News: Europe

(BBC) Up to half of the claims for criminal injury compensation made to the government following the Manchester Arena terror attack have been rejected. From 741 applications resolved by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), 331 did not result in compensation being […]

Suffolk MP says abandoned people-smuggling boats ‘pose risks’

(BBC) Boats which are used for smuggling people into the UK and abandoned in the sea posed “enormous risks” to shipping, an MP said. Seafarers said rigid inflatables, which are about 8m (26ft), caused a hazard. Peter Aldous, Conservative MP for Waveney […]

Mitarakis refutes Spiegel, Channel 4 reports on Evros 38

(Kathimerini) Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis sent a letter of response to Channel 4 and Der Spiegel regarding the reports they published about the 38 migrants stranded on an islet in the Evros River on Greece’s border with Turkey. Greece, he noted, has […]

Cyprus seeks UN help to stem asylum-seeker ‘avalanche’

September 26, 2022 Menelaos Hadjicostis

(AP) Cyprus is seeking help from the United Nations to stem an “avalanche” of migrants who make their way from the ethnically divided island’s breakaway north across a U.N.-controlled buffer zone to seek asylum in numbers that authorities cannot cope with, the […]

2 more arrests in deadly attack during Norway Pride festival

(AP) Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting during the Norwegian capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival, police said Monday. The total number of suspects is now at four. A 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran was arrested […]

Leicester disorder ‘not exclusively’ Hindus and Muslims — police

September 26, 2022 Ashitha Nagesh

(BBC) The recent disorder in Leicester did not only involve Hindus and Muslims, the city’s head of police has said. Temporary Chief Constable Rob Nixon warned against “broad, sweeping comments” about the unrest. Tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the […]

UK YouTuber is reportedly instigator-in-chief in Leicester violence

September 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(ANI) A famous UK YouTuber named Mohammed Hijab has come across as instigator-in-chief in violent incidents in the UK city of Leicester that saw targeted attacks on Hindu community members, Global Order reported. The cycle of violence was triggered last month after […]

Leicester disorder: Five more men charged by police

September 24, 2022 Caroline Lowbridge

(BBC) Police have charged a further five men in relation to disorder in Leicester. They were all arrested in the days and weeks before 17 September, when major disorder broke out involving hundreds of people. A total of 47 people have been […]

Survivors of Nice terror attack try to put words on the unspeakable

September 24, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) This week, the Nice terror trial has started hearing the testimonies of the civil plaintiffs, those who were bereaved or injured or traumatised when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in 2016, killing 86 people, […]

Channel migrants: More than 1,100 people arrive in small boats

September 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) More than 1,100 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats in a single day, for the second time this month. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that 21 boats carrying 1,150 people were intercepted on Thursday, the third highest […]

Norway police seek second suspect in deadly Oslo shooting

September 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Norwegian police said on Friday they had issued an international arrest warrant for a second suspect over a shooting in June that killed two people near a gay bar in central Oslo. Police initially told a press conference they were seeking, […]

Brussels attacks trial delayed over ‘glass box’ bungle

September 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The trial for the 2016 Brussels attacks, due to start next month, has been delayed for several weeks to replace controversial glass boxes intended for the accused, the court said Friday. The court of assizes said an October 10 session to […]

Man charged with 14 terrorism offences

September 22, 2022 Metropolitan Police

(Press Release) A man has been charged with terrorism offences, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Ismail Kissa, 23 (01.04.99), of east London, was charged on Thursday, 22 September, with 13 counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication (contrary […]

Minister says new migrant push at Greek border an ‘organized plan’

(Kathimerini) Guards at Greece’s northeastern land border with Turkey prevented some 1,500 migrants from entering the country on Wednesday, the country’s minister for citizens’ protection said, describing the push for entry as an “organized plan.” “There obviously exists some kind of organized […]

Leicester disorder: Independent review to be held

September 22, 2022 Ashitha Nagesh, Caroline Lowbridge and Navtej Johal

(BBC) An independent review is to take place into recent unrest in Leicester, the BBC has learned. Officers have arrested 47 people since 28 August amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Major disorder broke […]

French police bust Channel people-smuggling ring

(AFP) French police have busted a major people-smuggling ring that has been sending migrants to Britain in dinghies, seizing more than a dozen boats and 700 life jackets in a raid, French officials said Thursday. The ring, run by Iraqi Kurdish migrants, […]

Germany: Teen arrested for alleged extremist attack plans

(AP) A teenager accused of planning an Islamist-motivated attack in Germany was arrested Thursday, the federal prosecutor’s office said. The dual German-Kosovar citizen detained in the western town of Iserlohn allegedly was under the influence of an Islamic State group follower who […]

Channel migrants: More than 30,000 cross in small boats this year

(BBC) More than 30,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, government figures have shown. Among the latest arrivals at Dungeness in Kent were children wrapped in blankets and people in winter coats. Several groups of people were […]

Sweden’s new immigrant party gets first elected position

September 21, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Local) Sweden’s new immigrant party, Nyans, has won a council seat in the port city of Landskrona, the first elected position it has won since it was founded in 2019. Ever since the September 11 election, it has been touch and go […]

French interior minister under fire over failed attempt to expel radical imam

September 20, 2022 Fayçal Benhassain

(CNS) Following a botched attempt to deport a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated imam under a new “anti-separatist” law designed to counter radical Islamism, the French interior ministry is reportedly taking steps to expel others. Mediapart, an independent investigative online newspaper, reported that Interior Minister […]

