“The Sun”: Most Albanian youths trafficke in co-operation with their parents

The British Tabloide “The Sun” has published a recent article in which it gives voice to the trafficking phenomenon of Albanian youth in Britain and the introduction of them into drug mafia networks.

The prestigious media brings testimony from some Albanian youth who have illegally entered the island and have become part of dangerous groups operating in the country.

Forced by a violent father to beg on the streets at the age of 11, trafficked to Britain by a group of Albanians at the age of enduring slave labor. Samet Cata's short life is very traumatic by how many people can imagine. Already 18 years old, he is facing the authorities' decision to be deported to Albania.

The Last Day arrived at Bristol three years ago, hiding in a truck to work in one of the modern - day slave industries. His fate changed when he managed to escape from the people who trafficked and is currently in a safe place near a foster family.

But not all young Albanians arriving in Britain are just as fortunate. Unassigned number of them fall to “the” of the life of the crime.

Andrew Vishaj entered Britain illegally at the age of 16, hiding in a truck that took him to Midland. He is currently serving a four-year prison sentence for cocaine trafficking. Visaj was detained at a car park running a FALSE, within which police found 2kg of pure cocaine worth 200 thousand pounds and 55,000 pounds of cash.

The same was true of 20-year-old Klevis Drage, who was caught with 11 doses of cocaine in London and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He declared before the court that he was forced by a member of the Albanian mafia to sell drugs after illegally entering Britain.

22-year-old Alfred Hamzaj was sentenced to eight months in prison after being seized by 4kg of sativa cannabis in Desbury, West Yorkshire. He claims he got on the way to crime after losing his job in a car wash because of his status as an illegal immigrant.

A large number of Albanian youths, such as those mentioned above, are being trafficked every day to Great Britain, with the promise that they will earn thousands of pounds from selling narcotics to certain groups.

The Sun” writes that a number of parents in Albania are trying to get their teenage children trafficked to Britain to join organized crime gangs that control a considerable part of the cocaine market.

Data by the Courts tells of a large number of Albanian youths who have been indicted in various cities in Britain after being caught with large quantities of drugs reaching up to 200 thousand pounds.

According to the National Anti-Crime Agency, Albania is a country with a unified human trafficking line in Great Britain. 947 cases were referred to in the year 2018 alone, a 50% increase since 2015, our Time broadcasts.

International law enforcement specialist Steve Harvey shows that most Albanian youth are trafficked in co-operation with their parents and with the promise of big profits from traffickers. In some cases family members are directly responsible for recruiting and exploiting them. Some hide in trucks, while others provide apology passports and enter the island by car or ferry.

Police sources have warned that Albanians who enter illegally have provided a task force ready for criminal groups. Known as the Albanian “Mafia”, groups work on the basis of traditional “Trust” and Canunit codes.

In recent years, several leaders of drug trafficking criminal groups have been arrested and imprisoned in Britain. Albanians already make up the second number of foreigners in prisons with 760 people behind bars, 433 of whom have been convicted on drug-related charges, thus being listed after Poles.

Strong groups, often armed, promote their lifestyle among young people in Albania.

Among them is “Helbaniz”, a street group of Albanian boys operating south of London. They use social networks to attract new recruits, send messages that boast their successes with money, cars, cigarettes, women, and jewelry.

Every week Albanian gangsters fill the front pages after being caught selling drugs or trafficking large amounts of cocaine, directly from Europe. Cocaine has already reached the lowest price since 1990 and the highest quality of a decade.

Thousands of Albanians entered Britain in the late 1990s and early 2000s, where many of them claimed to be Kosovars. Some of them started working at London's sex stores to further strengthen themselves through trafficking in people, weapons and drugs on the island. They have also begun trafficking and cannabis, which they produce and where dozens of young men work as slaves. They have already penetrated Britain's $5 billion cocaine market, creating direct connections with suppliers in Latin America.

Some Albanian families send their children to the United Kingdom and other countries for good reasons. They want to give them the opportunity of a good education and a future.

But this has created a lucrative market for smuggling gangs, which claim families up to 15,000 pounds to spend their children in the United Kingdom.

A 23-year-old Albanian paid 5,000 euros to smuggle into Great Britain, where he wanted to study and find a job. Unable to survive financially, he started selling cannabis and small amounts of cocaine for a gang, but was caught and deported back to Albania.

Now with a criminal record and restrictions on his right to travel, the future looks bleak.