2024-01-04 13:36:00
Attention is currently focused on large-scale cocaine trafficking for which Belgium, via the port of Antwerp, has become an important gateway to Europe. Fears relate in particular to violence or the various forms of corruption that accompany it. The dismantling of the Sky ECC system showed their scale.
In his book “Narcos”, Alexandre Deloyer, who was commissioner of the Federal Judicial Police until 2016, details these changes in drug trafficking. And reading these memories, when he was part of what was then called “PJ”, we can see how much this market might have changed.
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From crafts to industry
We say to ourselves that we were then in a form of craftsmanship. Everything then rested, it seems, much more on “human sources”, the famous informants. And it can be tasty, like when Alexandre Deloyer dissects a traffic of hashish coming from Lebanon – already through the port of Antwerp – where the investigators discovered, following weighing the container, that they had not seized everything. Only 3,200 kg of hashish had been removed from the container. In fact, 800 kg, hidden in a double partition, had escaped their examination. It is true that at the time, there was no question of scanning yet.
We also discover trafficking that, it seems, almost no longer exists: the passage of Bangui (marijuana from Central Africa) distributed among multiple smugglers who took the snail – there was no Thalys – between Brussels and Paris. It was, so to speak, DIY: the drugs were left in another compartment, on the baggage nets. The smugglers only collected it upon arrival.
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We still see a brown doctor, a companion of Léon Degrelle in the Waffen SS, who supplied young drug addicts with bogus prescriptions.
But, in these memories of a former pejist, we will also realize that in a certain way, nothing has changed, sometimes. Caches were set up in cars to make deliveries to neighboring countries. Exactly the same stratagem as that which was used by the criminal organization currently on trial in Brussels as part of the Sky ECC trial.
Alexandre Deloyer, Narcos, 382 pages, available on www.publierunlivre.com
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