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Episode 396: How Europe's drug cartels are turning kids into 'child soldiers'

The warnings come at the same time the Maersk shipping company have said its entire industry is under threat from cocaine cartels determined to ship their cargo across the Atlantic.

Cocaine. Stock image

Nicola Tallant

Children are being radicalised by drug gangs and being turned into killers in the same way that terrorists have, and now the European Union wants to develop an early-warning system for countries to recognise the process.

The tsunami of cocaine, which is still coming for the bloc and which has changed the whole face of organised crime is to blame for the shocking societal changes being recognised by the European think thank.

The warnings come at the same time the Maersk shipping company have said its entire industry is under threat from cocaine cartels determined to ship their cargo across the Atlantic.

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the evolution of organised crime into the biggest threat along with terrorism that we are now facing.

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