Antwerp is my home. But it hurts my heart to see these things. I have 3 friends and a family member that blindsided me with the news that they were involved in the drug underworld. It felt like i was living in a movie when i discovered it. I'm really concerned about it because every time there is a stabbing, shoot out or kidnapping. it's never more than 30 km. Antwerp is really small and people really know each other here
@@rippawallet You make the joke but its kinda feeling like its getting serious. It might sound extreme but a friend of mine told me last sunday that she lost her sister to the drug underworld. Not an O.D, but assassination. Its crazy bro
This man is a good friend of my father and my uncle, I was always surprised about this guys lifestyle being so flashy while he was always down to earth and just living his best life.
Say 5g a night per person in a year loads would be dying from heart hypertrophy plus all the cocaine psychosis that comes along with real cocaine usage not the few keys on a Friday night in the pub
"users have blood on their hands" ??? right... and what about politicians that criminalize the substance ??? booze is a terrible drug, yet still available freely...
Junkie? People having a beer and 0,00001% of users acting up, does not justify your drug use, or you giving money to gangsters, money to the Taliban, money to the cartels while 50% of the users act up. Go to detox, junkie.
Yeah it’s ridiculous how they deny their own responsibility in making it possible that criminal organisations have all power over such a profitable market, also letting people mix whatever with it creating more health issues or deaths in their population, alcohol would be the most dangerous drugs if we were buying it on the corner of guy that just mixed it in his basement
Belgium is worse then the dutch i have a friend who works at the port in rotterdam and a friend in antwerp i live in amsterdam but from what i have heard between ppl is belgium 10x worse
@@highvy999 Nah not really and Belgium and the Netherlands share the same criminal organizations so what happens in Belgium, also happens in the Netherlands. Its the same problem with the same people and they keep getting away with it bc Belgium and Dutch police are in on it all…
Antwerp and Rotterdam are responsible for the bulk of the European-American (legal) shipping trade. Pretty obvious that these trade routes will be used to ship drugs...
That isn’t true, it would still make it in but the quantity it’s coming in at wouldn’t be possible as a lot more would be getting caught but it would still come in as it’s impossible to search every single container/vehicle/person
Living here for over 20 years and it turned from good to hell,everything got out of hand.I`m in the process of canceling my Belgian`s citizenship,i`ve placed my house and cars for sell.I`m sorry this is happening to the Western countries,the people don`t even have rights,the migrants are coming and ruling everything in their country.
sorry to say that this is happening all over the world. I've been to twelve countries over the last 2 years and I've seen this happening on a global scale.
@@youngbkatt7835 12 countries in the last 2 years,you must be visiting them,it's a difference between visiting and living in one place,i can make a difference because i know how it was 20 years ago but that's true,the ship is sinking
The reason is western countries are not hard enough on crime. Look at Dubai, 89% of the population are not native, yet they have the lowest crime rate in the world. This is what happens when western countries are rulled by snowflakes that have sympathy for criminals.
@@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 Is it worse than it was before they legalised marijuana? Is marijuana taking noticeable on the streets, and who is using marijuana in America?
Its basically pointless them taking the 5 tonnes of cocaine it just highers the price on the streets there's basically unlimited out there on the streets anyway
They did that in the US, some police departments in Colorado were even encouraging their officers to smoke weed over drinking. Today, the black market share of the marijuana market is still larger than the legal, and many legal dispensaries are still controlled by criminal organizations.
@@okeyalright Its not state owned marijuana. It's privately grown. Cartels just plant them illegally at prices that push out legal growers, and sell it legally or illegally
The real question should be, why are there so many drugs coming into Europe? Because there are millions of drug users, where there is a need for something there will always be a demand. If there are no users, there is no drugs.
Cia is a major drug cartel. Bill clinton also. A huge reason for the war in Afghanistan was for the opium… right after the war began heroin became a huge problem in the United States.
@@Bandobenz18 that they are full of destructive / useless ideas. The left who followed the "War on Drugs" were as stupid as the ones who followed the right's "War on Terror".
Except the cause of this is the legalisation of some drugs (and the gangs slinging them) and weak sentences that mean some of these gangsters rack up 40-50-60 convictions but are still out on the street. Go away, partisan political hack.
I’m from Antwerpen since half a century and I saw the complete evolution: it’s mainly due to Moroccans (I also grew up with them), also called the Mocro maffia. We have shootings almost every day and they are destroying the entire city but also undermining the economy. It has become a war unfortunately….
@@tfbrooks1668 well some are, look at India. Their number one export product is .... doctors and lawyers. The dealers are a small portion, the vast majority works a steady job pays taxes and wants a peaceful life. The problem is the government, they hand out money to people that have never worked a day in their lives.
This is the misery that comes with it. An 11 year old innocent girl getting caught in a crossfire wtf. And yet the market is so lucrative for the stuff.
