Dutch police discover secret torture site in shipping containers
Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands following the discovery of seven shipping containers converted into cells and torture chambers.
The containers were located in Wouwse Plantage, south of Rotterdam, after French police cracked encrypted phones used by criminals.
Dutch police said the containers were found before they were used, and potential victims were now in hiding.
The suspects were arrested on 22 June following a Franco-Dutch operation to infiltrate the EncroChat encrypted phone system.
Police intercepted millions of messages including that of one of the suspects, a 40-year-old man from The Hague. Investigators were able to access his contacts via an Encrochat phone.
Those messages allegedly included images of a shipping container with a dental chair that had straps on the armrests and footrest.
After locating the containers in April in Wouwse Plantage, near the Belgian border, police put the area under observation and found that multiple men were working on them almost every day. When the containers were almost finished, investigators decided to intervene.
A video posted online by police shows officers arresting the suspects and also entering the containers.
Officers found handcuffs attached to the floors and ceilings of the containers, which had also been soundproofed.
In one container, they also discovered police clothing and bulletproof vests. In another, they located pruning shears, scalpels and balaclavas.
The arrests are among 800 made across Europe after EncroChat messages were intercepted and decoded.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 104 | July 13, 2020 4:47 PM
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Jesus. The shit humans do to each other over money and power...
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 7, 2020 8:53 PM
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Such sick animals amongst us.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 7, 2020 8:53 PM
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Are there any pictures of these torture chambers?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 7, 2020 8:55 PM
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am I going to be able to get a refund.......mine will never be delivered now..............
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 7, 2020 8:58 PM
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I bet the perpetrators are of Eastern European origin.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 7, 2020 8:59 PM
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So the cops raided before they were actually used? BDSM can be a consensual thing, not my cup of tea but not illegal, how do the police know it wasn't all consensual?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 7, 2020 9:02 PM
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May be BDSM fun houses as suggested above.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 7, 2020 9:03 PM
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This does not sound like a "fun" dungeon.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 7, 2020 9:03 PM
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This proves that those Hostel movies are more than just fiction. Of course there are wealthy psychopaths who will pay to torture and murder other humans.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 7, 2020 9:05 PM
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R11, tell me the crime committed if they were never used, no I wasn't kidding.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 7, 2020 9:05 PM
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That's EXACTLY what I was thinking, r10. Fucking creepy shit.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 7, 2020 9:06 PM
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[quote] I bet the perpetrators are of Eastern European origin.
The Dutch collaborated with the Nazis. You don’t have to go as far as Eastern Europe.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 7, 2020 9:07 PM
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Please google inchoate crimes, r15
And per the article:
[quote]Dutch police said the containers were found before they were used, and potential victims were now in hiding.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 7, 2020 9:07 PM
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I'm not suprised, the Dutch are a fucked up people, as are most people from that specific area of Europe. It's weird that we hold those countries as the golden standard of what a country should be, considering they seem to have a surplus of murdery/rapey/kidnapey/cannibaly psychos.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 7, 2020 9:13 PM
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Who were the potential victims? This story doesn't make much sense.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 7, 2020 9:13 PM
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R2 careful, you used the term animals and you will be called a racist by some overly excited DL members.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 7, 2020 9:16 PM
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R18 as I said BDSM isn't my cup of tea but many people have home dungeons, constructing them isn't a crime, and if they are used with consent there is no crime, by raiding before they were used it provides the arrested with a reasonable excuse. They might have been building them to sell to people into BDSM, you don't know. They might be sub-contractors for the CIA. Police claiming the potential victims are in hiding just means they have no victims.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 7, 2020 9:16 PM
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They're German-adjacent r21. Bound to happen.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 7, 2020 9:17 PM
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Oh ffs, r24. Just stop digging yourself deeper.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 7, 2020 9:18 PM
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r26 it's not an unreasonable position in this day & age. Having said that, obviously they have voluminous phone records. It was a darknet communications app, so any number of gangs could be on it. I have a feeling that they're burying the lede here, since this is SOP for gangs, particularly human traffickers.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 7, 2020 9:36 PM
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I would be shocked if the culprits are actually ethnic Dutchmen and not transplants from Russia, Ukraine or some other Eastern Bloc shithole.
