How Does Vatican City Deal With Criminals?

The promoter of justice has a lot on his plate, because Vatican City?s crime rate is astonishingly high. In some years, he has had to prosecute one crime for every person in the country, even though the Vatican boasts nearly as many police officers as citizens. (Vatican security duties are carried out by the Swiss Guard.) By comparison, the United States suffered around 10.6 million reported crimes in 2009, which amounts to just one crime for every 29 persons. Of course, these numbers are a little unfair to the tiny religious state, because most crimes in Vatican City are committed by foreign tourists and pilgrims. In addition, violent crime is exceedingly rare. There has been only one murder case in Vatican City?s 83-year history?the 1998 killing of a Swiss guard and his wife by a subordinate officer named Cedric Tornay, who subsequently killed himself. (Claims have persisted that Vatican insiders murdered and framed Tornay as part of a struggle to control the Swiss Guard, then conducted a show investigation in an effort to put the matter to bed. The controversy underlines another difference between the Vatican justice system and those of other countries?the government is not democratic.)

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