Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
The number of eruptions is increasing dramatically in Europe. In addition, the explosives with which criminals target ATMs are becoming increasingly more dangerous. This is what was issued by the European Police Office "Europol" and carried by the Belgian news agency in Brussels. Claire George, spokeswoman for Europol, told the German News Agency, "Researchers have noticed this trend in many European countries, especially Germany, southern Europe and the Baltic states."
The spokeswoman said that the bombings are often the work of well-organized criminal gangs that specialize in this type of crime and often operate internationally.
"It's the recent bank robberies," she said.
Exact figures for the whole of Europe are not available at the moment, because EU member states only report international cases to the European Police Authority.
While media reports in Brussels indicated that there were a hundred armed robberies on banks in Belgium
Only one bank was robbed in Belgium last year. Ten years ago, there were 44, in 2006 the number of armed bank robberies reached 146. The media quoted the Federal Police "No longer do the perpetrators take risks because bank branches are now better protected, but also because there is no money left to collect." The number of thieves has also decreased and criminals have for some time stopped investing their energies in stealing money transfers