Insight: Gaffer tape and 500 euros - running guns to the heart of Europe


  • World
  • Saturday, 28 Nov 2015

BELGRADE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Need a Kalashnikov in Belgium? No problem, says "Nemac" the Serb; a few hundred euros will buy the gun and a place to stash it in a car or truck coming up from the Balkans.

    A veteran of the Yugoslav wars, talking to Reuters at a drab truckstop outside the Serbian capital, Nemac doesn't smuggle guns himself, he says. But he knows people who can ship assault rifles of the kind used in the Nov 13 Paris attacks. He describes a trove of guns across the Balkans – a legacy of the Yugoslav military.

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