Tag: Europe Migrant Crisis

A 15-year-old schoolgirl was groped and raped by two allegedly North African migrants on the commuter train from Milan to Mortara Thursday afternoon.

The Maritim hotel in Cologne has received violent threats from extremists who say they will burn the hotel down if the ant-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are allowed to host an event there. The anti-mass migration AfD are finding

The Italian government on Friday approved measures aimed at streamlining the decision process for asylum requests – as well as speeding up the deportations of those whose asylum bids have been denied.

Poll-leading Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who stands a chance of being the Netherlands’ next prime minister, has said the demise of the European Union (EU) is now “irreversible” and that attempts by the bloc to punish the UK for leaving would backfire.

Every migrant entering Hungary, as well as those already in existing facilities, will now be housed in shipping containers on the border while their asylum requests are settled.

Some migrants coming into Western states as Syrian asylum seekers are “definitely” terrorists, the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said.

(AP) – A charity is taking the British government to court over its decision to close a program bringing unaccompanied child migrants to the U.K. from Europe.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say they discovered nine migrants hiding in a refrigerated truck near the country’s border with Belgium, after one of the migrants called officers because the group was so cold.

An influx of up to 300,000 migrant children could overwhelm the German school system and lead to a ghettoisation of German classrooms hindering attempts at integration.

A 16-year-old Chechen migrant who became infamous in Austria after being involved in the beating of a young student has had his home raided after he sent threatening messages to Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz.

PARIS (AP) — A French activist farmer has been convicted of helping migrants enter, travel and stay in France and given a suspended, 3,000-euro fine.

PARIS (AP) — Cedric Herrou remains defiant ahead of a court ruling that could see him jailed for sheltering illegal migrants.

BERLIN (AFP) – A German neo-Nazi was sentenced to eight years jail Thursday for an arson attack on a sports hall that had been designated to house refugees.

Paris City Hall announced Thursday an eight-foot tall bulletproof glass wall will shield the iconic Belle-Epoque Eiffel Tower from terrorist threats.

Africans’ desire to move to Europe is a “legitimate aspiration” and so the European Union (EU) must allow them to migrate legally if it wants to cut deaths in the Mediterranean, a top UN official has said.

Despite attempts by the European Union (EU) to redistribute some 160,000 migrants from Greece and Italy, the political bloc has so far only managed to resettle less than 10 per cent of their target.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three employees with Swedish broadcaster SVT have been sentenced to community work after being convicted of human smuggling for bringing a 15-year Syrian boy to Sweden during the 2015 migrant influx that swept across Europe.

Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes for progress on deporting more rejected asylum-seekers as she meets with governors of Germany’s 16 states Thursday.

Allegations of sexual harassment, theft, and assault by migrants on New Year’s Eve have emerged, more than a month after Frankfurt police announced that the night had passed off peacefully.

Austria is joining forces with 15 other Eastern European countries to stem the flow of migrants northwards, as they believe the EU has failed in its duty to protect the region’s borders.

A police officer who broke ranks to reveal that migrants are to blame for the vast majority of serious crime in Sweden is now under investigation for incitement to racial hatred.

The German government has admitted that “Operation Sophia”, which rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, has actually benefitted people smugglers and their business.

Hungary is set to introduce plans to detain all migrants entering the country until their asylum applications have been fully processed – a move the government says it expects will go off “like a bomb” in Brussels.

A new study on European attitudes toward Muslim migration has revealed that 55 per cent of Europeans in ten different countries want a halt to migration from majority Muslim nations.

Police in northern Germany have been forced to apologise after a draft email suggesting migrants should be kept away from carnival celebrations was leaked to migrant organisations, prompting accusations of racism.

As pressure mounts on German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of this year’s election, the chancellor has flat out refused to place a limit on the number of asylum seekers coming into the country.

Despite the German federal government’s plan to deport thousands of failed Afghan asylum seekers, German regions are not cooperating and claim Afghanistan has become far too dangerous.

Greek and refugee protesters have confronted the country’s migration minister at the entrance of a sprawling migrant camp in the south of Athens, trying to stop him from entering the site.

A Syrian refugee pictured in a 2015 selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking an injunction that would oblige Facebook to identify and delete posts on its site which wrongly link him to crimes committed by migrants.

Some 1,500 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean this weekend, an unusually high number for winter when crossings tend to slow because of difficult sea conditions, the Italian coastguard said Sunday.