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00:26M.S.C. Laredo
00:30Kamakura Maru, Hamburg Express, Atlantic Champagne. Tens of thousands of ships sail the
00:38world's seas. Today, around 90% of international freight is transported by sea. In Europe,
00:47commercial ports engage in fierce competition to tap into this vast source of revenue. And
00:54the Dutch are clearly in the lead. The port of Rotterdam is Europe's gateway to global
01:01trade. But this victory comes at a price. That of organized crime. Drug traffickers conceal
01:11their products in this constant deluge of goods. International mafias, production cartels and
01:19street gangs join forces to create a system of exploitation and violence with market-driven
01:25logic. At the heart of global trade, the Netherlands has become a breeding ground for this new paradigm
01:35of organized crime, which is spreading throughout Europe and destabilizing some of the world's
01:41most stable democracies. Rotterdam. The
02:11Over the past 20 years, the port has become a nightmare for many. And it's all because of
02:17one commodity. Cocaine. This is the story of that nightmare. In the 1990s, the U.S. was flooded
02:30with cocaine from Latin America. Through the combined efforts of the American administration and the
02:36Colombian army, Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel and then the Cali cartel fell. The system had to reinvent
02:44itself. Drug traffickers seeking new markets turned their gaze to Europe. In the south, established
02:52Italian mafias took control of the cocaine and its redistribution to Spain and France.
03:00But in the north, the port of Rotterdam offered better infrastructure. All goods from Latin America
03:07bound for Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France passed through here.
03:14This drew hundreds of Colombian drug traffickers here to scout for opportunities.
03:20What the Colombians liked very much in this country and why this country was so interesting for them
03:26was the entrepreneurial environment that existed in this country. So the fact that they could deal
03:33here drugs and be rather undetected because they were embedded or they tried to embed themselves
03:41in this entrepreneurial infrastructure with the containerization of the business. And that was for
03:48me the most interesting thing, to see how the legal and the illegal world are connected.
03:56Argentinian criminologist Damian Zeich was the first to document this new influx of cocaine from
04:02Latin America. In the mid-1990s, seizures were still modest. A few kilos here and there, blocks of
04:12cocaine hidden in suitcases or sport bags, packets swallowed by drug mules traveling by plane.
04:20At this time, Damian Zeich was conducting his research in Amsterdam's Latino community.
04:25He spoke with Colombians imprisoned for trafficking and visited salsa bars and churches.
04:33very quickly discovered that these people were not part of a kind of underground mafia, but it was kind of
04:41open
04:43within Latino community. At that time, there were actually more than 400 networks in Cali already exporting cocaine.
04:50I know somebody that can sell. I know somebody that can buy. I put you in contact. I get some
04:56commission for that.
04:57You have development of cocaine trafficking increasing in the Netherlands in the hands of an international club of networks.
05:16Then in 2000, the demand for cocaine boomed.
05:23Colombian criminals had to find local labor to handle logistics and run dealing spots.
05:29They recruited disaffected youths.
05:36Colombians didn't really like to do business with Dutch people.
05:39And with Dutch people, I mean white.
05:44So they'd rather do business with people from Suriname or with people from the Dutch Antilles.
05:51And there is Moroccans, second, third generation Moroccans from immigrants to gain to work here.
05:57And they also get involved in organized crime.
06:01And those groups, they mix and they mingle.
06:04And that's how that third generation of criminals become people of significance in the Dutch underworld.
06:21Colombian traffickers recruited people from organized crime circles,
06:25seasoned in bank and jewelry store heists.
06:29These so-called extractors sneaked into the port of Rotterdam,
06:33broke into the right container,
06:36retrieved the cocaine,
06:37and disappeared.
06:43An easy job because like all European ports,
06:46the port of Rotterdam was easily accessible.
06:52One man in particular stood out among the extractors.
06:56Gwennit Marta.
06:57Born on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao,
07:01Marta was a new kind of criminal.
