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Is the Netherlands becoming a narco-state?
« on: December 19, 2019, 05:06:25 pm »
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Is the Netherlands becoming a narco-state?
By Anna Holligan
BBC News, The Hague

"We definitely have the characteristics of a narco-state," confides Jan Struijs, chairman of the biggest Dutch police union.

"Sure 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 narco-state."

His words echo in a society that has been convulsed by a murder that went far beyond the bubble of the criminal underworld.

Read more at:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821542