Extortionists terrorized the community of Maasdriel.
Photographer: Peter Boer/BloombergA Fruit Company Found Cocaine In Its Banana Shipment. This Dutch Town Paid the Price
Cocaine often hitches a ride from Latin America in the same ships that carry produce. The drug is swamping Europe, and some communities have been terrorized.
This is the final story in a three-part series about global shipping and the surge in drug trafficking. Read the first installment from Businessweek here and the second part here.
At around 3 a.m. on a cold and misty night in November 2020, a Molotov cocktail crashed through a downstairs window of a two-story brick house on the outskirts of the Dutch town of Hedel.