Jamming The Printers
The Europol Podcast
Europol
4.6 • 7 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Technology is changing the way terrorists think and how they plan their attacks. One emerging threat is the world of 3D-printed weapons. 3D-printed weapons are fully-functioning firearms, made using 3D-printing technology that is available to civilians and can be used at home.
In this episode of The Europol Podcast, we shed light on how terrorists are exploiting this technology, and what Europol and our partners are doing to keep Europe safe.
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| 0:00.0 | I believe that this was the first, but certainly it will not be the last case that we will need the help of Europol. |
| 0:08.0 | The threat always stays high when it comes to violent right-wing extremism and right-wing terrorism. |
| 0:13.0 | And yes, absolutely, we, together with our partners, fault several texts already. |
| 0:19.0 | You will not read them on the news, you will not hear anything about it. |
| 0:23.1 | I think the biggest danger is the difficulties in detecting if someone is producing a 3D weapon |
| 0:28.3 | by law enforcement. Welcome to the Europol podcast, the official podcast of the EU agency |
| 0:34.3 | for law enforcement cooperation. In this series, we shine a light on some of the biggest cases Europol has supported and how |
| 0:42.7 | we continue to fight crime. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's episode, Jamming the Printers. |
| 0:51.5 | Finland, 2022. Four men are exchanging messages in a closed group chat. |
| 0:57.0 | This is not the type of group chat that you or I would be part of. |
| 1:02.0 | The four participants subscribe to an extreme right-wing ideology, |
| 1:07.0 | one built on white supremacist and Nazi principles. |
| 1:11.6 | This chat is where they discuss their beliefs and ways to spread their violent ideology. |
| 1:17.6 | I would describe them as a kind of a loose group. |
| 1:20.6 | There was no hierarchy or no chain of commands or nothing like that. |
| 1:25.6 | They had ideology in common and through that they decided to |
| 1:31.2 | discuss with each other and started building those weapons and they started talking about what |
| 1:38.5 | should they do to advance their ideology. The voice you're hearing is that of Twamas, a senior investigator in organized crime and |
| 1:47.3 | terrorism cases from the Finnish police. |
| 1:50.5 | My name is Tuomas and my title is Detective Chief Inspector and I work through organized crime |
| 1:59.7 | in Finnish police. |
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