“I have previously called on Theresa May to cancel her ill-judged offer of a state visit to President Trump,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement released by office. “After this latest incident, it is increasingly clear that any official visit at all from President Trump to Britain would not be welcomed.”
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday “Italy has a backlog of 500,000 illegal immigrants and if we don’t manage to expel more than 10,000 a year we’ll take 50 years to make up for the past”. He said there had been “no concrete results” from EU initiatives in Africa. Source Ansa
On July 13, special forces from the counterterrorism unit arrived in Basra to protect the oil companies and oil fields in the province. Equipment from the oil fields has also been stolen in the ongoing protests, but demonstrators managed to arrest eight of the perpetrators on July 11, handing them over to the authorities in an exchange of confidence between the protesters and security forces. Source Al Monitor
For three nights straight, there have been riots between African migrants and the French police in the city of Nantes. The riots began after the police stopped and shot an alleged criminal, named Abubakar. Wednesday the police declared that they shot the African young man in self-defence after he tried to overrun a police officer.
