【By Observer Net, Qi Qian】

According to Sky News in the UK on February 17, after the release of Epstein's files, the Essex Police in London, UK are assessing information about private flights entering and leaving Stansted Airport.

Previously, an investigation found that between the early 1990s and 2018, there were 87 flights related to Epstein taking off or landing at London Stansted Airport, some of which carried British women who claimed they had been abused by Epstein.

Last week, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on UK police to "urgently" investigate this matter.

The report stated that a spokesperson for Essex Police said that "after the US Department of Justice released Epstein's documents, we are assessing information about private flights entering and leaving Stansted Airport."

However, the BBC learned that the police are "assessing" the information, but this does not necessarily mean a full investigation will be launched.

Stansted Airport responded, saying: "All private aircraft at the airport are operated by independent fixed base operators... immigration and customs checks for private aircraft passengers are directly conducted by border forces. They use completely separate terminals, not operated by London Stansted, and private aircraft passengers do not enter the main airport terminal."

The airport tried to distance itself: "The airport does not manage or understand the passenger arrangements of privately operated aircraft."

Earlier, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) stated that it had established a national coordination team to support UK police forces in "assessing" the allegations that emerged after the release of the Epstein files.

Epstein and his private jet, U.S. Department of Justice

Last December, the BBC found that three British women allegedly trafficked by Epstein appeared in the records of Epstein's UK entry and exit flights, as well as other documents related to Epstein. American lawyers representing hundreds of victims said that the UK has never conducted a "comprehensive" investigation into Epstein's activities in the UK, which is "shocking".

Last week, Brown wrote that recent documents related to Epstein showed that his private jet entered and left UK airports 90 times, 15 of which occurred after his 2008 conviction for sexual offenses. These flights were called the "Lolita Express".

Brown pointed out that the documents showed how Epstein transported women from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia to Stansted Airport, where "women did not need UK visas, and were transferred from one of Epstein's planes to another." The information also indicated that "multiple British girls appeared on the 90 Epstein flights organized from British airports."

He called for a comprehensive investigation and wrote: "I have urgently asked the Metropolitan Police to re-examine its investigation decisions and subsequent reviews."

He said that it seemed the UK government "never knew what was happening," "almost or completely unaware of who was being trafficked through our country."

Brown also mentioned that Epstein once "boasted" that the airport fees at Stansted were "much cheaper than in Paris."

London Stansted Airport, British media

A senior UK police source told The Guardian that after millions of documents related to Epstein were made public, a "tsunami" of accusations is expected.

On the 17th, an independent expert group appointed by the UN Human Rights Council stated that these documents suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise."

The experts said: "The scale, nature, systematic characteristics and transnational impact of these abuses against women are extremely serious, with some possibly reaching the threshold for crimes against humanity under the law."

"Power networks" involved in Epstein, CNN map

Currently, four UK police departments are assessing the allegations to determine if a full criminal investigation is needed. So far, several prominent figures in the UK have been involved, including former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who has lost his royal titles, and former UK ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson.

As the massive amount of materials related to the Epstein case were exposed, this shocking scandal is no longer just a disgrace to a deceased sex offender, but also caused the "value wall" built by the Western world to collapse, crushing countless elite celebrities.

On February 12, the U.S. media New York Times wrote that with the latest disclosure of over 3 million pages of material, around 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images, journalists and researchers will continue to review these Epstein archives in the coming months to find more criminal acts or new conspiracy clues. More importantly, one fact has already emerged...

These documents reveal in unflinching detail the activities of an once-secret, unaccountable elite group, mainly composed of powerful and wealthy men from politics, business, academia, and entertainment. The archives tell the story of a despicable criminal who could move freely within his ruling class, all because he could provide them with money, connections, luxurious banquets, private jets, secret islands, and in some cases, sexual transactions.

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