Leicester disorder: Second man sentenced cites social media influence

September 20, 2022 Will Jefford, Greig Watson and Caroline Lowbridge

(BBC) A man sentenced for carrying a knife at a protest in Leicester at the weekend said he was influenced by social media. Adam Yusuf, 21, received a suspended jail sentence after admitting possessing a knife at a march on Sunday. The […]

Islamic preacher Khandaker Rahman discharged from mosque rape trial

September 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) An imam who raped a schoolgirl in a mosque has been unconditionally discharged. Khandaker Rahman, 67, from Cwmdu, Swansea, was found to have committed the crimes by a jury at Swansea Crown Court in June, after a trial of facts, as […]

France orders jail time for 2 men charged with funding terrorism in Syria with crypto: report The amount transferred via crypto by three Islamic extremists is estimated at around $280,000, one news outlet in France reported.

September 19, 2022 Sandali Handagama

(CoinDesk) French authorities finalized prison sentences for two men who were arrested on charges of funding terrorism in Syria via cryptocurrencies, multiple local media outlets reported Friday. The two men, Franco-Algerian Sami Allem and Franco-Moroccan Abderrahman Cheikh, were sentenced in a Paris […]

Fifteen arrested in Leicester disorder operation

September 19, 2022 Dan Martin and James Lynn

(BBC) Fifteen people have been arrested in an operation to “deter further disorder” in Leicester. There was large-scale unrest on Saturday amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said it had been sparked by […]

Germany’s Central Muslims Council strips Muslim Brotherhood figure Ibrahim Zayat of posts: reports

September 19, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Egypt Today) The Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) stripped on Sunday renowned global Muslim Brotherhood figure Ibrahim El-Zayat, brother-in-law of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Turkey, of his posts in the center, according to media reports. This […]

Swiss court sentences ‘IS’ knifewoman to nine years

September 19, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Swiss woman was given a nine-year jail term on Monday for slashing two people in the name of the Islamic State group but her sentence was suspended so she can undergo psychiatric treatment. The criminal court judges found the woman, […]

6 men face trial over links to gunman in 2020 Vienna attack

September 19, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Six men with alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in Vienna in 2020 will go on trial next month, a court in the Austrian capital said Monday. Four people were killed […]

Large-scale disorder breaks out in Leicester

September 18, 2022 Caroline Lowbridge, James Lynn and Dan Martin

(BBC) Large-scale disorder broke out in Leicester on Saturday, with police and community leaders calling for calm. Officers tried to hold back crowds amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said two arrests had […]

Germany: People-smugglers suspected of helping Islamic State militants enter Europe

September 16, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) German anti-terror police in northern Hesse have carried out a series of arrests against a gang accused of smuggling Syrians and also helping radical Islamic State terrorists enter Europe. The elite anti-terrorist unit GSG 9 executed six arrest warrants on Tuesday, […]

Brussels attacks judge orders removal of defendant ‘cages’

September 16, 2022 Philip Blenkinsop

(Reuters) Nine men accused of participating in the 2016 Brussels bombings that killed 32 people cannot be put on trial in glass boxes their lawyers have likened to animal cages, a judge ruled on Friday. The special court for one of Belgium’s […]

Amsterdam asks parliament to scrap burka ban

September 16, 2022 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Three years after the introduction of the ban on face-covering clothing — commonly referred to as the burka ban — the Amsterdam city council is calling on parliament to scrap the ban as soon as possible. Mayor Femke Halsema promised […]

Greece says it rejects Turkish admonitions on Muslim minority

September 16, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Kathimerini) Athens accused Ankara of trying to intervene in its domestic affairs after Turkey’s Foreign Ministry called on Greece to investigate threats received by a Muslim member of Greek Parliament and expressing support for the country’s “Turkish minority.” Huseyin Zeybek, a lawmaker […]

Türkiye calls on Greece to investigate death threat against Greek-born Turkish MP

September 16, 2022 Handan Kazanci

(Anadolu) Türkiye on Friday called on authorities in Greece to investigate a death threat against a Greek lawmaker who is also a member of the country’s Muslim Turkish minority. “We expect the Greek authorities to investigate this serious incident and punish the […]

Both Farisi brothers released after arrest last week

(Brussels Times) Brussels’ Chamber of Indictment has requested the release of Smaïl and Ibrahim Farisi, who were both arrested in the run-up to the Brussels 2016 terror attacks trial. On Wednesday, Smaïl Farisi was arrested along with his brother Ibrahim after being […]

North Macedonia detains 142 migrants near border

(AP) A group of 142 migrants was detained near North Macedonia’s southern border with Greece early Thursday, authorities said. A police statement said the detainees were mostly from Syria and Pakistan, and had entered from Greece. They were taken to a shelter […]

Stockport Conservative councillor expelled from party over retweets

(BBC) A Tory councillor who retweeted claims that mosques had “secret arsenals” and immigration was “cultural suicide” has been expelled from the party. Alanna Vine, who represents Bramhall North on Stockport Council, was suspended as part of an investigation into her Twitter […]

Shock video sparks horror at France attacks trial

(AFP) A video showing how an Islamist extremist ploughed his truck into a crowd in Nice killing 86 people while France was celebrating its national day sparked anguish and horror at the attack trial on Thursday. Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, was killed […]

Swiss Federal Court: No jail-time for terror group affiliate