Physical violence against two deputies of the People’s Assembly Former Defense Minister Perikli Teta accused another deputy of “misuse of office”

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- A Socialist rally with the slogans: “Down with the dictatorship”, “Down with fascism”, “Free Fatos Nano”, “Oh, what a fire”, we will kill [them] by hanging.” For two hours, on one side there was calm and on the other hysteria, vulgar and concert-hall-like. On Kavaja Street citizens were being arrested and bundled into police cars to be taken to the station. Especially in front of this police station on “Mine Peza” Street, an enraged crowd gathered, filling the boulevard. The crowd even resorted to insults in the typical language of militant opposition. The crowd was demanding the release of Fatos Nano. Through a public telephone, calls were also made for others to join them. On Durrës Street the crowd constantly called on everyone who had parked their cars to get out and greet them. Not even the police could do anything about it. Passing by there, after two years I saw the same scene again, dominated by hysteria and a disgusting anti-culture. Above the moral codes of the Ministry, the barking of a dog at a human being and not an animal could be heard. This was the man called Fatos Nano, who had been absurdly arrested the day before. Many police officers, handcuffs in their hands, shouting and cursing with filthy street language for the liberation of the comrade, I do not know who needs them. It was enough that he was taken to Police Station No. 3, whose gates were closed. At this hour, under a torrential rain that later caused a polar cold in Tirana, around 19:00 the protest was in full swing. Calm, silent, and of yesterday’s communists, they never stopped. Several hours earlier in Vlora the police had just attacked an organized cell of several people. After several clashes that took place on “Sami Frashëri” Street between the demonstrators and the police, everything remained under scrutiny. A group of 50 people took the lead of the crowd. Tirana had not lacked at any minute many young people who were saying they would take revenge for the detention of their “boss”. The other detainees had been brought there before 20:00. There we maintained order from the Ministry of the Interior. Most of the demonstrators were leaving. After turning back to the boulevard we remained completely silent. Calm fell on Durrës Street. We felt ourselves in the chronicle and that the editorial office did not take us to Dumre.