Jan Struijs, president of the Dutch police union, has claimed his country, the Netherlands, is a narco-state, with drug dealing criminals operating a parallel economy.
in a major crime gang trial, known as the Marengo trial, whose leader Ridouan Taghi was extradited to the Netherlands in 2019.
Another man, lawyer Derk Wiersum, was also shot dead in 2019. He was the lawyer of a star witness in the Marengo trial. A total of 17 people in the Moroccan or ‘Morco’ mafia were charged with six killings and several more attempted murders. Journalist Jens Olde Kalter spoke to SVT on the killings, saying: “Is it worth dying for? Do I want my kids to grow up without a father? Do I want my children to grow up in a narco-state? These are the kinds of things I’m thinking about.”
Violence relating to drug trafficking gangs is not a new phenomenon in the Netherlands, with nearly 20 people being murdered from 2021 to 16 in the so-called Morco War.of a rival from another gang on the street in Amsterdam as part of the violence.
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