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trafficking between that's in america and europe. columbia has broken its own record for cultivating co cut the main ingredients. okay. huge increases in the amount of cocaine entering the continent. 3 poults in belgium and the netherlands. what's happening to us in terms of cocaine is quite historical. this really is a big, a new face that is on sort of cocaine to your, of assessing though it's just the most popular hard drive in europe. this is actually some very rich, the others. it is devastating consequences. that's how exactly has europe come and you'll hotspots. ok. the 1000 been in a city known for its clock seen and it struck consumption. cocaine is high from the

consumer space behind the addictive track. pushed through to the highest ties or the lowest, those or the drug has never been easier to get in berlin. like in many other cities, you can order it. yeah. messenger apps, people who are willing to pay around 50 years, pos graham, and co taxis are delivering to cocaine, right to the doorstep. reliable data about the use of cocaine is have to come by octo it is at least a top draft. so new the dealers know consumers once a bracket bug numbers, but it's in your opinion screen and sewer authority is read about cocaine consumption. local ken rested, use a found there. the cities regularly scan the waste switches for drugs. the bigger to circles, the more cocaine was detected there, and breasted yusef almost shrivelled since 2015. there are several reasons for the

rise of continues in europe. but one thing is clear, more fitness available than ever before. so why is cooks and flooding into europe just now? to understand it, we will travel from europe to less than america. and back 1st of all, it's about the big money, smart gate and cocaine to europe. this course. but for organized crime, it's totally worth it. most lucrative change is the moving off of the co came from latin america. it's coming year. this is where the big money is. this is where every party wants to get some farms. jeremy mcdermott, texas pink time researching over nice crime in the america, has faced in mid in columbia aquino crime of cocaine and columbia sells for 2002 s dollars. but what it moves abroad, it's worth weigh more than that. the average price of a key to

a cocaine in the united states is between, depending on point events, be between $16.00 and $25000.00. where is that same key though, is was, that's at least even as high as mode $40000.00 in your there is the increased cost and simply moving it across the united states. it's much easier to reach. so this means a lot of people can earn money by smartlight cocaine to europe. we will get to this part of the story of it later. what would you need to know now? is that europe is a growing up and coming market for cocaine. and it is catching up with the stock aging markets in north america, especially the us, europe is so some are truck to for truck traffic hers because penalties for drug offenses are less if you then in the u. s. for example. and controls have not been

as tough. so with milk and flooding. europe thomas, this is changing, and authorities such celebrated record boss. in the past years. the largest single c showed in europe was in hamburg, germany in 2021. 16 tons of cocaine, russ, up to $3500000000.00. and then we have on foot belgians biggest port. customs here sees a $116.00 tons of cocaine in total in 2023. also our records. but researchers say more bus also means more traffic getting the so seizing more drugs is not necessarily a reason to celebrate. i started really a big concern that, you know, this is, this is crazy. something big is happening here. so on and yet it's following the growing influx of cocaine to europe in the d. u. direct extensions. and just in

portugal, all the logistics of the trade, the, the, the role material for the trade, a cocaine itself. and everything has been scaled up and directed to europe. so let's travel across the atlantic to reco kind is coming from latin america. coca plans, amazing grown in columbia period. and the lady at the glance tries best and mountain santiago area cocaine and 6 tract just from the lease that has long been used as i must implant and not in america. columbia has traditionally been the biggest producer and it was here for a special piece deal, shook up the cocaine markets in 2016. the revolutionary forces of columbia or fark their greet, you laid out that after 50 years for value. besides,

the initial goal was to replace to columbia in democratic government with the ground incumbent as true. but the reason we had talking about them is, okay, they got involved in the business to fund their activities. the, the full point $26.00, control them would you like to do anything up to 70 percent of the coca feels coca bass production and coal. which means they were essentially a one stop shop for cocaine. when it was a freefall, the criminal landscape fragments is into a more competitive market. ma gaggs being involved is one of the reasons why i'm all kind of planted and have it sits in columbia and we'll get also mean more violence and less in america. as many smaller groups now fide full

