Usury is making Albanians ill. Consumption of tranquilizers in Tirana’s pharmacies is increasing pages 2-3-4

It seems that we have swallowed the salty tears of usury; for three days now, thousands of people, whose bet with Sude failed, have been crying and screaming as they demand their money. Sude appears at the windows of her apartment building and says nothing. The “competent authority” she has been waiting for for several weeks has clearly betrayed her by now. Sude, who surely knows this, is not revealing where the money is or what has become of it. All she can do is keep postponing the repayment dates, depending on the consultations she holds every day with government emissaries. She was summoned to the police offices and there she revealed where the money is. The government and the agencies under its control are saying nothing either. All sides know that the money, assets and sold repayments will never be returned, and they also know where the money is. After this horror, encouraged by the government’s silence, perhaps there should no longer be any doubt about calling Sude a fraudster. No matter how generous she may have been over the past four years, the scenes of the last four days can no longer wash clean her face, blackened by fraud and mockery. She pretends to be asleep when they call her on the phone, adding a comic dose to the tragedy called Sude. Tirana’s pharmacies are reporting distressing figures for the use of tranquilizers in recent days, while Sude says on the phone that she is sleeping peacefully and without Valium. The government officials seem to be sleeping just as soundly, from Berisha down to Mek-s(i). Two weeks ago Berisha said that the money from the usury schemes was the cleanest in the world. Unfortunately, it took an anonymous person, who pronounces Meksi’s name as Meskin, to bring down all his theories and hypotheses about the purity of the usury schemes. But if Berisha sometimes fails to control himself, he has always shown signs of controlling others. So the time has come for him to do so, for his own good and that of others. And it must be done quickly, before the second series of Sude begins. It remains for him to reveal where the money is. If he does not know, there are many people around him who know how to ask and answer... K.J

Yesterday at Sude’s counter photo G. SHKULLAKU Yesterday at Sude’s counter — photo G. SHKULLAKU