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| Europol HQ, The Hague |
THE HAGUE – The biggest raid against organized crime ever
organized in Europe took place last week, resulting in the arrest of 1,027
people from all 28 EU countries, accused of a variety of crimes with two
salient things, they were all accused of drug and/or people smuggling across EU
borders. A very good result, too, was the liberation of 30 Romanian minors,
victims of people smugglers and presumably to be sold into prostitution. In
addition, confiscations totalled some 600kg of cocaine, 200kg of heroin, and
1.3kg of hashish. The 20,000 agents involved in Operation Archimedes,
coordinated by Europol, had the
