Inside Belgium's war on cocaine gangs making Antwerp Europe's drug smuggling capital
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2023
- Once better known for its cobbled old town and diamond district, Antwerp now labours under the unwanted label of Europe’s cocaine capital.
So much of the so-called white gold was seized at the container port last year that a vast “cocaine-berg” built up, with incinerators unable to burn the drug quick enough.
Cocaine is cheaper and more readily available than it has ever been before in Europe.
With so much of it flowing through the port, Antwerp is experiencing outbreaks of bloodshed and mayhem as warring narco gangs fight to control the market.
Over the past five years there have been 200 incidents of drug-related violence, including threats, beatings and planted explosive devices.
This month an 11-year-old girl died in Antwerp after being caught in the crossfire of a suspected drugs feud.
While 25 miles across the Dutch border from central Antwerp, police uncovered a sound-proofed torture chamber built by narcos.
The Sun's Chief Feature Writer, Oliver Harvey, went to Belgium to find out why the port city of Antwerp is now Europe's cocaine smuggling capital.
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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...
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
What the hell they could have just poisoned all those bananas 🤔
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
Each bank has these crooks, bro. Sad reality 🪙
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
Bedankt voor video 💪🏻💛
The way to stop is customers to get more attention if no customer the drug will be useless
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
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?
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
@@jakemcalister7384 supply is never endless.
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
Interesting vid. Thanks.
Never going to stop. Best legalising it. Price goes down and the novelty wears off quick.
"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.
So the picture shows a dutch police team not a Belgian one, you guys should change that!
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 🤣😂😂😂
Great work, great planet, great work
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?
10:42 the pellets is also good hiding spot. Did you all see how the custom didn't even bother the pellet?
How are you going to hide cocaine in the wood pallets?
@@markhirstwood4190 hollow wood. The thickest wooden parts of pallet can be made hollow. Don't ask me how i know I just do
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.
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.
Is it a public price list from Amsterdam? They want more customers.
“What can be done to slow the stem” ummmm how about legalisation
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.
Believe me, if chocolate was illegal in the same way, we'd see exactly the same things happen to illegally smuggle it to Belgium.
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
@@coco00140 because thats how the world works. bribery is a real thing. and its big. and in places you wouldn't think.
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
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...
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?
@@camm102 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.
Good reporting.
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.
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
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.
If countries would become self sufficient and reduce the need to import or export goods, that would help matters, shut off the chances
If everyones a customer its an odd paradigm
So,this must be Tuesday?
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.
Forgot to mention the 2000 submarines are used as well
They say a lot and point a lot of fingers but they never say what they do with the coke they find 😂
They mentioned that they incinerate the devils dundruf..
@@kakambweha5062 and you believe that?
@@zanna8549 No way! My statement is tongue in cheek... they normally sell them on to the cartels.
@@zanna8549 yes
a big part of it is bought by pharmaceutical companies - cocaine is used in lots of medication (low doses)
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
Legalize it, educate
Did the sun just do actual good journalism?
Legalise it, regulate it, tax it. Create employment = Simple.
And how much do they allow through so they can snag "the big one"?
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.
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 😘
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
Antwerp the busiest port off Europe?
I think not.
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 🤡
1:07 Imagine blaming it on drug users instead of organized crime. Legalize cocaine already and start taxing it.
I have never seen such pure cocaine on the market. By the way, greetings from Montenegro
Marroccans are big players in the drugworld back in europe🇲🇦🇲🇦
They dont control the port.
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.
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
Occasionly we remember a W.D. Comic/ Bande dessinee/ Picsou with the clairvoyant title "die Rache des Montezuma"/ "Montezumas Revenge"... well, this was in the 70ties ct.., Gods never sleep.
the sun make docs now?
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 😅
I personally Hate everything to do with the Drug many a good Man turns into a Selfish bad human like
This has been going on for years
How is it with the heroiene in Antwerpen?
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
7M ships and only 2% can be checked... good luck
The police are in with the gangs 😂😂
All in 🤑
Proper mafia man
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
legalize and controlling
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.
@@154gthat’s what a expert would say 👀
@@jeffdidntkhs3945 lol.
In belgiany they call it "La schnouffe"
And Bart De Wever pretends the only drug problems concern Wallonia's politics!
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. 🙄
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
Wtf is that method for checking bananas box
Belgium was once famous for its chocolates, Tintin, and Hercule Poirot, but now.......🇧🇪🇧🇪🔔
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.
That is very scary.drrug dealers...omg 😔
I just finished ganglands. Crazy
The one and only way to win this is to make it legal and tax this product..
I, as a Belgian, am ashamed of these guys and their accents
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.
as long as there is money in it and users we will never win the war on drugs, you take someone out a new Mr big replaces them
There’s got to be a more effective way of checking those bananas!
Rotterdam sees twice the volume of Antwerp so his opening line is already inaccurate.... The Sun has never been known for good journalism
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. 😉
what? little Belgium can't stop cocaine traffic? i think theres main thing is money
If I was in charge of finding drugs coming in, I'd have sniffer dogs on every big ship importing goods during the voyage (or random sniffs at port stop-offs) , and use my men at the ports for small boats. Not sure how good the dogs are, so possible container x-ray?
Obviously easier saying it than doing it, mass quantity of containers. They could fill every container on a ship and after the percentage checked and found, they'd still make money. No lose almost.
Legalised it for few decades make the cartel broke
@@salashayder6354 yes, I see where you're coming from, and you're right, it would crash the output
@@easyname9184 I'm trained in anti bribery and corruption due to the nature of my business, but if my family were threaten I think I'd be stuck to give in.
Yeah this isn’t done of course. You have no clue what is going on in the ports of Europe.
For a torture chamber, it was remarkably clean.
They need to set a perimeter about 15-20 miles around the port where trucks can be stopped anywhere in that perimeter they’d get loads more trucks searched if they employed more officers
Because the lowest socioeconomic status. And therefore more corruption or therefore less corruption detection. Or therefore more lucrative compared to gdp-per capita Also lower social securit y and most importantly worse mental health services so more hurt people and "hurt people are more willing to hurt people" Why? Because people mirror stuff usually. When it comes to letting people in agony:: if you dont care and tell people to be hard and take it then they will tell you to be hard and take it and not care more likely. Of course only a hypothesis
you can really tell that guy is british, even if you had it muted.
Im in loveee with coco... im in love with cocooo😂😂 future music😂😂
I am eating ice cream in Antwerp Keyserlei while seeing the street of keyserlei in the documentary😆
Great now I have to check all my bananas at the grocery store for stick holes.
They need to use AI on automated scans to boost the size of the seizures
Sounds an interesting idea ! Mathematical calculations where you can find the stuff ?
You're so brilliant. That will stop it all. Wrong. Prohibition stops nothing
What type of chemist are we making in. Winsford Cheshire the black knight
Dont forget this is by the SUN
Where are the drug dogs in this? Far more effective than using a stick to poke bananas
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.
Okay but who consumes those tons and tons of cocaine I mean most people aren’t sniffers???
I live in antwerp. one time i saw two guys at a skatepark dealing you know what
Wow you must be hard, bro.
just antwerp things
So that’s why some of my bananas have holes in them lol
Do they cover the damage to the product?
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