Drug gangs pose grave threat to European security, agency warns
Drug gangs pose grave threat to European security, agency warns
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Drug gangs pose grave threat to European security, agency warns
Criminal drug gangs have become a grave threat to European security by flooding the streets with South American cocaine, seeking to corrupt officials and hiring a new wave of paid assassins, according to the EU’s drugs agency.
This year has served up stark examples. A police union in southern Spain said the state had “lost control” of the fight against traffickers. A judge said Belgium was at risk of becoming a “narco-state”. And the killing of an anti-drug activist’s brother in Marseille heightened fears that France was heading the same way.