Posted on 12/19/2019 9:54:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
"We definitely have the characteristics of a narco-state," confides Jan Struijs, chairman of the biggest Dutch police union.
"Sure we're not Mexico. We don't have 14,400 murders. But if you look at the infrastructure, the big money earned by organised crime, the parallel economy. Yes, we have a narco-state."
His words echo in a society that has been convulsed by a murder that went far beyond the bubble of the criminal underworld.
"A few incidents over the last few years were like a sign on the wall," explains Wouter Laumans whose bestseller, Mocro Mafia, is a story charting the rise of a new generation of criminals in Amsterdam.
"The signs were there that it could flow over from the underworld to the upper world, and now that has happened."
What is the 'Mocro Mafia'?
"It's street slang. Young Moroccans call each other 'Mocro'," says Laumans, who wrote the book with Marijn Schrijver.
"We came up with Mocro Mafia to encapsulate what the book was about. Now I see they're using it in police reports. But it's not only Moroccans. It's about young boys growing up in areas of Amsterdam where tourists never go.
"It's not canals, the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh. It's the housing estates. They don't have the same opportunities. They are aspirational, they are looking for a career in the underworld."
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I never saw a city so devoid of morality as Amsterdam
An awful place, a nihilistic social culture
They offer tours of the “Red Light District” for the shock value of gawking at human depravity and misery as a tourist attraction
Oh, my goodness. What will Europe do about its “drug problem?”
Unrestricted immigration - what could go wrong?
According to the article, Moroccans are behind much of the violence. What a surprise.
The whole world is a narco-state.
Oh please
Legalize and all these problems go away.
Isn’t this the location of the original “NEEDLE PARK?”
When I was there on the early 70’s they were already a narco-state
Well I live there and I have a 2nd job as secutiy for stuff like parties and concerts. The last couple of years I did see a huge increase in people on cocaine and stuff like that. It’s cheap compared to 20 years ago and there is a huge supply from both the Rotterdam harbor and also a huge supply from chemical drugs made in the Netherlands itself or brought to the Netherlands on cargo trucks.
I no longer work in the evenings/nights because of the rampart drug abuse and violence that comes from this. I have a good job during the week so no need for the money, was more for fun and helping out a friend.
I believe that is in Zurich Switzerland.
Have you noticed a significant increase in violence in the last 20 years, and a commensurate reduction in quality of life in the Netherlands?
Amsterdam is one of the great cities of the world. You can spend a week in the city and hardly know the Red Light District exists. A lot of dope smell but that is nothing different than Denver or Portland.
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