(AFP) An Iraqi court on Monday condemned a fourth French citizen to death for joining the Islamic State group, a day after handing capital punishments to three other Frenchmen. Mustapha Merzoughi, 37, was sentenced to death by hanging, according to an AFP […]
(AFP) A German court on Monday ordered seven Islamic fundamentalists to pay fines over a so-called “sharia police” patrol they launched in 2014 to mass media and political outrage. The men aged between 27 and 37 must pay between 300 and 1,800 […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said. Captured in Syria by a US-backed force fighting the jihadists, they are the first French […]
(AFP) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday that Germany’s warning to Jews on the dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap were a “capitulation to anti-Semitism” and evidence Jews were unsafe there. Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism, Felix Klein, said in an […]
(AFP) French police were on Saturday pulling out all the stops to locate a suspect following a blast in the heart of Lyon that wounded 13 people. “All means have been activated to identify and detain the person who committed this act,” […]
(AFP) Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks. “I cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany,” Felix Klein […]
(AFP) Police in France were on Saturday hunting a suspect following a blast in a pedestrian street in the heart of the city of Lyon that wounded more than a dozen people just two days ahead of the country’s hotly contested European […]
(AFP) A French boss of a second-hand boat firm was sentenced to prison Friday for selling dozens of vessels to desperate migrants who used them to cross the English Channel. Emmanuel Desreux, 45, was given 18 months behind bars and another 18 […]
(AFP) When is it too late to save a radicalised Muslim teenager? Two-time Cannes winners the Dardenne brothers said Tuesday their new film is a call not to give up on these “lost” youths. “Young Ahmed,” which premiered at the world’s top […]
(AFP) Belgian authorities have transferred Mehdi Nemmouche, the French jihadist who killed four people at a Jewish museum in 2014, to Paris for questioning over his suspected role in the kidnapping of four journalists in Syria in 2013, a legal source said […]
(AFP) Austrian MPs on Wednesday approved a law aimed at banning the headscarf in primary schools, a measure proposed by the ruling right-wing government. So as to avoid charges that the law discriminates against Muslims, the text refers to any “ideologically or […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand’s premier Jacinda Ardern will Wednesday host other world leaders and leading tech chiefs to launch an ambitious new initiative aimed at curbing extremism online. The initiative, known as the “Christchurch call,” was pushed by […]
(AFP) New Zealand’s leader Jacinda Ardern will join other world leaders in launching a “Christchurch call” to curb online extremism at an international meeting in Paris on Wednesday, following the worst mass killing in her country’s recent history. Participants will be asked […]
(AFP) Support is growing in Germany for a “mosque tax” to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or “radical” foreign funding sources, a media report said Sunday. The federal government sees it as “a possible path,” according to an answer […]
(AFP) A Spanish jihadist cell funded itself through tax fraud on chicken, cheese and chocolate sold in Denmark, according to an investigation published today led by non-profit European newsroom Correctiv. The cell had raised at least €8 million (RM37.1 million) through the […]
(AFP) The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria filed a lawsuit at Europe’s top rights court Monday over France’s refusal to allow them home, lawyers said. It was the latest challenge to […]
(AFP) Hungary’s anti-immigration Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini moved closer to formal cooperation Thursday for upcoming European Parliament elections, vowing to prevent an “Islamic caliphate” on the continent. European voters are due to choose a new […]
(AFP) German parents and relatives of Islamic State militants demonstrated Monday outside the foreign ministry, urging Berlin to repatriate wives and children of fighters held in Syria. Some brought posters saying “Children are not responsible,” while others held up banners reading “Innocent […]
(AFP) Three adults and a teenager have been arrested over a planned attack on the security forces in the coming days, prosecutors said Monday, which a minister described as “extremely violent.” All four were arrested on Friday as part of an investigation […]
(AFP) With the jihadists behind the bloodshed in Paris and Brussels able to criss-cross European borders at will, anti-terror chiefs have been forced to come together to seek a common response to a global threat. Experts say the deeper security cooperation was […]
(AFP) A European elections campaign poster by Germany’s AfD featuring a 19th-century painting called “The Slave Market” has raised hackles, with a US art museum demanding that the far-right party withdraw the advert. The Berlin chapter of Germany’s anti-immigration party has featured […]
(AFP) A supreme legal tribunal in France on Tuesday rejected appeals by families for their relatives who had gone to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) radical militant group to return home. The Council of State, which acts as legal adviser […]
(AFP) Albanian police on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old man following a request from Italy where he is sought for “terrorist activities.” Bledar Ibrahimi, arrested in the central Albanian town of Elbasan, is “considered as a dangerous person for public security in Italy […]
(AFP) A Paris appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah, brother of a French jihadist who shot dead seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders. The verdict was received in silence […]
(AFP) Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini signed a new directive Tuesday against charity vessels rescuing migrants off Libya, targeting the Italian ship Mare Jonio in particular. Salvini, head of the anti-immigrant League party, warned that the Mare Jonio and others must […]
