Archive for 'Europe'
Latvians illegally turn Russians, Byelorussians and Ukrainians into Europeans
15 January 2008The police of Latvia disclosed the criminal group consisted of government officials who trade in the Latvian passports.
19 officials are detained on suspicion of counterfeiting and sale of EU passports.
The main buyers of illegal passports were Byelorussians, and also Russian and Ukrainians. According to representatives of the Latvian security police, these documents were not […]
Unprecedented number of journalists has been killed in 2007
11 January 200886 journalists died in 2007. This number was published on January, 2, 2008 by “Reporters without Borders”. In comparison with 2002 the number of the killed has grown by 246 percents. More than a half of victims - 48 people - are killed in the Middle East, 17 - in Asia, 12 - in Africa, […]
5 tons of cocaine are confiscated in Portugal
9 January 2008The police of Portugal has confiscated 5 tons of cocaine and has arrested six suspected people during the operation conducted together with law enforcement bodies of the neighbor Spain.
Police representative has informed, the illegal cargo was found on a vessel in the port of Lisbon.
The cargo has arrived from Venezuela and was intended for […]
The British authorities would like to forbid prostitution
26 December 2007The British government considers the proposal to forbid prostitution.
Fiona MacTaggart, who coordinates the work of the government in this direction, says that recently London has become a trans-shipment point for the criminal groupings engaged in human trafficking from the Eastern Europe.
In the nearest future the government is going to send abroad an expert […]
Parents in Spain are forbidden to whip children
24 December 2007The Congress of deputies (Parliament) of Spain has approved the bill, which forbids parents to whip children.
Until now parents were authorized “to correct reasonably and moderately behavior” of their offsprings.
However the Spanish deputies have changed this paragraph. The new variant of the Civil Code creates physical inviolability of children, transfers Reuters.
The ruling socialists of […]
Great Britain will forbid free sale of Samurai swords: 80 crimes, 5 corpses
14 December 2007British government is going to freeze free sale of Samurai swords since April, 2008. Such decision was taken because of frequent attacks with use of this kind of cold steel, has declared Deputy Home Secretary. According to the statistics, 5 persons have died in such incidents for the last couple of years.
For the first […]
In Britain drunkenness looms large: Gordon Brown takes action
12 December 2007Police and analytics warn that drunkenness in Britain has taken the sizes of epidemic, and criminal offences on the ground of alcoholic intoxication increase avalanche-like, informs Radio Freedom.
It has induced Gordon Brown to organize a meeting, having invited Ministers of Internal Affairs, Public health services and culture, and also known physicians and heads of the […]
In Germany the policeman killed two person and shot himself
10 December 2007In the German city of Neumunster (Schleswig-Holstein) the employee of police has killed two people and then committed suicide.
German news TV-channels informed last week, referring to Office of Public Prosecutor, the police was called by inhabitants of prestigious area of the city of Faldera, who heard sounds of shots.
The police patrol has found […]
In Italy two cash messengers are arrested for theft of €1,75 million and abduction of the colleague
7 December 2007In the Italian city of Naples police have arrested two cash messengers - employees of a private security firm on suspicion of theft of €1,75 million (2,45 million dollars). During a robbery malefactors have abducted their colleague and have wounded him.
Cash messengers-robbers have declared a crime, having tried to accuse some unknown criminals. Two […]
The leader of an international hacker grouping is arrested
4 December 2007Police of New Zealand has detained the 18-years-old young man known as AKILL. He is suspected of heading of the international hacker grouping A-Team, writes The New Zealand Herald.
Besides according to the investigation, he was one of the organizers of a large-scale DDoS-attack on servers of Philadelphia University last year in the USA.
The Dutch […]
