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La police Britannique
vient de saisir 7.000 coffres bancaires dans une soit-disant chasse au crime, après avoir
« appris » que lesdits coffres pouvaient « contenir
de l’argent liquide, des armes ou de la drogue ».
Police hit safes in organised
crime raids
Les faits
rapportés ci-dessous effacent toute possibilité de conserver la
moindre illusion qu’il puisse rester à un citoyen la plus petite
liberté dans l’organisation de la protection de sa vie
privée et de ses biens.
De plus, cet article
jette une pierre dans le jardin de tous ceux qui pensent avoir un semblant de
protection et de discrétion en utilisant un coffre bancaire. Rappelez
vous qu’en 1933, lorsque Roosevelt a confisqué
(« nationalisé « ) l’or des citoyens
américains, toute personne souhaitant se rendre à son coffre
dans une banque devait être accompagné d’un policier.
Comme le mentionnait
Alexis de Tocqueville : Dans un pays libre, les finances publiques sont
transparentes et les finances privées sont opaques.
A contrario, chaque jour
qui passe peut nous laisser penser que le chemin que nous prenons n’est
pas celui de la liberté.
Signé :
Véner
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Police hit safes in organised
crime raids
Reuters, Tim Castle
Le 2 Juin
 LONDON (Reuters) - Police
seized thousands of safe deposit boxes from three vaults
in central and north London on Monday after receiving intelligence they were
used by criminals to store cash, guns and drugs.
Scotland Yard
said officers raided vaults in
Park Lane, Swiss Cottage and Edgware run by a privately run firm, Safe
Deposit Centres.
Two people
were arrested in the raids, which also included two other business premises and
three private addresses in London
and Hertfordshire.
Police
sources said up to 90 percent of the boxes could contain the proceeds of
crime and other illegal items such as child pornography.
The vaults are estimated to contain around 7,000 boxes,
although it is unclear how many have been in use.
"We
believe this police operation has the potential to simultaneously impact upon
a large number of criminal networks, in London,
nationally and globally," said Assistant Commissioner John Yates.
"Intelligence
gathered over a protracted period has indicated that there are potential
links at these businesses to organised crime such as paedophilia, firearms,
drug trafficking, fraud, human
trafficking, prostitution and money laundering."
Police
will take the boxes away to a secure location. Any not claimed by their
owners will be forced open and the contents investigated.
"Each
safe deposit box will be treated as a single, potential crime scene,"
said Yates.
Police
said the scale of the raids, codenamed Operation Rize, was unprecedented and
involved 300 officers.
Courts
have given police warrants to search individual security boxes in the past,
but never this many at one time.
The
operation began after police went round safety deposit firms in London reminding them of
their responsibilities under legislation covering money laundering and the proceeds of crime.
While
other firms were found to be compliant, officers became suspicious about the
company raided, which appeared to be turning a blind eye to the rules.
Tough
regulations requiring banks and financial institutions to "know their
customers" have made it difficult for criminals to deposit large amounts
of cash.
A website
for the raided business stresses that "discretion is always
assured" and that "you need never disclose the contents of your box
to anyone."
Police
said customers wishing to collect their belongings should not go to the
raided vaults but contact a
special call centre on 0800 030 4613.
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