Feb. 21 – Europol announced yesterday a successful joint operation with the Spanish Guardia Civil, the Lithuanian Customs Criminal Service, Polish Police Central Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement authorities from the UK. During this operation, supported by Europol, an organised crime group involved in the production of illegal cigarettes […]
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Feb. 11 – US inspectors general for the US Department of Defense, Department of State and Agency for International Development published this week a public, unclassified report on the US counterterrorism operations in East Africa and North and West Africa, which are aimed at degrading al Qaeda and ISIS affiliates, […]
Feb. 03 – A man was shot dead by police in London after stabbing two people in a busy street on Sunday. Police reported the man was wearing a bomb, later discovered to be a hoax. The attacker, identified as the 20-year-old Sudesh Amman, had recently been released from jail, […]
Jan. 28 – The Islamic Caliphate of Iraq and Syria relatively declined in 2019 due to intense online monitoring and the killing, in October, of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. After the crises occurred between the US and Iran following General Suleimani’s death in an American raid in January, the […]
Jan. 21 – Italy’s Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza (the Italian financial police) arrested 94 people in a joint police operation last week. They are charged with stealing agricultural subsidies from the EU. The illicit revenues were gained through extortion and threats: farmers who did not accept to sell their […]
Dec. 6 – The interim government of Bolivia has asked Israel to support local authorities fighting radical leftist “terrorism” allegedly linked to Maduro and drug-traffickers active after former President Evo Morales resigned last month. Arturo Murillo, new Minister of the Interior, said he plans to travel to the United States […]
Nov. 26, President Donald Trump during an interview said that the Mexican drug cartels will be designated as terrorist groups for their role in trafficking narcotics and people, bringing the Mexico’s foreign ministry to request meeting with U.S. State Department to address the designation. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-cartels/trump-says-u-s-will-designate-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorists-idUSKBN1Y02NJ 0
Despite not having a common agreed definition of terrorism, we have three elements that appear regularly in all the proposed wordings from different scholars: politics (or ideologies), fear and violence. Therefore, a simple definition would say that terrorism is a kind of violence that has political or religious based goals […]
Source: Notes de Seguretat Blog (https://notesdeseguretat.blog.gencat.cat/2019/11/11/the-present-and-future-of-organised-crime-in-the-european-union/) Organised crime has evolved significantly over the last twenty years, especially in terms of the number of criminal organisations, their modus operandi, the use of technology and organised crime’s ability to infiltrate infrastructures and the public sector and to make the most of legal […]
Providing a definition on Serious Organised Crime is not an easy job as it is a complex phenomenon which has been explored by several disciplines like sociology, law, criminology, anthropology and psychology, among others. Therefore, we can probably find as many definitions as scholars interested in the topic. One of […]