On a chilly night in March, harbor police at Belgium’s Antwerp port nabbed three youths crawling over a barbed-wired fence at one of its quays. A few nights later, two more were caught in the same area. The five teenagers — three of them minors — were all Dutch and were looking for one thing: a shipment of cocaine.
The increased frequency of such incidents are a telling sign of how criminal gangs, often using minors who get lighter penalties, have brazenly turned Europe’s second-largest port into a key entry point of what’s become a cocaine superhighway.
Source link : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-14/belgium-and-netherlands-step-up-port-security-in-cocaine-trade-crackdown
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Publish date : 2024-05-13 07:00:00
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