"The European Commission launched in 2012 an infringement procedure against Italy for failure to comply with Directive 2004/80/EC and is currently considering further steps of the procedure." It is the response of the EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding to a question by an Italian MEP on the issue of compensation for victims of violent crime. In practice, the Italian state is not always fulfills its duty to compensate the victims of violent intentional crime if the offender does not have the means to do so, as stated in the Directive 2004/80/EC.
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