Le Monde: In the Balkans, gangs at the heart of state system

Since the fall of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Balkan mafias have grown so much that they are now considered a major player in international organized crime. Serbian, Montenegrin and Albanian gangs, which began to thrive three decades ago from arms and cigarette trafficking, are now at the heart of the arrival of South American cocaine in Europe. Pročitaj više