It’s an established fact that most of Britain’s drug trade is controlled by Albanians. There is some competition from Turks and Pakistanis but Albanians dominate the industry with their ‘business-like’ methods. They may soon have another partner in crime. Nigerian gangs are increasingly making their presence felt in Europe: this week they were among 27 people arrested in coordinated police raids in Italy, Spain and Albania.
According to Italy’s Carabinieri, the arrests encompassed two drug trafficking gangs, one of which was a Nigerian operation in which they used their young compatriots seeking a new life in Europe to traffic marijuana across the continent. Their base was the bus terminal near Rome’s Tiburtina railway station, described by the Carabinieri as ‘a national and international sorting centre for drug trafficking’. This was close to a migrant reception centre in the Italian capital from where the drug gangs recruited their couriers Working with the Nigerians was an Albanian
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