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Urgent telegram to the Athens police: Albanian mafia in Greece...

TELEGAM URGJENT PER POLICINE E ATHINES MAFIA SHQIPTARE NE GREQI...

Telegramma urgente alla polizia di Atene: mafia albanese in Grecia...

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The murder of the journalist on "Xhovovo"[?] street in central Athens was considered by police to be the result of the actions of a mafia that exploits the flow of people entering Greece without documents. "I fear that he was also involved in drug trafficking," said the Athens police. Another version that circulated is that the journalist was connected to a broad scandal that affected part of the Albanian homeland. The Greek journalist who was killed yesterday, according to the newspaper "Ethnos," was looking for a house to rent. A few minutes before the murder he had entered the office of the company "Rathinos" or something similar. The first police report in Athens says he was shot twice in the head with a firearm. From the initial investigations, police think the murder was carried out by a contract killer, apparently from other countries, since the killing took place in broad daylight. The spokesperson of the Greek government said yesterday that the government is concerned about the phenomenon of the Albanian mafia appearing in the country. He said that the police have been ordered to take the necessary measures to fight this criminal activity.