“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have beds, air …
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Two separate bomb attacks took place in the German city of Dresden Monday night, according to Saxony police. One of the attacks targeted a mosque while the second targeted the International Congress Center of Dresden. No injuries have been reported from the two home made devices, only property damage, police added. Police say they believe …
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A Muslim migrant woman in Germany who wears a headscarf has to send almost five times as many job applications as a native German candidate with same qualifications to get an interview, research released Tuesday claimed. Independent research institute IZA published preliminary results of a study into the employment chances of female migrants in Germany, …
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A severed pig’s head has been found outside a mosque in the city of Essen in the western Nordrhein-Westfalen region of Germany on Friday. A caretaker at the Essen Central Mosque told police he found the bloodied head when he arrived at the mosque. Consulate General of Turkey in Essen Mustafa Kemal Başa and Essen …
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Far-Right protesters blocked an ambulance reaching an injured asylum seeker after violent clashes broke out between the two groups in an east German town. Witnesses in the town of Bautzen described running street battles between teenage asylum-seekers throwing bottles and far-Right protestors shouting neo-Nazi slogans. More than 100 police officers were needed to end the …
A list of the CSU’s demands regarding Germany’s refugee policy has been leaked to the media. The sister party to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is due to meet behind closed doors in Schwarzenfeld on Friday to discuss several debt instruments, including the refugee and immigration policy. In a five-page position paper, …
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Prisons in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, are overwhelmed due to the influx of refugees, German Minister of Justice Guido Wolf told German newspaper Die Welt. According to Wolf, the share of refugees arrested for various crimes has grown from 37 percent (from the total number of prisoners) to 44.6 percent over the last two years. This trend …
The German mass-circulation daily Bild has “emphatically” apologized to its readers for an article that said a “mob” of Arab men had sexually assaulted women on New Year’s Eve in a Frankfurt restaurant, after the police said that an investigation had failed to turn up any evidence. The accusations carried echoes of genuine attacks on …
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The same day Federica Mogherini, the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, unequivocally declared that the PKK was a terrorist group for the EU and all its members, tens of thousands of supporters of the PKK and its Syrian wing the Democratic Union Party (PYD) gathered in Cologne, chanting …
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Politicians across Germany’s political spectrum condemned the leader of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after she was reported comparing societies including migrants to compost heaps. Frauke Petry, whose party has made big regional gains this year and is expected to win federal parliamentary seats next year, made the comments in a speech in …
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