@@Jonny17m Aesop "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to politics." John Dalberg Acton "Power tends to corrupt; Absolute power corrupts absolutely" If you don't know the connection by now. You are lagging behind. Some 2000 years behind...
even if we had to have more scanners we still can't scan all containers so it's just a waste of money because for them it doesn't matter if one gets caught they just send a new one
Next time when making a short docu, do you research, there goes 2x more cargo trough Rotterdam, so I highly doubt that Antwerp is the bussiest. Otherwise, thank you for creating awareness.
Smart poorer people will may buy a Mercs if they are good at auto repair. But, those are usually used cars with lower mileage. Repairs can be quite expensive. So the trick to driving one is to keep it going for a millions miles or more and obtain a free replacement. A poor guy who knows how to work on cars and can purchase on line replacement parts has it made in the shade.... doesn't have to sell drugs to have that car.
To the ones saying legalize drugs, first of all mafia would get a percentage there too, even if you eradicate drugs, mafia will still find ways to make money, and if they don't be ready for war!
The drug is not a killer, the people who manufacture it on the other hand.... see the extensive use of coca leaves by people throughout South American Andes to help them deal with the altitude....
I live in Antwerp, Belgium and this is absolute BS lol. Yes there's some drug issues, but it's super safe unless you're a criminal yourself. Lived here all my life, never had issues. You do see cocaine use in night life a lot, but it's nothing violent/dangerous.
@@honklerfinkelstein2113 we are from the netherlands and belgium this is not the usa or mexico our criminals keep it to each other like man not on schools like childs
2 % for 7 million, it is a lost battle. Way more has to be checked, more money invested into finding, more personal, more scanners. If 20 % would be checked, gangs would go crazy.
Moroccan criminal networks in Europe have mainly been active since the 1990s, and consist mostly of Belgian and Dutch citizens with a Moroccan immigrant background.
They get millions from traffic,and im working as a chef paying taxes and working like a slave,i cant affort not even a little car to go to work so i dont pay transport anymore,witch is so expensive.Yeah,"the citizens are in good hands".
Can someone explain to me where the army of sniffer dogs are? Completely inept, with their amazing sense of smell they would be able to check thousands of containers at a time. Rather than a bloke with a long metal rod, which I am still not sure other than damaging the bananas what that actually achieved without opening the packages.
I went to Belgium in 2017 went to a club name Cloud 9 cocaine there is so pure when you sniff a line your whole mouth will numb in seconds paranoia sets in .😂
It"s so useless to fight this. It came to antwerp because the Netherlands invested in their ports. If we invest a lot of money into fighting it it will just relocate to the next port city. They already can't burn the caught goods, what's the point. 🙄
What we can do, is to legalize and control production, quality & sale of all drugs. Once new ones gonna pop up, break them down, study and make them safe before legalization. The world should clearly see that the longer we fight the drug business, the tougher it is to fight it. We could save Millions of life's and generate Billions (if not Trillion) of dollars in revenue if drugs would be legal, controlled and safe (safer than street drugs).
@@anonharingenamn educating yong generations how narcotics destroy users...Instead of pushing idea its cool in every movie and song..Legalizing will make society even worse than it is
Easy solution. Legalize it, make it in pharmacies, add VAT, and pump some of the profits back into healthcare and drug awareness. You wipe out the excess pollution, the deaths from contaminated substances, and the vast majority of organized crime. But it would be wrong to allow adults to decide what they put in their own bodies, right?
Wrong. The jail time penalties are too low, even lower with little evidence when high bosses trying to hide as much as possible. Now they cracked encrypted messages its a bit better, but now the high bosses using catfishers and boys under the age of 18 to abuse their law as not being a adult. Every developed and civilised human being knows death penalty is inhumane and doesn’t solve the problem. I’m sorry, but you can’t argue with me that in any universe the death penalty is a justified tool of penalty. It fails in its primary goal as a effective crime deterrent, and (real) life long imprisonment is far more effective.
@@woutertje026 it works in Singapore, and the reason why countries have courts is to look into it before the decision is made, people are not just killed because they were found with drugs. If the problem is because it's inhumane, the drug industry kills in way more inhumane ways.
What drug kills more people, worldwide, than all other drugs added together. Has an effect on society virtually incalculable in comparison. Make all drugs legal
Yeah broh ! Last week some idiot poked into my fentanyl from china. I went to complain with the po-leese . Now I am waiting in a special room with bars . Good food here ! And for free !
@@1EpicFailz The Port of Antwerp-Bruges[3] is the port of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. It is located in Flanders, mainly in the province of Antwerp, but also partially in East Flanders. It is a seaport in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships. It is Europe’s second-largest seaport, after that of Rotterdam still 2nd even with them 2 ports coming togethee
@@foodtestchannel230 Yeah maybe you can update the Wikipedia article so that it is up to date In the current geopolitical and macroeconomic context, the merger is a golden opportunity to put the Antwerp and Zeebrugge port sites, and by extension Flanders, in an even stronger position on the world map. Port of Antwerp-Bruges will capitalise on the strengths of both port locations and focus its strategy on containers, breakbulk, RoRo traffic and chemicals. More than ever, Port of Antwerp-Bruges will play a crucial role in major freight flows and reinforce its position as one of the main gateways to Europe. The unified port has also become Europe's largest export port - with 147 million tons/year - making it a global heavyweight.
