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Organized crime: a European scourge

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Serbian policemen inspect the surroundings of the Partizan stadium in Belgrade on February 4, 2021, after Serbian police arrested 17 people in a crackdown on a crime syndicate linked to hooligans who support Partizan football club of Belgrade, said the Minister of the Interior.

Die-hard football fans in Serbia are notorious for their heckling in stadiums, while some have also been accused of using the sport as a front to engage in organized crime.

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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

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The price of gas which could be multiplied by three in Germany, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Europeans have been fighting with rising prices.

With a new record in June: 8.6% inflation in one year in the euro zone.

Turkey has been facing an unprecedented situation for more than a year with figures that make you dizzy: 78.6% inflation according to official data and prices that have doubled, even tripled.

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In this context, more and more people are finding it difficult to make ends meet and eat properly.

Especially in Istanbul, the most populated and expensive city in the country.

But a few weeks ago, the capital, led for three years by opponent Ekrem Imamoglu, decided to open a municipal restaurant with unbeatable prices.

Anne Andlauer

 went to this kind of canteen.

And the war in Ukraine, like all conflicts, also creates breeding grounds for organized crime such as human trafficking or arms trafficking.

But organized crime is a problem that affects all European countries.

In the Western Balkans, for example, as in Serbia or Albania, hooligans, these ultra supporters of football teams, maintain many links with the mafias and political powers, according to a recent report.

Simon Rico

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In the European Union, Italy is the only country to have such detailed legislation to punish the “crime of mafia association”.

It must be said that the boot is particularly marked by organized crime.

In Sicily, the assassination in May and then in July 1992 of judges Falcone and Borsellino by the mafia caused a real political earthquake.

For the thirty years of these attacks, many commemorations are organized in Palermo, while civil society is worried about a possible return of the mafia to the political affairs of the city.

The report by

Cécile Debarge

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The chronicle

It's my Europe

, by

Alice Rouja

, on the way young Europeans travel.

According to Ipsos, more than seven out of ten Europeans will be wandering this summer, an increase of 14% compared to last year.

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