The Heroin Route

KABUL - Each year, 115 tonnes of heroin from Afghan poppy fields is exported to Europe. Who wins? Who loses? And what is the impact of lucrative drug smuggling on people who live along this Balkan route?

In the trail of a packet of Brown Sugar, journalist Hanne Couderé and photographer Jim Huylebroek traveled along Afghan, Iranian, Turkish, and Eastern European borders, asking how all these drugs flow to Europe. The heroin route, from Afghan poppy fields to the Belgian needle.

Supported

€8,000 granted on 11/05/2015

ID:

FPD/2015/1219

Themes

Publication

De Heroïne Route - dS Weekblad, 29/01/2016

ONLINE

From Afghan Fields to an English Needle: Tracing Heroin's Journey Across the World - VICE, 26/04/2016
Nederland voert de meeste heroïne door. Hier komt die vandaan - De Correspondent, 4/04/2016
Zo belandt heroïne in Nederland - De Correspondent, 11/04/2016

AUDIO

Drugssmokkelroute van Afghanistan naar Maastricht - De Nieuws BV, NPO Radio 1, 25/04/2016
Pantoffelreporters - Interne Keuken, Radio 1, 6/02/2016

Team members

Hanne Couderé

Hanne Couderé is a Belgian freelance journalist.

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Jim Huylebroek

Jim Huylebroek (1989) is a freelance photographer from Antwerp, Belgium, based in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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