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Crime

Three police injured after riot in Sweden

April 14, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Three police officers had to be taken to hospital after a riot broke out in a Swedish town where a demonstration that included a Koran burning was planned, police said Thursday. While two of the officers had minor injuries, the state […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect says he changed his mind at last moment

April 13, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre, Alain Jean-Robert and Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) The last surviving suspected assailant in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks told a court Wednesday that he changed his mind about going through with the killings at the last moment. “The objective I was given was to go to a cafe […]

Legal

US prosecutors rest case against Islamic State ‘Beatle’

April 12, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against an alleged member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles.” El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, declined the opportunity to testify in his own defense at his trial in a federal court in […]

Legal

Yazidi woman testifies about IS leader’s treatment of US hostage Kayla Mueller

April 11, 2022 Charlotte Plantive  

(AFP) A young Yazidi woman testified on Monday that American aid worker Kayla Mueller told her she was raped by former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and threatened with death if she tried to escape. Lia Mulla, who was captured by […]

Legal

Former hostages unmask Islamic State ‘Beatle’ at trial

April 9, 2022 Charlotte Plantive  

(AFP) Former hostages taking the witness stand at the trial of their alleged Islamic State group captor have described their brutal treatment in chilling detail. Eight former IS hostages have testified so far at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of […]

Legal

Ex-MSF worker testifies at trial of IS ‘Beatle’

April 7, 2022 Charlotte Plantive  

(AFP) A former Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker held for three months in Syria in 2014 by the Islamic State group testified on Thursday to the particularly brutal treatment meted out to American and British hostages. Frida Saide, a Swede, revealed details […]

Legal

IS captives were forced to sing ‘Hotel Osama’: French hostage

April 6, 2022 Charlotte Plantive  

(AFP) A French journalist held by the Islamic State in Syria testified Wednesday that he and other hostages were forced by their captors to sing a depraved parody of the Eagles song “Hotel California” called “Hotel Osama.” “It was terrifying for us, […]

Government & Politics

Polish pushbacks to Belarus go on as Ukrainians welcomed

April 1, 2022 Stanislaw Waszak  

(AFP) Poland has welcomed two million refugees from war-torn Ukraine at lightning speed and with open arms. Yet just north of that border, the EU member continues to push back those crossing from Belarus. Since last summer, thousands of migrants and refugees […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect ‘didn’t want’ to blow himself up

March 30, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The last surviving suspected assailant in the 2015 gun and bomb attacks that shook Paris insisted in court Wednesday that he had “abandoned” plans to blow himself up with a bomb belt. “I didn’t go all the way, I abandoned triggering […]

Legal

El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of being one of the Islamic State ‘Beatles’

March 29, 2022 Charlotte Plantive  

(AFP) El Shafee Elsheikh studied mechanical engineering in London, but now faces accusations he was a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles.” Elsheikh is on trial in federal court in Alexandria for the murders of American […]

Legal

Ex-hostages, relatives seek accountability at IS ‘Beatles’ trial

March 29, 2022 Charlotte Plantive  

(AFP) Former hostages and relatives of victims are seeking justice, accountability and perhaps even some solace as the trial of a member of the brutal Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” gets underway. Jury selection began on Tuesday in […]

Christians

France jails three over links to 2016 jihadist killing of priest

March 9, 2022 Amélie Baubeau  

(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced to jail terms of up to 13 years three men charged with connections to the brutal 2016 jihadist killing of an 85-year-old priest that shocked the country. Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit at […]

Legal

Danish court jails exiled Iranians for spying for Saudi Arabia

March 2, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Danish court on Wednesday sentenced three leaders of an Iranian Arab separatist group to between six and eight years in prison after they were convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia. Two members of the ASMLA (Arab Struggle Movement for the […]

Children & Teens

France violated rights of children held in Syria camps: UN experts

February 24, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) France has violated the rights of French children by leaving them for years in inhuman and life-threatening conditions in Syrian camps for family members of suspected jihadists, a UN watchdog said Thursday. The UN child rights committee ruled that “France has […]

Children & Teens

‘Jihadi’ father loses custody of daughter in Spain

February 23, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Spanish court has stripped a convicted jihadist of custody of his daughter for having tried to indoctrinate her, in a ruling published Wednesday which observers say is a legal first. The Madrid provincial court ordered the removal of Nabil Benazzou’s […]

Children & Teens

Sweden battles disinformation on ‘kidnappings’ of Muslim children

February 23, 2022 Viken Kantarci  

(AFP) Swedish authorities are fighting back against claims its social services are “kidnapping” Muslim children, denouncing a “disinformation campaign” of viral videos spreading mistrust among immigrant families. Videos began appearing on Arabic-language social media sites in late 2021 of real interventions by […]

