(BBC) One of the first police chiefs to arrive at the scene of the Manchester Arena attack has told a public inquiry she could have done more to bring emergency service commanders together. Former British Transport Police (BTP) Ch Insp Andrea Graham […]
(AP) Three men whose social media posts allegedly encouraged extremist attacks against French targets are in custody in Spain after Spanish police and the European Union’s crime agency traced them to the southern city of Granada. The men threatened violent attacks against […]
(Radio France) French Prime Minister Jean Castex has on Wednesday defended a new bill aimed at combating terrorism, which he believes necessary to adapt to new threats that are harder to detect. Speaking this Wednesday following a cabinet meeting, Castex said the […]
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(Euractiv) The European Parliament on Wednesday (28 April) formally adopted without a vote controversial legislation which forces online platforms to remove terrorist content within an hour of it being flagged. The regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, which was […]
(AP) The French government on Wednesday unveiled a new counterterrorism and intelligence bill aiming at better preventing attacks, notably via a greater surveillance of extremist websites. The bill, which had been in preparation for months, was formally presented in a Cabinet meeting […]
(Radio France) French anti-terrorist police have detained eight people in connection with an investigation into a terrorist financing network in Syria. Six men were arrested in a raid in several parts of Strasbourg, in Eastern France, Tuesday morning. Another man was arrested […]
(BBC) A police chief has expressed regret and “professional embarrassment” after he arrived at the Manchester Arena in a taxi nearly three hours after the bombing which killed 22 people. British Transport Police (BTP) Supt Kyle Gordon was off-duty and not on-call […]
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(Swiss Info) Both Swiss nationals who were arrested after the November 2020 attack in Vienna have been released from pre-trial detention. The older of the two — who was 24 when arrested — was released recently. The Attorney General’s Office told the […]
(AFP) Six men suspected of being members of the so-called Islamic State group or funding it were arrested in an anti-terror raid in Denmark on Tuesday, police said. The suspects, whose identities were not disclosed, are aged between 27 and 35, police […]
(BBC) A senior police chief has admitted his force failed to work effectively with other emergency services in the Manchester Arena attack’s aftermath. Robin Smith was the gold commander for British Transport Police (BTP) on the night of the 2017 bombing. The […]
(Arab News) French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has been criticized for demanding tighter immigration controls after a police employee was murdered by an Islamist who had arrived in the country illegally. President Emmanuel Macron’s government said she had behaved like a […]
(Radio France) France’s interior minister is to present a new law on Wednesday aimed at strengthening the 2017 anti-terrorism law. While the planned legislation has been in the pipeline for several weeks, the announcement comes shortly after last Friday’s terror attack on […]
(BBC) A senior officer has accepted he failed to make sure the emergency services were working together in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack. Ch Insp Tony Lodge was based in British Transport Police’s (BTP) control room in London on the […]
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(Reuters) Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.” The police administrative worker, a […]
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(Portugal Resident) Portugal’s police forces are described as on Grade 4 (moderate) terrorist alert following an announcement published online last week by a pro-Al Qaeda group inciting supporters to carry out lone wolf attacks in Western Europe. Says tabloid Correio da Manhã, […]
(AFP) A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee outside Paris watched jihadist propaganda videos just before the attack, France’s anti-terror prosecutor said Sunday, adding that a fifth person was detained for questioning. Based on an analysis of the killer’s […]
(Anadolu) France will bring a new anti-terrorism legislation specifically devoted to intelligence, in the wake of recent attacks carried out by lone, radicalized individuals, the interior minister announced. The bill will be tabled on April 28 at the request of President Emmanuel […]
(AFP) A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee in France in a suspected Islamist attack was depressed and not devout, relatives said Saturday, expressing shock and disbelief. They identified him as Jamel Gorchene, 36, who hailed from M’saken — […]
(AFP) The French government held an emergency meeting Saturday after a Tunisian man stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist attack as investigators questioned three people linked to the assailant. The murder on Friday at a police […]
