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A mule or courier is someone who smuggles contraband across a border, often by hiding or swallowing drugs. Learn about the techniques, risks, and international incidents of mule smuggling.
Drug mules are victims of human trafficking who are forced to swallow balloons of drugs and transport them across borders. This article tells the story of DJ, a survivor of drug mule exploitation, and the dangers and abuse she faced.
3 Ιαν 2012 · Drug mules are reported to be transporting all of the major illicit drug types through Europe and making full use of all European transport routes. This paper draws a number of conclusions and recommendations for further investigation into drug markets and related responses.
2 Σεπ 2013 · Drug mules are not always coerced, collateral damage or low-level offenders. They are often motivated by poverty and face harsh punishments, including execution in some countries. Learn more about the facts and myths of drug trafficking.
The use of human drug couriers, commonly referred to as ‘drug mules’, is a favoured method of trafficking drugs into Europe, with the drugs secreted either in the courier’s body or in their belongings. 1 A thematic paper by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) reports on efforts to determine if it is ...
Using this information as a base, the following definition of ‘drug mule’ is proposed: A drug courier who is paid, coerced or tricked into transporting drugs across an international border but who has
20 Δεκ 2012 · Drug trafficking is no longer considered solely a social ill or a domestic issue, but is now presented as a matter of European security (1). In the European Union (EU) vast amounts of resources are spent on securing external and internal borders against illegal drugs and punishing those who break drug laws (2); however, research in the area is ...
