(AFP) A Danish court put two Swedish [men] on trial on terrorism charges for having thrown two hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen last year. The two men, aged 18 and 21, have also been charged with aggravated assault and […]
(DPA) The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg said he had begun a hunger strike on the second day of his high-security trial on Tuesday. “I […]
(Syriac Press) In a landmark ruling that underscores Europe’s growing pursuit of accountability for atrocities committed during the rise of the Islamic State, Sweden’s Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of Lina Ishaq, a 52-year-old woman of Iraqi-Christian origin, for genocide, […]
(AFP) A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., […]
(DPA) The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg admitted on Monday that he was behind the wheel during the incident. “I am the one that […]
(AFP) French magistrates were Monday investigating the ex-girlfriend of a man jailed for the deadly November 13, 2015, Paris attacks over an alleged jihadist plot, prosecutors said. But Salah Abdeslam himself was not involved in any plot, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office […]
(Brussels Times) An investigating judge and her team on Monday reviewed five direct testimonies that allowed them to argue that ex-jihadist Sammy Djedou subjected three “abaya” (female captives) to sexual slavery from 1 November 2014 to 31 December 2016, while living in […]
(GB News) Criticism of Islam qualifies as a protected belief under equalities law, a judge has ruled. Patrick Lee, 61, has launched a belief discrimination claim against the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) after he was banned by the trade body […]
(Radio France) French anti-terror prosecutors have charged and jailed three young women suspected of plotting a jihadist attack — the first alleged plot involving female suspects in several years. The trio, all around 20 years old, were formally placed under investigation and […]
(AFP) France’s anti-terror unit said Saturday three people were in custody as part of an investigation into a suspected terror threat linked to Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving perpetrator of the devastating November 13, 2015, Paris attacks. On Thursday, France will mark […]
(AFP) A Belgian jihadist accused of acts of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria — and presumed killed in conflict — went on trial in absentia Thursday in Brussels. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Islamic State […]
(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam, who is serving a life sentence in France for his role in the 2015 Paris attacks, was briefly taken into custody as part of an investigation into the illegal possession of an item in prison. According to France’s […]
(Reuters) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday charged a Syrian-Swedish dual national captured in an undercover sting operation with planning a suicide bomb attack on a crowded Stockholm culture festival, on behalf of the Islamic State militant group. The prosecutor said the 18-year-old, who […]
(ITV) A British man has been arrested and faces extradition to Germany, where he is accused of playing a key role in a Hamas-linked terror cell plotting attacks on Jewish targets. The 39-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested […]
(AFP) The Swedish Prosecution Authority said Tuesday it intended to charge an 18-year-old man for planning a terrorist act in Stockholm on behalf of the Islamic State group. According to prosecutors, the planning took place between August 2024 and February 2025. “We […]
(European Conservative) A civil rights association has filed a lawsuit against a Berlin high school for prohibiting prayer rooms, arguing that the policy discriminates against Muslim students. The Society for Civil Rights (GFF) filed the action on October 16th, citing state anti-discrimination […]
(Sky News) A gym instructor who called himself the “Anglo Jihadi” has been found guilty of planning a bomb and chemical attack on a major shopping centre. Jordan Richardson, 21, a Muslim convert from Howden, East Yorkshire, was convicted after he was […]
(BBC) An Afghan migrant has appeared in court accused of fatally stabbing a dog walker in Uxbridge, west London, and injuring two more people. Safi Dawood, 22, is charged with murdering Wayne Broadhurst, 49, the attempted murder of his landlord and a […]
(Swiss Info) Two men from the Balkans will appear before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona today, charged with supporting and participating in an extremist group that had planned to destabilise a region of Kosovo. The two accused are a 37-year-old […]
(AFP) German authorities said Sunday they had arrested a 22-year-old Syrian man in Berlin suspected of preparing a “jihadist” attack, without giving details of the alleged plot. The suspect, arrested on Saturday in the capital’s southern Neukoelln district, appeared before an investigating […]
(AFP) A 20-year-old man from Afghanistan suspected of having links to an offshoot of the Islamic State group has been arrested in France, anti-terrorism prosecutors said on Saturday. The man was charged with participating in a criminal terrorist organisation and financing a […]
(BBC) An asylum seeker who launched a sex attack on a woman has been jailed for more than three years. Fawaz Alsamaou, 33, from Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, strangled and sexually assaulted her under a bridge in Cathays, Cardiff. She was walking […]
(BBC) Political leaders in Derby have called on the government to learn lessons after an asylum seeker stabbed a stranger to death in a crowded bank. Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur was jailed for life on Wednesday for the murder of Gurvinder Johal, 37, […]
(Jewish News) An alleged Islamic State supporter told an undercover operative his “primary target” was a pro-Israel march in Manchester, saying they would need “cluster bombs” to attack a crowd “full of Jews,” a jury has heard. Walid Saadaoui, a Tunisia-born former […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court charged with murder after a triple stabbing in west London. Safi Dawood is charged with murdering Wayne Broadhurst, as well [as] attempting to murder Shahzad Farrukh, 45, and a 14-year-old boy, in relation to the […]
(BBC) A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder following a triple stabbing in Uxbridge. Afghan national Safi Dawood, of Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge, was charged with murdering Wayne Broadhurst, a 49-year-old man who was walking his dog on the […]
