A McDonald’s branch will no longer serve kids without an adult after 5pm in a bid to avoid staff getting harassed. The fast food restaurant on Church Street in Liverpool introduced the ban because too many employees were ‘subjected to verbal and physical abuse’. more
More than £22,000 has been raised for a 100-year-old Polish veteran of Squadron 300, Second Lieutenant Jan Stangryciuk, who was robbed at his home in London, the fundraising organiser, the British Poles portal, has announced.more
In the first six months of this year, the Netherlands has seen the most cars stolen in 20 years, the National Automobile Crime Information Center (LIV) reported. The report shows that the most common deaths are older vehicles without an alarm system.more
Dutch monarch Wilhelm-Alexander pardoned famous TV presenter Frank Masmeijer, who was serving a nine-year sentence for cocaine smuggling. "Hundreds of officers are working to fight drug smuggling, what the hell is going on here?" - outrages Jan Struijs, head of the Dutch Police Association.more
A suspected paedophile has been evicted from a Travelodge where he had been living among guests with children for three months, according to reports.
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660 illegal migrants from the Middle East were transferred to European Union countries by a criminal group that was investigated by the services of several countries, including Poland, said Seweryn Stopa, the head of the Center for Combating Illegal Migration at Europol. The turnover of this group is at least EUR 7 million.more
Uber drivers have been accused by 550 women in the US of sexual harassment. The case will be heard in a San Francisco court, the BBC news service reported today.more
The English city of Telford and its police have ignored reports of hundreds of child sexual abuse for decades because they feared accusations of racism or fueling racial tensions, according to a report released yesterday.more
A court in Amsterdam decided to reopen criminal proceedings in the case of the murder of investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries. Originally, the sentence was due on July 14, but last week the prosecutor's office presented new evidence, including that the murder was ordered by a 27-year-old Pole, Krystian M.more
Efforts to manage seriously violent inmates in Irish prisons, including those viewed as "possessing a serious potential to kill", have been ineffective or even counterproductive.
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An 18-year-old British man on a flight to Menorca wrote on social media that he was going to blow up the plane he was flying, and in response the Spanish Air Force pulled up the F-18 fighter jets that were escorting the machine. The young man was taken into custody from where he was released on bail; he claims it was all about a joke, El Periodico de Espana website reported yesterday.more
Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died in hospital after he was shot at a political campaign event, say local media. Mr Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech in the southern city of Nara on Friday morning.more
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that a Polish citizen was deprived of liberty in Iran in September 2021. Consular and diplomatic actions are being taken to enable him to return to Poland as soon as possible, the ministry said.more
The suspected perpetrator of Monday's massacre in Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, had been planning the crime for weeks; he fled after the attack wearing women's clothing, local police reported yesterday. The perpetrator of the attack, in which six people were killed, was alleged to have acquired the weapon legally. He had already heard the charges yesterday.more
Second Lieutenant Jan Stangryciek, one of the last members of the Polish Air Force living in Great Britain, was robbed in his own home in London. As he added, the perpetrators of the thefts were three Poles.more
22-year-old Robert E. Crimo began shooting on the American Independence Day parade route at Highland Park in a Chicago suburb. The governor of Illinois reported that at least 30 people had been shot. According to the media, six people were killed.more
A 27-year-old Pole, Krystian M., was arrested today on suspicion of directing the murder of investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries, the prosecutor's office reports.more
The death toll from yesterday's shooting at the Fields shopping centre in Copenhagen has risen to three, with four people in serious condition, the city's police chief Inspector Soren Thomasse announced today. As of now, there is no indication that it was a terrorist attack, he added.more
A homeless man who walked the streets of Bonn in eastern Germany with the head of a deceased colleague in a bag and put it in front of the district court, did not kill his companion, the daily "Bild" reports, citing the results of the autopsy. The deceased suffered from a serious disease and it was probably the cause of his death.more
The bodies of at least 46 dead people were discovered inside a truck in San Antonio, Texas, USA. At high temperatures, they died from exhaustion and heatstroke. 16 survivors were taken to hospitals. City councilor Adriana Rocha Garcia described the victims as migrants.more
