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Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK Crackdown
Apr 11^th, 2025 at 2:29pm

Broadcast today in a news video on.....[on SBS] BBC News - BBC News at Ten

Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK
Crackdown on Crime Gangs
Laundering 12bn Annually

The BBC have not posted THEIR video yet.

Yes.

I have posted this in the correct OzPol Board. [......the usual suspects]

As soon as the BBC news video becomes available [on YT], i will post their video link.

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Reply #1 - Apr 11^th, 2025 at 2:55pm

This is the same BBC story, but no video link yet........

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Police raid barbers and vape shops suspected of being fronts for crime gangs

8 hours ago
Ed Thomas

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The officers are here with a warrant to search the premises because of suspected money laundering. They say their intelligence also suggests the shop is linked to sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, illegal immigration and drug-dealing.

Det Insp Daniel Fenn, on his ninth raid of the week, says some barber shops such as this are claiming income of £100,000 to £150,000 a month. "They aren't getting that amount of customers to warrant that amount of money."
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Despite these shops operating openly for years on High Streets and attracting widespread local suspicion, this is the first co-ordinated action of its kind by police, tax and immigration inspectors and Trading Standards officers. We were given exclusive access to dozens of raids carried out by Greater Manchester and West Mercia Police.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

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Re: Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK Crackdown
Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2025 at 11:39pm

Yadda wrote on Apr 11^th, 2025 at 2:29pm:

Broadcast today in a news video on.....[on SBS] BBC News - BBC News at Ten

Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK
Crackdown on Crime Gangs
Laundering 12bn Annually

The BBC have not posted THEIR video yet.

As soon as the BBC news video becomes available [on YT], i will post their video link.

Nah.

It was broadcast in a news video on.....[on SBS] BBC News - BBC News at Ten

But searching YT, or the BBC site, .....i can't find a link to the video of that 'dramatic' police raid,
which was broadcast on SBS BBC News - BBC News at Ten

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Re: Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK Crackdown
Reply #3 - Apr 13^th, 2025 at 12:09am

This [below] is essentially a replay of the police raid
which was broadcast [on SBS] BBC News - BBC News at Ten

on the 11th of April.

Police raid barbers and vape shops suspected of being fronts for crime gangs (UK) 11/Apr/2025

06 min
Apr 12, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxKXoAv57-I

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Police officers smash through the back doors of a bright, modern barber shop in the market town of Shrewsbury.

Inside they immediately detain two men - who we are later told are Kurdish asylum seekers. Both men are later released.

It is the first of six raids that day where police seize thousands of pounds in cash and illicit vapes.

The officers are here with a warrant to search the premises because of suspected money laundering. They say their intelligence also suggests the shop is linked to sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, illegal immigration and drug-dealing.

Det Insp Daniel Fenn, on his ninth raid of the week, says some barber shops such as this are claiming income of £100,000 to £150,000 a month. "They aren't getting that amount of customers to warrant that amount of money."

CCTV in other barbers that have been raided has shown they do not have many customers, so footage of this one will also be examined, DI Fenn says.

The raid in Shrewsbury was one of 265 carried out across England and Wales last month as part of a crackdown on High Street businesses - often Turkish-style barbers, vape shops and mini-marts - suspected of being fronts for international crime gangs.

Politicians and members of the public have raised concerns about many of these businesses which have boomed even while High Streets appear to be in decline. The average number of barbers per person in England and Wales has doubled in the past 10 years, according to commercial property analysts Green Street.

Now the National Crime Agency (NCA) says it has launched the crackdown, called Operation Machinize, in response to growing intelligence reports that some of these shops are being used for money laundering - where gangs falsely present the proceeds of criminal operations as if they were earnings from legitimate businesses handling large amounts of cash.

Despite these shops operating openly for years on High Streets and attracting widespread local suspicion, this is the first co-ordinated action of its kind by police, tax and immigration inspectors and Trading Standards officers. We were given exclusive access to dozens of raids carried out by Greater Manchester and West Mercia Police.

Det Insp Melanie Johnson, who led the operation for Greater Manchester Police, said her own local High Street had 10 barbers and a mini-mart, which was "not sustainable".

"As a mum to young children, I want them to grow up feeling safe, in a community that isn't derelict, a High Street that isn't falling apart, and isn't populated by criminality," she said.

During the operation:

Police targeted a series of linked mini-marts in Rochdale that they suspect are "fronts" for illegal activity, staffed by Kurdish, Iraqi and Iranian asylum seekers. Officers later said some of the staff were working in the UK illegally

A cannabis farm was found in Leigh and over 150 plants seized. Also found during raids across Greater Manchester were brown powder believed to be heroin, vials of testosterone, nitrous oxide, Xanax tranquilliser and a machete

35 people were arrested, and 55 suspected illegal immigrants were questioned. Three potential victims of modern slavery were identified

Bank accounts and assets worth over £1m were later frozen and £40,000 in cash was seized

The Shrewsbury raid was on a barber shop in the centre of town, one of five close together which were also targeted in the operation.

"Members of the public are angry. They can see these fronts are there," says Det Insp Fenn. "The criminals feel they are hidden here. They think they can come to sleepy areas such as Shrewsbury and Telford and won't be found."