The entire thing just smells of "Eastern Promises"-style organized crime.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 7, 2020 9:39 PM
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^^ absolutely. The Dutch-bashing above is misplaced.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 7, 2020 9:45 PM
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I told you were were hardcore.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 7, 2020 9:48 PM
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Imagine being one of the would-be victims and knowing that people were planning to lock you in a sound-proofed box and torture you with scalpels and pliers.
Even though the people they were going to torture were most likely other scumbags (rival druggies and gansters), it's still a hell of a thing to think about.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 7, 2020 9:57 PM
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After Trump was elected I was amazed at how many stupid people there were. Then we got to watch the same thing over in the UK and I realized the whole world is full of stupid people. But this, who knew there were so many psychopaths, sociopaths running around. People that just have no feeling or emotions for others. This is far more frightening than just stupid people.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 7, 2020 10:06 PM
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Europeans have a very frank attitude towards BDSM and fetish.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 7, 2020 10:16 PM
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Oh goody, let’s get a P&O ferry to Amsterdam
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 7, 2020 10:19 PM
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It wouldn't surprise me if it's drugs related. "Mexican cartels are increasingly moving around the Netherlands to produce methamphetamine, taking advantage of the ease of introducing raw materials through Dutch ports, which has increased the number of clandestine laboratories for police concern."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 41 | July 7, 2020 10:20 PM
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r36 don't be too sure of that. That's standard for organized crime, & that includes human trafficking. At the international level, a lot of that goes on with Western society ignorant.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 7, 2020 10:53 PM
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Until we find out more about who may have designed this and for use against what kinds of people, the story doesn't make much sense.
The story is too vague as OP posted it.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 7, 2020 11:35 PM
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All the Dutch people on this thread are hilarious. “WE would NEVER... This must be those filthy OTHER Europeans. WE are pure as the driven snow!”
Yes, the land with the world famous red light districts and legal heroin would NEVAH!
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 8, 2020 12:29 AM
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The Dutch turned in their own people during the Holocaust. Anne Frank (admittedly, ethnically German/Jew) was ratted out by the Dutch.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 8, 2020 3:41 PM
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I showed that article to Ghislaine last night, letting her know what to expect if she starts yakking.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 8, 2020 3:57 PM
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"Those messages allegedly included images of a shipping container with a dental chair that had straps on the armrests and footrest. "
How do they know that this is not some cheap unaccredited Dental School?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 8, 2020 4:18 PM
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[quote]The Dutch turned in their own people during the Holocaust. Anne Frank (admittedly, ethnically German/Jew) was ratted out by the Dutch.
Holland had the highest percentage of Jews exterminated in the death camps -75% - more than any other European country under Nazi rule.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 8, 2020 4:37 PM
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You wouldn't have to sound-proof a consenting kinkster for travel, r24!!
They'd keep quiet voluntarily! And why would they need to be shipped anywhere? Consenters build and use dungeons in people's homes or at clubs!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 8, 2020 5:10 PM
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The Netherlands are held in the highest regard for many good reasons.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 8, 2020 6:37 PM
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The Dutch are a very stubborn people. After all, they only have a country because they hold back the sea.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 8, 2020 6:48 PM
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The Dutch need to accept their collective guilt for willingly participating in the Holocaust.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 8, 2020 6:56 PM
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[quote]It's weird that we hold those countries as the golden standard of what a country should be, considering they seem to have a surplus of murdery/rapey/kidnapey/canniba - ly psychos.
There were 119 murders in the Netherlands in 2019 (population: 17 million) compared to 348 that year in the city of Baltimore alone.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 8, 2020 7:04 PM
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The Netherlands seems to be a center for this kind of stuff. Doesn’t most of the child porn come out of the Netherlands?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 8, 2020 7:57 PM
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It’s a center for depraved pornography.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 8, 2020 8:23 PM
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Jesus fuck, the comments in this thread are breath-takingly stupid...
from the posters who assumed it was a Hostel type of situation (rather than just another drug-related criminal enterprise), to the poster who randomly brought up Trump, to the freak(s) who keep making unfunny S & M jokes, and finally the multiple comments trashing the Dutch when the criminals involved are most likely not native Dutchmen; especially the retard who concluded that since the Netherlands has legal prostitution and lax drug laws, that must SURELY mean they're into torturing people (makes perfect sense).
