Posted on 06/12/2009 11:31:26 AM PDT by Schnucki
Open EU borders are a paradise for weapons and human smugglers, senior Danish police officers say.
Senior Danish police officers are complaining that the EU’s open borders under the Schengen agreement have made it simple for criminal groups to smuggle weapons and women into Denmark.
“The Schengen agreement has made it much easier to move weapons around Europe and to get them into Denmark. This is a problem as crime becomes much more serious when weapons are involved,” says Henrik Svindt of the Copenhagen Special Unit for Gang Crime and Women Traficking.
The issue of how to stop weapons and women smuggling into Denmark has risen on the Danish political agenda after the Social Democratic Party recently suggested stricter border controls. The Danish People’s Party has demanded for some time that border controls should be introduced.
DOCUMENTATION: What is the Schengen area? (External link)
Weapons Svindt is not prepared to say whether border controls should be re-introduced, but notes that the parties to the current gang warfare in Denmark are able to get hold of AK47 and Uzi automatic weapons with ease. The weapons are often smuggled to Denmark from the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
The National Commissioner’s Office has confiscated more than 170 weapons over the past two months, although it is not clear how they got into the country.
Svindt says the current situation cannot be compared to the situation before borders were opened in 2001.
“Criminals used to bash each other up. Now there is a tendency that criminals are more willing to use firearms,” Svindt says.
Woman The Head of Copenhagen Police Women’s Trafficking Unit René Hansen says human traffickers hardly need to speculate on how to get women into Denmark.
“Once the prostitutes are in the Schengen area, it’s easy to send them up here
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There’s something fishy in Denmark.
Great movie.
A veritable, ‘Iron Ocean Liner’ of US weapons fueling the drug war in Denmark!
I LIKE it!
As long as they are good looking women. :)
Little known fact in this country, Denmark makes the best cigarettes in the world. Probably trading women and weapons for smokes. A preview of the new global economy.
Obama and Congress’ fault.
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