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2 unusual facts about arms trafficking


Edwin Cameron

In October 1994 President Nelson Mandela appointed him an Acting Judge of the High Court to chair a Commission into illegal arms deals.

Fenit

The village and environs were the scene of the ill-fated attempt of Sir Roger Casement and cohorts to land arms at Banna Strand to aid the Easter Rising.


Grupo Colina

Montesinos is currently imprisoned in the Callao Military Prison outside of Lima and faces over seventy trials for various human rights abuses, as well as charges of arms trafficking, drug trafficking, and political corruption.

It Never Rains...

At the police station, Grandad tells his grandsons why he's been arrested: it was way back in 1936, and the Trotter Family were very poor, so Grandad and his friend Nobby Clarke hitchiked all the way to Southampton, got a boat to Tangier, and after a failed attempt to join the French Foreign Legion, became gun-runners during the Spanish Civil War until they were captured, and Nobby was tortured, before the pair got home to Peckham.

June Stahl

June Stahl arrives in Charming in episode 6, "AK-51", and is assigned to a case involving the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and their involvement in inter-state arms trafficking.


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