Police intelligence identifies an “unlimited” supply of vulnerable child labour trafficked from north Africa to work for Europe’s top-tier cocaine networks. Investigators looking into the mass recruitment of minors by cocaine networks in Belgium quickly realised their modus operandi was being replicated throughout Europe. Belgium’s children’s rights commissioner Caroline Vrijens describes boys such as Youssef as “the most vulnerable” minors on the continent. A separate police operation will soon be announced to tackle the trafficking of African children into Europe’s cocaine cartels. Garbar warns that failure to assimilate such vulnerable children will end with Europe paying a high price.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 11, 2024 13:21 UTC