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1. english.elpais.com › international › 2024/07/27Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug ...

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   Jul 27, 2024 · The policing efforts to keep drug trafficking at bay in Rotterdam’s daily life are Herculean. However, they’re also drops in an ocean, given that the mafias move over $200 billion a year in the...

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     Dutch PM under protection as the ‘Mocro Mafia’ drug cartel sows fear in the Netherlands

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3. www.thenation.com › article › societyHow the Netherlands Became a Global Cocaine Hub

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   Mar 23, 2022 · But unlike in the US or Mexico, which have been profoundly altered by the War on Drugs, the verdict is still out on how the boom in trafficking will transform the Netherlands.

4. www.bbc.com › news › world-europe-50821542Is the Netherlands becoming a narco-state? - BBC

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   The deadly shooting of Derk Wiersum destroyed a common misconception here: that drug cartels only kill their own. A 44-year-old father of two, he was shot dead in front of his wife outside...

5. nltimes.nl › 2024/01/05 › amsterdam-mayor-warnsAmsterdam mayor warns the Netherlands is at risk of "becoming ...

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   Jan 5, 2024 · Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema warned that the Netherlands is at a critical point where national and international drug policy is violently colliding with international drug trafficking, which "has become more lucrative, professional and ruthlessly violent."

6. www.spiegel.de › international › europeNarco-State Netherlands: The Slippery Dutch Slope from Drug ...

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   Oct 20, 2021 · Drug gangs in the Netherlands have long since graduated from hashish to cocaine - and from dealing on the streets to a spree of contract killings. Police, lawyers, journalists: All are at risk...

7. www.bbc.com › news › stories-59379474The ‘cocaine collectors’ retrieving smuggled drugs in Rotterdam

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   Young criminals are risking their lives to retrieve drugs smuggled into the Netherlands amongst freight arriving from Latin America.

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   What happened to drug trafficking in the Netherlands?

   • Drug trafficking exploded onto the front pages of Dutch newspapers in the late 2010s, thanks to a series of brutal killings carried out by the “Mocro,” or Moroccan mafia, which controls much of the country’s cocaine trade.

   How the Netherlands Became a Global Cocaine Hub | The Nation

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   Is drug trafficking threatening Dutch institutions?

   • However, as drug trafficking extends its presence throughout the Netherlands, violence and intimidation are threatening the country’s institutions. This is a portrait of Dutch society that has little to do with the postcards that depict bicycles and tulips James, pictured second from the right, is a social worker with the Adamas organization.

   Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

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   Are drug gangs in the Netherlands at risk?

   • Drug gangs in the Netherlands have long since graduated from hashish to cocaine - and from dealing on the streets to a spree of contract killings. Police, lawyers, journalists: All are at risk of falling victim to the drug violence that has gripped the country. A dark night sky hangs over Amsterdam as Peter Schouten drives home on Nov. 2, 2020.

   Narco-State Netherlands: The Slippery Dutch Slope from Drug Tolerance

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   How does drug trafficking affect adolescence in the Netherlands?

   • On the edges of society, adolescents navigate the mafias that recruit them and the efforts of police officers, social workers and the few politicians who try to keep them on the side of the law. However, as drug trafficking extends its presence throughout the Netherlands, violence and intimidation are threatening the country’s institutions.

   Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

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   Does the Netherlands have a 'disastrous' impact on the drug trade?

   • Without global action, the Netherlands faces a tough road ahead considering the development of the international drug trade. Those developments have had a "disastrous" effect, she said.

   Amsterdam mayor warns the Netherlands is at risk of ... - NL Times

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   How did the drug crisis start in the Netherlands?

   • This crisis began when the tolerance towards the consumption of soft drugs imposed in the 1970s morphed into an environment that, today, many describe as being out of control. The possession of small quantities is legal in the Netherlands, but not production or trafficking, which has spread to synthetic drugs, cocaine and heroin.

   Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

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9. www.portcityfutures.nl › news › smuggling-paradisesSmuggling Paradises: Port Cities and Drug Trafficking in Past ...

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   Dec 10, 2021 · From the recent tv-series Poldark to the 4,000 kilos of drugs that were seized in the port of Rotterdam in 2021, historian Stephen Snelders writes about the roots and representation of smuggling through ports.