Research into crime rates in Europe

Crime-rates investigated at the French-US Intel company Intersec, photos: Adobe Stock, Intersec, editing: Mirjam©Photo

We have arrived in the era of artificial intelligence (AI), in which large companies such as Intersec conduct research commissioned by various clients, such as France, Luxembourg, Croatia, Slovenia, and especially telecom providers like Vodafone and T-Mobile, according to their website. A new report shows the crime and corruption figures in Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine.

Information about Intersec before I show their latest report below: Intersec is a large multinational company described as a Telecom & AI Software company. As the most prominent global company using this name. What they do: They build big data and AI-driven platforms that transform mobile network metadata into usable geographic intelligence. Core use cases: Their technology is heavily utilized for civil protection (like public warning systems and emergency alerts), homeland security, corporate safety, and telecom data monetization. Scale: Headquartered in the USA and France, Intersec serves clients in over 50 countries, tracking and sending real-time alerts to nearly one billion connected devices worldwide.

If you read their website, they started out as an ordinary telecom company, but over the years a very different picture has emerged; to put it simply (given all the difficult terms used by these types of companies), it has become a company dealing with “big data” and eavesdropping on internet traffic. Intersec has the characteristics of a modern spy agency.

What’s possible for civil protection? They write on their website; “Our public safety solutions cover 400 million people worldwide and 40% of the population in the European Union”.

A “modern” spy agency—whereas in the past James Bond-like types in raincoats followed and eavesdropped on people with microphones in their hotel rooms or apartments—it is now Big Data AI—former telephone companies—that track and eavesdrop on people; in other words, your phone has become a microphone and the man in the raincoat. Whereas it used to be for specific individuals and we as “ordinary” citizens still had some freedoms, now entire population groups are being wiretapped. Some call it progress; personally, I call it a decline of democracy and personal freedoms.

Am I suspicious? No, I have been warning about this development for years, but the population was asleep and is only now waking up, even though it is actually already too late. Some say we should let them have their way, and others, particularly in Europe, are now taking to the streets, but things have really gone too far now. The elites and multinationals are leading us directly to the downfall of our freedoms and democracy, which perhaps never even existed. They are starting wars with their drones and other AI-powered weapons, and sowing fear among the population with all kinds of AI-driven propaganda, such as hunger, war, fires, climate change, and poverty, which is of course fantastic for the world’s rich. But many of these crises are man-made, such as the fuel crisis (Iran and Ukraine).

Intersec’s selling point is, of course, that it is about safety, because many Europeans complain about safety and security. Large-scale migration (they call them refugees) is obviously a direct cause of rising crime rates, particularly in Spain (now the crisis in Ceuta), Italy, due to the boats that have arrived since 2015 and are still arriving (wars against Syria, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, and Afghanistan refugees), and now Ukraine. Those are the triggers; in the United Kingdom, after the dissolution of the British Empire, it is the former inhabitants of the Empire, such as Pakistanis and Indians, who have moved to the UK. A clash of cultures has emerged in Europe as a result of all the colonial wars.

Intersec’s latest study concerns crime and corruption rates in Europe; naturally, this research was conducted in the US, since the EU is not that foolish to investigate its own corruption and crimes. We often see studies on happiness levels in EU countries, where Western Europe is always at the top. Still the elevated sentiments of the bygone colonial era, and in Scandinavia, the socialist utopia, which is coming to an end due to various geopolitical changes, crime and refugees. The war against Russia, waged in Ukraine, is the trigger for a world war and is causing Europe major problems due to its own foolish actions a distraction from the problems in European countries.

Intersec latest research focuses on European countries most exposed to pressure from organized crime.

Ukraine is the country most exposed to organized crime, with one of the highest rates of intentional killings in Europe.
With 25.4 victims per 100,000 inhabitants, the United Kingdom has the most human trafficking problems in the top ten.
Organized crime affects both EU and non-EU countries, with Italy and Spain also occupying the top positions.

Methodology: To measure the pressure of organized crime, the July 2026 study by “our crisis management”, software supplier Intersec examined the spread of criminal markets and mafia-like networks, drug trafficking, seizure of drugs and weapons, victims of human trafficking, and rates of intentional killings. To ensure fair comparisons, the raw figures were normalized for population size and expressed per 100,000 inhabitants. Countries with higher scores face greater pressure from organized crime.