control over the protection st. last in america has, i think, is about the to percentage of the world's population. and it has movers, 13 percent of the top of science. this is a small punk due to the drug trade. recently, one country in particular has been drag, need into to do to drop game you gotta look at my so they said they could be assessing the phone nice, let it pass. i can but these 103030 i can spell compiler for him. but the product okay is would be settled for the like a $4.00 but of us getting the knowledge. this is carla. oh, that is a security expert who has been following the situation in her country very closely if that the both both thursday. okay, go back again. i remember crying spreads across the country in the past years, violence corruption,

homicides. in 2023 or presidential candidate was assessing the agent who was complaining against organized crime. so what this, the small south american country has to do with the growing influx of cocaine to europe, takes time. we have to go to equity or speak as topper quite i. q. and we must dive deep into another business. in ecuador, silver, its largest exporter, most for non us, the food is shipped from quite a key to smaller posts to europe in the world. and these boxes are apparently the perfect place to hide and smuggle. ok. that's why summit up the food coming from it quite door, not go by non us graphic or she was bad. she's in food experts because they need to go through a customs very quickly before they run the account on the products. not just stepped out in the vast volumes of level change tens of millions of containers

arriving in europe every year. and less than 10 percent of the temperature containers rate of change the game. this has given the books to the trade. that's incredible because the traffic is have been able to, at paris sites, this digital bit trade between the 2 continents to put them much and dies in it and retrieve it when they arrive here. sorry to use a stepping of controls continues from some countries are more likely to get checked the country coming from colombia on routine me read the principal transit nations like kind of mom. and it could all also contain is routinely red flags from some of the brazilian pools. so smock nurses are looking for new points of departure. we're seeing way more

drugs now. go to caribbean. we're seeing them move further through central america places like most of the week of which is seen increased bivens pushing low further down to argentina border. why even cheap a and then to can process to advance. and finally, which is where the cost space plus the main arrival point. because it's curse the traffic or is increasing the moving to europe, stick as ports in the north rocks of time and another minutes on scrub in belgium and convert in germany. because this is where most containers from these have criminals distributed cocaine all over europe matters also got more crated containers often smuggled into the put him in wine. so spirit. so the liquidity batch wings,

which even sprayed on clothing like jeans and come battle like a go guy. not he died in the end of a left, but it is, of course, he does, is contain, is a most be so spice of it tended to liquefied drac pleasure has to be re crystallized into cocaine. this is why the authorities are discovering a growing number of cocaine, of our choice in europe. and this also means that europe, him off yars, applying a more important role in the field, or can business starts with, with the the, the now, the subs and the out here day on the coffee, terse. but others have to suffer the consequences because struck relates to silence and smell spread. and on for the belgian harbor city. an 11 year old girl died in the truck related shooting in 2023. that's total is peter decrease was killed,

and i'm so diamond 2021 police to be motivated by his investigations into cocaine trafficking. a before the police found a torture chamber hidden in a shipping container, an underworld prison. it's built by a drug gang connected to violence, comes to another lights. it does seem that corruption is increasing in europe, or at least we are seeing corruption where before we didn't see it, the drug trade, wherever, whatever time it to actually it's corruption environment. and finally, you're just not the end of the cocaine trail. i think we can now say that europe is a transportation for cocaine, a distant for other markets, the middle east in asia. remember the whole say process, we mentioned before. well, the rise, the further the traffic are actually the crime of cocaine sales, for example, for $56000.00 and pockets done or $68000.00 and cuts are showing sensors for

criminals to go further. cocaine is a multi $1000000000.00 criminal industry and it seems to be getting out of control . so what could be done about it? everyone talks about the, the licensed agent taking the money out of the criminal hands and putting it into the legal that's of course, politically unacceptable. so that's not very much point talking about this is step csr t. so trying to get have the criminals. cocaine trade is a network effect. so also we need to, to, to work more with authorities in, in the, that's in american police customs law enforcement side, but not only also the demand side, the policy side. because finally, it's also about to use as in europe. and beyond located the policy, so i don't know where to said conflict. i'm in deborah on saturday, saturday,

phenomena. oh, i know but, but yeah, we're not a man. as long as people are gray. so next time, there will always be somebody willing to risk everything to get his share of the big money to open the lid or in the hot water and enjoy all that's left afterwards is the packaging. what do we do with all the plastic weight? or could we manage without plastic the welcome to tomorrow today is science show on dw well, eagles has been a favorite for decades. the japanese version is especially popular among young people.