07:03He represented the first alliance between Dutch street gangs
07:06and Colombian drug traffickers.
07:08A phenomenon that was unheard of in Europe until then.
07:13In Amsterdam, Gwennit Marta was a star.
07:17By the age of 20, he was already a gang leader.
07:20At boxing matches, his name was worn like a banner.
07:26He grew up in the street.
07:27He was just like this traditional, you know, criminal story,
07:31you know, becoming with like a small street gang
07:33and then slowly became a bigger criminal.
07:37He was known as the guy who, you know, the guy without a shadow.
07:41The guy who would not be caught.
07:50For Gwennit Marta, the extractor's work was so easy
07:53that volumes quickly increased.
07:57Marta soon figured out that if he diverted
07:59one or two shipments of cocaine,
08:01the Colombians wouldn't suspect a thing.
08:05This was how Marta's gang gradually became independent.
08:15The amount of money that is being made in the drug economy grows really quickly
08:24because cocaine is the most profitable drug.
08:30The sudden wealth caused the gang members to become ever more brazen.
08:35In the center of Amsterdam,
08:37street rivalries were settled with military-grade weapons.
08:45So there is serious unrest in Dutch society.
08:48What is going on here?
08:49Are we, is our way of living being,
08:53getting infected with organized crime?
08:56And that leads to a number of investigations
08:59and a number of kingpins being arrested,
09:03not so much for the drug trade,
09:06but for the fact that they're killing off other people.
09:09So that drug economy still exists,
09:11but the violence is being prosecuted.
09:16Dutch authorities knew that tackling the violence
09:18without taking on the illegal trade was of little use.
09:22But how could they get to the gang leaders?
09:26Sometimes, it's a matter of luck.
09:33In 2007, Gwyneth Marta was arrested and jailed for money laundering.
09:39But money can open any door.
09:42This is Gwyneth Marta.
10:03In 2009, after a year and a half on the run,
10:07Gwyneth Marta was arrested and returned to prison.
10:11His associates, each eager to take over, declared war on each other.
10:18At a ship party yesterday and late in Amsterdam-West,
10:21there were two deaths.
10:23The killer is in a car with a false sign.
10:26It's likely to be a liquidation.
10:29Around 11 o'clock there were shooting incidents
10:32in the state of the border,
10:33especially in the Van Bossenstraat.
10:35There was a car caught up with automatic fire.
10:40The outbreak of extreme violence in public spaces
10:43stirred up public concern,
10:46fueled by the investigation of two journalists
10:48and their best-selling book,
10:50Mokro Mafia, the Moroccan Mafia.
10:54Once the word Moroccan was used,
10:56the far right jumped on it.
10:58So I ask you,
10:59do you want more or less Moroccans in this city?
11:05Mokro Mafia, Mokro Mafia, Mokro Mafia,
11:09Mokro Mafia, Mokro Mafia.
11:12There is no such thing as Mokro Mafia.
11:14It's not all Moroccans.
11:15It's just all kind of guys with all kind of different ancestors.
11:20Dutch, Moroccan, Turkish, Antils, Surilam.
11:24And it's not Mafia as we know it.
11:27That's a reality that doesn't exist.
11:30Dutch gangs use a different model.
11:33They center themselves on product-based operations
11:36and value talent over ethnicity.
11:41This combination forges strong criminal partnerships
11:44between production cartels and international mafias.
11:50A new criminal model swept across Europe
11:53in the following decade.
11:59From Malmö, Sweden to the northern districts of Marseille,
12:02the same strategies are being replicated today,
12:05spreading fear and mistrust.
12:17Gwennet Marta, the untouchable godfather
12:20of the so-called Mokro Mafia,
12:23was merely the visible face of a phenomenon
12:25that extended far beyond him.
12:27Released from prison in early 2013,
12:30his freedom would be short-lived.
12:33He was shot dead on May 22, 2014.
