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Sweden

Swedish teenager arrested after police officer shot dead in Gothenburg

It is the first time an active police officer has been shot dead in Sweden in 14 years.

Albania

Three Albanian police officers arrested in major drug-trafficking bust

Thirty-eight Albanian nationals including a prosecutor, a government department head and three senior police officers have been arrested for drug trafficking, corruption, abuse of post and money laundering.

World

Sister of black man who died in police custody acquitted of defamation

The sister of a black French man who died in police custody in 2016, has been acquitted of defamation charges brought against her by police officers. Assa Traoré publicly named three policemen, accusing them of having crushed Adama Traore to death.

Italy

Italian police accused of racism over viral video of arrests in Milan

A group of black youths were beaten and arrested by the carabinieri in a central area of Milan on Sunday morning.

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Greece

Greek police recover Picasso and Mondrian paintings stolen in 2012

Police say they have recovered the artworks nearly a decade after their theft from Greece's biggest state art gallery in Athens.

Germany

Germany stabbing: Man arrested after two hospitalised in Erfurt attack

Police launched a manhunt after the stabbing but have since arrested a suspect.

Greece

Greek trio arrested for selling priceless Roman statue for €40,000

One of the three found the statue in his garden and asked the other two to sell it, police say.

Germany

Authorities ponder motive for German knife attack that left three dead

Authorities are searching for the suspect's motive after a 24-year-old killed three women in a knife attack in southern Germany.

Germany

German police officers saved from burning car by passing students

German police said four students walking home from their school graduation ceremony in the early hours Friday helped rescue two police officers from a burning patrol car in Bochum.

Denmark

Man found dead after setting off explosives in Danish town hall

Police investigating a break-in at Middelfart town hall on Friday say a male suspect has been found dead.

Belgium

Belgian manhunt for armed far-right suspect enters second month

46-year-old former soldier Jurgen Conings was placed on a watchlist in February and has threatened several people in the past months.

My Europe Series

Long-awaited murder probe reveals 'institutional' police corruption

The real Line of Duty? This case has drawn parallels with BBC's hit crime series, which follows a special unit investigating police corruption.

USA

Teen who recorded Floyd's arrest and murder wins Pulitzer nod

Darnella Frazier was cited “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality, around the world" the Pulitzer Prizes said.

United Kingdom

Police officer pleads guilty to kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard

The body of 33-year-old Sarah Everard was found in Ashford, Kent on March 10 a week after she disappeared in south London.

France

Investigation launched after fire damages French vaccine centre

Authorities suspect the fire may have been deliberately caused by arsonists.

Czech Republic

Czech police want to indict PM over alleged EU fraud

Czech police recommended the indictment of Prime Minister Andrej Babis over alleged fraud involving European Union subsidies

France

Fugitive ex-soldier arrested after massive manhunt in France

The fugitive ex-soldier was arrested in Dordogne after a massive manhunt that mobilised 300 gendarmes and seven helicopters. He was hiding in a wooded area after shooting at gendarmes responding to a call about a domestic incident.

Europe News

Europe's ethnic minorities 'more likely' to be stopped by police

The report, from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), was published a year after the murder of George Floyd.

USA

US has 'a long way to go' on systemic racism, expert says

Family members and activists rallied in Minnesota to mark the day George Floyd was killed by police.

France

Man arrested after making 27,000 calls to French police in two months

A man was arrested near Lyon on suspicion of harassing members of the police and making around 27,000 phone calls to the authorities between April and May.