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| Germany investigating 64 suspected extremist Islamists in armed forces [Ynet] Germany's military counter-intelligence agency is investigating 64 suspected "extremist Islamists" working for the armed forces, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. The 64 could include civilian as well as uniformed employees, the spokesman added. People judged to be "extremist Islamists" are not permitted to work for the military. Between 2007 and 2016, 30 "extremist Islamists" went to Syria or Iraq after being employed in the armed forces, the spokesman said. Nineteen people were discharged from the forces for being "extremist Islamists" during that period. 3 detained in Serbia for trying to smuggle 64 Afghans [Ynet] Serbia's Defense Ministry says three people have been detained for attempting to smuggle 64 migrants from Afghanistan, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The ministry said Tuesday that a joint police and army patrol near the border with Bulgaria caught the smugglers late Monday as they were transferring the migrants. It says a group of 34 migrants were packed in a van, while another 30 migrants were about to board two cars. They included mostly men, four women, children and a baby. Aid group: Rise in minors at Calais migrant camp [Ynet] A leading French humanitarian organization says the number of minors alone in a makeshift camp in Calais has increased by 151 percent to 861 -- with the youngest 10 years old. France Terre d'Asile says it spent three days last week counting kids alone in the camp in northern France and the figure had soared since a May count of 343. It concurred with other aid groups which put the overall camp population at a record of around 9,000. The Calais region prefecture says that since March, 55 children have been able to join families in Britain -- the dream of most Calais migrants. Danish PM seeks emergency law to reject asylum seekers at borders [Ynet] The Danish government on Tuesday proposed adoption of a law that would enable police to reject asylum seekers at the borders in times of crisis such as that in 2015 when thousands of migrants sought to enter the country. Denmark has already implemented tough immigration policies since a heavy influx of refugees last year, including border controls and a "jewellery bill", allowing the police to confiscate refugees' valuables. The government seeks to create a statutory power to reject asylum-seekers at the border to prevent a recurrence of the refugee crisis in September last year, the Ministry for Immigration, Integration and Housing said. Nearly 10,000 migrants rescued on Mediterranean in two days [DeutscheWelle] The Italian coastguard on Tuesday rescued some 3,000 migrants in the Strait of Sicily with the aid of the EU's border agency Frontex and humanitarian organizations, bringing the total to nearly 10,000 in two days. More than 100,000 migrants have made the perilous journey across the central Mediterranean in 2016, many of them fleeing conflict and extreme poverty in Africa and the Middle East. Some 3,000 of them are estimated to have died during the journey this year. However, the number of migrants arriving to the EU has fallen compared to the same period last year. IOM said some 12,600 people made it to the bloc in August, down from 23,500 in the same month last year. Some 9,000 refugee children reported to have disappeared in Germany
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) has confirmed that by July 1, 8,991 unaccompanied refugee children and young people had been reported missing. The figures, which were requested by the German daily "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung," showed the number of migrants no longer in contact with authorities was already higher than for the whole of last year. The figure has doubled from January, when 4,749 refugees were known to be missing. Although most of those who disappeared are teenagers, 867 of them are under 13 years old.
French police officer wounded in knife attack in Toulouse
Sweden Jails Syrian Refugee Six Years for Setting Fire to Hostel [AnNahar] BLUF: Since his arrival in August, 2015 has been treated for depression and epilepsy. Feeling ignored and suicidal, tried to kill himself by setting his curtains on fire. To be expelled at end of sentence, ordered to pay restitution. How that last is to be accomplished the article does not say. | |||
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