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Editorial: Crime is winning

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In a famous TV series entitled ‘Narcos’, a CIA operative converses with an agent of DEA, the primary agency engaged in the fight against narco- trafficking. The exasperated DEA agent complains that the other agency is not helping to win the war against drugs. With a typical bitter irony the former conversant replies: “Which war? The war on drugs?? We lost that war long ago!” The Albanian citizen is entitled to feel the same feeling of exasperation and bitterness while watching this week a video showing a skirmish between a police car and a car allegedly in ownership of narco-traffickers….

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