Last December, a 14-year-old girl had died after being attacked by a man wielding a knife in southern Germany. The public prosecutor's office has now filed charges against the suspect, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea.
The Tunisian president has repeated his claim that an increase of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa is part of a criminal plot to change the country's demographics. At the same time he rejected accusations of racism.
Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people with human trafficking after 18 Afghans were found dead inside a truck on a dirt road in Bulgaria last Friday. Separately, 43 migrants were discovered in a van on Monday in western Bulgaria.
A Nigerian woman has been arrested in the Puglia province of Foggia for allegedly forcing into prostitution young women and girls who had arrived in Italy from Nigeria using voodoo rituals as a threat, according to police.
Three people were arrested and dozens of searches were conducted across Italy on Tuesday as part of a police operation against members of a criminal organization involved in aiding and abetting unauthorized immigration. The operation came after investigations connected to a terrorist attack on December 19, 2016 in Berlin.
An investigation by the Italian police has led to the arrest of five people, three Bangladeshi nationals and two Sudanese, on charges of torture in Libyan detention centers of migrants that disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa on December 26 with them.
The Macedonian nationals are believed to have smuggled at least 86 people, charging them almost $1,000 each for a transfer through the Balkans. Police suspect three men from Middle Eastern countries are behind the smuggling group.
Six migrant smuggling suspects have been arrested in northern Italy. One man is accused of running a smuggling ring that transferred migrants from Milan to Switzerland and Germany.
German police has arrested four suspects who are accused of smuggling at least 300 migrants and refugees from Syria and Iraq to Germany. Police say that the men charged up to €10,000 per person.
Authorities in Portugal have arrested a total of 35 people on human trafficking charges in addition to allegations of money laundering and falsifying documents. Dozens of migrants were reported to have fallen prey to the trafficking ring.
Two men said to be people smugglers were taken into custody in Hungary on Monday following a car chase in which they opened fire on police. 21 migrants were found inside the suspects' van.
A Bangladeshi man, suspected of migrant smuggling and human trafficking, has been arrested in Bangladesh. The man is accused of smuggling Bangladeshis to Europe through Libya.