Government & Politics

EU agrees to help Cyprus manage record migrant influx

February 21, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Cyprus struck a deal Monday with the European Union to help it handle a large migrant influx to the divided Mediterranean island, which Nicosia says is the highest per capita in the EU. The agreement will make it easier for Cyprus […]

Christians

Trial opens over jihadist murder of French priest

February 14, 2022 Amélie Baubeau  

(AFP) The alleged accomplices in the 2016 murder of an 85-year-old French priest appeared in the dock in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into an attack that shocked a country already reeling from a spate of jihadist assaults. Father Jacques […]

Government & Politics

Cyprus minister pins blame for migration ’emergency’ on Turkey

February 13, 2022 Frank Zeller  

(AFP) The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nicos Nouris told AFP, adding […]

Government & Politics

EU seeks to deploy border agency to Senegal

February 11, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) European Commissioner Ylva Johansson on Friday offered to deploy the EU’s border agency to Senegal to help combat migrant smuggling, following a surge in perilous crossings to Spain’s Canary Islands. At a news conference in the Senegalese capital Dakar, Johansson said […]

Clothing

French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim footballers

February 10, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) France’s gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban on players wearing headscarves on the pitch. Rules set by the French Football Federation currently prevent players taking part in competitive […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect claims backed out of suicide bomb plan

February 9, 2022 Marie Dhumieres, Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The only suspected assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 claimed Wednesday he went back on a plan to blow himself up, as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over […]

Government & Politics

French Muslims uneasy as Islam takes centre stage in election

February 9, 2022 Joris Fioriti and Cecile Feuillatre  

(AFP) The role of Islam in French society has emerged as a key battleground in the presidential election campaign, leaving many French Muslims uneasy over the bursts of rhetoric against the nation’s largest religious minority. Far-right candidates Marine Le Pen of the […]

Legal

French prosecutors probe death threats against TV reporter

February 7, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) French prosecutors said Monday they have opened an investigation after death threats were issued against a journalist after she fronted a report over the rise of radical Islam in France. Ophelie Meunier has been under police protection since the M6 channel […]

Legal

Repatriated Dutch women to face IS terror charges

February 4, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Five woman jihadist travellers are expected to appear in a Rotterdam court Monday on terror charges after being repatriated from a Syrian refugee camp, prosecutors said Friday. The five women and 11 children arrived in the Netherlands earlier in the day, […]

Crime

France’s Zemmour says delinquents ‘same’ as jihadists

February 2, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour on Wednesday suggested criminals in high-rise housing estates are fighting alongside jihadists in a “civilisational battle” pitting immigrants against traditional French culture. The 63-year-old, who has often used the hundreds of people killed by jihadists […]

Immigration

Poland begins work on new EU-Belarus border wall

January 25, 2022 Bernard Osser  

(AFP) Polish contractors began work on Tuesday on a 353-million-euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring migrant crossings following a crisis in the area last year. The 5.5-metre-high wall will run along 186 kilometres (115 miles) of the border — […]

Crime

Germany tries Syrian doctor for crimes against humanity

January 19, 2022 Yann Schreiber and Michelle Fitzpatrick  

(AFP) German prosecutors accused a Syrian doctor Wednesday of torturing detainees and killing one of them while working in military hospitals in his war-torn homeland, on the first day of a landmark crimes against humanity trial in Frankfurt. The accused, 36-year-old Alaa […]

Health & Medicine

Paris attacks trial halted after suspect gets Covid

January 17, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The trial over the deadly November 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been suspended after a second suspect tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the case told AFP on Monday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, accused of helping prepare the massacres […]

Children & Teens

French far-right hopeful Zemmour convicted of hate speech

January 17, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A French court on Monday found far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour guilty of racist hate speech for a televised tirade against unaccompanied child migrants. Zemmour drew widespread [outrage] in September 2020 when he told the CNews channel that child migrants were […]

Government & Politics

Iraq says almost 4,000 repatriated from Belarus borders

January 16, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq’s foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organised “10 flights from Baghdad […]

Government & Politics

Macron rival Pecresse slams EU’s ‘sieve-like’ borders

January 15, 2022 Claire Gallen  

(AFP) French right-wing presidential hopeful Valerie Pecresse on Saturday slammed the EU’s “sieve-like” borders for allowing migrants to enter undetected and backed calls for barbed-wire fences to prevent them crossing illegally into the bloc. Pecresse, whom polls show as President Emmanuel Macron’s […]

Crime

Germany convicts Syrian ex-colonel in ‘historic’ torture trial

January 13, 2022 Yannick Pasquet  

(AFP) A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in jail for crimes against humanity in a “historic” verdict hailed by victims as a victory for justice, as the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria drew […]

