Police commissioner of Vlora taken hostage
Speedboat operators kidnap and mistreat the head of the seaside city’s police. The Ministry of the Interior had no information about his fate
Interior Minister Xhafaj accuses officials and MPs implicated in the serious incident in Vlora and in the widespread kidnapping in the coastal city
Speedboat operators kidnap and mistreat the head of the police of the
coastal city. The Ministry of the Interior had no information about his fate
Interior Minister Xh[?]faj accuses officials and MPs involved in the
serious incident in Vlora and in the widespread kidnapping in the coastal city
When the state takes
the state hostage!
By Edi PALOKA
Last night, Albania was almost left in the hands of
the speedboat masks. After several hours of their free action, in the city of
Vlora and in part of Albania, the police completely disappeared.
Reports coming from Vlora said that the police in that city had been
crushed and that its chief had been taken hostage and was being tortured.
The scenes of this second civil war were the most unimaginable.
After kidnapping, mistreating and then leaving the head of the city police
unconscious, the speedboat operators had surrounded the house of
one of the police station chiefs and threatened him with a gun.
The police chief’s colleagues, as our correspondent also reports,
had locked themselves in their homes and not only dared not intervene
to rescue their chief, but, on the contrary, had turned off their phones and
it was unknown where they had hidden. Meanwhile, the city was left
without police and all that collapse was in the hands of the
speedboat operators. These, after kidnapping and beating the police chief,
had set up roadblocks at the entrance to Vlora and did not
allow anyone to enter. Late in the evening, uneasy calm was restored by
the FNSH, but at least until the moment we were closing
this article, the police chief of Vlora continued to be kidnapped.
The above episode happened shortly after the government decreed strong
measures against trafficking in human beings and one day after the chairman of the
Socialist Party, Fatos Nano, called on all those who have returned to
this activity to give it up immediately. Coincidentally,
this war between the police and the speedboat operators, among other things, was a war
between traffickers who were against Nano and others who were with
Nano.
A few hours after the Minister of Order, MP Spartak Poçi, declared in
Parliament that there was no longer any kind of speedboat operator who made money from trafficking, the chief of the
police of Vlora was being kidnapped. It is hard to remember a move more
cynical than this declaration made in Parliament, at the same time when
wars for control of trafficking were being fought in one corner of the country.
Will this episode have consequences, even for the minister who declared
in Parliament that he had solved the war with the speedboat traffickers,
although the chief of police of the main city in this war was being
kidnapped, remains to be seen. Consequently, shortly before closing
this article, the police were saying that they had found the police chief,
but, according to reports, Mr. Bërdelli was in serious health condition
in the Vlora hospital.
Naturally, for public security matters, responsibility falls directly
on the head of the Government of Albania. From officials of the Ministry of
Order it is learned that the Minister of Order and other officials of this
ministry have tried to convince politicians that, with delusional statements about control of the situation in Albania, they are
convincing the public opinion and foreign opinion that Albania does not need
help, that the situation is many times more serious than it is presented.
If the Vlora police are also controlled by PS leaders,
as officials of the Ministry of Order say, then episodes such as
the kidnapping of the chief of police of this city show that the Vlora police
and the state structure have come to an end, or, at least, are passing into
the hands of people linked to organized crime. This would show
that everything happening in Vlora is the result of replacing the police chief of Vlora appointed by the Meksi government, with people
who have destroyed what remains of the state.
Nevertheless, consequently, last night’s episode was nothing more
than a growing war for control of trafficking among people with
different political shades, which are proving that the State police have
melted into a criminal structure. From what is known,
the local police structures in Vlora linked to segments of the PS
have decided to declare war on the speedboat operators who have
dared to continue this activity in defiance of some
unwritten orders and the will of some officials.
The next phase of this conflict may be even more serious, but
the people of Vlora, the Albanian state and the entire country have little interest in
the war between the speedboat operators and the government, because the price of this war is an
Albanian state without structure and in a chaos where everyone does as they please.
If there is calm, as government propaganda makes noise about, it
is based on the force of one part of organized crime to crush another part with
government support. Or rather, this is the real situation in this country. Edi PALOKA