Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The pandemic is ruining international travel, even for smugglers, who are working to make up lost ground but were busted this week trying to use cupcakes and bananas to get their stuff into port. Let me tell you about it.
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The Mob Reporter here with news of how international cartels are shifting to European ports further east as ports in the west face stiffer police interventions. Interventions came in the port of Piraeus in Greece and the port of PloÄe in Croatia. These flare ups of large busts in more out of the way places seems part of a reorganization of shipping routes after massive interdiction in Germany, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands.
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Music is by Anonimo.
Locator maps created in Google Earth Studio.
Balloon animal video by Antonius Ferret from Pexels .
Port of Piraeus photos from the Piraeus Port Authority at https://www.olp.gr/.
PloÄe video from Grad PloÄe at youtube.com/channel/UCjRx4Vnv7pJiz1DdAxNxd6A.
Italian port video from Interpol.
Thumbnail cupcake photos by Vojtech Okenka from Pexels.
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The pandemic is ruining international travel, even for smugglers, who are working to make up lost ground but were busted this week trying to use cupcakes and bananas to get their stuff into port. Let me tell you about it.
CHECK OUT MY BONUS CONTENT AND PERKS ON PATREON: patreon.com/TheMobReporter
The Mob Reporter here with news of how international cartels are shifting to European ports further east as ports in the west face stiffer police interventions. Interventions came in the port of Piraeus in Greece and the port of PloÄe in Croatia. These flare ups of large busts in more out of the way places seems part of a reorganization of shipping routes after massive interdiction in Germany, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands.
LINK TO MY BANANA VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=ullR0vuFPnQ
Music is by Anonimo.
Locator maps created in Google Earth Studio.
Balloon animal video by Antonius Ferret from Pexels .
Port of Piraeus photos from the Piraeus Port Authority at https://www.olp.gr/.
PloÄe video from Grad PloÄe at youtube.com/channel/UCjRx4Vnv7pJiz1DdAxNxd6A.
Italian port video from Interpol.
Thumbnail cupcake photos by Vojtech Okenka from Pexels.
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![Hungry hijack crew finally smacked â âPlanenschlitzer gangâ
A prolific crew of bandits hijacking transport truck cargo â from whisky and perfume to laptops and sneakers â along Europeâs main highways has been busted by police in three countries. Let me tell you about it.
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The Mob Reporter here with news of the Planenschlitzer Bande. Thatâs German for âthe Tarpaulin Slashers.â They came at night, quietly and quickly, at rest stops and truck stops along highways and autobahns, slicing open the sides of trucks as the drivers slept. Police said they were about 30 to 50 strong.
They knew exactly what to look for and where to find it, because â and hereâs the thing â many of them are professional truck drivers themselves, moonlighting, so to speak
It was a coordinated police operation that took them down this week, authorities said on Nov. 26, 2021, a joint European policing action, coordinated by Europol, mobilizing a considerable force of French, German and Romanian police. About 57 houses, apartments, storage units and vehicles were raided late last week. 46 of them in Romaniaâs region of DâmboviČa and 11 in Germanyâs GĂźtersloh. At least 15 people were arrested
Investigators seized piles of consumer goods and luxury items. In Germany, for example, there was 50 boxes of expensive sports shoes and boxes of kitchen knives. In Romania, 100 boxes of laptop computers; 100 boxes of perfume and cosmetics; piles of new TVs; high-quality shoes, designer clothing; expensive wine, cognac and Scotch whisky; power tools, bicycles, tires, fuel, and lots and lots of TVs and other electronics.
Policing and government officials praised this operation as an example of cross-border cooperation to match the border-hopping gangsters, who preyed on Europeâs motorways. For them, this may be the end of the road. Thanks for watching.
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Music is âThe Stoic and the Sailorâ by Unicorn Heads
A10 video from VINCI Autoroutesâ promotional videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQKvsnEvE3uCmK4lKYmORQ
A30 to Amsterdam sign photo by Jochen Teufel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6415526
A2 sign to Berlin photo by M.Minderhoud - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2209028
Joan of Arc art from Eugène Lenepveu - [3], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=803067
Planenschlitzer scene photos by https://www.eurotransport.de/ and http://www.planenschlitzer.at/
Planenschlitzer recreation by LKA Polizei;
Drone night highway video by Altaf Shah, Night traffic time lapse by HerveĚ Piglowski, Highway night video by Evgenij Mikhailov, from Pexels.
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