I wrote almost the same comment as above but no one says that the Netherlands is not busier/or bigger than the port of Antwerp, the fact is that more drugs are sent to the port of Antwerp than in the Netherlands, that's all what is being said 70 tonnes is what the port of the Netherlands found in 2021 and that swapt from the quantity of cocaine seized from 70 tonnes in 2021 to around 50 tonnes in 2022. thats why the say antwerp is a busier port in terms of drugs
Put the substance under legal Market rules with user registration, purchase limits, temporary license suspension (eg. driving license suspended for 48 hours after each purchase) and double the jailtime for any illegal possession/trade outside of official regulated channels. END OF THE PROBLEMS, end of mafia/cartel power.
Not sure. If drugs are readily available, wouldn’t that cause an uptick in users? That would increase demand. Some people would be even willing to sell the roof over their children’s head to get their hand on the stuff. Putting limits on usage would still leave the door open for drug cartels. And what would stop somebody to buy drugs legally, and then sell it to someone who’s over their limit? Maybe a close friend. What would stop someone to accumulate the drugs they brought at home and use it all at once at a party maybe, and O.D. on it? Some of these issues could have the whole system spiral out of control. And there are other issues to consider as well I’m sure. It would be nice to have a public discourse about this and find a workable solution.
@@snoozfest2000 There's no statistics that back up your claim. Legalisation in Holland or even USA didn't translate into a significant increase. On the middle/long run, it significantly decreases usage. Look at Holland, weed is legal since decades and it's one of the EU countries with the lowest rate of weed consumption. France on the other hand has severe laws against marijuana and is the country of EU with the worst statistics, people start smoking at a younger age, more addictions, more theft and crimes because of drugs. On the other hand, legalisation did translate into a significant increase in demand for psychological / addiction help, because it allowed people to talk about the problem as it became a legal thing. 100% of what you said is subjective speculation. All the data in the world say the same thing, legalisation is a good thing on all levels. The reason they don't legalise drugs is purerly political.
@@tdb517 The reason is also financial. The alcohol industry heavily promotes and lobbies _for_ the war on drugs. They don't want people finding out that some drugs are much safer, healthier and less addictive. Slowly but surely alcohol usage will dwindle which would severely affect profitability of beer and liquor conglomerates. If anybody is interested I have solid sources to back up these facts.
@@tdb517 while I agree with most of your arguments, the Netherlands is a bad example for legalisation, as weed is still illegall but instead it's decriminalized. The way it gets produced and into the coffeeshop is illegal and there is no quality control. So yes while the system is better than weed being illegal, it still does not protect consumers nor does it decrease the illegal market.
Like you see them pulling the hinges and doors out of the containers they find containers like that at least every month then they really try and say that they've only siezed a 110tons when I can clearly remember 210tons being seized in the port of Ostend and that's only a fraction of the size of the port of Antwerp so you can clearly see the numbers don't add up
Belgium is almost bankrupt so they there is not enough money for equipt and solid customs,that divingteam is Dutch customs that they bring into Belgium.
You’re better off. Even if it doesn’t have fentanyl about 85% of cocaine tests positive for levamisole which is a veterinary deworming agent that can cause health problems.
Believe me, if chocolate was illegal in the same way, we'd see exactly the same things happen to illegally smuggle it to Belgium.
Bedankt voor video 💪🏻💛
Antwerp is my home. But it hurts my heart to see these things. I have 3 friends and a family member that blindsided me with the news that they were involved in the drug underworld. It felt like i was living in a movie when i discovered it. I'm really concerned about it because every time there is a stabbing, shoot out or kidnapping. it's never more than 30 km. Antwerp is really small and people really know each other here
And What are you doing about it beside crying and lamenting
@@tristan583 The question is. What can you truly do to make a difference ? 🤔
@@OwlFatherTarnished a guérilla would do
@@OwlFatherTarnished if you can't beat them, join them!
@@rippawallet You make the joke but its kinda feeling like its getting serious. It might sound extreme but a friend of mine told me last sunday that she lost her sister to the drug underworld. Not an O.D, but assassination. Its crazy bro
This man is a good friend of my father and my uncle, I was always surprised about this guys lifestyle being so flashy while he was always down to earth and just living his best life.
You re a legend for that
Can you interduce him to me 😜
His brother is a good friend.......🤨
So, did he drive Porsche?
@@fransdeoude2920 No, his good friend is his brother...
That torture room was horrific.
Reminds me of the movie Hostel.
