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Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu)
New submitter ffkom writes: European police organization Europol was probably jealous of the fame and popularity of the FBI's Most Wanted site, so they finally launched their own, European version. And if you want to know what a peaceful place Europe is, just consider this: You don't even have to kill anyone to get on the current "Most Wanted Fugitives" list. A mere fraud worth 12€ is currently enough to get you into this "Hall of questionable fame."
...but 12,563 euros. Some European countries use "." instead of ",".
Still not much in the grand scheme of things though!
Well, well, well... There is a tiny difference between a decimal separator and a thousands separator.
The place where the editors don't know the "." is the thousands separator in several European languages. ;-P
It's 12k€, not 12€, silly muricans
In parts of Europe they use the dot as digit grouping. It is of course a fraud of 12523 EUR.
It's not 12 Euro. It's 12K Euro. The decimal and thousands separators are interchanged in Europe. So 12.523 EUR = 12K
As silly as it sounds, a lot of mainland Europe uses the decimal place where other countries would use a comma.
It was 12K euro not 12 euro.
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the link says "in the value of 12.523,- EUR"
TFA says "12.523 EUR".
Of course the fixation of (continental?) Europe to use decimal points as thousands separators is a bit stupid (saying that as someone from there).
The fraud is actually about €12000
In many European countries they use comma instead of the decimal point, and dots for grouping digits, so 12.345,67 is in the tens of thousands not just over a dozen.
new owners, same god aweful outright wrong summaries. 12 Thousand Euros not 12.
I could pardon not knowing what decimal and thousand separator is. But there is what is written : "12.353," see 6the comma at the end ? The submitter did not even THINK why there would be a comma at the end. Even if I did not knew that , can be a thousand separator in some regions , if I see 12,000. $ it is quite obvious the . is a thousand (or hundred in some region !) separator and the comma a decimal separator.
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switched , and . at that last sentence. Mistyped.
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Unlike in the US, most countries of Europe use a comma as the fractional digit divider. Why 12523 € places you on this list is another question.
Yeah, I know some places use a "," instead of a decimal point. That's why it's a good idea if dealing with an international audience to use a space separator for thousands. But using a full-stop as a thousand separator and a comma for the decimal point is just whacky. Not as whacky as writing dates in MM-DD-YYYY format, but close. Perhaps one party really did think that the transaction was just twelve-and-a-half euro.
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In many places in Europe the decimal place can be the thousands separator. In this case it is 12 THOUSAND and 523 euro and no euro cents.
But i am allot more worried about those in power (or close by proxy) who don't need to be fugitives.
Is there a page for those who are tax fugitives? Or what's the euphemism they hide behind of currently? Optimization, optimizing? Some other Non-profit organization "plans"?
The type of sociopaths clinging to government & EU tit for entrepreneurship aid while mouthing off on TV and financial websites agains't minimum wage increases above inflation of just the last year, god forbid if it were from last decade or 3 they would cry crocodile tears.
If there ever was a much needed list it should be of the currently most corrupt.
see subject.
an individual who assumes responsibility to protect us citizens from any & all nefarious doings... &/or physical harm... deception... long list
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I will be shot down for this, but it's remarkable that nearly all listed criminals are from either eastern European or islamic background (origin is listed). There is a quite large Chinese population in Europe, one could wonder why they are underrepresented. Same goes for natives, such people from Belgium or Switzerland. Of the 50 listed, I can spot one or two Brits, one Frenchman and a Finnish girl. Lists such as this show why most western Europeans are against more 'refugee immigrants' and it's not just bigotry.
As many have pointed out; it's 12.523,- EUR, not 12,523 EUR.
But that aside, it remains correct to doubt whether such a person should be considered 'the most wanted' on a list of Europol. By any standard, he shouldn't be on there, if one looks at it objectively. Alas, no doubt there was some political pressure or a behind-the-doors-deal or whatever, so he got on there - while persons or companies making a million+ fraud don't, apparently.
It's a pity, because it undermines the very essence of a 'most wanted' list, namely a warning and look-out for the most dangerous and vile criminals. Nothing with mere fraud should be on there. Not because fraud isn't criminal, but, compared to things that ACTUALLY are life-threatening - say, terrorists killing dozens of civilians - you want to set your priorities right. After all, stealing some bread is also a criminal act: is one going to put that to on the 'most wanted' list? It's diluting the purpose for what it is meant.
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That's Twelve Thousand!
