Government & Politics
Priti Patel looked at shipping UK asylum seekers to south Atlantic (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrant boats intercepted in English Channel
(BBC) Three boats have been intercepted in the English Channel as migrants continue to try to reach the UK. The Home Office said the vessels were carrying 48 people but has not given details of where they were from. Dan O’Mahoney, clandestine […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris knife attacker charged with ‘attempted terrorist killings’: prosecutor
(AFP) A man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with “attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise,” French anti-terrorist prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. A judge also placed the man — […]
Legal
Liam Fenn: Muslim convert who downloaded suicide vest videos jailed
(BBC) An “obsessional” Muslim convert who downloaded videos on how to make a suicide vest has been jailed. Liam Fenn, 21, repeatedly accessed an “enormous volume” of extremist material online, Manchester Crown Court heard. He admitted eight counts of possessing a document […]
Immigration
Rights group: Cyprus pushed back migrants, ignored claims
(AP) Cypriot authorities pushed back 200 migrants and refugees arriving from Lebanon aboard boats earlier this month, ignoring their claims for asylum while in some instances using violence and coercive tactics, a human rights watchdog said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch accused […]
Law Enforcement
French police arrest 29 in a terrorist financial backer sting: prosecutor
(Radio France) Twenty-nine people accused of financing jihadists in Syria via cryptocurrency were arrested by police, according to a statement put out by the French anti-terrorism prosecutor (PNAT) on Tuesday. This network has been “active since 2019 and is mainly based on […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim Brotherhood fails to expand across Europe Terrorist attacks in Europe have dampened the extremists' reach
(National-UAE) Attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to expand into central and eastern Europe have failed, a report says. Terrorist attacks in Europe, including the 2015 Paris atrocity and the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings that killed dozens of people, have led to a […]
Government & Politics
Poland deports five Tajiks suspected of terrorism
(Radio Free Europe) The Polish authorities have deported five Tajik nationals suspected of having links to the Islamic State group and recruiting Poles and Ukrainian citizens for terrorist acts in Poland. Radio Poland reported on September 28 that four of the Tajik […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Bomb plotters ‘still at large’
(BBC) The brothers who carried out the Manchester Arena attack “did not act alone” and others who knew about it are still “at large,” an inquiry has heard. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb […]
Children & Teens
Italy repatriates female Islamic fighter and her 4 children
(AP) Italian carabinieri arrested a female foreign fighter on Tuesday after returning her and her four young children to Italy from a displaced person’s camp in Kurdish-controlled territory. The woman, Alice Brignoli, traveled in 2015 with her Moroccan-born husband, Mohamed Koraichi, and […]
Immigration
Police break up Calais migrant camp, biggest since ‘the Jungle’
(AFP) French police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of about 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling “Jungle” shantytown was broken up four years ago. Calais continues to attract migrants from the Middle East […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris attacker wanted to set Charlie Hebdo offices on fire, prosecutor says
(Reuters) A Pakistani man accused of wounding two people with a meat cleaver in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo last Friday did not know the satirical magazine had moved and wanted to set its offices on fire, the Paris […]
Children & Teens
Boy, 14, started making bombs during lockdown after watching Isis propaganda, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Essex admit celebrations at Lord’s betrayed their ‘inclusive values’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Patel: Home Office looking at creating safe routes for asylum seekers (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
‘Or gas them’: Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over migrant comment
(Reuters) Germany’s hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on Monday who had been caught on a hidden camera discussing gassing refugees. In footage, recorded secretly by ProSieben television in February, Christian Lueth, then a party spokesman, was filmed in […]
Government & Politics
Manchester bombing families attack MI5’s ‘obsessive secrecy’ in public terror inquiry (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants pitch tents in Serbia, prepare to cross into EU states
(Reuters) Dozens of migrants from the Middle East and Africa have set up tents outside Subotica, a town in northern Serbia, with a view to sneaking over the nearby border with Hungary and on to Western Europe. According to the Asylum Protection […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris meat cleaver attacker’s identity in doubt
(AFP) There was confusion Monday over the identity of the man who injured two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week, which was condemned by the French government as an act of “Islamist terrorism.” Investigators said the assailant had […]
Crime
Greek police probe aid workers on Lesbos island
(Reuters) Greek police have opened an inquiry into the activities of aid workers facilitating what authorities said were illegal entries into the country through the island of Lesbos. Greece was on the front line of a huge surge of refugees and migrants […]
Internet
DIY bomb video watched by Manchester Arena terrorists still online (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
France checks video claim for Paris knife attack
(AFP) French investigators were Sunday studying a video claiming responsibility for the meat cleaver attack in Paris that targeted satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo as the government condemned an act of “Islamist terrorism.” Six people were still in custody, including the suspected perpetrator […]
Government & Politics
Greece warms to EU asylum pact but refugee groups rage
(AFP) Greece’s government has cautiously welcomed a plan from Brussels to reform the EU’s shaky asylum system, but charity groups working with refugees on the ground have blasted a continued “outrageous containment policy.” The “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” was unveiled […]
Government & Politics
France interior minister ups security at synagogues in wake of Paris attack Special protection ordered for Yom Kippur after 2 wounded in stabbing during trial over 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo and kosher market
(Times of Israel) France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday that he had ordered an increase in security at synagogues following a stabbing attack in Paris outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. “I have given instructions that all symbolic […]
News: Europe
Jihadists attempted terror attacks every fortnight in Europe since ISIS fall, study finds (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Britain will be powerless to send back migrants who arrive in small boats, warns ex-government adviser (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Paris cleaver attack suspect says wanted to target Charlie Hebdo
(AFP) A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said Saturday, with nine people now detained over what the government condemned as “Islamist terrorism.” The 18-year-old, named […]
Children & Teens
Odense authorities report ‘crazy’ imam over Sharia law document It follows reports last week of the existence of a religious council in Odense
(Copenhagen Post) Remarry? Lose your kids. Move further than 130km? Lose your kids. These are just some of the requirements and limitations in place if a woman decides she wishes to get a divorce through the well-known imam Abu Bashar. The document, […]
Interfaith
Norway court approves extradition to France of 1982 Paris attack suspect
(AFP) A Norwegian court on Friday approved an extradition request from France for a suspect linked to an attack in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris in 1982 that killed six people. Friday’s ruling, which can be appealed, concerns only whether the legal […]
Government & Politics
Poland’s president says migrants should stay close to their countries
(Reuters) Migrants fleeing conflict should stay as close as possible to their home countries, Poland’s president said on Friday, criticising proposals for an overhaul of the European Union’s migration and asylum rules. “For the sake of those countries from which these people […]
Immigration
Migrants accuse Greece of pushing them back out to sea
(AP) Shortly after reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, a group of Afghan migrants say, their hopes for a new life in Europe were cut short when Greek authorities rounded them up, mistreated them, shoved them into life rafts and abandoned them […]
Government & Politics
Muslim Brotherhood threat grows as British government fails to take coordinated stand MP demands formal inter-ministerial engagement on the Muslim Brotherhood.