(LBC) An Afghan asylum seeker who overstayed his right to be in the UK and sexually assaulted two women as he delivered food to their doorsteps has been named. Shafiullah Rasooli used his friend’s registration details to carry out work as a […]
(BBC) An asylum seeker who “calmly” walked into a bank and stabbed a man inside to death without provocation or motive has been jailed for life. Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur stabbed Gurvinder Johal, 37, through the heart in an attack caught on CCTV […]
(AFP) Denmark’s Prosecution Service said Wednesday it had charged two Swedish citizens with terrorism for targeting the Israeli embassy with two hand grenades in Copenhagen last year. Two explosions were reported near the embassy in the middle of the night on October […]
(Dutch News) The immigration service IND has ruled two women should be deported to Afghanistan even though the Netherlands is involved in a separate international court case about the Taliban’s discriminatory laws against women. The IND said the fundamentalist Islamic regime was […]
(BBC) A self-styled “Anglo Jihadi” accused of planning a terror attack was “not just an online fantasist,” prosecutors have told a jury. Muslim convert Jordan Richardson, 21, of Oliver Close, Howden, East Yorkshire, is alleged to have been planning an “atrocity,” with […]
(LBC) A man believed to be the brother of a people smuggling kingpin has been jailed for more than five-and-a-half years for helping him transport people to the UK. Anjan Ahmadi, 26, of Stefano Road, Preston, worked with Amanj Hasan Zada, who […]
(Brussels Times) The Antwerp Court of Appeal has confirmed the pre-trial detention of two suspects for another month, rejecting their appeal as unfounded, the federal public prosecutor announced on Monday. The pair had appealed against a decision issued by the council chamber […]
(Brussels Times) Lawyers for two men arrested in Antwerp over an alleged terrorist plot targeting political figures have argued that the attack was “technically impossible.” The lawyers called for their clients to be released under conditions or placed under electronic surveillance. The […]
(Le Monde) For years, Emilie König, now 40, was nicknamed “the muse of jihad.” In the coming months, she will be tried by a criminal court in Paris, following an indictment order issued on September 16 by anti-terrorism investigating judges, for joining […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a schoolgirl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum sentence. Dahbia Benkired was handed an “irreducible life sentence” […]
(AFP) A suspected Islamic State group supporter has been arrested in Germany for allegedly trying to cause fatal crashes on a motorway by shooting at cars with an air rifle, prosecutors said Friday. The 21-year-old suspect, a Turkish national who has not […]
(Philenews) Prosecutors have dropped terrorism charges against Azerbaijani national Orhan Asadov, who has instead admitted conspiracy to murder an Israeli businessman and four associates in Nicosia, in a significant development in the long-running Cyprus terrorism case. The 42-year-old defendant, who has been […]
(Philenews) Significant developments have occurred in two terrorism cases that have occupied both the Cypriot prosecuting authorities and foreign media. One concerns the 42-year-old Azerbaijani, Orkhan Asadov, whose case was filed with the Nicosia Criminal Court in the autumn of 2021 and […]
(Belga) Belgium’s Court of Cassation has rejected the government’s appeals against earlier rulings that ordered the release of Nizar Trabelsi, a former Tunisian footballer who was convicted of terrorism offences in 2004. This leaves the Belgian state with no legal grounds on […]
(Fox) A Spanish priest who was facing three years in prison for remarks he made in 2016 that were critical of radical Islam was acquitted. “I thank God and the Christian people who supported me with their prayers and their presence in […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss government does not want to ban schoolgirls from wearing headscarves in public schools. It argues that the current law sufficiently ensures that all girls can take part in school, sports and swimming lessons. The government examined such a […]
(NL Times) Palestinian journalist and activist Mustafa Ayyash, 33, is fighting his extradition to Austria. On Tuesday, his lawyer, Frederieke Dölle, urged the International Legal Assistance Chamber (IRK) of the Amsterdam District Court to deny the extradition request. A group of about […]
(NL Times) The Council of State has given a mostly favorable assessment of Esther Ouwehand’s (Partij voor de Dieren) bill aimed at reducing animal suffering during slaughter. Among its provisions is a proposal to make stunning animals mandatory before ritual slaughter. The […]
(BBC) A 62-year-old woman has denied showing support for the proscribed terror group Hamas. It is alleged that Sarah Wilkinson, of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, posted messages on X in support of Hamas, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. On Monday, she pleaded not guilty […]
(European Conservative) On Friday, October 17, 2025, the highly anticipated trial of Dahbia Benkired begins in Paris. She is suspected of having kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered 12-year-old Lola Daviet three years ago. The particularly heinous crime deeply shocked the French public […]
(BBC) Manchester Arena bombmaker Hashem Abedi has pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder three prison officers in a terrorist attack. The 28-year-old is serving a life sentence for helping his suicide bomber brother Salman Abedi murder 22 people in the 2017 […]
(BBC) A man accused of planning a gun attack on a mass gathering of Jews described the killing of 130 people and wounding of hundreds more in Paris in 2015 as a “great event,” a jury has heard. Walid Saadaoui, 38, is […]
(Yabiladi) Far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is scheduled to appear before the Valence criminal court on Thursday, October 16, to face defamation charges stemming from comments she made on CNews regarding a Muslim school. In an October 2023 broadcast, she accused the private […]
(AFP) An Afghan man deemed psychologically ill faced a German court on Thursday over a deadly knife attack on a group of toddlers that his defence lawyer labelled the “deed of a madman.” The stabbings nine months ago in a park in […]
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