In a recent confidential note, Europol expressed concern about Daesh’s logistics networks, identified several months ago, which are involved in major movements of trafficking and storage of explosives in several Central European countries and the Balkans.
After having disappeared from the radar for years, particularly since the overthrow in October 2014 of the former Burkinabe dictator, Blaise Compaoré, of whom he was the “shadow adviser”, the Mauritanian Mustapha Oueld Limam Chaffi resurfaced as Qatar’s secret envoy.
According to a well-informed source in Washington, the Trump administration has presented to the North Korean government a secret deal about iranien nuclear program.
According to the terms of this agreement, the United States would accept to establish with Pyongyang new diplomatic and economic relations.
Russia is performing a great return to the African continent, through the strengthening of its diplomatic and military presence and of its economic investments.
Information exchanges between several European intelligence services have established that Iran is currently conducting, in a secret military laboratory near Tehran, very advanced researches to produce a powerful and very stable explosive based on cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX 44).
Eliane Houlette, the prosecutor in charge of the financial prosecutor’s office, will retire. The name of Bruno Dalles, the current head of Tracfin, is mentioned to replace her.
The judicial part of the Libyan case of former President Nicolas Sarkozy is now being extended to Djibouti.
A recent note from the intelligence center linked to the European diplomatic services (EU INTCEN) expresses concern over a new type of repercussions that EU countries could suffer as a result of the tightening of American sanctions against Iran and the risks of an armed conflict with the Islamic Republic.
More and more sources within the European intelligence community cite sustained attempts by jihadist groups aiming to carry out chemical attacks in Europe. To this end, a quite specific source of concern requires the attention of the antiterrorist services. It concerns the ammunition from Gaddafi’s chemical arsenal, previously stored in secret military centres in Sabha, the capital of Fezzan.
The government of Azerbaijan has recently agreed to establish on its territory permanent secret bases for Israeli intelligence agents whose activities will be directed against Iran.