I really expected better from DL, silly me.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 8, 2020 8:25 PM
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R58: DLers really got a chance to show off their provincialism and lack of travel experience on the "Which country has the worst food?" thread.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 8, 2020 8:30 PM
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[quote] especially the retard who concluded that since the Netherlands has legal prostitution and lax drug laws, that must SURELY mean they're into torturing people
I think he just meant that they lack having any moral values and not that all the Dutch are into torturing people.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 8, 2020 8:45 PM
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Wouldn't a dutch oven work just as well?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 8, 2020 8:48 PM
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They were arrested because they are suspected of kidnapping and hostage taking. When the police arrested them they found these torture chambers
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 8, 2020 9:03 PM
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Who do you suppose were the intended victims now in hiding?
And who tipped the police off with the location and list of victims?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 8, 2020 9:05 PM
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[Quote]I think he just meant that they lack having any moral values and not that all the Dutch are into torturing people.
So you're going to double down on this bullshit? A country with legal prostitution and legal forms of drug use is far more advanced than provincial and morally corrupt USA.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 9, 2020 1:55 AM
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Fuck off and go bathe every four days in your two square foot apartment while you worship South Africa and schvartz Pete. So sophisamacated you are with your dong out fucking everything that moves and calling everyone else provincial. So advanced as a society with the ingrained racism for hundreds of years.
Shove your blood and soil AND your shitty licorice up your flapping ass.
Oh, be sure to snort a speedball while you’re doing it, Captain Van Der Waal die Superior Sophistication personified.
PS. Here’s a provincial statement for you: the Dutch are history’s unsung monsters.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 9, 2020 2:02 AM
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Yeah Daddy!!!!! Give me that scalpel!!!! You know how I like it!!!!! 😫
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 9, 2020 2:13 AM
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Oh and sophistamacated dipshit Eurotrash so proud of the ever so fabulous red light district, how the FUCK do you think they get the continuous supply of hookers?
They’re TRAFFICKED by the fucking MOB.
Fucking idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 9, 2020 2:19 AM
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These have nothing to do with BDSM. They are mobile blacksite torture chambers. For enemies, not consenting acquaintances with safe words.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 9, 2020 2:41 AM
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Uh-oh, Hans Brinker at r65 is beginning to lose her shit.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 9, 2020 4:00 AM
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With universal healthcare, the Dutch had to cut corners somewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 9, 2020 7:01 AM
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This is the country that popularized putting a finger in a dyke. (shudder)
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 9, 2020 7:05 AM
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This is why selfish hyperprivacy must end. We could have almost total safety and we could eliminate people like them. China is developing the tools we’ll need.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 73 | July 9, 2020 7:09 AM
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It’s the highly educated, six-figure earning, coke-snorting yuppies who are financing the lifestyles of these criminals.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 9, 2020 8:43 AM
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r69 I think it was a single poster making the obtuse "Buttttt it's consensual BDSM!!!" argument above.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 9, 2020 8:59 AM
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A while ago they also discovered this crazy ass compound here with a fucked up cult-like family living in it in some village here. So much weird shit happening in our small country lately. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if some of the men that were involved are native Dutchmen. But I think it's a combo of them and Eastern Bloc.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 9, 2020 10:27 AM
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You cancel Carnaval and Kermis and people in Brabant need to let off a little steam.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 9, 2020 10:37 AM
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The Algerian mob has taken over half of the Netherlands and the rest is owned by the Rad Mus. The native Dutch just live and work there by the two former's sufferance.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 9, 2020 10:55 AM
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[quote]I think he just meant that they lack having any moral values
You think legal prostitution and drugs = “no moral values?” You think these things lead directly to torture and kidnapping??
Do you have any idea how puritanical and plain WRONG you sound? Here in the US we have state sponsored goons killing black people daily, and separating kids from their parents and putting them in cages, but I guess our “moral values” are just swell because you can go to jail for buying drugs or hiring a prostitute.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 9, 2020 11:35 AM
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This month is the 25th anniversary of the Serbian atrocities committed against the people of Srebrenica.
