Cologne in the crosshairs: Drug war escalates with hostage -taking and explosives!

Cologne in the crosshairs: Drug war escalates with hostage -taking and explosives!

At the Cologne district court, things were very good today: Already on Monday morning, barriers and controls caused a sensation, because an important witness in the process of the "Cologne drug war" is expected. This 24-year-old has been in custody since July 2023 after he was arrested in a hostage-taking in Cologne-Rodenkirchen. The WDR reported that the witness talks about his youth in the social focus of Cologne-osteim and will share his experience as a witness.

His urgent stories are not for the faint of heart. He reports of a friend from primary school who became a drug duct and started selling cocaine early in Cologne-Kalk. With a life that was characterized by wealth, this friend kept his income in shoe boxes and grumbled through the area with luxury car cars. But the dark world of drug trade has its dark sides. In the summer of 2023, a large marijuana delivery worth around 1.5 million euros was stolen, which ultimately led to massive pressure on the friend, who finally fled from Germany when he was suspected of having contact with a drug boss in the Netherlands.

hostage and explosions

The process takes place at the same time for a brutal struggle in the Rheinische drug scene, in which five explosive attacks have been committed in the past two weeks. Three of them happened in Cologne, the others in Engelskirchen and Duisburg. The alleged drug dealers from the Dutch Mocro-Mafia even use explosives to get the stolen 300 kilograms of marijuana back. The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported a kidnapping of a couple from Bochum, which also takes place in Cologne-Rodenkirchen and the security authorities are strongly in suspense.

After a nerve -wracking, a special task command freed the hostages on Friday evening. Four alleged kidnappers were caught, while seven men sit in custody - six because of community hostage -taking and dangerous bodily harm, one because of aid. The police found money and mobile phones during searches in Cologne, which feeds the fears about possible further revenge files.

rising threats: Mocro-mafia and their brutality

The security situation in Cologne and all of North Rhine -Westphalia is heading. According to Oliver Huth, the NRW boss of the Federation of German Criminal Civil Service, this is a new quality of violence that is unleashed by drug duct. The [Spiegel] (https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/rogenkriminalitaet-die-mocro-mafia-s- sich-in-fde- f85832ee-ff7a-4b61-b73f-c072e40e4) reports of a growing increase in cocaine and cannabis transports from Benelux countries on the German Black Market, which not only puts the Rhinelander, but all of Germany on alert.

The situation remains tense and the population wonders where this spiral violence will end. While the processes at the Cologne district court continue, the citizens face the challenge of directing the dark machinations in drug trafficking and not being overwhelmed by fear. A vicious circle that is difficult to break through, and at the output of which everyone is excited.