The bosses drug the beggars
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A young beggar on the sidewalks of Tirana
Clients write to Sude
Come with us to “Kopetenti”
Mrs. Sude,
We, your clients, have been under unprecedented psychological terror for a month. We know it is not your fault, so please explain to us:
1. Who is the one giving you orders?
2. Who stopped your activity?
3. Where have you deposited the money, and who blocked you?
4. Are you willing to come with us to the competent authority when we ask you to?
Your clients do not wish you any harm. We want to fight alongside you so that you return our money and both you and we can have peace of mind. If you do not explain things to us, we will be here day and night.
Thank you.
These words were written by representatives of Sude’s 100,000 clients. Faced with the sincerity of their requests and their extreme despair, it is not difficult to understand clearly that the 100,000 people are now seeking their money outside Sude’s company. They are looking for her “commander,” the one who stopped her activity, the one who blocked the operation and who is “competent” for it, as Sude herself has dubbed him: THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY. After all, the clients are asking where their money has been deposited. In such a huge operation, we do not believe it would be difficult to find “Sude’s competent authority.” We do not believe the state is so weak in this area, apart from its unwillingness to act—a suspicion reinforced even by the state’s silence itself. The clients know that in this state it is SHIK that knows how many lekë the thousands of people standing behind Sude’s veil have made. They know that in this state there is the State Audit Service, established precisely to oversee economic and financial activity. Where were these branches of the state until yesterday? Do they know who the competent authority is, or is it among them? After all, thousands of clients should finally be reassured—perhaps now not by Sude, but by the state—not by asking, “Where has the money been deposited?” but: “Does the money exist?!”
