Afghan migrants - Page 5

An Afghan migrant accused of going on a stabbing rampage in Sweden first tried to claim asylum in Norway and claimed to be a minor after applying for refugee status in Sweden a year later.

The Greek area of Idomeni, which lies along the border with North Macedonia, is again becoming a hotspot for migrants looking to travel the Balkan route to Western Europe.

A 26-year-old Afghan migrant faces up to ten years in prison after being charged with child endangerment following the drowning of his six-year-old son while trying to reach Europe by boat from Turkey. 

A 19-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested in Switzerland after allegedly spraying a woman with acid in an underground car park. 

Swedish Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali has claimed that of 7,000 Afghan “high school amnesty” migrants in Sweden, just 68 have full-time work.

A 41-year-old Afghan migrant living in Munich is believed to be on the run after allegedly stabbing his wife to death, hiding her corpse, and fleeing Germany.

An Afghan migrant has been given a suspended sentence after he assaulted healthcare workers at a hospital in Rennes, France and threatened to shoot staff.

Greek media have released footage they claim depicts migrants setting fires during the Moria migrant camp blaze that left more than 10,000 migrants homeless on the island of Lesbos.

Greek police have arrested five migrants, including two underage Afghans, in connection to the alleged arson of the Moria migrant camp which has left more than 13,000 people homeless.

An Afghan asylum seeker was brutally stabbed on Sunday in Paris’s Gare du Nord railway station, with the aftermath of the bloody attack caught on video and posted to social media.

German police have arrested a 38-year-old Afghan asylum seeker on suspicion of beating his 33-year-old wife to death in front of their five underage children.

A Swedish Foreign Ministry employee faces prison after being arrested for granting over 100 visas on fraudulent grounds to migrants from Afghanistan.

Police have arrested an Afghan migrant in Dortmund for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl, just a month after he had been arrested for allegedly raping an 11-year-old.

An Afghan migrant and his two sons have been arrested following an incident on a public transit bus that saw a 21-year-old man stabbed to death.

A 37-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was arrested after stabbing his estranged wife to death on a public bus in the German municipality of Obergünzburg on Monday.

A 19-year-old migrant from the Ivory Coast has died after being stabbed to death by an Afghan asylum seeker in the notorious Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

An Afghan woman was detained by Turkish authorities after attempting to enter Europe using the passport of a well-known pro-migration activist. She claimed her passport was stolen during a trip to Iran.

French police have detained a 20-year-old Afghani migrant after the president of a pro-migrant activist group was bludgeoned to death in his sleep. Jean Dussine, 63, the president of Itinérance Cherbourg — an organisation which helps migrants and asylum seekers

A Swedish court has reduced the prison sentence for a 20-year-old Afghan who murdered his 69-year-old teacher, who he was also in a sexual relationship with at the time, because of the migrant’s mental health issues.

Afghan migrant Ayub Miakhel has been found guilty of sexually abusing a five-year-old girl in the French commune of Avranches but was sentenced to just two years in prison.

A migrant camp on the Greek Island of Samos has been set ablaze after a knife fight which left three injured erupted between Syrian and Afghans over food.

A 20-year-old Afghan suspected of murdering his 69-year-old lover has told investigators he remembers killing Swedish anti-establishment journalist Joakim Lamotte, who is very much alive.

Earlier this week the Swedish government deported 50 Afghan migrants, the largest deportation of its kind in a single day.

An Afghan migrant has been arrested in Austria in connection with the attempted arson of an office of the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ). The attack took place last week in the city of St. Pölten and saw a total of four

An 18-year-old Afghan migrant is not at risk of deportation despite being found guilty of sexually assaulting three people, including a 14-year-old girl.

A homeless migrant from Afghanistan was arrested over the weekend after attempting to kill a Paris police officer with a shard of glass following a brawl.

Seven Afghan migrants and one Swedish citizen have been arrested in two separate operations in connection with a case of rape, with one suspect being involved with a migrant integration charity.

An employee of the Swedish Migration board is facing scrutiny and charges after being accused of handing out false visas to 121 Afghan migrants.

A fierce mass brawl between 50 men of mostly Turkish and Afghan backgrounds was caught on camera at a train station in the town of Rastatt.

An Iranian gay man was the subject of a vicious assault by a gang of Afghans at a Swedish asylum home despite it being “certified” for LGBT individuals.

A 41-year-old Afghan migrant has been charged by Swedish prosecutors in connection with the alleged murder of his teenage wife in Stockholm in 2016 after being on the run for two years.

Iraqi and Afghani asylum seekers are up to 40 times more likely than native Finns to be suspects in sexual crimes in 2017, according to the police statistics and Statistics Finland.

A 17-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested following the murder of a 16-year-old Austrian girl after he attempted to buy a forged passport and flee the country.

A Swedish court has found a 15-year-old Afghan guilty of attempted murder and sentenced him to a year of juvenile care as well as deportation, the migrant claiming he wanted to leave Sweden as he felt bad about the attack.

Munich police have confirmed that the case of a 19-year-old Afghan national who gave officers the illegal Hitler salute will be listed as a “right-wing” politically motivated crime.

Two Afghan asylum seekers were arrested after a 22-year-old male was beaten to death on Saturday night, the latest fatality in Germany to be followed with a street protest.