It seems even the most idyllic countries in our imaginations – cities with the fairytale flower and art lined canals of calendar shots – are now plagued by violence fueled by gangs and drugs.
Brussels, Belgium, is one such place, as is her sister city, the seaport of Antwerp.
Normally you don’t think of any European city – except maybe Paris – as a place of running gun battles, “random” shootings, or explosions, but they surely are making their way across the continent. Last month I did a piece on the burgeoning problems in Sweden which have caused the government there to put the kibosh on their permissive immigration system.
It turns out that when you open the doors to a whole different set of values, and you drop the age of “criminality” – in other words, the age you can be charged as an adult – bad things proliferate.
Like warnings from gangs. Forget the horse head in bed or box of dead fish.
Across the EU, members of the bloc are so worried about the explosion in drug trafficking and gang violence fueled by drug wars that the head of their law enforcement said it’s literally a threat to EU democracies.
Rule of law in European democracies is at…
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