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The district court in Huddinge near Stockholm yesterday arrested a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old for two weeks in connection with the murder of a 39-year-old Pole. The prosecutor's office accuses the teenagers of hiding the person who fired the gun.more

The district court in Huddinge near Stockholm today arrested a 17-year-old for two weeks in connection with the murder of a 39-year-old Pole. The prosecutor's office accuses the teenager of "concealing a crime."more

A 39-year-old Polish man was shot dead on Wednesday evening in Stockholm after drawing the attention of a group of youths. He was killed in front of his 12-year-old son. The case has appalled politicians and the public.more

China is flooding the UK with hundreds of thousands of fake postage stamps, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail reported. Experts and MPs quoted by them describe this as an "act of economic warfare" similar to counterfeiting money.more

Almost £54 million from the UK benefits system was defrauded by five Bulgarian nationals over four and a half years. According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), this is the biggest case of its kind ever to come to court in the UK.more

Last year, police in Germany recorded the most crimes since 2016. According to statistics, the authorities recorded 5.94 million crimes. This represents an increase of 5.5 percent compared to the previous year.more

Scottish police are unable to cope with the deluge of reports of real and imagined hate crimes coming in after a new law on the matter came into force and may have to drop prosecutions for some other crimes, UK media report.more

A 13-year-old boy killed a homeless man in Dortmund harbour, German police and prosecutors' office reported yesterday. Mobile phone footage shows the child stabbing the man to death on Thursday evening. According to the media, the murder victim is a Polish man.more

The three suspects in the stabbing death of a journalist from the London-based Iran International TV station, which is critical of the authorities in Tehran, left the UK within hours of the attack, London's Metropolitan Police said today.more

The man accused of stealing a £4.8 million gold toilet from an exhibition held at Blenheim Palace in 2019 has pleaded guilty, the British prosecution service said yesterday. The toilet has never been found.more

A prominent exiled Iranian journalist was stabbed outside his home in London on Friday, prompting British police to launch a counterterrorism investigation. Pouria Zeraati, a television anchor at the UK-based channel Iran International, was reportedly attacked by a group of men outside his home in south-western Wimbledon. The assailants then fled in a car.more

The Berlin police recorded 6,420 politically motivated crimes in 2023. The year before, there were around 5,100, in 2021 just under 6,000. This increase is explained, among other things, by demonstrations against the Gaza war, during which many crimes take place, wrote the rbb24 portal.more

The body of a man, identified as a British citizen, has been found at a rubbish dump in Krajovo in southern Romania, Digi24.ro reported yesterday.more

A London court on Tuesday ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.more

Former Brazil footballer Dani Alves has been granted release on bail for €1 million ($1.1m) upon appeal, a court in Barcelona, Spain, announced on Wednesday. Alves, 40, was convicted of sexual assault last month and sentenced to 4½ years in prison, of which he had already served over a year.more

A 39-year-old man yesterday became the first person convicted in England and Wales of cyberflashing, the sending of sexual images unwanted by the recipient via instant messaging.more

Roman Polanski has been summoned to appear in court in California over allegations that he raped a minor in 1973. The director rejects the accusations "in the strongest possible terms" - informed the filmmaker's lawyer Delphine Meillet yesterday.more

Croatian police have detained Ukrainian, Czech, Romanian, Indian and Polish nationals belonging to a group of people smugglers, police in the Karlovakia żupania, a region bordering Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, said yesterday.more

Spanish gendarmerie officers defeated an organized criminal group robbing passengers at Barajas airport in Madrid. The practice mainly involved stealing valuable items from travelers' luggage.more

J.K. Rowling criticized Sky News on X (formerly Twitter) after the British television news channel posted a story about a 26-year-old being jailed for murder and referred to her as a “woman” and not a transgender woman.more

A life sentence was heard yesterday at the trial in Amsterdam of one of the most dangerous and longest wanted drug gang bosses Ridouan Taghi. He was convicted of a series of murders from 2015-17. The trial was one of the longest ever - lasting almost six years.more

Portuguese police detained a 36-year-old Pole in Lisbon, wanted on a European arrest warrant for leading a criminal group involved in drug smuggling to Poland. The man was tracked down by police bounty hunters from Silesia and passed the information on to colleagues from Portugal.more

Serbian police detained a Polish citizen in connection with an attempt to launder over PLN 30,000 in the country. euro - the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced yesterday.more

In Sweden, 62,000 people have links to gangs, of which 14,000 are active members of criminal groups and 48,000 support them, including by enabling drug trafficking, according to a Swedish police report presented on Friday. This is more than twice as many as previously estimated.more

A cargo of 5.7 tonnes of cocaine with a market value of £450m was intercepted at the port of Southampton in southern England, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed yesterday. It is the largest shipment of hard drugs ever seized in the UK.more