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A scandal in Germany has erupted after the newspaper Bild obtained reports of migrant hearings from the Office of Migration that were sent to the national security services. Here are a few examples. An Eritrean told officials that he has been forced to mistreat and torture people in the past. …

In a speech delivered today in Brittany, a particularly pro-European region of France, President Emmanuel Macron, whose inaction on the issue of the NGO migrant vessel Aquarius was controversial, invited his detractors to “look at what is happening elsewhere” in Europe, in countries where “nationalism is being reborn.” Addressing the …

At a time when Italy is refusing to allow migrants to land on her shores, immigration is tearing the whole of Europe apart. “What happened to the French Socialists is for us a terrible warning,” said Henrik Sass Larsen, a Leftist deputy for the Social Democratic Party and former Minister …

There has been a dramatic turn in the case of a German hitchhiker, Sophia Lösche, who disappeared after hitchhiking from Leipzig: the police now think that she was murdered. The driver of the truck from whom Lösche had accepted a ride last Thursday (14 June) at the Aral service station …

Holger Münch, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, reported today that an attack that was to be carried out using a weapon of mass destruction, a bomb containing ricin poison gas, was foiled following the arrest last week of a Tunisian in Cologne. “In this case there were concrete …

The ship Diciotti, of the Italian Coast Guard, arrived Tuesday night at the port of Pozzallo, on the southern tip of Sicily, where more than 500 migrants debarked, including some 40 who were rescued a week ago off the Libyan coast by a US Navy vessel. A ship from the NGO …

One of the suspects in the case of the murder of Susanna F. Of Wiesbaden is free again. As Attorney General Oliver Kuhn said in a statement Thursday evening in Frankfurt, there is no longer strong suspicions against the migrant in the investigation at present. The 20-year-old Iraqi may have …

Angela Merkel fears nothing more than a new migrant crisis, especially since reforms to the EU’s asylum system are not yet complete and remains the subject of very heated debate between the EU Member States. Faced with pressure from illegal immigration, “the very pillars of Europe will be shaken to …

A 17-year-old boy who was walking with a girl in the park in Mourmelon-le-Grand, near Reims, at around 3 PM on Saturday. Upon encountering the suspect, he became angry when he thought the boy “gave him a bad look,” and tried to take the girl’s handbag, according to her report. …

Matteo Salvini, the head of the Right-wing League, became Interior Minister last week, and went to Sicily on Sunday to hammer home the anti-immigration message that brought him to power. The most recent migrants to Italy arrived on Friday evening, only a few hours after Mr. Salvini took his oath …