Greek Police Seize Weapons Cache, Arrest 13 Linked to Turkish Gang

The suspects, 7 men and six women, were recovered with 147 pistols and dozens of magazines. Credit: AMNA

Greek constabulary said connected Friday they had arrested 13 Turkish nationals successful the northeastern borderline municipality of Soufli aft seizing a ample cache of firearms believed to beryllium destined for members of the notorious Turkish pack known arsenic the “Daltons.”

The suspects, 7 men and six women, were recovered with 147 pistols and dozens of magazines aft allegedly entering Greece illegally by crossing the Evros River, which forms portion of the borderline with Turkey, constabulary said.

Police sources said the weapons had been hidden successful a cache and that officers staged an ambush successful the country to intercept the recipients. After a lengthy operation, the suspects were tracked down and detained.

Authorities judge the firearms were intended for pack members operating successful Greece and successful different European countries, peculiarly Spain.

The arrests were carried retired by officers from the Northern Greece Organized Crime Sub-Directorate. An probe is ongoing.

In caller years, Greece has seen a important emergence successful the fig of Turkish nationals progressive successful shootings oregon arrests for weapon possession.

Police sources person linked the summation to a bigger beingness successful Greece of Turkish criminal pack members who person fled Turkey and clashed with each different connected overseas ground.

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