{"id":632074,"date":"2024-08-30T15:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=632074"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T19:57:40","slug":"violent-drug-gangs-bring-mayhem-to-western-europe-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=632074","title":{"rendered":"Violent Drug Gangs Bring Mayhem to Western Europe &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Yesterday we heard about the Venezuelan gangs taking over Colorado &#8212; today it&#8217;s about Europe&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Organized crime used to be considered a remote threat in much of Western Europe, but ruthless violence by criminal gangs is now rattling the peace in some of the world\u2019s safest societies.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden now has Europe\u2019s highest gun-homicide rate, and the military is helping police fight street gangs. In Denmark, residents of the commune Christiania shut their famed open-air cannabis market after violent gangs took over. In Belgium, armed security forces have started guarding customs trucks carrying seized cocaine to prevent criminals from stealing it back.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most alarming exhibits of what the 21st-century drug trade has wrought upon long-peaceful European societies came earlier this year in the Netherlands, long known for its tolerant attitude toward recreational drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/VdFfZ#selection-2435.10-2451.227\">https:\/\/archive.is\/VdFfZ#selection-2435.10-2451.227<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we heard about the Venezuelan gangs taking over Colorado &#8212; today it&#8217;s about Europe&#8230;&#8230;. Organized crime used to be considered a remote threat in much of Western Europe, but ruthless violence by criminal gangs is now rattling the peace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=632074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632075,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632074\/revisions\/632075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}