Attacks on refugee homes sink to pre-refugee crisis level: report[TheLocal.de] The number of attacks on refugee homes has decreased within the first three months of the year, reaching pre-refugee crisis levels, according to a media report on Tuesday.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded 93 attacks against refugee homes within the first three months of the year, according to a government response to a Die Linke (Left Party) enquiry seen by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ). That would be about one attack per day.
This was about on par with the 106 incidents reported at the beginning of 2015, before the influx of refugees peaked in the autumn of that year.
Germany took in a record 890,000 asylum seekers in 2015. That same year, the number of attacks against refugee homes also hit record levels, with 1,031 incidents reported. That was more than five times the 199 cases in 2014. Last year also saw nearly 1,000 attacks against asylum facilities.
So far in 2017, 86 of the 93 reported cases were linked to right-wing radicals, according to the report.
Outside of asylum homes, 318 assaults were reported against asylum seekers or refugees, the vast majority of which were also linked to right-wing radicals. Another 25 attacks were against hired or voluntary refugee aid workers.
Stockholm terror suspect was mentally fit at time of attack, doctors judge
[TheLocal.se] Sweden's National Board of Forensic Medicine (Rättsmedicinalverket) handed the results of its examination of Rakhmat Akilov
| ...the rejected asylum-seeking father of four who drove a hijacked, bomb-laden 30-ton truck through a crowded Stockholm pedestrian zone in April on orders of ISIS after he was sent back after trying to get to Syria. He killed four and injured 15, considerably fewer than he'd planned because his bomb didn't explode. This proves that Allah did not approve... |
| The unstable ones are no good for more complicated operations. |
Hungary Calls for Unified European Union Migrant Deportation Scheme
[Breitbart] Hungary has urged Brussels to create a European Union-wide (EU) deportation mechanism, stating that removing migrants who have no right to reside in the bloc is “mostly not possible” in current conditions.
Sweden falls out of love with migrants: Report finds the liberal nation now has a much more negative view of immigration following spate of sex attacks
10/05/17
[DailyMail] Researchers found that far-right Swedish groups are encouraging the country's increasing lack of tolerance when it comes to migration.
Voluntary returns: when asylum seekers want to go home
[DW] BLUF: For those migrants who decide to return home, going through German channels can take two months or considerably longer to find out if the German government will pay for their trip and funding to start a small business... or not.
German police raid homes in search of IS members
[IsraelTimes] Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office says police have raided homes in four states in connection with three people suspected of links to the Islamic State group. Federal prosecutor’s spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said in a statement that apartments and other locations were searched in Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt on Wednesday morning.
Two suspects are accused of membership in a terrorist organization on allegations they belong to IS, while the third is suspected of supporting a terrorist organization. Two are also accused of weapons violations. No arrests were made and no names were released. Prosecutors say the suspects are believed to be connected to a Syrian arrested in 2016 who was suspected of planning a bombing attack, and another Syrian arrested last week in Leipzig on IS membership charges.
German Police Arrest Two Alleged Syrian Jihadists
[AnNahar] German police Tuesday arrested two suspected Syrian jihadists, one of them an alleged member of the Islamic State group accused of slitting the throat of a regime soldier, prosecutors said. The alleged former IS member, identified only as 30-year-old Abdulmalk A., was arrested in Berlin, and his 23-year-old compatriot Mousa H. A. in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Both men allegedly first joined the Islamist rebel group then called Al-Nusra in 2012 to battle the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, with Abdulmalk A. commanding fighters. He allegedly captured a Syrian army sniper in early 2013 near the city of Tabqa, forced him to dig his own grave and slit his throat, the prosecutors said in a statement.
In mid-2013 Abdulmalk A. switched allegiance to the IS, in his eastern home city of Deir ez-Zor, joined its combat operations and then was tasked with administering the IS-captured Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest.
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Italian police say they have found indirect links between Islamic militants and a Somali-run migrant trafficking and money transfer ring that was busted in overnight raids in southern Italy. Police said the leader of the Bari-based ring had been in telephone contact with a Somali man arrested in Italy in July on suspicion of having helped two Islamic State foreign fighters enter Italy via Malta.
Italy Investigates Aid Groups Suspected of Working With Traffickers to Facilitating Illegal Migration
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An Italian prosecutor says he is investigating employees of aid groups that are rescuing migrants off Libya for allegedly facilitating illegal migration, but says it’s not a punishable crime since saving lives at sea is paramount. Trapani
Reporter Attacked Live on Air During Report on Immigration in Rome
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An Italian TV reporter and her cameraman were assaulted during a live broadcast whilst covering the living conditions of African migrants hoping to break into northern Europe in search of higher welfare payments.
Leaders of Europe’s Top Four Economies Have Zero Children Between Them
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With the election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of France over the weekend, the leaders of Europe’s top four economies — Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy — have zero children between them, a feat perhaps never before matched in European history.
Up to 245 Migrants Missing After Smugglers Wreck Two Ships
9 May
U.N. agencies say up to 245 migrants and refugees are missing and feared dead following two recent shipwrecks of smugglers’ boats in the Mediterranean Sea. UNHCR says one of its partner agencies, the International Medical Corps, reported
Sweden Sees Significant Increase in Asylum Seekers After Scrapping ID Checks at Border
9 May
After scrapping border identification checks for people coming from Denmark into Sweden, the Swedish government has noted a large increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving in the country.
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