12:53It's like a volcanic eruption of violence
12:57in the Dutch underworld.
12:59In 2014, when this all happens,
13:0238 people get killed because of underworld violence.
13:06That's an absolute record in the history of Dutch organized crime.
13:12By 2015, Dutch police were at a dead end
13:15in their fight against criminal networks.
13:18But that summer,
13:19the first piece of the puzzle fell into place.
13:24Threatened by a rival,
13:25a trafficker turned himself in to the police.
13:28Officers showed him photos of well-known Dutch figures
13:31of the underworld, to no avail.
13:35Then, the trafficker dropped a name
13:37nobody had heard of.
13:39Ridwan Tahi.
13:41Who?
13:42Who is Ridwan Tahi?
13:45The police do not know at that time
13:48who Ridwan Tahi is.
13:51And they are so unknowledgeable
13:52that they actually spell his name wrong.
14:00When Ridwan Tahi's name was first spoken,
14:03nobody knew he was the kingpin
14:06of the Netherlands cocaine trafficking network.
14:08A man both respected and feared.
14:13He'd built his business around invisibility.
14:16He was so discreet
14:17that even his associates
14:19only referred to him by his initial, T.
14:24Born in a village in the Moroccan reef,
14:27Tahi came to the Netherlands as a child
14:29and grew up in a working class neighborhood of Utrecht.
14:33At 20, he traveled through Belgium, Spain,
14:36and Morocco under false identities.
14:41Tahi used his family's established hashish
14:44trafficking routes from the reef to Northern Europe
14:46and adapted them for cocaine trafficking.
14:50For 15 years, he operated in the shadows,
14:54building his empire under the radar.
14:56And all that time, he was never part of an investigation.
15:03He was never arrested.
15:04He was never convicted.
15:05He was, there was nothing.
15:10By late 2015, the second piece of the puzzle appeared.
15:14During a police raid in Amsterdam,
15:16a weapons cache was discovered.
15:19Hand grenades, assault rifles, ammunition,
15:23and dozens of cell phones,
15:25which were far more important to the police than the weapons
15:28because of the encryption being used on them.
15:32These phones contained software based on PGP,
15:35the pretty good privacy encryption standard
15:38developed by a U.S. engineer in the 90s.
15:43This allowed encrypted messages to only be read by the recipient,
15:47and it was untraceable.
15:50Back then, PGP encryption was considered unbreakable.
15:58Smartphones change organized crime.
16:04That encryption technology speeds up this whole drug economy.
16:10And it means that if you were born in the Netherlands,
16:15you can live in Dubai,
16:18have your team of people dealing with cocaine shipments in the harbor,
16:23and have your business contacts in Colombia or in Venezuela,
16:28and you don't have to go anywhere anymore.
16:34The discovery of the encrypted phones
16:36came in the midst of a series of Islamist attacks in France and Belgium.
16:41To counter the Islamic State,
16:43European countries imposed cross-border cooperation between security agencies.
16:48The phones seized in Amsterdam
16:50were of utmost interest to both French and Belgian authorities.
16:59In a whole series of cases,
17:02we've come across phones that were impossible to read.
17:04And gradually, we've seen the quantities of these phones increase in seizures,
17:08in Belgium, but also abroad, in the Netherlands, in France, in Germany, etc.
17:15Even in Finland,
17:16everyone's confronted with these unreadable phones.
17:22And that finding actually leads to the question,
17:27if we can decrypt these phones,
17:31we can find their secret messages.
17:35European police forces saw an opportunity.
17:40They secretly deployed a team of hackers to decrypt the codes.
17:44A formidable, seemingly impossible task.
17:48Time was of the essence,
17:49as the narcos continued to operate in total anonymity,
17:53eliminating anyone who came too close.
17:59In 2016,
18:01the flamboyant crime blogger Martin Koch became a target.
