I've been camping all over Europe for the last couple of years (well most of Europe) and never had any trouble. Of course if you make it easy enough people might feel tempted and steal something but as long as you're careful enough (careful not being spelled p-a-r-a-n-o-i-d!) you should be fine
For instance, I remember last year on Corsica, when the only thing I locked securely to a tree was actually my bike, didn't even have a padlock on the tent or anything. When we left the campground during the day I had my rear hard case and my panniers locked securely to the bike, and sometimes we even didn't feel like it and simply left'em in the tent but had all our valuables with us. That's all the precautions we took during our entire trip and we ended up fine.
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