Albanians own heroin market, according to Italian police

“Albanians own the drug market across the territory of Bergamo province, and we need to increase the level of action against them”.

This is the appeal made by Colonel Paolo Stone, commander of the Bergamo Provincial Police, which requires a more sophisticated police approach against traffickers, which is on a common line with judicial authorities.

In an interview given to the daily Corriere Della Seraú, he briefs an increase in heroin-type drug consumption in the Bergamo province.

We have verified an increase in heroin consumption, which today costs nearly 1/3 of its previous price and almost less than cocaine, it has been expressed. Using heroin has a psychological effect that has helped increase demand. ”

According to Bergamo Police Commander, the sequencing of the largest amount of heroin in all of Italy has been carried out in this territory. In 2017, 32kg of heroin were seized from 622 that was the total amount of drugs seized throughout the entire territory.

“In Bergamo, the heroin trade is in the hands of Albanian traffickers, he said, who have a good network of couriers, direct reports with foreign criminal groups and have no problems with Italian criminality.

So unlike Milan, Colonel Stone stated, where the drug market is in the hands of the Kalabreze Nandangheta mafia, in Bergamo is owned by mostly Albanian traffickers”.

The head of the Bergamos Provincial Police Command requires increasing the level of action against any simple drug courier to the highest levels of their organisation.

“We have verified, he said, four levels in the possession of the heroin market; the consumer, the courier, the great distributor and traffickers. ”

We as police command have very good resources and tools against drug trafficking, but what we need to change is the approach of police activity to them. Any drug seizure does not affect this phenonem, since once a courier is arrested, two others take his place. But it needs to react by increasing the level of investigation. Work is complicated because traffickers use one-use telephone tabs, but their approach has not changed.

In addition to controlling the territory, the level of telephone activity of human and economic resources and proper authorisations should be increased. Our approach should be in common with that of the justice authorities” has stated that “Crrier della Sera”, Bergamos Police Commander Paolo Stone. /Periscopi