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Decoding Albanian Organized Crime: Culture, Politics, and Globalization 9780520958715
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
1. Introduction: Ethnic Mob on the Rise
2. Why We Do What We Do
3. On the Run: Albanians Going West
4. Iron Ties: In Blood We Trust
5. Violence, Honor, and Secrecy
6. Sex, Guns, and Extortion
7. Conclusion: Dangerous Hybrids? What Now?
Notes
References
Index
Citation preview
DECODING ALBANIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
DECODING ALBANIAN ORGANIZED brott Culture, Politics, and Globalization
Jana Arsovska
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Vassilis Paleokostas-The Story Of The Greek Robin Hood
He’s spent decades dodging the law. He’s escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He’s given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero.
The robberies started again on a Wednesday. A masked man drove a stolen van through the quiet streets of Aspra Spitia in central Greece, a clutter of white buildings with black, square windows, like a game of dominoes tumbling into the Gulf of Corinth. Parking outside a branch of the National Bank, he forced his way inside carrying an AK-47 rifle. He ordered staff to open the ATM, and snatched 150,000 euros. Then he took 100,000 euros from the cash boxes, and in moments he was gone.
It was February 2010, and the Greek economy was in crisis caused, many believed, by greed and corruption in the banks. One man was making them pay. In October, it is alleged he robbed two banks in the same day. In Eginio, near Thessaloniki, a
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M Morrison takes a lengthy look at the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas, better known as the Greek Robin Hood.
A Normal Life
by Vassilis Palaiokostas
ISBN: 978-1-904491-40-8
Paperback: 352pp
£15 (available here)
Illegalism is a practice that has its roots in the French anarcho-individualist movement of the late 19th century. The idea in, its initial form, argued that if the meaning of the social revolution is the redistribution of wealth, then the individual who does not want to wait until the day of the revolution also has a moral right to take back from the bourgeoisie. The Illegalist Anarchists argued that crime is an ethical solution worthy of a world that requires one to choose between being an exploiter or being exploited. But illegality quickly proved to be a dead end, the lofty idea led many anarchists to a tragic end behind bars or under the guillotine, but their short lives and violent deaths, created a myth that kept the flame alive.
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