Dutch torture container ‘shows cocaine users the consequences of their habits’

Discovery of containers allegedly used by drug gang should serve as a reminder to casual users, says prosecutor

The discovery of a soundproofed torture chamber believed to have been used by a narcotics gang should remind recreational cocaine users of the consequences of their habits, a Dutch public prosecutor has said.

Koos Plooij told a court in Amsterdam that the violence of the drug trade was a repulsive, but apparently unavoidable" result of the widespread use of illegal drugs in the Netherlands and its neighbouring countries.