Firefighters and police officers mobilized on a tip-off at dawn last Monday, fire in a house in the gardeninside MurciaAfter their discovery, he alerted the National Police Force: inside the house, in addition to abandoned clothing, there was dirt, a flaming mattress, tied light, and a woodland. give a stimulant, a small arsenal of combat weapons, including several Kalashnikovs.
After a night of guarding guns, both Local and National agents, Scientific Police Brigade He bought the house located in La Azacaya, where the Livestock Fair was held. i did it while searching footprints, DNA, remains qwhich may lead to the identification and later arrest of those responsible, three dogs considered potentially dangerousthey were probably there to protect the property.
When suspects are identified, weapons smuggling, among other crimes, war weapons depotillegal possession forbidden weaponsdrug trafficking and smuggling.
While she prays Weapons RegulationsThe acquisition, possession and use of war weapons such as the aforementioned Kalashnikov by individuals is not allowed.
There are artifacts that spiral out of control due to Russia’s invasion of Zelensky’s country: the soldier carrying him falls and is taken away.
When asked how these banned weapons reached the Murcian lands, the State Security Forces and the members of the organization that arrived in the Region said that these artifacts they come from gunfights and the mafia smuggle them overland into spainin the trunks of cars and vans Schengen areaThey don’t have to pass any checks.
The Schengen area is the area made up of 27 European countries that have removed internal borders. Among them is not Ukraine, which was occupied by Putin’s Russia about a year ago. Since then, a war has been waged in the producing region. “uncontrolled weapons” that have become “candy” for gangstersas stated by the same sources.
Interpol warned
For example, a rifle carried by a person would be out of control. soldier shot down. Criminal organizations collect the gun added to their ‘book’ on illegal devices, especially for doing business on the internet.
In the summer, Interpol increase in the illegal arms trade after the war In Ukraine and other continents, those deadly tools were running out. Likewise, the Secretary General of Interpol reminded that the same thing happened in the war in the Balkans and When the US withdrew from Afghanistan And military arsenal left in the country.
Criminal networks control secret mountain passes and even ‘smear’ border guards
The way gangsters, who are elaborate agents specializing in the area, work, control: there is security at both borders, where they “infect” the guards with money to turn a blind eye, until mountain passes information, which no one watched and eventually accessed the Schengen area. Where road transport is a priori safe, taking into account the fact that it is made from a vehicle that does not attract special attention. To pass several guns at once, they prefer vans to cars as a matter of space.
Last summer the Civil Guard carried out the so-called action. Operation ‘Say’, where a dozen people, including one in Molina de Segura, were arrested for alleged membership of an organization dedicated to arms and ammunition smuggling. At that time, 339 firearms, 37,426 metal cartridges of different calibers, 13.2 kilos of gunpowder and silencers, and other artifacts were seized.
They appeared at Molinense’s house three long guns, four short guns, a revolver frame, two boxes of powder, two inert mortar bombs, a hand grenade, ammunition of various calibers, and other basic firearm parts and tools for making them. They sold online and shipped the goods in postal parcels.
As for clients, these are people who illegally hold firearms, so cannot buy parts or ammo from legal gun shops.
a priority
«Possible links between arms trafficking and the USA organized crime To make the fight against this threat one of the priorities of both the national security strategy and the European Union, therefore the Civil Guards are constantly striving to identify and neutralize the channels for the illegal supply of firearms in our country. “, emphasizes the Corps.
in the last five yearsIn Spain, more than a hundred operations were carried out against arms-trafficking networks, resulting in the arrest of almost five thousand people and the seizure of more than 5,000 firearms, most of them military.