(National-UAE) Fears have been raised that a lack of coordination within the British government is allowing the Muslim Brotherhood threat to grow. Whitehall has admitted that there is no central planning between key departments in dealing with the organisation that is proscribed […]
Arts & Entertainment
‘Never-ending nightmare’: Violence returns to Paris street where Charlie Hebdo was attacked
(Reuters) The stabbing of two people in Paris’s Rue Nicolas-Appert on Friday brought violence back to the street where, five years ago, Islamist militants killed 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two journalists were wounded in Friday’s attack […]
Arts & Entertainment
Man held on terror charges after two wounded in Paris cleaver attack
(AFP) A man armed with a meat cleaver wounded two in Paris Friday outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo before being arrested by police, three weeks into the trial of suspected accomplices in the 2015 massacre of the newspaper’s […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Muslim man wins UK tribunal case over cognac raffle switch (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Nearly all top ten baby names in Paris suburbs have Islamic connection
(Breitbart) The majority of baby names given in the suburbs of Paris have Islamic connections, according to figures released by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). The Paris [suburb] of Seine-Saint-Denis is known for having a high proportion of […]
Government & Politics
EU tries to sell migrant pact amid claims the hardliners won
(AP) The European Union’s top migration officials struggled Thursday to sell their new plan to overhaul the bloc’s failed asylum system amid concern they have sold out to anti-migrant governments. Critics say the proposal focuses on rapidly deporting people who don’t qualify […]
Government & Politics
Visegrad Four grouping push back on new EU migration plan
(Reuters) Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia criticised on Thursday proposals for an overhaul of the European Union’s broken migration and asylum rules that are due to be discussed by EU leaders at a summit next week. After a meeting in […]
Legal
Convicted Dutch terrorist helped 12 women escape ISIS camps, prosecutor says
(NL Times) Former member of the Hofstad group and convicted terrorist Samir A. helped at least 12 women who are on the national terrorism sanction list escape from ISIS camps in Syria, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said in the court in Rotterdam […]
Government & Politics
Migrants who crossed Channel could be sent to controversial detention centre (LINK ONLY)
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France trying to stop people crossing the Channel, Calais MP says (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
EU’s migration proposals draw anger on left and leave questions unanswered (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
HMP Whitemoor prison officer attack CCTV shown to jury
(BBC) Jurors have been shown CCTV footage said to show the moment two inmates attempted to kill a prison officer. Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and Baz Hockton, 26, deny trying to kill Neil Trundle in a “terror attack” at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, on […]
Legal
Islamic State: Relatives of British hostage braced for coming trial
(BBC) On 22 November this year it will be exactly eight years since the British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped by the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, along with the American journalist James Foley. Mr Foley was murdered by his captors. […]
Arts & Entertainment
French media back Charlie Hebdo after new threats
(AFP) More than 100 French news outlets on Wednesday called on people to support satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by gunmen in 2015, after its staff received death threats. The magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed earlier this month […]
Government & Politics
Parliament agrees to bolster anti-terrorism law
(Swiss Info) The Swiss parliament has tightened measures aimed at preventing extremist violence and organised crime as part of increased international cooperation. The Senate on Wednesday followed the House of Representatives in approving a legal reform, which includes a ban on the […]
Legal
Barcelona attack cell to go on trial in November
(AFP) Three men face trial at Spain’s top criminal court on November 10 over their involvement in the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort that killed 16 people, judicial sources said on Wednesday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for […]
Government & Politics
Divided Europe challenged to overhaul defunct migration policies
(Reuters) The European Union’s executive launched a contentious plan on Wednesday for overhauling broken migration rules to resolve years of bitterness and provide a better welcome for refugees fleeing the Middle East and Africa. The most sensitive element would de facto oblige […]
Christians
German court quashes ban on mosque’s call to prayer The call to prayer had been banned after a Christian couple complained that it intruded on their religious freedoms. The court ruled that the call to prayer did not violate the rights of those who heard it.
(Deutsche Welle) A court in the western German city of Münster on Wednesday ruled that a local mosque is permitted to perform its Friday call to prayer. It follows an appeal by the town of Oer-Erkenschwick against the prior decision to revoke the mosque’s permission. “Every […]
Immigration
Migrants: More people arrive in September than all of 2019
(BBC) Almost 400 migrants were intercepted crossing the Channel to the UK in small boats on one day. The latest numbers mean at least 1,892 migrants have arrived so far in September, more than in all of 2019. The 393 people were […]