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France's interior minister joined a rally against anti-Semitism Sunday in the Paris suburb of Créteil, where a Jewish couple was robbed and the woman raped last week, telling the crowd that the fight against anti-Semitism was a "national cause".

"We need to make the fight against racism and anti-Semitism a national cause by involving all the agencies concerned," Interior Minister told the rally.

"The [French] Republic will defend you with all its force because, without you, it would no longer be the Republic," he added.

http://www.france24.com/en/20141207-france-fight-anti-semitism-national-cause-cazeneuve-creteil/

While other western countries are cracking down on jihadists who come back from Syria, Denmark is taking a very different approach – reintegration

Fifteen minutes west of the cobbled streets and chic boutiques of Aarhus old town in Denmark, on a bleak road of prefabricated warehouses and low-rise industrial units, is a former ice-cream factory that now houses the Grimhojvej mosque. In this squat, drab building, at prayers or in its Muslim youth group, 22 young men – regular high school and university students and first-jobbers – heard something last year that persuaded them to abandon their families, studies and careers to make jihad in Syria. Now, many are coming back, and Denmark's second city is giving them an unconventional welcome.

Most western countries, fearful of the threat they could pose, are cracking down on returning fighters. In France, tough new anti-terror legislation allows authorities to seize passports and ID cards from would-be jihadists "likely to jeopardise public security on their return". Britain has arrested at least 60 returnees; government talk has been of long jail terms, or trying to ban more from coming back at all. At least 30 returning jihadists are facing trial in Germany, which is mulling far stricter exit controls, while, in Antwerp, 46 people were recently accused of belonging to a Belgian group that allegedly recruited and sent fighters to Syria; the group's leader could face up to 15 years in prison.

The so-called Aarhus model, says Preben Bertelsen, a psychology professor at Aarhus University, is about "inclusion. Look: these are young people struggling with pretty much the same issues as any others – getting a grip on their lives, making sense of things, finding a meaningful place in society. We have to say: provided you have done nothing criminal, we will help you to find a way back."



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/deradicalise-isis-fighters-jihadists-denmark-syria

Riots and clashes with the police in several major cities in Greece have marked the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman. In Athens, where the biggest demonstration rally took place, it was preceded by attacks against police on Stournari street in Exarcheia. Anarchists threw rocks and molotov cocktails at police vans. Skirmishes were reported in several Exarcheia spots.



Later on, as the rally was in progress, several protesters wearing hoods broke store windows and traffic cameras, entering stores and throwing molotov cocktails. Several store fronts were burned on Panepistimiou street. As the mass of protesters approached Syntagma Square, more molotov cocktails were thrown at police and shop windows. Groups were separated from the main body of the rally and broke store fronts on side streets. After the protesters dispersed in front of the parliament building at Syntagma Square, the battlefield was transferred to Exarcheia Square and side streets where there were multiple arsons of buildings and cars and fights with the riot police. The National Technical University of Athens (Polytechneio) was under siege, while dozens of suspects were arrested. -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twss-yuEWP4

See more at: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/12/06/grigoropoulos-anniversary-riots-in-athens-and-other-greek-cities/

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'We have everything we want here!' Slovak mother of 11 who gets handouts of £430 a WEEK says she won't get a job and will stay in the UK 'forever'
Katerina Sisarova, 43, moved to the UK from Slovakia seven years ago Lives on handouts of £430 a week and refuses to look for work In total, has worked for one month since arriving in Rotherham Has had problems because she refuses to speak or learn English

Husband and 10 of her 11 children are also unemployed and on benefits Says she and her family, including 11 grandchildren, will never go back EU rules mean Slovakians have same rights to benefits as British people
With 11 children and 11 grandchildren, life for Katerina Sisarova, 43, from Slovakia, used to be a struggle to make ends meet. But seven years after moving to Rotherham in Yorkshire, Mrs Sisarova says life is 'very nice' - and it's all down to the £430 a week she receives from the taxpayer. What's more, Mrs Sisarova, who has worked for a grand total of one month in seven years, says she has no plans to find work and spends her time caring for her grandchildren instead.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2688663/Shameless-Slovak-mother-11-gets-handouts-430-WEEK-says-wont-job-stay-UK-forever.html