Spanish police have arrested two men suspected of "steering and navigating" a migrant boat that capsized last week off the Spanish Canary Islands archipelago. Four bodies were recovered following the accident.
The migrants were found dead in a refrigerated truck in the United Kingdom in 2019.
Italian authorities have filed charges against 177 migrants in the Calabrian town of San Ferdinando accused of illicitly benefitting from the 'citizenship wage' basic income.
The Italian authorities have carried out four arrests in the city of Taranto in southern Italy as part of an operation against an alleged gang organizing fake marriages to get working papers for migrants and who also managed a prostitution ring.
A Somali asylum seeker has been sentenced to 146 years in prison for human smuggling by a Greek court, according to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Other migrants defended the man in court, saying that he started steering their boat to save lives after a capsizing.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced last week that he had stripped 147 'radicalized' migrants of their refugee status. This announcement causes legal issues, particularly regarding its implementation. It also raises questions about the impartiality of Ofpra, the body responsible for granting international protection.
Four Italian businessmen and an Indian citizen were convicted and sentenced to prison in Calabria for facilitating undocumented migration. The group allegedly brought non-EU citizens to Italy on fake job contracts.
A new report has placed a spotlight on the migrant smuggling business and other illicit activities running through the Western Balkans, including drugs and money laundering. The report estimates that the migrant smuggling business alone could be worth up to €50 million per year in the region.
Italian authorities have arrested 14 people who allegedly belonged to a criminal organisation that sold false documents to migrants so they could obtaining Italian stay permits.
A massive police operation against the Nigerian mafia in Italy that was carried out in 14 provinces led to the arrests of 30 foreign citizens. The leader of the organization, who arrived on a migrant boat from Libya in 2014, was also caught.
A 30-year-old citizen of Mali was injured in the face from an air gun pellet in an attack that took place during the night between Sunday and Monday in Foggia in southern Italy. The shots were fired from an off-road vehicle that came up beside their car.
Denmark plans to tighten the conditions for citizenship, after a deal struck between the government and three opposition parties. The country already has one of the most restrictive immigration policies in Europe.