European kunstbende rolled

madrid - The police rolled up in Europe a network of dealers in stolen art. Thereby have been arrested in recent months 75 people and found more than 3,500 stolen archaeological objects, Europol reported.

The arrests announced the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, followed by a start in October European police operation led by Spain and Cyprus.

The criminal network trading in looted art that was in a war zone, but also in museums and other places. In the Spanish city of Murcia took the police around five hundred archaeological objects, of which nineteen in 2014 were stolen from a museum in that city.

In Greece, authorities seized include a portion of a tombstone Ottoman and Byzantine artifacts.

The actions, codenamed Pandora were detectives from eighteen countries, including the Netherlands. The research was supported by Interpol, Europol and the United Nations world heritage organization UNESCO. examined more than 48 000 people, nearly thirty thousand vehicles and fifty ships.