A Cocaine Kingpin and the Rise of Drug Violence in Europe

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

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Organized crime used to be considered a remote threat in much of Western Europe, but ruthless violence by criminal gangs is now rattling the peace in some of the world’s safest societies. WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen explores the rise of one drug kingpin and how his brutal tactics have spread around the continent. Further Reading: - Violent Drug Gangs Bring Mayhem to Western Europe Further Listening: - The Push to Test Drugs for Fentanyl - Afghanistan's Desperation Economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 2021 news about a prominent Dutch journalist named Peter DeVries
0:10.1	sent shock waves across Europe.
0:13.0	Peter the Fries was probably the most famous crime reporter in the Netherlands.
0:19.0	He was famous for taking on these unsolved murder cases and crimes that the police
0:26.3	had kind of given up on and then solving them in his work.
0:31.1	There is one evening in July of 2012. As the
0:35.0	freez, he was leaving a television studio where he had been recording
0:40.0	a man sidled up to him from behind and shot him point black in the street.
0:45.0	We have what extra innovation, what Peter Erred de Vries.
0:50.0	A crime reporter well known for exposing the Dutch underworld has become the subject rather than the documenter of a crime scene.
0:57.0	The Dutch crime reporter Peter Arder Vries has died.
1:01.0	The 64 year old journalist was known for investigating organized crime.
1:05.8	And who did it wind up was responsible for his murder?
1:10.6	Most people assume that the murder was linked to a very famous Dutch Moroccan drug dealer, drug lord.
1:21.0	That drug lord is Riduan Tagi, the most wanted man in the Netherlands.
1:27.0	Tagi is probably the most notorious Dutch drug trafficker and his gang, the Moroccan mafia,
1:34.3	is probably the most powerful criminal organization
1:36.8	in the Netherlands.
1:38.1	DeVries had been helping law enforcement
1:42.3	build a case against Tagi.
1:44.0	And while Tagi was never charged with DeVries murder and has denied involvement,
1:49.0	prosecutors believe it was retribution for the journalist's work.
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