Cocaine usually arrives in containers at several Italian ports, including those in Northern Italy, and then reaches the province of Brescia. The Calabrian mafia clan no longer retails the "white gold", but has subcontracted this displacement to the lowest criminal groups, where Albanians play the main role
Until the 90s, cocaine was an elite drug, today it is mass, popular and cheap, while Albanian criminal groups have become an important voice in the drug trafficking trade in northern Italy.
Cocaine usually arrives in containers at several Italian ports, including those in Northern Italy, and then reaches the province of Brescia.
The Calabrian mafia organization "Ndrangheta" no longer retails "white gold", but has subcontracted this movement to lower criminal groups.
But who are the drug dealers?
The data that emerge from the annual report of the Italian Ministry of the Interior against drugs, underline that among those arrested there are citizens of Albanian and North African nationality.
To confirm this, it is enough to remember that four years ago, in Montichiari, the carabinieri of the local station had arrested a 36-year-old Albanian woman, companion of a well-known Albanian mafia boss.
They seized 22 kilograms of hashish and marijuana. To understand the profile of the well-known mafia boss of Albania, wanted for international drug trafficking, he was considered in Albania as a kind of "Pablo Escobar", who also owns several night life establishments, the Italian media write.
Yes, but where does the cocaine come from in particular that is then sold in the city and in the great province of Brescia and above all who manages it?
The cocaine usually arrives in containers at several Italian ports, including those in Northern Italy, and then reaches the province of Brescia.
In all this way, the "Ndrangheta" has international dominance in the cocaine trade.
The Calabrian clan buys cocaine for 1,000 euros per kilogram, while other mafiosi buy it for 1,800 euros per kilogram.
The "Ndrangheta" no longer retails the "white gold", but has subcontracted this passage to lower criminal groups.
Thus, in this context, the path to follow is that of the Balkans. As it resulted in the annual anti-drug report of the Ministry of the Interior, "the so-called "Balkan Cartel" operates in cooperation with Albanian, Moroccan and South American criminal networks and represents one of the main buyers of South American cocaine, imported via the Atlantic, using major shipping companies.
It should also be taken into account that the increased fragmentation of the criminal scene in Colombia has led to the formation of new alliances between criminal organizations.
"Albanian ethnic consortia and those of the Western Balkans, in particular, now play a major role in the supply of large quantities of cocaine," the report notes.
In the Balkans, large loads of cocaine arrive from South America, by sea, as evidenced by the significant confiscations carried out in Albania, (the latest case, that of 430 kg of cocaine coming from Colombia among organic manure in Frakul of Fier) .
These shipments are intended to feed the continental market, including the northern region of Italy, and are managed by secondary criminal syndicates.