This is Why Belgium is the Riviera of Organized Crime
Simon Whistler · December 15, 2025 · 22 min video · Europe & NATO
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On January the 9th, 2023, at around 630pm, local time, armed men sprayed bullets at a garage door. The actual part of what the local mayor called "a settling of accounts among drug traffickers," but on the cane with a bit of a grim twist. Behind that door was an 11-year-old girl.
She didn't survive. Told like that, the story of what happened that cold evening sounds like something from an episode of Narcos, a tale you might hear from the slums of Bogotar, or the most gang-infested parts of Ecuador. Instead, it came from a country that as long prided itself on being a peaceful, uneventful place.
Belgium. Yes, that Belgium, the heart of the European Union, the nation that hosts the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union. But these days, it's time to something else too.
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How Belgium became Europe’s cocaine gateway: Antwerp’s ports, political paralysis, violent gangs, and global cartels turning an unlikely EU hub into a rising narco-state with consequences for all of Europe.