That was footage from Dutch DSI. Special Police/Military force
That chair 🪑🤢
Say 5g a night per person in a year loads would be dying from heart hypertrophy plus all the cocaine psychosis that comes along with real cocaine usage not the few keys on a Friday night in the pub
@@labklf it wasnt
"users have blood on their hands" ??? right... and what about politicians that criminalize the substance ??? booze is a terrible drug, yet still available freely...
Stop, you're making too much sense speaking truth like that.
Where’s the free booze @azibi69
Junkie? People having a beer and 0,00001% of users acting up, does not justify your drug use, or you giving money to gangsters, money to the Taliban, money to the cartels while 50% of the users act up.
Go to detox, junkie.
Yeah it’s ridiculous how they deny their own responsibility in making it possible that criminal organisations have all power over such a profitable market, also letting people mix whatever with it creating more health issues or deaths in their population, alcohol would be the most dangerous drugs if we were buying it on the corner of guy that just mixed it in his basement
@@inigo9000 Exactly, banning alcohol would make things so much worse.
This is rather a Belgian/Dutch thing than just Belgium, the Port of Rotterdam has the exact same problem!
Belgium is worse then the dutch i have a friend who works at the port in rotterdam and a friend in antwerp i live in amsterdam but from what i have heard between ppl is belgium 10x worse
@@highvy999 Nah not really and Belgium and the Netherlands share the same criminal organizations so what happens in Belgium, also happens in the Netherlands. Its the same problem with the same people and they keep getting away with it bc Belgium and Dutch police are in on it all…
Antwerp and Rotterdam are responsible for the bulk of the European-American (legal) shipping trade. Pretty obvious that these trade routes will be used to ship drugs...
Rotterdam is closed port. Antwerp is open
its way worse in antwerp
What the hell they could have just poisoned all those bananas 🤔
Each bank has these crooks, bro. Sad reality 🪙
Remember they all work together without connections at the port with staff and police / customs it won’t be possible they are all getting paid 😂
Of course! And many at the top are enjoying the big euro bills! Legalize it and the problem is resolved!
Legalise it and the profit will drop. Don’t be silly.
All a big scam
That isn’t true, it would still make it in but the quantity it’s coming in at wouldn’t be possible as a lot more would be getting caught but it would still come in as it’s impossible to search every single container/vehicle/person
@@ryanashmore6259 they built the great pyramid u believe in lies
Everyone would be overdosing if they was able to go and even buy a gram for £20
Living here for over 20 years and it turned from good to hell,everything got out of hand.I`m in the process of canceling my Belgian`s citizenship,i`ve placed my house and cars for sell.I`m sorry this is happening to the Western countries,the people don`t even have rights,the migrants are coming and ruling everything in their country.
sorry to say that this is happening all over the world. I've been to twelve countries over the last 2 years and I've seen this happening on a global scale.
@@youngbkatt7835 12 countries in the last 2 years,you must be visiting them,it's a difference between visiting and living in one place,i can make a difference because i know how it was 20 years ago but that's true,the ship is sinking
Niemand houd je tegen, gaan moet je.. nu is het de migranten die overnemen😂😂😂 want witte mensen doen niks😂😂
The reason is western countries are not hard enough on crime. Look at Dubai, 89% of the population are not native, yet they have the lowest crime rate in the world. This is what happens when western countries are rulled by snowflakes that have sympathy for criminals.
I heard Moscow is a good place for you.
1:07 Imagine blaming it on drug users instead of organized crime. Legalize cocaine already and start taxing it.
So the picture shows a dutch police team not a Belgian one, you guys should change that!
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
What's the wholesale price there? In Suriname it used to be $2,000/kg but that's 20 years ago lol.
Legalise and tax it, it’s literally the only logical solution
That didn't change the situation here in the states with marijuana.
@@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 America is massive 💩 hole, can’t even send your kids school without a bullet proof vest 😅
@@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 Is it worse than it was before they legalised marijuana? Is marijuana taking noticeable on the streets, and who is using marijuana in America?
I hear that, can’t fight against human nature forever. Education and legalisation is the key to stopping this this never ending war.
Legalize and tax murder as well?
Why not legalise it like they did in Portugal 14 years ago with such success, its the obvious answerer but its never talked about I wonder why.
mafia is bribing everyone
I find it amazing how cartels and traffickers will give up loads of say 5 tons to get 50tons through
Its basically pointless them taking the 5 tonnes of cocaine it just highers the price on the streets there's basically unlimited out there on the streets anyway
Why? It's just a 10%tax for them.
its not really, big corporations will do the same. They will accept a fine and do something illegal if they benefit from it
It's a little like how Microsoft sells Xbox's at a loss and still making seriousl profits
5 tonne loss out 50 is an acceptable write off for cartels or legit businesses
you want to stop it ? it's easy. Officially sell and regulate. But that's not possible, too many unemployed special units afterwards, right?!
They did that in the US, some police departments in Colorado were even encouraging their officers to smoke weed over drinking. Today, the black market share of the marijuana market is still larger than the legal, and many legal dispensaries are still controlled by criminal organizations.
