Institute for Continuing Professional Development

Carla Del Ponte
Die Bundesanwältin der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft

"The Fight against Organized Crime: Fighting the Symptoms or Going to the Roots?"

"Crime, quite generally, can be considered a disease affecting not only citizens but, sometimes, also institutions of the economy, government, and society. If that crime is organized, it may assume metastatic proportions, like a cancerous growth. I think we have every reason therefore to take the problem of organized crime very seriously."