Art

'Portrait of a Lady': After years of 'hiding', Klimt work now on show

Mystery swirls around 'Portrait of a Lady', a Gustav Klimt painting believed to have been stolen - and later found not hanging on a wall, but stashed inside one.

27 October 2021

Italy

Man asks police to jail him because life at home is 'unbearable'

The carabinieri in Tivoli said the 30-year-old Albanian national, who was under house arrest, "could no longer cope with the forced cohabitation with his wife".

25 October 2021

Sweden

Prominent 19-year-old Swedish rapper Einár shot dead in Stockholm

Police are looking for at least two suspects who allegedly shot the rapper, whose real name is Nils Gronberg.

22 October 2021

Netherlands

Two men on trial accused of murdering Dutch crime reporter

Both suspects were present for Monday's preliminary hearing at Amsterdam District Court.

18 October 2021

Netherlands

Suspect threatened to kill Dutch PM Mark Rutte, court documents show

A man arrested in July had threatened to kill Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, according to court documents.

13 October 2021

Denmark

Violent criminals face bans from popular night-life areas in Denmark

On Monday, a 31-year-old man was banned from going to nightlife areas in Copenhagen for eight months under a new law.

11 October 2021

Netherlands

Two found guilty of kiling Dutch lawyer linked to organised crime case

Two young men have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2019 killing of a Dutch lawyer, who represented a witness in a high-profile organised crime trial.

11 October 2021

France

French ex-leader Sarkozy jailed over illegal campaign financing

Sarkozy, 66, who denied any wrongdoing, was not in court to face the ruling. His lawyer has confirmed that he will appeal.

30 September 2021

United Kingdom

Man appears in UK court charged with murder of Sabina Nessa

Metropolitan police charged a 36-year-old man with the murder of the 28-year-old primary school teacher on Monday.

28 September 2021

France

Carlos the Jackal: Paris court upholds terrorist's third life sentence

The convicted Venezuelan terrorist known as the "Carlos the Jackal" has has his third life sentence upheld, which was handed down for a 1974 grenade attack in Paris.

23 September 2021

France

Solitary confinement? Monks in France charged over 5G mast attack

They argued their act was "to protect the population from the harmful effects" of 5G, according to Villefranche prosecutor Laëtitia Francart.

22 September 2021

World News

Over 100 arrested in Spain and Italy in major money-laundering sting

Spanish and Italian police have arrested 106 people connected to a gang that allegedly laundered money for mafia groups and made millions of euros through online scams.

20 September 2021

Denmark

Denmark set to ban life-term prisoners from new romances

Prisoners will be able to maintain contact by letter or telephone with people who were close to them before their detention.

17 September 2021

France

Police arrest armed robbers who stole €10m from Paris jewellery store

French police have arrested three suspects after armed robbers stole €10m worth of jewellery from a Paris store on Place Vendome.

7 September 2021

Finland

Three Finnish teenagers convicted of torturing fellow student to death

The case has also revealed flaws in Finland's social care homes for young people.

3 September 2021

Money

Sweden gives three drug dealers back their Bitcoin worth €1.3 million

Authorities will hand back the seized crypto after a prosecutor demanded the then-cash value of the tokens. It's now worth ten times as much.

25 August 2021

Germany

Teacher accused of cannibalism goes on trial in Germany

A teacher in Germany went on trial on Tuesday, suspected of killing a man and eating pieces of his body.

10 August 2021

Italy

Italian police nab woman reputed to be Naples crime boss

Maria Licciardi, 70, was one of the victors in a long-running blood feud between alliances of clans that left Naples littered nearly daily with bodies earlier this century, prosecutors say.

7 August 2021

Money

The EU is making Bitcoin traceable, closing crypto loophole

The proposed new rules will make it harder to use crypto to launder proceeds of crime, the European Commission said.

21 July 2021

Netherlands

Dutch journalist Peter De Vries has died of his injuries, say family

De Vries, known for his reporting about the criminal underworld, was shot in Amsterdam on July 6.

15 July 2021