Slovakia – Eye on Islamism

Hundreds of schools hit by Islamist bomb scare in anti-migration Hungary PM Orbán: 'If we had allowed migrants in, we would not be facing threats, but acts of terrorism.'

January 24, 2025 Zoltán Kottász

(European Conservative) Bomb threats targeting 292 schools across Hungary caused widespread evacuations and the cancellation of classes on Thursday, January 23rd. Police conducted thorough searches of the affected institutions, but no explosive devices were found, allowing pupils to return to school on […]

Taliban official extends Europe tour: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia

November 18, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Afghanistan International) Abdul Bari Omar, the Taliban’s director of the Food and Drug Administration, recently stated on the X social platform that he is still in Europe following his visit to the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovakia, and Germany. Omar revealed he had engaged […]

Slovakia struggles with surge in illegal migrants as election looms

September 20, 2023 Krisztina Than

(Reuters) Residents of Chlaba say large groups of illegal migrants have been traipsing through their tiny border village in southern Slovakia every day in the past few weeks after fording a local river or crossing a railway bridge from neighbouring Hungary. The […]

Slovak citizen linked to ISIS facing terror charges Renáta D. was brought back to Slovakia on secret government flight.

February 15, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Slovak Spectator) A Slovak woman linked to Islamic terrorist group ISIS has been charged with terror offences after she was secretly transported back to Slovakia from Kurdistan. The woman, who has been identified as 44-year-old Renáta D., arrived in Slovakia on a […]

Czechs to end checks at Slovak border amid migration decline

February 1, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) The Czech Republic’s government will end checks on the country’s border with Slovakia that were renewed last year amid a new increase in migration, officials said Wednesday. The measure has been in place since Sept. 29 at 27 border crossings between […]

Vienna terrorist slipped through net after seeking AK-47 bullets Prosecutors were not alerted to activities of ISIS supporter Kujtim Fejzulai, who killed four people

January 10, 2023 Tim Stickings

(National-UAE) Austrian intelligence agents should have raised the alarm about a known ISIS supporter before he killed four people in a 2020 terrorist attack in Vienna, an inquiry has found. A counter-terrorism team failed to pass on evidence that Kujtim Fejzulai was […]

Hungary, Austria and Serbia work together to stem migration

October 3, 2022 Kirsten Grieshaber and Jovana Gec

(AP) The leaders of Hungary, Austria and Serbia met Monday in Budapest to find solutions on how to stem the increasing number of migrants arriving in Europe, among them many young men from India. The three leaders agreed to take joint action […]

Czech police nab smugglers in new border checks as migrant flows spike

September 29, 2022 Radovan Stoklasa and Jiri Skacel

(Reuters) Czech police chasing a vanload of migrants fired warning shots on Thursday as they began checks on the border with Slovakia to combat a sharp rise in people, mostly Syrians, heading illegally to western Europe. Police intercepted over 100 migrants and […]

Austria to launch checks at Slovak border to stop migrants

September 28, 2022 Kirsten Grieshaber

(AP) Austria announced Wednesday that it will start checking travel documents at its border with Slovakia following a similar decision by the Czech Republic to keep migrants from entering without authorization. The checks were set to start at midnight Wednesday and initially […]

Czechs to renew border checks amid new migrant wave

September 27, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) The Czech government has decided to renew checks at its border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration. The new measure becomes effective on Thursday at 27 border crossings between the two European Union countries that belong to Europe’s visa-free […]

Austria police smash int’l ring smuggling Syrians

May 12, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Police have smashed a group believed to have smuggled tens of thousands of Syrians with two of them found suffocated in a van last year, Austria’s interior ministry announced on Thursday. A total of 205 people suspected to be linked to […]

Central European nations back Poland in migration dispute

November 23, 2021 Justin Spike

(AP) The leaders of three Central European countries on Tuesday expressed their solidarity with Poland in an ongoing migration crisis on its eastern border with Belarus, and urged the European Union to increase its support for the protection of the bloc’s external […]

Central European leaders worry over Afghan migration ‘wave’

July 9, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Central European leaders on Friday voiced concern over what they said was a potential migration rush from Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO forces pull out from that country. They also complained that a small group of powerful countries within the European […]

Vienna anti-terror chief suspended after attack failures

November 6, 2020 Jastinder Khera

(AFP) The head of anti-terror operations in the Austrian capital Vienna was suspended Friday as details emerged of further security lapses in the run-up to this week’s jihadist attack which left four people dead. Erich Zwettler, the head of Vienna’s anti-terror agency, […]

Eight detained after Vienna attack had previous convictions

November 5, 2020 Denise Hruby

(AFP) Eight of those detained following Monday night’s terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said Thursday, as the investigation extended to Switzerland and a second, unnamed country. In the wake of the attack […]

Austria admits security failings over Vienna gunman

November 4, 2020 Jastinder Khera

(AFP) Austria acknowledged Wednesday there had been security failings leading up to the deadly gun rampage in Vienna by a convicted Islamic State sympathiser. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said intelligence services had received a warning from neighbouring Slovakia that the assailant had […]

Visegrad Four grouping push back on new EU migration plan

September 24, 2020 Alicja Ptak, Anita Komuves, Robert Muller and Jan Strupczewski

(Reuters) Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia criticised on Thursday proposals for an overhaul of the European Union’s broken migration and asylum rules that are due to be discussed by EU leaders at a summit next week. After a meeting in […]

Polish border guards detain 34 people from Middle East found in a lorry

August 8, 2020 Alicja Ptak and Marcin Goclowski

(Reuters) Polish border guards have detained 34 people from the Middle East, including four women and four children, who were traveling in a trailer of the lorry that came from Turkey via Slovakia, authorities said on Saturday. They were detained on Friday […]

Pair arrested over ‘plot to kill female relative who renounced Islam’ (LINK ONLY)

September 5, 2019 EoI News

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‘West should be told Islamophobia is a crime’ Turkish ambassador of Europe's top security body says Islamophobia needs to be accepted as hate crime

January 11, 2019 Muhammet Ikbal Arslan

(Anadolu) The West[ern] public should be told that Islamophobia is a crime, said newly appointed Turkish ambassador of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Friday. “It is necessary to tell the Western public in all ways needed that […]