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Government & Politics

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, […]

Government & Politics

French minister holds Tunisia talks on return of Islamist extremists

November 6, 2020 Caroline Nelly Perrot and Kaouther Larbi  

(AFP) Tunisia said Friday it would take back from France its citizens suspected of being radical Islamists, after last week’s deadly attack in Nice allegedly carried out by a Tunisian jihadist. But Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine, following talks with his visiting French […]

Crime

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 […]

Interfaith

Jewish community in Vienna on alert after attack

November 4, 2020 Daphne Rousseau  

(AFP) Shalom Berntholz never closes his kosher restaurant in central Vienna, but as a new coronavirus-induced lockdown approached, he decided to shut early. That saved his life. A gunman who supported the Islamic State (IS) group kicked off his shooting rampage on […]

Government & Politics

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 […]

Law Enforcement

IS claims Vienna shooting as Austria mourns

November 3, 2020 Jastinder Khera  

(AFP) Austrian investigators were on Tuesday piecing together the Monday evening rampage through central Vienna by a lone gunman and later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, as Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called for a European response to “political Islam.” Four people […]

Deradicalization

Vienna gunman: IS supporter who ‘fooled’ the system

November 3, 2020 Jastinder Khera  

(AFP) The gunman responsible for an attack in Vienna which left four people dead on Monday night was a convicted supporter of the Islamic State (IS) group who the government says “fooled” official de-radicalisation efforts. The 20-year-old, named as Kujtim Fejzulai, was […]

Academics & Education

France honours slain teacher as school resumes

November 2, 2020 Stuart Williams  

(AFP) France on Monday honoured the teacher beheaded near his school by a suspected Islamist radical as millions of students returned to class after a spate of attacks that have put the country on edge. Schoolchildren across France observed a minute of […]

Christians

More arrests as French Catholics pray in shadow of attack in Nice

November 1, 2020 Vincent-Xavier Morvan and Stuart Williams  

(AFP) French Catholics on Sunday celebrated the All Saints religious festival under heavy security, as police made two new arrests over an attack on a church in the southern city of Nice blamed on an Islamist knifeman. Three people were killed in […]

Government & Politics

Free speech has limits, Canada’s Trudeau says

October 30, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was “not without limits” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities. “We will always defend freedom of expression,” Trudeau said in response to a question […]

Christians

Shocked France bolsters security after church killings

October 30, 2020 Joseph Schmid  

(AFP) The French government on Friday vowed to send thousands more police onto the streets to ensure security as investigators sought to uncover what motivated a young Tunisian to kill three people inside a church in the southern city of Nice. The […]

Christians

Macron vows defiance after ‘Islamist’ knife attack in church kills three

October 30, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country’s second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month. France will not “give up on our […]

Christians

Knifeman kills three at French church, ratcheting up terror fears

October 29, 2020 Vincent-Xavier Morvan and Sylvie Maligorne  

(AFP) A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in what officials are treating as the latest jihadist attack to rock the country. The […]

Arts & Entertainment

Erdogan vows action over ‘disgusting’ Charlie Hebdo cartoon

October 28, 2020 Fulya Ozerkan  

(AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vented his outrage Wednesday at a “disgusting” cartoon in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting him looking up a woman’s skirt while drinking beer in his underpants. Erdogan’s office vowed to take “legal and diplomatic […]

Government & Politics

Dutch PM says Erdogan complaint against MP ‘unacceptable’

October 27, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Tuesday weighed in [on] a growing spat between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a Dutch anti-Islam MP, whom the Turkish leader has accused of defamation over a cartoon drawing. Erdogan filed a complaint this week […]

Arts & Entertainment

Charlie Hebdo sparks Turkish fury with cartoon of Erdogan

October 27, 2020 Fulya Ozerkan  

(AFP) Turkey on Tuesday accused French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo of “cultural racism” over a front-page cartoon for its latest edition that mocks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and […]

Demonstrations

Muslims ‘not persecuted’ in France, says country’s Muslim council

October 26, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Muslims are “not persecuted” in France, the French Council of the Muslim Faith said Monday, as a row over radical Islam and freedom of speech pits Muslim nations against Paris. “France is a big country, Muslim citizens are not persecuted, they […]

Demonstrations

Erdogan doubles down in backlash against Macron’s Islam comments

October 25, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The backlash against President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on Islam intensified Sunday, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again urging him to have “mental checks” and protests in Muslim-majority nations. The French foreign ministry meanwhile called on authorities in affected countries to […]

