterranean island deemed it a necessary step to save money — the tiny […]

Thousands face homelessness in Greek refugee relocation push

June 1, 2020 Marina Rafenberg

(AFP) Abdelkader Rahmoun hasn’t slept in days. The 44-year-old Syrian and his family are among thousands of recognised refugees about to lose the temporary homes they were given under Greece’s asylum seeker housing scheme. On Monday the first departures began, with dozens […]

Cyprus to launch SMS campaign to stem migrant arrivals

May 31, 2020 Menelaos Hadjicostis

(AP) Cyprus is launching a multilingual SMS campaign to head off more migrant arrivals by dispelling the mistaken belief the European Union member country is a gateway to the continent, the Cypriot interior minister said Sunday. Nicos Nouris told the Associated Press […]

Inquiry into migrant deaths clears prime minister of homicide claims

May 30, 2020 Ivan Martin

(Times of Malta) A magisterial inquiry into whether the prime minister, the brigadier, and the crew of an Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat were responsible for the deaths of at least five migrants at sea has cleared them of homicide. The […]

Iranians and Iraqis dominate attempts to enter UK via perilous cross-Channel route

May 29, 2020 Dominic Dudley

(Forbes) Iranian and Iraqi nationals accounted for almost all the migrants intercepted while trying to cross the English Channel to enter the UK in the first three months of this year, according to statistics from the UK government. In a written answer […]

People smugglers exploit legal loophole as French Navy escorts them into British waters (LINK ONLY)

May 27, 2020 EoI News

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Channel migrants: Boats carrying 60 people intercepted

May 27, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Four boats carrying 60 migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast. The Home Office said 57 men and three women had crossed the English Channel on Wednesday in small boats. A spokesman said they were alerted to the first incident […]

Priti Patel wants new powers to curb illegal migrants sneaking into UK (LINK ONLY)

May 26, 2020 EoI News

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Channel migrants: Boats and kayak carrying 80 people intercepted

May 26, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Six boats and a kayak carrying 80 migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast. The Home Office said 65 men and 15 women had crossed the English Channel on Tuesday in small boats. A spokesman said the migrants travelled from […]

Italy Senate panel votes down Salvini probe over stranded migrants

May 26, 2020 Angelo Amante

(Reuters) An Italian Senate committee on Tuesday rejected a request by magistrates to investigate Matteo Salvini, head of the rightwing League party, for refusing a migrant rescue boat permission to land last year when he was interior minister. Salvini refused to allow […]

Wave of migration strains Spain’s Canary Islands amid pandemic

May 26, 2020 Borja Suarez and Paola Luelmo

(Reuters) About 80 African migrants packed aboard two fishing boats landed on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday, adding to the hundreds of new arrivals now stuck there while the coronavirus lockdown prevents transfers to the mainland. The first boat […]

Home Office approaches Australian Border Force chief who helped mastermind return of sea migrants (LINK ONLY)

May 25, 2020 EoI News

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Cyprus to deport 17 migrants suspected of terror links

May 25, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) Cyprus will deport 17 migrants who are being held on suspicion of having links to extremist groups or involved in acts of terror, the country’s interior ministry said Monday. The men are currently being held in a migrants’ detention facility and […]

Libya stops nearly 400 migrants attempting to cross to Europe: IOM

May 25, 2020 Angus McDowall

(Reuters) Libya’s coastguard has stopped nearly 400 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean in five boats in the past two days, the United Nations migration agency said on Monday. That brings to more than 1,000 the number of people who have attempted […]

Italian police downgrade migrant influx to Sicily from 400 to 70: ANSA

May 24, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italian police on Sunday corrected a report that a record 400 migrants had landed on a beach in Sicily, saying the number was only around 70, the ANSA news agency reported. A single wooden fishing boat some 10 metres (35 feet) […]

Man jailed for smuggling migrants in dinghies

May 22, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A people smuggler who helped to bring people into the UK on dinghies has been jailed for nine years. Albanian national Vladimir Bardoshi, 36, led a gang that ferried illegal migrants across the Channel from France in dangerous conditions, police said. […]

Channel migrants: Lone children ‘could overwhelm council services’

May 22, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) The rising number of child migrants crossing the Channel by boat risks overwhelming social services, the leader of Kent County Council has said. Roger Gough appealed to Priti Patel to “prevent a crisis escalating into something unmanageable and unsafe.” More than […]

Malta rescues 140 migrants but holds them on tourist boats offshore

May 22, 2020 Chris Scicluna

(Reuters) Malta on Friday rescued a group of 140 migrants from a sinking dinghy but refused to bring them to land, holding them instead on a chartered tourist harbour cruise boat just outside territorial waters. The rescue was conducted by a Maltese […]

Channel migrants: Small boats ‘major threat to UK’

May 22, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Small boat migrant crossings are becoming “a major threat” to the UK, MPs have been told. The Home Affairs Select Committee was hearing evidence after Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage claimed French ships were “escorting” migrant boats. The Home Office said […]

Australian-style sea patrols needed to return migrants to France, says former Border Force chief (LINK ONLY)

May 21, 2020 EoI News

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Hungary tightens asylum rules as it ends migrant detention zones

May 21, 2020 Marton Dunai and Anita Komuves

(Reuters) Hungary shut so-called migrant transit zones on its borders on Thursday, freeing some 300 refugees from prison-like conditions while at the same time hardening rules which will effectively bar future asylum applicants. During the peak of Europe’s 2015 migration crisis, Prime […]

