Five foreigners wanted by the Cypriot authorities for various crimes, from murder to armed robbery, are among the 92 most wanted in Europe by Europol. Among them two dangerous thugs who belong to the "Pink Panthers" organization who rob jewelry stores.
A list published every year by the European Police includes the names of notorious criminals wanted for their involvement in organized crime. As the Police spokesperson Christos Andreou explained to "F", the slogan of this year's campaign by Europol and the European Network of Active Search Teams for Searching Wanted Persons/ENFAST is: "You could dismantle the network - #GameOver". In fact, graphics were prepared for the campaign which revolve around a series of playing cards, representing different types of criminals:
– Rigas: Head of criminal organizations
– Checkers: Drug dealers
– Vales: Violent criminals
– Joker: Organizer
The slogan "You could dismantle the network - #GameOver", is based on the idea that a criminal network is like a deck of cards. Each card plays a role, supporting the tower and the criminal network. A piece of information that leads to the location of a wanted person removes a card from the deck of cards and the entire criminal network can come crashing down.
Those wanted by the Cypriot authorities are:
- Mehmet Akpinar, 28 years old Turkish citizen and Ahmed Sali, 49 years old from Bulgaria. They are wanted for the stabbing death of British national George Henry Lowe on 14/8/2016 in Ayia Napa and the attempted stabbing death of a second Briton, also with a knife.
-Goran Milasinovic, 43 years old from Montenegro wanted for armed robbery, described as dangerous. According to the details provided by Europol, on 28/02/09, three armed men entered a jewelry store in Limassol and stole various jewelry items worth €212.936. From the evidence collected by the Police, his DNA profile was matched and identified. The person in question is believed to be part of the wider Pink Panthers criminal group.
-Goran Mladenovic, 54 years old from Serbia who is described as dangerous. On 16/12/2012, two perpetrators believed to belong to the Pink Panthers crime ring broke the wall and entered a jewelry store in Limassol from an adjacent building and managed to steal valuables amounting to €617.081,77. They fled after being chased by a security guard. Forensic examination of the scene was able to isolate a DNA profile that matched that of the wanted man.
-Alex Burrell, 54 years old Albanian. On 23/06/2016 and at approximately 22:10 in Ayia Napa the fugitive and an accomplice wearing hoods entered a restaurant and with pistols and automatics killed three people (a businessman, a policeman and his wife in the presence of two minor children) and wounded seriously a second police officer and another person who were at the scene. Also, from the exchange of gunfire, the fugitive's accomplice was shot and killed on the spot. The fugitive fled the scene in a car which was later found on fire. At an earlier stage the person in question conspired to commit other murders in Cyprus as part of the same criminal ring that organized the killing in Ayia Napa.
Source: philenews