It looks like the two men detained here have been living in the rooms above the barbers - there are clothes, shoes and food scattered on the floor as we move from room to room. The flats are barely furnished, with just a mattress and blankets on the floor.

Det Insp Fenn says organised crime groups are different all over the country, but here he has been seeing familiar patterns of shops staffed with asylum seekers or illegal immigrants, many of the people in the barber shops being from Kurdish backgrounds.

The moslem community, within secular host nations......'MODEL CITIZENS'.
/sarc off

Where there is no immediate scrutiny, their 'culture' encourages them, to cheat and to steal.

AND ON OUR PART......
We bring no real enforcement, and no real accountability for criminal actions.

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"....those who reject Allah have no protector."
Koran 47.008
v. 8-11

"O ye who believe! Take not my enemies and yours as friends (or protectors),- offering them (your) love,..."
Koran 60.1

>>>>>>>>>>>
"....take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends....
......he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them."
Koran 5.51
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Re: Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK Crackdown
Reply #4 - Apr 13^th, 2025 at 7:53am

Yadda wrote on Apr 13^th, 2025 at 12:09am:

.......their 'culture' encourages them, to cheat and to steal.

A MEDITATION.....

Those who 'cheat and steal'......

i.e.
Moslems 'LAWFULLY' behave, just like......our own political class, AND ourselves behave.

i.e.
In recent decades, we, who 'traditionally' live in 'Western' culture/nations,
have more and more, been morphing into, those who routinely 'cheat and steal',
.......BUT, directly against the guidance of our own 'traditional' Judaeo-Christian culture. !!

QUESTION;
And what is, that 'influence', which our 'Western' culture has recently chosen to abandon and ignore ?

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Matthew 6:33
......seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;.......

Matthew 19:17
[Jesus said].....if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which?
Jesus said,
Thou shalt do no murder,
Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For all Ten Commandments......
examine Exodus 20 KJV

Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal,
The Lord knoweth them that are his.
And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Depart from......what ?

Iniquity ?

Why ?

"If it feels good.... Do it !"

That is the zeitgeist, of our age.

zeitgeist = = the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history.

Isn't it ?

Cheating, and stealing.

QUESTION;
If we actually live......in a culture where, to cheat and to steal is routine,
do you believe that we will be living, and experiencing, contented lives ?

content = = in a state of peaceful happiness or satisfaction.

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Read the Book of Psalms.

Affirmations ...for life.

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night."

Psalms KJV

"Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD."

Psalms KJV

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Re: Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK Crackdown
Reply #6 - Apr 13^th, 2025 at 1:31pm

Mussos can't drink but they can smoke. And they're not gonna pay the tax on legal cigarettes - the whole idea of which is to get smokers to quit!

In Australia, all violent firebombings on tobacco stores are carried out by musso crime syndicates fighting over control of the illegal tobacco sector’s massive profits worth billions.

Mussos neither respect nor obey Australian laws - they're criminals.

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Re: Barbers and Vape Shops Raided in UK Crackdown
Reply #8 - Apr 13^th, 2025 at 5:09pm

Brian Ross wrote on Apr 13^th, 2025 at 12:06pm:

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Tsk, tsk, tsk brian,

Your retort, is nothing more, than a weak disparagement.

Hardly worth the effort to post.

retort = = say something sharp, angry, or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.

It is a weak disparagement, because >> in contrast << .......the argument and evidences which i present,
are damning.

damning = = strongly suggestive of guilt or error.

My posts [which are strongly critical of ISLAM] seek,
with argument and with evidences,
to 'convict' [in his heart] the follower of ISLAM.

Seek to persuade him, that he is on a mistaken path.

And i say......to every follower of ISLAM......abandon that murderous and evil path.

Because you, yourself, know.....that it is not a virtuous path.

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e.g.
A RESPECTED MOSLEM SCHOLAR URGES MOSLEMS, IN THE UK, TO MAINTAIN A DECEITFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UK NON-MOSLEM COMMUNITY,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF MOSLEMS STRENGTHENING A MALICIOUS AND VIOLENT INTENT [on the moslem part, towards those who are not moslems];

Quote:

Live in peace till strong enough to wage jihad, says UK Deoband scholar to Muslims
London, Sept.8 [2007]

A Deobandi scholar believes Muslims should preach peace till they are strong enough to undertake a jihad, or a holy war.

Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani was quoted by the BBC as saying that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.

A former Sharia judge in Pakistan's Supreme Court, 64-year-old Usmani, is...a regular visitor to Britain.
Polite and softly spoken....

He agreed that it was wrong to suggest that the entire non-Muslim world was intent on destroying Islam, but justifies an aggressive military jihad as a means of establishing global Islamic supremacy.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2409833.ece

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Reply #10 - Apr 14^th, 2025 at 9:45am

Oh look - post a comment at 1:31 pm and there you are at 1:38 pm with your pathetic tsk tsk reply.

What a sad little creature you are. Just hanging around all day waiting for someone to post something you consider denigrates your beloved mussos. Is that all you have in your life?

Here's an idea seeing as you have nothing constructive to do with your time ... why don't you ring up your best musso mate and invite him out for a chat and a beer? Roll Eyes

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