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with the container ships comes the co came with the cocaine, comes the cache with the cache comes the violence with the murders of ordinary people. and those in the public eye sending shock waves throughout society. ah, we are in rotterdam, the bastion of organized crime late

point 5000000 containers into europe's largest port every year. controlling everything is impossible. ah, and drug dealers know that dr. dr. dr with police women were mil to shop director, colleague a narcotics office, a films with a small camera. i don't know of it. elise cost joined them. ah, that's been word of a cocaine whole. yeah. today both with a i'll give a took away. okay. blood. yeah. you, sam told all okay,

thanks. but drug courier is diving through the hob, a basin with a package. i love is that with me at this time, the investigators are there in time to intercepted though the almost daily routine job drew mill, the shaft and her colleagues, a dangerous routine, as she's well aware academic work, well, i've got my bullet proof blessed and an extra secured carney, then we're also wearing a 2nd bullet proof vest. i just hope if things get serious, i'll be faster. cold speed is of the essence and not just in a car. the port is 42 kilometers long, and many places can only be reached by police boat the officers off to work in the same fixed team. but joining them for today's operation looks like it's not that was met on them as a found jamal. i compare my job with that of a garbage man picking up trash damage. so if he stopped the streets would be full

of trash met them at the trash doesn't stop coming, montage will still need. the port is so huge that sometimes on the move hours, the 2 police officers, a members special task force that also includes public prosecutors and customs officers. the case around is we carried out a search yesterday evening with customs. they're still back there with the investigation team knows that we're looking for 2 guys. unfortunately, we didn't find them often, customs authority, divers, brought in, such as here for another ship or they died down beside the side of the vessel. sometimes to a depth of 20 or 30 meters and

find containers fixed to the side or hidden cavities. time and again, they find huge packages of cocaine. the drug that's corroding the netherlands. ah, but that's nothing new. ah, that is not in 2012 width stolen a load of cocaine in the harbor onto it. that's where i started. and then expired into a, the told all war that up till now is causing people to be killed. and it's a war that is about power is about control of the arbor, about go gain, lot of money. and it's about who controls the on the world. and that's where it's

about. so it's about power there around a 100 different container ships in the port every day. sometimes a lot new ones arrive all the time. each of them carrying thousands of containers, all they bring in the cocaine. 40 tons of it was seized here last year alone. that much more gets through the total estimate for the ports of rotterdam and threw up and hamburg combined is closer to $1300.00 tons prime destinations for south american suppliers. most of the cocaine is distributed in the netherlands, where most of the gangs are based. different types of harbor workers are involved. a crane driver can earn a 100000 euros if he moves a container in the right direction. a regular talk worker can pocket 20000 for just

looking the other way. this man was involved in cocaine smuggling, for many years, you managed to get out when it comes to the gangs methods. bribery is only half the story. he says. there was late with les apply pressure volkswagen to get the weaker ones to carry on for sure. so they, you a subtle threads. i so you aren't threatened directly with the actual really subtle heels of fuel foam. they can provide a little who things like review. i met your girl friendly the your will. you've got a beautiful wife, a beautiful boy, dad or mum. ro. jasmine have not real threats. but you still don't feel safe at all. i'd like to warn every one about lag. needecken. i don't want to have it delivered over the new leisure lawyer.

vito shaquilla is on the way to prison for a meeting with one of his clients. most of them are on the world figures who are involved in mafia related crimes. he knows how they tick. these can set them off quickly and it can escalate very quickly and to aggressive behavior irrational behavior. this means that if something appears in their life, let's say an arrest. that the, the 1st way, the easiest way for them is to see who is culpable, who is guilty, and they don't see it as that. they are guilty, that they are responsible for the actions, but it can be to police the judge, the prosecutor, the lawyer. but they don't look at their own responsibility. so sometimes i tell them, wait one moment, do naming everybody but 1st look into the mirror. what is it that you have done to get in this situation? i know how to feel because i used to be one of those children back in the days when

