Children of Drugs: The Other Face of the Mocro Maffia

In the Netherlands, the Mocro Mafia and other criminal organisations have placed many children of various origins, particularly Moroccan and Turkish, under their thumb to encourage them to work for them in drug trafficking.

“I don’t care if the name is ‘Mocro Maffia’. I see Albanians with Italian passports, North Africans who come from Spain, Turks, British citizens, Dutch, Irish… it’s the perfect image of collaboration between all the mafias in the world. The integration into crime is perfect,” Ahmed Aboutaleb, the 62-year-old mayor of Rotterdam, toldThe country. This sixty-year-old and Ahmed Marcouch, 55, a former police officer and mayor of Arnhem since 2017, both born in Morocco and social democrats, have one thing in common: they are the two councillors known in the Netherlands for having tried to put a stop to the recruitment of young boys into gangs. In contrast to the more permissive discourse of the mayor of Amsterdam, who calls for opening the debate on drug regulation to counter the mafias, they are playing the firmness card.