Law Enforcement
Detectives drafting plans to monitor IS member Smith (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Arts & Entertainment
Silent protest held against ‘provocative’ film (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
UK warned it is failing to adapt as terror threat shifts from groups to lone attackers (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Mediterranean nations criticize EU solidarity on migrants
(AP) Five European Union nations on the Mediterranean who fear possible waves of refugees driven by hunger out of Africa called Saturday for an end to the EU’s “voluntary” solidarity on migrants and a better way to redistribute the burden of caring […]
Crime
2 killed as Greek police chase stolen car carrying migrants
(AP) Two people, one believed to be a migrant and the other the alleged trafficker, died Saturday in northern Greece while trying to evade a police checkpoint, police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki said. Twelve more people riding in the […]
Immigration
Europe’s south expects over 150,000 migrant arrivals this year, minister says
(Reuters) Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the Middle East. “This year the frontline member states are expected, […]
Legal
Final observations on behalf of the ‘witnesses of witnesses’ at Paris terror trial
(Radio France) This has been a difficult week at the Special Criminal Court, where the men suspected of involvement or complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried. The hearings have been devoted to the final observations from lawyers representing […]
Immigration
Migrant arrivals nearly hit 10,000 in UK for this year (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Afghans with western links among rising number trying to cross Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Anti-extremism Prevent strategy ‘failing to engage Muslim communities’
(BBC) The government’s flagship counter-extremism Prevent strategy is failing to engage with Muslim communities, a government adviser has said. Dame Sara Khan said a “vacuum” of information about its purpose had been left by the government, which was then being filled by […]
Government & Politics
Zuckerberg’s Metaverse ripe for terror recruitment, says EU
(EUobserver) Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse could become a new breeding ground for terrorism and recruitment, according to an EU internal document seen by EUobserver. “The creation of a virtual caliphate or Da’esh base camp is one of the risks linked with this new […]
Legal
Final words at Paris attacks trial and complaints over compensation
(Radio France) Lawyers for the victims of the November 2015 terrorist attacks are continuing their concluding remarks. The Special Criminal Court is a theatre of contradiction, with the black robes offering everything from flamboyant rhetoric to dignified common sense. The 14 accused […]
Legal
Republican justice and the dark shroud of fundamentalist Islam
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the Special Criminal Court where the Paris terror trial is taking place listened to the closing arguments of lawyers representing the survivors and the families of victims, and those who chose not to join the collective presentation organised […]
Demonstrations
Afghans evacuated to Albania protest for faster move to US
(AP) A group of people evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban returned to power last year held a protest Wednesday in Albania over the failure to expedite their move to the United States. A small group of families in Shengjin, a town […]
Government & Politics
Home secretary ‘absolutely determined’ to proceed with Rwanda deportation plan (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
German court convicts IS returnee who took daughter to Syria
(AP) A German woman who took her young daughter to Syria, joined the Islamic State group there and allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman was convicted Wednesday of membership in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The state court in […]
Legal
Long delay at Paris terror trial as nine accused refuse to take their places in court
(Radio France) Tuesday’s hearing at the Special Criminal Court was delayed for several hours because nine of the eleven prisoners accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks refused to take their places in the glass security enclosure. They were […]
Legal
Dutch woman jailed on Syria terror charges
(AFP) The first woman to be brought home from Syria to stand trial in the Netherlands received a three-and-a-half-year prison term on Wednesday for joining the Islamic State group. The 28-year-old, identified only as Ilham B., was repatriated last year from the […]
Law Enforcement
Men linked to terror group arrested in Norway, Bulgaria
(AP) Two men have been arrested in Norway and Bulgaria, respectively, for having “expressed support” for Al-Qaida through “internet-based activities,” Norway’s domestic security agency said Wednesday. One suspect was arrested in Oslo and the other — identified as a Norwegian student — […]
Children & Teens
Daughter of ISIS woman accused of aiding child rape arrested trying to take child to Qatar
(Breitbart) The daughter of a Swedish Islamic State woman accused of aiding child rape and human trafficking in Syria was arrested in Denmark while trying to bring a four-year-old girl to Qatar. The daughter of Swedish Islamic State extremist Camilla Olofsson and deceased […]
Law Enforcement
Essex man appears in court accused of plotting Islamist terror attack (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
First Rwanda deportation flight to leave UK on 14 June, says Priti Patel (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Women and young children among latest small boat arrivals in UK (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
French court sentences imam for antisemitic sermon following appeal
(Algemeiner) The imam of a mosque in the French city of Toulouse has been found guilty in appeal of “inciting violence and racial hatred” for a sermon he delivered in 2017 in which he talked about killing Jews. The sermon delivered by […]
Law Enforcement
Gardaí investigated Lisa Smith for training and recruiting people to ISIS (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Islamic extremists convicted of membership in German IS cell
(AP) A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted five men for membership in a local cell of the Islamic State group that received orders from a leading IS figure in Afghanistan. The Duesseldorf regional court sentenced the Tajik nationals, aged 25 to […]
Legal
Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith found guilty of ISIS membership, not guilty of financing terrorism (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
After unearthing social media posts, French prosecutors now suspect antisemitism in elderly Jew’s death
(JTA) Prosecutors in France said they are considering antisemitism as a possible factor in the death of an elderly Jewish man in Lyon, who police initially said had died in a dispute unconnected to his religion. The Tribune Juive Jewish paper on […]
Government & Politics
Greece planning major wall extension on border with Turkey
(AP) Greek authorities say they are planning a major extension of a wall along the country’s border with Turkey and are seeking European Union financial support for the additional construction. Notis Mitarachi, the migration affairs minister, said the steel wall would be […]
Legal
Judgment due today in trial of Lisa Smith for alleged membership of Isis (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
‘Hate preacher’ speaks at Irish mosque (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
GPs failing Asian victims of ‘honour abuse’ over racism fears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Why are lawyers of the November 2015 victims telling us what we already know?
