Yup, they are very dangerous which is certainly helping them. A lot of those in charge of the show have participated in various, dirty wars in Balkan and have very few limits.
I've not had any issues with them myself but I did have two friends selling drugs from a student corridor. Small scale...
We allegedly have a vote in who rules our countries as we're so called democracies, and what we continue to do each time is to elect people who don't give a f*** about people in their own country and even less so other countries but have a signifcant interest in supplying transnational...
We have some Lebanese clans here as well, the most well-known in Sweden being the Ali Khan family who controls the 60k Gothenburg-suburb Angered.
They have some tens of thousands of family members in Sweden and Germany, a lot of power. But they don't work closely with other families. They...
Nope, no data. Have read a lot of books on the subject of criminal gangs however since a lot has been written about it over here where we've had severe gang issues for 30 years (first biker gangs, then the Yugo mafia, later clans from the Middle East). Lots of how, why, when and where. We have...
Well, of course there were. The Albanian Mafia took over heroin trade in all of Europe in the 90s and early 00s. Including in Britain.
They are incredibly powerful. They destroyed the Italian and Russian mafias in New York to take control over the drug trade there. In Italy they won a mafia war...