(BBC) Six small boats carrying 71 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said Border Force and partner agencies dealt with several incidents off the UK coast on Wednesday. Dan O’Mahoney, the newly appointed “clandestine channel threat commander,” said […]
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(BBC) Using Royal Navy ships to help stop migrants crossing the English Channel is “dangerous” and “won’t change anything,” a Calais politician says. On Saturday the Home Office asked defence chiefs for help to make crossings in small boats “unviable.” The Home […]
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(BBC) A further four boats carrying 65 migrants have been picked up in the English Channel, the Home Office said. Border Force patrols found the boats travelling towards the UK on Sunday, a day after at least 151 migrants on 15 boats […]
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(BBC) Defence chiefs are considering a request from the Home Office for help to deal with migrants attempting to cross the English Channel. The government is looking at using boats to “prevent people from leaving,” Schools Ministers Nick Gibb said. It comes […]
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(Reuters) The armed man who seized six hostages in a French bank on Thursday spoke to negotiators of hardships facing Palestinians and called himself a mujahid but made no reference to Islamist groups, a police source involved in the operation said. The […]
(AFP) Sudanese migrant Soulaimen has been sleeping on the beach in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia for 10 days now. With his only shelter a sleeping bag and pasta meals donated by a charity, the 20-year-old is getting by as best […]
(Reuters) A gunman who took six people hostage in a bank in northern France on Thursday surrendered to elite police after a six-hour operation to free his captives. The hostage-taker, a 34-year-old with a history of mental illness, emerged slowly from the […]
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(BBC) Eight boats have been stopped in the Channel and 120 migrants brought to the UK, the Home Office has said. Border Force intercepted three boats in the early hours and later encountered a further five, a government spokesman said. One vessel […]
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(AFP) Facebook said Monday it had permanently banned French comedian Dieudonne, a convicted anti-Semite, from its platform and from Instagram for content it said mocked Holocaust victims. It also said some of his posts used “dehumanising terms against Jews.” “In line with […]
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(BBC) “Multiple” migrant boats have been picked up by Border Force in the English Channel, the coastguard said. One vessel landed on a beach near to a nuclear power plant in Dungeness, Kent, police have confirmed. French authorities said they rescued 58 […]
(BBC) More than 200 migrants have crossed the English Channel in 20 boats according to the Home Office — a record number for a single day. There were also reports that about 30 people made the crossing on small boats, landing on […]
(AFP) French police on Wednesday evacuated some 1,500 migrants from a camp north of Paris where crowded living conditions and a lack of water and sanitation exposed them to a high risk of coronavirus infection. The migrants were taken from the camp […]
(Deutsche Welle) The bomb went off in the heart of Paris at 5:30 p.m., the height of the post-workday rush hour. A giant fireball raced down the platform of the Saint-Michel–Notre-Dame metro station after a gas container filled with shrapnel exploded in […]
(Deutsche Welle) Antoine* is used to standing his ground. The trade unionist has defended workers’ rights his whole life. But when his daughter M. suddenly left to join so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq five years ago, he hit rock bottom. “It […]
(Breitbart) A study released by the French Centre for Terrorism Analysis (CAT) has revealed that 60 per cent of Islamic radicals who left France to fight abroad between 1986 to 2006 have gone on to commit terrorist offences. The study looked at French […]
(BBC) Thirteen boats carrying more than 150 migrants were intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel in a six-hour period. The Home Office said there were 159 people on board the small boats which were intercepted on Tuesday. Pictures show Border Force […]
(National-UAE) A French commission of inquiry has called for the leading Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Yusuf Al Qaradawi and his supporters to be barred from France, as it puts forward recommendations to reduce the group’s influence. The 44 recommendations in the report on […]
(BBC) Young children are believed to have been on board boatloads of migrants picked up off the coast of Kent. Pictures show Border Force officers lifting children out of boats at the Port of Dover. The coastguard has been co-ordinating the response […]
(AFP) With the end of France’s coronavirus lockdown, the migrants who came to the country for a better future are back on the streets. Turfed out of the state-organised accommodation that housed them during the confinement period, the migrants are again scraping […]
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(BBC) Five boats carrying 65 migrants have been intercepted while attempting to cross the English Channel. The Home Office said 58 males and seven females were picked up between 07:30 and 22:30 BST on Saturday. On Friday, 125 migrants in nine boats […]
(BBC) Nine boats carrying 125 migrants have been intercepted on their way to the UK as searches continue for more vessels. The Home Office said Border Force dealt with several incidents on Friday after being alerted to small boats in the Channel. […]
(i24) Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan was summoned for questioning by a Geneva prosecutor after a new accusation of sexual assault surfaced from a complaint filed in 2018. The new complaint accuses the professor of Islamic studies of “rape” and “sexual coercion” and […]
(BBC) The home secretary has been accused of creating “fake news” with her criticism of French efforts to stop migrants crossing the English Channel. Calais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont disputed Priti Patel’s claim that French authorities were not stopping boats. “It’s not true […]
(Al-Jazeera) France’s newly-appointed prime minister, Jean Castex, has vowed to be “intransigent” in defending France’s official secularism, promising to fight “radical Islamism in all its forms” as “an absolute priority.” Unveiling new government policy in Paris on Wednesday, Castex told the National […]
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(AFP) French judges on Monday ordered two men to stand trial for the brutal 2018 killing of an elderly Jewish woman that prompted an outcry over a rise in anti-Semitic acts. Mireille Knoll, 85 and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was stabbed in […]
(BBC) A record number of migrants crossed the Channel on the day the home secretary announced a “new operation[al] approach” to dealing with small boat crossings. The Home Office said 180 migrants made the crossing to the UK on Sunday in 15 […]
(Breitbart) A report compiled by members of the French Senate has detailed the spread of political Islam across France and listed 44 proposals to combat radical Islamist ideology. The report, which was written by the Commission of Inquiry on Islamist Radicalisation and […]
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(AFP) A French jihadist given a 30-year jail term last week for crimes committed in Syria will be retried after prosecutors appealed Thursday seeking life imprisonment. On Friday, a court jailed Tyler Vilus, 30, for crimes committed between 2013 and 2015 when […]
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(BBC) A man has been arrested after a small boat carrying migrants was intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said a Border Force cutter intercepted a vessel carrying 10 men who said they were Somali, Sudanese and Yemeni on Tuesday. A […]
(Reuters) A Frenchman who converted to Islam and went abroad to fight for Islamic State was sentenced by a Paris court on Friday to 30 years in prison in France’s first successful prosecution of an Islamist militant for crimes committed in Syria. […]
(Radio France) Prosecutors on Friday called for the maximum life sentence for French jihadist Tyler Vilus, who is on trial for crimes that were allegedly committed in Syria. The son of a radicalised woman known as “Jihadi Gran,” he is believed to […]
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