ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police on Friday introduced the outcomes of a year-long, multinational investigation right into a Balkan prison gang behind a spate of killings in Europe. The investigation, with help from Interpol and Europol, resulted within the arrest of 10 suspects.
Greek, Serbian and Spanish police have been concerned within the arrests. The last decade-long rivalry between the gangs, primarily associated to drug trafficking, has killed 60 alleged gang members in a number of European nations, based on police Main Normal Fotis Douitsis.
The killings embody two shootings in Greece in 2020, when 4 members of a gang with false identities have been shot lifeless. Two suspected gangsters have been killed in a restaurant close to Athens and two others have been killed in a automobile in a car parking zone in Corfu.
At a information convention in Athens, Greek police additionally stated they’d recognized a complete of 39 suspected members of warring gangs in Serbia and Montenegro.
“In 2014, a prison group break up into two separate rival teams after a cargo of 200 kilograms (440 kilos) of cocaine went lacking in Spain,” Dusis instructed reporters.
Greek police spokesperson Constantia Dimoglidou stated one of many alleged gang members was arrested in Greece earlier this week, seven in Serbia and two in Spain. She stated 17 different gang members have been being held in prisons throughout Europe, together with in Serbia and Montenegro, in addition to in Turkey.
Dimoglidu stated the gangsters used migrant smuggling routes out and in of Greece and used masks and wigs to cover their identities throughout assaults.
She stated prison networks are complicated and have easy accessibility to massive quantities of cash, automobiles, weapons, ammunition and gear.
___
Stojanovic reported from Belgrade, Serbia.