Europol: Europe is threatened by organised crime. The biggest threat is Albanians.

“Italian Mafia groups, Albanians and Europeans, as well as illegal bicycle gangs are the top responsibilities”, officials have said at a conference led by Italy's anti-mafie agency and EU police agency Europol, has reported <x2. > AFP”, transmit “Koha Ditore”.

However, even Asian, African and South American groups have contributed to the annual business of more than 110 billion euros of organised crime, while most of them are co-operating more and more with each other”, it was said at the meeting held in The Hague. “Actually, organised crime poses the greatest risk to EU internal security”, said Jari Liuuk, chief of the Europol Centre for Serious and Organised Crime in Europe.

Officials said organised crime was left “in shadow” in recent years, when Europe was facing a wave of terrorist attacks and the major immigration crisis, but now must be fought over cross-border co-operation.

To prevent organised crime, we must act internationally, the cause that organised crime groups are already doing so”, Luke has added.

Giuseppe Governal, chief of the Italian Directorate for Anti-Mafie Investigations, has said that “Cosa Nostra” of Sicily, “Neapolis's” and “Camorra” are further the largest mafia groups, but added that the problem is much more inclusive. “This is a European problem”, he said.