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Other refugees had witnessed a close relative being killed. [197] The 2005 study reported that persons from North Africa and Western Asia were over-represented in crime statistics, [192] whereas a 1997 paper additionally found immigrants from Finland, South America, Arab world and Eastern Europe to be over-represented in crime statistics. [197]
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe, namely from the Middle East.An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum, [2] the most in a single year since World War II. [3]
The finding in this study shows that the spikes in crime are not fully attributed to refugees alone. For several types of crime and drug crime in particular, it was reported that organised crime gangs were dominated by people from countries with high rates of immigration to Germany. [4]
In Europe, political analysts are pointing to Sweden and Italy as possible harbingers of a political mood shift across the continent driven by a growing wariness of immigrants as well as anger ...
Most refugees have arrived in smaller, poorer European countries. Poland has taken in an estimated 2 million; Ukraine's other EU neighbors — Romania, Slovakia and Hungary — have also seen high ...
A crime of solidarity has no legal existence in France, first appearing at the Groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés (GISTI) in 1995. [8]On 6 July 2018, the Constitutional Council ruled that it was partially unconstitutional to criminalise anyone who facilitates the illegal entry or residence of a foreigner in France, referring to the "crime de solidarité" or the "délit de ...
Around November 2015, some European countries restricted family reunions for refugees, and started campaigns to dissuade people worldwide to migrate to Europe. EU leaders also quietly encouraged Balkan governments to only allow nationals from the most war-torn countries (Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq) to pass into the EU.
Now, as European countries rethink their asylum policies for Syrians in the light of developments, many fear they will have to go back. ... But eight Syrian refugees who spoke to Reuters in Europe ...