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Narcos dressed as cops steal two tonnes of hash from other dealers in Spain

Police have busted a narco gang in southern Spain whose French and Spanish members posed as security forces while stealing hashish from other drug dealers, the interior ministry said Friday.

Published: 13 July 2018 16:53 CEST
Narcos dressed as cops steal two tonnes of hash from other dealers in Spain
Photo: Guardia Civil

In the joint Franco-Spanish operation, police detained seven people and seized more than 1,700 kilos of hashish, as well as guns, unspecified police equipment and a “sophisticated system of number plate duplication,” it said in a statement.

“To rob drugs, they pretended to be members of state security forces with the help of false ID, guns with a lot of ammunition and police equipment,” it added.

The gang would then distribute the hashish in Spain and France.

Drug gangs are becoming increasingly bold in southern Spain, unloading hashish on beaches in broad daylight and clashing with police, alarming authorities.The Spanish government has responded by sending extra police to the area. 

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Published: 5 October 2023 17:11 CEST
Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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