Emma Wallis

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

On Monday (June 16), a total of nine men went on trial in northern France, suspected of operating smuggling operations across the Channel. The men are being charged with involuntary manslaughter after one of the boats they are accused of being involved with left northern France on December 14, 2022, and ended in a shipwreck, in which four people died and four people went missing. Rescuers saved 39 people from the ship after it capsized a few kilometers off the English coast.

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

"I feel awful. I am crying all the time and I don’t know what to do," Amira* told the German news program Tageschau via telephone last week. Amira, not her real name, left Afghanistan after the Taliban took power, leaving her job there as a kindergarten teacher and her home behind her. Initially, Amira arrived in Lithuania, where she applied for asylum and was granted it. "I had a permit to stay and to work. But I couldn’t find any work as a kindergarten teacher, there," Amira told Tageschau.

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

French police sources said on Monday that one migrant was shot and killed at a migrant camp at Loon Plage, outside the town of Dunkirk, on Sunday (June 15). The shooting came a day after gunfire killed another man in the same area on Saturday (June 14) and left five others wounded, reported the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP). The migrant who was shot on Sunday is reportedly a 24-year-old Sudanese man.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

On Tuesday (June 10), the UN Migration Agency (IOM) issued a press statement saying they were "deeply saddened by media reports of the discovery of the bodies of ten migrants of various nationalities that have washed ashore near Marsa Matrouh in Egypt over recent days."The individuals, stated the IOM, are believed to have departed from Libya.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

The Finnish government has made some changes to residence permits for employed migrants in the country in a bid to regulate labor migration to the country and fill areas suffering from labor shortages. They are in line with an EU directive that will be applied in all member states by May 2026. The changes coming into force on June 11 could affect as many as 51,149 holders of employment residence permits, according to data supplied by the Finnish government in September 2024.