Tag: attacks

Brit bottled by migrant squatters after confronting Morrocans squatting in his Spanish home

The British homeowner was hospitalized with cuts to his face and torso after squatters reacted angrily to being confronted. A British homeowner in the Spanish province of Málaga has been hospitalized after travelling from England to confront a group of migrant squatters who had seized and occupied his Spanish property. The incident occurred on Tuesday in the town of Manilva, located approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Málaga.

Police under surveillance for right-wing extremist tendencies in policing migrant neighbourhood

In the city of Dortmund, police officers from the troubled multicultural Wache Nord station say they have experienced increased levels of repression, including from their own police officials simply for doing their job. The police are told not to control the migrant population there, even as businesses and locals complain about open-air drug markets and routine violence.

Record number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean

Crossings soared almost 300% in the first four months of 2023, the EU’s border agency has said. The number of illegal immigrants taking the central Mediterranean route into the EU rose to a record 42,165 in the first four months of this year, according to the bloc’s border security agency, Frontex. The agency blamed the rise on competition among human traffickers driving down the price of a crossing.