Wanted Albanian Criminal Kills Five in Shootout

This past week I was so sad to see how one of Albania’s most wanted criminals, Dritan Dajti, killed five people in a shootout on Friday, including four police officers.

The fact that he knew about the police going to arrest him and could even “ambush” them, just tells a sad story about how these criminals have infiltrated the police. Anther thing that saddens me is the fact that the four policemen who went to arrest him were not even wearing bullet-proof vests.

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Elvis Plaku

Elvis Plaku was born and raised in Tirana, Albania. He has been blogging about Albanian culture, travel and everyday life since 2004 — one of the country's longest-running English-language blogs. By day he runs the web agency Sfida.PRO; here he writes as a local, sharing the Albania he actually knows.