Albanians - The Pawns of Jewish Hegemony

[Dominus]

Originally Posted by Stewart Meadows

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Albanian criminals are still killing people in Italy...

And in UK too.....

https://sputniknews.com/uk/202107091...nd-fleeing-uk/

Illegal Immigrant Who Used Fake Identity Jailed For Life For Killing Boss And Fleeing UK

On 17 April 2018, the body of John Woodward, a construction foreman, was found on the roof of a building in London’s Hatton Garden district. Paramedics who were unable to save his life initially thought Mr Woodward had died in a fall.

An illegal immigrant has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years for the murder of a building site foreman who was slashed with a craft knife and then beaten to death with a metal pole on the rooftop of a jewellery workshop in London.

Elton Sefa, 24, had denied murdering John Woodward, 47, but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

But he was convicted by a jury and on Friday, 9 July, he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.

His trial at the Old Bailey was told Sefa was an Albanian national who had come to the UK in 2017 and when he started work, he began using the name Francesco Porcedda and provided his employer with a national insurance number, which belonged to an Italian national who was living in London, but had not agreed to let him borrow his identity.

[Stewart Meadows]

Originally Posted by Dominus

And in UK too.....

Yes, that's true, Dominus. Even the BBC published an article about this case:

Builder caught on CCTV jailed for Hatton Garden murder


Published 8 July

A builder has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years for murdering a workmate in an attack that was caught on CCTV.

Albanian national Elton Sefa, 24, struck foreman John Woodward with a 3ft metal pole on 17 April 2018.

The 47-year-old's body was found at a jewellery scrap processing service in Hatton Garden, central London.

CCTV recovered by police showed Sefa walking towards Mr Woodward and hitting him with the pole three times as he lay on the ground.

An Old Bailey jury was told it might never be clear what caused Sefa to kill Mr Woodward.



Elton Sefa fled to Albania after the killing

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57762724

[Stewart Meadows]

Blood feud behind bars: Two ruthless Albanian gangsters, a £20m cocaine deal gone wrong and a vicious kidnapping and revenge killing - all while both were in jail


By RICHARD PENDLEBURY and STEPHEN WRIGHT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:00 BST, 16 July 2021 | UPDATED: 22:00 BST, 16 July 2021

One day in January last year, an Albanian entrepreneur who had made his home in suburban Surrey took an unexpected business call. A very unusual business call.

That the person rang him from the far side of the world did not make it noteworthy; Ndrek Prenga had any number of foreign contacts. Rather, it was the circumstances in which the call took place. And, perhaps most of all, the business deal that was then presented to him.

His caller was a drugs baron, convicted double murderer and armed robber who was speaking on an unauthorised mobile phone from his prison cell in Quito, the capital of the South American state of Ecuador, almost 6,000 miles away. Prenga received the call on his own illegal handset in his own jail cell in the UK, where he was serving an eight-year sentence for drugs trafficking offences.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...jail-cell.html

[Stewart Meadows]

Victory for Priti Patel as Albanian killer who raked in £40k a year from car wash job - and was once on Interpol's most wanted list - is finally deported after five years


By GLEN OWEN and JAKE RYAN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:01 BST, 10 July 2021 | UPDATED: 15:58 BST, 11 July 2021

An Albanian murderer who raked in more than £40,000 a year from a car wash business has finally been deported in a legal victory for Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Selami Cokaj, once on Interpol's most wanted list, fled to Britain after escaping from prison in Albania where he had been jailed for stabbing a man to death in 1994.

He was sent back to his homeland in 2009 but sneaked back to the UK in 2015 before setting up several businesses and living openly in Leicester.

Now, after five years, the 47-year-old has been deported to Albania.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-deported.html

[Stewart Meadows]

Proposal for UK to build a jail in Albania to house foreign offenders and free up cells here is 'welcomed' by British ministers and the Balkan country's justice secretary


By JAKE RYAN HOME AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 23:23 BST, 31 July 2021 | UPDATED: 02:51 BST, 1 August 2021

Ministers have held talks over building a new prison in Albania to house foreign offenders in British jails, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The proposal was ‘welcomed’ at a bilateral meeting between UK Ministers and Albania’s justice secretary last week.

