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French authorities recently cracked the encryption on EncroChat phones, used extensively by criminal networks. Since then hundreds of arrests have been made, they're going down like dominoes across the EU as investigators sift through millions of messages.
The latest.
A shipping container which had been converted into a "torture chamber", complete with a dentist's chair, pliers, scalpels and handcuffs, has been found by Dutch police.
Six men have been arrested following the grim finding.
Police say they were tipped off by messages from an EncroChat phone including photos of the container and dentist's chair with belts attached to the arm and foot supports.
The messages called the warehouse the "treatment room" and the "ebi," a reference to a top security Dutch prison.
Seven containers found, including six cells
The messages also revealed identities of potential victims, who were warned and went into hiding, police said.
Detectives in the Netherlands and Britain have already arrested hundreds of suspects based on the encrypted messages.
Tuesday's announcement gave a chilling insight into the increasingly violent Dutch criminal underworld, which is involved in the large-scale production and trafficking of drugs.
Police say they also seized more than 8,000 kilograms of cocaine and 1,200 kilograms of crystal meth, as well as the dismantling of 19 synthetic drugs labs.
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The latest.
A shipping container which had been converted into a "torture chamber", complete with a dentist's chair, pliers, scalpels and handcuffs, has been found by Dutch police.
Six men have been arrested following the grim finding.
Police say they were tipped off by messages from an EncroChat phone including photos of the container and dentist's chair with belts attached to the arm and foot supports.
The messages called the warehouse the "treatment room" and the "ebi," a reference to a top security Dutch prison.
Seven containers found, including six cells
The messages also revealed identities of potential victims, who were warned and went into hiding, police said.
Detectives in the Netherlands and Britain have already arrested hundreds of suspects based on the encrypted messages.
Tuesday's announcement gave a chilling insight into the increasingly violent Dutch criminal underworld, which is involved in the large-scale production and trafficking of drugs.
Police say they also seized more than 8,000 kilograms of cocaine and 1,200 kilograms of crystal meth, as well as the dismantling of 19 synthetic drugs labs.
Dutch police find shipping container 'torture chamber' fitted with dentist chair
Six men have been arrested after police found the container which had a dentist chair, handcuffs and a scalpel inside.
