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How the Albanian mafia took over the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

2026-05-26 17:35:25Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA ENVER ROBELLI

How the Albanian mafia took over the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

Young dealers, high-quality cocaine and heroin in large quantities at low prices: the Albanian mafia has taken over the market in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton on the border with Italy. As the swissinfo.ch portal writes, the consequences of the drug market conquest are devastating. In 2025, arrests increased by 56 percent.

On April 29, a 24-year-old Albanian man was arrested in the village of Capolago with 54 grams of cocaine. This is the latest in a long series of incidents. In 2025, 122 people were arrested in Ticino for drug trafficking, compared to 78 in 2024, which represents an increase of 56 percent. Meanwhile, half of the prisoners in Ticino's prisons are behind bars for this type of crime.

The Albanian mafia has conquered the Ticino market with the help of a network of young dealers, called "Cavallini" (which means couriers or even small horses).

These young people, often unemployed, come by plane or train from Albania to Italy and then enter Ticino, often in rented cars, reports swissinfo.ch.

They only stay for a few months, just to sell the drugs provided to them by mafia networks, and for this they receive between 500 and 1,000 francs a month, which they can spend or send to their families. And what about the profits from selling drugs? They go to the organization.

 "The dealers are part of a network that functions like a real criminal organization. It's really well thought out, you have to admit. They come and go. They only stay here for a short time: a couple of months. So, if the police arrest a distributor, they only catch him...", says a long-time consumer whom the Swiss media spoke to in the city of Lugano.

The rest is done by omerta - the code of honor and silence, which is the rule of the Albanian mafia. And this strategy works. "Today, these drug traffickers operate throughout the canton, even in the Locarno region, where until a few years ago we did not encounter them," says the chief commissioner of the cantonal police and head of the anti-drugs sector, Paolo Lopa.

The secret of their success is this: cocaine of the highest quality (purity between 60 and 80 percent) at relatively low prices. “This is the law of the market,” says Lopa. “Nobody today,” he continues, “is able to offer this quality at these prices.”

In Ticino, the Albanian mafia does not occupy squares or city neighborhoods. It discreetly penetrates directly into the homes of customers, swissinfo.ch reports. 


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