It came as the Government signed a new prisoner transfer agreement with Albania after the number of its criminals in UK jails stood at 1,528 in June – a big rise on the 876 in August 2019.
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Albanian nationals make up the largest number of foreign offenders in UK jails The Balkan state’s criminal gangs are renowned as leaders in drug trafficking and production, as well as in people smuggling into Britain.

The Government signed an agreement with Albania to remove jailed criminals in 2013 but six years later only 24 had been removed. The new deal has a number of amendments that try to make the transfer process easier.

Based on current rates of £44,600-a-year per jail place, the prison service would spend about £70 million annually to keep Albanians behind bars.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-welcomed.html

[Stewart Meadows]

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A well-known Israeli newspaper brags about how jews were responsible for getting NATO to back Kosovo's Albanians and go to war against Serbia:

Kosovo is a test of Israel’s moral character


In the 1990s, 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died and about one million were displaced as a result of Serbia’s aggression.

By DAVID L. PHILLIPS, ALUSH GASHI
AUGUST 15, 2020 22:32



‘ISRAEL’S RECOGNITION of Kosovo would affirm its commitment to justice and ethics in international relations.’ Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti talks to media outside the Assembly building in Pristina early this summer.
(photo credit: LAURA HASANI/REUTERS)

Jews and Albanians share a history of suffering and persecution. Albanian leaders have paid tribute to Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust, visiting the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem and praying before the Eternal Flame. Israel should honor the victims of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo by recognizing its independence and establishing diplomatic relations.

In the 1990s, 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died and about one million were displaced as a result of Serbia’s aggression. Targeting Albanians because of their ethnicity meets the definition of genocide in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 to prevent what happened to the Jews of Europe from happening elsewhere.

Kosovo might not exist if not for the worldwide Jewish community, which played a critical role opposing Serbia’s insidious plan to deport ethnic Albanian population in order to change Kosovo’s demography. Appeals by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and other Jewish leaders led to NATO’s intervention in 1999, which prevented the escalation of genocide against Kosovo Albanians, liberated Kosovo from Serbia’s tyranny and put Kosovo on the path to independence.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/kosovo...aracter-638784

[chris c]

They've just charged an Albanian with a murder. The victim was a brown woman so I don't give a shit. But I guess he was a potential danger to white folks as well.

A man has been charged with the murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed as she walked to meet a friend in south-east London.

Koci Selamaj, 36, was arrested in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on Sunday.

Mr Selamaj, of Terminus Road in the town, will appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58675196

[Fico]

USA is on the Middle East anti-muslim and on Balkan pro-muslim. Interesting,right? USA fighting against so-called muslim terorism is myth. Only mission who they had was to be friend of Jews and enemy of the White race on Balkan.

[Stewart Meadows]

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Albanian criminals keep killing people in Italy:

Three men arrested for killing architect during burglary


Albanians allegedly murdered Roberto Mottura near Turin



(ANSA) - TURIN, OCT 1 - Three men of Albanian origin were arrested Friday on suspicion of murdering a 50-year-old Italian architect in a burglary-gone-wrong near Turin in June, sources said.

Roberto Mottura died in his home at Piossasco after surprising the three would-be burglars.

Police said they had solid evidence against the three.

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...c2b79310f.html

[Stewart Meadows]

How drug dealer called 'The Devil' - with 1,000 followers on an Instagram page titled 'Albanian Blood' - boasted of kidnapping and cutting fingers off enemies who crossed him


By DAILY MAIL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
PUBLISHED: 22:00 GMT, 24 October 2021 | UPDATED: 01:37 GMT, 25 October 2021

It's just gone midday at a north London Wetherspoons and Selamet Mehmetaj sips a Coke as he calmly outlines how his multi-million-pound trade in potent cannabis works.

