Dutch officer shot in Maastricht as Europe-wide drug raids unfold

NAMPA / DPA

2025-03-27

Cologne (dpa) - A Dutch police officer was shot and injured during a raid in Maastricht on Thursday, which took place as part of a coordinated European operation against organized drug crime. Several hundred police officers in Germany and four other European countries detained 13 people during the operation. German police took the lead in the raids, which mainly targeted locations in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), but also lo......

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