Police storm Lazarat, ending years of lawlessness

Story Highlights

• Eight hundred police officers enter cannabis cultivation stronghold in southern Albania, destroying several tons of marijuana, arresting tens of people. Police come under heavy fire from gangs inside the village, several people wounded.

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GJIROKASTER, June 19 – Albania’s government has decided to end years of lawlessness in Lazarat, a small enclave in southern Albania often referred to as “Europe’s marijuana capital” for its