"More than 60 criminals appear in the list of Europe's Most Wanted fugitive from killers, kidnappers, terrorists, drug dealers and others. Some are fleeing from punishment or alleged to have committed a very serious crime," Europol said in a statement.
As reported by Al Jazeera on December 2, 2016, the online calendar is intended to ask for help seluaruh European citizens in order to assist Europol locate these criminals so as to make the EU as a safe place for everyone.
Institutions based in The Hague, the Netherlands also announced that starting from December 1, per day will mepublikasikan the most wanted criminals in the EU member states for 23 days till Christmas.
In the first edition. calendar the Christmas edition, published a picture of the fugitive Austria, Tibor Foco, 60, who is wanted for killing women penghibut in March 1986 and sentenced to life in prison.
He escaped from prison in 1995, according to a video on the official website of Europol. A prize of 2,900 euros (USD 40.5 million) offered for any information its existence.
On December 2, the website that published the second fugitive adal Ukraine, Sergey Filipov Georgiev, who killed a Bulgarian citizen in 2011.
The Europol method is quite successful. Since its launch in late January 2016, 24 of the hundreds of most wanted criminals have been arrested.
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