March 28, 2025

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Aleksandropoli: A 55-year-old Turk with a 61 unit of weapons and almost 3,000 ammunition was detained


Employees Border service Greece was detained at sea at Alexander Popoli 55-year-old Turk: For import, smuggling, transportation, storage And Storing Weapons and cartridges in order to transfer them to third parties.

As a result of the audit conducted by the border service on his vessel, 61 units of weapons of various calibers and types (pistols, revolvers, silencers and others) were found with various accessories, as well as 2916 cartridges of various calibers and types suitable for combat use.

At noon on Tuesday, January 28, the Border Service of Alexander Polyis received information that a motor ship with one foreign passenger drifting without control in the sea zone. The patrol vessel approached the scene and took a foreigner who was safely landed in the port.

When checking documents, the detainee found that this is a Turkish citizen who was declared missing in the database Sirene Sis (Crime information system).

The man was delivered to University General Hospital Ewroswhere it remains under the treatment under protection. The weapon discovered, as well as the detainee ship, which was raised to the surface, confiscated for further investigation and laboratory and forensic examinations.

8 Turks were arrested after shooting in glyphad

This is far from the first large batch of weapons seized by the Greek authorities from Turkish citizens. December 11, during a police operation to search for participants in a shootout in Glyphad, an arsenal from 49 pistols of GOK In factory packaging, as well as many cartridges for them. According to the Greek FBI, it is not just about a certain criminal organization (“Baygaralar”one of the largest criminal networks in Turkey), and about the organization that is working closely with the MIT special service. And its goals are not limited only to the criminal direction …



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