UK: Horrific story of the British child bride Via the Daily Mail : A successful businesswoman has told of her agony after being forced into an abusive marriage at the age of five – despite living in Britain.
Geneva: ‘Project Maghreb’ helps deport North African repeat offenders Via TdG : The police in Geneva estimates that 300-400 illegal North Africans are responsible for more than 6000 crimes over the past four years. In theory, once they serve their sentence, they can be deported back, but in practice Geneva is dependent on readmission agreements signed with other countries
Gothenburg: Police fear anti-immigrant protests following attack Via the Local : The attack, which occurred in Kortedala Torg on March 18th, has left other residents embittered and calling for action, and police are concerned that talks of a demonstration against violence may boil over into an anti-immigrant protest.
France: 57% distrust for ‘violent’ suburban youth Via the Local : Nearly 60 percent of the French say they distrust youth from the ‘banlieues’, France’s impoverished, immigrant-dominated suburbs, according to a new survey that has laid bare the country’s divisions. “The results are extremely worrying,” Thibault Renaudin, national secretary of Afev, the youth organisation which published the poll, told The Local
Copenhagen: Afghan family charged with forcing daughter into marriage Via the Copenhagen Post : An Østerbro family trapped their daughter for three days so she could be forcibly married off to her cousin in Afghanistan The Copenhagen Police arrested three members of an Afghan-origin family on the charges of forcing their 19-year-old daughter to marry her cousin in Afghanistan against her will, TV2 news reported. The three members involved in the crime are the woman’s mother, father and brother.
UK: Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying Via the Telegraph : Alzheimer’s sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her. But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait
Toulouse: Muslim paratroopers targeted in shootings The French Le Point reports that the police think the shooter might be a neo-Nazi ex-soldier. However, since the only response to the previous shootings was an order for soldiers not to wear their uniforms outside their barracks, it seems that wasn’t the line of investigation until now.
Brussels: Algerian crashes into police escort in suicide attempt Via VRT : A car crashed into the police escort waiting for the ambassador of Qatar outside the royal palace of Laken in Brussels on Tuesday morning.
Switzerland: Canton to record nationality of offenders Via the Local : Voters in Solothurn, north-western Switzerland, voted on Sunday for an amendment to the law requiring police and judicial officers to record the nationalities of offenders and suspects.
Catalonia: Imam detained for preaching violence against “errant” wives Via ThinkSpain : An imam in the Catalan city of Terrassa has been arrested for calling upon his followers to “discipline errant women” in their community who do not follow their husband’s orders or strict Islamic law.