Friday, 16. August 2013
Topic: DRUGS - on August 16, 2013 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
Europe’s marijuana capital isn’t Amsterdam
GJIROKASTRA, Albania — The last time police tried to enter the mountainside village of Lazarat near this historic southern city last summer, they prompted a ferocious firefight a local police commissioner describes as “very much like a real war.”
Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of being ostracized, he said he was part of a special forces operation during which sniper units occupied high ground as SWAT teams moved in to arrest a handful of people working in fields surrounding the village.
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