18:06He'd been the first to publicly reveal the names of Ridouan Tahi and his accomplices.
18:13Martin Koch, who was a crime blogger.
18:15He was a formal criminal.
18:17He had killed two people himself.
18:19But out of jail,
18:21he tried to live a legal life,
18:23more or less legal life,
18:24and he started a crime blog.
18:27He didn't do anything a journalist would do,
18:30like looking for truth,
18:32but he was the first to publish about Ridouan Tahi.
18:43In his blog,
18:45he'd recounted his adventures
18:46and the failed assassination attempts against him.
18:50The bomb is uprooted in a bomb.
18:52A bomb, a boberoni.
18:56You don't know how to blow up each other
18:58for a story.
19:01If you go to there,
19:03then you say,
19:03then you're totally outraged,
19:05then you're outraged,
19:06and then you don't get an answer.
19:07And the people could have the one.
19:08Then you could have the right answer,
19:10but that's fine.
19:11Muito obrigado.
19:41In the coffin was a glass of champagne.
19:54In January 2017, the third piece of the puzzle emerged.
19:59One of Tahi's killers turned himself in to the police and talked.
20:05Nabil Bakali detailed the organization's methods and revealed Tahi's username,
20:11the pseudonym the boss used to issue orders.
20:15These interrogation transcripts were a crucial element in the criminal investigation that led to the Marengo trial.
20:24Meanwhile, Ridwan Tahi was running his operations from his hideout.
20:30He'd found refuge in a small paradise.
20:34A place beloved by bankers, kleptocrats and billionaires.
20:38Dubai.
20:51A wedding in May 2017.
20:55One of the members of the Kennehan crime family from Ireland was celebrating his nuptials at the Burj al-Arab,
21:02the jewel of Dubai's luxury hotels.
21:07The Kennehan's cartel is a family business passed down from father to son.
21:13Drug trafficking, murder, extortion, money laundering.
21:18On the day of the wedding, an agent from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA,
21:25infiltrated the ceremony and discovered it was also a business meeting for several criminal organizations.
21:31Camorra boss, Raffaele Imperiale.
21:35Edin Gacchanin, a Dutch Bosnian trafficker with shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Dubai.
21:42Rico the Chilean, cocaine trafficker between Latin America and the Netherlands.
21:48And Ridwan Tahi.
21:51The DEA named this group the Super Cartel.
21:54An alliance between mafias, organized crime and street gangs.
22:05The power of the Super Cartel came to light in 2019, when one of the world's largest container ships, the
22:12MSC Guayanae, was seized in Philadelphia.
22:15U.S. Customs discovered 20 tons of cocaine in the containers.
22:21The shipment had come from Chile, via Panama and the Bahamas, and was actually destined for Rotterdam.
22:29The
22:29The
22:29The
22:30The
22:39I started off 10 years ago in the port of Rotterdam, as head of this unit, the Seaport Police.
22:47And in those days, 10 years ago, we seized about 5,000 kilograms of cocaine every year.
22:54Sometimes six, sometimes four.
22:56And then suddenly, somewhere in 2017, we seized 22,000 kilograms.
23:05So that's the first time we thought there's something going on, there's something going to change.
23:10The next year, we seized 33,000 kilograms.
23:14And that's the moment that we decided to find out what was going on worldwide, that the Northern
23:22European ports were so popular for drug smuggling.
23:27We did up to 150 drug investigations every year, but the coke was still coming in.
23:35And there was an increase.
23:37So we decided we have to change our way of working, and we have to look in why is this
23:44cocaine coming to Rotterdam.
23:48Nearly 14 million containers per year.
23:52That's one every two seconds.
23:55Connected to over 1,000 ports worldwide, the port of Rotterdam stretches more than 44 kilometers in length, with 100
24:04kilometers of keys.
24:07The latest construction is the impressive Maasvlakte complex, where the trans-oceanic container ships docked directly on the North Sea.
