Independent.ie: Crime - EU awash with drugs as 90pc of shipments get through - by Ralph Riegel
EU awash with drugs as 90pc of shipments get through - by Ralph Riegel
An estimated nine out of every 10 drug shipments evade European customs and police detection. Despite the stunning success for the Irish authorities this week in the seizure of €675m of high-grade Colombian cocaine off the west Cork coast, the grim reality is that the drug is flooding onto European markets. The wholesale price of high-grade cocaine has plummeted from €130,000 to less than €80,000 per kilogram in the space of just four years -- while the number of cocaine addicts within the EU has doubled in seven years. Note EU-Digest: This is an unacceptable situation. Every EU member country is to blame for being lacks in the way they control the illegal import, sale and possession of addictive drugs which has become a major source of criminal activity. Member countries like the Netherlands which still provide legality to the use of drugs in various forms should be made to understand that what they thought to be a beneficial policy has now turned into a major criminal activity and needs to be cleaned up.
Labels: Drug Traffic, EU, Ireland, The Netherlands
