(AP) German police said on Monday that they registered more than 5,000 unauthorized border crossings last month by people who had arrived from Belarus, marking a significant uptick in the number of arrivals through a new and politically sensitive migration route. Federal […]
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(Breitbart) A mob attacked police and firefighters lured to a school in Béziers, France, named after murdered teacher Samuel Paty. The incident took place on the evening of October 26th after police and firefighters were lured to the area to respond to […]
(Breitbart) Police arrested a 31-year-old man in Nice, southern France, on Friday after witnesses saw him strangling a woman in the street. The attack allegedly happened in downtown Nice along the Rue Trachel at around 3am on Friday, with witnesses claiming that a […]
(Detroit News) A Muslim woman who claims Ferndale police forced her to remove her Islamic headscarf for a booking photo in June has filed a federal lawsuit against the city. Helana Bowe filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the […]
(CBS) Police in Northern Virginia are on a heightened state of alert as a new law enforcement alert warned of a potential threat against malls and shopping centers located just outside of Washington, D.C. The threat originated with ISIS and is the […]
(Radio France) The work of the special police units sent to face armed killers is so dangerous that they have their own medical specialists with them during every operation. At Thursday’s session of the Paris attacks trial, two of the doctors who […]
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(BBC) The Manchester Arena bombing inquiry has been adjourned for three weeks of secret hearings. Closed hearings, where only the inquiry chairman, legal team and Home Office lawyers will be present, will start next week at an undisclosed location. Bereaved families, their […]
(Reuters) German anti-terrorism forces on Thursday raided the homes of five young people west of the city of Bonn who were suspected of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said. None of the five suspects — aged […]
(Radio France) Everyone knows about the heroism of the specialised BRI and RAID police units, the men who finally confronted the terrorists and saved the hostages at the Bataclan. But the bravery of the 17 men of the Paris Anti-Criminal Brigade (BAC […]
(BBC) Messages between the Manchester Arena bomber and an Islamic State recruiter were held by police for years, but the killer was not identified until months after the attack, an inquiry has heard. The inquiry into the atrocity was told the texts […]
(AFP) Norwegian police said on Wednesday that 24 people were now being treated as victims of a bow and arrow attack earlier this month in which five people were killed. A man rampaged through the town of Kongsberg west of Oslo on […]
(BBC) The authorities would have been led to “the bomb” if they had followed the Manchester Arena attacker on his return from Libya, an inquiry has heard. Giving evidence, a senior MI5 officer agreed if Salman Abedi had been trailed when he […]
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(AP) Norway’s domestic intelligence agency says that such attacks as the one in the town of Kongsberg earlier this month are highly difficult to anticipate and prevent, and are likely to happen again in an open society such as Norway. “This type […]
(Breitbart) Seven people are so far in custody and another 30 are under investigation by Austrian authorities in connection with the November 2020 terrorist attack in Vienna that saw four people murdered. Those arrested and currently under investigation are said to have […]
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(Breitbart) An 11-year-old pupil yelled “Allahu Akbar” during a school tribute to murdered teacher Samuel Paty, while the child’s father was later arrested for threatening to burn the school down. The initial incident took place on Friday at the Jean-Zay middle school in […]
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(AP) Norwegian police say the Danish man suspected of killing five people and injuring three others in an attack last week also used “stabbing weapons” along with a bow and arrow to kill his victims. Police inspector Per Thomas Omholt said it […]
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(BBC) The man arrested by police following the killing of the MP Sir David Amess has been named as Ali Harbi Ali. The 25-year-old is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him. Whitehall officials confirmed […]
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(AFP) A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities indicated Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish […]
(Reuters) A bow-and-arrow attack in which a Danish convert to Islam is suspected of killing five people in a Norwegian town appears to have been an “act of terror,” police said on Thursday. Investigators named the suspect as Espen Andersen Braathen, a […]
(Radio France) French Interior Minister [Gerald Darmanin] has ordered authorities to close a mosque in the north-west, following evidence it preached radical Islamism. Since the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamist a year ago, France has been cracking down on […]
(AP) A man armed with a bow fired arrows at shoppers in a small Norwegian town Wednesday, killing five people before he was arrested, authorities said. The police chief in the community of Kongsberg, near the capital of Oslo, said there was […]
(Bergen Record) The Maplewood Police Department has opened an inquiry into allegations that a teacher “forcibly” removed the hijab of a second grade student, the South Orange-Maplewood School District announced. The teacher, meanwhile, spoke out, calling the incident a misunderstanding. In a […]
(AP) Spanish police said Wednesday they arrested five suspects — four in Barcelona and one in Madrid — believed to be part of a jihadist group that sought to recruit others to its cause and was attempting to acquire weapons. Police said […]
(AFP) French police are inflicting misery on migrants in the northern port of Calais, routinely tearing down their tents and forcing them to wander the streets as part of a deterrence policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. The […]
(AFP) Germany has repatriated eight women who joined the IS terror group and 23 children from northern Syria in the biggest such transfer since 2019, the foreign ministry said. “The children are not responsible for their situation … the mothers will have […]
(AP) Police carried out large-scale raids in 25 German cities Wednesday, after a chance discovery last year put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network alleged to have funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. Officials said the raids, which began in […]
(Hungary Today) Hungary’s counter-terrorism force (TEK) has arrested a Hungarian man associated with the Islamic State terrorist organisation, TEK’s head said on Monday. János Hajdu told public broadcaster M1 the case was related to a Hungarian known as V. Kende who claimed […]
(Sky News) A man has been charged with terror offences after being arrested at Heathrow Airport, Thames Valley Police said. Shabazz Suleman, who is also accused of being a member of the Islamic State group, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on […]
(AP) Greek counterterrorism police on Monday arrested an asylum-seeker in central Athens who is suspected of membership in the Islamic State group, authorities said. A police statement said the 34-year-old man’s arrest followed cooperation with Greece’s EYP intelligence agency and information provided […]
(AP) The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body brought death threats, died from a traffic accident Sunday, Swedish news media reported. The accident reportedly involved a […]
(Global News) A Canadian who was allegedly “a leading figure” in the ISIS media section has been taken to the United States to face terrorism charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Saturday. The FBI took custody of Mohamed Khalifa from Kurdish forces […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s federal prosecutor general announced Friday that the investigation resulting from a raid on a Düsseldorf hotel that saw the arrest of a Turkish man identified as Ali D. was being treated as a case of suspected espionage on behalf of the […]
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(BBC) The families of the Manchester Arena attack victims have been told that any mistakes by police or security services will not be kept secret. A public inquiry, which started in September 2020, will shortly examine whether they could have prevented the […]
(AFP) “The moment they are in the boats at sea, they’ve won,” says a French policeman as he looks out across a windswept departure point for migrants heading across the Channel to Britain. Day and night, military police officers like Maxence, a […]
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(Radio France) Police dismantled the largest migrant camp currently set up in the northern city of Calais on Tuesday, moving dozens of people into reception centres in the region. Local authorities had rigged up water taps and aid groups had been handing […]
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(Budapest Times) A Hungarian-born man suspected of posting jihadist content on a German online platform has been arrested, a Budapest court said on Monday. Hungary’s anti-terrorism centre (TEK) caught the man in cooperation with the German authorities and proceedings have been launched […]
(Breitbart) A man who claimed to be a former Islamic State fighter was arrested in Perpignan, France, after threatening to attack several police stations with a Kalashnikov rifle. The suspect had called stations in Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Narbonne, and the Paris […]
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