France: Afghan convicted of glorifying terrorism cannot be deported
Who is he in fact? The identity of the man sitting in the dock of the Poitiers criminal court on Wednesday is not known with certainty. He gives the Persian interpreter a different identity than the one given in the trial.
The Afghan, allegedly just 28 years old, is accused of not reporting to the police in Châtellerault when he was under house arrest in a hotel in the city, where he had committed damage to property in his room last Monday.
The young man, who had been convicted of glorifying terrorism in an emergency shelter in Poitiers in November 2020, had just been released from prison at the end of December.
The prefecture of the Department of Vienne had placed him under house arrest until his deportation could be arranged, as the court had imposed a definitive ban on him entering the country. He had complied with his reporting obligations until the middle of last week, when his inconspicuous and friendly behaviour changed abruptly.
He was introverted, visited the mosque more often and spoke of his desire to see his family again.
(âŚ) With flight connections to Afghanistan interrupted and no date for return in prospect, the situation is deadlocked and the man, who is under house arrest, does not want to stay in a detention centre any longer. La Nouvelle RĂŠpublique
UK government spending ÂŁ4.7m a day on hotel rooms for asylum seekers â NOT the ÂŁ1.2m figure it gave to MPs
The British government is currently spending ÂŁ4.7 million (âŹ5.6 million) a day on housing record numbers of asylum seekers in hotels across the country, a figure almost four times higher than it had previously disclosed to MPs, the U.K. Home Office has confirmed.
A team of Home Office officials led by Priti Patel gave evidence to the U.K. Parliamentâs Home Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday, where committee members were told that the current cost to U.K. taxpayers for asylum seekersâ accommodation was ÂŁ1.2 million a day.
The department however updated its evidence on Thursday and admitted the cost was almost four times larger. It reportedly put the discrepancy down to a âdrafting error.â
âÂŁ1.2 million per day is spent accommodating people resettled from Afghanistan and another ÂŁ3.5 million per day for asylum seekers,â confirmed BBC reporter, Simon Jones.
The U.K. government is therefore spending ÂŁ1.3 billion a year on housing prospective asylum seekers, many of whom have arrived in the U.K. via the English Channel in dinghies last year. That figure rises to more than ÂŁ1.7 billion when the resettlement of Afghans fleeing the Taliban is taken into account.
The amended figure was made public moments before Chancellor Rishi Sunak provided an update on rising energy prices, a topic expected to attract widespread national attention on Thursday.
During Wednesdayâs select committee hearing, Patel told MPs that 25,000 migrants were currently housed in hotels being used as temporary accommodation across the country following last yearâs record level of illegal immigration via the English Channel.
Subsequently, 23,000 migrants were stopped from completing the crossing by authorities.
When questioned on how many of the 28,000 migrants who arrived in boats last year had since had their asylum application rejected and subsequently been deported, Patel said she didnât know the updated figure but admitted it was âtiny.â The latest government statistics had shown that just 10 removals had taken place.
The spike in illegal immigration in recent times to Britain shows no sign of slowing down, after January 2022 saw six times more arrivals than for the same period last year, putting the U.K. on course for 40,000 arrivals in this calendar year.
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Germany: Islamists wanted to kill as many people as possible at two railway stations
Within a few weeks, an alarm of terror is sounded twice at German railway stations. Under suspicion: teenagers who sympathise with the terrorist militia IS. About two puzzling cases that pose a fundamental problem for the authorities.
On Friday, January 14, a young man was caught in a police checkpoint at Freiburg railway station. The Italian, 17 years old, had been reported for a residence enquiry in Germany and was armed with a weapon, as the officers discovered on the spot.
Even more alarming for them was that, according to the WELT newspaper, the teenager claimed to be a supporter of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS). When he was arrested, he told them he wanted to kill as many people as possible.
Only two weeks later, on January 29, a terror alarm was sounded at the railway station in Hanover. Again, a 17-year-old youth was under suspicion, and again there was information about Islamist links.
Both cases are examples of a group of people who have repeatedly caused problems for the security authorities in recent months.
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Undisclosed conflicts of interest: Austrian health âexpertsâ linked to Pfizer
Eight “experts” who worked on the Austrian vaccination strategy against Covid are or were financially linked to the pharmaceutical industry. However, the Ministry of Health is apparently not interested in disclosing these possibly questionable relations. This was revealed by the research of an Austrian weekly magazine.
In cooperation with AUF1, the magazine interviewed 32 experts and officials. Among them were the members of the National Vaccination Board and the associated Safety Board, which is supposed to deal with the side effects. Some identical answers also exactly matched the text from Health Minister MĂźcksteinâs office: âNo member of the National Immunisation Panel or Safety Board in the National Immunisation Panel has conflicts of interest that suggest bias.â
The Ministry of Health has refused to disclose the conflicts of interest of its advisors to the population, the parliament and the media.
But Pfizer Austria has been publishing reports on âall monetary benefits to members and institutions of professional circlesâ since 2016. However, the names of the beneficiaries are only published if they expressly consent to being named which is not exactly conducive to transparency, so more members may be implicated.
Pfizer has now delivered almost twice as many doses of its product to Austria as all other manufacturers of licensed Covid vaccines combined. For the federal government and its experts, it became the preferred Covid vaccine with a monopoly within a few months.
For the year 2020, Pfizer Austria noted the sum of more than 31 million euros donated to health professionals. As a network of journalists found out five years ago, only 20 percent of the money could be clearly allocated at that time. It is therefore not surprising that the populationâs trust in the political system is dwindling. This is also shown by a survey conducted in December 2021.
According to the SORA survey, 90 percent of Austrians see corruption in politics
âThe trust in the Austrian political system has collapsed very badly,â GĂźnther Ogris from the political and social research institute explained. âWe have reached the level of Romania, so really deep in the pits.â
Some 58 percent of respondents think that the system is working less well or not at all. And 90 percent are convinced that Austrian politics has a corruption problem. Considering the pharmaceutical connections of the governmentâs vaccination advisors to the vaccine manufacturers and the planned compulsory vaccination, Austrians are justified in their assessment.