Productions
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19 June 2003
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BR / Report München
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Cocaine body packers |
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After the Dutch authorities had to let go a few caught ‘body packers' (cocaine couriers) because of capacity problems, a political outrage came into being. The result is more controls and personnel, more juridical capacity, a new law to put more people in one cell and extra temporary jails. Only in January this year, already 457 body packers were arrested. The Dutch juridical system starts to get disrupted completely. The Germans want to know what the Dutch are doing to fight coke coming into Germany . General views of a special body packers jail, interviews with girls that swallowed coke balls, an interview with the responsible civil servant the Ministry of Justice, an interview with one of the Dutch crime journalists and an interview with one of the Dutch MP's who strongly advises to take all the coke away from all the body packers and then send the smugglers home.
Activities: advice, research, set-up reportage, footage research, booking camera crew, accompanying shooting, interview and translations.