Haiti apos;s Capital Is Over-run By Gangs Unleashing A Wave Of Violence
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In one ten-day orgy of violence in the capital Port-au-Prince back in July, 300 people were killed and at least 50 women and girls were subjected to rapes - many of which happened in front of their young children. Pictured: Cops patrol an area controlled by gangs
President Moise was said to have benefited from this, including allegations that he allowed G-9 - now the country's largest coalition of gangs - impunity in the capital provided they targeted his political opponents.
Most of the city is controlled by G-9, a coalition of ten gangs, taxi from Thessaloniki port to acropolis which is led by Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier - a former police officer who led his own Delmas 6 gang while still in the force but who now focuses on crime full-time.
But the town of Has in Albania's northeast, dubbed 'Little London', taxi fare piraeus to Volos Airport airport now serves as a homage to the country that has taken in so many of its citizens, despite plans in Westminster to crack down on the influx of more than 12,000 migrants this year.
A Union Jack flies proudly next to a framed photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II, while an iconic red telephone box is perched on the corner of the Britain Resto Lounge as cars with UK licence plates zoom past.
Since Albania opened its borders in the 1990s, residents have left en masse, desperate to escape hardship and isolation after weathering brutal oppression at the hands of the country's communist dictatorship.
Klodian Kastrati, a sociologist who works in Has, said: 'Emigration is an epidemic that affects all young people here contaminated by the idea of leaving for Britain in the hope of creating a better future'.
In one ten-day orgy of violence in the capital Port-au-Prince back in July, 300 people were killed and at least 50 women and girls were subjected to rapes - many of which happened in front of their young children.
Speaking in his office where British and Albanian flags stand side by side, Has mayor Liman Morina told AFP that 80 per cent of his constituents 'survive thanks to the hard and honest work of their relatives in Britain'.
Into that power vacuum have moved hundreds of highly organised and extremely violent criminal groups which often have links to politicians and police - meaning they are free Volos Airport airport to city taxi cost kidnap, murder and commit atrocities such as gang rapes at will.
The US and Canada have been leading efforts to stem the spread of the gangs, sending armoured vehicles for best day trips Thessaloniki the country's police force and extraditing the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang - Germine 'Yonyon' Joly - to an American jail last year.
Though many of Haiti's gangs are involved in traditional underworld activities such as drug running and gun smuggling, many control large parts of the country's regular economy - factories, airports, power grids and taxi service Volos Airport greece business districts.
Unable to find stable jobs, many were recruited into gangs which were steadily growing in influence and power beginning around 2018, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.
Port-au-Prince is now a patchwork of territories whose brutal leaders - largely free of political influence - are now free to operate as they please, warring over territory and Volos Airport greece taxi prices revenging on each-other in what has become an ever-escalating spiral of violence.