The drug baron, whose £50,000 Mercedes-Benz without a front number plate is parked nearby, has agreed to meet potential new clients after they contacted him via the anonymous Instagram page that advertises his business.

Unconcerned by other drinkers and passing pedestrians in the bustling Wood Green town centre, the 28-year-old explains how every month he supplies dealers across the UK with 2,500 high strength cannabis plants and harvests buds for them to sell.
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Drug baron Selamet Mehmetaj, nicknamed 'The Devil', was selling high strength cannabis plants through his anonymous Instagram page 'Albanian Blood'

And he makes very clear what happens to those who dare to cross him, matter-of-factly boasting how he chopped off two fingers of one client who failed to pay – and got his money before he chopped off a foot.

Meet ‘The Devil’, who is raking in millions from his wholesale drug-dealing business. On his Instagram page titled ‘Albanian Blood’, Mehmetaj has been showing off his cannabis factories and posting videos to highlight what strains are available, encouraging new customers to get in touch.
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Mehmetaj, who is from the northern Albanian town of Tropoja, has developed a thriving drugs empire in the UK – and a social media following to promote it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...followers.html

[Stewart Meadows]

Originally Posted by Stewart Meadows

Yes, ISIS is definitely a zionist project. I've written about this subject in the following thread:

Israel supports the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh)

https://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=549791

Originally Posted by Stewart Meadows

Here are some articles about Albanians who fought for the jew-backed Islamic State:


https://apnews.com/article/tirana-sy...7e68f692bc685c


https://apnews.com/article/albania-i...beca172e9d0bce

19-year-old from Kosovo arrested in Italy: Recruiting minors for ISIS


POLITIKO
2021-11-17 12:24:56



A 19-year-old girl from Kosovo has been arrested for terrorism in Italy. The media of the neighboring country write that Bleona Tafallari has been radicalized at the age of 16.

She was part of the "Balkan Lions". Her arrest took place in Milan.

She is the wife of 21-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, who killed 4 people a year ago in Vienna. Tafallari is described by the Italian media as an ardent supporter of the Islamic State.

https://politiko.al/english/kosova/a...isis-i-i447890

Italian Police Arrest Kosovo Woman, ‘Fervent IS Supporter’


Xhorxhina Bami Pristina BIRN November 17, 2021 16:27

Police said the arrested 19-year-old Kosovar woman was passionately committed to becoming an Islamist 'martyr' – and was actively involved in recruiting others to the cause.



Italian police arrest Bleona Tafallari (C), a 19-year-old native of Kosovo, arrested on terrorism charges in Milan, Italy, November 17, 2021. Photo: Screenshot/Italian Police

The Italian police announced on Wednesday, that in collaboration with Europol, it had arrested a 19-year-old Italian Kosovar woman, Bleona Tafallari, as part of a counter-terrorism operation which took place in Milan.
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“According to the investigations, the radicalized young woman, since the age of 16 a fervent supporter of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, recently in Germany married a militiaman of Kosovar origin with whom she has remained in contact in recent months,” Italian police reported.

“The man is linked to the Vienna attacker,” the Italian police announcement continued.

On November 2, 2020, four people were killed and more than 23 injured, in the Austrian capital after a gunman went on a rampage in the streets. The attacker was a 20-year old Austrian-North Macedonian ethnic Albanian with links to IS. Minutes after the attack, the attacker was shot dead by the police.
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Italian state police said a chat between Tafallari and a girl from Kosovo “in the process of radicalization” offers proof of Tafallari’s role in recruiting others.

https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/17...-is-supporter/

[Stewart Meadows]

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A bunch of criminals, including an Israeli man named Kfir Ivgi, have been convicted for trying to smuggle Albanians into Great Britain:

Gang who tried to smuggle 69 migrants into Norfolk coast convicted


Owen Sennitt
Published: 5:09 PM November 17, 2021 Updated: 9:15 AM November 18, 2021



The nearly 60-year old converted fishing trawler, 'Svanic' was used to bring 69 Albanian migrants to the Norfolk coast - Credit: National Crime Agency

A people smuggling gang which plotted to smuggle hundreds of migrants into the UK on a "death trap" boat via the Norfolk coast has been convicted.