Home Office deporting migrants who cross Channel in small boats (LINK ONLY)

May 21, 2020 EoI News

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Channel migrants: More than 60 people attempt crossing

May 20, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) More than 60 migrants have been handed to immigration officials after they tried to cross the Channel in boats. Border Force cutters intercepted four boats in the early hours and a fifth on Wednesday afternoon. In total, 64 people were on […]

Hungary rejects EU court ruling on asylum-seekers held at border

May 19, 2020 Krisztina Than

(Reuters) Hungary will not accept a ruling by the European Union’s top court that four asylum-seekers stuck in a transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border should be released, a security aide to Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday. The Court of […]

Channel migrants: Rise in unaccompanied children arriving in Kent

May 18, 2020 Colin Campbell

(BBC) The number of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Kent has risen significantly in the past 12 months, the county council leader has said. Roger Gough claimed the number of young asylum seekers in the county had “doubled in a little more […]

Nearly 50 migrants plucked from waters off Spain’s Gran Canaria

May 17, 2020 Borja Suarez

(Reuters) Spain’s coast guard rescued 49 African migrants from a dinghy drifting a few miles off the coast of Gran Canaria on Sunday, a spokesman for the organisation said, the latest arrivals in a months-long surge of migration to the Canary Islands. […]

Channel migrants: Boats carrying 90 migrants intercepted off Kent coast

May 17, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Six boats carrying 90 migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast. The Home Office said 79 men and 11 women had crossed the Channel on Saturday, 16 May, on small boats. A spokesman said the migrants travelled from France and […]

Two more migrants quarantined on Lesbos test positive for COVID-19

May 15, 2020 Michele Kambas

(Reuters) Two asylum seekers recently arrived on Greece’s Lesbos island, the site of the country’s biggest migrant camp, have tested positive for the coronavirus, migration ministry sources said on Friday. The cases, doubling the island’s COVID-19 infection tally on to four, were […]

EU rules asylum seekers on Hungary border have been ‘detained,’ should be released

May 14, 2020 Jan Strupczewski

(Reuters) The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that four asylum seekers stuck in a transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border had effectively been detained and that a local court should release them immediately. The Court of Justice of the European […]

Afghan migrant prosecuted for raping underage Swedish girl

May 14, 2020 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A 20-year-old Afghan migrant is facing prosecution for allegedly raping a Swedish girl under the age of 15 whose family he had lodgings with. The incident is said to have taken place during the night of April 13th earlier this year […]

Spain eclipses Germany as top destination for asylum-seekers: report New figures show refugee arrivals to the Mediterranean country outnumbering those in Germany, thanks to asylum-seekers from Latin America. But a resurgent 'Islamic State' could prompt more people to flee Iraq and Syria.

May 13, 2020 Elizabeth Schumacher

(Deutsche Welle) Germany is no longer the top destination for asylum-seekers in Europe, according to a German media report on Wednesday. German daily Die Welt, citing unpublished numbers from the European Union’s asylum agency EASO, reported that Spain has surpassed Germany in the number […]

Afghan held after French migrant activist murdered

May 13, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French police are holding a man of Afghan nationality after a prominent activist in the north of France who helped migrants was bludgeoned to death at his home, prosecutors said Wednesday. The attacker entered the home of Jean Dussine in Bretteville, […]

Frenchman cleared of charges for aiding migrants

May 13, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A French court on Wednesday scrapped all charges against a man who helped migrants enter the country illegally, the final chapter in a groundbreaking case that defined so-called “crimes of solidarity.” Cedric Herrou, an olive farmer in southern France who helped […]

German court rejects Iraqi’s appeal over killing of teen

May 12, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) A German federal court said Tuesday it has thrown out a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker’s appeal against his conviction for raping and murdering a 14-year-old local girl. Ali Bashar was sentenced to life in prison by the Wiesbaden state court in July […]

Portugal to take in 500 unaccompanied migrant children from Greek camps

May 12, 2020 Catarina Demony

(Reuters) Portugal is to take in 500 children from Greek refugee camps as soon as restrictions on movement imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak are lifted, the country’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Tuesday. At least 5,200 […]

Greece reports two COVID-19 cases among quarantined Lesbos migrants

May 12, 2020 Michele Kambas

(Reuters) Two migrants who arrived on Greece’s outlying Lesbos island have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, migration ministry sources said on Tuesday, adding they were isolated with no contact with refugee camps on the island. The individuals had arrived on Lesbos […]

Coronavirus may push more asylum seekers towards EU: agency

May 12, 2020 Gabriela Baczynska

(Reuters) The coronavirus lockdown has cut the number of asylum seekers able to reach Europe, but the pandemic could trigger more arrivals in future if it worsens turmoil to the Middle East and North Africa, the European Union asylum agency said. With […]

Greek migrant hotel ransacked in latest tensions over relocations

May 11, 2020 Vassilis Kyriakoulis

(AFP) When plans were leaked last week to move dozens of asylum seekers from an island camp to a hotel in the northern Greek village of Arnissa, there was a swift and violent response. Around 250 people burned and looted the empty […]

Family reunion rescue flight to bring vulnerable migrants from Athens to UK (LINK ONLY)

May 10, 2020 EoI News

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