Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-29-Speech-3-118"
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"Mr President, we are not, in principle, against the proposal to create a body which would both ensure effective cooperation between police forces in Europe and gather developments and results of studies and research on combating crime. However, the proposal appears to ignore a criminal challenge which is present in many European countries, a challenge of extreme criminal danger, namely the mafia: this is a challenge that must certainly not be disregarded by the European Parliament. I am afraid that it is something more than and different from what is defined in the proposal as just ‘organised crime’. The mafia is expanding increasingly beyond its traditional areas of activity, it is forging literally global alliances, it is penetrating the economic and financial sectors through extremely sophisticated money laundering systems.
The objectives of the European Police College – which I propose should be named after Giovanni Falcone, who gave his life 10 years ago this year in the fight against the mafia and was the first to point out the transnational dimension of the tentacular mafia network
must include precisely the fight against the mafia and prevention of the risk it represents."@en1
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