Amsterdam

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Cocaine distributor to all sides in World War 1. Led the European illegal drug trade from the 1970s.

Amsterdam is the capital city of The Netherlands. Known as the drug capital of the world, it's the locus of the European illegal drug trade and has build a reputation as the place of depart of some weird "accidents", including for MH 17, the "planned" last flight of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the Bijlmer disaster.

Police corruption

The Dutch police in drug capital Amsterdam was noted by investigators to be heavily infiltrated by the leading European drug criminals, who started executing journalists, such as Peter R. de Vries in 2021.

Schiphol Airport

On December 25, 2009, ICTS let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the "Underwear Bomber) on a plane under suspicious circumstances . Abdulmutallab, who later who attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear, boarded the US bound plane from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Kurt Haskell, an attorney from Michigan who also boarded the same flight saw Abdulmutallab and another "sharply dressed" Indian looking man who helped Abdulmutallab board the flight. Haskell claims that Abdulmutallab boarded the flight without a passport.

Narco-State

The Guardian in 2018 reported that "The Netherlands is starting to resemble a "narco-state" with the police unable to combat the emergence of a parallel criminal economy, a report from the Dutch police association has warned". Prime Minister Mark Rutte called Amsterdam to be suffering from a "Moroccan-mafia problem" in 2019, with Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Ferdinand Grapperhaus and him "declaring war in a war on drugs" on drug criminals, criminalizing "18 and 19-year-olds using weed" along with "yoga-sniffing girls", calling for an end to the Dutch tolerated drug policy..

Drug Smuggling

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Drug smuggling apparently is big business at Schiphol, with Amsterdam known as the drug-capital of the world for tourists, utilizing both cargo and persons (split 50/50), as young as 13 years old, the Netherlands is called "a major transit route for cocaine, heroin and XTC. Within 5 years of the establishment of an anti-drug unit at Schiphol in 1999 up to 2500 people were arrested for drug smuggling, and 11 million pounds was found in luggage and cargo. A leaked wikileaks memo revealed the US was concerned about the "very lenient policies on Schiphol", "catching and releasing low-level couriers", "not checking the baggage of employees working in shops on site". according to Minister of Justice Piet Hein Donner, at least 16 individuals of private companies working at Schiphol had been arrested for drug smuggling during that time.