politicodiary

As local Albanian mafia gears up to sell drugs, it is making use of migrants crossing the English Channel as cheap labour to get cannabis out into the market  In a strange manner of recruitment, Albanians who have arrived at the UK through the English Channel have been appointed on various cannabis farms. They were first released from detention and then found themselves being sent to cannabis farms. Almost all are migrants, who have been recruited by crime gangs of Albanian origins to work in cannabis farms set up in empty houses and industrial buildings across England and Wales. Most have been forced to do so to clear the debts they had taken to cross the English Channel amounting to close to £5000. Work is grueling upto 40 hours a day; living in dinghies their lives are no better.  One, working in a “farm” in London , said he spent seven days in “mountains” in France as three Channel attempts were thwarted by police who punctured the boats each time. On the fourt...