Story in Le Monde, quoting el Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/12/31/espana/1262226162.html there are other conditions too, including the freeing of several Al Qeda of the Maghreb militants held in prisons in Mauretania. You can read the story in French or Spanish.
Would like to see some comparisons witht the rest of Europe, and wonder how much of this is a change in police attitudes and how much a change in female behaviour. Arrests now much more common because it allows the taking of a DNA sample and that often seems to be the goal rather than … ARRESTS OF TEENAGE GIRLS AND WOMEN REACH RECORD LEVELS
Hindu extremists attacking pubs. Demanding the same sort of changes that we may yet see here…”For women’s own good”. The Taliban are among us! This seemed a good post to follow the previous one about women and crime. “If they’d only stop drinking and clubbing all the problems would go away…” I’m sure the Sun … INDIA’S BACKLASH AGAINST WOMEN
By Carl Schreck. I dont know if this will update itself but I havent spotted a URL for the blog. Idiosyncratic take on crime in Russia. I hope it stays up!
My first reaction was to smile paternally at this piece. But then I remembered a recent French piece on the same theme. Obama seems to have pushed crime off the radar for a while, but there is a European tradition of mass unrest. What did the theorists say? Its relative deprivation that matters..when expectations continue … EUROPE: DRESS REHEARSAL FOR REVOLUTION
Charles Bremner scoffs in the Times. Now I’m seriously worried. If he’s being patronising about the return of the Trots, its inevitable. And I have been very rude about them in the past. Oops!
Every Everton supporter will celebrate the demise of Clattenburg for his disgraceful display in the Merseyside derby of October 2007 documented in this article. But for the Independent to put this in the Crime section seems a little harsh. Peers of the realm get away with much more after all, as do cabinet ministers on … OFF! THE RAPID RISE AND FALL OF BRITAIN’S FLASHIEST REFEREE
Greater Manchester’s Operation Cougar hailed as a success. Massive inter-agency cooperation. let’s hope it can be sustained.But in later news, a danger of contempt of court, so shhhhh: http://tinyurl.com/b6ar59 Unfortunately th Independent doesnt tell us why!
Spanish police arrest 6 people alleged to be connected to AIM-listed Langbar group. supposed to have talked up the value of the shares and sold them. Details in the article.
Interesting interview with the head of a family of travellers ahead of a BBC programme “Catching Britain’s Biggest Thieves”.
