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Only three out of 58 men arrested in connection with mass sex attack on New Year’s Eve are refugees
He said there was no evidence the attacks were premeditated and believes it was “transmitted through social networks". “A few people did in fact say, ‘hey, we’re going to Cologne, there’s going to be a big party’”, he explained. Despite this, German far right groups...
Australian hospital refuses to discharge asylum baby
Protesters have gathered at an Australian hospital to support doctors that have refused to discharge a baby facing deportation to a detention camp. The Lady Cilento Hospital in Brisbane said the year-old girl will not be released "until a suitable home environment is identified". The daughter of asylum-seeker parents...
Migrant crisis: Nato deploys Aegean people-smuggling patrols
Nato ships are being deployed to the Aegean sea to deter people-smugglers taking migrants from Turkey to Greece. The announcement followed a request from Turkey, Germany and Greece at a defence ministers' meeting in Brussels. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said the mission would not be about "stopping or pushing back...
Sexual offence complaints at Cologne carnival quadruple from last year
German police report 66 complaints of sexual insults or aggression, up from 18 in 2015, during the carnival between last Thursday and Wednesday The number of sexual offence complaints almost quadrupled at this year’s carnival celebrations in Cologne, according to German police, despite heightened security aimed at...
EU calls on Turkey to let Syrian refugees cross border
Officials in the EU have urged Turkey to let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees trapped on its border at Kilis after fleeing fighting. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said there was a moral, if not legal, duty to provide protection. Turkey says the refugees are receiving food and shelter inside Syria and there...
German mayor says schoolgirls shouldn’t walk near refugee center to avoid sexual harassment
A German mayor became the least popular resident of his own town after saying that schoolgirls should not “provoke” refugees and should take alternative routes to school to avoid sexual harassment. The comments outraged concerned citizens. The Bad Schlema town hall meeting turned sour after a grandfather confronted...
Berlin authorities to pay €600mn to house refugees in 22 city hotels – report
The Berlin senate is negotiating a plan with property owners to rent 22 hotels in and around the city to house refugees, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reports, with a reference to a source in the senate. The plan is part of a longer-term leasing of 10,000 hotel places for migrants, each costing €50 (US$54.60) a...
‘Migrants’ attack elderly Germans trying to protect woman from harassment on Munich train (VIDEO)
Two elderly metro passengers in Munich were attacked by a group of young men of Middle Eastern appearance this weekend as they tried to protect a young female from being sexually harassed. The alleged asylum seekers went berserk when the old men intervened. The assault that took place on a train going from Sendlinger Tor...
Now Austria wants to PAY migrants hundreds to LEAVE in desperate bid to ease crisis
AUSTRIA plans to pay migrants £380 each to go back to their homeland in a desperate bid to ease the deepening crisis. The country’s government hopes the last-ditch tactic will help encourage a staggering 50,000 migrants to leave the country by 2019. According to officials in Vienna, the full sum will only be paid if...
American man ‘caught raping 14-year-old boy and preying on underage migrants for sex’
AN AMERICAN man has been caught in the act of raping a teenage boy and arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing children, reports have claimed. The engineer, 52, allegedly lured teenage boys to an apartment in Rome. He has also been arrested on suspicion of child porn possession. Reports suggest the former Boeing...
Masked marchers beat immigrants in Stockholm
A gang of up to a hundred black-clad masked men marched in central Stockholm on Friday evening, singling out and beating up immigrants, and handing out leaflets threatening further violent attacks against unaccompanied refugee youth. The march, the most extreme reaction seen so far to the murder on Monday of social worker...
Germany’s Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to...