Crime

Syrian ex-colonel faces verdict in German torture trial

January 12, 2022 Yannick Pasquet  

(AFP) A German court will hand down a landmark verdict Thursday on whether a former Syrian colonel is guilty of crimes against humanity as the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria comes to a close. Anwar Raslan, 58, faces life […]

Legal

First suspect takes stand in Paris attacks trial

January 11, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The main defendant in France’s marathon trial for the November 2015 Paris attacks was back in the dock Tuesday, as the questioning of suspects resumed following a weeks-long Covid delay. Salah Abdeslam is the only survivor among the 10 assailants who […]

Immigration

‘No path ahead but the sea’: Lebanese join migrant flow to EU

January 10, 2022 Hashem Osseiran  

(AFP) If he wasn’t making good money smuggling irregular migrants to the European Union by sea, Ibrahim himself might have joined the growing exodus from crisis-hit Lebanon. “If I didn’t work in this profession, I would have left, just like so many […]

Immigration

Over 4,000 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2021: NGO

January 3, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Over 4,000 migrants died or disappeared trying to reach Spain by sea in 2021, twice as many as in the previous year, a migrant rights group said Monday. Migrant arrivals in Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic have increased since late […]

Government & Politics

Italian minister talks migration with Tunisian president

December 28, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Italy’s top diplomat Luigi Di Maio discussed clandestine migration with Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday, in his first visit to the North African country since the president’s July 25 power grab. The foreign minister praised Tunisian efforts to stem the […]

Immigration

At least 30 dead in migrant boat accidents in Greece

December 25, 2021 Katerina Nikolopoulou  

(AFP) Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days. Late Friday, the coastguard found 16 bodies, including those […]

Crime

Alleged jihadist arrested in Greece

December 23, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Greek counter-terrorism authorities have arrested a 40-year-old Iraqi man on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State group (IS), police said Thursday. The man arrived in Greece from Syria, a police official told AFP, adding that he will appear before a […]

Immigration

Channel migrant crossings to UK more than triple in 2021

December 22, 2021 Callum Paton  

(AFP) Arash took his first steps on English soil on a cloudy, drizzly day in May, after attempting a perilous crossing of the Channel from northern France. UK border police intercepted the inflatable dinghy on which he and others spent five hours […]

Legal

Moroccan acquitted on terror charge wins Polish court battle

December 21, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Poland’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan man who had been acquitted of being an accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris. Prosecutors had appealed against the acquittal and had requested a six-and-a-half-year […]

Legal

Dane charged with defending terror attacks in France

December 20, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Dane with dual nationality was on Monday charged with threatening to carry out attacks, inciting acts of terror and defending deadly attacks in France last year, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old man’s posts on Twitter included a defence of two attacks […]

Clerics & Preachers

France targets mosque for closure after ‘unacceptable’ preaching

December 14, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) France’s interior minister said on Tuesday he had launched a procedure to close a mosque for up to six months because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching. Gerald Darmanin told the Cnews TV channel he had “triggered” the process […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania to pay migrants to return home

December 9, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Lithuania said Thursday it would offer migrants a greater cash incentive to return home, as the Baltic state struggles to repatriate thousands who crossed into the EU member from Belarus. Each migrant who voluntarily opts to go back to their country […]

Legal

Trial over 2016 Brussels bombings to open in October 2022

December 8, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The trial of 10 men accused of involvement in bombing attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people in 2016 will begin in October next year, a Belgian court said Wednesday. Six of the suspects, including French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are already on […]

Law Enforcement

France foils Christmas knife attack plot: sources

December 8, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) France has charged two men aged 23 with terror offences after arresting them over a jihadism-inspired plot to attack crowded public spaces with knifes during the Christmas period, sources said Wednesday. France’s domestic intelligence service, the DGSI, detained the pair in […]

Christians

Francis hits out at EU migration divisions at start of Greek visit

December 4, 2021 Clement Melki, Alexandros Kottis and John Hadoulis  

(AFP) Pope Francis on Saturday blamed the EU’s nationalist divisions for a lack of coordination on migration as he began a landmark trip to Greece, aiming to improve complicated relations with the country’s Orthodox Church. Francis said that Europe was “torn by […]

Government & Politics

France rejects joint Channel border patrols with UK

December 2, 2021 Adam Plowright  

(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex told his British counterpart Boris Johnson that the UK held “a large part of the solution” to the Channel migrant crisis and rejected the idea of joint border patrols, according to [a] letter seen by AFP […]

Academics & Education

Finland’s secret school for children of IS fighters

November 29, 2021 Sam Kingsley  

(AFP) At home in the Finnish capital, Ilona Taimela scrolls through hundreds of WhatsApp chats with her former pupils — pictures of animals, maths sums and simple sentences in English and Finnish. The teacher last year gave lessons to Finnish children imprisoned […]

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