La Repubblica echoes the investigation in Albania: How do Meloni's police officers have fun in Shëngjin?

The Italian media "La Repubblica" has echoed the investigation of the show " Piranhas " inside the resort where the Italian police officers are accommodated.

The latter are in Shëngjin to monitor two centers that are expected to house migrants, although they are still empty.

So far, the only success of the agreement is the accommodation of the Italian camp staff, mostly police and carabinieri, in a five-star luxury resort in the center of Shëngjin.

"Piranha" investigative journalist Luela Gaxhja conducted a several-day investigation inside the resort, where around 100 Italian police officers are accommodated and where everything is highly controlled and monitored.

The Italian police have shown without thinking twice, to the journalist disguised as a tourist, that their life in our country is just like that of tourists. They have stated that they have managed to visit other cities besides Shëngjin.

They also talked about the treatment they receive at the 5-star resort, where they have a sauna, Turkish bath, swimming pool, gym, and relaxation room.

And for all these services and trips, Italian police officers do not take anything out of their pockets, because within the framework of the Rama-Meloni agreement, everything is paid for with the money of Italian citizens.

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Sauna every day "because everything is free here", tourist trips to Shkodra, Durres and Tirana, long walks, disco evenings.

It is the story of the "mission" in Albania that comes from the voice of the police officers who remained on duty in Shëngjin, the Albanian city where one of the two centers created by the Meloni government to transfer some of the drowned people rescued to the Italian coast is located.

An operation attempted twice and failed twice, according to the judges of the Rome court, because European rules do not allow it.

As a result, the Shëngjin camp, like the detention center in nearby Gjadra, remained empty, but the police, hosted not without controversy at the Rafaelo Hotel, a super-luxury resort, still remained in Albania.

In recent weeks, the contingent of 220 police, carabinieri and financiers, all on duty with regular international mission payments, equivalent to one hundred euros per day plus food and accommodation, has been reduced by about half, but about 100 of them still remain in the Albanian city, Albanian television correspondents discovered.

The Albanian program "Piranjat" managed to learn about the situation from the agents themselves, who did not hide anything from two correspondents equipped with hidden cameras. "We came to work, but they pay us for tourists," they say as they "escort" the two girls first to the market to buy cigarettes, then to the beach.

"There was an agreement to bring migrants here, we have to monitor the centers, but they are empty. A waste of money," sings one. And when asked what they are doing in Albania, another replies: "Yesterday we were in Durrës, beautiful. Then Tirana, Shkodra for two days. The Italian government pays for everything."

They try to include them for an evening at the disco, then invite them for lunch in their room because they can't get into the restaurant that is reserved for the Italian police.

"If your boyfriend is jealous, they told us there could be problems here," one says with a wink.

“This is not an isolated case,” confirms another group of agents met in the resort’s spa, “an entire area with a sauna, Turkish bath, swimming pool, gym and relaxation room – it is standard practice in Albania.”

"Here in the hotel are all Italian police, for them the treatment is comprehensive," explains an escort to the two envoys. And you only have to take a sauna session to prove it: there is another set of uniforms in the bathroom.

“I'm here for work,” explains someone who appreciates the benefits of the sauna, at which he now seems an expert, “to eliminate toxins from the body.” At the resort, he says, there are “carabinieres, policemen and financiers.

"We don't pay, the Italian state pays together with the European Union."

The centers built "to bring migrants who come by boat to Italy" are empty, so, the agent continues - we go to the sauna every day because "for us it's free, but the days remain long and empty so I want to organize myself to visit the beautiful cities nearby." Anyway, it's all free./ La Repubblica