i went to school. and people also tried to stop me to go to the gymnasium telling me what are you doing there? you don't, you should not be here. so a, sometimes she don't get the same opportunities. and i like to represent those kind of children who made bad most bad decisions and became maybe even a hit man, or someone especially that ramelle to shove is well aware of the risks involved in her job. but always be a police officer. she tells us and prepares for the next operation, which she'll be filming for us. hm. the police have received a tip off. they're looking for cocaine smugglers between the containers

and cases like this, an entire area is caught and off and work comes to hold . and they're looking for people hiding in the containers. some even live in them. people have to get the goods out of the port. they're known as ow told us ah, that least sweep in. they get them in, but there's plenty more of them out. and they'll be swiftly replaced my off hello that i we made 268 arrests and 2020 our how to this year. it was already 180 and the year is still long. and dr. cocaine is also seized in the rights

the authorities estimate one kilo as a st value of around $50000.00 euros. often several tons of found in one go. many threads of the cocaine mafia come together here in amsterdam. was a robust trade in the red light district, but most of the drugs move to other countries. this is an extremely lucrative market, was defended by all possible means including violence. the so called macro mafia is active in some amsterdam neighborhoods. many of its members have moroccan routes, hence the name veto shall, clueless law practice is located in one of these districts. he's been watching recent developments with concern. and it's very alarming because these people can be very young. again, even guys from 176 years old, who do these kind of things. so it's alarming to the government and they're going

out of control from miss death and the government. over the past years, day, i took a lot of money away from the neighbors because normally the word or agents are the police were in the, in neighbors. and they were talking with people and people from the municipality. they were talking with them. but they took the money away from them, so they shortened them, and now they don't feel what's happening in neighbors. and these people at grandma's, they take over in those neighbors, and they show who's the boss there, and people listen to them and through his work defending clients from the organized crime malea, vito sees how much power the drug matthew, has developed. the gossamer normally should have the sole purpose of using finance when it is needed. but if you have a shadow government with hundreds of millions to their disposal,

then you get these kind of problems because then they can in they can attack institutions. like for instance, a newspaper. cctv pictures from june 2018 show a white delivery van and a getaway vehicle. approaching the building of the dutch newspaper, the telegraph. the van rams. the entrance twiced. the driver activates an explosive device and fleas the scene. is not the 1st attack on a media company. many dutch journalists reporting on macro matthew activity can now only work on the police protection. ah, the attack on the telegraph, the country's highest circulation, daily newspaper, is a clear show of power. even more shocking was the attack on

a lawyer that this him in september 2019. he was defending a key witness in a high profile mafia trial. this him was guns down in broad daylight. the witnesses brother who had no involvement in the case, had already been shot dead. the murders were a wakeup call for the dutch. investigators followed the trial to de by the long time hideaway for mafia bosses, want him to conduct their business undisturbed. it's here that special forces detained the man, suspected of ordering. the killings. police found a stash of cash and guns at the apartment red wine and cigarettes left on the table . rita and t is thought to be one of the leaders of the macro mafia. after being brought to the netherlands, he is now the principal suspect in what's known as the marengo trial. the country's highest profile mafia trial. to date. it's taking place on the tide,

security. 17 suspects a standing trial for alleged involvement in a string of murders. and attempted murders among the killing of a blogger. this footage shows a failed 10th, but that afternoon, the killer fulfilled the terms of his contract. he would a garage, have thought of choice. public prosecutors describe it as a well oiled killing machine. and what is heat is dottie more to alma what we're seeing here is that these killings definitely come from a criminal mill. you heather, and they target people who have talked or people who were a threat to the organization formed for though it appears that this organization has attempted to maintain its control in this manner to blighter was peter to freeze, also seen as a threats by the macro mafia, he was supporting a key witness prepared to give evidence and court. i south of the fans fund that

