Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-109"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010314.3.3-109"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-1102
lpv:speaker	lp:Efstratios Korakas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2001-02-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-04--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". No one disputes the fact that we need to take measures to prevent what is called urban crime, child abuse and drug-related crime. Nor does anyone dispute the causes of this type of crime. Every modern criminologist agrees that the causes are primarily social: poverty, unemployment, social inequality, the promotion of rampant competition and the quest for maximum profit, which today’s world order hopes to impose as the ultimate ideal, all foster crime. Consequently, as long as we have a socio-economic system based on the exploitation of man by man, crime will thrive. One would have expected to find proposals for measures – mainly social and economic measures – to relieve this situation or, at the very least, to stem the rising crime rate through prevention. Instead, the French and Swedish initiatives on which the report is based propose creating a network so that Member States can exchange information on measures taken in this area. Even worse, the report makes a scientifically unacceptable correlation between small-scale crime and organised crime. Preventing common crime means, first and foremost, taking measures to reduce the social causes of crime or, at the very least, measures which make crime more difficult to commit. In organised crime, however, the emphasis is on suppression. This correlation has not come about by chance and proves once again that the real need to combat common crime is being used as a pretext to curtail people’s rights and freedoms and create an even more authoritarian institutional framework. And let us not forget that the recent resolutions of the European Parliament on organised crime contain measures which completely restrict any civil or liberal rights in the criminal justice sector. A Greek bill is currently being debated along precisely these lines; in it the government has strengthened mechanisms to suppress popular movements on the pretext of "stamping out terrorism and crime". For these reasons, the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece will be voting against the report."@en1

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