European Arrest Warrant in the combat organized crime

Combat cross-border crime is an old concern. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the States quickly realize that faced with a new world order, it becomes necessary to abandon part of their sovereignty in order to work together, against a new crime favored by globalization. The European Union also places this imperative at the heart of its ambitions. While initially, the European Community was only an economic agreement, it quickly realized that the pooling of goods and capital, but also the free movement of people, engendered a new delinquency, a transnational delinquency. In the face of this problem, a European arrest warrant was envisaged for judicial cooperation between the member states of this union.

The present research is written based on descriptive and analytical methods and methods of collecting information is from library-documentary studies. In this regard, the regulations-documents and sources related to the European arrest warrant have been reviewed.

Indeed, criminals do not care about borders while law enforcement is constrained. Offenders take advantage of these facilities to proceed with their trafficking, or to escape the authorities, who cannot prosecute them outside their national territory. Here then appears the need for interstate police and judicial collaboration. Within the European Union, this collaboration was therefore gradually put in place, until the creation of the European arrest warrant, a mechanism for the surrender of individuals between States.