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Three police officers in the northern French commune of Valenciennes were injured after being attacked by a man who was shouting “Allahu Akbar” on Monday afternoon. The man was spotted on the streets of the commune in the afternoon by witnesses

Two men have been sentenced to several years in prison after taking part in the lynching of an off-duty police officer.

Authorities say 874 cars were burned and 441 people were arrested on New Year’s Eve, a time traditionally associated with violence in France.

Fifteen French police officers were injured Thursday morning after they attempted to clear a makeshift migrant camp in Calais.

French populist member of the European Parliament Jordan Bardella has claimed that far-left extremist Antifa militants benefit from the “complacency” of French political leaders. Bardella, a member of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), made his statements in reaction to

Germans protesting against the country’s Wuhan coronavirus restrictions clashed with police on Sunday, as the government looks to crack down on encrypted messaging apps used to organise the demonstrations.

Two female police officers in the French commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin were attacked and wounded this week by a Senegalese migrant man armed with a sword.

An off-duty French police officer was seriously injured in Paris, allegedly by “African-type individuals” who had harassed him and his girlfriend before stabbing him twice in the abdomen.

Six far-left Spanish anarchists have been released on bail conditions after being arrested for allegedly setting a police vehicle on fire during a riot with an officer inside.

Swedish prosecutors in Gothenburg have charged a 17-year-old male over the fatal shooting of police officer Andreas Danman, who was killed during the summer in the “vulnerable” area of Biskopsgården.

A mob attacked police and firefighters lured to a school in Béziers, France, named after murdered teacher Samuel Paty.

Police officers in Marseille, France, were targetted by alleged Kalashnikov rifle fire over the weekend as a union official described part of the city as being like a warzone.

At least 3,000 Swedish police officers have signed a letter addressed to Swedish Interior Minister Mikael Damberg calling on the government to introduce stiffer penalties for lawlessness and deal with no-go zone gangs.

Five Antifa-style radicals have been jailed for their roles in a Bristol riot, in which officers were attacked and vehicles were set on fire.

Three North African men beat a plainclothes French police officer attempting to intervene while the migrants harassed a young couple at a train station.

Otis McKane physically assaulted a bailiff inside a courtroom moments after a jury found him guilty of capital murder.

The National Fraternal Order of Police announced on Twitter Thursday that attacks on police have risen drastically in the past year.

In the wake of last summer’s Black Lives Matter riots and a continuing crime wave across America’s big cities, nearly half of voters think anti-police protests hurt public safety.

An LGBT police group has stated it will not be taking part in a Pride parade in Paris which is set to start in the no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, over fears regarding officer safety.

A 29-year-old Muslim radical on a French terror watchlist was fatally shot by police after stabbing a female police officer at a local police station, stealing her gun, and sparking an intensive manhunt ending in a hostage-taking and shoot-out.

A French police officer, who was brutally beaten by youths after they refused to leave an area because it was the Islamic holiday of Eid, has awoken from a coma and called on politicians to do more to stop the ongoing violence against police.

Police unions claim that up to 35,000 police officers and citizens demonstrated against anti-police violence in front of the lower house of the French parliament in Paris.

A mob of up to 40 young people attacked firefighters in a ‘sensitive’ neighbourhood in Brest, France. While police were on the scene to continuously assess safety, officers were allegedly ordered to restrain policing due to Ramadan and the conflict between Israel and Palestinians.

PARIS (AP) – France’s prime minister is proposing tougher and faster punishment for people who attack the police, as the government pays a national tribute to the latest police officer killed in the line of duty.

Terrorist mobs have destroyed 25 police emergency response stations in Bogotá, Colombia, alone as of Wednesday night in a spate of violent attacks nationwide. Eyewitnesses say the assailants were attempting to burn police officers alive and, in some cases, succeeded in setting them on fire.

A Black Lives Matter protesters pleaded guilty last week to attempting to cut the brake lines on a New York City police vehicle. The protester told a confidential informant he wanted to “hurt police.”

French investigators have found child abuse images on one of the mobile phones used by the Tunisian migrant who murdered a female police officer last week.

A video posted by the New York Post shows a black man wearing a head covering striking a New York City Police Department detective across the face with a rod. The man runs away as the detective recoils and is eventually taken into custody by pursuing officers.

A female French police officer in a Paris suburb died of her injuries Friday after being stabbed by a Tunisian migrant. 

A bomb was discovered under a female police officer’s car in County Derry, in Northern Ireland on Tuesday amid increasing tensions.

Protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, began placing embattlements on the streets outside the police headquarters building as the city’s curfew approached. They also carried improved shielding to allow protesters to hide from police projectiles while they throw objects at the police.

An African migrant threatened to slit the throats of Italian police officers in Como after being stopped for harassing locals.

Five illegal migrants, two of them minors, were arrested earlier this week in Dijon after seriously injuring a police officer at a train station.

Bristol was plunged into another night of violence as clashes between riot police and leftist protesters on Friday evening saw officers attacked with makeshift missiles and fireworks.

A police officer brutally beaten by a mob of rioters in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni has said he thought he was going die.

Police clashed with protesters in Bristol on Tuesday evening at another #KillTheBill demonstration, following a similar protest turned riot on Sunday night.