Our criminals don't seem to be very ambitious XD
Comparing Europol to the FBI, even just insinuating that, is simply wrong on too many levels to count.
They really have nothing in common worth speaking of.
That's a Europe region web page for an Europe audience in an Europe zone by Europole and therefore use convention that most of europe uses (e.g. decimal notation). Do you have any other extremely evidence question question ? Alternatively you go there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and count the countries in Europe which uses point as decimal separator. Hint : only UK , and SWISS (only for currency). In fact the majority of the world use comma as separator. Look at the picture.
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How are they going to fit a million dirty moslem sex offenders names on that website ?
They won't even fit !
Since it's obvious that there was no conviction of 3 years in jail for 12 €, why not updating the article?
I noticed they were all men, except for one woman. Men are bad, real bad. I think we need to start rounding them up and monitoring them more closely. Except for me. I'll take care of the women. When you men start behaving better you can come back.
Sorry, but it is not me who cannot read: The text of the story that I submitted specifically said 12 k€, see: http://slashdot.org/submission...
I've got no idea why the "k" before the "€" mysteriously disappeared when the story was published.
Europe is becoming a big shithole
That's the only real reason it should be on here!!
Oooo look a website how novel... Give that guy a raise!!
You know, it's hilarious that you still didn't notice how your link has been dead for ages.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is merkel listed?
Slashdot strips trailing zeroes now:
worth 12€
The financial abuse of being as poor in Europe as Americans do.
Hence not so many broken people.
You are free to political spin as much as you want.
But the facts speak for all of our dead.
is not the brightest bulb around, is he?
The people looking at sentences in the mid-twenty year range are all wanted for violent crimes (murder, attempted murder, terrorism) meanwhile the people looking at mid-thirty year sentences are wanted for drug trafficking and fraud. Seriously? You actually kill someone and you do less time than facilitating their high?
I thought Europe was supposed to be a more progressive place since everyone is always making fun of the screwed up priorities here in the USA. I guess we've been working extra hard to export our stupidity along with the rest of our culture.
Or there would be a bunch of wanted "refugees."
Sorry but you are out by a factor of 1000.
None English speaking countries tend to use a , not a . as a decimal point marker.
A space is use instead of a comma for thousands separater
Clever, but no.
I'm not going to ask how you claim to know. I'm gonna pretend this happened in Vegas.
You don't even have to kill anyone to get on the current "Most Wanted Fugitives" list. A mere fraud worth 12€ is currently enough to get you into this "Hall of questionable fame."
Now, that's just because Europe is run by organized criminals who make sure any real crimes are either successful or punished by sending the perpetrator to sleep with the fishes.
I just tried what seemed to be the safest method of verifying the claim, & sure enough:
Host goat.cx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Hush! I was hoping he'd click his own link!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The web page was maybe in english (because that's a language which can be shared in europe) but it STILL is directed at person of the Europe region which will expect their way of counting. Why the heck should they adopt the decimal point at the same time they use English ? That is a stupid argument sorry. The language and the numerical convention are separate. And in this case since it is an europe web page, it is expected to use the comma point convention as decimal separator because it is expected to be read by people using that convention.
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Not only do they have a most wanted, Peter "Columbo" Falk is on that list https://eumostwanted.eu/#/fazzalari-ernesto
hungary - really? and austria, home of the proto-nazi? that's victor orban on one side and a minister of interiors who last week boasted that they had made one of the strongest immigration laws.
sure, you could say that austria, germany and sweden took in by far the most refugees over the last year, but unfortunately, xenophobes are on the rise there as well.
Yeah, xenophobic/islamophobic German girls who object to being groped, molested or raped. How intolerant and hateful of them not to hand over their cunts to those suffering refugees from the Eastern Mediterranean.
Not to mention that Europe has a greater duty to take in Muslim refugees from Syria than Muslim countries around Syria, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait or Emirates.
The EU must be doing a great job of rounding up terrorists if only two of the ones left at large were bad enough to equal a less than100k fraudster.
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> where does the seven come in?
1000^7 thousands.
1000^7 thousands = septillion
1000^6 thousands = sextillion
1000^5 thousands = quintillion
1000^4 thousands = quadrillion
1000^3 thousands = trillion
1000^2 thousands = billion
1000^1 thousands = million
1000^0 thousands = thousand
One may argue over whether the short or long system (1000x & offset by 1) makes more sense, but they both have a logical relation.