Igor Kosyi, aged 56, Alexsandrs Gulpe, 44, from Latvia, Kfir Ivgi, 39, an Israeli national living in Finchley, Sergejs Kuliss, 32, a Latvian National living in Newham, London, were found guilty of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration.
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The group attempted to use a dilapidated fishing vessel to bring 69 Albanian migrants from the Ostend area of Belgium but were intercepted off the Norfolk coast on November 17, 2020.
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Kfir Ivgi, 39, an Israeli national living in Finchley, London, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration - Credit: National Crime Agency

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/l...ggling-8497990

[Serbian]

In Albania, a Worrying Rise in Drug Gangs Hiring Minors

Anila HoxhaTiranaBIRNNovember 10, 2021

Evidence points to a growing number of minors in Albania being exploited by drug gangs to distribute their product.

Valbona [not her real name] knew that her son would sometimes skip school but had no idea just how much trouble he was in until the police came knocking last year on a late November evening.

The single mother, who spoke on condition that her real name was not published, had just returned from a long shift at the launderette where she worked when the police told her that her 15-year-old son had been arrested in the Albanian capital, Tirana, on drugs charges.

“I was shocked. I live only for my son,” Valbona told BIRN.

Picked up in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city, the boy was found in possession of three bags of marihuana in his pocket and another five in a flowerpot outside a nearby apartment block.

Under questioning, he admitted selling drugs for a dealer who paid him a fixed monthly wage of 10,000 leks, or roughly 82 euros. He refused to name the dealer.

The boy is one a growing number of minors used as distributors by organised drug gangs operating in densely-populated districts of Tirana, in exchange for a meagre wage.

Experts and officials say criminal groups are increasingly targeting minors from poor families, knowing that if caught and able to prove they are using the drugs themselves the case is unlikely to be escalated or result in heavy penalties.

According to BIRN’s findings, over the last few years a growing number of minors in Albania have been lured into drug use as a prelude to recruitment by their dealers.

“These minors are being exploited for distributing drugs in very small quantities, such as cannabis or heroin, but they are often tempted to try them,” said Elina Kondi, a Tirana prosecutor dealing with juvenile crime. “If they can prove they are users they face no penal consequences.”

Worrying trends

Albania is notorious as a major producer of cannabis and a transit country for drugs such as heroin or cocaine.

In 2018, almost 30 per cent of inmates in Albanian prisons were there because of drug offences.

Between 2018 and 2021, the number of minors investigated or arrested on drug-related charges has almost doubled, according to State Police data seen by BIRN. In 2018 and 2019, the total was 147; roughly the same number was investigated or arrested just in the first seven months of this year.

Sixty per cent of cases were in Tirana, where police have identified 16 drug ‘hotspots’, including two high schools and Mother Theresa square in the heart of the city of some 700,000 people.

Experts working with juvenile offenders say the official statistics do not tell the whole story.

“Each month, some 70 minors end up in police stations in Tirana suspected of various penal offences, from quarrels to serious crimes such as involvement in theft or drug distribution,” said Besmira Mucaj, a psychologist who works with the police.

A specialist at the Scientific Police Institute, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that, “every day, especially over the past two years, police send us four of five requests to test very small quantities of drugs” as evidence in such cases.

Juvenile crime prosecutors and specialists at the Probation Service – a state body overseeing suspended sentences and community service orders – express growing concern at the trend in drug use and crime among minors.

Under Albania’s reformed penal code, if just a trace of cannabis is found in their blood, a juvenile will not face prosecution for dealing, complicating efforts of investigators to differentiate between users and distributors.

