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Our goal is to provide migrants with trustworthy, verified, and impartial news and information about their home countries, the countries they pass through, and their destinations. InfoMigrants is a partnership among three prominent European media organizations: France Médias Monde (which includes France 24, Radio France Internationale, and Monte Carlo Doualiya), the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, and the Italian news agency ANSA. This initiative is also supported by funding from the European Union.

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France: Nine migrant smuggling suspects on trial

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.
Germany: Deported 'without warning,' despite efforts to integrate and employment

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.
Two migrants shot dead and five injured in northern France

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.
ECHR rules in favor of Italy in 2017 shipwreck case off Libyan coast

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Italian authorities had not acted illegally in a complex case dating back to November 06, 2017, when the MRCC had tasked the Libyan coast guard with rescuing migrants shipwrecked at sea and then take them back to Libyan soil. The case in question involved the rescue of 150 people from a rubber dinghy, which had left Libya a few days earlier.
Netherlands starts processing Syrian asylum cases once more

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) of the Netherlands announced that asylum decisions will now be made on almost 17,000 outstanding as well as new asylum applications lodged by Syrian nationals seeking asylum. However, this comes after the government had downgraded the risk assessment level for Syria, saying that the danger of people facing persecution and arbitrary violence in Syria is now at the lowest level according to EU assessment guidelines.
Poland considering border checks with Germany

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

The Polish government is mulling the introduction of temporary checks along its border with Germany. The development comes as the Eastern European country accuses its neighbor Germany of effectively pushing irregular migrants back into Poland while refusing to hear their asylum cases.
Germany: Study finds a quarter of foreigners wish to leave - except asylum seekers

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

A comprehensive online survey conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany found that 26 percent of migrant respondents to a survey aged between 18 and 65 were considering emigrating again. Two-thirds of those participants were under the age of 40, representing the high rate of younger immigrants to Germany.
Bodies believed to be migrants wash up on shores of Egypt, Tunisia

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.
Finland: Changes to residence permit for employed migrants

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.
Heated debate over vigilante border checks on Dutch border with Germany

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

A group of Dutch citizens were seen conducting their own border checks near the northern town of Ter Apel in the municipality of Westerworde Saturday (June 7), according to reports on the Dutch local broadcaster RTV Noord. The citizens involved had apparently been stopping vehicles and looking for potential asylum seekers entering the country. After the initial action on Saturday, locals tried to repeat the same checks on Sunday, which however was thwarted by authorities.