In 2025, I personally investigated the problem of drugs in the Ukrainian army and came to the following (sad) conclusion:

Ukrainian drug cartels grow richer and more powerful. Expanding production, they are finding new markets in Western Europe. Every branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is saturated with banned anabolic steroids. The Ukrainian State Service for Medicines and Drug Control repurposed seized shipments of testosterone, trenbolone, and Sustanon, shipping them directly to military units in the last years. Since the last two world wars, it has been common to give soldiers stimulants – consider WWII, when German troops were given Pervitin. Ukraine’s drug-fueled army: Steroids, synthetic drugs, and the new narco-state — Strategic Culture

To continue with Intersec’s research on Europe crime rates, which naturally also entails corruption, even at the top of the EU there are corruption scandals, such as the recent Pfizer scandal involving Ursula von der Leyen and the Libya scandal before that.

According to the Intersec study: To measure the pressure of organized crime, the study examined the spread of criminal markets and mafia-like networks, drug trafficking, seizures of drugs and weapons, victims of human trafficking, and the number of intentional killings. To ensure fair comparisons, the raw figures were normalized to population size and expressed per 100,000 inhabitants. The final ranking is based on the extent to which countries are exposed to the pressure of organized crime, using the crime score of the Global Organized Crime Index 2025, as all additional factors underpin this score with relevant data.

Here are the 10 European countries most exposed to the pressure of organized crime according Intersec:

Country	OC Index criminality score	Drug trafficking offences per 100k	Drug seizures kg per 100k	Human trafficking victims per 100k	Intentional homicide rate per 100k	Arms seized raw	Arms seized per 100k
Ukraine	6.45	4.07	30.59	0.21	3.78	5,168	11.67
Italy	6.37	46.5	175.66	3.45	0.57	2,734	4.59
Serbia	6.18	19.55	106.1	0.97	1.31	1,463	21.6
Spain	6.05	64.37	1515.29	1.04	0.69	7,837	16.36
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.92	70.83	41.28	1.16	1.22
France	5.92	175.09	243.19	3.23	1.34	8,534	12.84
United Kingdom	5.87	1.15	215.11	25.38	1.13	706	1.05
Belarus	5.83	19.4	12.18	2.23	2.38	4,938	52.33
Montenegro	5.82		165.8	2.84	0.79	514	81.13
Bulgaria	5.58	1.6	346.19	0.97	1.09	1,587	23.35

You can access the complete research findings here.

The graph and the research show that crime rates are highest in Ukraine, but that drug trafficking is most prevalent in France and drug seizures in Spain (Ceuta-Morocco connection), although one would expect the Netherlands to occupy a more prominent position here.

According to the latest macroeconomic analysis by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Netherlands generated €4.5 billion for the domestic economy from illegal activities. The cocaine trade is the largest financial engine, with a total international turnover of €10.7 billion. However, because the country functions strongly as a transit hub for global trade, 90% of cocaine proceeds flow directly abroad, leaving approximately €618 million to be consumed or retained domestically.

The next topic investigated by Intersec —where the Netherlands likely hovers somewhere in the middle not in the top 10—is the exploitation of minors: According to CBS statistics, the number of teenagers used to obtain smuggled drugs has increased enormously. In 2020, minors accounted for only 1% of arrested drug couriers; however, that percentage rose to 22% in recent years, especially since 2022.

Port diversification: Although the Port of Rotterdam remains a major gateway, aggressive local police controls and digital operations have forced Dutch drug networks to transport large quantities via neighboring ports, particularly Antwerp in Belgium.

International alliances: Syndicates work closely with criminal groups from the Western Balkans (particularly Albanian and Bosnian networks), which are estimated to control nearly a third of the cocaine entering the European continent via these shipping routes. This explains why Bosnia and Herzegovina appears in the statistics as number 5. A massive mafia-like organization, the “Moroccan Mafia,” consisting primarily of Moroccans, forms the core of the drug trade and organized crime in the Netherlands. This organization has ties to syndicates in the Western Balkans and is involved in the murder of journalists and threats against the Dutch royal family. Unfortunately, the underworld in the Netherlands has infiltrated the legal world.

Europe has a problem with crime control—a problem that has actually been known since 2015—as a solution they are attempting camera surveillance and allowing AI companies to monitor their citizens, instead of tackling real crime with the deportation of foreign criminals, real prison sentences, and stopping the sponsorship of wars that America started in 1945; now they are harassing their own population with AI and propaganda. We have arrived in a sad era of our civilization, which was once high and has now fallen into decline.