@@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 how is this possible? how can mafia earn when people buy it from the state?
@@okeyalright Its not state owned marijuana. It's privately grown. Cartels just plant them illegally at prices that push out legal growers, and sell it legally or illegally
@@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 damn, okey so the state should plant it like they plan to do in germany
The real question should be, why are there so many drugs coming into Europe?
Because there are millions of drug users, where there is a need for something there will always be a demand.
If there are no users, there is no drugs.
Interesting vid. Thanks.
Marroccans are big players in the drugworld back in europe🇲🇦🇲🇦
They dont control the port.
Good reporting.
Who would've thought that after announcing the great "war on drugs" things would start to blow up periodically, making everything objectively worse.
Cia is a major drug cartel. Bill clinton also. A huge reason for the war in Afghanistan was for the opium… right after the war began heroin became a huge problem in the United States.
That's primarily a rightwing idea...
@@damienholland9432 and?
@@Bandobenz18 that they are full of destructive / useless ideas. The left who followed the "War on Drugs" were as stupid as the ones who followed the right's "War on Terror".
Except the cause of this is the legalisation of some drugs (and the gangs slinging them) and weak sentences that mean some of these gangsters rack up 40-50-60 convictions but are still out on the street.
Go away, partisan political hack.
The way to stop is customers to get more attention if no customer the drug will be useless
I’m from Antwerpen since half a century and I saw the complete evolution: it’s mainly due to Moroccans (I also grew up with them), also called the Mocro maffia. We have shootings almost every day and they are destroying the entire city but also undermining the economy. It has become a war unfortunately….
Niet overdrijven jij zo erg is het ook niet redelijk saai zelfs
You mean all immigrants aren't doctors, poets and lawyers you don't say... Go figure
@@tfbrooks1668 well some are, look at India. Their number one export product is .... doctors and lawyers.
The dealers are a small portion, the vast majority works a steady job pays taxes and wants a peaceful life.
The problem is the government, they hand out money to people that have never worked a day in their lives.
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Yeah yeah moroccans are always to blame 🤡
This is the misery that comes with it. An 11 year old innocent girl getting caught in a crossfire wtf. And yet the market is so lucrative for the stuff.
Drug use is a Human birth Right.
🤩
Unless you kill someone while coked driving and suddenly you aren’t at fault as you were under influence of drugs
So is destroying your brain and becoming a crack head with half a brain. You would be a fool to think you are free if you do drugs.
@@ecartman154 and how do you control it tho? Because one thing leads to another
Anyone who tried magic mushroom will agree. It's mind blowing, in the good way. Drugs are just a tool, can be used wisely and poorly.
“What can be done to slow the stem” ummmm how about legalisation
If there were term limits on politicians, this would all be resolved.
90 procent of the politicans in Belgium are involved in cocaïne smuglle
Ry
lol explain the connection I'm curious as a politician :D
@@Jonny17m Aesop "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to politics." John Dalberg Acton "Power tends to corrupt; Absolute power corrupts absolutely" If you don't know the connection by now. You are lagging behind. Some 2000 years behind...
Why would that stop millions of people wanting to buy drugs?
If countries would become self sufficient and reduce the need to import or export goods, that would help matters, shut off the chances
It's kinda funny how the government still hasn't figured out how to solve the problem I thought it was smart
they are ordered not to solve the problem because they earn $$$ through it
@@BlueHopi144 And how would you know this?
@@coco00140 damn you are naive
It is governments that create their own problems. 1 solution, but hey, I am just a civilian
It's not only the government. More the flamish region, and more specifically Bart De Wever.
How about building more automated scanner lines in the ports. It seemed very manual in the video?
even if we had to have more scanners we still can't scan all containers so it's just a waste of money because for them it doesn't matter if one gets caught they just send a new one
You’ll flood the port
How about educating kids not to do cocaine? Seems better this way
@@brrrr16 with Americas education
@@marshalllapenta7656 with parenting bro, who has faith left in the sistem
Next time when making a short docu, do you research, there goes 2x more cargo trough Rotterdam, so I highly doubt that Antwerp is the bussiest. Otherwise, thank you for creating awareness.
Rotterdam is far bigger then Antwerp , but he doest chek his facts .
As they should mention the trafficing is mostly organised by Dutch gangs creating the violent environment in the region.
You blind, the port of Anversa is the biggest in Europe.
@@zvezdibosilkov1881 no, Rotterdam is second.
Busiest for containers and Rotterdam also cooks their numbers. It´s bigger but not much...
So they contaminated all the bananas with that stick this don’t make sense lol
I have noticed alot of foreign men driving Mercs, bm's ....is that what there doing. ...........I thought they were all Doctors, engineers ,
Smart poorer people will may buy a Mercs if they are good at auto repair. But, those are usually used cars with lower mileage. Repairs can be quite expensive. So the trick to driving one is to keep it going for a millions miles or more and obtain a free replacement. A poor guy who knows how to work on cars and can purchase on line replacement parts has it made in the shade.... doesn't have to sell drugs to have that car.
they are doctors for the troubled human soul ... like Dr Freud ...
