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RT @EUHomeAffairs: ❗️ 3 tonnes of tobacco and 2 million cigarettes seized in a @Frontex coordinated action
👉 15 fraudulent documents spotted
👉 40 people smugglers identified
👉 2 people wanted by @INTERPOL_HQ arrested
Read more ↓ #EMPACT #StrongerTogether
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1611642642433032192
This week, more than 2000 standing corps officers and staff are working at the EU's external borders. We also support EU countries with equipment: there are currently 255 patrol cars in action🚘, along with 13 aircraft✈️and 21 boats🛥️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1610973499186876416
The results:
👉 2.3 million cigarettes and over 3 tonnes of raw tobacco seized
👉 15 fraudulent documents spotted
👉 40 people smugglers identified
👉 2 people wanted by @INTERPOL_HQ arrested
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1610643308648501249
3 tonnes of tobacco and 2 million cigarettes seized in a Frontex-coordinated action!
In December, we coordinated an international operation against cigarette smuggling, document fraud, migrant smuggling and smuggling of firearms at 🇪🇺 external borders
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1610642924647194625
🚨Good start of the year at EU’s external borders.
In the past week, #Frontex officers helped EU countries detect 123 falsified documents🛂, 5 stolen cars🚘, 8385 packages of illegal cigarettes🚬and arrest 4 suspected smugglers
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1610215084781080578
Happy New Year from all of us at #Frontex!
In 2023, we will continue our hard work together with the Member States to make the EU a safer place.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1609504715347222530
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🇭🇷 Dobrodošli! Croatia joins the #SchengenEU Area.
Croatia’s accession to Schengen responds to a European promise and a legitimate expectation. We hope that Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and Romania 🇷🇴 can also soon follow in their footsteps.
🗞️ Details: https://europa.eu/!Fv8PGw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUHomeAffairs/status/1609468846586400769
RT @lgenLeijtens: On my 'oliebollen tour' along various units of the @marechaussee at #Schiphol I also bumped into my future colleagues from @Frontex standing corps. Supporting the Netherlands protecting Europe's external borders.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1609217324145319938
During Christmas, many of us travel across borders to be with loved ones. #Frontex #standingcorps officers help national authorities make travels smoother also during holidays. Frontex Dep. Exec. Dir. Lars Gerdes visited Paris airport today to thank the officers for their work.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1607424669480517632
🎄 Merry Christmas! #Frontex officers working at EU’s borders wish you happy holidays! 🎄
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1606688904068747265
Christmas is not about getting, but about giving.
In Orestiada, Greece, Frontex staff and officers, hand-in-hand with local authorities, organised a Christmas charity for kids with special needs.
We wish everyone happy holidays spent in prosperity and peace.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1605488253829730305
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Congratulations to Hans Leijtens @lgenLeijtens today appointed new @Frontex executive director.
My thanks to @KalnajaAija for her excellent leadership during a difficult period.
We are committed to continue improving Frontex governance, to best protect the EU external border.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/YlvaJohansson/status/1605187321707446274
Today, Hans Leijtens was appointed #Frontex Executive Director.
Congratulations!
https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/management-board-updates/result-of-the-extraordinary-meeting-of-the-management-board-on-20-december-2022-dxiH6Y
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1605202513665617920
🚨 Busy week for #StandingCorps officers at 🇪🇺 external borders:
We helped national authorities detect 85 fraudulent documents, 60 kg of cocaine 6 stolen cars and 2000 tonnes of illicit waste 🛂
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1605116543574032384
RT @JGrimheden: Sea patrol @Frontex with 🇸🇪Coastguard @kustbevakningen & police @polismyndighet in the central Mediterranean, south of Lampedusa 🇮🇹. Great 🇪🇺 cooperation, effective search and rescue, smooth and humane landings and disembarkation procedures.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1604852324295385089
Cooperation between Belgian Federal Police and Frontex led to the interception of a vessel with 33 kg of cocaine hidden in its cargo!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1604838970894041095
RT @Europol: 🚨 #OpShield: Authorities take medicines & doping substances worth over EUR 40 million off the market.
😷 Over 10.5 million medicinal products seized, 349 suspects arrested or reported to judicial authorities, & 10 clandestine labs shut down.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1604818438484000769
Today we welcomed a delegation from the Human Rights Department of the League of Arab States at #Frontex. This is an opportunity to discuss #HumanRights at the borders and cooperation with our Arab partners focusing on capacity building and training #EU4BorderSecurity
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1604818274054819841
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❗️ Every year over 7000 people become victims of human trafficking in the EU.
Today, the @EU_Commission proposed strengthening EU rules that prevent and combat trafficking in human beings.
More about #securityEU #EndHumanTrafficking #EUagainstTHB ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUHomeAffairs/status/1604765473723260928
Meet Ricardo, a border guard officer from Portugal working as a fingerprinter in our operation in Spain 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Before joining Frontex, he served in the National Republican Guard for 20 years, was deployed to Iraq and East Timor, and opened his own self-defence school in Porto 🤼
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1604114195359727617
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