“Over the last two years we have seen minors who come almost openly as users, usually of cannabis. They deal in small doses each time so if police stop them they will be classified as users and set free,” said Elsa Kareci, a prosecutor at the Juvenile Crime Section of the Tirana public prosecution.

Migena Kocollari, a specialist at the Probation Service, said that more and more are turning to harder drugs.

“There are a growing number of cases of children caught with heroin or cocaine,” said Kocollari.

A review of court files and interviews with law enforcement officials indicate that drug use is often a prelude to more serious crime.

Several cases investigated by authorities show that crime groups use minors for theft, pay them in cannabis and then exploit their dependency and need for money in order to recruit them as distributors of drugs. The authorities are struggling to get a grip on the trend.

‘We have debts and I wanted to pay them off’
Speaking in a bar in Tirana, Valbona said she suspected her son began using cannabis at the age of 14, recalling how he became grumpy and was glued to his mobile phone.

Valbona had taken a loan to help with her son’s schooling and was working long hours at a launderette to pay it off. It left little time to spend with her child.

The criminals, she said, “find those in difficulties.”

The boy’s lawyer, Edvis Gorishti, said the case demonstrated the failure of investigators to go up the chain and identify those recruiting minors, using, perhaps, phone taps or some other form of surveillance.

“Instead of simply having a child in custody, a little more effort could have identified whoever exploited a 15 year-old child for drug distribution and made him a drug addict,” Gorishti told BIRN.

On August 30, at the gates of Partizani high school in Tirana, police arrested a 17-year-old known as Cerri, or ‘Tiny’. Cerri confessed to selling cannabis at 500 leks [4.1 euro] per packet and said he sometimes offloaded 25,000 leks-worth of the drug per day. He would receive 10 per cent of that; the rest went to two men he referred to as “the manager and the owner.”

Cerri told police that the manager, whom he identified as ‘Serxhio’, “asked me if I was interested in work since I need money; my father is jobless and my mum died so I took the chance. As a family, we have debts and I wanted to pay them off.”

Police failed to arrest either the ‘manager’ or the ‘owner’.

Criminals exploiting leniency offered to minors by the law

In 2017, Albania reformed its drug policy in order to better protect minors and punish the dealers.

Under the previous policy, anyone found in possession of any quantity of drug faced months behind bars. The new policy calls for rehabilitation for minors, but investment in the specialised institutions to carry it out is lagging.

While welcoming the changes, Judge Tereza Merkaj, who deals with cases involving juveniles at the Penal Court of Tirana, said that an unintended consequence had been to encourage crime networks to use children more.

“Minors are increasingly used by adult criminals for the distribution of drugs or petty thefts since they are favoured by the law” Merkaj said.

In some cases, she told BIRN, crime networks have established long-term collaboration with minors, who as a consequence refuse to come clean to the police about who recruited them.

Kondi, the prosecutor in Tirana, said minors feared their recruiters.

“They are afraid of those who exploit them so they stay silent,” she said.

Without taking the necessary steps to help them, little progress can be made, said Kocollari of the Probation Service, citing the lack of a centre to reintegrate minors given suspended sentences.

“It is difficult to work with these children without such institution,” Kocollari told BIRN.

Valbona found an alternative for her 15-year-old son, packing him to his grandparents outside of the city.

“This is what I could do,” she said. “Perhaps his grandparents will be able to control him better than the law.”

https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/10...hiring-minors/

[Serbian]

Shooting near Decani: Two students and a driver were killed in the attack on the bus

Three people were killed and at least two were injured in a shooting at a bus with students in the village of Glodjane near Decani, media in Pristina reported.

SOURCE: TELEGRAF FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2021



Hospital in Pec confirmed for Klan Kosova that two students and a bus driver were killed in the shooting.

The hospital said that the number of injured is unknown, writes Kosovo online but that the ambulance is bringing them from Decani to Pec.

The police have not yet confirmed these allegations, but in the first report, they told the media that two people were injured.

