9 minutes agoIs the Netherlands becoming a narco-state?
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The murder of a prominent lawyer has shocked the Netherlands and raised questions about the drug trade and society. We have the characteristics of a narco-traficium,” confess Jan Struijs, director of the largest Dutch police union. “Of course we're not Mexico. We don't have 14,400 murders. But if you look at the infrastructure, the big money [...]
The murder of a prominent lawyer has shocked the Netherlands and raised questions about the drug trade and society.
We have the characteristics of a narco-traficium,” confess Jan Struijs, director of the largest Dutch police union.
Of course we're not Mexico. We don't have 14,400 murders. But if you look at the infrastructure, the big money earned by organised crime, the parallel economy, yes, we have a narcotics state”, writes BBC.
The murder of Derk Wiersum destroyed a misconception there, that drug cartels only kill each other. A father of two, 44, was shot dead in front of his wife outside their home in Amsterdam in September.
This should scare us, the police director added.
Wiersum was the lawyer of a prosecution witness who had opened a case against the Netherlands' two most wanted persons.
His murder in the middle of the day was seen as an attack on Siccile society, democracy and rule of law, Periscopi follows.
