Greece: Police Beating Immigrant Caught on Tape

Greece: Police Beating Immigrant Caught on Tape

 

As seen in the video, unidentified policemen stopped an immigrant in the middle of the road, he raised his hands up high, and they attacked him, throwing him on the ground and beating him. The man is said to be Algerian. (source)

Italy: Deportees on Alitalia flight with taped mouths

Italy: Deportees on Alitalia flight with taped mouths

A photo of two Tunisian men being deported from Italy on an Alitalia flight, their mouths sealed with duct tape and their hands cuffed with plastic bands, was posted by Italian film director Francesco Sperandeo on Facebook Wednesday. (ANSA)

Poland: Poster apologizing for anti-Saudi sentiments

Poland: Poster apologizing for anti-Saudi sentiments

A poster in the town of Olsztyn, put up after anti-Arab posters were posted on the homes of Saudi students (see here and here)

Paris: Arab nudes defy taboos in new exhibit

Paris: Arab nudes defy taboos in new exhibit

Brussels: Algerian crashes into police escort in suicide attempt

Brussels: Algerian crashes into police escort in suicide attempt

Via VRT:

A car crashed into the police escort waiting for the ambassador of Qatar outside the royal palace of Laken in Brussels on Tuesday morning. Eight people were injured. One officer, who was fighting for his life, is now on the mend.

(...)

Police spokeswoman Astrid Kaisin was keen to emphasize that the driver was not targeting the ambassador of Qatar: “It was an act of desperation. The driver wanted to commit suicide. We are working on the thesis that this was not an attack.”

The driver, who had Belgian number plates, was also injured and had to be taken to hospital. He is a 40year-old Algerian national, who 18 months ago benefited from an amnesty allowing undocumented people to stay in the country. He has been detained.

(source)

Switzerland: Sharp increase in crime due to Tunisian refugees

Switzerland: Sharp increase in crime due to Tunisian refugees

Via 20min (French):

Olivier Guéniat, head of the Jura cantonal police, told newspaper Le Matin of the link between the massive increase in Tunisian asylum seekers in 2011 (up by 619% compared with 2010) and the sharp increase in crimes. The number of car burglaries doubled in May and June 2011, compared with the average until then, then increased to 6 times that amount from July to January 2012. Meanwhile, the number of Tunisians who arrived after the Arab Spring and were identified by DNA tests for these offenses, increased by 200% from November 2011 to January 2012.

Guéniat, who is considered close to the Socialists, said the problem was specific and economical, though at the same time unacceptable. The refugees have a hopeless future at home, and their daily allowance do not even allow them three cups of coffee. He refused to stigmatize a community of immigrants.

Ukraine: Newspaper depicts Africans and Arabs as monkeys groping woman

Ukraine: Newspaper depicts Africans and Arabs as monkeys groping woman

France: Linesman 'racially abused' Chafni, says Bourgoin

France: Linesman 'racially abused' Chafni, says Bourgoin

Via AFP:

Auxerre president Gerard Bourgoin called for an investigation on Saturday after his player Kamel Chafni claimed he had been racially abused by an assistant referee.

Chafni, a Morocco international, was sent off following an altercation with the official, Johann Perruax, in the 55th minute of Auxerre's 1-0 loss at Brest in the French top flight.

(...)

"There was a serious incident and the player has sworn on his honour," Bourgoin told reporters afterwards.

"It appears that the official told him: 'Sod off, Arab.' If that's the case, it's very serious.

(source)

France: Qatar creates 50 mn euro fund for suburb start-ups

France: Qatar creates 50 mn euro fund for suburb start-ups

(French Arab officials in Qatar)

Sweden: Arabic in Europe

Sweden: Arabic in Europe

Malmö: If you want to be a teacher, learn Arabic

Malmö: If you want to be a teacher, learn Arabic

The recent Swedish Folkuniversitetet (adult education colleges) course catalog has an article about learning Arabic (h/t the Muslimska friskolan blog):

Magnus Larsson is learning Arabic at the Folkuniversitetet adult education program in Malmö and says that it's clear, as a Malmö resident and future teacher, that people should know Arabic.

"I wanted to learn a new language and today there's so much happening in the Arab world that is affecting us too. I heard from a teacher at the Malmö Teacher's College that if you're going to be a teacher in Malmö it's appropriate to know Arabic, so that shows I'm right."

France: Rise in anti-Arab attacks in 2010

France: Rise in anti-Arab attacks in 2010

Via Connexion:

RACIAL tolerance is receding in France according to a report by the Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de l'Homme (CNCDH).

While the number of physical attacks on people based on race has dropped, the report concludes that "tolerance is receding and xenophobia is spreading".

In 2010, 886 racist incidents were reported, 165 which were violent, down 13.6% compared with 2009, according to figures from the Interior Ministry.

People of north African origin were the principle target, accounting for roughly a third of both violent and non-violent incidents.

"The year 2010 saw a rise in attacks on the Muslim community," said the CNCDH, an independent body which advises the government on human rights. Thirteen mosques and other centres were attacked compared to six in 2009.

(source)

Geneva: Imam attacked for links with Saudis

Geneva: Imam attacked for links with Saudis

Italy: Tunisians come to Europe looking for family, challenges

Italy: Tunisians come to Europe looking for family, challenges

Europe: Protests against Mubarak (continued)

Europe: Protests against Mubarak (continued)

(protesters in Paris)

Europe: Protests against Mubarak

Europe: Protests against Mubarak

About 50 Egyptians demonstrated in front of the Egyptian embassy in the Hague Friday.

Hague: Egyptian tries to torch himself outside Egyptian embassy

Hague: Egyptian tries to torch himself outside Egyptian embassy

Via Times LIVE:

Dutch police said Wednesday they had stopped a man of Egyptian descent from setting himself on fire outside his country's embassy in The Hague.

"When police came near him, they saw the man dousing himself with a liquid," possibly spirits, it said. "The agents overpowered the man as he was trying to set himself on fire using a lighter."

(source)

Wikileaks: Sweden afraid immigration problem would spiral out of control

Wikileaks: Sweden afraid immigration problem would spiral out of control

Via SvD (PDF):

Foreign Minister Bildt estimated that approximately 100,000 Iraqis live in Sweden and told Ambassador Crocker that if the United States accepted Iraqi asylees and refugees at the same pace, the US would have over 500,000 Iraqi residents. He explained that the majority were Kurds who fled the former regime,s persecution but stressed that since 2003, most Iraqis arriving in Sweden were Arabs.

Switzerland: Dozens of Tunisians want to return

Switzerland: Dozens of Tunisians want to return

Via WRS:

Dozens of exiled Tunisians protested outside the Tunisian embassy in Bern today, wanting their passports returned to them.

Some of the exiles have been in Switzerland for years, but following the change in government and the continued political unrest in Tunisian streets, the demonstrators said they wanted to return.

(source)

Paris: Blast at Tunisian consulate

Paris: Blast at Tunisian consulate