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"Surrealism was born in Belgium" and "all of those who've ever had any dealings with the Belgian administration know that absurdity can take very concrete forms" quips the Franfurter Rundschau. The latest victim being MEP Rosario Crocetta. Elected in June, the former mayor of Gela Sicily, is on the Cosa Nostra's blacklist. Three attempts on his life have already been foiled. In Italy he is under permanent police protection. When the European Parliament is in session in Strasbourg, France makes bodyguards available to him. However in Brussels where he has no such protection, "Crocetta feels vulnerable" and has therefore only ventured there three times, says the German daily. The Belgian Interior Minister is adamant that he did offer protection to Crocetta, on condition that he supply detailed information about the people threatening him. "Which is totally naive", says the MEP.
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