24:17This was where the police were focusing their efforts.
24:22So we learned that 98% of all drugs being seized in the Netherlands, come in through one terminal.
24:34Port authorities discovered that the transport company's confidential access codes could be easily obtained for a mere five to six
24:42-figure sum.
24:48The other thing we learned is that a lot of companies import, they use computers, but they had one business
24:57account and one password for everybody.
25:00And if people left the company, they still could use the business account and the password that everybody used for
25:08years and years to come.
25:09So if that's the situation, you can imagine how easy it was to obtain such a container release code.
25:21Many security gaps were found at the port of Rotterdam, but 100 kilometers further south, in Belgium, lies an even
25:29more vulnerable port.
25:33Antwerp-Bruge.
25:38Europe's second-largest container port has a crucial advantage for criminals.
25:43It's Europe's main trans-shipment hub for goods from Latin America.
25:50The problem of cocaine first became apparent in 2013.
25:58But starting from 2016, it became clear that seizures were increasing every year, culminating last year with 120 tons of
26:07cocaine seized in Belgium.
26:14With figures that high, Belgium is number one in the whole of the European Union for cocaine seizures.
26:24In terms of results, that's not really what society is asking of us.
26:33They want us to stop these drugs from entering.
26:35And so far, we haven't succeeded.
26:38That's why we had the idea of scanning all the containers.
26:43I suggested that the government buy scanners and install them on terminals right next to where ships arrive.
26:52That way, criminals can't retrieve the cocaine.
27:01But we still need to improve the barrier to prevent the shipments from arriving.
27:10So, we have the 100% scanning project deployed at this moment, which means that in time, we want to
27:19scan all of the drug risk containers coming from South America and from West Africa.
27:28So, that's about 350,000, 400,000 containers.
27:32Where now, we are scanning 36,000 a year.
27:38The standard image is always like this, so you can't see really much on it.
27:43But of course, our image analysts have different tools.
27:46The scan image showed that this pile was another density than the other piles, so that needed to be checked.
27:53And then, they found half a ton of cocaine inside.
28:11Ninety percent of the cocaine that comes to this country goes further, to new markets, to new places, like, I
28:19don't know, Czech Republic, Romania, wherever, that they are the ones that have expanded.
28:25So, the Netherlands is now selling more cocaine to more countries.
28:30And this is what shows the thing.
28:39Gone were the days when extractors slipped away with just a few kilos.
28:44The time of wholesale hubs and mass distribution had come.
28:50This customs officer's face is kept off camera to protect him and his family.
28:56Bribing or intimidating customs and dock workers costs the cartels next to nothing.
29:02For drug smugglers, it's become essential.
29:10Because now, they need to move entire containers out of the port.
29:14Using trucks, proper border crossing documents, warehouses to repackage the goods, and delivery vans for distribution.
29:25They also have an army of wholesalers to push the product across cities, towns, and villages across Europe.
29:44After months of investigation, the final pieces of the puzzle finally came together.
29:50Dutch police had enough evidence to link Ridouan Tahi to six murders and four attempted murders.
29:57But the man himself remained at large.
30:01Until he made the mistake that would bring him down.
30:09In 2017, Tahi had ordered the assassination of another rival in Marrakesh.
30:16But the hitman accidentally killed the son of a Moroccan judge.
30:20The king's police were also on the hunt for him.
30:26That was a game changer.
30:28Then, Morocco changed the way it saw the Dutch Moroccan criminals.
30:34Don't do this violence in our country.
30:36Don't do this gunfire in our country.
30:39And then, Moroccans cooperated very well with our police to solve this problem.
30:49In December 2019, special forces raided a seemingly uninhabited villa in Dubai.
30:54Where Ridouan Tahi was drinking a glass of red wine in front of the TV.
31:01He was handcuffed and arrested.
31:10After his extradition to the Netherlands, public enemy number one was incarcerated in the high-security prison in Voigt.
