Crime
Man charged with criminal damage after Manchester Arena memorial vandalised (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Legal
Birmingham woman who shared extremist material jailed
(BBC) A woman convicted of terrorism offences after sharing extreme videos has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Aaminah Amatullah, 39, sent images of dead bodies, including children, to an online contact, who was in fact an undercover police officer. Sentencing at Birmingham […]
Citizenship
UK handing ‘propaganda gift to Isis’ by refusing to repatriate detainees from Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim footballers
(AFP) France’s gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban on players wearing headscarves on the pitch. Rules set by the French Football Federation currently prevent players taking part in competitive […]
Legal
Meaningless media frenzy greets Abdeslam who takes the stand to say nothing new
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the Palais de Justice in central Paris was invaded by hordes of journalists anxious to report on the testimony of Salah Abdeslam, brother of one of the suicide bombers, and the sole survivor of the attack teams who […]
Demonstrations
‘Stop Islamisation’ slogan is not racist, court finds
(Brussels Times) On Wednesday, the Antwerp Court of Appeal ruled that a banner reading “Stop Islamisation” is not racist, as the court could not establish that it was motivated by “racism and xenophobia.” The judgement was in line with a decision of […]
News Media
Saudi Arabia backed anti-Iran TV channel in Netherlands tied to terror convictions: report
(NL Times) Research by radio program Argos, the Danish public broadcaster DR and the Norwegian NRK has revealed that the anti-Iranian satellite channel Ahwazna TV in Rijswijk has been receiving money from the Saudi Arabian intelligence service. The Danish-led wing of the […]
Legal
Germany: Suspected ‘IS’ wife charged with war crimes The German national is believed to have married several members of the 'Islamic State' terrorist organization. One of her alleged husbands had kept a Yazidi woman as a slave.
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have pressed war crimes charges against a suspected member of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS), the federal prosecutor general in Karlsruhe announced Wednesday. What do we know so far? The German national, Jalda A., is believed to have married several members of […]
Children & Teens
Cyprus: Migrant repatriations are key to easing overcrowding
(AP) The repatriations of migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected is essential to easing overcrowding and reducing violence at a migrant reception camp, Cyprus’ interior minister said Wednesday. Minister Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that 35 migrants suffered minor […]
Legal
Paris attacks suspect claims backed out of suicide bomb plan
(AFP) The only suspected assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 claimed Wednesday he went back on a plan to blow himself up, as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over […]
Legal
‘I can’t give her back her daughter. But I owe that woman an answer to her questions’
(Radio France) Tuesday’s main witness at the Paris terror trial was the 28-year-old Tunisian, Sofien Ayari. He was arrested in Brussels at the same time as Salah Abdeslam, engaging in a gun battle with police officers. On the basis of DNA evidence, […]
Government & Politics
Terror attacks: UK threat level lowered to ‘substantial’
(BBC) The UK’s terror threat level has been lowered from severe to substantial, meaning a terror attack on British soil is considered “likely.” The level was raised to severe — where an attack is “highly likely” — after two terror attacks late […]
Government & Politics
French Muslims uneasy as Islam takes centre stage in election
(AFP) The role of Islam in French society has emerged as a key battleground in the presidential election campaign, leaving many French Muslims uneasy over the bursts of rhetoric against the nation’s largest religious minority. Far-right candidates Marine Le Pen of the […]
Government & Politics
German intelligence on alert for extremists travelling to Afghanistan Intelligence chief says Al Qaeda could establish new training camps in country
(National-UAE) German security services are bracing themselves for the possibility of extremists in Europe travelling to Afghanistan to fight or train with Al Qaeda. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, said the Taliban’s return to power had made Afghanistan […]
Legal
Lisa Smith watched ‘barbaric’ Isis drowning video before going to Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Burnley M&S double stabbing trial jury discharged
(BBC) The jury in the trial of a man alleged to have tried to kill two women in a department store has been discharged. The manager of Marks & Spencer in Burnley, Lancashire, was wounded in the neck and a customer was […]
Children & Teens
Islamist threat campaign against Sweden on social media
(Euractiv) An extensive campaign against Sweden is currently underway on social media, P4 Örebro and TT reported. Accounts linked to Islamists are posting false claims that Swedish authorities have kidnapped children. “In the past week, it has escalated sharply, and in comment […]
Crime
Greek protesters torch equipment at island migrant camp
(AP) Four people have been arrested on the Greek island of Lesbos after violence broke out during a protest against plans to build a new migrant camp, authorities said Tuesday. Following a peaceful march to the site in heavy rain Monday, a […]
Law Enforcement
Potential new ‘Sharia4Belgium’: 13 arrests in terror case involving jihadist propaganda
(Brussels Times) Thirteen suspected members of a terrorist group were arrested in a major police operation in Antwerp on Tuesday morning. The suspects were alleged to have distributed jihadist propaganda, De Standaard reports. Nearly 100 investigators of the federal judicial police raided […]
News: Europe
Two suspected British Islamic State recruits seized by Taliban at border (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Alleged Islamic State member Lisa Smith told gardaí that prosecution witness was a ‘liar’ — trial hears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
French prosecutors probe death threats against TV reporter
(AFP) French prosecutors said Monday they have opened an investigation after death threats were issued against a journalist after she fronted a report over the rise of radical Islam in France. Ophelie Meunier has been under police protection since the M6 channel […]
Law Enforcement
Islamist who escaped Italy jail caught in France Terror suspect arrested at Metz, 2nd man still on the run
(ANSA) A suspected “radicalised” Moroccan Islamist suspected of terrorism who escaped from Avellino jail south of Naples on January 11 was caught at Metz in northeast France Sunday, but a second jail breaker, a 21-year-old Romanian, is still on the run, sources […]
