With shootings and threats against a princess and the prime minister it sounds like a crime drama, but for the Dutch the growing menace from drug cartels is all too real.
Recent busts underscore a reality that European drug authorities have been warning about: More cocaine than ever is pouring into the continent, where South American chemists, traffickers and local mafias are helping to bring it to market.
The president of the Dutch Police Union (NPB) admitted that the Netherlands is now a narco-state, with drug-dealing criminals participating in a parallel economy. NPB President Jan Struijs made [.]