More than half percent of all migrants who claimed asylum in Germany in the first five months of this year had no form of identification, according to an article by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The share of people without documentation (57%) is much higher than last year, when 48% of arrivals claimed to have no passport or an identity card.
Poland’s military affairs department is investigating the death of a soldier who was stabbed while protecting his country’s border. Meanwhile, the foreign ministry has summoned the Belarusian envoy in Warsaw to discuss the case.
The incident took place last week, on May 28th, and the soldier has since died of his injuries.
Nearly two-thirds of German residents receiving unemployment benefits have a migration background, new figures from the Federal Employment Agency have revealed.
Europe has seen a sharp rise in the share of people who say that reducing immigration should be a top government priority, according to a study published Wednesday. Germany is topping the list.
At the same time, there was less desire to prioritize fighting climate change in the same countries, according to the survey commissioned by the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation think tank.
The catastrophe along the U.S. southern border has all but disappeared from the corporate network evening news. A recent NBC News story demonstrates why networks must still report on the border, notwithstanding that issue driving President Joe Biden’s unfavorable numbers.
Horrifying knifepoint sex attack is latest incident in neighbourhood where ‘attacks and rapes are part of daily life’
A knifepoint sex attack a short distance from where the Paris Olympics is set to take place this summer is the latest in a series of horrific assaults in an area where locals say they fear for their safety on a daily basis.
Place Auguste Baron in the north-east of the French capital has seen two women attacked and threatened with rape in the past two days, according to French media. The suspects in each case are said to have been crack addicts.
Last night, a woman who was walking home in the neighbourhood was pounced on by a man who she said had been tailing her for 500 yards, Le Parisien reports.
French police have used a knife to puncture an inflatable boat as it prepared to leave Dunkirk with dozens of migrants across the Channel to Britain.
One officer was photographed brandishing a knife, after slicing the boat to prevent the group of people from leaving.
The attempted crossing was thwarted at the beach of Graveline, near Dunkirk in northern France on Friday.
The leader of the conservative, sovereigntist Sweden Democrats presented the party’s central European campaign message on Thursday, ahead of EU elections in June that will determine the bloc’s fate over the next five years and beyond.
Like other parties in the European Conservatives & Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID) groupings, the Sweden Democrats have placed the need to stop mass migration at the top of their campaign priorities. They poll presently in second place, with 21% of the projected national vote.
With the much anticipated Summer Olympic Games fast approaching, and with Macron’s deeply unpopular government scrambling both to ensure the security of international guests and conceal Paris’s visible degeneration, new crime figures show the capital city in a less-than-favorable light and call into question authorities’ ability to keep women safe.
The figures, recorded by Paris Police Headquarters, revealed that 77% of rape cases in the capital solved in 2023 had been committed by perpetrators who do not hold French passports, with the majority of sexual crimes transpiring in and around tourist areas like Champs de Mars—soon to be packed with visitors to the games.
COPENHAGEN — In Vanløse community center one Friday night in April, 30 local residents gathered to grill three candidates for June’s European election.
Fueled by hummus sandwiches and mugs of strong coffee, the crowd was lively.
One resident, an older man with a mustache, was concerned about Hungary undermining the rule of law in the EU, in particular. He jabbed a table with his downturned index finger as he called for an end to corruption within the European Union institutions. Another man, this one younger and with a Social Democrat badge pinned to his sweater, stood up and called on the EU to do more to rein in the social media giants he said were blighting young lives.
A young woman was arrested in the eastern French city of Besançon and taken into custody for holding up a sign calling for the deportation of foreign rapists. She faces up to a year in prison. Her lawyer has stated that she intends to lodge a complaint for “infringement of personal freedom.”
Notre participation au défilé du carnaval de #besancon 👯♀️🪧🥳
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Pour nous soutenir : https://t.co/n276LgUgvt pic.twitter.com/nkvtdzb7y0— Enfant De France (@yona_nms) April 8, 2024
Tory MPs plan for migrant crime league tables
The migrant nationalities with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in league tables under plans to be considered by ministers.
The proposal, backed by senior Tory MPs, would require the crime rates of each nation’s migrants in England and Wales to be published annually.
Ministers would present a report to Parliament each year detailing the nationality, visa status and asylum status of every offender convicted in English and Welsh courts in the previous 12 months.
The number of migrants to have crossed the Channel has hit a record total for the first three months of the year as Rishi Sunak insists his ‘stop the boats’ plan is working.
A total of 4,644 people have arrived on the south coast on England from France in small boats since the beginning of January, including 338 on Tuesday, according to Home Office figures.
The figure is larger than even in 2022 – a year which saw the highest number of Channel migrant arrivals on record – when 4,162 landed in Britain.
I can’t recall with certainty but wasn’t England once renowned for the prowess of its Navy?
h/t Mauser
U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted two men in connection with the deaths of an Indian migrant family over two years ago in Manitoba, along the U.S.-Canada border.
Steve Shand of Deltona, Fla., was named Thursday in a superseding indictment filed in U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota against Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, an Indian citizen residing in Florida, according to court documents.
Russia using militias in Africa to ‘weaponise’ flows of people in attempts to influence elections
Russia is using private militias to control and “weaponise” immigration into Europe, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Kremlin has influence over a number of the main routes into the continent and border police are warning that, with the arrival of spring, Russia is likely to “intensify” its efforts to move migrants.
It has been widely feared that Vladimir Putin is using the tactic to destabilise Europe.
