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Europe
 Six yoots charged with attempted murder in Berlin subway attack [DeutscheWelle] Six yoots, aged 16-21, who allegedly tried to set a homeless man on fire in a Berlin subway station on Christmas have been charged at youth court with attempted murder. A 17-year-old was also accused of failure to provide assistance to the victim. If convicted, the six accused would face at least three years in jail, the mandatory minimum sentence for attempted murder in Germany. The case provoked outrage in Germany after it was caught on security cameras. After police released photos of the suspected attackers, six of them later turned themselves over to the police, another was arrested. All seven have been in police custody since December 27. Their motives for the attack are still unknown. Because all seven alleged perpetrators came to Germany as refugees - six from Syria, one from Libya - the attack sparked a debate over the integration of so-called "unaccompanied minors" seeking refugee status in Germany and stirred anti-migrant sentiments. Swedish court hands life sentence to Syrian asylum seeker [Ynet] A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a Syrian man to life imprisonment for participation in the 2012 mass execution of seven government troops in Syria. The Stockholm District Court ruled that 46-year-old refugee Haisam Omar Sakhanh joined the armed group Suleiman Company in early May 2012, and shot a person dead with an assault rifle. Judge Tomas Zander said the victim, who was not identified, was shot dead along with six others "under particularly cruel circumstances." Sakhanh had confessed to the shooting but said he should not be prosecuted because the death sentences had been made by a legitimate court, something the Swedish court rejected. It also rejected his defense that he had been following orders.
This once prosperous Greek builder is now living in a shack as his country’s economy collapses under the weight of German diktats and a never ending tide of migrants [DailyMail] Every morning, just after sunrise, an army of charity workers descends on a grand, white building overlooking the Mediterranean in a suburb of Athens. They bring duvets to migrants.
18 Feb 2017 Thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Barcelona to demand that Spain’s conservative-led government increase its efforts to take in refugees from war-torn countries like Syria. Poll: Merkel Eclipsed By Arch-Federalist Schulz in Race For Chancellor 17 Feb 2017 In a straight race between the two most popular candidates to fill Germany’s top political office, long-time member of the European Parliament and enthusiastic EU acolyte Martin Schulz would beat incumbent Angela Merkel, according to a new poll. Cologne Carnival Issues Truck Ban For City Centre 17 Feb 2017 Ahead of the upcoming Cologne carnival, authorities have issued a ban on all trucks in the city centre to prevent a repeat of the Berlin Christmas market attack. 100 UK-Bound Migrants Brawl in France 16 Feb 2017 Around a hundred UK-bound Eritrean and Sudanese migrants have engaged in a territorial brawl near a service station in northern France. Christians Are the Most Persecuted Religious Group in the World, Says Austrian Foreign Minister 16 Feb 2017 Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, the Austrian foreign secretary has said. Nigerian Migrant Arrested for Stabbing Female ‘Refugee Helper’ to Death 16 Feb 2017 A 27-year-old Nigerian migrant has been arrested in Switzerland after murdering a 22-year-old asylum home worker in Germany and then fleeing the country. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-02-19 |
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