Posted on 09/23/2019 6:44:10 AM PDT by cutty
A Dutch lawyer in a major gangland case has been shot dead outside his Amsterdam home - a crime described by police as exceptionally brutal.
Derk Wiersum, 44, was the lawyer for a state witness in a case against members of a violent drug gang, who are accused of five murders between 2015 and 2017.
A hoodie-wearing suspect fled on foot.
Police chief Erik Akerboom said "with this brutal murder, a new limit has been crossed: now even people simply doing their work no longer seem safe".
Jan Struijs of the NPB police union said "organised crime has got totally out of control". He said the Netherlands had turned into a "narco-state".
And Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus called the shooting "an attack on our rule of law".
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The five gangland murders in Utrecht and Amsterdam were nicknamed the "Mocro Maffia" wars, which inspired a fictional Dutch TV crime series, involving Moroccan-origin gangsters.
The main suspects in those killings are two Dutch gangland figures of Moroccan origin: Ridouan Taghi and Said Razzouki.
The EU police agency Europol lists them among Europe's "most wanted fugitives".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Well he doesn’t look particularly of the Moroccan persuasion, so I’d give that an 80% probability rating. Could be the dumb police chief in civvies, though.
“Wait! Wasn’t the Netherlands one of the first nations to decriminalize recreational drugs?”
i think that what these organized gangs are doing is exporting semi-legal street-type drugs from Holland to countries where such drugs are illegal ... that and apparently much actual crime unrelated to drugs ...
Have they considered immigration control?
My understanding is that the experiment failed. They created a welfare system for stoners and were surprised to find immigrants riding that gravy train. They started running out of other people’s money.
They were OK with young white people doing drugs.
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