Hooligan crime crackdown

15th April 2011

The CBS is attempting to rid Poland of organised hooligan crime before EURO 2012

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Agents from the CBS, Poland’s internal security agency, donned body armour and wielded sub-machine guns in a series of arrests made on football supporters wanted in connection with organised crime.

The dramatic swoops involving some 300 CBS agents and police officers arrested 21 men - referred to as “pseudo-supporters”- in four provinces as authorities stepped up a campaign to purge the ranks of Polish football supporters of criminals ahead of next year’s European football championship finals.

“Officers from the CBS, working in co-operation with the prosecutor’s office of the Warsaw district of Praga, moved against an organised criminal group that had been distributing drug ...

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