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Europe's Drug Mafia: The Weakness of States
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Europe's Drug Mafia: The Weakness of States

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Part two of DW's investigation into European cocaine trafficking picks up in Rotterdam, where local street gangs and Colombian suppliers built a criminal empire together. It traces how immigrants to the Netherlands, including Gwenette Martha and Ridouan Taghi, rose to become primary European contacts for South American cocaine cartels, and how their organizations answered any threat to business with military-grade violence, including the murders of lawyers and journalists and open threats against the Dutch royal family. The film follows fleeing traffickers to Dubai, where encrypted communication platforms let them keep running operations remotely, and covers the 2020 police operation that cracked those networks, seizing weapons, cash, and drugs and identifying money launderers on a massive scale. Yet the gangs reorganized almost immediately, and the street price of a gram of cocaine barely moved through any of it. Interviews with police, customs officials, and judges close the film on a stark consensus: drug trafficking now ranks as the single greatest threat to Europe's internal security.