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.
In the eastern city of Cottbus, Chechen asylum-seekers say police made them remove their pants while in detention after a fight. While the city told DW it's open to dialogue, it refutes some of their claims.
Two police officers and a security guard were injured when fighting broke out at a migrant reception center in the eastern city of Dresden. There are a growing number of standoffs between asylum seekers and authorities.
A convoy carrying migrants who had set up camp in Sarajevo was halted by authorities in Mostar, sparking an institutional clash between local authorities and the central government. The buses were only later authorized to continue to a reception center.
A large-scale raid was carried out at an asylum center in Germany after a failed attempt to deport a Togolese man. Experts say the difficult conditions and limited prospects at such facilities often fuel tension.