British newspaper: Albanian gangs open war on London streets, have control of cocaine from Latin America

In the last attack ten days ago, two men were shot during the day, as they passed through Barking in the East of London, a fortress of “Helbaniz”, a notorious group of Albanian crime, writes “Telegraph”.

A 20-year-old has been identified in the Albanian community in London as the target of the Wilmington Gardens assassination, Barking, at 2.15 am Thursday morning on June 4th.

Armed officers attending the scene found two men lying down and wounded with gunshot wounds, one still in his car.

Gashi, who has lived in Britain for several years, remained in a critical state in the hospital, while the injuries of the second husband were not life threatening.

A 26-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of killing west of Ealing, while investigations continue by Detectives of Trident by Special Police Crime Command Met '%s'.

The events followed the killings of five Albanians last year after gangs clash with cocaine market control in the United Kingdom, estimated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) worth between 9.4 billion and 11.8 billion pounds per year, and over 25.7 million pounds per day.

Using cocaine in Great Britain

NCA says that cocaine consumption in England, Wales, and Scotland has increased by at least 290 percent from 2011 to 117 tonnes a year.

“Criminals from Albania have created a high profile and a degree of influence within organised crime in the United Kingdom (and) are increasingly expanding their influence network, with considerable access to the drug trafficking market in the United Kingdom, especially cocaine,” said a spokesman for the U.S. NCA.

On a site in the Instagram, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, an Albanian colleague posted a video from the consequences of shooting with the warning: <x0) Albanian guys in England are lazy and do not work decently. There's one thing in their mind just to sell drugs.

This is what happens at the end of the drug dealing. I'm sorry about his family. I hope the rest will learn that life is not a movie or an adventure. Do your job honestly, don't think you're going to get rich in a year on drugs”.

The barking-based band, “Helbanianz”, which acts as cocaine dealers for Albanian mafia, has collected nearly 100,000 followers on one of their pages, showing expensive cars, weapons and money.

The Albanian mafia is organised Albanian criminal unions, which police believe are consolidating their power within the United Kingdom crime world and are on their way to bringing the cocaine market under almost full control in Britain.

Importing cocaine directly from South America, the Albanian Mafia has removed mediation, enabling them to reduce their rivals by buying drugs at a quarter of the price directly from cartels and then increasing their purity on the street.

The British newspaper also cites the murder of Flamur Beqiri, the 36-year-old Albanian man who was killed in December last year in front of his wife and son in London, while possessing a 1.5 million-pound house.

He later turned out to be one of Sweden's most wanted men. Police reported a double murder of the two Albanians, one of whom was found in the trunk of a stabbed car to death.

Just two months ago, an Albanian drug dealer was killed in his apartment in Brighton in what was said to the court that it was a “brutal, stable and located” attack involving a knife and a metal rod.

Two other murders in July and September included an Albanian who was shot outside a club east of London.

Gangs exploit young Albanians who have been lured to Great Britain with promises of work and wealth. They are the second most trafficked or enslaved nationality in the United Kingdom.

The number of Albanians in prison has risen from 212 to 2013 to 99 in March this year, representing 10 percent of all foreign citizens in prison.