Europe and Me

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Europe and Me
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Protecting us against crime?

• The European Union

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International football
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Round the corner,some foreign fans lie in wait
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The police arrive
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Too late...The damage has been done
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How can we stop violence at international
football?
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Did you know?

• On May 29 1985, 39 people were killed and 670
  were injured at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels, in
  the final of the European Cup. About an hour
  before the kick-off time, Liverpool fans breached
  a fence separating the two groups of supporters
  and charged. Juventus fans were forced to
  retreat, putting pressure on a dilapidated wall,
  which collapsed away from them with the resulting
  crush leading to the deaths. Thirty-two of the
  people who were killed were Italian Juventus
  fans, four were Belgian, two were French and one
  was Irish. Following the disaster, English
  football clubs were given an indefinite ban by
  UEFA from all European competitions (lifted after
  five years) with Liverpool F.C. being excluded
  for an additional three years. Fourteen British
  fans were sentenced to three years in prison.

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Did you know?

• The most serious cases of football violence in
  Europe in recent years have involved an
  international for instance
• England fans fighting Moroccans in Marseilles
• German fans severely injuring a French policeman
  in Paris
• English fans fighting German fans in Charleroi

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Did you know?

• In 1985, in response to the Heysel Stadium
  disaster, the Council of Europe published the
  European Convention on Spectator Violence and
  Misbehaviour at Sports Events and in Particular
  Football Matches.
• This was the first serious attempt to set up
  cross-border police co-operation between European
  countries over football hooliganism.
• It also suggested safer travel arrangements for
  football fans and the safer design of stadiums.

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Did you know?

• The EU has taken a number of measures relating
  to football violence including
• guidelines on stadium policy, segregating rival
  supporters, the control of ticket sales, and
  excluding troublemakers
• a police handbook giving advice to national
  police forces on ways of preventing and
  controlling disturbances at international
  football matches
• national football information centres run by the
  police in each Member State to gather and
  exchange information on international football
  matches.

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Did you know?

• There are many types of cross-border crime in
  Europe. These include
• drug trafficking
• people trafficking
• international vehicle theft
• internet crime
• smuggling
• terrorism.

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Did you know?

• Europol is the European Police Office. It is
  based in the Netherlands and exists to improve
  co-operation between the police forces of the EU
  Member States in combating international
  organised crime
• Eurojust is a European Union body that exists to
  improve co-ordination between Member States in
  the investigating and prosecuting serious
  cross-border and organised crime.
• If a European Arrest Warrant is issued, the
  Member State in which a person is arrested has to
  return him/ her into the State where it was
  issued within 90 days of the arrest. This means
  that Member States can no longer refuse to
  surrender to another Member State one of its own
  citizens who has committed a serious crime, or
  who is suspected of having committed such a crime
  in another EU country.