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The majority of the most-wanted fugitives in Europe women. Europe's crime agency Europol has a list of 21 criminals who are on the run from the authorities. Eighteen of these are women. The wanted suspects have been of a range of charges including murder, human and drug trafficking and robbery. The most-wanted list was as part of Europol's "Crime no gender" campaign. A spokeswoman : "People think that usually these crimes are not committed by women, but they are, and they are equally as serious as those by men." However, a crime expert told the BBC that: "Some women do serious crimes. They so far less frequently than men."

The Europol campaign to awareness, "that women are just as likely to commit violent crimes as men." A spokeswoman said: "Even though the discourse often around male fugitives, women can just as bad." The campaign's website visitors the question: "Are women equally as capable of committing serious crimes as men?" It then that very question by : "The female fugitives on Europe's Most Wanted website that they are [capable]. The criminals - of both genders - in this new campaign by EU law enforcement are all for grave offenses like murder, drug trafficking, fraud, theft and trafficking in human beings."