31:26Since 2015, European, American and Australian police forces had been cracking down on encrypted communication platforms and shutting them down.
31:36Following Tahi's arrest in late 2019, Dutch police reconstructed his call history and the platforms he used.
31:47The latest one at the time was EncroChat, an encrypted communication network.
31:52Its data was stored in a data center in Roubaix, northern France.
31:56The French gendarmerie managed to spread a computer virus through the network and hack the supposedly unbreakable system.
32:05The lock gave way and millions of messages were decrypted.
32:10That was really a moment that was really magnificent for all those people who were in that operational room at
32:20Europol.
32:21When the first messages started to come and you saw the criminal content.
32:25That these really are international criminals who are talking only about organized crime activities.
32:33Smuggling drugs, killing people, laundering money, corrupting authorities and others.
32:39So that was really amazing.
32:44In June 2020, following months of phone surveillance, Dutch law enforcement raided Valves Plantage.
32:52In the village of 1200 residents near the Netherlands-Belgian border, the police discovered several containers intended to serve as
32:59prison cells and even a torture chamber.
33:24The only silver lining? The torture chamber had never been used.
33:32But Europol units were in for more surprises.
33:36Following the shutdown of EncroChat, the underworld migrated en masse in 2020 to a competing provider.
33:44A Canadian platform called Sky ECC.
33:50Promised to be ever more secure, phones sold by the company were marketed under the guise of protecting freedom of
33:57expression and privacy.
33:59At its peak, it had 70,000 active users worldwide and nearly a quarter of them were clustered around Rotterdam
34:06and Antwerp.
34:08And above all, Sky ECC was technically more sophisticated than EncroChat.
34:17We'd located the servers, so we were recording conversations that, in principle, were encrypted.
34:22For 18 months, we logged data without knowing if we'd ever be able to decrypt it.
34:32In early 2021, an update request was sent to users' phones, but it was a Trojan horse.
34:40Tens of thousands of subscribers fell into the trap.
34:44This gave police access to the phone's private encryption keys.
34:49This marked the start of the live phase, as intercepted data was decrypted in real time.
34:56A stream of messages flooded the screens of Europol and the Dutch, Belgian and French police.
35:07Belgian special units worked hours and hours and hours, over months, to identify the most important targets.
35:14And then, what came out of it was…
35:20Well, what we were seeing were the criminal acts taking place all over the world.
35:27We saw countless photos of intimidation, of people cut into pieces, an absolutely staggering level of violence.
35:36After weeks of wiretapping and decoding, it was time for action.
35:45A massive international police operation was launched, with customs, police, tax authorities, and the judiciary working closely together.
35:54Over 10,000 people were arrested in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain, the Balkans, and the Americas.
36:03They called it fighting the organized crime scene.
36:06So, they also got guys in Southern America, Middle America, other places in the world, targeting and arresting in Morocco.
36:15They tried to dismantle the whole organization.
36:17While dismantling the Sky ECC network, investigators also succeeded in striking a blow against the super cartel.
36:25After Ridouan Taghi and Rico the Chilean, it was time for Raffaele Imperiale and Edin Gacchanin to end up behind
36:31bars.
36:32Added to these arrests were record seizures of 90 tons of cocaine, a historic success.
36:38Without these investigations, Egypt would still crumble in darkness when it comes to the organized crime landscape.
36:46How it is integrated in the private sector, public sector, how extensive is the corruption and violence, how extensive profits
36:56they get, and how wide the global networks they have.
37:00We found corruption at all levels, in municipal administrations, in internal revenue services, in customs of course, in the police,
37:09and at every level in the legal profession.
37:34We decided to focus on the upper echelons of the criminal organization, which was now possible because of the hacking
37:40of Sky ECC.
37:44Because otherwise, usually in well-organized criminal organizations, we never reach the upper echelons, since each level is isolated from
37:52the others.
