Florence, Italy.
Interpol, who tracked the murder of an expert from France at the European Conference on Posts and Telecommunications, is searching for clues in a vast archive with the assistance of the Italian police.
At the hotel in France, a few cigarette butts left by the suspect became one of the only clues in the case.
The cigarettes to which these cigarette butts belong are not produced in Europe, but come from Cuba thousands of miles away, and since Cuba is a sanctioned country, Cuban cigarettes cannot legally enter the European market, and there must be gangs involved in the smuggling industry.
Since the experts who were killed involved many countries in Europe, the relevant criminal law has jurisdiction over the case.
Therefore, it is most appropriate for Interpol to come forward in this case.
Guided by the evidence, finding the smuggling channel of this brand of Cuban cigarettes became the key to solving the case.
Interpol thus has two broad directions of investigation, the Spanish and Italian gangs.
The weak gangs in Spain are not as good as having gangs capable of organising such large-scale attacks, so Interpol focused its investigation on gangs in Italy.
Bullet casings and fingerprints collected from inside the tunnel did not match the police's database.
So although this is a key clue, if they can't continue to pursue it through clues, the police can only give up for the time being.
"A few people, please see, this is a batch of smuggled goods seized by the customs last month, but unfortunately, the people in charge of this batch of goods are some small roles, only know some innocuous things, and our gains are not big."
The police officer in charge of the reception took out several files and handed them to the person sent by Interpol and said.
"Thank you, thank you for your help," the other responded, politely.
"Excuse me, can you help me find a police officer who is familiar with the local situation, I want to ask something about the local smuggling syndicate," the Interpol representative suddenly asked.
"I think Officer Garibaldi should be the most suitable person, he has the most informants in the whole police station, if you want to investigate something, it is the best place to ask him for help."
The police officer in charge of the reception replied.
"Is Officer Garibaldi here now, and if it's convenient, I'd like to hear his opinion on the matter," Interpol's representative requested.
"Okay, I'll go, Officer Garibaldi called," said the officer in charge of reception, about to go out.
"No, take me to him, I'd like to ask him in person," replied the Interpol representative.
The two left the room with that, and the Interpol representative followed behind the policeman in charge of the reception, holding a thick file.
The two walked through the hallway to the police officer's office, where the officer in charge of reception called, "Officer Garibaldi, this" "Spencer," said the representative of Interpol.
"This Spencer officer wants to ask you some questions, do you have time now" "Please wait a minute, I'll come" Officer Garibaldi said goodbye to his colleague and walked towards the position of the two, everyone found a separate room, Officer Spencer of Interpol put aside the file under his armpit, and then took out a document with classified writing and handed it to Garibaldi, and said to him: "This is a case that happened last year in Toulouse, France, I would like to ask you to help us see what clues there are." ” Garibaldi took the folder and carefully flipped through it, carefully examining its contents.
This document records all the findings of the Toulouse tunnel murder so far, and it not only has a detailed written record, but also pictures of the scene, and the bloodstained pictures of the murder scene make Garibaldi feel very familiar.
Garibaldi read the entire file for more than forty minutes, pondered for a moment, and said to Spencer: "Do you have any other information?"
"We found some Cuban cigarette butts at the scene, these cigarettes are smuggled goods, only the Spanish and Italian smugglers have this kind of cigarettes, and we learned that this kind of cigarette is very expensive, it is sold by the root in the market, which is a bit contradictory to what we learned in the place where the suspects live, they don't look like they have money, but they smoke such good cigarettes" Officer Spencer said his doubt.
"I've seen the photos of the scene, and the method is simple and crude.
If you suspect that the mafia did it, I think you must be looking in the wrong direction, the mafia will not do this, it is too hasty to do so, leaving so many clues, it is like being defenseless against the police" Garibaldi analyzed according to his own line of thought.
"It's not the mafia, is there any basis for what you say," Spencer asked.
"If it's the mafia, most of the time they will plant bombs directly in the car, you know that many prosecutors and judges in Italy have died like this, they rarely use guns, they are afraid of leaving traces.
But this is not the case you brought with you, the perpetrator has no scruples, not only leaving bullet casings, footprints and fingerprints, but also not even cleaning up the place where he lived.
They didn't care if the police tracked him down, and I just happened to know that some people did, and the killers from Eastern Europe liked to do that," Garibaldi replied.
"Is Eastern Europe the KGB, or some other intelligence agent" Spencer stood up alarmedly, if that was the case, it was definitely a political incident.
"Officer Spencer, you don't know what we're going on here.
In recent years, more and more refugees have fled from the Iron Curtain, many of whom have been skilled and even on the battlefield.
There are some gangs of Eastern Europeans who will also come here as killers, as long as they do a vote, they can go back for several years, and the most important point is that we have no extradition agreement with the countries on the other side of the Iron Curtain, and it is impossible to share case resources, as long as they return to their home countries, then we have no way at all" Officer Garibaldi shook his head and said helplessly.
"Gunners from Eastern Europe, how to find them, are you helpless?"
Spencer felt enlightened after hearing Garibaldi's analysis.
Several doubtful points that the task force has been unable to figure out for several days have finally found reasonable answers.
"Officer Spencer, if you really want to continue your investigation, I think you'd better stay in Italy a little longer.
On our side, they are the main active area, the Albanian gangs are very active on the other side of the sea, and the Hungarians from the north are also very strong.
But the most powerful are the Slavic gangs, which have colluded with the mafia and seem to have gained a foothold in the local area. ” t1706231537: