During the second day of the Exit, members of the MUP seized different types of narcotics from a total of 53 people, and 19 people were arrested, the MUP announced.

It is added that a small amount of marijuana, cocaine, “ecstasy” and other psychoactive substances were found with those detained.

46 people were found with drugs in the area of ​​the Petrovaradin fortress, according to the announcement.

Criminal charges will be filed against all suspects, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they have committed the criminal offense of unauthorized possession of narcotic drugs.

On the first day of the Exit Festival the police seized more than six kilograms of different types of narcotics of 34 people.

Members of the MUP in Novi Sad, on the orders of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Aleksandar Vulin, continue to intensify control of the area where the Exit Festival is held.

Earlier today, the Macedonian media reported that there were tens of kilograms of drugs found in a vehicle of the Macedonian Interior Ministry which tried to enter Montenegro without high-ranking Ministry officials in the vehicle.

The Macedonian Ministry of the Interior claims that the vehicle in which the police officers traveled to Montenegro was seized in 2016 and that the drugs have remained in the car since then.

“Employees in the Sector for Computer Crime and Digital Forensics went to Montenegro for training, and they borrowed an official vehicle from the vehicle fleet of the Ministry of Interior. The vehicle was previously procured from the Agency for Management of Confiscated Property, and the Customs Administration seized it in action against drug trafficking in 2016 “, explained the Macedonian Ministry of the Interior.

They state that marijuana was found under the car seat on the border of Albania and Montenegro, but they claim that MUP employees have nothing to do with the drugs that remained in the car since 2016, when, as they say, the vehicle was seized in the action of the Administration. customs and then given to the Confiscated Property Management Agency.

They emphasize that the Albanian Public Prosecutor’s Office has also confirmed that the employees in the Ministry of the Interior have nothing to do with drugs.

“They have already been returned to Skopje, and we have informed our public prosecutor’s office about the whole case in order to proceed further and clarify the case,” they say from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Northern Macedonia.

Vetëvendosje Movement member Hysamedin Feraj called Euronews Albania “Open Balkan” as an unsuccessful initiative.

“I predict that the Balkan Open will be unsuccessful. “It is the context of the political regime in which it is realized, it is the context of authoritarian regimes, undemocratic, with very high corruption”, he said.

He stressed that the 4 freedoms signed in “Open Balkan” are very different from those that will be realized on the ground, as according to him this initiative will be a free movement of corruption and drugs.

“I would read the 4 freedoms like this: It is the freedom of movement of goods and the goods that will move will mainly be drugs. It is the movement of capital and the capital that will move will be drugs and corruption. “It is the circulation of ideas that is the circulation of Serbian nationalist ideas, and in the end the free movement of other people”, he said./euronews.al

There are few organisms on the planet that are as strange and as old as the sea crab known as the horseshoe crab.

The fact that they were on Earth before the dinosaurs, at a time when everything was big, could explain their structure – helmet-shaped armor that can grow up to 50 centimeters.

They use tides to move. They are anatomically closer to spiders than crabs and glow under ultraviolet light.

However, their superpower, ie. the only characteristic is that their blood, which is light blue, clots when exposed to harmful bacterial endotoxins, a feature that keeps them alive for about 450 million years.

Bacterial endotoxins cause inflammation and fever and can cause anaphylactic shock and death. They cause sexually transmitted diseases, bacterial meningitis, as well as cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases.

The cells of the defense forces of the crab-horseshoe organism in the blood of this animal immobilize the mentioned type of endotoxin, making them inert.

It is both a blessing and a curse, because when scientists discovered this amazing defense system in the 1960s, we started using it for ourselves, hunting these sea creatures for their blood to test drugs, needles and biomedical devices to make sure that they are not polluted.

Their blood is so useful that it has enabled scientists to create vaccines that help people fight various diseases from migraines to melanoma, and recently coronavirus. All this is the reason why man has inflicted a huge blow on the population of these sea creatures.

Although science has created a problem, it may be able to solve it.

New technologies have made an artificial version of the blood of these cancers available to detect endotoxins. The question around which spears are broken is whether that blood is good enough for all that the real blue blood of crabs is used for. While some companies have already switched to testing products with synthetic blood, others are waiting for confirmation that the substance is a safe replacement.

The discussion divided conservation scientists and a committee that decides on scientific standards in the pharmaceutical industry, which believes more studies are needed before a synthetic version of crab blood could be introduced.

Last summer, as the coronavirus infection rate continued to rise, a group of researchers from the pharmaceutical companies Bristol Myers Squib, Pfizer and the biotechnology company Rosh-Genentek published the results of a study comparing two products, one from crab blood and others of synthetic blood.

The findings, however, did not help calm the debate.

Pharmaceutical companies must somehow ensure that drugs and medical devices and endoprostheses, such as artificial joints, do not contain endotoxins.

If pharmaceutical companies continue to rely solely on the blood of sea crabs, the population of these animals will be in serious danger.

This is not the first time that this type of cancer has faced potential extinction. In the 1990s, fishermen decimated the horseshoe crab population along the east coast of the United States, using them as bait to catch eels.

Prior to that, scientists along the Delaware Bay were able to find an average of 45,000 horseshoe crab eggs per square meter in approximately five centimeters of sand. Since 1995, that number has varied between 5,000 and 10,000.

About 500,000 crabs are taken out of the water and collected from beaches along the Atlantic coast each year to provide the required amount of blood for the pharmaceutical industry.

The coronavirus further endangered blue blood crabs

The hunt for coronavirus vaccines has only heightened concerns about the survival of horseshoe crabs. In March 2020, 241 therapies were developed, including coronavirus vaccines. Today there are about 838.

“Every candidate for a drug, vaccine, clinical trial or ready-made solution for injection into the body must undergo testing. The water and raw materials used must also be tested. So, this is a huge increase considering how much the company is now working on vaccines and drugs for covid, “said Kevin Williams, a scientist who works for” bioMerieux “, a French multinational biotechnology company.

Even before the coronavirus, the demand for blue crab blood was already growing.

“As things stand now, the entire supply chain for testing endotoxin drugs is based on hunting a vulnerable or almost extinct sea creature,” Williams emphasized.

The salvation for crabs lies in artificial blood

The American horseshoe crab is not considered endangered, although it is classified as vulnerable.

However, it is feared that, if overfishing continues, the species will go the way of the Asian horseshoe crab, which is already extinct in Taiwan, and is disappearing in Hong Kong and China.

Competent bodies and scientists are committed to finding ways to switch from animal to artificial materials, but it is necessary to provide irrefutable evidence that the two products have the same effect.

Jessica Ponder, an analyst with regulatory research at the Committee of Physicians for Responsible Medicine, says that the American cancer population is not on the edge at the moment, but that one should not rely on an animal, especially one that can only be found in one country.

The mayor of Lipjan, Imri Ahmeti has reacted harshly to the confiscation of 400 kilograms of drugs in the municipality of Lipjan.

Ahmeti said that drugs should be stopped at customs and not in Lipjan.

“I did not feel well, it turned into a joke [rasti i kapjes së 400 kilogramëve të kokainës]. But, as if he could not stop at the customs of Kosovo or Albania. All the information says that the services forwarded him, and they could have stopped him, they had the opportunity not to let him come at all. I have no idea what was behind the scenes, but I think that the citizens of Lipjan should not be blamed or labeled, nor with jokes, it is something against the desire and will of the citizens “, said Ahmeti in Kanal10

Otherwise, the Basic Court of Prishtina has assigned 30 days of detention to seven people suspected of being involved in the case of trafficking 400 kilograms of cocaine.

A quantity of 400 kg of cocaine had entered through the border crossing Vërmicë and in Kosovo.

This quantity, which was hidden inside a meat truck, which was being transported from Brazil, was stopped at the entrance of the Municipality of Lipjan.

The Italian Police, the Albanian Police, the Kosovo Police, the Special Prosecution in Kosovo, the Special Sector for the Investigation of Crime and Corruption in Albania have closely cooperated in the investigation of the cocaine case.

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Xhelal Sveçla, in T7, said that the dorg that was seized in Lipjan is currently being properly preserved, but it will be destroyed with a transparent process.

“Drugs are being stored properly. “It will be destroyed in a completely transparent process”, said Sveçla.

He further assured that this amount of drugs was not aimed at Kosovo, but at larger markets.

“This amount (of drugs) was destined to go to markets larger than Kosovo,” said Sveçla.

“Kosovo Police has played its role best. “They have made a number of arrests, this case is not over, investigations are continuing”, added Sveçla.

The Basic Court in Gjilan has imposed a detention measure of 30 days on the suspect PC (Prince Corleone), known as Vali Corleone, after he committed the criminal offenses “Unauthorized possession, control or possession of weapons” and “Possession” unauthorized use of narcotics, psychotropic substances or analogues ”.

According to the announcement of the Court, after the search on January 14 in the house of the suspect in Gjilan, an automatic weapon and narcotics were found without authorization.

Meanwhile, the Basic Court in Gjilan has approved the request of the Basic Prosecution of Gjilan, imposing a detention measure of 30 (thirty) days on the defendant PC

“There is a grounded suspicion that the defendant, on 14.04.2021, around 16:00 minutes in his house in Gjilan, in violation of the law on weapons, held automatic weapons of the type ‘Scorpion’, with (5) five cartridges and one hundred and eleven (118) 1.65 mm caliber cartridges. Also on the same day, the defendant in his house, without authorization, possessed narcotic substance, so that during the control by the Kosovo Police in his living room, (8) eight bags of narcotic substance were found on the table. of the type ‘cocaine’, weighing 2.9 grams “, it is said in the notification of the Basic Court in Gjilan. / Voice

How did the international anti-drug operation take place in 3 countries where 55 people were arrested, including Albanians.

One of the persons who ended up in handcuffs was tracked early in the morning in Macerata, who has been sent to prison in Ancona. The drugs left Albania for Rome and then shipped throughout Europe, transported by courier on trains and buses.

An Albanian was arrested in Macerata who had recently been relocated from Rome. The man identified as PG, 27, is now in jail. He was part of an organization that imported medicines from Vlora.

Since the morning, the police had started simultaneously axing in some of the provinces of Rome, Brescia, Modena, Macerata, Genoa (Rapallo), Parma, Reggio Calabria (Cittanova) and in Germany (the city of Kothen) and in Albania (Vlora) the orders were executed. issued by the magistrate of the court of Rome at the request of Antifamias, who ordered the imprisonment of 55 persons. There are 52 men and 3 women, 27 Albanian citizens, 23 Nigerians, 4 Italians and 1 Gambian.

The first group, composed only of Albanians, imported large quantities of marijuana directly from Vlora and then collaborated with the Nigerians in Italy to distribute it in various European countries and of course in the Italian regions.

The second group consisted of three people from Nigeria, while the third organization consisted of eight people, also Nigerians, who received and bought quantities of marijuana from Albania which they then transported and traded throughout the national and European territory, having two logistics base in Rome through Melicucco and through Villafranca Tirreno.

In some cases, some of the suspects turned out to belong to 2 of the 3 associations under investigation at the same time.

The investigative activity started in April 2018 until April 2019, where during this period 83 subjects were arrested and a total of 481 kilograms of “marijuana” and 10 kg of hashish were seized and about 70 thousand euros were seized. The narcotics would have given them a profit of 2.5 million euros if sold on the street.

The marijuana landed on the shores of Apulia and then transported to the Italian capital in vacuum bags and wrapped in multiple layers of cellophane and duct tape, often having a different color to distinguish packages based on quantity, usually never less se 1 kilogram. /shekulli.al

Photo: flash

– The police determined through operative work that this is a villa that is completely isolated from other houses, in which it seemed as if no one lived, nor were any activities noticed. It was interesting to them that two Rottweilers were guarding such a lonely, seemingly abandoned house. When the police decided to enter the house last Friday, after receiving a court search warrant, the dogs, which otherwise belong to the category of dangerous, attacked them, so the agency that deals with animal protection had to react – local media state.

The police were greeted by the strong smell of marijuana in the villa itself, and from the ground floor of the house they could not be entered either in the basement or on the first floor. After the search, secret passages were discovered, and the plantation was reached – through a closet!

1,050 marijuana plants in different stages of growth were found in the villa, as well as a room for drying plants with 355 grams of cannabis buds, while in the basement there was a larger plantation with 1,150 plants that were in optimal condition for harvesting.

A Serb suspected of committing a serious act against public health safety and electricity theft is in custody.