Experts on plan against drug violence: “Are people taking the bull by the horns? No, this is symptom relief” | Interior

With the seven-point plan, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo wants to achieve three goals: to make drug trafficking physically more difficult, to break the profit model of the drug trade and to reduce the demand for drugs. Does this plan have the potential to achieve those goals? Criminology professors Jelle Janssens (UGent) and Letizia Paoli (KU Leuven) give a sharp assessment.