 Further, the clan has considerable ties to police, judges and prosecutors in Hamburg.According to British criminal Colin Blaney in his autobiography 'Undesirables', Albanian criminals in Germany also frequently come to blows with British criminals who operate in the nation.Albanian people traffickers have been involved in confrontations with an English organised crime group known as the Wide Awake Firm, including an incident in which a member of the English group was stabbed through the hand.