(Reuters) France is preparing to expel 231 foreigners on a government watch list for suspected extremist religious beliefs, a police union source said on Sunday, two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded a teacher. France’s interior ministry, responsible for expelling foreigners, was […]
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(Deutsche Welle) A German court ruled on Friday that a Muslim man who refused to shake the hand of a woman should not receive German citizenship. The 40-year-old Lebanese doctor, who came to Germany in 2002, said he refuses to shake women’s […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police in Germany labeled 91 Islamist returnees from Syria and Iraq as threats to society, according to information supplied to the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, news agency DPA reported on Saturday. The list, supplied by Germany’s interior ministry, […]
(AP) A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack, officials said Saturday. […]
(Reuters) Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb, was described by his pupils and their parents as caring and professional. But he was killed after becoming the target of an angry campaign on social media. Paty, 47, […]
(Reuters) The teenager who beheaded a teacher outside the school in a Paris suburb where he taught had approached pupils in the street and asked them to point out his victim, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Saturday. Police shot dead the […]
(AFP) While other candidates in Vienna’s recent municipal elections were out campaigning, Green politician Berivan Aslan had to stay home due to what she says was an assassination plot with links to the Turkish state. The former MP, who is of Kurdish […]
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(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. The teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his […]
(AFP) The main suspect in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Paris terror attacks caused an uproar in court Friday when he threatened a policewoman during her testimony. “You will pay for this,” shouted Ali Riza Polat, who is believed […]
(AFP) A French teacher who had recently shown students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was beheaded outside his school on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack.” The assailant, whose identity has not been established, was shot by […]
(Deutsche Welle) After the identity of a high-profile police informant was blown this summer, a radical Islamist and convicted terrorist has claimed responsibility for unmasking him, German public broadcaster Tagesschau reported on Friday. Bernhard Falk said he worked out the real name […]
(BBC) A man who downloaded terrorism material and recorded himself pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group has been jailed. Salim Youssoufi, 26, from Small Heath, Birmingham, had claimed he downloaded the documents “out of curiosity.” The Italian national was convicted of […]
(Anadolu) Soumaya Raissi, a Daesh/ISIS terrorist wanted by France with a red notice, was arrested in southern Turkey, security sources said on Friday. Police nabbed the terrorist in the Adana province. The 30-year-old Tunisian national, Raissi was wanted by French authorities and […]
(Brussels Times) The terrorists who carried out the attacks at Brussels Airport and the Brussels metro in March 2016 were able to go about their business unhindered thanks to the “passive and active support” of many of the residents of the Brussels […]
(AP) Police in western Germany have arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion he tried to recruit people to join the Islamic State group. Cologne police said that the German teenager, who was detained early Thursday, is alleged “in several cases” to have […]
(BBC) Prison staff guarding extremist offenders are under “constant threat” from inmates who intend to “behead a guard and stream it online,” the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said. Last week two men were convicted of trying to murder an officer at HMP […]
(News1) The Syria fighter Noura Firoud (24) from Vilvoorde returned to Belgium on Thursday with her three children. This is reported by the public prosecutor of Halle-Vilvoorde, which will take care of the three minor children. Noura Firoud was seventeen years old […]
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(AP) Ten men were arrested in North Macedonia on Thursday, accused of running a smuggling ring that brought in migrants from neighboring Greece. The Macedonian nationals, including a father and son who police say were the ringleaders, allegedly brought at least 100 […]
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(Anadolu) French police raided Wednesday the home of Muslim NGO BarakaCity’s founder and arrested him, the organization, which broadcast the raid live on its social channels, said. Idriss Sihamedi, the NGO’s president, was beaten up and arrested in front of his four […]
(AP) A Paris court on Wednesday jailed an Algerian man for 28 years after convicting him of attempted terrorist murder for attacking police guarding Notre Dame Cathedral with a hammer in 2017, crying: “This is for Syria!” The assault by Farid Ikken, […]
(BBC) Security staff were not expected to check the area where Salman Abedi waited in a CCTV blind spot before the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry heard. Showsec supervisor David Middleton said he had never been instructed to check the mezzanine area. […]
(JTA) Poland’s senate passed a law that will end its $1.8 billion kosher and halal meat export industry in 2025. Religious communities will still be able to slaughter meat without prior stunning, as is required by Jewish and Muslim law, as long […]
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(BBC) A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences. Police from the West Midlands and Metropolitan forces detained the 19-year-old man at a home in Wednesbury, Sandwell, on Tuesday. Police are searching the property, and the suspect has been taken […]
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(BBC) A man has been found guilty of trying to buy grenades and Semtex explosive from an undercover FBI agent on the dark web. Mohammed Humza, 29, of Watford, failed to turn up for his trial at the Old Bailey on Monday […]
(Radio France) French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has promised to back teachers, pupils and parents who expose breaches of the country’s law on secularism in schools, as he reported figures on infringements in the past year. Blanquer made his promise on Tuesday […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena suicide bomber made three scouting trips before detonating a device that killed 22 people, an inquiry has heard. The hearing was shown CCTV footage of the visits in the days before the attack in the City Room foyer […]
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(BBC) A security supervisor saw a suspicious man carrying a “bulging rucksack” four days before a suicide bombing, the Manchester Arena inquiry has heard. Ex-police officer Jonathan Lavery said he thought the man may have been carrying out “hostile reconnaissance.” He was […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders sparked outrage on social media with a tweet about coronavirus patients with a non-Western background. According to Wilders, the treatments of “Henk and Ingrid” are being postponed, because ICU beds are occupied by “Mohamed and Fatima” […]
(National-UAE) Swedish female ISIS recruits could now be tried in Syria for terrorism offences after Kurdish authorities told Sweden’s Foreign Ministry that they wish to prosecute ISIS members in prison camps locally. Sweden has been calling on the European Union to introduce […]
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(CBC) “This is our separatism.” Separatism — a word that has weight in many countries, notably Canada. Here the speaker was French, in fact it was French President Emmanuel Macron. The separatism he was talking about, in a major and long-delayed speech […]
(Breitbart) A Muslim woman in the French city of Reims ransacked the liquor area of a supermarket for the second time in under a month, causing even more property damage than the first incident. The first attack took place on September 16th […]
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(Reuters) More than 1,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours, the Red Cross said on Saturday, the largest number since a 2006 crisis in the archipelago. Beefed-up security on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast is pushing traffickers and migrants south […]
(BBC) Three boats with 56 migrants on board were intercepted in the English Channel on Friday, the Home Office said. The French authorities stopped two boats with 16 people on board from leaving French waters, with another 18 people stopped from leaving […]
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(AFP) France on Friday charged a man with murder days after his expulsion from Turkey, holding him in custody over crimes alleged to have taken place in jihadist-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria. Using the pseudonym “Abou Salman al Faransi,” 26-year-old Othman […]
(Reuters) An Iranian diplomat charged in Belgium with planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France warned authorities of possible retaliation by unidentified groups if he is found guilty, according to a police document. Belgian prosecutors charged […]
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(BBC) A convicted terrorist was eight months into a deradicalisation programme when he tried to murder a prison guard. Brusthom Ziamani, 25, was jailed for life after he and Baz Hockton, 26, attacked Neil Trundle at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire in January. […]
(AP) Ali Hassan was only 15 when he left Pakistan to be smuggled to Europe, following the path of his older brother and many other young men from his home country dreaming of a better life. Nearly three years later, Hassan is […]
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