Academics & Education
Imam who supported an al-Qaeda terrorist is given the green light to open a nursery by Ofsted (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Fight against grooming gangs hindered by fear of being branded racist, says official (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Marchers in Athens protest reported Greek migrant pushbacks
(AP) Hundreds of people marched through central Athens on Sunday to protest what they say are Greece’s pushbacks of migrants and refugees at the border with Turkey. The marchers carried an inflatable dinghy, like those migrants use to cross the sea from […]
News Media
‘Afghanistan in France?’ Inside the town at the centre of a political controversy (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
A good man surrounded by ‘barbarians, mentally ill psychopaths’
(Radio France) Abdellah Chouaa is suspected of having helped with the preparation of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks which cost 131 people their lives. He risks 20 years in prison if convicted. On Friday he gave evidence about himself, and about […]
Clerics & Preachers
Macron’s government seeks to reshape Islam in France
(AP) The French government on Saturday introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism. The Forum of Islam in France leadership will be made up of clergy and lay people […]
Children & Teens
Mum probed over betrothal of daughter, 12, to Pakistani Accused of forced marriage and sexual violence
(ANSA) The mother of a 12-year-old Italian girl who betrothed her to a Pakistani man has been placed under investigation on charges of forced marriage, domestic abuse, abduction of a minor and taking her abroad, abandonment of a minor and sexual violence, […]
Academics & Education
Student who praised terrorists as ‘heroes’ gets academic role at Sheffield Hallam University (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Saudi-backed Iran spies found guilty in Denmark
(BBC) A Danish court has found three members of an Iranian opposition group guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia. The three men were detained by police in February 2020 and are members of the Saudi-backed Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of […]
Legal
Repatriated Dutch women to face IS terror charges
(AFP) Five woman jihadist travellers are expected to appear in a Rotterdam court Monday on terror charges after being repatriated from a Syrian refugee camp, prosecutors said Friday. The five women and 11 children arrived in the Netherlands earlier in the day, […]
Legal
Minor participants Attou and Oulkadi testify at Paris attacks trial
(Radio France) On Thursday, it was the turn of Hamza Attou and Ali Oulkadi to give evidence at the Paris attacks trial. Both are suspected of having helped Salah Abdeslam, the only member of the Paris terror squads still alive, to avoid […]
Law Enforcement
American who got Lisa Smith out of women’s ‘prison’ wanted by FBI, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Girl,12, taken from mum over betrothal to Pakistani Girl placed with paternal grandparents after father reports case
(ANSA) A 12-year-old Italian girl has been taken from her mother and placed with her paternal grandparents after the mother promised her in marriage to the brother of her new Pakistani husband, the Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia newspaper reported Thursday. The girl […]
Crime
BBC issues correction for saying CST verified line in Chanukah attack report (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Second Swiss man cleared of involvement in Vienna attack
(Swiss Info) Federal prosecutors have now cleared both Swiss nationals suspected of supporting the November 2020 terror attack which killed four people in Vienna. The pair were arrested in November 2020 on suspicion of having made a “causal contribution to support or […]
Government & Politics
EU nations agree step-by-step approach to migration reform
(AP) European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis. The EU has […]
Government & Politics
Home Office admits cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels almost four times figure given to MPs (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Dutch pick up 5 mothers, 11 kids in Syria; women to be prosecuted for ISIS ties
(NL Times) The Netherlands collected five Dutch women and their 11 children from a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Syria. They’ll be brought to the Netherlands so that the women can be prosecuted for participation in terrorist organization ISIS, insiders told NOS. […]
Legal
Accused terrorist Yassine Atar’s family says his only crime is being related to his brother
(Radio France) Yassine Atar faces a life sentence for his suspected role in providing a hideout for the terrorists who killed 131 people in the November 2015 attacks in Paris. Along with close family members, he took the stand Tuesday and Wednesday, […]
Legal
Lisa Smith believed she would ‘burn in hell’ if she did not go to caliphate (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Patel: Macron’s criticism of British immigration system ‘just wrong’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Government spending £1.2 million a day housing asylum seekers in hotels (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Macron takes aim at migration with eye on French election
(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country’s presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders against people illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area. Macron is expected to run […]
Legal
Burnley M&S attacker’s knife got stuck in victim’s bag, court hears
(BBC) A man who attacked a shopper in a Marks & Spencer store would have continued to stab her if his weapon had not jammed in her handbag strap, a jury has heard. Munawar Hussain, 58, stabbed Janet Dell and the store […]
Academics & Education
Austrian Greens take flak over alleged coalition deal for headscarf ban Thought to be ally to Muslims in Austria, Greens party rejects allegations that erupted after emergence of leaked documents
(Anadolu) Austria’s Greens party continued to take public criticism on Wednesday over an alleged coalition agreement to ban headscarves for teachers in schools. Recently leaked documents suggested that the Greens had engaged in an undisclosed deal with the Austrian People’s Party (OVP) […]
Crime
France’s Zemmour says delinquents ‘same’ as jihadists
(AFP) French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour on Wednesday suggested criminals in high-rise housing estates are fighting alongside jihadists in a “civilisational battle” pitting immigrants against traditional French culture. The 63-year-old, who has often used the hundreds of people killed by jihadists […]
Children & Teens
Grooming gangs still sexually abusing children across country in ‘most degrading and destructive ways’ (LINK ONLY)
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