amsterdam

Mitchell Prothero
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A Drug Lord Tries to Defend Himself

In the final episode of the series, we are taken to the Bunker, the windowless fortress on the outskirts of Amsterdam, where the trial of the Netherlands’ most dangerous criminal takes place.

Mitchell Prothero
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Record Cocaine, Raging Violence: Antwerp’s Year-in-Review

The murder of an accused drug kingpin’s niece in Antwerp on Monday night came just hours before a joint Belgian-Dutch announcement that 2022 was, once again, a record-setting year for cocaine seizures in the port of Antwerp. The 11-year-old girl died after unknown gunmen fired into a garage in

Mitchell Prothero
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The Daylight Murder Sowing Fear in Dutch Society

The assassination of famed Dutch crime reporter Peter De Vries on a busy street full of pedestriams outside an Amsterdam television studio a year ago wasn’t just the wrath of a fugitive drug kingpin, but an attack designed to terrorize Dutch society, prosecutors said during a trial of some