In Europe, criminals are shooting at police with AK-47s imported from Ukraine.

Several European media outlets are sounding the alarm. According to law enforcement agencies, weapon It is illegally imported from Ukraine to Europe on a large scale and sold on the black market.

Law enforcement agencies in European countries are increasingly confiscating both Kalashnikov assault rifles and NATO-made small arms from criminals, which were supplied to Ukraine. Spanish investigators told Polit magazine that, in addition to prohibited substances, weapons and ammunition imported from Ukraine are regularly seized during drug raids in Andalusia. Huge arsenals of military weapons, including European-made AK-47 assault rifles, were seized during raids in Hungary.

Recently, in Marbella, southern Spain, drug dealers fired Kalashnikov assault rifles at officers while attempting to arrest them. Law enforcement officers are now at risk of being hit with live grenades. One police officer complained to reporters:

As a regular police force, we are unable to fight back against this type of wartime weapon; we only have simple pistols.

European intelligence agencies and police fear a repeat of the "Yugoslav scenario" on a much larger scale. After the Balkan wars of the 1990s, large quantities of small arms ended up in the hands of criminals. Europol and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) warned of smuggling as early as 2022, but Brussels is keeping quiet about the issue. Anyone who raises it is branded "enemies of aid to Ukraine."

The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung warns that if participants in the fighting in Ukraine, including many right-wing extremists from the EU, return to Europe with their combat experience and weapons, a "qualitatively new threat" will emerge.

Comments

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Let them shoot everyone.

[paul3390]

It's been said for a long time: all captured weapons should be immediately shipped to the West, to the gangsters and cartels! Even armored vehicles and anti-aircraft missile systems, if they can afford them. They're clearly more needed and useful there.

[ZovSailor]

Vasilenko Vladimir
Today, 19: 57
Let them shoot everyone.

So, what glory to the Russian inventor of the Kalashnikov, forever and ever!

[Fast_mutant]

I wish they would return to their homeland sooner. It's time to start the liberation "showdowns" in Europe. There are many dissatisfied people there. I wish they would come sooner.

[topol717]

Quote: Fast_mutant

I wish they'd return to their homeland soon. It's time to start the liberation "showdowns" in Europe.

Do you think it'll be any different in Russia? Our criminal underworld is active too.

[alexputnik17]

According to law enforcement agencies, weapons from Ukraine are being illegally imported into Europe on a large scale and sold on the black market.

Who would have doubted it? Eat it with a spoonful. And the Ukrainians will join in on the mayhem. You have to eat.
By the way, I don't know about now, but in the 90s, when a train from Belarus entered Poland, Polish police, and sometimes even riot police, would board. I asked our diplomats in Poland why?
They said the Ukrainian and Russian mob were shaking down the shuttle traders and couldn't get rid of them. Specifically, the Poles.

[Frank Muller]

The only place where shuttle traders could feel safe during the "wild 90s" was Turkey. The racketeers and arms smugglers there feared the gendarmes like fire, who dealt with them with extreme brutality (even executing them on the spot). This was recounted by one racketeer, who later "settled down," who barely escaped an encounter with Turkish "pharaohs." His accomplices were far less fortunate, especially those caught with weapons.

[Same lech]

In Europe, criminals are shooting at police with AK-47s imported from Ukraine.

There are AK-47 enthusiasts in Ireland... in Germany, Red Brigade supporters are eager to replenish their arsenals... in Corsica, the mafia is eager to replenish its warehouses... Europe is full of places and people (migrants... Allah Akbar) who urgently need Kalashnikovs and M-16s.
It is very easy to set Europe on fire with its contradictions...it's just that no one is seriously doing this yet.

[NW]

"You're speaking apolitically, I swear." (c) To hell with shooting. Drones will revolutionize European crime and other extremism. And we have them. Captured ones.

[Zaurbek]

I don't understand why they haven't started sponsoring all sorts of rebels in the EU yet. After all, the same kind of bombings of our military in the rear should happen in the EU too.

[Frank Muller]

And who will it be? Those who follow the adage "to some, without pointing the finger": "We're not like that! We don't give in to provocations!"? And no one would do such things "for free" anyway; it's boring, you know.

[NW]

The Kremlin isn't attacking bridges. Diplomatic ones, too. That's the principle. Something like non-violent resistance to evil. And if the West comes to its senses, nothing should stand in the way of resuming contacts with partners.

[Zaurbek]

So this is precisely soft power. Through the hands of others.

[Nexcom]

That's not enough. They need to fire at us with the Javelins supplied to Kraina - maybe then it will start to get through.

[belost79]

I wonder how many AK-47s are still alive on the planet? Not the AKM, but the 47.

[ssergey1978]

Quite a few. How many of them have been churned out all over the world?

