France is pushing for the Aquarius to dock and disembark dozens of migrants in Malta, a presidential source said on September 25, after the ship’s Panamanian registration was revoked over the weekend. “We are clear on the fact that it shouldn’t spend four to five days at sea going towards France or Spain or anywhere,” …
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On September 20, a 48-year-old woman denounced an assault she claimed to have been a victim. She recounted cycling near the Galamé Park in Loon-Plage when she was attacked by a group of seven to eight people. She said she had two cuts on the legs, and a blow to the head. She had been stitched up with eight stitches. …
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They’ve come from as far as Iran and Afghanistan, Somalia and Myanmar. But the children are now stuck on Nauru, a desolate island in the South Pacific that’s little more than eight miles square. They’re caught in a strict Australian immigration system that has left them stranded. Some of them have become so depressed after …
Bosnian police blocked about 400 migrants from reaching the border with its neighbour and EU member Croatia on October 23, sparking a scuffle, shortly after thwarting another group in a similar attempt. “They tried to cross by force. The police turned them down. There was a scuffle,” police spokeswoman Snezana Galic told AFP of the confrontation near …
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Two migrants were injured (one seriously) in Brindisi with baseball bats from a racist round, while a third attack on a young migrant would have failed due to the intervention of a passer-by. One of the two wounded is Elija, secretary of the Ghana city community, who has been living and working in Brindisi for …
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Morocco said on October 22 it would deport 141 migrants who were arrested a day earlier as they tried to storm a border fence with the Spanish enclave of Melilla. One migrant died after falling off the seven-meter high metal barrier on Sunday, while 22 others and 12 security personnel were injured, the interior ministry …
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A student who livestreamed her dramatic efforts on a plane to stop an asylum seeker from being deported to Afghanistan in July was indicted by Swedish prosecutors on October 19. Elin Ersson, 21, a student at the University of Gothenburg and a volunteer with refugee groups, had her broadcast go viral as she attempted to stop a …
Denis, 6, applied for a residence permit in Sweden. The boy applied as accompanying his mother, who in turn applied for affiliation with a partner. Denis is a Ukrainian citizen, just like his mother, who was found dead in an apartment in Södertälje on March 10 earlier this year. The police arrested a man suspiciously suspicious of …
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Lodi Mayor Sara Casanova on October 15 stood by controversial new regulations in the northern city that have seen the children of many migrants unable to have access to school canteens and school bus services. “The regulation will certainly remain in force,” Casanova told ANSA. “The law must always be valid for everyone”. The regulation …
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Rough sleeping will be banned in Hungary from October 15 when the government’s law on homelessness comes into force, giving police the power to remove homeless people from the streets and destroy any shelters they may have built. The law, banning “habitual residence in a public space”, was passed by parliament in June and has been called “cruel” …
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