To the ones saying legalize drugs, first of all mafia would get a percentage there too, even if you eradicate drugs, mafia will still find ways to make money, and if they don't be ready for war!
the mafia isnt making money on alcohol, would be the same with the rest
Antwerp the busiest port off Europe?
I think not.
Did the sun just do actual good journalism?
Thank you so much, for this great report published on Real facts, and to open our eyes about killer drugs
The real killer is ignorance.
Killer laws and killer people sir. Drugs are inanimate, they don’t kill people…
The drug is not a killer, the people who manufacture it on the other hand.... see the extensive use of coca leaves by people throughout South American Andes to help them deal with the altitude....
Prohibition is what kills. Don't be ignorant. Read up on decriminalization and Portugal
@@jarroddiffley981 this. Too bad stigma and myths (in large part funded by the alcohol and tobacco industry) are still highly effective.
Belgium was once famous for its chocolates, Tintin, and Hercule Poirot, but now.......🇧🇪🇧🇪🔔
The police are in with the gangs 😂😂
All in 🤑
Proper mafia man
Great work, great planet, great work
legalize and controlling
I, as a Belgian, am ashamed of these guys and their accents
And Bart De Wever pretends the only drug problems concern Wallonia's politics!
I live in Antwerp, Belgium and this is absolute BS lol. Yes there's some drug issues, but it's super safe unless you're a criminal yourself. Lived here all my life, never had issues. You do see cocaine use in night life a lot, but it's nothing violent/dangerous.
I have seen Mexicans saying the same thing. Just because it doesn't affect you right now doesn't mean it never will
@@honklerfinkelstein2113 Come visit. THere's a difference between areas ruled by cartels and two shady guys having a transaction at the docks.
keep your eyes shut then
@@honklerfinkelstein2113 we are from the netherlands and belgium this is not the usa or mexico our criminals keep it to each other like man not on schools like childs
In the summer of 2022 Antwerp had a grenade attack for almost every single day.
Also there was a skit on the Antwerp police force using and selling coke. Like half the force 😊
I dont trust people that use "like" right before they bring up statistics...
So,this must be Tuesday?
7M ships and only 2% can be checked... good luck
Forgot to mention the 2000 submarines are used as well
I have never seen such pure cocaine on the market. By the way, greetings from Montenegro
Im in loveee with coco... im in love with cocooo😂😂 future music😂😂
2 % for 7 million, it is a lost battle. Way more has to be checked, more money invested into finding, more personal, more scanners. If 20 % would be checked, gangs would go crazy.
Never going to happen. The war has been lost for over 20 years.
£50 bags of coke will just go to £70 that's all that changes, crime will rise as addicts need to do more to get hands on the stuff.
Good proposition ! But I would be afraid to do that work . Difficult problem !
Or just legalise it you know. All problems solved, more cash for the country, better control of the quality, better control of the usage.
so people from belgium have to pay tax money to perform these searches? BAD IDEA
damn sucks to pick up some bananas from the store and then there's big holes in them from that customs check
I was thinking the same thing. Thats ruining a lot of produce at expense to a legit company
Legalize it, educate
I personally Hate everything to do with the Drug many a good Man turns into a Selfish bad human like
Great now I have to check all my bananas at the grocery store for stick holes.
Moroccan criminal networks in Europe have mainly been active since the 1990s, and consist mostly of Belgian and Dutch citizens with a Moroccan immigrant background.
They get millions from traffic,and im working as a chef paying taxes and working like a slave,i cant affort not even a little car to go to work so i dont pay transport anymore,witch is so expensive.Yeah,"the citizens are in good hands".
Change job mate
Welp. Buy an oz an selll Gs to your kitchen staff. Problem solved. Lol. Your staff will be working harder
Can someone explain to me where the army of sniffer dogs are? Completely inept, with their amazing sense of smell they would be able to check thousands of containers at a time. Rather than a bloke with a long metal rod, which I am still not sure other than damaging the bananas what that actually achieved without opening the packages.
I don't think you understand how large the port of Antwerp is.
Never heard of zipties? "Things to cuff your hands"🤣
I went to Belgium in 2017 went to a club name Cloud 9 cocaine there is so pure when you sniff a line your whole mouth will numb in seconds paranoia sets in .😂
The one and only way to win this is to make it legal and tax this product..
It"s so useless to fight this. It came to antwerp because the Netherlands invested in their ports. If we invest a lot of money into fighting it it will just relocate to the next port city. They already can't burn the caught goods, what's the point. 🙄
People get heart attacks from cocaine very often
10:45 did not find anything suspicious but ruined bananas lol.......
And how much do they allow through so they can snag "the big one"?
