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‘Escobar of the Balkans’ and the destructive legacy of narco-influence in politics

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It is often said that although art is supposed to be ‘life in extrems’, real life very frequently surpasses art in its exotic extremes. One of these times happened this week for Albanians who watched Klement Balili turn himself in to the police after allegedly negotiating with them for quite a few weeks. Klement Balili was nicknamed by Greek media as the ‘Escobar of the Balkans’ and his latest move surely did justice to this designation as it eerily resembled the most famous televised series whose subject was the real Pablo Escobar’s life. He also turned himself in to the…

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