Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe

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Sep 22, 202675:54Society & Culture

In the picturesque Montenegrin port of Kotor, a cocaine trafficking partnership fractured into one of Europe’s bloodiest gang wars. A dispute over a drug shipment in Spain in 2014 split the organization into two rival cl...

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