Between 2000 and 2006, members of the terrorist National Socialist Underground cell planted bombs and murdered ten people, including nine foreigners. Police attributed the crimes to the mafia until a combination of clues helped them discover the real perpetrators. How had the German authorities been blind to the neo-Nazi links behind the hate crimes for so long? Our correspondents Anne Mailliet, Brice Boussouar and Jessica Saltz investigate.
First, in Brazil, judges live in fear of reprisals and are demanding better police protection. Next, starved of cash, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his whistleblowing website may be weeks away from collapse. Finally, Mississippi’s ecosystem is in the grip of a foreign invasion, as Asian carp devour everything in their paths.
Marc Perelman meets Xavier Raufer, criminologist and author of "What wars after Osama Bin Laden?" According to him, Western countries are not reacting fast enough to new forms of criminality and terrorism.
Police from several countries around the world say they have busted a massive online paedophile ring which is thought to have counted almost 70,000 members, arresting 184 people.
The days when the Mafia ruled Sicily could soon be just a memory. The Catturandi are an elite police force with the sole objective of rounding up members of the mob, many of whom have been on the run for years. The officers are all local to Sicily and their dedication to the job has won the hearts of residents and gained their support in hunting down Mafia criminals.
Eight people are dead and three are wounded after gunmen opened fire on a minibus in the eastern province of Olancho in Honduras. According to a government spokesperson, the attack targeted one or two of the passengers.
Wikileaks reveals a prosecutor's claims that Russia regularly uses the mafia for operations it could ‘not acceptably do as a government’ and that the mafia exerts ‘tremendous control’ over vital components of the global economy.
A newspaper has asked drug cartels for direction on whether to "publish or stop publishing", after one of its journalists was brutally slain. The government responded firmly, saying it was inappropriate to negotiate with criminals.
Italian police have arrested more than 300 people in a major crackdown on the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, shedding new light upon a shadowy organisation that has grown to become the country’s most powerful and dreaded mafia.
Italian police have arrested at least 320 people in a crackdown on the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organisation operating in the southern region of Calabria. A police statement on Tuesday said it was the largest such operation in recent years.
