The Netherlands has a MAJOR drug problem, in the sense that a lot of the (synthetic) drugs used in Europe are produced here. This shooting is related to one influential criminal, Redoan Taghi, who has also ordered a hit on a lawyer (Derk Wiersum) and reportedly is trying to hire people to escape him from prison.
Police are understaffed and seemingly really can't keep up. They make a lot of mistakes in the process, accidentally publishing the identity of key witnesses etc...
Anyways, the "legal" drug system is broken to it's core. The way it currently works is that Marijuana can be bought legally at a coffeeshop, but it cannot be produced for sale legally. It is the best possible outcome for drug producing criminals, as they can access the largest possible resale market through the coffeeshops, so its easy to distribute big volume, and there is little competition (only from other criminals).
I suspect this broken legal system is bankrolling these criminals and setting them up for the more profitable stuff such as cocaine.
Police are understaffed and seemingly really can't keep up. They make a lot of mistakes in the process, accidentally publishing the identity of key witnesses etc...
Anyways, the "legal" drug system is broken to it's core. The way it currently works is that Marijuana can be bought legally at a coffeeshop, but it cannot be produced for sale legally. It is the best possible outcome for drug producing criminals, as they can access the largest possible resale market through the coffeeshops, so its easy to distribute big volume, and there is little competition (only from other criminals).
I suspect this broken legal system is bankrolling these criminals and setting them up for the more profitable stuff such as cocaine.