Yesterday, two over-eighty-year-old climate activists from the Just Stop Oil group attacked with a hammer and damaged a display case in the British Library in London, which contains one of the four preserved copies of the Magna Carta of 1215. The document itself was not damaged.more
More and more Polish tourists are robbed in Rome - this information was provided to PAP by consular services. As they emphasize, foreigners should be especially vigilant in the Eternal City. It has been under tourist siege for weeks, which is being taken advantage of by pickpockets and car thieves.more
A record-breaking number of shoplifting offences were recorded in London last year, new figures have revealed. The British Independent Retailers Association (Bira) is calling for urgent action to tackle this "concerning trend" in order to safeguard employees and customers.more
Two Poles - 68-year-old Michal Jaroslaw P. and 42-year-old Marcin M. - appeared before Manchester Crown Court yesterday on charges of murdering a 67-year-old man and quartering his body.more
A 14-year-old boy was killed and four people were injured when a 36-year-old man armed with a sword attacked bystanders in an east London suburb yesterday morning. Police do not believe the attack was terrorist motivated.more
The police extradited 38-year-old Sebastian G., who had been wanted for five years for leading an organized criminal group. The man was detained in England and brought to Poland.more
British police today announced that five men have been charged with hostile activities in favour of Russia. Two of them are British citizens. They will all face trial on 10 May.more
Stalking Protection Orders will no longer need to reach the criminal threshold, as figures obtained under freedom of information laws by a victims' charity show some police forces have issued fewer than 10 per year.more
The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced yesterday that two men had been charged with spying for China. They were alleged to have provided information that could be 'useful to the enemy'.more
The Spanish National Police (Policia Nacional) has detained a Polish national wanted in Alicante, in the east of the country, in connection with large-scale drug trafficking. The man was wanted under a European arrest warrant.more
The Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office, together with Polish security structures, detained a Pole who cooperated with Russian military intelligence and offered help in organizing an attack on the President of Ukraine, reports the Ukrainian website.more
A total of 2,613,962 kroner (approximately PLN 973,000) was raised during the week for the 12-year-old son of a Polish man murdered in Stockholm, reported the initiators of the two fundraisers, well-known Swedes Mustafa Panshiri and Hanif Bali.more
A woman who called 999 more than 2,000 times in a campaign of abuse against emergency workers has been jailed for 22 weeks. Sonia Nixon, 56, is one of the worst offenders in London for making nuisance emergency calls, and has been dubbed a “massive drain” on police resources.
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One Tesco store has taken an extreme new security measure to combat shoplifting and enhance worker safety. The supermarket branch is now requiring customers to be vetted via CCTV before they can enter the store.more
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
