[thejournal.ie] , MacGuill, Dan “Horrific”: Gangs passing drug debts on to families bereaved by suicide. (11 Dec 2014)
External website: http://www.thejournal.ie/drug-debts-violence-gangl...
An Oireachtas Committee has been told about a recent spike in young people taking their own lives amid drug-related debts to gangs in Dublin.
In a “horrifying” twist, however, criminals are passing on the debt to bereaved families.
Anna Quigley, from the Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign, was speaking to the Oireachtas Justice Committee, about the effects of gangland crime on local communities.
She told TDs and Senators that communities in the capital were no longer standing up against drug dealing, because of the “implicit threat” of violence, and constant “low-level intimidation.”......
L Social psychology and related concepts > Family > Family and kinship > Family and substance use > Substance related family problems
L Social psychology and related concepts > Life circumstances > Financial (money) difficulties / debt
MM-MO Crime and law > Organised crime
MM-MO Crime and law > Crime and violence > Crime against persons (assault / abuse)
MM-MO Crime and law > Crime and violence > Crime against persons (assault / abuse) > Intimidation
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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