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"Money, cars and girls", why Albanian teenagers say they will risk their lives to go to England!

2023-11-22 09:49:50Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

"Money, cars and girls", why Albanian teenagers say they will risk

In a report published in the British tabloid " Daily Express ", editor Zak Garner Purkis shares his impressions after meeting many people in the north of Albania, where almost every family has a son in England.

He tells about the life of luxury that Albanians live in Albania when they return from England, the expensive cars and how common the "house of grass" is for them. But above all, the desire of teenagers to drop out of school and go to England.

As the dark Mercedes with British license plates crosses the road, a boy in his 20s can be seen behind the wheel. Before even putting the first razor to his face, he leans back and takes a cigarette out of the window.

"I bought this (car) while working for a few months in London", he tells us, adding with a smile on his face, "I was working in "construction".

We all knew that wasn't the truth. No matter how much Britain needs construction workers, there was no way that skinny guy in overalls was going to earn enough money to buy a state-of-the-art Mercedes. He secured it from the grass house.

Mercedes' son was one of the many other "London" boys we saw during our trip to Albania this month. From the mountains of the north, to the busy streets of Tirana, their wealth appeared everywhere.

Almost every time we spoke to a person who had relatives in Britain, grass houses were mentioned.

“Half of my relatives work in construction and the other half in drug houses,” one teenager told us in an exchange of conversation. It was surprising how common it was.

Like it or not, Britain has been Europe's biggest consumer of drugs for years. Our large and lucrative market is a magnet for drug dealers from all over the world, so it's no surprise that Albanian gangs, who have already taken over the cocaine trade, are focusing on the UK.

But it was shocking how a common activity that was once considered completely taboo by people in the former communist bloc country had become.

Young people are abandoning university degrees to cross the Channel and risk their lives in drug production, while average hard-working Albanians struggle to buy a home in a market distorted by money-laundering businessmen.

On the other hand, increasing the options for Albanian girls to marry a boy who works in a shepherd's house and has become rich from drug trafficking, has even reduced the chances that these girls will be targeted by white meat traffickers.


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