Vatican City is 'world's worst for crime'
09/01/2003 - 16:42:50
More crimes are committed per inhabitant in the Vatican City than any other country in the world, according to new statistics.
The Papal State's police force says 608 penal offences were committed last year in the independent religious state whose population is just 455.
The vast majority were robberies committed against tourists visiting the Sistine chapel and the Vatican museums as well as against shoppers in the Vatican's only supermarket.
There were also 397 civil proceedings taken out by the Holy See's police, mainly traffic offences and for insulting Vatican officials.
Since the murder of a Papal Swiss Guard in 1998, the Vatican police have been keen to show themselves as a transparent and effective force.
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The Statistics have spoken!