Six individuals were arrested across Europe this week for their alleged involvement in a complex human trafficking scheme that exploited the European Union’s Schengen porous borders area to smuggle illegals into the UK.
Islamic jihad remained by far and away the largest terror threat facing the European Union, followed by far-left extremists, Europol found.
A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced on Wednesday.
In a coordinated international operation, law enforcement agencies have arrested 25 individuals allegedly linked to the distribution of AI-generated child pornography via online platforms.
One of the world’s most prolific distributors of child homosexual pornography has been arrested, Czech police announced this week.
Italy’s data protection agency announced AI bot ChatGPT will be blocked from the country until it complies with data privacy rules.
Law enforcement authorities in six different countries have joined forces to take down a “super cartel” of drugs traffickers.
A report by Europol examining terrorism within the EU in 2021 has found that jihadists remain the single biggest threat to the bloc, despite an increasing political focus on right-wing extremists.
The European Union law enforcement agency Europol has announced that it has identified several trafficking schemes directed toward vulnerable refugee women from Ukraine leading to sexual and labour exploitation. The police agency was able to identify various trafficking schemes online,
A German-led European police taskforce claims to have arrested eight “highly dangerous” people smugglers and 127 others who operated a major migrant smuggling network that allegedly helped 10,000 enter Europe illegally. The European Union police agency Europol announced the results
The Lithuanian government has paid 98 illegal migrants €1,000 to board a flight to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Following a 10-month investigation into the dark web’s largest illegal marketplace named “Dark HunTor,” 150 suspected drug vendors and buyers have been arrested.
An Algerian linked to the Islamic State who was arrested by Spanish police and is believed to have led a terrorist cell in Barcelona came to Spain as an illegal immigrant.
In an effort to clamp down on human trafficking, Europol raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month.
Spain has arrested 18 people in a strike against a criminal network smuggling hundreds of Albanian illegal migrants into the United Kingdom and the United States.
Europol has warned of a growing trend of criminal gangs selling counterfeit Wuhan coronavirus medical certificates at European airports.
Some 15,000 illegal aliens attempted to cross the English Channel from Continental Europe in small boats in 2020, according to the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol.
The international police coordination agency Interpol has warned that organised criminal gangs could attempt to sell fake versions of the coronavirus vaccine.
Dutch police have arrested six men after a torture chamber was discovered in a series of underground shipping containers, kitted out with implements of torture including a dentist chair, handcuffs, pliers, saws, and black hoods.
Despite the figures, the mainstream media focused reporting on right-wing extremists, whose arrests were outnumbered by jihadists 20-to-1.
The European Union police agency Europol has warned that people-smuggling activities have surged as member-states soften lockdown measures to contain the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
The European Union police agency Europol has released a report claiming that criminals are adapting and taking advantage of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak through cybercrime, fraud, and counterfeit medical goods.
PARIS (AP) – Criminals are preying on a fearful public and disrupting the provision of medical care during the coronavirus pandemic by selling counterfeit products, impersonating health workers, and hacking computers as many citizens do their jobs online at home, European law enforcement agency Europol said Friday.
VIENNA (AP) – Austrian and Moldovan authorities have broken up an organized crime ring suspected of smuggling nuclear materials, the European police agency said Friday.
Nearly half of British citizens who travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with Islamic State have returned to the United Kingdom, with Europol warning that their training in the Middle East means they are “exceptionally dangerous”.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Islamic State’s recruitment and use of women to support its extremist cause could pave the way for more front-line roles for women in jihadi groups in the future, the European Union’s police agency said in a report published Friday.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Islamic State’s recruitment and use of women to support its extremist cause could pave the way for more front-line roles for women in jihadi groups in the future, the European Union’s police agency said in a report published Friday.
Organised crime is killing more British, citizens than war, terrorism and natural disasters combined according to a new report by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Terrorism continues to pose a big threat in EU nations, Europol has warned in an official report which revealed the continent faced more than 200 terror attacks last year as the number of Islamist plots more than doubled.
European authorities said Friday they, along with the United States and Canada, have crippled the Islamic State terror group’s online “propaganda machine.”
The number of migrants attempting to enter Germany by aeroplane using forged or fake passports has increased by 70 percent in the second quarter of this year, as they try to get out of crowded Greek camps.
Austria is set to take control of the European police agency Europol and has vowed to increase resources into tackling human trafficking rings smuggling migrants into Europe.
The latest EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) reveals the number of jihadist terrorists being arrested “sharply increased” in 2016 – but their prison terms are only getting shorter. Prepared by Europol, the bloc’s supra-national law enforcement agency, the report
A Florida man whom federal prosecutors say was the creator and lead administrator of what is reportedly the world’s largest child pornography website was sentenced to 30 years behind bars Friday.
The head of the European Union’s (EU) law enforcement agency has said terror and criminal networks have “exploded in size and capability” and Europe now faces its “highest threat for a generation”.
European security officials fear that Islamic State is weaponising migrants who have already entered Europe.
The European Union and Denmark have found a way to continue police cooperation vital to counter-terrorism and crime fighting after Danes voted to leave Europol, the EU said on Thursday.
Egypt’s Monitor on Extreme Edicts, a department of the Religions Ministry, has called for an “ideological” onslaught against the Islamic State alongside military efforts against the radical Islamic militia. In a statement, the monitor said that IS has suffered from
The European Commission on Thursday offered Denmark continued partial access to Europol’s database even though the country voted against full membership of the police organisation, which fears new terror attacks across Europe.
It is “indisputable” that terrorists have entered Europe posing as refugees, and some of them will target the UK, Europol has warned.
