[alethia]

I'd say that you could be right on the money with your observations, Burkeman1. We all know that these statistics can be manipulated by unscrupulous politicians and "paid off" bureaucrats. We've even experienced some of that here in the good ole US.

Albanians ran rampant in Greece and Italy due to gun control and lax border control.

[Burkeman1]

I think the potential is even grater for blatant lies about crime and media silence in France than here in America. France is a semi authoritarian state ruled by about 1000 famlies and has been for centuries. It has only a veneer of democracy. The population are sheep and even people who "work" in France are partially on the dole.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Albanians ran rampant in Greece and Italy due to gun control and lax border control.

Serbia didn't put up with it until we bombed them into submission, for which I am ashamed.