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Migrants’ New Path Through Europe Posing Problems for Italy and Switzerland
Aug 10, 2016 by Warren Mass
The favored final destination for most migrants fleeing the conflict in Syria and economic and political turmoil in parts of northern and northeastern Africa is still Germany, but their path to that country is changing. While previously, most migrants had gone first to refugee camps in Turkey and then crossed northward through Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, and Austria, stricter border controls in those nations have caused many refugees to seek an alternate path through Italy.
Migrants who travel to Italy across the Mediterranean by boat usually land first in Sicily, and then go on across the narrow, two-mile wide Strait of Messina to mainland Italy. From there, they travel up the Italian peninsula bound for one of two destinations — the region near Lake Como and the Swiss border and the Italian Riviera town of Ventimiglia, just a few miles from the French border.
Since most of the migrants are headed for Germany, they favor the route across the Italian-Swiss border to Switzerland’s southernmost canton, Ticino. Once they arrive in Switzerland, they are basically free to travel anywhere in Europe. A report in Britain’s Daily Express newspaper notes that most migrants travel on foot to the northern Swiss area of Baden, northwest of Zurich, and then cross into southwestern Germany, north of Basel.
Some migrants do not travel far beyond the Italian border, however. The Express reported statistics indicating that Swiss border guards discovered 5,760 “illegal residents in Ticino during July.”
Many of the migrants traveling on to cross the Swiss border into Germany carry the address of a police station in the town of Weil am Rhein, the most southwesterly town in Germany. As they arrive at the station, they say the only European word they know: “Asyl,” (“Asylum”).
Police there identified most of the migrants reporting there as African, with the majority of them coming from Eritrea, in the horn of Africa. Human Rights Watch has said of Eritrea: “Torture, arbitrary detention, and severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and religious freedom remain routine.”
Kathrin Mutter, who manages the Weil am Rhein police station, said the number of arriving migrants has become too much for officers, who are not responsible for border protection or asylum applications.
As the Express quoted Mutter: “In May 60 applicants came to us, in June and July it was 140 each.”
Not all of the refugees from the Middle East and Africa are headed for Germany, however. Some try to get into France, with most of those trying to cross the border along the Italian-French Riviera. The Italian town of Ventimiglia has become a major staging area for such migrants. (Ventimiglia is four miles from the French border and just 24 miles from the French city of Nice, where on July 14 a native of Tunisia, North Africa, deliberately drove an 18-ton truck into a crowd of Bastille Day celebrants, killing 85 people.)
Not being able to cross the border into France on the roads, many have walked along the beach or even gone into the water to swim around the land border. Britain’s Telegraph reported on August 9 that about 150 migrants who jumped into the sea were returned by the French authorities to Italy over the previous weekend.
The Telegraph noted that many of the refugees are living in charity-run centers where they are provided with basic shelter, food, and drink. About 500 of them are being housed in a temporary reception center on the outskirts of the town.
Some have even camped out on rocky shoals on the Italian side of the border, waiting for an opportunity to make an undetected crossing, probably under the cover of darkness.
Franco Gabrielli, the director of Italy’s Intelligence and Democratic Security Service (SISDE), said the situation at Ventimiglia has to be brought under control, insisting: “There is only one way to do that — by taking these people to other parts of the country.”
In speaking about the increasingly serious situation at Ventimiglia, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told La Repubblicanewspaper, “Our border with France will not become another Calais.”
Alfano was referring to the migrant camp in Calais, France, near the French side of the Channel tunnel connecting France with England, which has been nicknamed the “Jungle” because of its wild and disorderly conditions. As has started happening in Ventimiglia, charities have set up facilities near the Calais migrant camp to feed and house the refugees there, only on a much larger scale. Thousands of refugees have occupied the camp and hundreds of small businesses — some run by charities and others for profit — have set up around the camp to provide food and other necessities to the migrants.
However, French authorities now view the “Jungle” as a hazardous and threatening entity, and are moving to shut it down.International Business Times reported that following a decision by French authorities on February 25 to evict those on the southern part of the Jungle and a follow-up decision to close the restaurants on July 18, 150 police have conducted raids on two dozen establishments providing food for the residents of the camp, and the food was seized and disposed of by the Departmental Directorate for the Protection of Civilian Populations (DDPP). French authorities served business-owners with an eviction notice on August 3, stating that their businesses would be demolished on August 10.
