One man was arrested in relation to alleged drug debt intimidation in south Dublin yesterday.
Drug Related Intimidation, as the gardai call it, is when a criminal alleges a drug debt is owed by a victim and threatens violence or assaults them until the sum is paid. Family members of the victim can often be threatened or attacked by the criminal if the sum is not paid.
And many cases result in family members using their savings to pay off the debt. The arrest was made as part of garda Operation Fogra - which was launched to specifically tackle the issue.
