How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by twic on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:21AM (#23712804)

> The messages "have given insight in an unprecedented large number of serious crimes, including [...] murders, thrashing robberies, extortions, robberies [...]" Dutch law enforcement said.

What are "thrashing robberies"? Is this an odd translation of some Dutch term?

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Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by duub on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:48PM (#23715188)

From the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (Dutch: Openbaar ministerie, OM): "De berichten van ongeveer 10.000 gebruikers alleen al in Nederland hebben zicht gegeven op ongekend grote aantallen ernstige misdrijven, waaronder grote, internationale drugstransporten en drugslabs, liquidaties, plofkraken, afpersingen, overvallen, zware mishandeling en gijzelingen." https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/07/02/aardschok-voor-g...

Most probably "plofkraken" has been translated to "trashing robberies". A better translation would be something like "ram-raiding" or "ATM-raiding".

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Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by Shikiju on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:42AM (#23713694)

Translates to "vernieling' which probably means vandalism is this context. but most likely its just aggravated robbery. its a bad translation for sure

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Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by the-dude on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:28AM (#23714353)

"Kapot maken" (breaking something) is what the Dutch police calls this.

If they get a hunch of a crime in preparation ( killing/liquiditation or robberies ), they might contact future victim and suspect to tell them they are aware.

This usually is enough to stop the crime.

edit: my explanation does not seem to fit the context, will look into it.

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