"According to the information we have, it is suspected that there was a shooting in the direction of the bus and that two people were injured," the police in Pec announced.

The prosecutor on duty is also at the scene.

According to Koha, the driver and conductor of the bus died on the spot, as well as two younger people, aged 18 and 17.

The Albanian media published the names of the victims. The driver G.Dj. was killed, along with students L.H. (19) and G.M. (17). Police confirmed that several masked persons attacked the bus, that the driver was killed and that several students were injured.

The mayor of Decani, Baskim Ramosaj, confirmed that three people were killed tonight after they were shot at the bus in which the students were driving.

"The driver died on the spot, while two students died in the hospital," Ramosaj said.

Ramosaj said that the bus was transporting students from Gjakova to Decani.

Selman Berisha from the Family Medicine Center in Decani confirmed the death of three people. He stated that three people were given first aid around 7.35 p.m. and that they were sent to Pec.

"At around 7.45 p.m., the doctor on duty went to the scene where the death of the bus driver and two students from Glodjane was confirmed. At this moment, two of the injured are in the hospital in Pec and one in Decani," Berisha told T7.

Revenge murder?
According to unofficial information, the attack happened due to revenge.

Namely, one of the passengers was kicked out by the driver and the conductor of the bus because he was harassing the girls. He then took a Kalashnikov, waited for the bus and fired. Albanian media cite a misunderstanding among carriers on the line as a motive. They also state that it was on that very place that ambush attacks took place before. There were eight passengers on the bus at the time of the attack.

Also, according to unofficial information, there were no Serbs on the bus.

The driver's body was pulled from the bus
The lifeless body of the driver who died as a result of gunshot wounds, after the attack on the bus that happened tonight in Glodjane, was taken away by the team of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, reports Klan Kosova.

According to the police, he died on the spot, while two students who were traveling by bus died at the hospital from the wounds they sustained. Footage from the scene provided by Kallxo.com shows the attacked bus off the road, while the crime scene is surrounded by police tapes. Numerous police units, forensic teams, and the prosecution went to the scene to gather the first evidence of this tragic event, Reporters reports.

Deputy President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Vlora Citaku, assessed the shooting on the bus in Decani, in which three people lost their lives, as terrorism.

Police spokesman for the Pec region, Fadil Gashi, stated that there were 8 passengers on the bus at the time of the shooting, reports Klan Kosova

[Stewart Meadows]

Border ‘Control’: UK Govt Deporting Convicted People-Trafficker for Third Time in Under Two Years




JACK MONTGOMERY 29 Nov 2021

The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.

39-year-old Hazir Lala was tracked down after a months-long investigation which began in July, having last been kicked out in August 2020.

Prior to that, according to reports, he had been extradited to Belgium to face trial for involvement in organised crime and human trafficking, receiving a €102,000 fine — it is unclear whether or not this was paid — and an evidently ineffectual five-year, partially suspended prison term.

Even before this the Albanian had racked up a substantial criminal record in Britain, being convicted for various driving offences and crimes related to fraudulent identification documents, for which he was receiving derisory custodial sentences as long ago as 2016.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...der-two-years/

[Stewart Meadows]

Originally Posted by Serbian

Shooting near Decani: Two students and a driver were killed in the attack on the bus

The above post by Serbian reminded me of a shooting in the Italian city of Trieste that happened several months ago. I was supposed to post it in this thread, but for some reason I didn't, so here it is now:

Armed clashes between Albanians and Kosovars in Italy, 8 injured


POLITIKO
2021-09-04 10:53:15

The shooting happened this morning around 8 am on via Carducci, in the center of Trieste in Italy. According to Italian media, the clash took place between two Albanian and Kosovar groups and as a result eight of them were injured. One of the injured is in serious condition.

It is learned that the gunfight between them took place near a bar in and it is thought that the conflict between them came after a dispute over employment issues.

https://politiko.al/english/rajoni/p...agosur-i442718

This is the kind of stuff that Albanians usually bring with them to other countries, especially Italy.