The association Help Refugees reported that there were 7,300 people living in the camp according to the July monthly census, of which 608 were unaccompanied minors.
That the French authorities would take such apparently extreme measures as to start shutting down the camp indicates how strongly they believe that its presence represents a threat to public safety and security.
The Italians seem determined that the situation that developed at Calais does not also occur in Italy. Interior Minister Alfano said: “The truth is that until now we have not had the problems that the British and the French have had at Calais. The system in Italy has worked well.”
The Daily Mail reported that the Italian government has sent many migrants to reception centers in other parts of the country and does not want a refugee camp being set up in Ventimiglia like the one in Calais.
Photo of African immigrants in Ventimiglia, Italy: AP Images
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Italy Deports Jihadist Suspected of Plotting Attack on Leaning Tower of Pisa
13 Aug 2016 by Thomas D. Williams
The Italian government has arrested and deported a Tunisian national tied to the Islamic State and suspected of planning a bombing of the leaning Tower of Pisa.
The 26-year-old alleged jihadist Bilel Chiahoui was arrested earlier this week in the Tuscan city of Pisa after posting photos of “Islamic martyrs” on a Facebook profile registered under a false name, as well as declaring his desire to die a martyr in the city. Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano signed the decree of deportation not long afterward.
Investigators say they have reasons to believe that the man intended to carry out a bombing attack on Pisa’s iconic leaning tower, but noted that the airport and train station were also possible targets. On August 11, Chiahoui traveled from Turin to Pisa and it was there that security agents picked him up before he could carry out his attack.
On Friday afternoon, the regional prefect stated that the decision to expel Chiahoui from the country stemmed from evidence collected as part of the Italian counterterrorism activities aimed at “preventing and combating the phenomenon of so-called foreign fighters and lone wolves.”
According to reports, investigators found documented links with two Tunisian foreign fighters who recently died while fighting in the “Syrian-Iraqi war theater,” as well as clear evidence of ideological proximity to the jihadist extremism espoused by ISIS.
Agents found that Chiahoui had published comments expressing his esteem for Islamist martyrs, saying that the two foreign fighters were among the few true men he had ever known and referring to them as “lions”—a term frequently used in jihadist propaganda to refer to the mujahedeen. The Tunisian also posted commemorative photographs of the jihadists, stating that he wanted to emulate their actions.
Officials in announced they will be installing 11 new cameras and other security systems that could assist in monitoring other possible attackers. Pisa’s main square is patrolled 24 hours a day by military and law enforcement officials.
The deportation of Chiahoui is just the latest in a series of counterterrorist preventive measures undertaken by Italian security officials. Last month authorities deported a Moroccan imam known to be a Muslim extremist for “reasons of public order and state security.”
The 51-year-old Salafi Imam Mohammed Madad, who had named his own daughter “Jihad,” was expelled from the country by order of Italy’s Ministry of the Interior, and is forbidden from applying for a return visa for the next 15 years.
Italian counterterrorism units (DIGOS) had had the man under surveillance because of his allegedly radical profile, but as his sermons took on an increasingly radicalized, violent and anti-Western tone, they determined that the man could also facilitate international terrorism.
Italy has been remarkably successful in preventing Islamic terrorism, in part because of its willingness to deport radicalized individuals seen as a threat to national security.
Last fall, leading military analyst Edward N. Luttwak commended the Italian model, arguing that Italy has been successful in thwarting Islamic terror attempts because of its swift and decisive action.
In an essay titled “Doing Counterterrorism Right,” Luttwak noted that despite many factors going against Italy, Islamic terrorists have failed to kill a single person on Italian soil. He contrasted Italy with France and Belgium, observing that although Italy is much more vulnerable than they are, it has been far more effective at stopping would-be terrorists before they strike.
Luttwak commended the Italians for their willingness to act swiftly in cases of credible evidence against possible jihadists.
By imprisoning or deporting radicalized Muslims, Luttwak said, Italian authorities have been able to keep numbers of suspected potential terrorists within a reasonable range and thus are able to monitor them effectively.
The fact that the Italians lump together anti-mafia operations with counterterrorism under their DIGOS agency is also telling. Italy has a long history fighting serious organized crime within its borders, coming from the different branches of the Italian mafia working in various parts of the peninsula.
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http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/13/italy-deports-jihadist-suspected-plotting-attack-leaning-tower-pisa/
Muslim terrorists hunt Christians on African beach, killing 5-year-old boy, and 15 others
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