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Euronews Witness
Inside Marseille’s deadly drug wars: Why are youths killing youths?
Forty-nine people were killed in drug-related shoot-outs between rival gangs in Marseille in 2023 - and the killing is ongoing. Is the situation in the French port city spiralling out of control? Euronews Witness heads south to find out.
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The Big Question
The Big Question: Why is it so hard to prevent terrorist financing?
The Chief Financial Economic Crime Officer at Rabobank tells The Big Question’s Hannah Brown: “Behind financial crime, you have crime - drug addiction, terrorist financing and modern slavery. And this money has to enter into the system.”
World News
Euroviews. Amid escalating drug wars, Benelux police is striking back — together
The new Benelux Police Treaty, which entered into force on 1 October, has given law enforcement in all three countries a plethora of cross-border instruments, making it the finest tool in the fight against organised crime in Europe, Frans Weekers and Jochen Stöger write.
Italy
More than 200 convicted in Italy mafia trial
The defendants had been charged with crimes that include drug and arms trafficking, extortion and mafia association, a term in Italy’s penal code for members of organized crime groups. Others were charged with acting in complicity with the ’ndrangheta without actually being a member.
World
How has INTERPOL's role in the fight against organised crime evolved?
As INTERPOL celebrates its 100th birthday, Euronews sat down with Secretary General Jürgen Stock to see how the global policing organisation adapts, reacts and keeps its guard in a world of ever-evolving forms of organised crime.
World News
Ecuador: Gang leader moved to maximum-security prison after killing
Authorities moved the leader of one of Ecuador’s most powerful gangs into a maximum-security prison Saturday, three days after the assassination of a presidential candidate who had denounced threats from the feared criminal.
