歐盟報告稱立陶宛爲"謀殺之都"

According to the European Union (EU)'s official statistics agency Eurostat Tuesday, the Baltic state of Lithuania saw an average 8.76 murders per 100,000 people every year from 2002 to 2008, making it the EU country with most murders and the EU's murder capital。

Another Baltic state Estonia recorded the second with 6.6 murders per 100,000 residents. Complete data was not available for the third Baltic state Latvia, but incomplete figures suggested a similar rate to that of Estonia。

The only other countries reporting more than two cases a year per 100,000 people were Finland, Bulgaria, Scotland, Romania, the Czech Republic and Ireland, while the lowest murder rates were observed in Austria, Slovenia and Germany, all of which had less than one homicide per 100,000 of population, Eurostat reported。

However, on a more positive note, Lithuania was also amongst the EU states that saw one of the largest drops in levels of violent crime during the same period。

據外媒12月1日報道，歐盟統計局週二稱，從2002年到2008年，波羅的海國家立陶宛平均每10萬人中每年就有8.76人遭到謀殺，位列歐盟之最，被稱爲歐盟的“謀殺之都”。

而另外一個波羅的海國家愛沙尼亞以每10萬人中6.6人遭謀殺位居第二。同爲波羅的海國家的拉脫維亞雖沒有完整的數據記錄，但不完全統計數字表明，其謀殺率和愛沙尼亞相近。

每10萬人中每年上報2起以上謀殺案件的國家還有芬蘭、保加利亞、蘇格拉、羅馬尼亞、捷克以及愛爾蘭，而謀殺率最低的國家則爲奧地利、斯洛文尼亞和德國，這三個國家每10萬人中每年連一宗謀殺案都不到。

然而從積極方面來看，立陶宛也是歐盟國家中暴力犯罪率同期下降幅度最大的國家之一。