are the low side and f dunham group or make a down the key witness to asked if i could help him and support him down. and i'm actually a crime reported by profession from brewer. you could say that now bill was 1st of all, a gangster and gangster, but after the death of his brother and his lawyer ruin, and i also see him as a victim. and all of this, all sloths offer eyes and thou look slot off work. avoiding they sag into de vries is one of the nation's best known journalists. at the trial. he works together with the new defense lawyers for the key witness. so hell found to replace the 1st lawyer who was murdered by his oh, phil boeing into more dutchy or with so much violence and murder, it's the slaves. duty to intervene, bottle laid, it won't her. and for social coexistence for an effective rule of law as of loris crucial, the next out. com life fiction, you know,

the star ill fell or best bell for the over i on. that's called as a great deal at stake for the state. a thing for public and social cohesion on all the this is the given moment when everything is revealed, for gods, and if a lawyer is liquidated. today's of, and the question is the who really is in charge of the country. it long is that the on the we're old is not this is that the under world and he shots, is that the criminal organisation ricci i use, or is it the police and the justice system? or the question arises, start, isn't it to look well in it could think of the constitutional state is of course under threat with the murder of the lawyer for the key witnesses hawk hall door named alarm pain from virus. i'm the in belong virus and that's a shock for the entire nation. a bit taken did that oak, that after an officer to other liars, representatives of the judiciary and journalists are no longer safe to foreign day for more to fit asia. that the whole spectrum in our country is at stake with this

trial. the a daughter's mother all a mile in the process fell open, spell stands. and that's why the marengo trial needs to take place at all costs. the state needs to take a stand, particularly because the defendants have many supporters. and there are very real fears that even if they're in prison, they'll still be pulling strings. the trial against the micro mafia is mainly possible because investigators managed to infiltrate the gangs communication channels for a long time, criminals communicated using the encryption software, pgp, all pretty good privacy until the authorities managed to hack the channels. this meant they could track my fear activities in real time, including murder plans, one order to kill red like this bro. this man must die. if someone wants to do it live, that's best. i reckon. prepare the hitters and the weapons. they'll get a fat stack. i can't tell you how much i want to get him. what guns do you need?

a kazan glocks are ready. bro. do your best? ah, another encryption software used by the mafia and crow chat is also hacked. international investigators monitor messages for weeks when the organization realizes what is happening. investigators pounds in a number of locations and go public mound the longest nails bleaching and toppled automobile to nail for months. it's like we've been sitting at the same table with the criminal halo. so as in ball site, we spoke a have we heard what they've been talking about and what they've planned, and asia in orlando for the next few weeks on. if i'm not going to dig around this gold mine of information already found my father on delford investigation team leader andy crock, used to be an elite fighter in special touch army units. he was shocked by what he

and his colleagues heard door of into the ratio the all death we've got experienced hardened investigators have been in the business for 30 years mother in his and have never seen or heard anything like it a slab. they say quite simply in one sentence level, but person ex mustard sleep dot hammack the word sleep means they want to kill someone in on have it. you can then that's what happens build that's horrifying to see. and another example is that we came across a real prison and torture chambers and disco, mom at multiple commerce this right to place in the summer of 2020, in the southern netherlands. it's evidently a mafia group base. one of many wanted investigators detained more than $1000.00 suspects in the netherlands and

across europe they found weapons subterranean dungeons and a kind of torture chamber. ah, now the table spun little mentor. but these are very tense moments when you have to intervene or starting when a special observation team and an arrest team have to be called to intervene and others for other uncomfortable moments. or when you see that corruption is involved till the corrupt custom officers call the corrupt police officers of the offender, then you have to respond to your own colleagues. here we have a separate team for that international investigation team. these are very difficult situations all day. there is a lots that we have experienced in the last few months hall table. i could write a whole book about it and get a clinical boop of all cyber successful police right destabilized the cocaine mafia but so far has been no discernible impact on shipments.