(Newsday) A Commack man who federal prosecutors said attempted to travel to Syria to wage “violent jihad” and told investigators that he was “prepared to strap a bomb on and sacrifice himself” pleaded guilty Friday to a single terrorism count. Elvis Redzepagic, […]
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(AFP) French police arrested three people linked to a 36-year-old Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee at her workplace southwest of Paris on Friday in a suspected Islamist attack. The murder at a police station in Rambouillet, a commuter […]
(AP) A Berlin court on Friday convicted a German woman of membership in the Islamic State group over her time spent in territory controlled by the extremist group in Syria. The court gave the 34-year-old, identified only as Zeynep G. in line […]
(Kurdistan 24) A former commander of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group has been sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands for war crimes and membership in a terrorist organization. The Dutch Public Prosecution earlier demanded a 10-year sentence, but […]
(AP) A judge sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant to life in prison Thursday, saying he plotted to carry out a “barbaric and heinous” plot to kill as many people as he could with a suicide bombing attack in New York City’s subway beneath […]
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(National-UAE) Raids on suspected Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas members in Austria last year led to the discovery of an “enemies list” of opponents of political Islam, according to people targeted by the groups. Austrian police carried out dozens of raids in an […]
(Reuters) United Nations human rights experts urged Switzerland on Thursday to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by their mother who joined Islamic State (IS). A senior Swiss foreign […]
(BBC) A police commander who took control after the Manchester Arena attack has described his frustration at being unable to contact emergency services. British Transport Police (BTP) Insp Ben Dawson was based in a London control room on the night of the […]
(AP) Prosecutors are urging a judge to approve a request to extradite a Phoenix driving school owner to Iraq on allegations that he participated in the killings of two police officers nearly 15 years ago in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as […]
(Hill) The House passed legislation on Wednesday that would limit executive authority to issue future travel bans like the one imposed by former President Trump against several Muslim-majority countries. Lawmakers passed the bill along party lines, 218-208, with only one Republican joining […]
(Sacramento Bee) In a major blow to federal prosecutors, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled Wednesday that Omar Ameen may not be extradited back to Iraq to face trial in the 2014 murder of an Iraqi police officer. The decision came in […]
(BBC) A former student paramedic has been praised for his “heroic” efforts treating victims of the Manchester Arena bombing. Ryan Billington, 20, helped causalities and took charge of transporting the injured to ambulances, a public inquiry into the 2017 attack heard. Mr […]
(AP) A German woman accused of joining the Islamic State group in Syria after traveling there with her young daughter was convicted on Wednesday of participating in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The state court in Duesseldorf sentenced the 35-year-old, whom […]
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(AP) Italian media say a 28-year-old Albanian wanted in connection with a 2016 truck attack in the French city of Nice that killed 86 people has been arrested in southern Italy. News agency LaPresse said police arrested the suspect, identified as Endri […]
(BBC) Many of the first aiders working on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing did not have the appropriate qualifications, an inquiry has heard. Emergency Training UK (ETUK) had been contracted to provide medical services at the time for arena operator […]
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(BBC) A woman has told the Manchester Arena inquiry that she used her handbag strap to stem the bleeding from her leg as she waited for help after the bombing. Josie Howarth was waiting with her sister Janet Senior in the arena […]
(Swiss Info) On June 13, Swiss voters will decide the fate of a new anti-terrorism law which has sparked controversy both domestically and abroad. For some, the law is a threat to the rights of innocent citizens, while others say it will […]
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(NL Times) The National Counterterrorism Coordinator (NCTV) warned that radicalized groups of jihadists, Salafist Muslims and members of the extreme right pose the greatest threat to national security. There is currently no concrete evidence that an attack is being planned, the NCTV […]
(Dutch News) A 32-year-old man from Amsterdam has been sentenced to five months in jail to be followed by compulsory psychiatric treatment for making threats against gay people, Jews and the police on social media but was found not guilty of planning […]
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