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A 27-year-old Algerian is accused of setting his refugee accommodation in Düsseldorf on fire following a row over Ramadan meals. The blaze caused millions of euros in damage. The Algerian asylum seeker was due in court in the western German city of Düsseldorf on Monday charged with serious arson. Alongside him, a Moroccan man of the same age was due to face judges, accused of incitement. Last June, the Algerian allegedly set fire to a canteen at the temporary shelter, which was located inside an exhibition hall. …

Police suspect that a fire at an asylum center in Gibostad in Troms county in the early morning hours of Thursday was arson. The fire broke out in a wing of the building that is not part of the asylum center itself, but 28 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers and two of the center’s employees had to be evacuated. No one was injured in the fire. Police said in a statement on Friday that investigators suspect the fire was deliberately set. …

The children’s asylum center Børnecenter Tullebølle on the island of Langeland will be shut down after a number of problematic incidents and fresh allegations of sexual abuse. The Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen – DIS) announced on Wednesday that the center for unaccompanied underage asylum seekers will be shut down this week. According to a DIS press release, the agency was informed last week that two female employees of the center are suspected of having sexually violated one or more boys under the age of 18. Integration Minister Inger Støjberg told broadcaster DR that the two women in question were removed...

Vandals have attacked a future federal asylum center in the canton of Fribourg, causing substantial water damage over seven floors. Police said the act of sabotage occurred over the weekend in the former boarding school in Giffers, Blick reported. The building was flooded after taps were turned on and sinks were damaged. The Guglera asylum center, which would house up to 250 rejected asylum seekers awaiting deportation, is due to open next year. …

Staff at Center Sandholm, Denmark’s largest asylum center, have suspicions that young refugee boys are being prostituted, Berlingske reported. Jannich Bisp, a supervisor at the center, told the newspaper that concerns have been raised about a group of teenage boys. “There are situations in which the boys receive a phone call, take off for a few hours and then come back with designer clothes,” Bisp said. […] The concerns at Center Sandholm, located some 30 kilometers north of Copenhagen, came to light after the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenkan reported similar stories about refugee children at the Aleris Asylum Center in Malmö....