Mob-style killings shock Netherlands into fighting descent into ‘narco state’

Murders, corruption and Mocro Maffia' prompt Dutch to set up war chest to tackle wave of organised crime sweeping nation

Journalists and lawyers under protection or murdered on the streets, court hearings guarded by the army, witness statements anonymised, and billions in dirty drug money that leaches through society, corrupting as it goes.

This is the Netherlands, where these facts have now inspired a crackdown pitting some 500m a year against a level of organised crime that politicians fear is increasingly undermining" public order.