Criminalize laser attacks, EU urged

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Eurocontrol urged the European Union to criminalize the malicious use of lasers to blind pilots and air traffic controllers — a growing problem in both Europe and the United States that experts warn could lead to a crash.

09/17/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Bulgarian Protests Subside After Arrest of Roma Clan Leader

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Bulgarian protests against the Roma community and the government for its failure to deal with organized crime subsided after a third night following the arrest of Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov.

09/14/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Brussels to beef up EU criminal policy

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The European Commission on Tuesday said it is considering how to set up an EU criminal policy, with clear definitions on what is an EU crime and the minimum punishment to be applied across all member states.

09/7/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Crime by EU migrants trebles — and we still can’t throw them out

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Britain is suffering an explosion in crimes by EU nationals, who are amassing more than 2,700 convictions every month.

08/31/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Macedonia & Russia Join Forces in Fight against Drug Trade

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Minister of the Interior Gordana Jankuloska and director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FSKN), Viktor Ivanov inked Thursday in Skopje an agreement for cooperation in the fight against illegal drug trade.

08/24/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Emblematic Bulgarian Mafia Killer Captured in Portugal

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Plamen Dishkov aka Kela, a Bulgarian mobster sentenced for a gangland murder committed in 2002 has been arrested in Portugal after 10 years in international hiding.

08/18/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Newham police chief hails crime crackdown success

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The aptly named Operation Target across the Metropolitan Police and resulted in more than 5,000 arrests across London in the biggest ever crackdown on neighbourhood crime in the Metropolitan Police’s history.

08/11/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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A death at the hands of police — and a vigil that turned to violence

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As Mark Duggan rode in a minicab over the Ferry Lane Bridge near Tottenham Hale underground station early on Thursday evening, he texted his girlfriend to say: «The feds are following me.» Minutes later the 29-year-old father of four was dead.

08/5/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Crime increases as police numbers decrease

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More than 12,000 extra crimes could be committed in Yorkshire each year, inspectors have suggested as figures showed Government cuts are hitting the region’s police forces harder than constabularies in the South.

07/19/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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Italy nabs brother of Mafia ‘boss of bosses’ Riina

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Italian police have arrested the brother of the Sicilian Mafia’s one-time top boss in another blow to Cosa Nostra on the island.

07/13/2011 — Filed under: Crime
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