An arms trafficking baron, who sold his rifles to hitmen throughout Europe, arrested in Poland

How many of these submachine guns arrived in France? A gun trafficking kingpin has been arrested in Poland, after a long investigation by numerous police services across Europe, including Austrian, Czech, Swedish and German.

The arrested individual, a Polish national, hid in his house and in the heart of a neighboring forest no less than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, dozens of revolvers, submachine guns and rifles, as well as barrels, handles, breechblocks, barrels. …which he then passed to gangs throughout Europe. Everything was hidden in barrels buried underground.

According to the European criminal police agency Europol, which coordinated with its judicial counterpart Eurojust the various police services on the continent, the suspect was arrested while transporting kit weapons – much simpler – from Austria. to conceal.

Former gunsmith

A former gunsmith, the accused had acquired over the years a fine expertise in weapons and the European legislation surrounding them. He thus discovered a “Legal loophole regarding weapons parts in Austria, which facilitated its illegal activities”specifies Europol this Tuesday, November 26. In this country, he therefore supplied himself with cannons or breeches, before sending them or transporting them himself to Poland. Once home, he assembled the weapons before approaching gangs to resell them.

Dozens and dozens of weapons, including automatic weapons, were sold to criminal networks in Poland, Germany, Belgium and Lithuania, according to the police agency. In Sweden, the authorities discovered the pot of roses: the weapons sold were used by hired killers, belonging to an ultraviolent gang. Following these discoveries, the investigation services of different countries followed the trail of the individual, particularly in Poland, where he was placed under surveillance. He was finally arrested in recent days.