"Bring me half a beer", the code to buy cocaine in Tirana. How drug use has exploded in the capital

2022-07-31 17:45:49Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Bring me half a beer", the code to buy cocaine in Tirana. How drug
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On the day that RL appeared before the court for drug distribution, the story that implicated the 19-year-old was related to the discovery of two doses that he had hidden under his sneakers. But the forensic analysis showed that the young man was actually a drug user and that the data did not match the claim of the police who announced that they had arrested a distributor.

This phenomenon turned into a "tradition" in the courts, which rejects arrests and declares mandatory-appearance for users, highlights once again how the anti-drugs and the largest prosecutor's office in the country is very far from investigating the drug networks that operate intact. by law enforcement agencies.

If you follow the police statistics with 3 to 4 arrests per day with drug doses, you understand that drugs in Tirana are being seriously investigated. But the cases of arrests of small distributors who are insignificant in drug trafficking networks in Tirana show the opposite.

It seems that the police is using the trick of such handcuffs, of young people who are found with doses to hide the scary reality about the explosion of drug use in Tirana and consequently the functioning of the groups in such a way that they come out unscathed from justice.

"I consider that in Tirana the criminal groups that sell hashish and cocaine, but also heroin, have turned the traffic into one of the blackest and most profitable industries, and after that, in second place, in my opinion, are the games of chance, which to some extent in certain areas are run by known criminals and under the silence of the police", says a highly reliable official of the State Police who estimates that the police remain stagnant in relation to these crimes.

Asked how much the annual profit in the field of drug distribution in Tirana can be, the senior officer who has information that criminal groups have divided their territories, gives as an example one of the drug distribution strikes almost a year ago.

"Let's not forget the action where the distributor worked on a daily basis and was paid 25 thousand old lek per day and at the end of the day only for one shift and in one place alone he earned 300 thousand old lek. It only counts one distributor in one country. So the profit at the city level is in the millions", the police source who has reliable information about organized crime, who seems to have managed to compromise even the anti-drugs or police station chiefs who do not react to fundamentally attack the problem of distribution, told Si Newspaper of narcotics.

He swallowed the drug

ES citizen is 33 years old. He is accused of producing and selling narcotics. But neither the police who arrested him nor the prosecutor's office who brought charges against him could prove in court where he bought the drugs, who he is working for and who are the people he sells drugs to.

Even the operation to arrest him was sporadic and not at all dynamic to get to the suppliers, who according to the sources of the Si Newspaper have rented premises turned into drug warehouses.

The pamphlet that you gave to Gazeta Si shows that the narcotics investigation section of the Tirana local police department had information obtained through legal operations that a citizen was selling narcotics.

"For this reason, police services were organized on Pjetër Dungu street", it is explained further, without detailing why in this case the young man was not observed and special methods of interception were not used. "This is a typical case like the others, the informants supply the police and they are satisfied with isolated cases that are not significant in the overall problem", assesses one of the former police experts, who insists to the Si Newspaper that at the time During his time in the criminal police and anti-drugs, he led several important operations.

But when asked in a free conversation by Gazeta Si which is the criminal group that was hit at that time, the expert does not have an answer. Citizen E. S, according to the police, as soon as the information was received, the services rushed to find the address where the suspect was operating. But that's all.

The pamphlet made available to Si Newspaper says "The police asked the ES citizen to stop, but he quickly left. The citizen had several small doses of powder in his hand, which he put in his mouth to swallow. At that moment, one of the doses fell to the ground and one of them was seized by the police officers. Immediately, a personal search and a search of the apartment were carried out, where eight doses of a white powder narcotic substance suspected to be cocaine were seized", - it is written in the file.

The police estimate that even though the young man swallowed the doses, the fact that one of them fell on the ground does not mean that "the evidence was poisoned" because the young man did not manage to destroy the evidence.

I have been using cocaine for three years

The Tirana police also announced the arrest of 29-year-old AX, who was stopped by the Shqiponja special force on Frang Bardhi street. "The citizen was driving a vehicle with the license plate aa...ec and when the officers conducted a search in his left hand, they found two transparent bags in the shape of teardrops closed at the top with burning, inside which there were substances suspected to be cocaine", the minutes describe local police.

The inspection and weighing showed that the drug together with the packaging weighed 0.8 grams, but while the police wrote to the media through WhatsApp groups that they arrested a distributor, none of this information was proven.

The young man had as a strong weapon the laboratory data attached to his testimony. A. X according to the sources of the newspaper Si refrefet; the drug is mine, I've been using cocaine for three years and the last time I used it was today.

Criminalistics details; the toxicological-legal examination finds that the presence of cocaine metabolism products was detected in the urine sample taken by citizen A. X, but the subsequent investigation carried out on the phone found by the young man brought to light his communications.

Although he declared himself arrested, in the camera he found a contact with the citizen E. B who was written with the nickname 'mili'. According to the investigation, this person may be the person who supplied it, but no explanation is given that the investigation stops only at the user.

"I bought cocaine for 30 thousand old lek and I sent the request by code, writing 'I want half a beer'. The young suspect is a motorcyclist in a pizzeria, police sources told Si newspaper, but did not provide more details. "In one case, the young man wrote leave me two dashes", but when he was asked what the context was, he added "I don't remember what we talked about and with whom, but the conversation was probably about cocaine".

Source: Si Newspaper

 


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