The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking was detained on Wednesday over technical irregularities, Italy’s coastguard said, a move blasted as “harassment” by the charity that runs the vessel. The ship had been allowed to disembark at a Sicilian port on July 7, with 180 rescued migrants onboard transferred to another boat for a two-week coronavirus quarantine. Source France24
The construction of a 10 km long section of underground barrier around Hungary’s border with Serbia has quietly been completed, liberal news site hvg.hu reports. The cost of the additional barrier, which is to stop illegal entries to Hungary through underground tunnels, is HUF 38 million (EUR 104,491). Source Hungary
Days after a suspected Islamist beheaded a French school teacher, police on Monday raided Islamic associations and individuals suspected of extremist religious beliefs, arresting dozens of people, said France’s interior minister, in a sweep expected to last a few more days. Source France24
Since September the UN migration agency has relocated some 124 asylum seekers from Italy to other EU member states. On Thursday, October 15, a group of 60 asylum seekers was flown from Crotone in the south of Italy to Hanover in Germany. Source Info Migrants