customs officials regularly seized tons of the drug, such as here in rotterdam. business as usual, it would seem within the more crow murphy amelia, many hundreds, if not thousands of people awaiting their turn to take over the highly lucrative business. and the cycle of violence continues unabated. from the 6th of july and 2021 in downtown amsterdam. the broadcast a r t l was producing the program boulevard. they die once again with peter r. devries. in an overtime, the journalist featured on many shows, talking about organized crime and the marengo trial corporate. on that day, all he was discussing and duction on ain't gone. thinking well, does that sir? yeah, i'm asking are ha ha, look, bang o'clockish conveys. once his interview was over, peter, all the rest left the studio and walked towards his car. it was 90 7 30 in the evening. 05 shots rang out.

ah de vries, the famous crime reporter supporting a key witness in one of the biggest trials ever seen in the netherlands. was mon down in central amsterdam most likely, but to macro mafia henchmen. although to freeze thought he would be safe, the killing sent shockwave through the netherlands. people simply could not believe what had happened. apart from the 2 attackers, 2 others were seemingly involved. immediately after the shooting, they filmed the injured peter to freeze and posted the video on social media. the footage was immediately shared hundreds of thousands of times. inside a saw it as a message. look, we can do whatever we like. ah, 9 days after the attack,

peter r. devries died of his injuries. the entire country mourned his death hulu . the brother, a key witness than the lawyer. and now a nationally famous journalist. and those were just the high profile cases. they had the country heart a 3rd of later and if this was an outstanding journalist, this was an attack on press freedom, a foundation, stone of our constitutional state. and therefore, an attack on our constitutional state, american albert, that all drugs, mafia crimes were attacked on the constitutional state. the murder of peter adris, the murder of the law at dark vis him and the bomb attack on the newspapers offices

. and there's no sign of any let up. ah, the dutch seat of government in the hague, hulu. prime minister mark router was always a keen cyclist. several sources now report an acute threat against him. router now needs special protection. ah, but targets owns just people in the public eye lawyer, vito shaquilla knows that take his current case, for example. he's defending a client accused of involvement in the contract. kidding. we accompany him to court . people were victims were sitting parking the car and suddenly people rush up to him just like

in a garage like here. so you must imagine that the. busy for this people because they don't understand they're not criminal, they're just living their daily life. suddenly they see it. men rushing up to them . judy latimer, hiena is a d. j. jody has a wife and a young child. ah, on the day in question, he in his family leave the underground parking lot in his black mini cooper. at that moment, the contract has joined into the carriage a short time later judy and his family return. the kid is waiting for a black meaning they fire at 3 people who have absolutely nothing to do with drugs or the mafia and flee the scene. ah, and the police of the auto medic rifle just missed the baby child with 2 centimeters. the wife was also hit with

a lot of bullets. and so she merely survived. but her osbourne, he died in the garage at that spot. the 3 perpetrators caught the trial is under way. ah, the line is accused of driving the car width. the hit man in it into the garage. he says that he never knew that these people were up to this plan to kill people into the garage. the killers targeted the wrong people. that is very disturbing for a lot of people because it's not a something that is abstract. if it comes, it comes at that moment. it becomes reality that everybody can get a victim. everybody can get gil fetal shaquilla before the start of the trial.

it's still unclear what he can do for his client. as far as the netherlands is concerned, he sees a bleak future. ah, the way our system at this moment is it will keep on going with the cocaine with the money and the killings and the mafia. ah, the hobbit police know that to the now trying to get contain accompanies on board in the battle against cocaine trafficking, the police want these companies to do more to counter corruption by conducting more stringent checks on staff and workflows. what is that enough? if i literally into to film, of course we're trying to seize as many drugs as possible and arrest suspects to be that i don't have the utopian belief that will stop it. but there's no question of giving up. that's simply not an option on it. i can't do much, but we really need to continue this fight,

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