• Private and unregistered vehicles are kidnapping people in broad daylight. If this continues, Albania will become a second Sicily. In recent months, hundreds of kidnappings have taken place. The strangest, the most unacceptable one imaginable, happened recently in Lezhë. While in the whole country people are still talking about two cars, here among us they are kidnapping even people by car. Here is what happened. In the Nënë Tereza neighborhood of Lezhë, at house no. 99, a red “Toyota” with a white license plate, apparently made in Taiwan, with two boys inside, approached a young girl and took her by force. She was about 20 years old. One of her sisters, seeing this scene, began to shout. But chased by the kidnappers, she did not have it easy. In her run she fell and was taken to the hospital. The घटना happened on Wednesday at 10:30 in the morning, that is, in broad daylight. Or rather under the light of the sun. In this case, what stands out is not only brutality. There is also a serious lack of security. No one feels safe if they can be kidnapped, even under the light of the sun. This is painful, more than tragic. According to many citizens, this incident is not the first of its kind. What is unusual is that we are dealing with the kidnapping of a person by a “Toyota”, while cars still remain for us in Albania something like a world not yet reached and far away. At least private cars. This shows that from Monday onward, violence against women seems to be considered acceptable. IN PURSUIT! To uncover the details of this event, we sent our reporter. She, together with two other boys, caught a “LADA”, another private car, and after asking until they got lost in the neighborhood alleys, they reached the place of the kidnapping. The saddest thing, more serious than the scandal of a girl being kidnapped in broad daylight, was that at the place where the girl had been taken by force, there apparently was no one with bad intentions, only by chance, who had seen and could tell how the unusual event had happened. Gone, unseen. In fact, nothing is known about what happened to her, let alone whether she has been returned. The people of Lezhë, like everywhere else, will find out what became of their girl. At the end of the road, and especially along the pedestrian street, the houses are a bit farther apart. Only there had some family been able to see anything. Among them, a 16-year-old girl said that the kidnapping had happened before her eyes, but no one had approached. She had noticed only that the young girl was heading toward a neighbor’s house when the private car stopped and took her by force. “A boy extended his hand and put her inside,” she said. Further on, another woman, while sweeping the yard, said she had heard screams but had not seen the faces. All the testimonies remain unclear and frightening. Those who described the car said it was a red “Toyota” with white plates. Others said it had no plate at all. These contradictions are a sign of the panic of the moment. But the fact remains a fact: a girl was taken by force in broad daylight. If today young girls are kidnapped, tomorrow even some minister’s wife may be kidnapped. This is not merely a literary figure. It is the consequence of the lack of order and of irresponsibility. If this continues, Albania will truly become a second Sicily.

He looked around and was heading toward ruin? There are many wise people, and people even wiser, who did very foolish things. Kastrio Shabani, after raising the lofty things to the top, lowered them all. Thus, the stories about him have taken on such unworthy forms that at times one laughs and cries at the same time. This man has become an example of an overturned era, where the good sometimes takes the place of the bad and the bad does the opposite. He, who yesterday spoke of honor and manliness, today wanders around talked about as a man of spite. In the city everyone knows him, but each tells the story in his own way. Some defend him, some attack him, some say he is a victim of circumstances. But in any case, his name is mentioned with irony. In the end the question remains: is this the tragedy of one man, or the mirror of a society that is shaking?

With the eyes that might be able to fix them, but will it be too late? He asks for “Italy’s help” for this misery, and continues to do the daily wrongdoings. In an effort to justify every failure, he uses big names, but wastes energy on useless things. In whispers and conversations the city has filled with comments about him. One says he is capable, another that he is untrustworthy. But what harms him most are his own actions. No one denies that he had talent. But talent without character often falls into the mud. If a person does not restrain himself in time, he becomes a bad example for others. What do others say? What example is he giving to write about whose cause may not be his, whose appearance may not have been shown in summer?

My colleagues, Gj. Çurri and Pali, are readers of newspaper articles by their headlines. Someone stops them and asks, “Did you read so-and-so?” and they, without thinking, say, “Yes, I read it.” In fact, they have only seen the headline. This phenomenon is not new. There are people who draw courage from the headline, become philosophers from the headline, and decide from the headline what the truth is. But when you get into the article, you find something entirely different. In the newsroom this has become daily humor. One gets ready for a debate, another argues back, a third laughs. Then it turns out that no one has read the article to the end. This disease of superficial reading is widespread. Everyone wants to know everything in one glance and in one breath. But articles are not read in a hurry. They require patience, attention, and thought.

Written. May it not have been lost? A greedy Jakova, ruling rights and Duke of Albania and the chairman of the Church of the Saint of denial. How much silver was the Jurisa? On the 10th he sent him dead! A dead man has remained without a grave for weeks. The family moves from door to door, while no one gives an answer. This is not only a tragedy, but also a disgrace. In this country order has fallen to the point that even the dead waits for his turn. There are no documents, no signatures, no one to take responsibility. Everyone makes promises and no one does the work. Qemal Sula has been dead for two months, but he still has not been buried. This heavy story shows how much the state and service to people have deteriorated.

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