860: Mitchell Prothero | Cocaine, Murder, and Dirty Money in Europe
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Project Brazen's Mitchell Prothero reveals Europe’s cocaine crisis through the stories of cartel thugs, cops, journalists, and victims caught in the middle.
What We Discuss with Mitchell Prothero:- Why European law enforcement is ill-prepared to deal with the influx of crime and violence associated with a cocaine trade that has grown to rival that of the US.
- How European ports that have been historically instrumental in the development of international trade have become thriving modern hubs for drug trafficking.
- What makes cocaine the "perfect" drug for illicit entrepreneurs who want to make a lot of money on their own terms?
- Why loose cannon drug trafficker and murderer Ridouan Taghi makes fellow criminals as nervous as he makes journalists, agents of law enforcement, and European society.
- What needs to change in order for the European cocaine trade to decelerate?
- And much more...
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| 0:20.8 | What are the estimates of what smuggled? |
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| 0:25.1 | Since the wall came down, remember, there's like a million new middle-class people |
| 0:29.0 | every year in Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania, Ukraine. |
| 0:34.1 | Who can afford 100 euros on a weekend? |
| 0:36.5 | So this is where the market keeps expanding each year. |
| 0:38.8 | The more you build out a middle class and an upper middle class |
| 0:41.6 | throughout the rest of Eastern Europe, the market keeps getting bigger. |
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