The death of a Georgian migrant in a repatriation center in the town of Gradisca, northeastern Italy, has sparked outrage. Witnesses say that the man had been brutally beaten by ten policemen but what actually happened has not yet been ascertained. An investigation is underway for alleged murder.
Authorities in France and the Netherlands have arrested 23 people suspected of involvement in large-scale people smuggling. They are believed to have smuggled 10,000 Kurdish migrants into the UK from France.
Over 200 suspected traffickers and migrant smugglers have been arrested in an Interpol-led operation. Victims of the rings came from 14 different countries.
Italian authorities in Parma have arrested seven people on charges of aiding and abetting clandestine migration. The individuals are accused of having forged tax documents to help non-EU citizens needing to convert or renew residence permits and of having arranged transfers from Italy to other EU countries.
47 people were arrested in Gibraltar and Spain during the course of a police operation to break up a smuggling ring operating between Morocco, the British territory of Gibraltar and Spain.
An ex-member of al-Qaida affiliate Nusra Front has been sentenced to life in prison for involvement in a 2013 massacre of regime forces. Prosecutors have sought to jail war criminals who arrived in Germany as refugees.
The Catania court of ministers has spoken out against former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini. The far-right politician could face kidnapping charges because he refused to let a ship with rescued migrants aboard dock.
Nine people smugglers have been sentenced to up to ten years in prison, in connection to an incident in the western Mediterranean that led to the death of a young Moroccan migrant in 2018.
An order for pretrial custody has been issued for two Nigerian women residing in Italy. They are accused of recruiting women from Nigeria, including minors, and forcing them into prostitution in Ferrara, both on the street and in apartments. One of the women was arrested, but the other is still being sought by police.
UN experts on arbitrary detention have urged the Greek government to make urgent changes to the detention of migrants, stressing that the country was in continuing violation of various international standards.
An 81-year-old landlord advertised that he would only let his property to Germans. Discrimination is an under-punished problem in the real estate market.
A Russian man has been charged with fraud after he constructed a false border post near the Russian border with Finland. Border control authorities said he received 10,000 euros from four South Asian migrants after promising to smuggle them into the EU.