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Spain

Two tons of cocaine seized from Atlantic fishing boat

Police in Spain have seized two point four tonnes of cocaine from a fishing boat sailing under a Venezuelan flag in the Atlantic.

World News

Ransomware for €100 - how hidden stores are making online crime easier

Buying guns, stolen credit cards or even suicide kits is getting easier as hidden online stores become more sophisticated, it’s been claimed.

Russia

Kremlin involvement in European crime networks revealed

A European think-tank has published a report alleging connections between the Kremlin and the criminal underworld of Europe.

Cinema

Ben Affleck stars and directs in the gangster movie 'Live by Night'

‘Live by Night’ holds the mirror up to the prohibition era in America and is based on the 2012 novel of the same name The plot unfolds around the American military veteran and police chief’s son Joe C

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Cinema

'Chouf': a bitter plunge into Marseille's underworld

Is it possible to break the cycle and leave behind your tough suburb, your ‘quartier nord’ as they call it in Marseille?

Sweden

Sweden grenade attack kills schoolboy - was it gang related?

Police think a grenade attack in Sweden – which killed an eight-year-old boy – could be linked to a gang-related conflict.

Mexico

22 Mexican drug cartel members 'executed by police' - report

One of the worst allegations of abuse by Mexican security forces has been revealed in a damning report by the country’s national human rights commission.

Mexico

Son of Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman kidnapped

A son of Mexico’s infamous drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was among a group of suspected criminals abducted in a top tourist resort.

Italy

[Video] Naples jewel thieves use underground tunnel network to rob high-end boutiques

Italy

Multiple arrests in anti-Ndrangheta operation

My Europe Series

Tracing trafficking victims

Sophie Claudet: “The UK government estimates between 10 and 13,000 people are trafficked into the country but unofficial sources say it could be up to 80,000.

My Europe Series

Trafficked for exploitation: the UK's modern day slaves

Some campaigners estimate there could be up to 80,000 victims in Britain, stuck in slavery, in the shadows of society.

Mexico

El Chapo's alleged money man detained

Juan Manuel Alvarez, suspected of laundering money for recaptured drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been detained in southwest Mexico, and

Mexico

El Chapo: Extradite me to the US, the Mexican prison guards won't let me sleep!

A complaint of sleep deprivation is said to be behind a request by the captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman

My Europe Series

Tackling antiquities trafficking

In this week’s Utalk, a question from Lesley in London: “How can looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria, for instance, still end up on the art market

My Europe Series

Utalk: European PNR - what's at stake?

This week on Utalk, we answwer a question posted online by Muriel: “In the wake of Paris attacks, the creation of a European PNR, or a Passenger

Italy

Italy arrests Mafia suspects after cracking Cosa Nostra's secret code words

Italian police have arrested 11 suspects linked to the fugitive mafia boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, after cracking a secret sheep-farming code for

My Europe Series

Toxic waste: An international business which benefits the Eco-Mafia

Many of these companies who are working illegaly in these areas are also working for famous Italian brand names

My Europe Series

Have you been 'skimmed'? - credit card fraud explained

Albina, from Geneva, asks what ‘skimming’ is and how she can protect herself from it. Laurence Binther, of Europol’s European Cybercrime centre

My Europe Series

N-bomb, China White, Spice - the new wave in deadly designer drugs

The explosion in new drugs often known as legal highs has become a major headache for governments across Europe. New psychoactive substances