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REPORT / Logos on drug packages, why are only the rich and famous favored?

2023-08-19 09:45:12Patronazhisti SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

REPORT / Logos on drug packages, why are only the rich and famous favored?
Football player Amarildo Vrima during training

 

TIRANA / ROSKOVEC / BILISHT - The marginalized categories that this report is about have been silent until now, hoping that sooner or later they too will receive the appreciation they deserve from Albanian society and law enforcement authorities. But it seems that months and years have flown by, while they don't remember who.

To shed light on this story, one must start from the beginning. Patronageist reminds the reader that for 20 years, but especially in recent years, the import-export of hashish, heroin, cocaine and various psychedelic tablets such as ecstasy or LSD, has been regulated and formalized to avoid confusion and mistakes at the final destination. mistakes which not a few times have brought problems between the contracting parties. In order to resolve these disputes, the Albanian government, in addition to setting up Administrative Courts, has established by law the identification of shipments by putting names of famous football players, famous teams, world brands of luxury goods, etc. on drug packages.

REPORT / Logos on drug packages, why are only the rich and famous favored?
Cocaine shipment with CR7 logo, a blatant case that shows that package labeling is only for the privileged

Everyone remembers the pleasant episodes with cocaine packages bearing the CR7 logo, which is known to be the symbol of the famous soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. In other cases, the identifying logos were PSG - Paris Saint Germaine - or Inter, Real Madrid, Liverpool, etc. A special moment of pride for the country was the case when the packages had the name of the football club FK Elbasani. While the freshest case was the publication in the pink press of ecstasy pills with the Louis Vuitton logo.

But this illuminated medal of Albanian economic success also has its dark side...

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Amarildo Vrima is a soccer player with the Roskovec team. The 42-year-old does not harbor unrealizable dreams. He is down to earth and knows that the chances of him signing a contract with a superior Albanian team, or - God forbid - with a team abroad, are very few.

"I don't know how far my football career will go, " says Amarildo for Patronajist, "but my dream is smaller. I would also like to see my name on a packet of pressed hashish. I say hashish, because I know that cocaine is unattainable for a provincial athlete like me".

For Amarildo, it doesn't matter if the drug shipment is big, say, a truck full of packages, or just a car door modified to hold five pounds of hash.

"I just want to see my name, or at least the initials, AV, on a package for once. I don't like this discrimination. The whole world talks about Albania's progress, tourists, numerous constructions. But no one talks about the social gap that is being created".

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Articulate and with a rich vocabulary for a footballer, Amarildo Vrima is not alone in this civic protest. The patron also met the dressmaker Dallandyshe Korbi from Bilishti, who sadly followed the news that Louis Vuitton's name was stamped on the ecstasy tablets recently imported from Kosovo. She even reminds us that earlier she had come across the names of Giorgio Armani and Coco Chanel on a shipment of cocaine.

REPORT / Logos on drug packages, why are only the rich and famous favored?
Dallandyshe Korbi at the workplace as you enter Bilisht, left

"I don't know what the need is for these billionaires who advertise their brands even on drug packages. I squint my eyes and my fingers go numb all god's day on the sewing machine, to turn a pair of pants or sew dresses for a piece of bread. Why can't I have my name on a bag of heroin? If they think the name is too long, let them stamp a picture of a swallow, I have no objection," says the marginalized seamstress.

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Regardless of the fact that the topic we are dealing with is not one of the sharpest in Albanian society, the issue in question has also set international organizations in motion in Tirana. We learn that next week, the OSCE will organize a series of seminars and workshops in different districts of the country, with the theme "Drug logos, not some of the mother and some of the stepmother". On the other hand, about 300 thousand euros have been approved for pilot projects for civil society organizations, which will sensitize cocaine wholesalers to expand the range of stamps on drug packages and make them more comprehensive.

"We hope that these initiatives will yield results, " OSCE officials in Tirana told Patronajist, " we will follow their implementation to the end, to make sure that the funds will go to their destination." We will also invite to the training those people, Amarildon and Dallandyshe".

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