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Two North African migrants, one already subject to a deportation order, were arrested this week after ramming a French police vehicle and injuring four officers.

For months French authorities have received hundreds of reports of mysterious “syringe attacks” and have now made their first arrest, taking a Tunisian migrant into custody in Toulon.

Two Moroccan migrants were arrested by Spanish authorities this week for allegedly sexually abusing at least eight girls, including three minors, as police say there could be even more victims.

(AFP) — After nine years deployed in Mali, France is organising a drawdown, with troops preparing to leave the last of three bases in the far north of the insurgency-hit and poverty-wracked country.

An 18-year-old migrant from Morocco has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman on the steps of the Copenhagen court where he is set to face trial for the alleged attack.

Four North African migrants are alleged to have brutally beaten a 30-year-old Spanish woman in her own neighbourhood after accusing her of being “fascist”.

French forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, according to the French government. 

(AFP) — Spain’s prime minister vowed to “restore order” in the North African enclave of Ceuta on Tuesday after a record 6,000 migrants reached its beaches from Morocco, raising diplomatic tensions between Madrid and Rabat.

MADRID (AP) – At least 5,000 Moroccans, a third of whom were presumed to be minors according to Spanish authorities, swam and used inflatable boats Monday to cross into Ceuta, the largest number of migrant arrivals in a single day into Spain’s enclave in northern Africa.

Five illegal migrants, two of them minors, were arrested earlier this week in Dijon after seriously injuring a police officer at a train station.

After setting up a fingerprint database in cooperation with North African countries, the Paris police prefecture positively identified 229 “minor” migrants, of which 216 were revealed to be adults.

In 2019 and 2020, following the easing of Wuhan lockdown restrictions, underage asylum seekers from three North African countries made up 75 per cent of the minor migrants arrested in Paris.

A Muslim migrant from Algeria living in the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec is said to have repeatedly threatened to kill his daughters if they refused to wear the Islamic veil.

(AFP) — French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin held talks Friday in Tunisia on how to tackle Islamist radicalisation, after a deadly attack in Nice last month allegedly carried out by a Tunisian jihadist.

Doctors have blamed a surge in new coronavirus cases in the southern city of Marseilles on people coming to France from North Africa.

All of the countries of the North African region have rejected a proposal from the European Union to build migrant reception facilities in their countries.