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A Bavarian judge who ordered the crucifix to be removed from the courtroom during the trial of an Afghan migrant has faced a backlash. The defendant says he does not mind being tried under the cross. Klaus-Juergen Schmid, a judge in the Bavarian town of Miesbach, has ordered a crucifix to be removed from the […]
Published time: 26 Dec, 2017 08:47 A Gambian man has been apprehended by Italian police in downtown Milan while climbing up a Christmas tree in a bid to remove a cross at its apex. Following a psychiatric examination, the man was admitted to a secure hospital. A 21-year-old man from the Gambia was arrested by […]
Parisians are up in arms over hundreds of migrants sleeping on their streets, queuing up in long lines, day and night, while waiting for their asylum requests to be processed, and some residents say they will start a hunger strike if the unkempt street camps are not removed. Locals in the 10 and 19th districts, […]
Not only are European governments aware of the “systematic abuse” and “appalling conditions” that migrants are exposed to by Libyan authorities, they are also involved in these crimes, Amnesty International has claimed in a recent report. In an attempt to contain the influx of sea-borne migrants and refugees, the EU member states “actively” contribute to […]
A French police officer received a six-month sentence for slapping a handcuffed migrant near Calais, the site of the infamous ‘Jungle’ camp. The defense maintained the officer did not intend to hit an “agitated” detainee and was merely protecting himself. The 40-year-old law enforcement officer, who was a member of France’s border police (PAF), slapped […]
Sitting comfortably in a sleek office just a stone’s throw from the center of Vilnius, Lithuania’s charming capital, Daumantas Dvilinskas waxes poetic about the plight of Europe’s economic migrants. “It’s a very peculiar life that’s sometimes a bit misunderstood by traditional media,” he says, “which portray these migrants as unpatriotic, or people that have lost […]
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has apparently called on Hungarians to beware of the power of the Sith in his latest speech on migration crisis in Europe. He also declared Eastern and Central Europe the last ‘migrant-free zone.’ “We should never underestimate the power of the dark side,” the prime minister said, referencing Star Wars […]
Published time: 21 Aug, 2017 15:00 Right-wing news outlet Breitbart has apologized after it published a photograph of German footballer Lukas Podolski, claiming he was an illegal migrant traveling by jet-ski from Morocco to Spain. The article, published on Friday and headlined ‘Spanish police crack gang moving migrants on jet-skis’, aimed to raise awareness of […]
Three NGOs have suspended migrant search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean citing threats from the Libyan Coast Guard, leaving what they describe as a “deadly gap” in the area. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it would suspend search and rescue activity of its ship, ‘Prudence,’ saying on Saturday that the vessel would cease operations […]
Published time: 8 Aug, 2017 21:25 A Spanish border guard suffered a shocking leg break while attempting to stop migrants bursting through the Moroccan border in the city of Ceuta. The incident took place on Sunday night at the El Tarajal border crossing in the Spanish city on coast of northern Africa. Security footage of […]
