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People protest the use of The Bell Hotel in Epping on August 31 2025 where 130 asylum seekers are lodged. Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz / Anadolu via AFP
File photo: Riot police officers deployed to quell a wave of violent unrest following the reported assault of an elderly resident by three individuals of North African origin in Murcia, Spain on July 14, 2025 | Photo: Pablo Miranzo / EPA
A Bangladeshi migrant worker in Romania | Photo: Tiberiu Stoichici/DW
The defendant Mariusz Chyzynski, flanked by three of his co-defendants, at the court in Bialystok | Photo: Nadine Wojcik/DW
Departures from northern French shores have become increasingly risky for migrants attempting to reach the UK by crossing the English Channel, as smugglers try to crowd more and more people onto small dinghies and people are boarding in increasingly deep waters in an attempt to evade interceptions from French police | Photo: Reuters