Academics & Education

Man charged for ‘liking’ photo of murdered French teacher

October 25, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A young man who “liked” a gruesome Twitter picture showing French teacher Samuel Paty after he was murdered has been charged with glorifying terrorism, French authorities said Sunday. Paty was attacked and killed on the street for showing his students cartoons […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Erdogan tells Macron to undergo ‘mental checks’

October 24, 2020 Fulya Ozerkan  

(AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday slammed his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, over his policies toward Muslims, saying that he needed “mental checks.” Macron and Erdogan are feuding about maritime rights in the eastern Mediterranean, Libya, Syria and — most […]

Children & Teens

France expels Bosnians who shaved daughter’s head over relationship

October 24, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Five family members of a Bosnian teenager who forcibly shaved her head over her relationship with a Christian Serb man have been expelled from France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Saturday. Sources close to Darmanin told AFP those expelled were the […]

Academics & Education

France to crack down on online posts after teacher’s murder

October 23, 2020 Jürgen Hecker  

(AFP) France said on Friday it would crack down on social media posts that put people in danger by divulging their personal details, a week after the murder of a teacher targeted in an online campaign over Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Samuel Paty […]

Crime

New rape charge against Islamic scholar Ramadan

October 22, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been hit by another charge of raping a woman, his lawyers in France said Thursday, after four other similar accusations. The 58-year-old Ramadan, a Swiss national, has already been charged in France with raping four other […]

Academics & Education

France teacher’s killer had ‘contact’ with jihadist in Syria

October 22, 2020 Sylvie Maligorne and Jürgen Hecker  

(AFP) The investigation into the murder of a French teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turned to Syria on Thursday, where the killer had a jihadist contact, a source close to the case said. Seven people have been […]

Immigration

Deadly stabbing in Germany investigated as terrorist attack

October 21, 2020 Femke Colborne  

(AFP) A knife attack that killed one tourist and seriously injured another in the German city of Dresden in early October is being treated as a terrorist attack, prosecutors said Wednesday, turning fears to Islamist violence after a string of far-right attacks. […]

Academics & Education

France vows ‘won’t give up cartoons’ as teens charged over teacher’s killing

October 21, 2020 Mariëtte Le Roux and Jürgen Hecker  

(AFP) Two teenagers accused of pointing out French teacher Samuel Paty to his killer who beheaded him were on Wednesday charged with complicity in terrorist murder, prosecutors said, as the nation paid homage to the slain educator. “We will not give up […]

Academics & Education

France closes Paris mosque in clampdown over teacher’s beheading

October 20, 2020 Alexandre Hielard and Mariëtte Le Roux  

(AFP) French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The mosque […]

Academics & Education

French police target Islamist networks after teacher’s beheading

October 19, 2020 Alexandre Hielard and Clare Byrne  

(AFP) French police have conducted a series of raids targeting Islamist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin vowed there would be “not a […]

Academics & Education

‘We are not afraid’: France rallies after beheading of teacher

October 18, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Tens of thousands of people rallied in Paris and cities across France on Sunday in solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: “No to […]

Government & Politics

Austria on guard as politician claims Turkish ‘assassination plot’

October 16, 2020 Blaise Gauquelin  

(AFP) While other candidates in Vienna’s recent municipal elections were out campaigning, Green politician Berivan Aslan had to stay home due to what she says was an assassination plot with links to the Turkish state. The former MP, who is of Kurdish […]

Law Enforcement

‘You will pay’: Paris attacks suspect threatens police witness

October 16, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The main suspect in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Paris terror attacks caused an uproar in court Friday when he threatened a policewoman during her testimony. “You will pay for this,” shouted Ali Riza Polat, who is believed […]

Academics & Education

Teacher beheaded in France after showing Mohammed cartoons

October 16, 2020 Jürgen Hecker  

(AFP) A French teacher who had recently shown students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was beheaded outside his school on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack.” The assailant, whose identity has not been established, was shot by […]

Legal

France charges jihadist with murder in IS territory

October 9, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) France on Friday charged a man with murder days after his expulsion from Turkey, holding him in custody over crimes alleged to have taken place in jihadist-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria. Using the pseudonym “Abou Salman al Faransi,” 26-year-old Othman […]

Government & Politics

Salvini migrant case delayed, judge summons Italy PM

October 3, 2020 Giovanni Grezzi and Ella Ide  

(AFP) An Italian judge reviewing charges against far-right leader Matteo Salvini that he illegally detained migrants at sea delayed the hearing until November 20 so he could hear from senior members of the government, including Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Salvini made no […]

Academics & Education

Macron unveils plan to fight radical Islam in France

October 2, 2020 Laurence Benhamou and Jerome Rivet  

(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a plan Friday to defend France’s secular values against radical Islam, announcing stricter oversight of schooling and better control over foreign funding of mosques. Describing Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide, Macron insisted that “no concessions” […]

