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Cops seize illegal Asian abortion drugs

Spanish police said on Saturday they had seized hundreds of thousands of packets of unlicensed medicine illegally imported from China and India, including abortion drugs and erection aids.

Published: 29 June 2013 18:12 CEST
Cops seize illegal Asian abortion drugs
Photo: Guardia Civil

The Civil Guard "seized more than 250,000 units of illegal medicine, mostly related to erectile dysfunction, slimming and abortion practices," it said in a statement.

About a quarter of the drugs seized came from India and more than half from China, which the police said were mainly destined for the large Chinese community resident in Spain.

Police seized the medicines in three weeks of raids at shops and airports in Spain after an operation in 30 countries coordinated by the international and European agencies Interpol and Europol.

They shut down 26 websites selling unauthorized medicines, which the police said were "potentially harmful to health".

On June 23rd, police said they had broken up a network selling sports doping products imported to Spain from China, Portugal and Greece.

They arrested 84 people and seized hundreds of thousands of doses of anabolic steroids and other drugs.

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SYRIA

Swiss woman stands trial for attempting to join Islamic State

A 31-year-old woman from Winterthur who tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State (IS) is standing trial under Swiss anti-terror laws.

Published: 15 December 2017 10:35 CET
Swiss woman stands trial for attempting to join Islamic State
The federal criminal court in Bellinzona. Photo: Swiss Confederation/OFCL

The alleged ‘jihadi tourist' appeared before Switzerland's federal criminal court in Bellinzona on Friday, the Swiss news agency SDA reported. 

In December 2015, the woman, accompanied by her four-year-old child, attempted to travel to Syria via Greece and Turkey in order to join IS, the authorities allege. 

Her intended destination was Raqqa, which was at the time an IS stronghold in Syria.

The woman was prevented from continuing her journey by the Greek authorities and was arrested at Zurich airport on her return to Switzerland in January 2016. 

The Swiss attorney general's office filed an indictment against the Swiss national for offences under the federal law that bans terror groups including Isis. 

According to the indictment, the woman radicalized herself through internet propaganda after converting to Islam in 2009.

It says the Swiss national believed it was the duty of all Muslims to support IS.

She said she rejected western values.

This is only the second case concerning a so-called ‘jihadi tourist' to go before Switzerland's federal criminal court. 

The first prosecution of its kind took place in 2016, when a 26-year-old man was found guilty of attempting to travel to join Isis and given an 18-month suspended jail sentence.

Islamic State has been banned in Switzerland since 2014.