German neo-Nazis announce "solidarity" with a former secretary from the German concentration camp Stutthof, who is to be tried for complicity in the murder of over 11,000. prisoners. The far right hails her as "the Itzehoe rebel." The woman fled on the day of the trial in order not to testify in court.more
Boris Johnson does not support calls to make misogyny a hate crime saying there is "abundant" existing legislation to tackle violence against women.more
Mark Lorentzon, a 55-year-old man, suspected of causing an explosion in a block of flats in Gothenburg, which resulted in several injuries, is of Polish origin. As a person "likely to pose a threat" he is wanted by an international arrest warrant.more
Over the last 70 years, around 216,000 people have lived in France. minors were victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, according to a report released today by an independent commission. It added that the Church focused on protecting the perpetrators rather than the victims.more
Law enforcement authorities clamping down on the exploitation of agricultural workers raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month, the European Union police agency Europol announced Tuesday.more
The government will bring forward tougher penalties and new police powers to crack down on disruption caused on motorways and other key transport infrastructure. Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that a suite of amendments will be introduced to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill in the House of Lords.more
At a gas station in Ystad, the children found a purse with a credit card and a telephone from Beata R., 32, a Pole who disappeared in Malmoe at the end of September, the local newspaper Ystads Allehanda reported.more
A Met Police officer is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room after they met through online dating, a court heard. PC David Carrick, 46, who is part of the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, is accused of attacking a woman while off-duty in Hertfordshire on September 4 last year.more
A former member of the Polish Army who suffered a significant brain injury after an assault claimed he was a victim of human trafficking and he needed to kill because he would be safe in prison.more
A drug driver has been jailed for 18 months after leading police on a 21 mile car chase through Oxfordshire. Adrian O., 30, from Coventry, was driving with false plates on the A34 on February 1 when he caught the attention of officers.more
The Dutch of Arab origin, supporters of the so-called Islamic State, arrested last week for preparing a terrorist attack, have planned to kill Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the leader of the largest opposition group in parliament, Geert Wilders, the daily De Telegraaf reported.more
A car wash worker lashed out with a knife during an "astonishing and fearsome" incident after a landlord tried to stop a violent row between her and a lover.
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The Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny commented on the next - already the fourth - criminal case against him, judging that he was facing 23-30 years in prison. "Don't worry, I will be released by the spring of 2051 at the latest," said the politician.more
A French court Thursday imposed a one-year sentence on former president Nicolas Sarkozy after finding him guilty of illegal campaign financing for massive overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign. Sarkozy's lawyer said he would appeal. The verdict came six months after he was found guilty of corruption in a separate trial. more
The prosecution released the Hague councilor Arnoud van Doorn from the charge of planning an attack on Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The councilor was arrested on Sunday. It turned out that the politician was in the vicinity of the prime minister because he was carrying his mother medicine for the cat.more
Wayne Couzens, who abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, 33, was today sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of seeking early release.more
In Germany, the number of police investigations related to the trafficking of human beings has increased. In 2020, 465 proceedings were completed - 22.7 percent more than the year before. The number of victims among young people has increased noticeably.more
French officials said on Wednesday they had identified health workers suspected of leaking the vaccination status and personal details of President Emmanuel Macron.more
The number of murders in the United States rose nearly 30% in 2020 and overall violent crime rose for the first time in four years, the FBI said in its annual crime report on Monday, in a surge experts attribute in part to COVID-19 hardships.more
Sarah Everard was handcuffed by her murderer as he pretended to arrest her for breaching Covid guidelines. Met Police officer Wayne Couzens abducted her as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham on 3 March.more
Controversial Dutch politician Arnoud van Doorn - who quit Geert Wilders’ far-right party and converted to Islam — was arrested at the weekend for “plotting” to kill the prime minister, according to his lawyer.more
Members of a gang behind the biggest modern-day slavery network ever exposed in the UK have been jailed. Police believe more than 400 victims were put to work in the West Midlands by the organised crime gang.more
In Malmoe, Sweden, the search for the missing 32-year-old Polish woman, Beata R., has been underway since Friday. The police suspect her husband about the abduction of the woman. The man, who did not plead guilty, was arrested yesterday.more
With the help of the Silesian police, a Polish woman detained and mistreated in Tunisia by a man with whom she had made an acquaintance via the Internet, was released and returned to the country, the press team of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Katowice reported.more
