Interpol conference
01 March 1993
The head of the Swiss Federal Police, Lutz Krauskopf, told the European Conference of Interpol held in Berne, Switzerland in April that the European branch of Interpol must be integrated into the different other European data systems (Europol and the Schengen Information system) to "fight against terrorism, organised crime and extremism", to guarantee the best possible exchange of information. Any act of "terrorism" or "political extremism", said Raymond Kendall, general Secretary of Interpol, is simply a crime and therefore a matter for Interpol. He gave a rather bizarre example: "Think of a soldier in the war of Bosnia who has raped fifty women. This not a political crime on the background of a war, this is simply a criminal act".