(Radio France) The past week at the Paris terror trial has been devoted to the summing-up by the lawyers who represent hundreds of “parties civiles,” the families of the injured survivors, and those who lost loved ones in the November 2015 attacks. […]
Clerics & Preachers
Mosque in The Hague facilitates exploitative ‘pleasure marriages’
(NL Times) A mosque in The Hague is willing to arrange short-term marriages between women who need money and men who will pay them for sex, a Swedish research program discovered. Such transactions are known as “pleasure marriages” and are considered to […]
Children & Teens
13 Albanians, others from Kosovo are repatriated from Syria
(AP) Albania’s Interior Ministry said Saturday that four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, have been repatriated from a Syrian camp. The group, which landed at the Pristina Adem […]
Government & Politics
Asylum seekers to receive Rwanda deportation notices within days with No10 hoping first flight will take off in June (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Lefty lawyers at the Home Office ‘are blocking a major review into the Prevent anti-terror scheme’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Greece blocked 40,000 migrants at Evros this year: govt
(AFP) Greece said Saturday some 40,000 illegal migrants had been blocked from entering the country along the northern border with Turkey since the beginning of the year. Greece is often the country of choice for migrants fleeing Africa and the Middle East […]
Immigration
Kurdish asylum seekers on hunger strike in Poland
(AFP) Ten Kurdish asylum seekers in Poland on Friday entered their third week of a hunger strike to protest what they described as prison-like conditions and a slow immigration process. “The strike began on May 4,” said Dagmara Bielec, a spokeswoman for […]
Children & Teens
4 Albanian women, 9 children to be repatriated from Syria
(AP) Four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, are being repatriated from a Syrian camp, a Kurdish official from northeast Syria said Friday. Abdul-Karim Omar, an official who negotiates […]
Immigration
Afghans ‘largest group’ fleeing to the UK by crossing the Channel — figures (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Rights group: Bulgaria uses police dogs in migrant pushbacks
(AP) An international rights group said Thursday that Bulgarian authorities are attacking Afghan and other asylum-seekers, using police dogs and other violence to illegally push them back over the border into Turkey. Human Rights Watch said that the migrants reported being beaten, […]
Legal
Paris attacks trial given a long, hard lesson on the nature of victimhood
(Radio France) France’s November 2015 terror trial continued on Wednesday with further final pleas from the legal teams representing the survivors and families of victims. Every day this week, the procedure at the special criminal court in Paris has been the same. […]
Crime
French police clear Channel migrant camps after violence leaves one dead
(AFP) Police dismantled a camp housing hundreds of migrants near Dunkirk in northern France on Wednesday after one person was killed and three wounded in suspected score-settling between smugglers, authorities said. Around 500 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, had been living at the […]
Law Enforcement
France charges 18-year-old over IS attack plot
(AFP) France has detained and charged an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning an imminent attack with a knife in the name of Islamic State (IS) jihadists, a judicial source said Wednesday. Initial investigations indicated that he planned to carry out an […]
Legal
Paris terror trial enters final phase with pleas on behalf of the survivors and the bereaved
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial, where 20 men are being judged on charges of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist killings, continues with concluding pleas from the lawyers representing the injured and those who lost family members. There are nearly 2,500 […]
Legal
Swedish would-be ISIS fighters jailed after recruitment sting Two brothers were prepared to travel wherever terrorist group needed them
(National-UAE) Two Swedish brothers have been sentenced to jail for eight months after their efforts to join ISIS unravelled when their recruiter was revealed as an undercover intelligence officer. The men, who have not been identified, were arrested in February at Gothenburg-Landvetter […]
Burkini
French court blocks ‘burkinis’ in council’s pools
(AFP) A French court stepped into a row over the wearing of burkinis in municipal swimming pools, suspending a council’s decision to allow Muslim women to wear them. The administrative court in the Alpine city of Grenoble blocked the rule change by […]
Legal
Spanish court convicts Moroccan man of terrorism promotion The defendant recruited and indoctrinated members of the Canary Islands community.
(Morocco World News) A Spanish court on Monday gave a three-year prison sentence to a Moroccan national for terrorism recruitment and indoctrination charges. The sentencing concerned a Moroccan man, Mohamed B., who was detained and sentenced in Grand Canary [Island] for his […]
Government & Politics
Labour councillor defended calling Jihadi John a ‘beautiful young man’ (LINK ONLY)
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