(Kathimerini) Greece told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday that there is no provision in the Treaty of Lausanne, a 1923 peace accord which, among other things, forged modern Greece and Turkey’s borders, stating that the muftis of the Muslim minority […]
(Swiss Info) Claims that international Islamist movements exert significant influence over mosques and Muslim communities in Switzerland are exaggerated, a study has found. While international networks and money from places like Saudi Arabia or Qatar help in the setting up of structures […]
(Radio France) On Tuesday, the Paris attacks trial focused on the case of Mohamed Abrini, one of the passengers in the three-car “convoy of death” which brought the killers to Paris on 12 November 2015. At the last moment, Abrini decided that […]
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(AP) Greece’s independent authority for transparency said Tuesday that after an in-depth investigation it has found no basis for reports that Greek authorities have illegally turned back asylum-seekers entering the country from Turkey. The National Transparency Authority said in a statement that […]
(BBC) A mosque has denied accusations of promoting violence and radicalisation by a lawyer representing victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Didsbury Mosque, where bomber Salman Abedi worshipped, claimed it had been “demonised” since the attack. John Cooper QC accused the […]
(Copenhagen Post) On Monday, the Copenhagen Court found two 23-year-old men guilty of attempted terrorism. A 40-year-old woman facing the same charge was acquitted, but found guilty of other lesser charges. The court placed emphasis on the discovery of numerous effects that […]
(BBC) A teacher has been suspended from a top state grammar school after allegedly using a mug with a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on it. The teacher at Colchester Royal Grammar School (CRGS) in Essex is thought to have taken the […]
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(Jewish News) The National Union of Students has voted for a new president who only last week had to apologise for a historic tweet in which she posted the words of an infamous Islamic chant threatening “Jews” with an attack by “the […]
(Brussels Times) Six years ago, it felt like extremist terrorism would haunt us permanently. The March 2016 bombs in the Brussels metro and airport left 35 people dead. They came after the November 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 138. Jihadists claimed […]
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(Brussels Times) The Comité R responsible to monitor Belgium’s various police, security and intelligence agencies published its report earlier in the week outlining a series of recommendations to improve the surveillance of the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium. The main […]
(BBC) Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with terrorist offences. Al-Arafat Hassan, 19, from Enfield, north London, and a 15-year-old boy from Leeds each face a charge of preparing terrorist acts. The two appeared at the Old Bailey via video link […]
(BBC) A total of 190 people crossed the English Channel to the UK on Thursday, the Home Office said. They arrived in Kent in six boats. The French authorities stopped a further 85 people from making the crossing in three boats. Crossings […]
(AP) German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year’s 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The German-Moroccan dual citizen, […]
(Radio France) At the special criminal court in Paris, where those suspected of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried, police on Thursday described the hours leading up to the atrocities that cost 131 people their lives. There were […]
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(Radio France) Wednesday’s hearing at the Paris terror trial was devoted to the content of a computer found in a bin in Brussels. According to the Belgian police investigator who presented the evidence, it is clear that the November 2015 attacks were […]
(Anadolu) A French court on Wednesday annulled the government’s decision to close a mosque near the city of Bordeaux. Sefen Guez Guez, the lawyer of the association of the Al Farouk Mosque, said that the Bordeaux Administrative Court annulled the Gironde governorate’s […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session at the special criminal court brought an end to the questioning of the accused on their alleged roles in the preparation of the November 2015 terrorist attacks. There were two witnesses, Mohamed Abrini and Mohammed Bakkali. One talked […]
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(Brussels Times) Belgium paid tribute on Tuesday to victims of terrorist attacks, including those lost during the attacks that rocked the country six years ago in Brussels and Zaventem. On 22 March 2016, a double attack took place in Belgium, first at […]
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(BBC) A murder trial jury has been played the desperate call for help made by a constituent after Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed. Sir David, MP for Southend West, died during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October. Ali […]
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(AP) German prosecutors said Monday they now believe that the suspect in a knife attack on a train in November that left four people wounded had an Islamic extremist motive. The attack took place on an ICE high-speed train traveling from Passau, […]
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(Radio France) Ten years after France was rocked by a series of Islamist shootings targeting Jewish children and French soldiers, President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday joined two of his predecessors — Nicolas Sarkozy and François Holland[e] — along with Israeli President Isaac […]
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(Yorkshire Evening Post) A 15-year-old Leeds boy has appeared in court accused of buying knives and parts for an improvised explosive device to be used in a suicide bombing. The teenager spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address […]
(Algemeiner) French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse on Friday visited the Jewish school in [the] southern city of Toulouse that 10 years ago was [the] site of a deadly Islamist terror attack that took the lives of a teacher and three small children. […]
(NL Times) On Friday morning, over 200 relatives, victims, witnesses, and involved Utrecht residents commemorated a terrorist attack on a city tram on 24 Oktoberplein. Gokmen T. opened fire on the express tram to the city center three years ago, killing four […]
(Radio France) Thursday’s session of the Paris terror trial, the 94th day of a legal marathon which is likely to last at least another three months, was overshadowed by the decision of two of the accused … Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari […]
(BBC) The man who carried out the terror attack outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital was probably acting alone, a senior anti-terror police chief said. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes said no-one else was linked to the attack but there were still “questions […]
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(BBC) Almost 280 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Wednesday, the Home Office has confirmed. The nine boats with 279 people on board were brought to Dover, with French authorities stopping one boat with 25 people on board from […]
(Jerusalem Post) Police in the western German city of Münster on Thursday stormed the Hezbollah-controlled Imam-Mahdi mosque and its affiliated center because intelligence determined that the mosque and its center are pursuing violations of the constitution. Sources told the Jerusalem Post in […]
(Radio France) The terrorist survivor of the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam resumed his evidence late on Wednesday, after the court had heard and dismissed claims of prejudice from some of the defence lawyers. It was as if Tuesday’s mass walk-out by the […]
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(Radio France) Tuesday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris ended abruptly when the fifty lawyers defending those accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks left the courtroom en masse. They were protesting against “an atmosphere unfavourable to their […]
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