[Stewart Meadows]

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Maybe this article belongs in the "Mudshark misery" thread?

EXCLUSIVE: Woman, 36, admits trying to smuggle two Albanian illegal migrants into the UK in her car boot


By DAN SALES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 16:02 GMT, 6 September 2021 | UPDATED: 16:22 GMT, 6 September 2021

A would-be people smuggler from Wakefield has admitted trying to sneak two Albanian illegal migrants into the UK in a car's boot.

Jade Wood, 36, confessed to conspiracy to do an act to breach immigration law, at Leeds Crown Court this morning.

The pair of Albanians were not nationals of the United Kingdom and would have had no right to be in the country.

Wood was in court with Tina Windle, 41, who pleaded not guilty to the same charge.
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Wood was in court with Tina Windle, 41, who pleaded not guilty to the same charge

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-car-boot.html

[Stewart Meadows]

After Knesset election-rama, Israeli political advisers turn to Tirana


No fewer than 8 Israeli campaign strategists were involved in Albania’s recent vote, including Netanyahu’s once-unreticent spokesman Jonatan Urich, who may be seeking new pastures

By TAL SCHNEIDER
7 May 2021, 6:30 am



(...) On April 25, incumbent Albanian prime minister Edi Rama of the Socialist Party won reelection against Lulzim Basha, the head of the country’s conservative Democratic Party and a former mayor of the capital Tirana.

Basha, a former lawyer who investigated war crimes for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has faced off against Rama, a former painter, in several local and national elections over the years.
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Behind the scenes of both candidates were contingents of Israeli political operatives who imported Israel-style campaigns into Albania, including strategies for driving voter engagement, using social media and targeting audiences — all without knowing more than a smidgen of the local tongue.
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Urich himself was on the losing side, advising Basha alongside Asaf Shariv, a former communications adviser to late prime minister Ariel Sharon and former Israel consul in New York; Israel Einhorn, an advertising executive and adviser to Netanyahu; and Adi Timor, a communications consultant with expertise in international campaigns, including in Africa.
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Aiding Rama’s campaign was Tal Silberstein, who served as Gideon Sa’ar’s strategic adviser in the March 2021 campaign and has been a mainstay of other campaigns in Europe. Also in his corner were Assaf Eisen, who has worked for many years in Albania and many other countries; Ido Stossel, who advised Labor in March; and Shuki Shapiro, who was spokesman for former Meretz MK Ilan Gilon.

In Tirana and elsewhere in Europe, Israelis are seen as masters of social media political campaigns, with specialized know-how for using tech to drive votes, organize databases and coordinate messaging. (The fact that Israeli advisers have been getting plenty of practice at home with four nearly consecutive elections does not hurt.)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-...urn-to-tirana/

[Stewart Meadows]

Italian police arrest the gang of Albanian robbers, as they committed thefts in shopping malls


POLITIKO
2021-12-22 08:46:09



Italian police have cracked down on a gang of Albanian thieves. Three men and two women were handcuffed.

Italian media write that the robbers are the perpetrators of dozens of thefts in shopping malls, emphasizing that they targeted more 'H&M Hennes & Mauritz' stores.

https://politiko.al/english/e-tjera/...in-vje-i450251

[Stewart Meadows]

Albanian man, 35, dies days after getting caught in fire at a cannabis farm in a lock-up garage


By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:20 GMT, 8 January 2022 | UPDATED: 22:20 GMT, 8 January 2022

Police were appealing for information last night after the death of a 35-year-old man trapped in a fire at a cannabis farm in a lock-up garage.

Ermal Qose, an Albanian national with no known address in the UK, was discovered by firefighters in Clapton, East London, on the afternoon of New Year's Eve.

He was taken to hospital but died two days later.

A 33-year-old man was arrested on New Year's Eve on suspicion of false imprisonment and cannabis cultivation, and has been released under investigation.

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, false imprisonment and cannabis cultivation. He remains in custody.

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