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Crackdown on Latin American Crime Gangs Europe - Spain 22 Sep 2005 - Expatica <http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=2 3886&name=Crackdown+on+La> The capital's new police chief announces a crackdown on the Latin American gangs behind a rising tide of violent crime. Enrique Baron said doing away with Latin American gangs is one of his priorities, because the "maras," as they are called, have become a serious public safety problem. "Steps are being taken" to end the violence associated with the gangs "in the sense of reinforcing existing mechanisms and equipping units with all necessary human and material resources," Baron said. In his first public address as police chief, Baron stressed the need to combat "all forms of complex criminality," including organized crime and illegal immigration, "especially where it entails the extortion and exploitation of the most disadvantaged." Crimes linked to the "maras" have multiplied in Spain in recent years, especially in the larger cities. The phenomenon is difficult to control because minors are usually involved. Brawls and revenge attacks among such gangs as the "Latin Kings" and the "Ñetas" are increasingly observed in the suburbs of such cities as Barcelona and Madrid, where police have identified at least 400 gang members. Most gang members are male, and 80 percent of them Ecuadorian, but there are also Dominicans, Colombians, Peruvians and even some Spaniards, all engaged in vying for turf. Even though they commit minor thefts and hold-ups to buy food or for the thrill of intimidating people, gang members seldom live off crime and, according to police, pose no serious threat to the population at large, "because their rivalries are among themselves," a police investigator told EFE. Copyright Expatica News 2005 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
