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Spain

Police break up crowds in Barcelona after state of emergency lifted

Inter-regional travel and curfews were lifted in most of Spain on May 9, leading to thousands of weekend revellers descending on public spaces in Barcelona.

France

France: Large manhunt underway to track man suspected of double murder

Hundreds of officers, half a dozen helicopters and specialist dog teams have been deployed since Tuesday to track a heavily armed man in the mountainous region of Cevennes.

USA

George Floyd: Judge finds 'aggravating factors' in death

A jury convicted Derek Chauvin, 45, of second and third degree murder and manslaughter on 20 April in George Floyd's death.

Italy

Italian police seek 11 people over social media threats to President

Italian police are searching for eleven suspects who posted threatening messages towards President Sergio Mattarella on social media. The offence carries a punishment of between one and five years in prison.

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France

French anti-terror investigators notified over police stabbing

A woman stabbed a police officer at her home in Bordeaux on Monday and then was shot and injured by another official.

Portugal

Portugal sentences three police officers over Ukrainian man's death

Three Portuguese border police officers sentenced to prison for beating a Ukrainian man to death at Lisbon airport in March 2020.

Italy

Americans given life sentences for murder of police officer in Rome

Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were jailed for life for the 2019 murder of Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega.

Switzerland

Switzerland arrests 12 people for speeding around Zurich at 300km/h

Prosecutors say the group had held "various illegal races" and reached speeds of up to 200 km/h near built-up areas.

Germany

Germany busts one of world's biggest darknet platforms for child porn

Prosecutors in Germany make arrests and take down international porn ring on darknet containing "images of most severe sexual abuse of toddlers".

France

France honours police worker stabbed to death near Paris

French authorities said the stabbing inside the police station was an Islamic extremist attack.

Europe Decoded

Police in India charge man who appealed for oxygen amid COVID crisis

Police in the state of Uttar Pradesh said the user had been spreading false rumours and generating "fear" online.

France

Two former Italian left-wing terrorists surrender to French police

On Wednesday, French authorities arrested seven former members of the Italian Red Brigades, who were wanted on domestic terrorism charges in the 1970s and 1980s.

United Kingdom

Two London police officers charged for taking selfies at murder scene

The two policemen had been suspended since last June, after their arrest.

Germany

Bomb squad scrambled to German forest for sex toy

A suspected WWII hand grenade found in a Bavarian forest was actually a rubber sex toy, German police have said.

France

Fifth arrest made after policewoman stabbed to death in Paris suburb

The victim of the knife attack on Friday, aged 49, had two daughters aged 8 and 13 and had served as a police officer since 1993.

Netherlands

Seven injured in stabbing at Dutch asylum-seekers centre

A suspect has been arrested after seven people were injured in a stabbing incident at an asylum-seekers centre in the Netherlands.

USA

Black teenage girl shot dead by US police on day of Chauvin verdict

Columbus police shot and killed a teenage girl who swung at two people with a knife on Tuesday.

Albania

Five people injured in knife attack at a mosque in Tirana

Police have not disclosed any motive for the attack and are investigating.

USA

US protests over police shootings continue in Minneapolis and Chicago

Protesters gathered in the US following the release of recent police body camera footage showing two fatal police shootings of people of colour.

USA

Video shows US teen, 13, wasn't holding gun when shot dead by police

Police in Chicago said Adam Toledo was holding a handgun when an officer shot him in the chest.