Kotor is a city of just over 10,000 inhabitants located in southern Montenegro. Surrounded by mountains and the sea, it is a popular tourist destination, perfectly illustrating the rugged and imposing landscape of this Balkan country. But Kotor was also the birthplace of a mafia that was very active at the beginning of the century, primarily involved in drug trafficking. Its reach extended throughout Europe and even extended to the port of Valencia. In 2014, a shipment of cocaine disappeared. According to a report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, it was a Kotor mafia operation that went bankrupt. This shipment sparked an internal war within the mafia, leaving two clearly distinct factions: the Skaljari and the Kavac. The war continues, and in recent months Catalonia has been feeling its consequences.