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Organized crime is spreading across Europe, according to the EU law enforcement agency Europol, with an increasing propensity for violence among criminal networks posing a problem in countries including Germany. “Organized crime is on the rise. It exploits every weakness,” Europol chief Catherine De Bolle told the German news magazine Der Spiegel, in comments seen by dpa. The increasing drug trade was fuelling the violence, De Bolle said. Cocaine production in South and Central America is booming and Europe is awash with the drug, according to Europol. “The situation is dramatic,” De Bolle sai…

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