They have learnt that these policies increase sex tourism, people-trafficking and criminality.
Instead, with 11,000 inhabitants, it has become known for poverty, drug dealing, arms trafficking, youth criminality and attacks on police, as well as arson attacks on public buildings.
The Kosovar population, still suffering from the mental health consequences of the 1998 1999 war, is now facing new challenges, such as human trafficking, drugs, criminality, economic crises combined with high rates of unemployment and corruption.
Unfortunately, we are more like Holland where legalisation led to a massive growth in criminality, trafficking and violence associated with the sex trade.
It seems police and the courts are going for easy investigations and convictions rather than the substantive investigations that would get the trafficker behind them". He believes that despite a good understanding of the problems around trafficking and forced criminality at a senior level, there is not enough awareness throughout the force.
In this sense, poverty, vulnerability and the criminality of trafficking are all man-made.
Drug gangs involved in all kinds of criminality, including trafficking, flourish by supplying the drug.
Every day that these vulnerable young people have to remain in Calais, Greece or Italy, they are in grave danger of criminality, being trafficked or forced into prostitution.
A person might want to avoid routes with high traffic or areas with high criminality, or to favorite routes across shopping and touristic areas.
There is no doubting the criminality of human trafficking gangs.
Criminality, including the trafficking of human beings and narcotics, flourishes when the rule of law is weak or absent.
