The arrests follow close cooperation between NCB Bahrain, INTERPOL’s Command and Coordination Centre (CCC) and the Middle East and North Africa unit, which continue to liaise in the ongoing search for the remaining suspects.Įmmanuel Leclaire, Assistant Director of the CCC, said the arrests were an example of the results which can be achieved by member countries cooperating via INTERPOL. He is now awaiting extradition.Īs part of Bahrain’s ongoing investigation and following coordination with a travel agency, two additional suspects were arrested in Bahrain this week, when they were found in possession of most of the stolen watches.

One week after the 10 September robbery, one of the suspects, 35-year-old Kosovan national Ekrem Gashi, was arrested at the Albanian border when checks by officials revealed he was wanted in connection with the theft. The six thieves broke into the shop in the city centre mall after it closed at 10pm, and attacked and injured the guard before escaping with 79 Rolex watches worth USD 1.4 million.Įvidence gathered from the scene enabled police to identify the suspects and the National Central Bureau in Bahrain requested the issue of Red Notices, which were immediately circulated to all 190 member countries. Our partnerships with regional policing bodies.Human trafficking and migrant smuggling.Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files.Information, communications and technology (ICT) law projects.Official visitors to the General Secretariat.The Raid 2 is poetic and gristly while Sabotage is just gory detritus. These fights take place across a wide variety of venues, from a bathroom, to a muddy prison yard to the backseat of a car - each one building up to the blistering climax.Īction film fans should watch The Raid 2 several times before ever seeing Sabotage. Sure you’ll wince at some brutal assaults, but you’ll also cheer for the victors of the violence, like Rama/Yuda (Iko Uwais), and unique villains like “Hammer Girl” (Julie Estelle) and the baseball-bat character. Yet none of it feels corny or additive, its either character driven or stylish, like a scene with viscous red blood flowing into footprints left in the powder white snow. It is filled with a 1000 times more visceral blood, broken bones and bashed-in skulls than Sabotage. The sequel to 2011’s The Raid: Redemption, The Raid 2: Berandal is a hyper¬-violent action film (you don’t have to see the first to appreciate the second). There aren’t any truly excellent action-scenes, even the car chase scene near the end seems pretty lame, giving him the opportunity to spout off one-liners. Schwarzenegger’s amusing machismo isn’t present here, his character is without mirth and heart. None of it adds to enjoyment of the film, it’s simply gratuitous. In a way, the director makes the viewer uncomfortable as something dangerously morbid, like entrails hanging from the ceiling or scattered body parts near the rail road, is expected from each brutal incident that occurs.

The gore appears placed as an afterthought, leftover glimpses of the carnage. Sabotage essentially opens with a snuff film but then has its own share of gore - as rare moments in the action. Fans of action films should skip over Sabotage, save their friends from seeing it, and instead all head to see The Raid 2 several times. But this past weekend saw the release of two action films, the gun-wielding monster Sabotage featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and the wily Indonesian martial arts film, The Raid 2. Don’t worry, there are still a couple more months for the summer blockbuster films to rule the box offices, (or maybe just a week or two when Captain America will rise to the top).

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