fun thing to add in in my hometown we had a lot of small criminals after 2004 EU opened to us all of them left fort Eu/England for better life making my village safer.
I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s you could buy less lethal (blank firing or "Traumatic" rubber ball firing) pistol without permit as long as you were 18 years old. Organized crime took that as a business opportunity. They purchased huge amounts of Russian made izh 79-9tm or PM-T pistols that were 90% a real Makarov pistol besides the barrel. Modified them to fire real ammo and started exporting them all through out Western Europe. They started appearing everywhere from Northern Ireland to Spain as well many other murder scenes. It became so bad that rest of Europe pressured Lithuanian government to regulate less lethal firearm sales. And ever since then you have to have a permit to buy and carry one as well as register it even if the process is a bit more easy to obtain the permit and permit never expires unlike the one for lethal weapon.
Yes, lithuanian criminal gangs is a known fact. Gangs was influentional in Lithuania after CCCP collaps, just like it is until now in Russia. Luckelly for us, police won against mafia in period 1996-2004. After that criminals moved to EU, mainly to the countries with great diasporas of lithuanian emigrants - Spain, Ireland, UK, Norway, Germany. Suddenly Lithuania as a country became peacefull and safe, while criminals moved towards West.
I remember how two years ago my boss mentioned over a beer that until about a decade ago, mafia organizations were all over Lithuania. I asked what happened after that, and his answer was: some got caught and are behind bars, others went legal and the rest is now in Germany (which is where I am from).
The legal system in the Western Europe has for a long time been a lot more, in a way, naive. Thus it attracts people to establish criminal centres there since you have a few opportunities to use your "get out of jail free card", while here you don't get to do that. This naivity is reflected in a wider scene of things outside of outright crimes. For example how migration from third countries has been handled in the last decade or so, or how Russia has been viewed as a partner to be relied on by some. Things aren't looking too hot in all these aspects today, even though with all these examples, the writing has been on the wall for anyone interested to see. It makes it seem like they prefer to learn things the hard way every time, rather than take a more pragmatic approach to laying down rules, sparing themselves imminent hardship.
Yes the unfortunate timing of us joining EU, at the same time our law enforcement was getting better at catching and closing down organized crime in Lithuania. I know alot of examples of criminals fleeing to UK, Ireland, Spain to avoid the court or running away from police. And then they just continued same lifestyle elsewhere.
not exactly Lithuanian, but, it seems that every single Polish movie made in the 90's to early 2000's , is a gangster story similar to all of these. To back up what you said about the being someplace the gangsters had to go somewhere once the government regained control; reminds me bit of the Polish movie, 'Psy' (Pigs) about Polish cops at the end of communist Poland and the beginning of "free Poland" and, well, it's a good movie! The scariest thing, though in this video for me, is that the murderer got 12 years in prison while the fraudster got 14! Murder got less jail time than fraud! (makes me think of 2 Seinfeld bits I could do here, but I'll behave, lol)
I still remember when Brexit happened n some my good colleagues in LT office saying,Crap now those idiots will come back who we got rid of by sending them outside..
This one is not easy... "Pabėgęs" is more "escaped" or "runaway" (something that happened once in the past and is not current). "Fugitive" id say is more like "bėglys" (meaning a person on the run currently). Besislapstantis? (in hiding). This one is on a fringe to me and im out of suggestions. He should have picked an easier one like criminal-nusikaltėlis or something 😆
Never heard of the Lithuanian criminal gangs before. The few Lithuanians that I have known were very respectable. However, what strikes me is that people are happy to get a criminal record for the sake of making money. They have to be really desperate to do that.
What I have heard is that Baltic Jews, criminal gangs worked with Russian, and Polish Jews. And that was the “Russian Mafia”. Not sure if that’s true though.
Well lads we all come to this country to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. And you will pay for broken dreams
fun thing to add in in my hometown we had a lot of small criminals after 2004 EU opened to us all of them left fort Eu/England for better life making my village safer.