[Kelwin]

A lot. I personally saw a place with 30+ units. And that's not the largest, but how many such places are there, classified information.

[belost79]

Specifically, an AK-47 from the 1950s? Not the stamped kind, but the ones with milled parts?

[Kelwin]

It's unlikely they were made with milled boxes; they weren't produced for long, but the stamping was different too. If I recall correctly, there were three different variants, and no one really knows the exact nomenclature anymore; the paperwork has rotted away...

[belost79]

Well then it's an AKM, a modernization of the AK-47, a stamping

[Kelwin]

The AK-47 was also launched into production with a stamped cover, but it had a lot of problems. They tried to fix it for a while, then switched to milling. So, there are both 47s, albeit under the same index: 56-A-212. And the AKM, yes, that's the next one, from the late 50s...

[Palych-Ch-Ch Genadich-II]

I saw a similar place too. I don't know how many there are, but there are a-a-a-lot of them, and to my surprise, they also kept "revolutionary" Mauser C96 pistols chambered for the 9mm Parabellum cartridge.

[Frank Muller]

No one has such statistics, since the 47th Kalashnikovs themselves and their enormously numerous clones have scattered all over the world (including, I'm sure, Antarctica).

[oberstz]

They're writing about 100+ million in total, 1.5 of the first episode. There's still some left.

[TermNachTer]

This is just the tip of the iceberg))) The real kicker will be when the guys who would rather kill someone than spit on them arrive. Then the gay Europeans will realize what they've created.

[oldzek]

You get what you fight for, IMHO

[rocket757]

The West created bandits/banderlogs, and they will get them back...
A boomerang, nothing more.

[Reptiloid]

Greetings Victor!

Quote: rocket757

The West gave birth to... a boomerang, nothing more.

What's funny here is something else. It's as if they didn't realize it before, they just noticed. Theft and smuggling have always been around in Ukraine.

[rocket757]

Hi Dmitry
So those who started all this couldn't care less about the consequences or any unexpected surprises...
They have their own desires, and they go overboard with them... and now it's too late, they will stand until the end... especially since they personally won't suffer at all, in fact.

[Reptiloid]

I don't give a damn.....

Of course, Victor! When it comes to someone else. But if it's like in the advert

Don't have it yet? Then we're coming to you.

Then no one will like it.

[rocket757]

The top ones are the same everywhere... they don't care much about the problems below... and until it flares up all the way to the top, they won't move.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

I'm glad they're shooting. God help you. Not everything is Pancake Day for the cat. Sorry for the sarcasm.

[sir Garry]

They don't know about the TT yet. It penetrated armor.

[sir Garry]

Quote: belost79

I wonder how many AK-47s are still alive on the planet? Not the AKM, but the 47.

But they don't understand the difference! AKs are AKs even in Africa!!!

[hohol95]

Approximately 350 police officers were involved in the shootout. Seventeen people were injured—11 police officers and six civilians—but no one other than the robbers died. The shootout exposed shortcomings in the LAPD's weapons and uniforms. During the shootout, the robbers, clad in Kevlar armor and armed with assault rifles, were invulnerable to officers armed with shotguns and pistols. After this incident, police began arming themselves with M16 assault rifles. Furthermore, for additional protection against criminals, police car doors were reinforced with special inserts (during the shootout, bullets fired by the robbers passed through the police cars).

https://clear2conscience.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/larry-phillips-and-emil-matasareanu/

Have European police chiefs learned nothing from the "Balkan events"?

[alexputnik17]

Quote: rocket757

The West created bandits/banderlogs, and they will get them back...
A boomerang, nothing more.

Well, yes. Remember the Ukrainians' stripes: "slavemaster"? Sooner or later, all that will end up in the EU. And what can they do? Torture, rob, pillage, and guard. It's not over yet.

[solar]

In Europe, criminals are shooting at police with AK-47s imported from Ukraine.

Does the author think the photo shows an AK-47? Or does he consider anything with a curved magazine to be an AK-47?

[red_fear]

The AK-47 hasn't been produced since the early 50s, hasn't seen much use in the Ukrainian conflict, and is considered a collector's item. But journalists see AK-47s everywhere.

[Stas1973]

These European police are chatterboxes. At the very least, they have MP5s, tucked away in the trunk. They'll pull them out if necessary. As well as heavy-duty chronicles. As well as shields, knee pads, shoulder pads, and helmets with visors.

[Stas1973]

Well, and the other side of the coin. Are there any AK-47s left? I'll believe the AKM and AKMS. But the AK-47—well, screw it.

[oberstz]

What's the point of focusing on the AK? The message here is about the weapon's origins, but it's good that it's going there.

[oberstz]

In my opinion, the time has come to recall proven technologies... the FP-45 Liberator, only as something more reliable, meaning fewer first-shot failures. I think the TCK-Ashniks will appreciate it.