The foreign media keep reporting about the police intervention in
Lazarat. Daily Mail has dedicated an entire long article, with the title
“The day Europe’s ‘Marijuana Mecca’ went up in smoke”, adding that
Albanian drug dealers torched £3.bn of cannabis in tiny village to
destroy the evidence.
“Until ten years ago, Lazarat was a regular farming community.
Now the village in southern Albania is Europe’s biggest illegal marijuana producer, raking in billions of euros every year from the plants openly cultivated in fields and house gardens”, says Daily Mail.
Mentioning the chaos of 1997, which brought the opening of army depots and filling the country with weapons, Daily Mail says that Lazarat’s access to those depots dated in that period.
“We don’t want to use force to enter the village, in order to not cause victims”, the British newspaper quotes a Special Police officer who spoke anonymously, since he was not authorized to release any declaration for the emdia. “Besides that, they have all the equipments and guns that we have”, the person adds.
The French media consider Lazarat as the cannabis kingdom, while the “Ledger Inquirer” calls it the European capital of marijuana.
Most of them quote associated press, which has confirmed for four injured people, saying that the authorities had stopped entering the village where every visit of the police was greeted by gun fire.
“Ledger Enquirer” underlines that Albania’s application for the candidate status has been rejected twice, and that organized crime and corruption have always been quoted as two of the main obstacles in this path.
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