Crime
-
France : A new army of ghosts haunts Corsica
1 November 201220822 Le Monde Paris -
Italy: A glut of fake euros
23 March 20123514 La Repubblica Rome -
Belgium: Jails miss well behaved offenders
2 November 2009PresseuropDe Morgen
Never mind Sicily or Naples, the most crime-ridden European region is what the French call "the Isle of Beauty" — Corsica. There, nationalists and racketeers, who are sometimes one and the same, are regularly felled by bullets. A journalist from French daily Le Monde took a “murder tour” of the sites of these crimes that everyone knows about but which are cloaked in a shroud of silence. 
The region around the city of Giugliano, a strong-hold of the Neapolitan mafia, provides nearly half of the counterfeit euros in circulation. The network, whose international ramifications could destabilise the single currency, has distributed over a billion euros worth of notes since 2002.