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Crime

Two Bulgarian police officers killed by bus carrying migrants

August 25, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Two police officers were killed Thursday as they tried to stop a bus carrying migrants in Bulgaria, authorities said, as the government made a renewed promise to crack down on illegal migration. The bus, which was carrying 47 passengers, including children, […]

Legal

Woman on trial over rare ‘jihadist’ attack in Switzerland

August 25, 2022 Agnès Pedrero  

(AFP) In a rare case of alleged Islamist “terrorism” in Switzerland, a woman will go on trial next week over a brutal knife attack on two shoppers at an upscale department store. The woman, who cannot be named, allegedly tried to slit […]

Children & Teens

Over 2,000 Tunisian minors reach Italy in 2022: rights group

August 24, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) More than 2,000 Tunisian youngsters this year have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing from the North African country to Italy to seek a better life, a rights group said Wednesday. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) said the […]

Immigration

Clashes as Greek authorities evacuate Athens refugee camp

August 18, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Police and migrants faced off Thursday as Greek authorities started evacuating one of the last refugee camps in Athens, officials said, with videos showing authorities using tear gas and a flash grenade. The attempted eviction of the Eleonas camp, which hosts […]

News: Europe

Spain marks five years since Catalonia jihadist attacks

August 17, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Wednesday in memory of 16 people killed in jihadist attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort exactly five years ago. Dozens of people observed a minute’s silence on the tree-lined Las Ramblas […]

Books

Activists accuse Iran of responsibility for Rushdie attack

August 13, 2022 Stuart Williams  

(AFP) Iran’s rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. While the fatwa […]

Arts & Entertainment

Editor of France’s Charlie Hebdo condemns Rushdie stabbing

August 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted in a devastating 2015 attack over cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed considered blasphemous by many Muslims, has denounced the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. “Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,” wrote the magazine’s managing editor […]

Government & Politics

On Lampedusa, migrant worries leave locals behind

August 5, 2022 Clement Melki  

(AFP) “It’s just words, words,” complains Pino D’Aietti, who like many residents of the tiny island of Lampedusa feels abandoned by Italy’s politicians — except when a surge in migrant arrivals makes the headlines. The 78-year-old retired plumber is sitting outside a […]

Government & Politics

Salvini warns of ‘Europe’s refugee camp’ on Lampedusa election stop

August 4, 2022 Clement Melki and Alice Richardson  

(AFP) Italian anti-immigration leader Matteo Salvini warned Thursday his country would not host “the refugee camp of Europe” as he visited a migrant centre on the tiny island of Lampedusa on a campaign stop for September elections. Dozens of overcrowded boats have […]

Legal

Belgian prosecutors won’t appeal verdicts in Paris attacks case

August 2, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Health & Medicine

Germany places Somali in psychiatric care over knife attack

July 26, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A German court on Tuesday committed a Somali man to a psychiatric hospital, after he knifed three people to death in the southern city of Wuerzburg last year. Nine other people were injured in the attack in the Bavarian city in […]

Government & Politics

Over 1,000 migrants arrive in Italy amid election campaign

July 24, 2022 Gaël Branchereau  

(AFP) More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said Sunday. The influx — while not unusual for the […]

Government & Politics

Belgian court puts on hold any bid to release Iran diplomat

July 22, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Belgian judges granted a request Friday from opponents of the country’s new prisoner-swap deal with Tehran to block any attempt to send home an Iranian diplomat convicted on terror charges until the decision can be challenged in court. A lawyer acting […]

Internet

Facebook removes Afghan media pages controlled by Taliban

July 21, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Facebook has removed the accounts of at least two state-owned media outlets in Afghanistan, the company confirmed Thursday, saying it was complying with laws in the United States listing the Taliban as a “terrorist organisation.” The Taliban have made liberal use […]

Immigration

Rights group slams Morocco, Spain over migrant deaths

July 20, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A rights group on Wednesday said Moroccan and Spanish authorities were responsible for a horrific border tragedy last month in which two dozen migrants died. It resulted in the highest migrant death toll in years of attempts to enter the Spanish […]

Legal

Spain reduces sentences for two convicted over Catalonia attacks

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Spanish court Wednesday reduced by ten years the sentences of two out of three people convicted over 2017 attacks in Catalonia that killed 16 people, it said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, a 25-year-old with Spanish nationality, was handed a reduced sentence […]

Law Enforcement

Attacks down, terrorism still a threat to EU: Europol

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Health & Medicine

Norway orders forced psychiatric probe of shooting suspect

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Norwegian court on Wednesday decided that a suspect behind a shooting in Oslo that left two dead and 21 wounded would be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. “The court believes that an investigation in an institution is necessary […]

News: Europe

Paris attacker transferred to Belgium to face new trial

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Legal

Paris 2015 attacker’s sentence stands after no appeal filed

July 12, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Marie Dhumieres  

(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 […]

Employment

Germany plans new path to residency for migrants

July 6, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The German cabinet on Wednesday signed off plans to make it easier for migrants with “tolerated” status to stay in the country permanently and integrate into the job market. The proposals, outlined in a draft document seen by AFP, apply to […]

