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The port of Antwerp, at the head of European sea transport, has become the epicentre of cocaine traffic in Europe. The Moroccan mafia holds a very important part in this disgusting business and very recently, the Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne was victim of an attempted kidnapping by the Moroccan mafia (also based in the Netherlands), in the context of drug trafficking.
I have seen, in Belgian and foreign press, many articles worrying about Belgium becoming a narco-State.
Ex. of article:
Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne escaped the worst. He escaped a kidnapping attempt hatched by the drug world. 4 suspects were arrested in the Netherlands. The violence of drug trafficking is no longer confined to the middle or to certain neighborhoods. It invites itself into the public space and even into politics.
Narco-State
Belgium is therefore a candidate to become a “narco-state”. This is the observation made 10 days ago by Johan Delmulle, the Attorney General of Brussels, recalls Le Soir : The danger hovers over us that Belgium will receive the name of narco-state . The newspaper Le Monde also mentioned it. This would mean a state eaten away by corruption and which no longer has “the monopoly of legitimate violence” to use the famous definition of the state by sociologist Max Weber.
This attempt to kidnap the Minister of Justice of a rule of law is an open challenge to this “monopoly of legitimate state violence”.
That says a lot about the hubris and power of these groups. Let us recall a figure: the cocaine seizures of the year in the port of Antwerp (approximately 90 t) are worth 4.5 billion euros on the market. According to specialists, this represents around 10% of everything that passes through the port, i.e. nearly 45 billion euros per year.
We are talking about sums that could pay a good part of the pensions (54 billion), all of education in this country, (30 billion). It is above all 10 to 20 times more than the federal police budget (2.5 billion). The fight against organized crime is above all a fight for the rule of law, let's not forget that.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/la-belgi...-etat-11073881
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