Criminal Gangs in Europe Are Surging, With an Army of 400,000 Gangsters Working for the Syndicates: EUROPOL

Crime is thriving, but Europe is stagnant.

Under the scourge of unchecked mass migration, Europe saw its violence levels skyrocket.

And besides the random individual delinquency, there’s also a surge in the prevalence of criminal gangs.

A new intelligence report found that Europe’s most dangerous gangs ‘have dramatically expanded their ranks,’ and that hundreds of thousands of members are now running ‘corporations of crime’ in plain sight.

Today, together with Acting Executive director of Europol Jürgen Ebner and the Chief of the Cyprus Police Themistos Arnaoutis, I will present the Europol report “Mapping the Most Dangerous Criminal Networks.”
Follow the press conference live at 11:00. https://t.co/P1EbZidtoP

— Magnus Brunner (@magnusbrunner) June 26, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“A 54-page dossier from Europol, the police agency, has laid bare the scale of drug trafficking, cybercrime and migrant-smuggling operations across the Continent.

An estimated 400,000 gangsters work for criminal syndicates, a five-fold increase in only two years.

The epidemic was summarized in a single sentence by the EU’s head of migration on Friday morning. ‘Criminals are thriving’, said Magnus Brunner as he unveiled the report ‘Decoding the EU’s most threatening criminal networks’ during a press conference in Brussels at the European Commission headquarters.”

GB News reported:

“The report titled “Decoding the EU’s most threatening criminal networks” was unveiled in Brussels at the European Commission headquarters.

There are 731 gangs across Europe that have been classified as the “most threatening criminal networks,” that stretch from Latin America to the Balkans. Police had dismantled 623 gangs between 2024 and 2026; however, 533 new ones have reemerged to take their place.

Mr. Brunner said: ‘Europol found that the criminal groups are very flexible, to put it that way. They shift, they merge, they reinvent themselves constantly making them harder to track on the one hand but also to dismantle on the other. Criminals have learnt to hide in plain sight. In the report two years ago 86 per cent of criminal groups used legal business structures and today it is 85 per cent so nothing has changed. These are not street gangs; these are corporations of crime’.”

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: European Leaders Call On the EU To Simplify Process To Expel Criminal Migrants

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