Government & Politics

Defiant Salvini readies for migrant trial as allies rally

September 30, 2020 Ella Ide  

(AFP) Italy’s far-right chief Matteo Salvini stands trial Saturday for allegedly illegally detaining migrants at sea, in a case that could see him jailed for 15 years or serve him a political win. Prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Catania accuse Salvini […]

Arts & Entertainment

In Pakistan, Paris attacker’s family praise his actions

September 30, 2020 Kaneez Fatima and Joris Fioriti  

(AFP) Pakistani farmer Arshad Mehmood has been filled with pride since his son stabbed two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, in the latest attack to expose the violent consequences of blasphemy allegations. Zaheer […]

Crime

European police bust cross-Channel migrant smuggling ring

September 30, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) European police have busted a human smuggling ring said to be part of a network transporting thousands of migrants in life-threatening conditions across the Channel to Britain. Law officers, working together with Europe’s policing and judicial agencies Europol and Eurojust, arrested […]

Arts & Entertainment

Paris knife attacker charged with ‘attempted terrorist killings’: prosecutor

September 29, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with “attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise,” French anti-terrorist prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. A judge also placed the man — […]

Immigration

Police break up Calais migrant camp, biggest since ‘the Jungle’

September 29, 2020 Elia Vaissiere and Bernard Barron  

(AFP) French police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of about 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling “Jungle” shantytown was broken up four years ago. Calais continues to attract migrants from the Middle East […]

Arts & Entertainment

Paris meat cleaver attacker’s identity in doubt

September 28, 2020 Alexandre Hielard  

(AFP) There was confusion Monday over the identity of the man who injured two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week, which was condemned by the French government as an act of “Islamist terrorism.” Investigators said the assailant had […]

Arts & Entertainment

France checks video claim for Paris knife attack

September 27, 2020 Alexandre Hielard and Guillaume Daudin  

(AFP) French investigators were Sunday studying a video claiming responsibility for the meat cleaver attack in Paris that targeted satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo as the government condemned an act of “Islamist terrorism.” Six people were still in custody, including the suspected perpetrator […]

Government & Politics

Greece warms to EU asylum pact but refugee groups rage

September 26, 2020 Hélène Colliopoulou  

(AFP) Greece’s government has cautiously welcomed a plan from Brussels to reform the EU’s shaky asylum system, but charity groups working with refugees on the ground have blasted a continued “outrageous containment policy.” The “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” was unveiled […]

Arts & Entertainment

Paris cleaver attack suspect says wanted to target Charlie Hebdo

September 26, 2020 Alexandre Hielard and Wafaa Essalhi  

(AFP) A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said Saturday, with nine people now detained over what the government condemned as “Islamist terrorism.” The 18-year-old, named […]

Interfaith

Norway court approves extradition to France of 1982 Paris attack suspect

September 25, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Norwegian court on Friday approved an extradition request from France for a suspect linked to an attack in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris in 1982 that killed six people. Friday’s ruling, which can be appealed, concerns only whether the legal […]

Arts & Entertainment

Man held on terror charges after two wounded in Paris cleaver attack

September 25, 2020 Daphne Rousseau and Tiphaine Le Liboux  

(AFP) A man armed with a meat cleaver wounded two in Paris Friday outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo before being arrested by police, three weeks into the trial of suspected accomplices in the 2015 massacre of the newspaper’s […]

Arts & Entertainment

French media back Charlie Hebdo after new threats

September 23, 2020 Séverine Rouby  

(AFP) More than 100 French news outlets on Wednesday called on people to support satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by gunmen in 2015, after its staff received death threats. The magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed earlier this month […]

Legal

Barcelona attack cell to go on trial in November

September 23, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Three men face trial at Spain’s top criminal court on November 10 over their involvement in the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort that killed 16 people, judicial sources said on Wednesday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for […]

Government & Politics

No more Morias? EU to unveil long-delayed asylum plan

September 21, 2020 Anne-Laure Mondesert  

(AFP) The failure of the European Union’s migration policy could not have been laid out more starkly — an already miserable camp burned and thousands of refugees homeless. On Wednesday, two weeks after the destruction of the Moria camp on the Greek […]

Interfaith

Cashier’s grim goal during 2015 Paris terror attack: ‘Survive’

September 21, 2020 Karine Perret  

(AFP) It was a Friday afternoon, and Zarie Sibony was at her check-out counter at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on the eastern edge of Paris when a man wielding two Kalashnikov rifles burst through the doors. “I heard a shot on my […]

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