Security forces arrested hundreds of would-be illegal migrants since the beginning of February, most attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from Morocco and Algeria. Morocco’s government confirmed a total of 512 arrests of would be illegal migrants, largely from Algeria and sub-Saharan Africa, who sought to enter the country as a transitional stop in goals…
French authories held five men suspected of providing logistical support to al-Qaeda to the group Islamic North Africa, were rounded up near the Normandy city of Rouen. Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for twin truck bombings of the U.N offices on December 11t that killed at least 37 people. Police seized computers and searched the…
A 14-year old girl in the Belgian town of Jemeppe-sur-Meuse stabbed her father last week, after suffering months of abuse, and a threat by the girl’s father to send her to be married off in Algeria. According to the girl, the father did not want his daughter to have contact with boys; his distrust of…
French authorities were quoted as deciding to expel 22,000 to 25,000 illegal Algerian immigrants living in France. According to the French ambassador to Algeria, M. Francois Pageollet, many of these immigrants are Algerian students who studied in France, and failed to return to their home country post graduation.
A commission of expulsion will decide the fate of an Algerian imam, Ilyes Hacene, who has been accused of inciting an ideology of discrimination, hatred, and violence against the Jewish people and the Western world. Hacene, who has been living in France since 1999, was approached to become the imam of the main mosque in…
