Benjamin Bathke

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

Ahmed Odowaa, an asylum seeker from Somalia who helped stop a knife attacker in the German city of Aschaffenburg on January 22, will no longer face deportation to Italy. That's according to Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of the German state of Bavaria, where Aschaffenburg is located. His announcement on Monday evening (April 7) contradicts previous media reports, which had stated that the 30-year-old Somali would have to leave Germany in the summer.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

After spending 3.5 years behind bars for allegedly starting the 2020 fire that destroyed the severely overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek Aegean Island of Lesbos, three Afghan asylum seekers were found not guilty last Friday (April 4) by a youth court in Lesbos' capital Mytilene.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

Tunisian police, carrying batons, moved through an area with olive trees. Migrants ran away as their tents were set on fire. Some migrants watched as smoke rose from their burning shelters. "I don't know what to do," Bakayo Abdelkadeur, a 26-year-old from Mali, told news agency AFP while holding blankets. Last Friday (April 4), authorities began dismantling camps housing some 7,000 undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, news agency AFP reported citing police sources.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

Poland will launch an information campaign abroad to deter migrants from trying to cross into the European Union through its border with Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday (April 4). "We will soon launch an information campaign in seven countries where the largest number of migrants trying to illegally cross the Polish border come from," Tusk said in Polish in a video published on social media on Friday.

3 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

InfoMigrants: Along parts of the EU's external borders, there have been test pilot phases of (AI-driven) technology, some of it controversial. What are your observations about border technology? David Suber: What I've observed over the last few years is a growing interest in using border technology by governments, law enforcement agencies, and private security companies developing border tech for surveillance and security. There's a lot of hype around the use of technology for border enforcement.