National Police agents dismantled an organization dedicated to recruit Swedish miners and the Danes to commit murders and attacks using explosive devices. As reported this Wednesday in a press release from the National Police, the operation began with the arrest in Benalmádena (Málaga) of a minorof Swedish nationality, who had been recruited by this group and had gone to Spain to murder to the member of a rival biker group. The police action prevented the crime from being committed.
As detailed by the Police, this young man had been the subject of a recruitment procedure, via social networksthen sent to Spain to commit the murder. For the commission of this fact, the members of the network planned to send a assault rifle and planned an escape plan, which would initially use an electric scooter.
In a parallel and coordinated manner, it stopped at Denmark to two other minors, also of Swedish nationality, who had gone to this country with the intention of commit another murder, from whom two other firearms were seized.
The second phase of the operation, carried out jointly with the police of Sweden and Denmark and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, was tasked with locating, identifying and arresting members of the organization that recruited these young people, ordered the murders, managed arms and drug trafficking and laundered the money. The investigation revealed that he was part of this criminal network. a married couple and their youngest sonwho played a fundamental role in hiring and paying other minors responsible for carrying out the murders, alongside his father.
Alicante
Thus, at the beginning of November, GOES agents searched a house in San Juan (Alicante), where the parents and minor members of the organization were detained. Here accommodation This is where all the activity of the organization was centralized and constituted as “operations center”, from where they managed the social media accounts used to recruit the young people and give subsequent orders for the execution of the murders.
According to the National Police, the investigation also revealed a significant criminal network between Sweden and Eastern European countries.
Europol
As detailed by the National Police, its agents, together with other police officers from Sweden and Denmark, under the coordination of EUROPOL and EUROJUST, carried out this operation using security instruments. funding from the European Union. “This strategy focuses on four key points: establishing a future-proof security environment, combating emerging threats, protecting European citizens against terrorism and organized crime and forging a strong European security ecosystem,” adds the police press release.
To achieve these objectives, the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) of the European Commission, in collaboration with EU agencies and specific EU funds, such as the Internal Security Fund (ISF ), for its acronym in English), support the Member States States in the fight against criminal threats through coordinated operations aimed at dismantling criminal networks and their business models.
