Tractors, land and cows being sold off to pay drug debts, people, especially Parents are paying off Drug Debts, for Sons and Daughters, all over Ireland. Some Families have Fled the Country, in Fear of their Lives from Drug Dealers.

More than 1,500 formal complaints about drug-related intimidation have been made over the past three-and-a-half years, according to figures from An Garda Síochána.

Det Supt McCormack added: ‘The top incidents of complaint [as a result of drug debt] would be criminal damage would be over 550, blackmail and extortion would be over 350, murder and threats to kill or threats to cause harm would be over 200, demanding payment with menaces would be around 100, and assaults and assaults causing harm would be around 100… But as not all incidents are reported, the full scale of the problem is unknown.’

Ian Begley

13/09/2024

Drug dealers are forcing families to flee the country, with farmers also being forced to sell their land in a bid to pay off debts.

The prevalence of cocaine in every city, town and village across the country is such that families are being threatened with violence while tractors, land and cows are being sold by farmers to raise money owed to As Ireland has now recorded the highest number of drug treatment cases on record, a special RTÉ Prime Time report has delved into the chaos that drug debts are causing, with parents left to pay tens of thousands of euros to dealers on behalf of their sons or daughters.

‘It is a rural phenomenon, it is an urban phenomenon,’ said Detective Superintendent Sé McCormack of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau. ‘We have heard stories of people being intimidated and forced to sell property, to sell equipment, to sell machinery, to move house – all of these things in all of the different areas of the country.’