From one of the eyewitnesses: The Serbs began at a certain point to take girls and young women out of the group of refugees. They were raped. The rapes often took place under the eyes of others and sometimes even under the eyes of the children of the mother. A Dutch soldier stood by and he simply looked around with a Walkman on his head. He did not react at all to what was happening. It did not happen just before my eyes, for I saw that personally, but also before the eyes of us all. The Dutch soldiers walked around everywhere. It is impossible that they did not see it.
There was a woman with a small baby a few months old. A Chetnik told the mother that the child must stop crying. When the child did not stop crying, he snatched the child away and cut its throat. Then he laughed. There was a Dutch soldier there who was watching. He did not react at all.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 9, 2020 4:05 PM
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r35 already trying to pin it on immigrants.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 9, 2020 4:19 PM
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King Willem Alexander publicly picks his nose.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 9, 2020 7:00 PM
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Jeffrey Dahmer was American, and look what he did. Never trust an American. They’re all serial killers.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 9, 2020 7:14 PM
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Next the frauen here will go after fabulous Berlin.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | July 9, 2020 10:38 PM
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R79, legalized prostitution only serves to increase human trafficking and sexual assault. Drug, diamond, weapons trafficking all goes hand in hand with that. Do you think people (mostly women) in places where prostitution is legal are not still being pimped out against their wills?
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 9, 2020 11:18 PM
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R65 has stated her boundaries
by Anonymous | reply 87 | July 10, 2020 12:18 AM
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[quote] [R79], legalized prostitution only serves to increase human trafficking and sexual assault.
Do you have any data to support that statement, R86? Not only is it counter-intuitive, It's overly broad and leaves out all social, legal, cultural, and political differences between localities.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 10, 2020 2:43 AM
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The cops arrested everybody because they probably weren't being paid enough by the container owners to stay away.
Cops get theirs, first.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 12, 2020 2:38 AM
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What is all this nonsense about the Holocaust?! The amount of ignorance is astounding. The reason so many Jews were arrested is because all Dutch people were registered, back in the day not all countries kept records. This made it very easy for the Germans to pick the Jews out. The Germans ransacked the country completely and there was a horrible famine. So much for the “collaboration” some seem to suggest.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 12, 2020 2:46 AM
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This is perhaps the grossest thread ever.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 12, 2020 2:47 AM
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The Dutch of course would be much better of with weapons legalised and a president like Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 12, 2020 3:00 AM
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These chambers inside containers were meant to float into the sea.
You don’t build these for torture vacations. You build these to take over entire criminal operations by torturing the shit out of those who run them, kidnapping their loved ones and torturing them on film, extorting anyone they can get unbelievable amounts of money from by sawing off their 10 year old kid’s arm, and disposing if bodies that will never be found in the middle of the fucking ocean.
This shit was built for gaining control, territory, power, and money. Not for some psycho who wants to pay a to re-enact Hostel or some pain kink addict who wants a jack hammer in his rectum.
Jesus, people really are freakin’ clueless.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | July 12, 2020 3:05 AM
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So the Dutch aren't such bores after all. But why do some think they must be East Europeans? Has that been confirmed?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 12, 2020 3:59 AM
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R97 many Eastern European criminals operate from Holland, because of the location at sea and the lack of EU borders.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 12, 2020 4:18 AM
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R98: until recently, it was also because of the lax authorities and comparatively lenient prison sentences. Drug criminals thought a 2-year sentence in a relatively comfortable Dutch prison was worth the risk.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | July 12, 2020 4:39 AM
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Criminals will always find a way.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 12, 2020 4:58 AM
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There's an irony in people from the US bashing others for being beastly.
This discovery was made as part of a huge French-Dutch police operation into organised drug crime involving the cracking of encrypted phone messages. 100s were arrested, especially in the UK, with the British police seemingly trying to take credit for cracking the code even though French police did it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 101 | July 12, 2020 5:51 AM
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Around 800 people were arrested, 746 of whom were arrested in the UK. Here are the names of some of them, most are nice and English-sounding.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 102 | July 12, 2020 6:00 AM
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Who's the idiot who believes legalised prostitution results in greater human trafficing? You bloody fool. Maybe do a bit of research before shitting all over DL threads
by Anonymous | reply 103 | July 12, 2020 9:36 PM
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[quote]legalized prostitution only serves to increase human trafficking and sexual assault.
Link, please.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | July 13, 2020 4:47 PM
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