The president of Albania Edi Rama is keen to make it known that if the two centers for migrants Shengjin and Gjader are late it is Italy’s fault. They were supposed to be ready in May, they will arrive in November but «our side is not involved with the work plans. The agreement is for five years and everything else is in the hands of the Italian side”, he says today at Everyday occurrence. Rama denied having said a Republic that the centers will not be able to function, but he points out: «Whether or not it will be possible to rotate 3,000 people in the space of a month I cannot say. Only evidence of the facts will be able to say this.” But he is also keen to deny that the centers are created in an area where the Albanian underworld traffics in human beings: «This description is simply shameful: that area of the country is among the most crowded on the entire Adriatic coast. Full of tourists from all over Europe.”
Edi Rama and the Albanian clans
The president of Albania denies the accusations of his former deputy Arben Ahmetai, who claims that Rama has relations with Albanian clans: «I believe that Albania does not deserve this because never before in its history is it experiencing a new era of change in justice. My ex-deputy is one of these individuals for whom there is also an international arrest warrant. And, as I said to Reports, making a fugitive a source of media spectacle without showing a single piece of evidence to support the gravity of such enormity. It is not investigative journalism but mud journalism.”
Then reply to Reports: «Mine is a humanly sacrosanct reaction to an abuse of freedom of information in the Italian public service. Where the line between truth and falsehood has been totally dissolved! And then they tell you “but it’s called investigative journalism”… But no, it seems like a democratic copy of the inquisition type of investigation from the times of Enver Hoxha (communist dictator, ed). With secret police interrogations and Stalinist trials. I am sure that Piero Manzoni would have made it another masterpiece of contemporary art. But I don’t know if he would have titled it “Investigation Shit” or “Public Service”.
