As a result, Mr. Alonso says, MS-13 has displaced the Bloods and the Crips in the popular imagination, prompting copycat gangs to form.
UK-based members will be joined by activists from recently formed copycat "defence leagues" in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands – as well as supporters of more established far-right groups from France, Germany and Denmark.
But the coup in neighbouring Egypt and this year's second political assassination of a Tunisian opposition politician have sent it off course.The ousting of Muhammad Morsi, Egypt's elected Islamist president, on July 3rd, inspired some young Tunisians, unhappy with their own Islamist-led government, to form a copycat movement aimed at toppling it.
Several accounts of "ritualistic murders" associated with the saint have raised alarm in Mexico and abroad, a trend Roush fears will increase in the form of "copycat crimes".
At the very least, the form has bred copycats and lost its novelty and sense of humor.
While the market for copycat businesses aping the latest startups form the Valley is well known, it's been a component, but never the only aspect, of the German scene.
But attempting to duplicate the success of the Grand Theft Auto series, which has now seen half a dozen copycats imitate its free-form, urban style, may not be the companys best course of action.
After PalmPilot showed the way to a form factor that worked with customers, the copycats jumped into the fray electronic giants like Casio, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and Philips started making machines that used Microsoft's Windows CE operating system.
The medical files of the copycats were retrospectively analysed using a special data collection form.
