(BBC) Almost 700 migrants crossed the English Channel in 14 small boats on Monday, a daily high for the year so far. The Ministry of Defence said 696 migrants made the crossing, topping the previous daily record of 651 in April. The […]
(AFP) Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday they would not appeal the verdicts in the cases of 14 Belgium-based suspects accused of providing support for the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris. The decision confirms the judgements in the Belgian trial, running in parallel […]
(Morocco World News) The League for Human Rights (LDH) issued a statement on Monday to denounce the French government’s decision to expel Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen. The NGO argued that both Minister of Interior Gerald Darmanin and the prefect of the Hauts-de-France […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence says 460 people crossed the English Channel in 12 small boats on Saturday — one of the highest number[s] in a single day so far this year. With the 247 migrants arriving on Friday, more than 1,000 […]
(Morocco World News) France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that his country is set to expel Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen. The minister publicly accused the France-born Moroccan imam of adopting “hate speech against the values of France, contrary to our principles of […]
(Breitbart) A Muslim man interrupted mass in a French church in the suburbs of Paris over the weekend, attacking a parishioner and screaming during the liturgy. The incident took place on Sunday at the Church of Saint-Germain, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the Paris suburbs […]
(Breitbart) A man on the French S-file terrorist watchlist was arrested over the weekend in Marseille after brandishing a large knife and threatening locals and passers-by in the street. The 27-year-old man, identified as Ali B., who was dressed in the traditional […]
(AFP) Attacks are down but terrorism remains a threat to the European Union due to the war in Ukraine and a rise in propaganda during the pandemic, Europol said Wednesday. The total number of successful, thwarted and failed attacks was 15 in […]
(AFP) The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 was on Wednesday transferred from France to Belgium, where he will be tried later this year. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan […]
(AFP) The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday, allowing France to close the legal chapter of its worst atrocity […]
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(National-UAE) In the relative comfort of a prison outside Paris ― after nearly five years in a spartan Kurdish detention camp in north-eastern Syria ― a policeman’s daughter once described as a dangerous terrorist now talks of regaining “the life of a […]
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(VOA) Europe is repatriating increasing numbers of its Islamic State-linked women and children, who have languished for years in Syrian camps. The latest influx arrived in France this week, in a move welcomed by rights groups as positive but not enough. The […]
(AFP) France repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday in the largest such operation by Paris after pressure from campaigners. The French government had long refused mass repatriations of […]
(AFP) Police across several European countries on Tuesday launched a major coordinated crackdown on criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle people into the UK, British and German authorities said. Officers staged dawn raids in Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands […]
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(AFP) French prosecutors have charged nine men over their involvement in the November 2021 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, a judicial source said Friday. This takes the total number of people charged for their alleged role in the […]
(AFP) A Belgian court imposed a three-year suspended sentence Thursday on Abid Aberkane, convicted of assisting the sole surviving jihadist behind the November 2015 Paris attacks by housing him in Brussels. The ruling came a day after a French court sentenced Aberkane’s […]
(AP) The lawyer for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris criticized her client’s murder conviction and life prison sentence without the possibility of parole, saying Thursday the verdict “raises serious questions.” Olivia Ronen did not say […]
(AFP) French police are holding 10 people suspected of involvement in the November 2021 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, a judicial source said Thursday. One has been charged with manslaughter and people-trafficking, and the nine others were to […]
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(AP) A total of 20 men were convicted Wednesday over the 2015 Paris attacks by Islamic State extremists on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium. Most attention has focused on the lone surviving member of the attack team, Salah […]
(AP) The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists who terrorized Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history. The special […]
(VOA) One of France’s most high-profile trials in history wraps up this week amid a sharply changing security landscape across Europe, where the war in Ukraine and far-right violence have reshaped threat perceptions once dominated by Islamist extremism. Verdicts are expected Wednesday […]
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(Reuters) The trial of suspects in the attack that killed 130 people across Paris in 2015 will come to an end on Wednesday when judges hand in their verdict, in what victims said will be a relief after nearly 10 months of […]
(AFP) Five judges overseeing the trial into the November 2015 attacks on the Bataclan concert hall and other targets around Paris headed to a secret location Monday to consider their verdicts. The specially built court in central Paris held its final hearings […]
(AP) The only surviving suspected member of the Islamic State attack team that terrorized Paris in 2015 pleaded for leniency during his final appearance in court on Monday, acknowledging he had “made mistakes,” but declaring: “I’m not a murderer.” Salah Abdeslam is […]
(AFP) During the nine-month trial stemming from France’s worst ever terror attacks in November 2015, the moment hundreds of victims were hoping for came late in proceedings. “I’m going to explain myself because it’s the last time that I’ll have the opportunity […]
(Radio France) On Friday, closing statements in the Paris attacks trial came to an end with pleas from the two lawyers representing Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist group which caused the deaths of 132 people in the November 2015 […]
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam is the sole surviving member of the terrorist group that attacked venues in or near Paris on 13 November 2015. On Friday his defence team, Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, will attempt to save him from spending the […]
(Radio France) Sofien Ayari is not an easy man to defend. He fought in the ranks of Islamic State in Syria, he was involved in a shootout with Belgian police, he has generally refused to speak at this trial. On Wednesday, Ayari’s […]
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(Brussels Times) The trial of the 13 November attacks in Paris, France’s worst-ever terror attack, saw the defence on Monday plead for the acquittal of Belgian Yassine Atar. The defence arguments come after nine months of testimony in a longstanding trial, held […]
(AFP) France’s top administrative court on Tuesday blocked a bid to allow the “burkini” at municipal pools in the city of Grenoble, upholding a government challenge against a move that revived France’s intense debate on Islam. The all-in-one swimsuit, used by some […]
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(AFP) The number of migrants seeking to cross the Channel from France to England rose 68 percent in the first half of 2022, the French interior ministry said Monday. From January 1 to June 13, there were 777 attempted crossings involving 20,132 […]
(Radio France) According to his lawyers, Ali El Haddad Asufi is before the court only because Belgian police investigators failed to do their job properly. Notably on the question of who supplied the weapons used by the November 2015 terrorist killers. The […]
(Radio France) Farid Kharkhach admits providing some of the false documents used by the Paris attacks killers. That crime is punishable by 20 years in jail; the prosecution wants Kharkhach to serve six. On Thursday, before an almost empty court, his young […]
(AFP) An Egyptian migrant has died after being shot at by French police who tried to stop a van that had rammed through immigration controls on the Italian border, prosecutors said Thursday. The issue of police violence has been thrust into the […]
(Breitbart) At least 144 violations of France’s secularism law were reported in the second quarter of this year in French schools regarding the Islamic veil and other traditional Islamic clothing, a trend that is increasing. France’s Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT), a police […]
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the special criminal court trying Paris attacks suspects got into the red zone, with final presentations from the defence lawyers representing Muhammad Usman and Adel Haddadi. They are would-be terrorists who admit they were part of the Islamic […]
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(Radio France) On Tuesday, defence council Xavier Nogueras used the language of the accused against the language of the court. It was a remarkable performance. Xavier Nogueras is the superstar of the defence benches. He is flamboyant, instantly identifiable by his prematurely […]
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