‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera
Nice may be at the heart of France’s upmarket Mediterranean coast, but violent drug gangs making €1.5m a month are colonising part of it The...
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Drug smugglers targeting Oslo as gateway into Europe
Mayor of Norwegian capital, Anne Lindboe, says drugs worth up to £570m have entered through the port The mayor of Oslo has warned that drug...
Spanish police arrest 10 after discovery of ‘highly sophisticated’ meth lab
Mobile facility found near Barcelona capable of producing 10kg of drug a day, say police, who seized 70kg Spanish police have arrested 10 people and...
Rotterdam mayor calls for end to lax stance on middle-class drug use
Europe has been ‘negligent,’ as an acceptance of cocaine and cannabis leads to corruption, violence, and misery, says Aboutaleb The mayor of a city on...
Germany on track to partly legalise cannabis for personal use after heated debate
Politicians hope to reclaim market from drug dealers but doctors say it risks young people’s health Germany’s parliament is expected to partly legalise cannabis on...
EU plan for medicine stockpile could worsen UK’s record shortages
Bloc plans to bulk-buy key drugs for all 27 countries, potentially leaving Britain ‘behind in the queue’ The EU is to stockpile key medicines that...
‘No-one should be dying after a shoulder pain from golf’: death of Briton raises fresh questions about drug Nolotil
The controversial painkiller is being cited in a growing number of deaths in Spain despite warnings about dangerous side-effects On an October evening last year,...
Nine men to be tried for murder of Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries
Hearing to start in January in case of journalist shot in the street in 2021 who was adviser to a witness in trial of a...
‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police
In 2021 Emmanuel Macron promised victims of the city’s drug crime he would help. Grieving residents tell how he failed them Inside, Emmanuel Macron was...
Spanish drug raid thwarts raffle of Christmas ‘narco-basket’
Suspected dealers in Murcia held lottery for their clients with prizes of drugs, whisky and a leg of ham Spanish police have arrested two suspected...
