Mob-style killings fuel fears of descent into ‘narco state’
Jul 08, 2022
3 minutes
By Senay Boztas AMSTERDAM
Journalists and lawyers under protection or murdered on the streets, court hearings guarded by the army, witness statements anonymised, and billions in dirty drug money that leaches through society, corrupting as it goes. This, shockingly, is the Netherlands.
The mayors of Amsterdam and Rotterdam are warning of a “culture of crime and violence that is gradually acquiring Italian traits”, with record amounts of intercepted drugs at the port of Rotterdam, extreme violence that often kills
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