https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsH152NE9Ak
With record seizures of cocaine at Belgian ports, the country has become Europe's cocaine-trafficking capital. As the flow of drugs increases, local authorit

https://www.politico.eu/article/antwerp-title-top-europe-capital-cocaine-drugs-port/
Antwerp came in as Europe's top cocaine user with 1,721 milligrams detected per 1,000 people per day, which was a decrease from 2022 but still enough to stay at the top of the list.. Experts say wastewater analysis is a helpful way to examine the snapshot of drug use in a particular city. Alexis Goosdeel, the director of the EMCDDA, said in a statement accompanying the findings that such

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68004291
Authorities in Belgium say they seized a record amount of cocaine at the port of Antwerp last year. The port city has become Europe's main gateway for the drug shipped from South America. Belgian

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/drug-trafficking-cocaine-antwerp-belgium
The head of Belgium's customs service has suggested at least 40 per cent of Europe's cocaine imports pass through Antwerp and other nearby ports. There's violence between rival gangs battling for control of the port and cocaine shipments. But killings among Antwerp's cartels are intentionally uncommon, says Joris van der Aa, a top crime

https://www.politico.eu/article/antwerp-drugs-europe-cocaine-consumption/
Antwerp is flush with cocaine — at least, according to its toilet water. People living in Belgium's second city top the table for cocaine consumption in Europe, according to an analysis published on Wednesday by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) and SCORE group, which evaluated wastewater from around 54 million people last year in over 100 participating European cities.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/belgium-breaks-bad-drugs-antwerp/
On January 9 this year, in the Antwerp neighbourhood of Merksem, bullets tore through a garage door into the kitchen, killing her. Her name was Firdaous. She was the niece of one of Belgium's main suspected drug traffickers, Othman El B, who is currently thought to live in Dubai. The port of Antwerp topped the EU's list of cocaine seizures

https://impact.economist.com/projects/illicittradeflows/economist-films/film-2/
Why Belgium is now the cocaine capital of Europe. With record seizures of cocaine at Belgian ports, the country has become Europe's cocaine-trafficking capital. As the flow of drugs increases, local authorities are struggling with rising corruption and violence. Black Markets Series.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/world/europe/belgium-antwerp-cocaine.html
The interception this year of a million messages on the secured platform Sky ECC by the Belgian and Dutch police led to the dismantling of a cocaine trafficking network in Brussels, to the

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-63987777
The port of Antwerp in Belgium is largely seen as the capital of cocaine trafficking in Europe. Corruption and violence are now on the rise and the drug is widely available on the streets.

https://www.ft.com/content/542cba73-1d84-4da6-a61a-0863b01f533f
Belgium's port city of Antwerp is the largest cocaine trafficking hub in Europe, with a record of almost 110 tonnes seized last year, up from about 90 tonnes in 2021 and 66 tonnes in 2020

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-antwerp-drugs-violence-organized-crime/
Antwerp, Europe's diamond capital, is now better known as a key way station on the drug superhighway into the EU from Panama, Ecuador and Paraguay. Customs officers have seized 110,000 kilograms of cocaine here in the last year alone, and U.N. figures show that organized crime networks are turning over around €130 billion a year from the

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-14/belgium-and-netherlands-step-up-port-security-in-cocaine-trade-crackdown
Belgium and the Netherlands struggle with drug-related violence as they step up port security. The surging trafficking at Antwerp's port has made the city Europe's cocaine capital, according

https://www.dw.com/en/cocaine-capital-antwerp-fears-drug-related-attacks-may-rise/a-64555178
The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, together with Europol, estimated that the European Union's retail market for cocaine was worth a minimum of €12.8 billion ($13.9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWWuhBFTpU
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-c

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/20/antwerp-cocaine-cartels-ecuador/
Antwerp, known historically as a hub for diamond trading, has developed a reputation as Europe's cocaine-import capital. Last year, Belgian customs officers intercepted a record 256,000 pounds

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europe-turns-into-cocaine-hub-multi-billion-euro-market-expands-eu-says-2022-05-06/
Europe is increasingly becoming a hub for production and trans-shipment of cocaine to other regions of the world, in addition to being a major consumption market, EU agencies said on Friday

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/11/21/belgium-struggles-to-incinerate-all-of-the-cocaine-it-seized-in-yet-another-record-year
Four Dutch nationals arrested after threat to Belgian justice minister. In 2021, Belgium seized a total of 89.5 tonnes of cocaine in Antwerp, an increase of 36% on the previous year and a new all

https://www.economist.com/films/2022/11/03/why-do-cocaine-traffickers-like-belgium
The port of Antwerp has become an important distribution hub. Nov 3rd 2022. B elgium is a small country famous for fries, chocolate and EU bureaucracy. But it is now gaining a reputation as Europe

https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/17/record-amount-of-cocaine-seized-in-belgium-in-2023-as-eu-faces-rise-in-drug-related-violen
The Belgian port city has become the main gateway for Latin American cocaine cartels into the European continent, with the quantity of the substance seized in the seaport rising by 6 tonnes from

https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/ym0471/why_belgium_is_now_the_cocaine_capital_of_europe/
In short: low (er) risk, high (er) reward in Europe than North America. Antwerp is just a very big, very fast and efficient port with good connections to the whole of mainland Europe. About the 'documentary': it shows a map with 'Antwerp' when pointing to Zeebrugge multiple times and multiple shots of Dutch police and operations when talking

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ypw9mu/why_belgium_is_now_the_cocaine_capital_of_europe/
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https://apnews.com/article/euro-2024-ukraine-belgium-score-e3c02cb9c90fb97bb8ab1058d3e8b6eb
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Belgium got the best out of a 0-0 draw at the European Championship on Wednesday, advancing to the last 16 while Ukraine became the first team with four points in a group to be eliminated.. The downside for the Belgians at Euro 2024 is they will next face France and Kylian Mbappe on Monday in Duesseldorf. "We go to win.