Italian mafias are secular political entities that control a territory through the systemic violence, accumulating capital and infiltrating legal economy. They form with their accomplices a criminal social body that strongly influences politics.

Everybody knows it, mafia does not exist in France. Organised crime maybe, but what kind? Let's take a look at the recent events that took place in France that could definitely define the past months as the “bloody summer”.

Having been first conceived in Italy, confiscation of criminal properties between EU member states is still a complex measure to implement. Let's see why.

German courts have been dealing with an unusual problem