Again 2 million lira worth of fuel heading toward Shkodër
"Smuggling between Albania and Montenegro is extremely strong," says Antonio Napolitano, the UN envoy on the embargo
We bear on ourselves the consequence of the order, up to the unloading on 28 July from the full game of the agreement between the fuel depots about 3 km outside the city of Shkodër, describes our correspondent. "Force". The fire broke out at 10:00, when this point was being attended during the inspection procedure by police agents. The explosion was caused by the fire, and in the same one 35 fuel tankers were affected.
At first the explosion in the tank of a tanker was the immediate result. Above all, the fuels of Shkodër, but also of other cities, were burned 3 km outside the city of Shkodër.
At 17:00 it arrived, as reported, unloaded on 28 July from the full game of the agreement about the consequences. He also made known that the fire perpetrators are not being identified, as is the case. In such circumstances, it is also being allowed on the black market. Retail sales were going at a price of 9.00 until 15:00.
To avoid interruption, the fire continues at this fuel point, for which the fire brigade vehicles began work around midnight. The municipal vehicles worked at 2 a.m. In the afternoon the fire at this place.
The first fire chief sent to the point is already there. The force controlled by a minister who writes from the vanished one has arrived. Everything in principle, where he explained that the fire could rage by hand of fire, which continued until the burning of 2 full tankers and the sales point. It is estimated that the quantity burned was 2.8 million liters of diesel and gasoline, an approximate damage of 6 million dollars.
The police cooperation related to this event has done in Albania and lawyer. The first investigations suspect that the fire was intentional from the failed machinery and the whole day of Shkodër. The fire event was intentional. Likewise they and started burning from the place in three fire. But this has interrupted the fire continuing at the junction of the person whose vehicle from the boy washed the felt one. The fire power suspects from the failed machinery and the whole day of Shkodër. The first observations suspect chemical intervention. Without the firefighters, the anti-fire force continued.
Outside, the first UN envoy in Albania for monitoring the oil embargo, Antonio Napolitano, arrived on the Buna River road. He made known that smuggling between Albania and Montenegro continues to be extremely strong, and therefore proposed that new measures be taken. According to him, traders continue to supply fuel at this point in the country, but until then he is not able to cope. According to Napolitano, the firefighters arrived late in 1994, and it is not excluded that the fire from Monday may have been intentional. "If one is innocent and the other guilty."
Testimony of Ziad Koça, dismissed from his job