An investigation has been opened after an African refugee drowned in Venice’s Grand Canal as onlookers watched from nearby boats and filmed him with their phones. Footage shows the man, named as 22-year-old Gambian Pateh Sabally, flailing in the middle of the canal. At least three life rings were thrown into the water near him, …
Europe’s far-right leaders gather in Germany, say 2017 will be their year
The political group Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), which consists of representatives of several populist and anti-immigration parties including Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the French National Front, is holding a convention in the western German city of Koblenz on Saturday. The ENF is the smallest group in the European Parliament, with 40 …
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Italy forces migrants to work unpaid for asylum
Thousands of migrants arriving in Italy will have to perform unpaid “socially useful” work to qualify for asylum and the expulsion of economic migrants will be speeded up under the Italian government’s new plans. “It will be up to local mayors to decide what they do, and the work will probably be voluntary,” a government …
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Italian schoolchildren choose Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf as one of their favourite books in national survey
Italy’s education ministry received a nasty shock after a poll seeking to find out what the most ‘beloved’ book among children returned an unwelcome entry. The cross-country survey of 140,000 secondary school classrooms was intended as a means to understand which works by Italian authors were the most popular, but somehow ended up including Adolf …
Most Europeans want immigration ban from Muslim-majority countries, poll reveals
A majority of Europeans want a ban on immigration from Muslim-majority countries, a poll has revealed. An average of 55 per cent of people across the 10 European countries surveyed wanted to stop all future immigration from mainly Muslim countries. The Chatham House study, conducted before US President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning …
The innocent man being confused for Europe’s most wanted smuggler
A man believed to be one of the world’s most wanted people smugglers, whom British police claimed to have helped to arrest and extradite to Italy, seems to have said this week that he remains at large and that an innocent man was seized and extradited in his place. In private messages sent from his …
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Outrage as Italian judge clears man of raping a woman on a hospital bed because victim didn’t scream
A judge has sparked outrage in Italy after clearing a man of raping a woman on a hospital bed – because she didn’t scream. The alleged attacker, 46, walked free from court in Turin, northern Italy, after the judge questioned why the woman did not call out for help. Although she said ‘enough!’ to the …
Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up Sicilian farming
night for almost three years, Nicoleta Bolos lay awake at night on a dirty mattress in an outhouse in Sicily’s Ragusa province, waiting for the sound of footsteps outside the door. As the hours passed, she braced herself for the door to creak open, for the metallic clunk of a gun being placed on the …
Italy accelerates asylum procedures
Italy’s parliament yesterday approved measures to accelerate asylum procedures, cutting the number of possible appeals and speeding up deportations of rejected migrants. Since 2014 the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores has surged, with half a million arriving in the country, and under European Union law Italy has to set up so-called “hotspots” where migrants …
Mafia took control of migrant centre for a decade, received tens of millions of euros from state funds, Italian police say
Italian mobsters took charge of one of Europe’s largest migrant reception centres, using a Roman Catholic charity organisation as a cover to skim millions of euros in state funds, prosecutors have revealed. Police arrested 68 people in early morning raids in southern Italy, including a priest and the head of the local Misericordia association that …
