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
Tags: attacks, laser
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
Tags: arest, Bulgaria, Crime
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
Tags: criminal policy, EU
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
Tags: EU, migrants
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
Tags: Drug Trade, Macedonia, Russia
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
Tags: Bulgaria, killer, Mafia
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
Tags: London, police
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
Tags: kill, police, violence
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
Tags: England, police
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
Tags: Italy, Mafia