Massive anti-organized crime clean up all over EU

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

Paedophile arrested, Madrid breathes easy

Antonio Ángel Ortiz Martínez

CIUDAD LINEAL (MADRID) – This section (barrio) of Madrid had been living the nightmare that is all too common these days: fear for the safety of their children. A paedophile had kept parents worried for months. But their worries were over when on Thursday, September 25^th in the evening, ‘public enemy number one’ was arrested at his home in Santander and accused of the kidnapping and rape of five girls, and attempted rape of another three. All of the victims are under the age of 11, and the assaults had been happening since July 2013. The police say there could be more, as during their investigation; several unreported cases were uncovered as well.