I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s you could buy less lethal (blank firing or "Traumatic" rubber ball firing) pistol without permit as long as you were 18 years old. Organized crime took that as a business opportunity. They purchased huge amounts of Russian made izh 79-9tm or PM-T pistols that were 90% a real Makarov pistol besides the barrel. Modified them to fire real ammo and started exporting them all through out Western Europe. They started appearing everywhere from Northern Ireland to Spain as well many other murder scenes. It became so bad that rest of Europe pressured Lithuanian government to regulate less lethal firearm sales. And ever since then you have to have a permit to buy and carry one as well as register it even if the process is a bit more easy to obtain the permit and permit never expires unlike the one for lethal weapon.
Yes, lithuanian criminal gangs is a known fact. Gangs was influentional in Lithuania after CCCP collaps, just like it is until now in Russia. Luckelly for us, police won against mafia in period 1996-2004. After that criminals moved to EU, mainly to the countries with great diasporas of lithuanian emigrants - Spain, Ireland, UK, Norway, Germany. Suddenly Lithuania as a country became peacefull and safe, while criminals moved towards West.
I remember how two years ago my boss mentioned over a beer that until about a decade ago, mafia organizations were all over Lithuania. I asked what happened after that, and his answer was: some got caught and are behind bars, others went legal and the rest is now in Germany (which is where I am from).
The legal system in the Western Europe has for a long time been a lot more, in a way, naive. Thus it attracts people to establish criminal centres there since you have a few opportunities to use your "get out of jail free card", while here you don't get to do that. This naivity is reflected in a wider scene of things outside of outright crimes. For example how migration from third countries has been handled in the last decade or so, or how Russia has been viewed as a partner to be relied on by some. Things aren't looking too hot in all these aspects today, even though with all these examples, the writing has been on the wall for anyone interested to see. It makes it seem like they prefer to learn things the hard way every time, rather than take a more pragmatic approach to laying down rules, sparing themselves imminent hardship.
Yes the unfortunate timing of us joining EU, at the same time our law enforcement was getting better at catching and closing down organized crime in Lithuania. I know alot of examples of criminals fleeing to UK, Ireland, Spain to avoid the court or running away from police. And then they just continued same lifestyle elsewhere.
Just remebered Irish and Italian gangs in USA. Every immigrant nation has it's criminal pages. But not every one leaves the inpact in Hollywwod.
ever since joining EU i felt this relief as if someone put all the low lives into a container and exported it outside of Lithuania
Just to add some levity.... can we get a Lithuanian reboot of Goodfellas?
not exactly Lithuanian, but, it seems that every single Polish movie made in the 90's to early 2000's , is a gangster story similar to all of these. To back up what you said about the being someplace the gangsters had to go somewhere once the government regained control; reminds me bit of the Polish movie, 'Psy' (Pigs) about Polish cops at the end of communist Poland and the beginning of "free Poland" and, well, it's a good movie! The scariest thing, though in this video for me, is that the murderer got 12 years in prison while the fraudster got 14! Murder got less jail time than fraud! (makes me think of 2 Seinfeld bits I could do here, but I'll behave, lol)
I still remember when Brexit happened n some my good colleagues in LT office saying,Crap now those idiots will come back who we got rid of by sending them outside..
babėgęs isn't runaway ? i feel it fits more as fugitive
This one is not easy... "Pabėgęs" is more "escaped" or "runaway" (something that happened once in the past and is not current). "Fugitive" id say is more like "bėglys" (meaning a person on the run currently). Besislapstantis? (in hiding). This one is on a fringe to me and im out of suggestions. He should have picked an easier one like criminal-nusikaltėlis or something 😆
Never heard of the Lithuanian criminal gangs before. The few Lithuanians that I have known were very respectable. However, what strikes me is that people are happy to get a criminal record for the sake of making money. They have to be really desperate to do that.
What I have heard is that Baltic Jews, criminal gangs worked with Russian, and Polish Jews. And that was the “Russian Mafia”. Not sure if that’s true though.
Based Lithuania, much love from Belarus
I'm Lithuanian, Jesus it's nothing if you only seen the 90s
Well lads we all come to this country to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. And you will pay for broken dreams
Whole world is burning of corruption and crime..i am so depressed that i want to emigrate to Japan
Japan sucks like all of the world
Deport
Come to Canada, Canabis is is legal, geeeeeeez
Finally the truth about lithuania.
Still not as bad as russians in lithuania