Moment Dutch judge sentences drug lord Ridouan Taghi to life imprisonment. Believed to be 'Europe's most feared drug lord' he sat at the top of the Netherlands' drug -fueled criminal underworld.
Europe's booming illicit drug market is worth at least €31 billion . Drug kingpins see desperate underage migrants as ideal targets for recruitmentDrug cartels are taking advantage of an 'unlimited supply' of vulnerable child migrants by using them as foot soldiers to shuttle cocaine across Europe - and dishing out heinous punishments to keep them in check.
The drug gangs use brutal methods to capture and control them, forcing them to perform sex acts in exchange for accommodation and threatening them with savage beatings and even gang rape to ensure compliance. Underage migrants, particularly those unaccompanied by elder family members, are seen as ideal targets through the ruthless eyes of the cocaine kingpins overseeing the flow of the illicit substance into and around the continent.
Read More The ruthless Brazilian cartel bringing a 'tsunami' of cocaine - and bloodshed - to Europe's streets North African children, particularly Moroccans and Algerians, are thought to be those most at risk, with a recent EU police force investigation cited by the Guardian declaring: 'Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and France presented several concrete cases of the exploitation of hundreds of north African minors, recruited by drug trafficking networks to sell...
The Netherlands and Belgium have long served as the primary entry points for drug traffickers shuttling cocaine into Europe, particularly via port cities like Rotterdam and Antwerp. But one gang in particular - the Mocro Maffia - is responsible for orchestrating much of the drug trafficking from North Africa into Europe via the Netherlands and Belgium.
A torture chamber, discovered by Dutch police, allegedly used by criminals to detain and interrogate prisoners The kingpin went from something of a nobody to 'Europe's biggest drug lord' in a matter of years, rising through the ranks as he smuggled record quantities of cocaine into the continent's ports.
News The Netherlands Belgium Spain
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Feared drug cartels are using 'unlimited' supply of child migrants in Europe as foot soldiers to...Moment Dutch judge sentences drug lord Ridouan Taghi to life imprisonment. Believed to be 'Europe's most feared drug lord' he sat at the top of the Netherlands' drug -fueled criminal underworld.
Read more »
Mauricio Pochettino reveals the exact moment he feared Chelsea sack'We're in a good place.'
Read more »
Mauricio Pochettino reveals the exact moment he feared Chelsea sack'We're in a good place.'
Read more »
Slovakia PM assassination: Europe's new Franz Ferdinand moment?Robert Fico, 59, was shot five times by a gunman while he greeted supporters in Handlova, north-east of Bratislava, following a Slovak government meeting yesterday.
Read more »
Slovakia PM assassination: Europe's new Franz Ferdinand moment?Robert Fico, 59, was shot five times by a gunman while he greeted supporters in Handlova, north-east of Bratislava, following a Slovak government meeting yesterday.
Read more »
Slovakia PM assassination: Europe's new Franz Ferdinand moment?Robert Fico, 59, was shot five times by a gunman while he greeted supporters in Handlova, north-east of Bratislava, following a Slovak government meeting yesterday.
Read more »