37:58International investigations into encrypted phones have sharply advanced understanding of how criminal networks operate.
38:05More and more emphasis was being placed on the upper echelons of the criminal underworld.
38:17After nearly six years of proceedings, the Marengo trial ended with a heavy and tense atmosphere.
38:25From prison, Ridwan Tahi threatened to kidnap Crown Princess Amalia and Prime Minister at the time, Mark Rutte.
38:34And the terror returned. The attorney Dirk Wiesem, who was defending key witness Nabil Bakhali, was shot dead outside his
38:43home in 2019.
38:46Just under two years later, the famous journalist Peter de Vries was executed in the heart of Amsterdam.
38:52I'm standing in the arena. There must be a fight for you. There must be a fight for you. There
39:01must be a fight for you.
39:02There must be a fight for you. There must be a fight for you.
39:10We are today talking about all the 17 victims. As victims have you long to wait on your vols.
39:17But that's all. But that's all. They must have to wait for you.
39:23They must have to wait for you. They must have to wait for you.
39:24That will not make them less. That's all. This process gives you a black edge.
39:32Ridwan Tahi will live forever.
39:38On February 27th, 2024, the court delivered its verdict.
39:43Life sentences for Ridwan Tahi and two of his closest associates.
39:48And 190 years for the 14 other defendants.
39:57At the end of this historic trial, the Netherlands breathed a sigh of relief.
40:04But a lingering fear remained.
40:08Belgium, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden were facing similar violence linked to drug trafficking.
40:16Despite this being a matter of internal state security, awareness was missing even at the highest political levels.
40:29So in terms of reaction and also support from political authorities, for example, when new capabilities are requested, we can
40:37observe that public opinion is extremely sensitive when it comes to terrorism.
40:41And understandably so, given the victims and attacks involved, it's because everyone feels like a potential victim of terrorism, a
40:49bit like pedophilia, in the way everyone sees their own children in the victims of pedophiles.
40:58Paradoxically, it's different when it comes to organized crime.
41:01Yet in my experience as a magistrate, and other specialists say the same, the danger posed by organized crime is
41:08far more destabilizing for our societies and results in many more potential victims than terrorism for us in the West.
41:15We're all victims in some way.
41:21It's sometimes complicated for judicial authorities to convince policymakers.
41:25I personally had to go before Parliament and, for the first time in my career, show images from the case,
41:32extremely gory images,
41:34to shock senators enough into giving the resources we needed to combat organized crime.
41:48Why do states struggle so much to recognize this threat to our societies?
41:54Because drug smuggling takes place in the shadow of international trade.
41:59The port of Rotterdam has become a fortress.
42:03Access codes have been eliminated and the docks automated.
42:08There are no longer any dock workers here.
42:19Almost inevitably, the trafficking has shifted to smaller, less secure ports like La Havre or Livorno.
42:29The criminal networks that were completely dismantled have almost magically reformed in almost the same way.
42:41What we have seen is that the so-called war on drugs is actually more comparable with religious wars.
42:52It's a symbolic war.
42:53It's not a war that has any strategy to win.
42:58In fact, the war on drugs is not meant to be won.
43:02The war on drugs is to be perpetuated forever.
43:10Today, crime and violence follow a playbook once reserved for armed groups.
43:16Asymmetric warfare.
43:19This model, conceived in the heart of Europe, is ushering in a new era.
43:24With the gangsterization of the world and the start of a new fight.
43:31While a man is not alone is a legend of the word, we can open the heart of Israel and
43:32the court of Israel.
43:32In fact, we will be guilty of an instant into the world, all over the spirit.
43:49The one for the world and the start of a new race is to be reprinted.
43:50We will play one for the same day as we just need to be a new race.
43:52The second месяce here is a new race.
43:52On the race is its list and the Rimilah's on to be a new race.
43:53This is a new one of the world.
43:54You will be a new race.
43:55Obrigado.