(AFP) Jussi Halla-aho, who led his nationalist Finns Party to more than double its seats in parliament in Finland’s election, is a former medieval language lecturer turned hardline MEP and vehement critic of immigration and Islam. Less than six months ago, the […]
(AFP) “Refugees are bringing crime into our town,” an election leaflet declares — an example of how Germany’s far right feeds its narrative of a country threatened by more than a million new arrivals. Alternative for Germany (AfD) hopes the strategy that […]
(AFP) One of three women allegedly involved in a foiled plot in 2016 to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was on Friday sentenced to eight years in prison by a French court […]
(AFP) A high-profile pro-migrant mayor in populist-ruled Italy was ordered Thursday to face court over charges he set up fake marriages to help foreign women stay in the country after their asylum applications were rejected. Domenico Lucano, under house arrest after being […]
(AFP) A Frenchman who received compensation over a 1995 terror attack in Paris has been sent to jail after pretending he was at the scene of the November 2015 assault on the city by Islamic State gunmen. Serge Dieujuste, 44, attempted to […]
(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group went on trial Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun. The case against Jennifer Wenisch, 27, is believed to […]
(AFP) Dutch judges on Monday sentenced two men to one year and nine months respectively over ammunition provided for use in a foiled 2016 terror attack in France. Five suspects were charged after Dutch police raided a home in the western port […]
(AFP) France has ruled out the repatriation of French jihadists and their families detained in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate,” Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Friday. France and other European nations have been wrestling with how to […]
(AFP) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who stars in the hit TV series “Game of Thrones,” has another leading role in a film about the 2015 terror attacks in Copenhagen, its distributor said Friday. The actor — who plays Jaime Lannister in the global phenomenon […]
(AFP) Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday that he had told Germany to deal with a ship run by a German charity carrying dozens of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean, while denouncing the work of NGOs in the region. “The […]
(AFP) UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday against growing hatred of Muslims, less than a month after a deadly attack on mosques in New Zealand killed at least 50 people. His remarks came during a speech at Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim […]
(AFP) A French man who rented his flat to the ringleader of the 2015 Paris attacks during a massive police manhunt was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for “hiding terrorists.” Jawad Bendaoud was convicted on appeal of hiding Islamic State […]
(AFP) A Czech court said Friday an Iraqi man and woman faced extradition to Austria in connection with two 2018 attacks on trains in Germany. The two were arrested at Prague airport Wednesday on a warrant issued by Austria, following Monday’s arrest […]
(AFP) The death toll from an alleged terror attack on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht rose to four on Thursday after an injured man died in hospital, prosecutors said. Prosecutors have already said that a Turkish-born man previously identified […]
(AFP) Austria has arrested an Iraqi suspected of committing “terrorist attacks” by sabotaging railway lines in Germany last year, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 42-year-old man is suspected of having strung a steel rope across the tracks between the southern German cities of […]
(AFP) The head of Prague’s Muslim community who urged Czech Muslims to acquire arms after the Christchurch attack has been sacked, the Czech Muslim Communities Centre said Monday. “Our meeting on March 24 … decided unequivocally to cancel Mr Leonid Kushnarenko’s membership […]
(AFP) A French Muslim group said Monday it was suing Facebook and YouTube for allowing a live broadcast of the grisly video of a massacre at a New Zealand mosque, reviving the debate over how social media amplifies such attacks. The French […]
(AFP) The driver of a school bus who torched the vehicle to protest Mediterranean migrant deaths claimed on Friday he acted after hearing the voices of drowned children urging him on, media reports said. Insisting again that he did not want to […]
(AFP) A Turkish-born suspect has confessed to terrorist charges over a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht which killed three people, prosecutors said Friday. Thousands of Dutch mourners including Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte took to Utrecht’s streets […]
(AFP) A Moroccan accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the deadly 2015 terror attacks in Paris was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Friday by a Polish court for belonging to the Islamic State group. Mourad T. pleaded not guilty […]
(AFP) Dutch prosecutors are to charge the suspect in a gun attack in a packed Utrecht tram with “terrorist” killings, saying he will appear for the first time before a judge on Friday. “The 37-year-old suspect will appear before a judge on […]
(AFP) Italy’s Senate voted Wednesday to block the trial of far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for allegedly illegally confining migrants rescued at sea by an Italian coastguard ship last year. Senators voted 237 to 61 in favour of the immunity commission’s recommendation […]
(AFP) The prime suspect in a deadly shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht was known for a “rap sheet from here to Tokyo” but showed few signs of radicalism, according to residents and reports. Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis, 37, […]
(AFP) Dutch police said they were investigating a terrorist motive for the Utrecht tram attack, as they arrested a new suspect on Tuesday over the deadly shooting. Authorities said they had found a suspicious letter in a getaway car used by Turkish-born […]
(AFP) White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 50 people in the New Zealand mosque massacre in what he claimed was a blow against Muslim “invaders,” played into jihadist hands by following their strategy, experts say. From the Islamic State […]
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