During an interview with BBC News regarding the increase of drug-related crime in London, British MP David Lammy stated that “I do know from the police that there are big gangs – Eastern European, Albanian – they traffic people, they traffic drugs and they traffic guns.”
The Labour MP compared these drug gangs and their turf wars to McMafia, a BBC drama about Russian gangsters. He spoke further about the rise of London gangs, declaring:
Drugs are prolific. It’s like Deliveroo. They’re as prolific as ordering a pizza. You can get them on Snapchat, WhatsApp.
What drives the gangs and the turf wars is an £11bn cocaine drugs market.
The Metropolitan Police is now investigating more than 50 suspected murders this year.
Violent crime in [his] part of London, where there have been four murders, was the worst [he] had seen in 18 years as an MP.
Police patrols have been stepped up and officers are using stop-and-search powers to seize weapons after the increase in violence.
