Italian authorities have announced the deportation of Tunisian migrant Montassar Yaakoubi, a man linked to radical Islamist terrorist Anis Amri who carried out the 2016 Berlin Christmas market terrorist attack.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said cars should be banned from parts of London in response to terror attacks, after previously saying the city was one of the safest in the world.
A pilot project in Germany is working to make it easier for asylum seekers to become truck drivers – an initiative that comes amid widespread unemployment for migrants who arrived during the migrant crisis.
Drivers could face harsh airline-style identity checks before being allowed to hire a vehicle, following a series of deadly truck and car terror attacks in the UK and across Europe.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say their investigation suggests that a man later killed in a shootout with police was the sole perpetrator of the December attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people.
(AFP) – Turkish authorities have detained three people linked to last year’s deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market, local media reported Monday, saying the suspects were headed to Europe.
Hundreds of German police have launched raids across Berlin, targeting a mosque and Muslim association linked to radical Islamists and the Islamic State Christmas Market attacker.
An alarming 66 per cent of Germans are afraid they will become the victim of a terrorist attack, with 10 per cent perceiving an “acute threat” to their safety.
(AFP) – Germany has extradited to Tunisia a man linked to the slain suspect of the deadly Christmas market attack in Berlin, the prosecution in the North African country said Thursday.
London will be guarded by record numbers of police and certain areas fortified with concrete barriers ahead of New Year’s Eve to guard against Islamist attacks.
Christmas events across the UK are being guarded by armed officers, as police warn a terror assault is “highly likely” following the deadly attack in Berlin.
Bristol has stepped up police presence in the city centre to combat potential Islamophobia in the wake of the Berlin terror attack.
(AFP) – German authorities were under fire Thursday after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist.
Sweden’s newly appointed anti-terror coordinator attracted criticism yesterday after seeming to suggest Islamic terrorism is caused by the “white power movement”.
This week, Germany experienced its worst terror atrocity since the 1980’s, following 21 months of Islamist suicide bombings, shootings, axe attacks, and now a truck rampage.
Germany can expect “further significant attacks” after a Berlin Christmas market was hit on Monday and a “dangerous criminal” could still be on the run, top police bosses have warned.
The atmosphere in Berlin is one of “total shock,” the rabbi of the German capital’s Jewish community told The Algemeiner on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after 12 people were killed and dozens of others wounded — among them an Israeli — in a truck- ramming attack at a popular outdoor Christmas market.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Europeans’ patience for mass migration is running out following the attack in Berlin.
Christmas markets are closed in Germany today and police in the UK, France, Norway, Austria, Denmark, Italy, and other European nations are tightening security at festive events, with the terror threat at its highest level across much of the continent.
British police were forced to defend sending visibly armed officers to guard a Christmas market – days before the Berlin truck attack – after anti-gun members of the public and activists caused a social media backlash.
