A large number of weapons sent to Ukraine will fall into the hands of criminals in Europe and beyond, the director general of Interpol worried on Wednesday, urging states to take an interest in monitoring the this weapon.
The widespread availability of weapons during the current conflict will lead to the proliferation of illicit weapons in the post-conflict phase.declared German Jürgen Stock in front of the Association of the Anglo-American press in Paris, where he went from Lyon, the headquarters of Interpol.
Criminals are already focused on this.he continued, seen in the European Union likely destination for these guns, as prices for these guns on the black market are higher in Europe, especially in Scandinavian countries.
Kyiv’s Western allies have sent tons of military equipment to Ukraine, which has been trying for more than three months to repel Russian forces, which already control swaths of its territory to the east and south.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States would give Ukrainians more advanced missile systems and ammunition that will allow them to more accurately hit key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.
But even weapons used by the military, heavy weapons, are available on the criminal marketMr. warned. Stock.
We are already encouraging member countries [d’Interpol, NDLR] -we have a database for sharing information on weapons-to use these databases because no region or country can do it alonehe continued.
” The criminals I’m talking about operate all over the world, so these weapons will be exchanged on continents. “
The conflict in Ukraine has also caused an increase large -scale theft of fertilizer as well as the rise of counterfeit agrochemicals, as the value of these products increasedhe taught, as well as a increasing fuel thefts in Europe for the same reason.
Source: Radio-Canada
