Young migrants in Germany turning to prostitution
[DW] A rising number of adolescent migrants in Germany are turning to sex work after aging out of youth welfare programs. The Left Party has called for increased funding into integration and social policies.
Man arrested near Leipzig was 'planning attack in Berlin'
[TheLocal.de] A man arrested in a police raid near Leipzig at the weekend was suspected of plotting an attack in Berlin, German media have reported.
According to police, a man in his mid-twenties from North Africa was arrested at a refugee home in Borsdorf near Leipzig in the early hours of Saturday. Police reported that the arrest had prevented a potential “acute crime” after state authorities in Saxony received evidence on Friday.
Local newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung reported that the man was suspected of plotting an attack in Berlin, and is also believed to have made a bomb threat on February 8th that triggered a major police operation in the town.
The evidence that led to the arrest came on the same day that Rakhmat Akilov drove a truck into a popular shopping area in Stockholm on Friday, killing four people.
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Frenzied rescues in Mediterranean save over 2,000 migrants
[AlAhram] Rescue vessels in the Mediterranean worked flat out Friday to rescue over 2,000 people from flimsy dinghies as exhausted saviours accused the EU of turning a blind eye to the crisis.
The Italian coast guard and five privately-run rescue boats plucked migrants from 16 overcrowded dinghies and three wooden vessels.
After non-stop back-to-back rescues, a total of 2,074 people were brought to safety, the coastguard said, a day after a shipwreck left at least 97 migrants feared drowned off Libya.
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) boats Prudence and Aquarius rescued some 1,145 people from nine different dinghies in exhausting operations it said proved their presence off the North African coast was needed.
The rest were picked up by the coastguard, the Phoenix -- run by the Maltese organisation Moas -- the German NGO Sea Eye and the German Jugend's Iuventa.
Refugee accused of raping a camper and forcing her boyfriend to watch had been told he was being deported from Germany just days before
11/04/17
[DailyMail] A Ghanaian asylum seeker suspected of raping a woman in a nature reserve in Germany had received notice he would be deported just a few days before the attack.
Thought bulldozing the Jungle ended the Calais migrant crisis? Wrong - they've been lured back by charity handouts and are still hell-bent on reaching the UK
15/04/17
Hundreds of illegal immigrants are back in Calais and are sleeping rough. They are being helped by English and French charities giving out free food. Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart tried to ban the distribution of meals to migrants, but was overruled. Calais is returning to its old troubled self, with migrants on the seafront, the beaches, in woods and on port roads. Police vans patrol 24 hours a day, trying to catch them and get them deported.
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13 April
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally confessed that there is “no doubt” some of the migrants she invited into Europe are terrorists, following another deadly terror attack by a bogus asylum seeker in Stockholm, Sweden.
Swedish Anti-Mass Migration Party Score Record Polling Numbers after Attack
12 April
The anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats have scored their highest ever numbers in the first polls released since the Stockholm terror attack last week which killed four people.
In Aftermath of Stockholm Attack, Swedish Security Service Vigilant For Right Wing Reprisals
11 April
Head of the Swedish security service (Säpo) Anders Thornberg has warned that right wing extremists could seek revenge after the Stockholm terror attack which saw four people killed.
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14 April
The Italian parliament has signed into law a series of provisions designed to streamline the processing of asylum requests as well as the deportations of those whose requests are rejected.
Spain Rescues 73 African Migrants in Five Boats
14 April
Spanish rescue ships saved 73 migrants, including one pregnant woman, from five different smuggling boats trying to cross the sea from Africa to Europe during the previous 24 hours.
Merkel Turns to British Secret Services as Islamist Threat Grows
14 April
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned to British spies for advice on dealing with her country’s escalating Islamist terror problem, infuriating her own intelligence services.
Migration and Migrant Children to Boost Sweden Population to 11 Million by 2026
14 April
New projections from Statistics Sweden indicate the population could rise by more than a million within the next decade due to mass migration and migrants having many children.
Germany Favors Ban on Boat Exports to Libya to Stop Migrants
13 April
The German government says it would support a ban on the export of boats from the European Union to Libya as part of measures to stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean.
Only Ten Per Cent of Migrants Redistributed from Italy and Greece
13 April
The European Union’s plan to redistribute migrants from Italy and Greece continues to flounder as new reports show only 10 per cent of the target number have been accepted by other countries. Handelsblatt reports that of the nations who are obliged
Facebook Rapists Will Not Be Deported from Sweden
13 April
Two asylum seekers who are on trial for raping a Swedish girl and streaming the ordeal live on Facebook will not face deportation back to their home countries.
Turkish Politician: Three Million Migrants on Their Way to Europe
13 April
Turkish politician and former parliamentary deputy Ümit Özdag claims Europe could see three million migrants arrive on the continent as the EU-Turkey migrant agreement breaks down.
Spanish Navy Rescues 30 Migrants Sailing From Morocco
12 April
A woman and a child died after the boat in which they and 31 other migrants were trying to reach Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Spain’s maritime rescue service said Wednesday.
Swedish Journo: Sweden Will Collapse Without Illegal Migrants
12 April
Swedish writer Åsa Linderborg has claimed the Swedish economy would collapse if it was not for illegal migrants who she says are vital to the economy.
Swedish Mail Delivery Suspended in No Go Zone After ‘Incident’, Safety Concerns
11 April
Dozens of homes in a Swedish no-go zone are no longer receiving postal deliveries after the company responsible judged their neighbourhood, an area of the notorious no-go zone Rinkeby, Stockholm, was too dangerous to send their staff into.
More Than 200 Migrants Rounded up in Serbia
11 April
Serbian police have rounded up more than 200 migrants in the country’s north following reports of alleged attacks against the local population.
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11 April
The Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, PST) want the teenager to be charged with terror offences, which carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
Following court hearings on Monday, PST revealed that the 17-year-old was carrying explosives when he was apprehended in the Norwegian capital on Saturday night.
“There was a container with lighter fluid and several nails attached to the outside,” police attorney Kathrine Tonstad told newspaper Aftenposten.
The device had a “limited” potential to cause injury, Tonstad said.
“It might seem like a boy’s prank to set off a small gas container, but once he has taped nails to the outside, it becomes something other than a prank,” he added.
Bus driver faces fine for refusing ride to niqab-wearing woman
13 April
A police spokesman in Leer, Lower Saxony said on Thursday that the driver was being investigated for an administrative offence, with the fine possibly rising to €10,000. The woman was pregnant when the driver refused to let her onto the bus for wearing the conservative Islamic garb, the spokesman said, adding that her husband had reported the driver to local authorities.
The private bus company, which had been contracted by the city of Emden to run the local bus service, has admitted that the driver’s actions breached local regulations. The company claimed that the driver had acted out of ignorance.
| Except that Angela Merkel has announced she is in favour of banning both niqab and burka in public, so perhaps rhe driver's ignorance is merely temporary. |
12 Apil
On the evening of March 9th two gunmen came into Café 56 in the Kleinbasel area of the city and fired shots, killing two people and leaving another in a serious condition. The assailants went on the run after the shooting. All three of the victims were Albanian.
In a statement on Wednesday morning the Basel public prosecutor said they had arrested a 41-year-old Albanian citizen “who is strongly suspected of being involved”. He has been placed in custody for three months. A second suspect is still on the run.
The 24-year-old Albanian critically injured in the shooting was released from hospital and subsequently arrested for immigration offences and deported, said the prosecutor's statement.