Jul 08, 2020 19:00:00

'Secret torture room hidden in the shipping container' is found at the hideout of a criminal organization related to drugs and human trafficking

On June 22, 2020, Dutch police officials stepped into the base of a criminal organization near the Belgian border and discovered a ' secret torture chamber hidden in a shipping container .' The torture chamber was lined with soundproofing materials, and various torture devices such as dentist chairs with restraints and narcotics were also seized.

Dutch arrests after discovery of'torture chamber' in sea containers | Netherlands | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/dutch-police-arrest-six-men-after-discovery-of-torture-chamber

Dutch police find secret torture site in containers on Dutch-Belgian border-CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/europe/dutch-police-belgium-torture-shipping-containers/index.html

In 2017, the

UK National Crime Prevention Agency (NCA) and the European Criminal Police Agency began working with European law enforcement agencies to hack and investigate encrypted chat apps called EncroChat . EncroChat is used by criminal groups that do drugs, trafficking, money laundering, selling illegal goods, etc., and it was said that it was used by 60,000 criminals throughout Europe. Law enforcement had a plan to defeat criminals by breaking EncroChat's messages.

And in early 2020, a group of law enforcement agencies in Europe finally managed to hack EncroChat, deciphering the messages criminals wrote about drug trafficking and murder. In May 2020, EncroChat developers and criminal groups also grasped the situation, but already the investigative authorities have obtained evidence of many crimes, and from June to July a large-scale search across Europe was carried out. And arrests were made. Hundreds of criminals, including masterminds, were arrested in the United Kingdom, and in addition to dozens of submachine guns, assault rifles, handguns and other firearms, grenades and more than 1000 ammunition, billions of cash, and large amounts. It seems that the drug was seized.

Similar operations took place in France and the Netherlands, where Dutch police arrested more than 100 criminals, seized more than 8 tons of cocaine , 1.2 tons of methamphetamine , dozens of firearms, and 19 synthetic drug manufacturing plants. I succeeded in dismantling.

On June 22, 2020, Dutch police stepped into a group of criminals in a village called Wouwse Plantage near the Dutch-Belgian border. Six Dutch were arrested in the search for kidnappings and assaults, but authorities also discovered six shipping containers that were converted for torture.

The police who stepped into the building by exploding the entrance...

Discover multiple shipping containers.

The inside is lined with soundproofing material……

There was a restraint on the floor.

Another container was a dentist's chair with restraints and handcuffs...

It seems that a container had hidden pruning shears, pruning saws, scalpels,

pliers , and handcuffs. It is believed that these containers were set up for torture, and that surveillance cameras were also installed to allow the victims to be seen at a remote location.

According to Dutch police, criminal groups called the container a 'treatment room', 'ebi' (for Extra Beveiligde Inrichting , a facility that holds violent criminals in jail in the Netherlands). So, it is supposed to be completed just before the police stepped in for the first time since April 2020. Authorities say the torture chamber was never used because police stepped in before it actually went into operation.