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Inside the Hamidovic clan's reign of terror over young female pickpockets in the Paris métro

They name their children Dior or Al Capone and love designer clothes and luxury cars. To maintain their lavish lifestyle, the men of the Hamidovic clan – a Romani family of Bosnian origin – have maintained a reign of fear over an army of young female pickpockets on Paris public transportation. One branch of the network is on trial in Paris from September 15 to 23.

Inside the Hamidovic clan's reign of terror over young female pickpockets in the Paris métro

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Melaka puts PH-Bersatu ties to a new test

PAKATAN Harapan and Bersatu, once political allies before becoming bitter rivals, are now back at the negotiating table ahead of the Melaka state election.

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Chinese lawyers offer coaching for when corruption busters come knocking

Zhang Dongdong has been fielding ever more requests for legal advice from jittery entrepreneurs, nervous government officials or their desperate relatives. They usually do not tell him the whole story, and sometimes say it happened “to a friend”, but most want to know the same thing: what to do when they are targeted by China’s corruption…

Chinese lawyers offer coaching for when corruption busters come knocking

Zhang Dongdong has been fielding ever more requests for legal advice from jittery entrepreneurs, nervous government officials or their desperate relatives. They usually do not tell him the whole story, and sometimes say it happened “to a friend”, but most want to know the same thing: what to do when they are targeted by China’s corruption…

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