Massive Albania Jailbreak Thwarted

Tirana _ Albanian police claim to have a thwarted a huge jailbreak by some of the country’s most notorious criminals.

The plan appears to come to light when two prisoners, Pashk Leshi and Fran Marashi, both serving life sentences for multiple murder, escaped from the country’s high security prison in Burrel, in northern Albania, by sawing off the bars of their cells.

They were caught just thirty minutes later.

However their failed attempt apparently revealed a plan for the jailbreak of more than 75 other prisoners.

The security mishap has already landed Prison Director, Eduard Brahimlika, four of his aides and two correctional officers, behind bars.

Prison officials in Burrel had discovered a previous attempt a month ago to saw off the bars, however after welding them again the incident went unreported to higher authorities of the prison system and the prosecutor’s office.

Burrel high security prison hosts Albania’s most dangerous criminals. Most of them are serving life sentences for murder and other serious crimes.

Some of the convicts jailed there are linked to the armed bands of criminals that terrorised the population in the period of lawlessness and anarchy that followed the collapse of a series of pyramid financial schemes in 1997, which left hundreds of thousands of investors bankrupt.