Children & Teens

France repatriates 51 from Syria camps in policy change

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Crime

Police bust scheme to smuggle ‘thousands’ to UK in boats

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Crime

Norwegian anti-Islam extremist’s car rammed after Koran burned

July 2, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The leader of an extremist Norwegian anti-Islamic group was in a spectacular car chase and collision on Saturday, minutes after burning a Koran on the outskirts of Oslo. Norwegian police said they arrested two people, including the driver of a car […]

Crime

One killed, six injured in Serbia migrant shootout

July 2, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) One migrant was killed and at least six others, including a teenage girl, were injured Saturday in a shootout between migrant groups in Serbia near the Hungarian border, the state-run RTS television reported. The 16-year-old girl sustained life-threatening injuries in the […]

Crime

France charges nine suspects over Channel migrant disaster

July 1, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

LGBT

Berlin mosque flies rainbow flag for pride month

July 1, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A mosque in Berlin on Friday became the first in Germany to fly a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT community, ahead of two major gay pride events in the city this month. The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in the central […]

Legal

Belgian court gives suspended sentence to host of Paris attacker

June 30, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Crime

France holding 10 suspects over Channel migrant disaster

June 30, 2022 Eléonore Dermy  

(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 […]

Legal

Judges retire to consider verdicts in Paris attack trials

June 27, 2022 Alain Jean-Robert, Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Marie Dhumieres  

(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 […]

Legal

The difficult search for truth at France’s biggest terror trial

June 27, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre, Alain Jean-Robert, Marie Dhumieres and Adam Plowright  

(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 […]

Immigration

Greece says stops over 1,000 migrants from Turkey

June 27, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Athens on Monday accused smugglers from Turkey of trying to send more than a thousand migrants to Greek islands, before the boats were detected in the Aegean and turned back. Greek Merchant Navy Minister Yannis Plakiotakis said Turkish smugglers had “tried […]

Immigration

Violence at Spanish enclave sparks fear of worse to come

June 26, 2022 Ismail Bellaouali  

(AFP) A massive attempt by migrants to storm the barrier between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla resulted in “unprecedented violence” that killed at least 23 sub-Saharan Africans and has sparked fears of worse to come. “It was like a war, […]

Burkini

Top court blocks French city’s bid to allow ‘burkini’ in pools

June 21, 2022 Tom Barfield  

(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 […]

Legal

Denmark charges three for planning terror plot

June 20, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Danish prosecutors on Monday charged two men and one woman for acquiring guns and chemicals for explosives believed to be intended for a “terror attack.” The three suspects, two men aged 34 and 36 and a woman aged 31, hailed from […]

Government & Politics

Attempted migrant Channel crossings from France to UK soar

June 20, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Crime

Egyptian migrant dies in France after police shootout

June 16, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Immigration

Illegal migrant crossings to EU up 82 percent: Frontex

June 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Illegal migrant crossings into the European Union rose by 82 percent between January and May compared to the same period in 2021, the European border agency said on Monday. Frontex said there were 86,420 irregular crossings into the 27-nation bloc in […]

Legal

Prosecutors request life sentence for main Paris attack suspect

June 10, 2022 Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) Prosecutors in the Paris attacks trial on Friday demanded a life sentence without parole for the main suspect in the November 2015 jihadist strike that killed 130 in France’s worst-ever terror assault. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman, is the only surviving […]

Legal

Paris 2015 attacks trial hears closing arguments

June 8, 2022 Marie Dhumieres, Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The trial over the November 2015 attacks in Paris, France’s worst-ever terror assault, heard the beginning of closing arguments Wednesday by the three leading prosecutors in the case. For three days, the prosecutors will detail their version of the events on […]

Arts & Entertainment

Italy arrests Pakistanis linked to 2020 Charlie Hebdo attack

June 7, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Italy’s anti-terrorism police and Europol on Tuesday arrested Pakistanis suspected of links to the man who attacked France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in 2020. The sting led to “arrests in Italy and abroad of Pakistani citizens with direct ties” to Zaheer Hassan […]

Legal

Dutch woman jailed on Syria terror charges

June 1, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Government & Politics

Greece blocked 40,000 migrants at Evros this year: govt

May 28, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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

May 27, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Crime

French police clear Channel migrant camps after violence leaves one dead

May 25, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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

May 25, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Burkini

French court blocks ‘burkinis’ in council’s pools

May 25, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Children & Teens

Six convicted for harassing French teen over anti-Islam videos

May 24, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A French court convicted six people on Tuesday for harassing a teen online over her anti-Islam videos in a case that sparked debate about free speech and the right to insult religions. The girl, known as Mila, was forced to change […]

Arts & Entertainment

Cannes brings Paris terror attacks into the limelight

May 24, 2022 Eric Randolph and Philippe Grelard  

(AFP) The Cannes Film Festival has shone a light on one of the darkest moments in recent French history — the Paris terror attacks of November 13, 2015 — with two films that take very different approaches to the topic. “November” is […]

Immigration

Greece says hundreds of migrants stopped from crossing Aegean

May 23, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Greece said on Monday it had prevented around 600 migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into its territorial waters from neighbouring Turkey, in the largest attempted entry this year. A spokesman for the Greek coastguard said five sail boats and four […]

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