‘It’s like a cat and mouse game’: on the frontline of Belgium’s fight against drug smugglers

S ara Van Cotthem takes a safety knife and precisely slices open the side of a cardboard box to unpack its contents, an aluminium stepladder made in China. Working under harsh fluorescent lights at the border inspection post at the port of Antwerp, Van Cotthem checks the paperwork and taps the ladde...

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