Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Dutch court jails drugs gang who built torture room and cells in containers

Eleven men sentenced after police hack online chat and hear of plans for ‘cutting pliers for fingers and toes’

A Dutch court has sentenced 11 men to between one and nine years for maintaining an “underworld prison” with a torture chamber, hidden in shipping containers, in a case that shocked the Netherlands.

The case revolved around seven containers found by police almost two years ago in a southern Dutch forest, following up on information from a hack of the European-wide EncroChat encrypted phone system, popular with criminal gangs.

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