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Director of European police
cooperation group Europol Rob Wainwright of Britain
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The Associated Press reports on the breakthrough the
Europol has recorded against the organized crime infrastructure in Europe with
large scale mass arrests.
A European police official says law enforcement
agencies across the continent have arrested more than 1,000 people in a
nine-day sweep the group's chief calls the "single largest assault on
organized crime we've seen in Europe."
Europol Director Rob Wainwright told reporters
Wednesday that Operation Archimedes targeted almost all kinds of crime ranging
from drug trafficking to illegal immigration, tax fraud, counterfeiting and
theft.
Wainwright says the operation led to 1,027 arrests and
saved 30 Romanian children from being trafficked. It also netted large amounts
of drugs including hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and heroin.
Wainwright
says the operation "has led I think to a very significant attack on the
whole criminal infrastructure in Europe."
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