Is it a public price list from Amsterdam? They want more customers.
Where are the drug dogs in this? Far more effective than using a stick to poke bananas
If everyones a customer its an odd paradigm
Do you think that people working for Amazon cares about the local shops closing? No they doesn't car and so it's the same for coke customers.
What we can do, is to legalize and control production, quality & sale of all drugs. Once new ones gonna pop up, break them down, study and make them safe before legalization. The world should clearly see that the longer we fight the drug business, the tougher it is to fight it. We could save Millions of life's and generate Billions (if not Trillion) of dollars in revenue if drugs would be legal, controlled and safe (safer than street drugs).
This would cause so many problems that you don’t even realise. This isn’t a cure all remedy.
Why are they using footage of dsi
Rotterdam is the busiest port of Europe not Antwerp😉
Antwerp is the busiest in terms of cocaine trafficking.
The busiest port of Europe for COCAINE is Gioia Tauro (Calabria). THE Port of 'ndrangheta (calabrian mafia, the strongest in the World).
@@36flamingo63 I'm not talking about cocaïne but in general 🤣
@@36flamingo63 not anymore
how i see it is that the port of rotterdam is bigger in size but port of antwerp is busier. port of antwerp is still expanding at the moment.
Remind me why is it illegal? When more damage and harm is done by the war against drugs then by the drugs themselves
Certain people are being paid to keep it illegal.
Legalizing will be the only solution. Well, or a totalitarian state. I know which one I'd prefer.
No.Solution is education
@@bobanppvc Education? What kind?
@@anonharingenamn educating yong generations how narcotics destroy users...Instead of pushing idea its cool in every movie and song..Legalizing will make society even worse than it is
@@bobanppvc But we’ve tried educating through fear for 50+ years with no success?!
@scandinaven6530 No?
Never going to stop. Best legalising it. Price goes down and the novelty wears off quick.
How is it with the heroiene in Antwerpen?
Easy solution. Legalize it, make it in pharmacies, add VAT, and pump some of the profits back into healthcare and drug awareness. You wipe out the excess pollution, the deaths from contaminated substances, and the vast majority of organized crime. But it would be wrong to allow adults to decide what they put in their own bodies, right?
Our governments are getting to rich off of our suffering so they won't legalize it
It's clear to me you have never dealt with an addict before :/
@@OngoGablogian185 then it puzzles me you would advocate for heroin to be readily available at your local pharmacist.
European politicians blame the UK for everything 😂
Not true, we blame the French sometimes as well.
@@elpapito7809
True, even the French hate the French it seems. 😉
there’s zero deterrent against hard core drug smuggling. try the death penalty
Exactly, that's why they don't have this problem in Singapore
Wrong. The jail time penalties are too low, even lower with little evidence when high bosses trying to hide as much as possible. Now they cracked encrypted messages its a bit better, but now the high bosses using catfishers and boys under the age of 18 to abuse their law as not being a adult. Every developed and civilised human being knows death penalty is inhumane and doesn’t solve the problem. I’m sorry, but you can’t argue with me that in any universe the death penalty is a justified tool of penalty. It fails in its primary goal as a effective crime deterrent, and (real) life long imprisonment is far more effective.
@@woutertje026 it works in Singapore, and the reason why countries have courts is to look into it before the decision is made, people are not just killed because they were found with drugs. If the problem is because it's inhumane, the drug industry kills in way more inhumane ways.
What drug kills more people, worldwide, than all other drugs added together. Has an effect on society virtually incalculable in comparison.
Make all drugs legal
@@woutertje026 Morrocans takes over Belgium
9:07 Burberry frames, very suspicious
I was wondering where those holes in my bananas came from
I just finished ganglands. Crazy
Think I’ll avoid eating bananas again after the way they poke the boxes with them tools
yo dude I thought the same thing, them poor bananas
Yeah broh ! Last week some idiot poked into my fentanyl from china. I went to complain with the po-leese . Now I am waiting in a special room with bars . Good food here ! And for free !
They destroyed the bananas basically.
You might get lucky and eat an "energy" banana 😅
When you become possess with your bad habits you become cursed and become your bad habits.
Bussiest port is Rotterdam not Antwerp
Not true. Last year the Antwerp port merged with the Bruges port into the Antwerp-Bruges port, making it the largest export port in Europe
@@1EpicFailz The Port of Antwerp-Bruges[3] is the port of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. It is located in Flanders, mainly in the province of Antwerp, but also partially in East Flanders. It is a seaport in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships. It is Europe’s second-largest seaport, after that of Rotterdam still 2nd even with them 2 ports coming togethee
@@foodtestchannel230 Yeah maybe you can update the Wikipedia article so that it is up to date
In the current geopolitical and macroeconomic context, the merger is a golden opportunity to put the Antwerp and Zeebrugge port sites, and by extension Flanders, in an even stronger position on the world map. Port of Antwerp-Bruges will capitalise on the strengths of both port locations and focus its strategy on containers, breakbulk, RoRo traffic and chemicals. More than ever, Port of Antwerp-Bruges will play a crucial role in major freight flows and reinforce its position as one of the main gateways to Europe. The unified port has also become Europe's largest export port - with 147 million tons/year - making it a global heavyweight.
