Police is destroying tens of tons of marijuana as part of the government’s campaign to wipe out the country’s drug economy.
TIRANA, July 8 – Following the successful operation in Lazarat, Albanian authorities say they are determined to continue to fight drug planting and trafficking.
Police have conducted operations in the southern and northwestern parts of the country, in Vlora, Shkodra and Malesi e Madhe districts, destroying thousands of cannabis plants found in public lands. Meanwhile the amount they have found in Lazarat alone has gone up to nearly 70 tons of cannabis.
Earlier this week police also stopped two mules loaded with 100 kilograms of cannabis suspected of coming from Lazarat, likely taken away before police stormed the notorious marijuana-producing village.
Police managed to identify the two suspects accompanying the load but could not arrest them in time.
All law-enforcement authorities have been involved in the anti-cannabis operation countrywide.
Police is destroying tens of tons of marijuana as part of the government’s campaign to wipe out the country’s drug economy.
Albania is a major marijuana-producing country and transit point for moving other drugs from Asia and Latin America to Europe, law enforcement organizations said.
In nearby Italy police found two tons of cannabis, worth in the market with some 9 million euro, in a speedboat believed to have come from the Albania.
The Italian police also found rounds of Kalashnikov bullets. They later arrested four Albanians and an Italian accused of being involved.
