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La police de Grande
Bretagne vient de saisir 7.000 coffres bancaires dans une soit disant chasse au crime, après avoir « appris »
que lesdits coffres pouvaient contenir « de l’argent
liquide, des armes ou des drogues ».
Police hit safes in organised crime
raids
Les faits
rapportés ci-dessous effacent toute possibilité de conserver la
moindre illusion qu’il puisse rester à un citoyen la plus petite
liberté dans l’organisation de la protection de sa vie
privée et de ses biens.
De plus, cet article
jette une pierre dans le jardin de tous ceux qui pensent avoir un semblant de
protection et de discrétion en utilisant un coffre bancaire. Rappelez
vous qu’en 1933, lorsque Roosevelt a confisqué (« nationalisé « )
l’or des citoyens américains, toute personne souhaitant se
rendre à son coffre dans une banque devait être
accompagné d’un policier.
Comme le mentionnait Alexis
de Tocqueville : Dans un pays libre, les finances publiques sont
transparentes et les finances privées sont opaques.
A contrario, chaque jour
qui passe peut nous laisser penser que le chemin que
nous prenons n’est pas celui de la liberté.
Signé : Véner
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Police hit safes in organised crime
raids
Reuters, Tim Castle
Le 2 Juin
 LONDON (Reuters) - Police
seized thousands of safe deposit boxes from three vaults
in central and north London on Monday after receiving intelligence they were
used by criminals to store cash, guns and drugs.
Scotland Yard
said officers raided vaults in Park
Lane, Swiss Cottage and Edgware run by a privately run firm, Safe Deposit
Centres.
Two people were arrested in the raids, which also included
two other business premises and three private addresses in London and Hertfordshire.
Police sources said up to 90 percent of the boxes could
contain the proceeds of crime and other illegal items such as child
pornography.
The vaults are
estimated to contain around 7,000 boxes, although it is unclear how many have
been in use.
"We believe this police operation has the potential to
simultaneously impact upon a large number of criminal networks, in London, nationally and
globally," said Assistant Commissioner John Yates.
"Intelligence gathered over a protracted period has
indicated that there are potential links at these businesses to organised
crime such as paedophilia, firearms, drug
trafficking, fraud, human
trafficking, prostitution and money laundering."
Police will take the boxes away to a secure location. Any
not claimed by their owners will be forced open and the contents
investigated.
"Each safe deposit box will be treated as a single,
potential crime scene," said Yates.
Police said the scale of the raids, codenamed Operation Rize, was unprecedented and involved 300 officers.
Courts have given police warrants to search individual
security boxes in the past, but never this many at one time.
The operation began after police went round safety deposit
firms in London
reminding them of their responsibilities under legislation covering money laundering and the proceeds of crime.
While other firms were found to be compliant, officers
became suspicious about the company raided, which appeared to be turning a
blind eye to the rules.
Tough regulations requiring banks and financial
institutions to "know their customers" have made it difficult for
criminals to deposit large amounts of cash.
A website for the raided business stresses that
"discretion is always assured" and that "you need never
disclose the contents of your box to anyone."
Police said customers wishing to collect their belongings
should not go to the raided vaults
but contact a special call centre on 0800 030 4613.
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