Catherine De Bolle

Serious security breach hits EU police agency – POLITICO

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They were supposed to be under lock and key, in a secure storage room deep inside Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. But a clutch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top law enforcement executives went missing last summer. Europe’s law enforcement agency has been mired in a whodunit ever since. According to … Read more

Europe’s drug gangs open ‘torture rooms,’ arm kids with Kalashnikovs, EU agencies warn – POLITICO

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Another growing concern is the age of the people working in illicit markets. Gangs in Marseille are increasingly hiring adolescents as police spotters or to sell drugs, leading to children killing one another with Kalashnikovs. Authorities in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam have caught scores of adolescents who were paid to extract cocaine loads … Read more