Odense: Burglary campaign against ethnic Danes 0
Odense: Burglary campaign against ethnic Danes Via JihadWatch (Translated from B.T.
Netherlands: Prison sentence for horse-meat halal fraud 0
Netherlands: Prison sentence for horse-meat halal fraud Via BN/DeStem (Dutch): A 61 year old from Breda was sentenced to a year in jail (three months suspended) for halal meat fraud. The man and his accomplices sold horse meat from South America as Dutch halal-slaughtered meat. In 2007 and 2008 the man bought horse meat and packed it like beef.
Berlin: Syrian opposition activist attacked in his home 0
Berlin: Syrian opposition activist attacked in his home Via AFP : A Berlin local politician active in the Syrian opposition was attacked by two men in his home, police said Tuesday, in a case the German foreign ministry said it was following closely. The Greens party, which the victim Ferhad Ahma represents on a Berlin district council, suspected the Syrian secret services were behind the assault early Monday, said its chief whip in the national parliament, Volker Beck
Oslo: Immigrant families account for 70% of domestic abuse cases 0
Oslo: Immigrant families account for 70% of domestic abuse cases Via Nettavisen (h/t Jan Simonsen , Norwegian) Norwegian news-site Nettavisen wanted to write about the increase in crime and domestic violence on Christmas, but according to Stein Erik Olsen, domestic violence coordinator for the Oslo police, both are myths.
Belgium: Shooter didn’t feel Moroccan, wasn’t Muslim 0
Belgium: Shooter didn’t feel Moroccan, wasn’t Muslim Via the New York Times : Belgians sought to make sense on Wednesday of a spasm of killing by a man with a history of trouble with weapons and drugs who unleashed his attack near a Christmas market at a historic square, bringing random death to a familiar scene of European holiday bustle. (…) “He didn’t feel at all Moroccan,” one lawyer said, adding that he “didn’t speak a word of Arabic and wasn’t a Muslim,” and that “he felt Belgian.” At other points, the interview quoted the lawyers as saying that he “was crazy about weapons, but as a collector”; “he felt that he’d not had much luck in life”; he “thought he’d been unfairly treated by the justice system.” One said his action was that of “a tormented soul who was at the end of his tether, cut off from the justice system and from society.” ( source ) See also here for more on Amrani’s history
Florence: Gunman shoots Senegalese street vendors dead 0
Florence: Gunman shoots Senegalese street vendors dead This story got less attention yesterday than the Liege attack. This attack was anti-immigrant, but the victims are apparently Muslim, and a Senegalese imam will participate in today’s memorial ceremony. Via the Guardian : A lone gunman with extreme rightwing sympathies has gone on a shooting spree in Florence, killing two Senegalese street vendors and wounding three others before killing himself.
Belgium: Four family members convicted of ‘honor’ murder 0
Belgium: Four family members convicted of ‘honor’ murder (Sadia’s sister, father and mother in court) Via Knack (Dutch): On Friday the Court of Assize of Henegouwen convicted the four members of the Pakistani Sheikh family of the murder of Sadia Sheikh (22). Tariq Sheikh, Sadia’s father, and her brother Mudusar were convicted by the jury,with aggravating circumstances since it was an honor murder and an attempted forced marriage. Parveen, Sadia’s mother, and her sister Sariya, were also convicted of murder, with aggravating circumstances of honor murder, but were acquitted of the charges of attempted forced marriage.
UK: Stoke-on-Trent mosque arsonists jailed 0
UK: Stoke-on-Trent mosque arsonists jailed Via the BBC : Two men have each been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of deliberately setting fire to a Stoke-on-Trent mosque. Ex-soldier Simon Beech, 23, and Garreth Foster, 29, both from Stoke, were found guilty of setting fire to Hanley’s Regent Road mosque on 3 December. The pair had denied committing arson with intent to endanger life.
Switzerland: Tunisian asylum seekers face image problem 0
Switzerland: Tunisian asylum seekers face image problem Via swissinfo : Newly arrived Tunisian asylum seekers have been dubbed criminals in recent press reports and described as “the worst we have had to deal with” by asylum centre staff. But has this group of Tunisians really earned a reputation as troublemakers and if so, what is going wrong
UK: Race variation in jail sentences, study suggests 0
UK: Race variation in jail sentences, study suggests Via the Guardian : Offenders from ethnic minorities are more likely than their white counterparts to be sentenced to prison for certain categories of crimes, according to an analysis of more than one million court records. The study, carried out by the Guardian, found black offenders were 44% more likely than white offenders to be sentenced to prison for driving offences, 38% more likely to be imprisoned for public disorder or possession of a weapon and 27% more likely for drugs possession.