An island nation with a small 1,700-troop army, Malta spent the last three years creating its own elite rapid-response team. The unit entered the spotlight this week after a dramatic raid on a tanker, hijacked by asylum seekers. The Maltese special operations team seized the ship on Thursday morning. The raid was difficult because it wasn’t immediately clear how many migrants participated in the... 

The problems with migrants have escalated recently at the school ‘Österledskolan’ outside Halmstad in southern Sweden. Swedish independent journalist Joakim Lamotte has been contacted by parents of children at the school and according to them it is a group of newly arrived migrants who harass their daughters. The parents argue that the failed integration of the newcomers has led to groupings... 

Police arrested 35 Greek citizens and an Albanian man on the Greek island of Lesbos for raising a giant metallic cross meant to deter migrants and refugees from reaching the island. They were arrested on charges of arbitrary occupation of public property and erecting an illegal construction. The site on the cliffs of Apellia in Mytilene – Lesbos’ capital city – is on the grounds of the island’s... 

Migrants crossing the English Channel were apprehended by UK Border Force for the fourth day in a row, as British media reports some are simply calling the police from their boats for pick-up. A small boat carrying nine Iranian men was met by lifeboat crews off the coast of Kent, bringing the total number of migrants crossing the Channel to 44 in the last four days, the Press Association reports. All... 

A horse was set on fire and an elderly woman was doused in lighter fluid near a flaming grill by an “immigrant gang” in separate incidents in Sweden, according to local media. In Örebro, a horse was treated for burns after one or more perpetrators allegedly broke into stables overnight at a women’s college and set fire to a quilt laid across the animal’s back, Expressen reports. “Someone... 

German police officers hide the severity of migrant crime statistics in order to “preserve civil peace” according to a recent news report. The report cites research which suggests the statistics are “tweaked” so as not to alarm the population. “There is no lying, nothing hushed up, but things are deliberately left out,” one state police officer is quoted as saying, which in other words... 

A German couple has been been notified they must vacate their apartment to make room for refugees who will soon be placed there, according to local media. Klaus Roth, 74, who has lived in his apartment in the town of Neckartailfingen for 24 years, is stunned by the decision, which was reached by the municipal council and mayor, Nürtinger Zeitung reports. “I put a lot of money and work into... 

A majority of Finns believe the cultural values and religion of migrants are to blame for an explosive sexual assault crisis rocking the Nordic nation, according to Gallup polling. A Gallup survey commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest subscription newspaper, found that concerns over mass migration have become an increasingly divisive political issue as a slew of investigations... 

Officials in Oulu, Finland, have placed a moratorium on migrants visiting schools and day care centers as an explosive ‘grooming gang’ scandal rocks the city. ‘Asylum seekers’ participating in the ESIKOTO project were invited to partake in ‘integration and multiculturalism’ visits to the facilities, but due to a slew of investigations into local sex scandals involving... 

A 17-year-old girl was run over by a bus in Minden, Germany, as she attempted to flee migrant attackers, according to police and media reports. The victim and her 14-year-old companion were being harassed by two migrant men who were both under the influence of alcohol. The teens attempted to jump aboard a slow-moving bus with the assistance of a driver who had noticed their plight, but a pursuing... 

Italian authorities are investigating claims of a 32-year-old Belgian woman who says she was kidnapped by six migrants and forced into sexual slavery for two months. The 32-year-old claimed to have been kidnapped by six Tunisian migrants and held from January to February 2017 in the city of San Remo on the Italian Riviera. Investigators say that the woman, who lives on the Côte d’Azur, approached... 

After weeks of waiting, 49 North African refugees on two rescue vessels have received permission to disembark. Germany has agreed to accept 60 refugees in total amidst ongoing political wrangling within the EU. Malta has announced that two German NGO rescue ships will be allowed to enter port after being stuck in limbo for weeks in the Mediterranean. The Sea Watch 3 and the Professor Albrecht Penck... 

Brazil’s president-elect has lashed out at France and its migration policy, the Daily Mail reports. Jair Bolsonaro said on Facebook: “Everybody knows what is happening in France. Some parts of France are simply unlivable. “You know how those people are, right? They have something in them, they don’t give up their roots and they want to make their culture, their acquired rights and their privileges... 

Finland is done for! We’re getting news worse and worse from there, it has become like a Sweden version 2.0 on steroids. According to former employees, fired in a cost-cutting effort, the bosses of a local reception centre in rural Finland were fully aware of the suspicions of teenage migrants being exploited by their superiors, but failed to act on them. Suspicions had been raised of several... 

Police officers were beaten by migrants in a train station and an ambulance window was shattered by a projectile while passing through a ‘no-go zone’ in Brussels, according to local media. Migrants squatting in the Brussels North Station responded with violence after being asked to clean up their mess by railway security personnel, and four police officers responding to the scene were...