Albanian crime Albanian criminal organizations manifest a high danger and a strong incidence in illegal activities, with particular reference to drug trafficking.

They are well structured and supported by a strong solidarity component because they are strengthened within them by parental ties.

They are technically equipped and able to organize the activities delittuose in subgroups, equipped with a great mobility on the national territory, which are entrusted with specific tasks that lead to referents in Italy and abroad. For all these reasons, they are very dangerous and fierce.

The Albanian organizations have been particularly organized at international level, as well as able to interlocate directly with the South American signs for import, from traditionally producing countries, of large amounts of cocaine, destined to the supply of the cells of compatriots operating in the main Italian squares.

In this regard, several anti-drug activities, conducted in various Italian regions, have established operating synergies of the Albanian organized crime with autochthonous crime. Albanian criminals, traditionally dedicated to marijuana traffic through the cd.

"bactical hijacking", reinvest the proceeds in cocaine traffic that import into the national territory by land, through the main

It is the case of Lombardy but also of the Capital where the Albanians now occupy squares of remains "uncustodite" and the same indigenous societies have learned to share the territory with criminals of different matrix, however controlling the flows of supply of the narcotic substances destined to the spaccio.

The so-called Barrios.

2. Matrici Mafiose European distribution routes, being able to count on permanent subjects in northern Europe near the main merchant ports (Anversa, Rotterdam and Hamburg) where, over time, they managed to infiltrate effectively.

These groups, therefore, constitute a real criminal reality, both as suppliers of raw material, and as couriers and dealers, being rooted in different European countries and having established stable relations with drug traffickers across the planet.

The favourable geographical position of the Albanian coasts compared to those of Apulia and the same geographical conformation of Gargano73 provide, moreover, a direct link with Italy.

For this reason the Italian organized crime shares many illicit affairs with the Albanian one, since the Adriatic route is characterized as a hub for the passage of drugs from Albania not only towards Italy, but towards all the rest of Europe, also because favored by air connections with the Balkan countries overlooking the Adriatic.

Albanian sodalizi are those who, more than others, have been able to root in the territory, branch in different regions and interact, more than any other organization, with those native in the traffic of drugs.

The close link between Italy and Albania, also from the point of view of criminal interconnections, has highlighted the need to implement the already existing collaboration between the two countries, developed not only because of the geographical proximity but also and above all by virtue of shared interests and the presence in our country of a large community of Albanian citizens.

The "predominant" role of the Albanian organized crime in the field of drug trafficking has emerged over time from numerous police operations, some also conducted by the DIA74.

The modus operandi used - conclaimed now also judicially - sees such transnational criminal organizations transported from Albanian literals on the Italian territory by means of powerful gums and sailing vessels, through the Otranto Canal, numerous migrants of various ethnicities (prevalently Iranians, Pakistani, Iraqi, Egyptian, Syrian and Afghani).

The landing place most frequently used by the hulls is the low coast of Salento, with occasional landings on the john coasts. Another area of interest, the border of Albanian criminal groups, is that of illegal immigration and human trafficking.