The (logistical) nightmare of the crimefighter – Crimesite

Prosecutor Greetje Forest air in The Volkskrant her heart about the fight against drug-related crime in the South of the Netherlands. The process is a 'logistical nightmare'. Actually, she should say: justice fails gives the lie to: 400 arrests, just six convictions, in 2015.

By @Wim van de Pol

Gretchen Woods was recently launched by the public prosecutor general to the criminal battlefields around Breda conducted because of the organised crime in the Hague eyes on the shoes. At least, the advisors do as if the millions of the predatory fight against drugs is successful, the reality around the fumbling with the figures is different. Forest must also in his function crashed colleague Luke of Delft (he did declared due to threat of themselves) will be replaced.

Forest is the national parquet. She previously worked in Rotterdam, with an office convenient enough diagonally above the large secure courtroom. They acted as well in the wicked dreams of many a serious criminal, such as in the case against ex-Hells Angel, Harry S..

As ” Gretchen AT'you', she is sometimes smiling in advocatenkringen indicated. The ferme Forest is now once of the opinion that there is nothing wrong with that, is that a crime fighter, sometimes without knocking the enemy to enter.

Dance

Core of her Saturday, this time without comments mediabreed geëtaleerde complaint is that defendants 'increasingly, the dance of spring'. Lawyers know the processes endlessly to slow down. The judges will then submit invariably a relatively low punishment.

Currently fights Forest in the courtroom ex-biker Klaas Otto, a case long drag. The prosecution has heavily deployed with a suspicions about money laundering, extortion, blasts and arson. Klaas Otto exploded recently still of anger towards the prosecutors. Forest didn’t move a muscle and tapped her land forward on her pc whilst Otto loudly protesting the hall left.

Hole

Forest is specifically charged with money laundering. It is in the Netherlands easy to get money to misappropriate, according to her:

You dig somewhere, a hole, flickers a bag with money in it and ready to Go. We think that it is very much happening.

But is in the province of Brabant is the very, they will find:

I find it here in Brabant, a kind of sodom and gomorrah, as I quite honestly have to say. The depth and the width of the mixing between under – and upper world is in the netherlands very sharply.

There is, according to Woods yet in that ordinary citizens on the slide, for example by a jeweller, a dental hygienist or jachthaveneigenaar large cash sums of money, without any questions, to collect.

Fundamental problems

Greetje Bos thinks that the interaction of public authorities against the 'undermining' is a good idea. But encounter them on fundamental issues. A mayor is simply not on the chair of a court sitting, and justice may be liable to criminal information gathered not just to share with all kinds of bodies, such as municipalities. Forest ” I’m always the fog in gone with the privacy rules.'

Wallet

In the judicial process see Forest in the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights (ECHR) her big opponent. That gives lawyers the opportunity to take in her vision of sand to sprinkle in a clear and business process. It adopts the helpful, therefore, that criminals as an alternative as much as possible to be bullied in their wallet: buildings close, cars away, herds, and fiscal plans of attack think of.

Happy

Woods:

… also I think at a given moment: for goodness sake, take them away from me, all the lingering files, I am going. Believe me, it plays an important role. Just look at all the cases coming before the arrest so were promising, and that after six years, at the last judgment are withered.

She says dolbij to be as they are '3 million' cash steals a bunch of onderknuppels (geldtellers, the owners remained out of the picture). A sum that, of course, not even as a drop in the ocean has to apply. Would they really believe that invasion of privacy and expansion of special powers of justice witwasproblemen and subversion against, while in Europe only to drug money 24 billion deal?

Nightmare

in Fact, the driven and hard-working Bunch, of course, a victim of the war on drugs. As long as the top of Justice and the Public Ministry insists that there is something to do against the flood of wiethokken, drugslabs and coke containers in the Netherlands, they are satisfied with windmills to fight.

They will prey continue to 'logistical nightmares'. And that, while a good colleague of her rural public prosecutor recently for calling cocaine from the criminal law.

The drug war is working counterproductive and is costing billions, as found among others, five Nobel prize winners, and added recently, the sixth nobel laureate with the Colombian president.