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ONCE UPON A TIME The ALBANIA Albania
To understand the need to come here, where he started in the north. Lake Skutari. That and 'Montenegro, near where he continues to traffic from a felon. They call it white meat. Women and children, vulnerable, helpless, kidnapped and sold and abused. Inlet, hidden. Here take refuge ferries, there are still signs. The last girl and save 'Danica Pavicevic, Kosovo, 16, face and body as a child. They snatched last month to smugglers. Last year alone they saved twenty-six girls, mostly from Moldova and Romania, three this year. On the boat passes through, not only women and children. Drugs, first of all. "But unlike . Now it 'Albania, which produces - says the head of border police, Ardian Zaganjori -, zone Theth arrives in Italy and Montenegro . "But what is happening with illegal immigrants? E 'over traffic?, We ask. " No, only suspended. There 's an ongoing struggle between the clans. Who's in charge and 'always the Turkish mafia. On the one hand pushes land, Slovenia, to pass the illegal immigrants in Italy. On the other there 's always the way to the sea but not most' from Vlora, but more 'north of Durres. Let's say that now wins the passage by land. "
We pass a house. The cop tells us: " Li 'in there' a family segregated for years. No one leaves. fear of retaliation. " The law of the Kanun.
Descending towards Tirana. The capital seems another. Beautiful, new, mostly colored. Never been as' colored, the city 'gray is almost forgotten. The problems are not over, but only set aside, hidden in a nightlife capital of Europe. The face and 'different, but the stories always the same and always dramatic. Meanwhile, we tell you to Aldine, nineteen years. Kidnapped at the center of Tirana, sold for three million pounds, carried on the boat in Vlore, Lecce and then landed in the life of a prostitute for a year and a half in Milan. "On a day also earned two million. You know, fourteen hours of work .. ".
There 'instead, and those who' saved by a whisker. For example, Sava, 14. Perhaps sold by their parents. The report of Rinas airport. The wait for the father. A doomed. Such as Niko, a child. Sold for begging. He says no. The brother 'was sold, he was not. But it 's a lie. Then there are the broken dreams. How 'success Kelmend, 17 years: three times tried in vain to reach Italy by boat, the neighborhood has' failed. He wanted to be a mechanic, he spent a year in hiding and is' back now is a welder here at home. Stories of inflatables.
go down more 'to south. In Durres today have discovered a drug refinery. Only in the last two months the Albanian police seized more 'than four kilos of heroin, marijuana, three thousand, one hundred thousand uprooted and roots of hashish. Sixty people arrested. Looking at the sea. They say now that the boats leave from here, but obviously they are hidden, are no longer 'in the sunlight as it once was.
We stopped in Fier, the place more 'hard of Albania, the realm of most bands' wild, to pick up the sad story of Altin, 17, he arrived in Italy with the boat and for one year in Prato, to collect begging at a traffic light. How much? " fifty, sixty thousand a day. I could not even pay for the trip to me and 'cost a million and a half. "
And here we are finally in Vlora, once an autonomous republic of smugglers and criminals. Now the music ' changed, ensure the new police chief Neritan Nallbati. "The operation Puna has destroyed all the boats, we took all the smugglers, except one, an organizer, which we are now looking . Other crimes? "Thefts above. And murder. There were four homicides this year. Blame the violence that still is not 'abolished. But Vlora will change '. Some former smuggler agrees to talk. " For now we are good, we returned to old jobs, truck driver, butcher, Vlora, but needs help. If in two years things do not improve, this will start again 'all over again, more' first-. The bay looks different. We climb on the patrol boat of the financial police. The sea and 'beautiful, clean. This was the so-called port of the boats on the coast of Karapulmi: now 'desert. We arrive on the island of Sezen, the base of the Delta Force. There are also men of the battalion San Marco. The island
'arid, beautiful. The boats are seized all stored here, almost a monument to the journeys of hope. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe cemetery and 'concrete. In here there were illegal immigrants crammed thirty-five: two died a few months ago in the clash with the patrol boat. The last battle. We return to Vlora and tell us about a father who has sold all four children for six hundred dollars. The Albania is changing, but the road 'still long, and' has just embarked.
Pino Scaccia
(TV7 - Rally, October 2002)