Can't find anything on the world wide Web to say Antwerp is bigger let's agree to disagree on this on
I wrote almost the same comment as above but no one says that the Netherlands is not busier/or bigger than the port of Antwerp, the fact is that more drugs are sent to the port of Antwerp than in the Netherlands, that's all what is being said 70 tonnes is what the port of the Netherlands found in 2021 and that swapt from the quantity of cocaine seized from 70 tonnes in 2021 to around 50 tonnes in 2022. thats why the say antwerp is a busier port in terms of drugs
15:30 blood on the nose 😮😮
Put the substance under legal Market rules with user registration, purchase limits, temporary license suspension (eg. driving license suspended for 48 hours after each purchase) and double the jailtime for any illegal possession/trade outside of official regulated channels.
END OF THE PROBLEMS, end of mafia/cartel power.
Not sure. If drugs are readily available, wouldn’t that cause an uptick in users? That would increase demand. Some people would be even willing to sell the roof over their children’s head to get their hand on the stuff.
Putting limits on usage would still leave the door open for drug cartels. And what would stop somebody to buy drugs legally, and then sell it to someone who’s over their limit? Maybe a close friend. What would stop someone to accumulate the drugs they brought at home and use it all at once at a party maybe, and O.D. on it?
Some of these issues could have the whole system spiral out of control. And there are other issues to consider as well I’m sure. It would be nice to have a public discourse about this and find a workable solution.
@@snoozfest2000 it should just be done like alcohol
@@snoozfest2000 There's no statistics that back up your claim. Legalisation in Holland or even USA didn't translate into a significant increase. On the middle/long run, it significantly decreases usage. Look at Holland, weed is legal since decades and it's one of the EU countries with the lowest rate of weed consumption. France on the other hand has severe laws against marijuana and is the country of EU with the worst statistics, people start smoking at a younger age, more addictions, more theft and crimes because of drugs.
On the other hand, legalisation did translate into a significant increase in demand for psychological / addiction help, because it allowed people to talk about the problem as it became a legal thing.
100% of what you said is subjective speculation. All the data in the world say the same thing, legalisation is a good thing on all levels. The reason they don't legalise drugs is purerly political.
@@tdb517 The reason is also financial. The alcohol industry heavily promotes and lobbies _for_ the war on drugs. They don't want people finding out that some drugs are much safer, healthier and less addictive. Slowly but surely alcohol usage will dwindle which would severely affect profitability of beer and liquor conglomerates. If anybody is interested I have solid sources to back up these facts.
@@tdb517 while I agree with most of your arguments, the Netherlands is a bad example for legalisation, as weed is still illegall but instead it's decriminalized. The way it gets produced and into the coffeeshop is illegal and there is no quality control. So yes while the system is better than weed being illegal, it still does not protect consumers nor does it decrease the illegal market.
Wtf is that method for checking bananas box
Like you see them pulling the hinges and doors out of the containers they find containers like that at least every month then they really try and say that they've only siezed a 110tons when I can clearly remember 210tons being seized in the port of Ostend and that's only a fraction of the size of the port of Antwerp so you can clearly see the numbers don't add up
Ever heard of punctuation? Jeez
@@mandan8945 🤣😂😂😂
Belgium is almost bankrupt so they there is not enough money for equipt and solid customs,that divingteam is Dutch customs that they bring into Belgium.
Use to love doing a line or two while I was drinking. I'd be too scared now a days though it would be cut with fentanyl.
You obviously can't be anywhere in Europe otherwise that would not be a concern
You’re better off. Even if it doesn’t have fentanyl about 85% of cocaine tests positive for levamisole which is a veterinary deworming agent that can cause health problems.
@@Ddgjyfdthat’s what a expert would say 👀
@@jeffdidntkhs3945 lol.
In belgiany they call it "La schnouffe"
LOL. 50 Euro a gram... Get it to Australia and make $400 per gram. That's after "diluting" it again 3:1 so 24x that profit.
Yeah but it's very difficult to get it there, that's why the price is so high.
Please do you have Arabic translation for this report, or give us away to translation.
Thank you so much
Settings - Translation - auto translate - Arabic . Have fun !
@@woutervanlent5181 thank you so much, no more problem 😘
THANK YOU DRUGS FOR WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS
But their losing badly?
@@Kermisreporter WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT SHERLOCK ?
Rotterdam sees twice the volume of Antwerp so his opening line is already inaccurate.... The Sun has never been known for good journalism
What type of chemist are we making in. Winsford Cheshire the black knight
Dit blijft voor altijd bestaan ,kennen ze niet bestrijden ,het gaat alleen meer worden
Them Morocans making trouble again