Slovenian authorities over the last few days have stopped dozens of undocumented migrants who were trying to cross the border from Croatia, police said. Most of the foreigners were Afghan citizens.
Serbian authorities reported that 600 migrants have been apprehended since the start of the year as they were attempting to illegally cross the border hidden in trucks. Meanwhile, migrants are continuing to arrive along the new Balkan route while three charred bodies were discovered in Bihac, Bosnia.
Greek authorities have used tear gas to disperse migrants who gathered on the country's border with Northern Macedonia in hopes of crossing into the Balkans. In the Greek capital Athens, police clashed with migrant protesters squatting on the tracks of the city's main train station. Authorities in Turkey, too, clashed with migrants mobilizing on the border with Greece.
Italian authorities have demolished ten illegal buildings used by migrants in the southern area of Borgo Mezzanone near Foggia. The buildings were used as shops but also featured a nightclub and a brothel.
Calais police tend to dismantle the city’s illegal tent camps in the mornings, just around breakfast time. This is a time slot when many of the migrants leave their tents to get breakfast at one of two food distribution points located a few kilometers away. Police insist there is no correlation.
Two of the three suspects reportedly tried to build a homemade bomb and considered carrying out an armed or vehicle attack. Prosecutors accused the suspects of planning an "Islamist motivated attack."
Authorities in Italy launched a big operation to break up a criminal organization that exploited hundreds of migrant workers and treated them like slaves near the Italian city of Latina.
Many migrants are stuck along the Bosnian-Croatian border, as Croatian border police keep pushing them back into Bosnia. There are now reports that they have suffered instances of violence and theft by those authorities.
On the border between Bosnia and Croatia, hundreds of migrants trying to reach Croatia have clashed with the police.
Italy dispatched police forces to the border with France after the governments of both countries clashed over an incident of migrants being dumped in Italian woods by French police.
Amnesty International has decried the "systematic violations" of the rights refugees and migrants on the French-Italian border after conducting an observation mission on October 12-13. The mission was in the Briancon area of the French Alps, not far from the Italian village Claviere, the focus of recent polemics connected with the crossing of the border by French gendarmie.
About 50 migrants from a migrant reception center in Foggia clashed with police in an attempt to prevent two police officers from arresting a 26-year-old Gambian they had stopped for a check, according to the Italian police union SAP.