Crime
The past week in crime, newest first
Crime Aftermath of 2026 French supermarket refrigerator hack
Freezers and refrigerators in supermarkets in multiple European countries are targeted by a cyberattack, causing them to overheat.
Crime Trafficking of Chinese nationals to scam centers abroad
Madagascar's justice ministry announces dismantling 13 Chinese-run scam centers since August, linked to 148 Chinese nationals who had previously operated scam centers in Cambodia, and who might have been involved in trafficking Africans to commit fraud. The 148 Chinese are extradited to China.
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Earlier this week
- Algerian-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil returns to Columbia University in New York City, United States, after immigration authorities detained him for more than three months over his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests before a federal judge ordered his release.Crime · 27 Oct
- Nigerian police arrest 34 foreigners, including 16 Cameroonians and 18 Nigeriens, suspected of engaging in "illicit activities" in Benue State. The commissioner opens an investigation into their immigration status.Crime · 27 Oct
- Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the United States, despite orders to surrender his passports to the Federal Police, two days after his defeat in the presidential election runoffs to incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The government subsequently cancels Bolsonaro's passports, while the U.S. grants him and his family visas.Crime · 27 Oct
- An Egyptian court orders independent news website Mada Masr to close after convicting editor-in-chief Lina Attalah of operating without a licence. The court also fines her E£3,000,000 (US$53,500) and orders the outlet's equipment confiscated.Crime · 27 Oct
- Brazilian police orders senator Flávio Bolsonaro to surrender his passports after Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes barred him from leaving Brazil, one day after Bolsonaro lost the runoff of the general election to incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.Crime · 26 Oct
- A Swiss court convicts former Belarusian security officer Yuri Harauski over the 1999 abduction of businessman Anatol Krasouski, later killed, and gives him a two-year suspended sentence. He is acquitted over Yury Zacharanka's enforced disappearance.Crime · 26 Oct
- The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation announces they have arrested nine people involved in Nigerian scam centers, as part of an international operation targeting organised crime in Nigeria, locating $11 million in funds purloined by the scammers.Crime · 26 Oct