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Facebook fibbers making Helsinki police blue


Police in Finland’s capital have issued advice about ‘Facebook crime’, as complaints about online pranksters are keeping cops busy. Hannu Kortelainen, of the Helsinki police, has revealed that gripes about the popular social networking site come flooding into the station on a daily basis. Read the full story

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Sweden drops rape charges against Wikileaks boss


Prosecutors in Sweden have defended their decision to issue and then withdraw an arrest warrant on rape charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. According to the chief prosecutor, the allegations were dismissed after additional information was received. Read the full story

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Family of murdered Icelandic chocolate company boss appeals for help


The family of the Icelandic businessman Hannes Thor Helgason, who was found murdered in his Hafnarfjordur home lunchtime on Sunday, are requesting the public’s help in finding his killer. Read the full story

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Naked German women get lost in Swedish woods


A helicopter search party and sniffer dogs were called off in southern Sweden last week, after three naturist German ramblers found their way out of the woods by themselves. Read the full story

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Three arrested in Finland for supplying deadly drug


Three people have been arrested in Finland on suspicion of trafficking an extremely strong narcotic that has killed two people in Kuopio. Police in North Savo have seized a quantity of fentanyl, which is dozens of times stronger than heroine, and last week claimed the lives of two young adults in the central Finnish city. Read the full story

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Make-believe war games prompt real-life siege in Denmark


A game of cops and robbers became a little too authentic for two Danish teenagers this week, after armed police turned their fantasy into reality. Officers drew their weapons and demanded the boys to stand down after hearing reports of ‘armed black-clad men’ near a bank in Vemmelev. Read the full story

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Seven arrested in Iceland theft case


Reykjavik capital region police yesterday arrested seven people in Hafnarfjordur in connection to raids which revealed a huge stash of stolen goods. Read the full story

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Swede arrested in cocaine car smuggling plot


A Swedish man has been arrested in the US on suspicion of being part of a major cocaine smuggling ring. The 47-year-old, who has not been named, is accused of planning to hide 12 kilos of the class-A drug in car interiors before shipping them to Sweden. Read the full story

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Swedish policeman fired for bad taste blogs


suspicion-littleA Swedish police officer has been sacked after publishing a series of lewd online blogs about his job. Staff at the National Police Agency’s disciplinary board dismissed the man with immediate effect. The officer’s name has not been released but it is known that he worked at a station in Skane in southern Sweden. Read the full story

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Icelandic police protest pay contract delay


alþingiAround 100 police officers gathered to protest outside the Icelandic parliament today to draw attention to the fact that their collective wage contract ran out a year ago. Read the full story

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