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 6,000 migrants rescued in Mediterranean in two days 7 May [IsraelTimes] Authorities in Italy see a 30% rise in number of Africans seeking to flee to Europe through Libya compared to last year.
"It doesn't need to send a distress signal, it doesn't need to call for help, the law of the sea says it is a boat that needs assistance, full stop". The flimsy dinghies used by traffickers are launched from the North African coast with an average of 122 passengers crammed aboard. Christian refugee converts in Germany face violent attacks 5 May [DW] Recently, an Afghan woman who converted to Christianity was murdered. More and more refugees in Germany are being targeted for turning away from Islam. Representatives of church organizations helping refugees told DW that such incidents occur quite often. German migration authorities probe 2,000 asylum cases after high-profile fraud 5 May [DW] Thousands of refugee cases are to be scrutinized as a result of the Franco A. scandal. The German soldier managed to register as a Syrian refugee, allegedly with plans of carrying out terror attacks. The selected cases were chosen based on similar patterns to the Franco A. case, such applicants without papers and single applicants of a certain age group. Qatari Government Opens Mega-Mosque in Malmö, Sweden 5 May [Breitbart] Qatar’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has opened Scandinavia’s largest mosque in Malmö, Sweden. ISIS tells lone jihadists to use Craigslist and eBay to lure hostages to their homes and murder them by listing studio apartments for rent 05/05/17 [DailyMail] The Islamic State magazine, Rumiyah, has published tutorials on vehicle, knife and arson attacks for lone jihadists, who it praised as having 'set heroic examples with their operations'. Aarhus man sentenced to six months’ prison for making bomb in basement 2 May [TheLocal-Denmark] A 25-year-old man of Somali nationality has been sentenced to six months in prison for making a bomb in the basement of his Aarhus apartment block. Also sentenced with conditional deportation, the man was found guilty of making and possessing a bomb, prosecutor Lars Petersen of East Jutland Police told news agency Ritzau. The bomb was discovered in October 2016 by a neighbour on residential street Peter Fabers Vej in northwest Aarhus, who alerted police. Sweden to end ID checks on trains from Denmark 2 May [TheLocal-Sweden] Sweden is to end ID checks on buses, trains and ferries travelling between the country and Denmark, the Swedish government has announced. At the same time however, border control spot checks by police in place at some of Sweden's borders will be tightened to cover more travellers, and extended further. The controls will now include x-raying of vehicles and additional CCTV surveillance. The temporary ID checks for rail, bus and ferry companies were introduced in January 2016 as Sweden struggled to get to grips with an influx of refugees to the country. Last extended by three months in February, they are due to expire this week, and will not be extended. Since the checks were introduced in early 2016 the number of asylum seekers coming to Sweden has reduced by around 80 percent, Ygeman explained, dropping from 10,000 per week to less than 500 per week at present. Spies in Hesse say they're keeping close watch on halal shops 2 May [TheLocal-Germany] State intelligence services are closely monitoring the ultra-conservative Salafist scene in the central state of Hesse, including observing potential meeting places like fitness studios - or even halal shops, the president of Hesse’s intelligence services told DPA on Tuesday. Oliver Bertrand of the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam at Goethe University explained that the Salafist scene is extremely active in recruitment efforts, and teenagers who go to stores alone are often solicited to join. This can also happen at fruit shops or while young people are grilling at the park. Across Hesse, 4,150 people are considered by intelligence services to be Islamists, and of these 1,650 are classified as Salafists. Intelligence sources further consider 40 of this group to potentially capable of committing a violent act. Two-thirds of these potentially dangerous extremists are either outside the country or in prison. Nationwide, there are 616 people considered by intelligence services to be potentially dangerous Islamists. Norwegian rejection of Afghan family reunification linked to sharia law: report 26 April [TheLocal-Norway] Parwin, a 30-year-old Afghan woman, told newspaper Aftenposten that she fled the country with her daughters, who are now with relatives in Pakistan, to escape an arranged marriage planned for one of them by her husband, who was also abusive towards her. She has now been denied family reunification with the daughters by authorities, who cited a lack of documentation for her right to custody – something that does not exist in the sharia law under which she married. In its conclusion, UNE (Immigration Appeals Board) refers to Afghan civil law, which states children are automatically the property of the father, reports Aftenposten.
4 May Dutch police hiding statistics revealing asylum seeker’s involvement in crime, even attempting to bribe journalists into ignoring the topic, it has been claimed. Paris Migrants ‘Blame Europe’ for the Migrant Crisis 3 May At the largest migrant camp in Paris, just outside the Porte de La Chapelle metro station, hundreds of migrants live in tents. Many of them blame Europe for not giving them documentation or free housing. German Minister and African Union Head Reject Migrant Camps in North Africa 2 May Germany’s foreign minister and the African Union chief say setting up camps in North Africa will not solve Europe’s migrant crisis and that stabilizing African countries is a better strategy. EU Wants Migrant Crisis Border ID Checks in Germany and Sweden Stopped this Year 2 May The European Union says it will allow Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and non-EU country Norway to prolong ID checks at their borders but want the migrant controls phased out by November. Macron Threatens Poland with Future Sanctions over Refusal to Take in Migrants 30 April Polish lawmakers are furious at French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron who has proposed potential sanctions on the country for refusing to take in migrants from other European Union states.
6 May A Gallup poll released on Friday shows that large majorities in Eastern Europe oppose allowing Syrian refugees admission to their country. Germany Arrests Syrian Suspected of Islamic State Membership 5 May German authorities say they have arrested a 29-year-old Syrian suspected of membership in the Islamic State group. Federal prosecutors say the man was arrested Thursday in the Leipzig region. In a statement Friday, prosecutors said the suspect joined a military unit of the Nusra Front in Syria. He allegedly rose to become the unit’s ’emir’ in the Raqqa region and took part in the conquest of the town of Dibsi Afnan in Novemer 2012, and the town of Tabka in February 2013. After the Nusra Front clashed with the Islamic State group in early 2013 he defected to the latter. The man was identified only as Ahmad A. A., in line with German privacy rules Dutch Court Convicts Asylum Seeker of Raping Woman 4 May An Eritrean asylum seeker, age 33, in the Netherlands has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping a 17-year-old woman after attempting to strangle and drown her. The rape in September led one local mayor to suggest a curfew for residents of a local asylum-seekers’ center. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-08 |
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