Gardaí and community leaders have told the Health Research Board this is to “set an example” to communities.
Family support workers told the board researchers that debts of less than €100 were treated in the same way by gangs — by everything from warning shots to murder – as debts of over €40,000. Gardaí described the ‘dead door’ to the board — where a shot is fired through the front door or window of the home of an indebted drug user or their family as a warning to settle the debt.
The report, ‘Drug-Related Intimidation’, said trends suggest that a rise in the use of herbal cannabis in many communities, particularly among young people, was resulting in users “running up substantial debts quite quickly”.
Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, The Irish Examiner, 16,10,17
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