How Nikla returned to a hot crime area in Albania

The administrative unit of Nikla in the municipality of Kruja has a complex social composition and inherited history with crime, but the experts of order and public security emphasize that it is political instrumentalization and alliances with politicians that have empowered the criminal exponents of this area. This material was prepared by journalist Klodiana Lala and is a collaboration between the BIRN Network and the Voice of America. The streets are empty and the houses are surrounded by high walls. Dozens of security cameras are installed on the walls and concrete electricity poles, keeping a watchful eye on the slightest movement. Only 17 kilometers from Tirana, the area of Nikla in the municipality of Kruja is otherwise known as the cradle of crime. Various clans in this area, sometimes in alliance and sometimes in rivalry with each other, extended their influence beyond Nikla, offering organized crime structures costly services such as paid murders. Albanian law-enforcement authorities believe that these services to the underworld brought conflicts, from which originate a long series of serious criminal events – including kidnappings, armed robberies, mafia-style assassinations and murders – which have transformed the area into a bloody arena. Among them, the murder in March …

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