Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot

Re:Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot by _Microft on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:39AM (#27844541)

I thought you would be exaggerating but searching for "Netherlands" and "narco state" revealed a scarily large number of articles, some of which are several years old already. I wonder how I could have missed that.

I was already aware that the Netherlands had a drug problem in general, both by smuggling via their huge ports and by cartels producing them locally. I had even submitted a map [0] with locations of amphetamine production sites not long ago and most of them are in the Netherlands but the amount of crime that seems to accompany it is frightening.

[0] https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/media-library/map-location-site...

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Re:Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot by jacquesm on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:04AM (#27844839)

In a word: Rotterdam. We have Mexican cartel bozos operating inside the country in their own labs preparing drugs for further distribution into the european market.

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Re:Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot by sime2009 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:46AM (#27844630)

Thanks for the map. That is interesting.

> the amount of crime that seems to accompany it is frightening

Do you have some kind of source that last statement? Do you mean frightening as in "big" or frightening as in "it scares me"?

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Re:Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot by lwn on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:43PM (#27847563)

Criminalising goods which are in high demand seem to have that effect.

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