Illegal firearms in Europe: a collection
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Rhetorical question: what happens when these gangs are reinforced with returning ISIS combat veterans?
Mean Streets: Denmark Cooks Up Ban to Prevent Takeover by Multiethnic Mobs
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Incessant wars raging between rival gangs in parts of the capital city of Copenhagen have become a problem of national importance. As the death toll rises in step with the number of shootouts, the national government is pledging decisive steps to crack down on gangland crime.
The multiethnic Nrrebro neighborhood ofCopenhagen has been a hotbed ofgangland crime forthe last six months, yielding a bloody harvest ofthree dead and 25 injured in42 shooting episodes, which can be attributed toa turf war betweenLoyal toFamilia (LTF) and Brothas, both including many non-Danes.
The snowballing law-breaking and persistent infighting making national headlines has spurred the Danish authorities intoaction. Copenhagen Police director Anne Tnnes has said that the situation is being taken seriously, stressing that the police measures were beginning toshow results.
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According toTnnes, over60 local gangsters were detained and 3,300 local residents were searched ina massive effort toconfiscate asmany firearms aspossible.
(So much for the EU's so-called 'enlightened' restrictive firearms laws, wherein only the law-abiding are punished).
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LTF was previously described ashaving the most elaborate and consistent strategy ofall the Danish gangs. It was also considered tobe atthe root ofall gang conflicts inthe Nordic country bythe National Police Investigation Center, being involved inthree outof three gang conflicts. LTF is said tobe atwar withBrabrand Group, Black Army and Brothas, most ofwhich are dominated byimmigrants withnon-Western backgrounds.
"In recent years, it has primarily been aboutthese immigrant youths. These are young men, witha background inthe Middle East. Most are born and raised inDenmark, yet a great deal has yet togain Danish citizenship," University ofAalborg criminologist Kim Mller told Norwegian national broadcaster NRK.
LTF is fronted byShuaib Khan, the son oflocal politician Wallait Khan, currently a political maverick. By the age of30, Khan junior has amassed verdicts totaling 12 years ofprison time. Khan's release fromprison earlier this year was speculated tohave fueled the Danish turf wars.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/20171...gangland-wars/
Sweden plans grenade amnesty as attacks soar
Why? The very short article starts with:
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Although crime has fallen in recent years, the number of grenade attacks in Sweden soared from eight in 2014 to 52 in 2016, according to the Swedish Police Authority.
Link:http://www.theweek.co.uk/90114/swede...s-attacks-soar
Not that the Uk is immune from the use of grenades, notably the 2012 attacks by Dale Cregan, in Manchester, which ended with two women police officers being killed in an ambush.
Link to first article found:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-arrested.html
Guns & Gangs in Scotland: Part 2
A court result, Part 1 is Post No.6:
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The downfall of Scotland's most sophisticated crime gang was triggered by a surveillance operation on a Toyota Yaris.The nine men,
who have been sentenced to a total of 87 years between them, went to remarkable lengths to conceal a terrifying arsenal of weapons, vast quantities of drugs and large amounts of dirty money.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-42635866
Rhetorical: so where'd they get the ordnance?
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AT LEAST four Calais migrants are fighting for life after being shot when two rival groups clashed in a two-hour running battle after food was handed out at the French port last night, police said. Gunshots rang out as a group of Eritreans brawled with Afghans on the northern French coast.
Four people were critically injured in the shooting, including one who was blasted in the head, with another two also suffering bullet wounds.
http://www.france24.com/en/20180201-...s-brawl-france
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...l-Macron-brawl
Life imitates art
Rhetorical: so where'd they get the ordnance? Read on!
Well this EU-funded research tome may help, due to the size 484 pgs., I have not read it and have only skimmed the contents list.
The title says enough:
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Triggering Terror:Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe
Link:http://www.flemishpeaceinstitute.eu/..._bw_lowres.pdf
The title implies a crossover with terrorims in Europe (which has its own thread) so this maybe double posted.
The countries covered are: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Italy, Holland. Romania, UK, North Africa and the Ukraine.
(Added 22nd April '18) A short article based on this report and another by Jason Burke. The 'another' report is:http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/about...-firearms.html
Link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-report-warns
Guns are a problem here too - even century old revolvers
As the Strasbourg killer illustrated Europe has a problem with antique firearms, his revolver was over a hundred years old.
Then I found via Twitter an EU-funded research project, Project Safte on Firearms and Terrorism in Europe. There is a free book, Triggering Terror: Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe, with individual chapters on several European nations.
Link:https://www.flemishpeaceinstitute.eu/safte/publications
In the French chapter on pgs 42-44 there is a Table 6 'Firearms seized in recent attacks inspired by radical Islamist'.
Link:https://www.flemishpeaceinstitute.eu...fte_france.pdfilogies