Woman caught smuggling gold, khat and cash on Denmark-Norway ferry
[TheLocal.dk] A 43-year-old woman was caught carrying khat by customs after taking the Hirtshals-Larvik ferry on Friday. Customs officers discovered 82 bunches of the chewable leaf, which is illegal in Norway, weighing a total of just under eight kilograms. The woman was also carrying 128,000 kroner ($15,000) and 81 grams of gold, reports NRK. The money is suspected to be the result of criminal activity, and the gold suspected to have been smuggled into Norway, customs reported Monday.
Islam researcher: Not all Salafists are the same
[DW] Q: Not all Salafists are potentially violent. How to you make distinctions within the group?
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Editor's note: Germany's domestic intelligence agency) believes there to be around 10,000 people in the Salafist scene.
| Good to know. |
I roughly break down the group down into Salafists who are purists, those who are political and those who are jihadists. Around two-thirds are apolitical purists and political Salafists. And then there is around a third who are potentially violent, or who support violence.
| Also good to know. There are also the non-Salafists who are prone to violence or supporting the violent -- an unknown number at this point. |
French police blow up suspicious car outside synagogue
| Speaks to the general mood of apprehension in France. |
Islamic State suspect arrested in western Germany
[Ynet] German authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Syrian on suspicion of membership in a terror organization for allegedly fighting for the extremist Islamic State group in his homeland. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that Emad A., whose last name wasn't released in line with privacy laws, was arrested early Friday in the western state of Baden Wuerttemberg. He's accused of joining the Islamic State group in 2013 and fighting for it in multiple engagements in Syria.
German soldier, posing as refugee, arrested in attack plot
[IsraelTimes] A German soldier who pretended to be a Syrian refugee has been arrested on suspicion he planned a gun attack with racist motives, prosecutors said Thursday. The 28-year-old suspect who was not identified was thought to have a “xenophobic background,” they said — while Die Welt daily reported he may have plotted to pin the blame for an attack on foreigners.
The strange case involved a joint police operation across Germany, France and Austria with raids on 16 locations, prosecutors in Frankfurt said in a statement.
They arrested the soldier — a lieutenant usually stationed on a Franco-German military base near Strasbourg — in the southern German city of Hammelburg on Wednesday.
On the same day they also arrested a second German man, a 24-year-old student and alleged co-conspirator in possession of objects that breach weapons and explosives laws, they said.
French Mayor Fined for Mentioning Demographic Changes in Local Schools
[Breitbart] French mayor Robert Ménard has been fined by the government for hate speech after mentioning that French children were being “replaced” in schools in his town.
Number of migrant criminal suspects in Germany soared by more than 50% in 2016, as minister warns the number of crimes has 'increased disproportionately'
[DailyMail] Police in Germany revealed they were pursuing 174,000 migrant criminal suspects in 2016, an increase of 52.7 per cent on the previous year. Islamist crime also rose by 13.7 per cent.
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28 April
Hungary said Friday it has completed a second anti-migrant fence on the Serbian border, a “smart” barrier with night cameras, heat and movement sensors and speakers blaring warnings in five languages.
Italy Clears Activist Charged with Trafficking Migrants into France
27 April
An Italian court on Thursday acquitted a humanitarian activist who had faced a possible prison term for trying to help a family of Sudanese migrants cross from Italy into France.
Terror Risk Sees Germany Slump to 51st Place for Security in World Tourism Rankings
27 April
Germany now sits between the Gabon and Mongolia in the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report’s “safety and security” field, having plummeted 31 places since the 2015 edition of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) biannual report measuring how “tourism-friendly” economies are.
Shock Report: Migrants Become Less Integrated the Longer They Stay in Europe
27 April
A new study has found the gap in labour participation rates between citizens born in Norway and third world migrants widens the longer newcomers have been in the country.
Interior Ministry Admits Migrant Crime Up 50 Per Cent in 2016, Continuing Year-on-Year Trend
25 April
Germany’s interior ministry has once against reported a significant rise in crimes committed by so-called asylum seekers, “tolerated foreigners”, and unauthorised foreigners in the country, with the migrants in the groups suspected of crimes rising by over half since 2016.