The angry bigots of Zvërnec are in...Athens

2026-06-01 21:36:59Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MERO BAZE
Police during the protest of residents and environmental activists, on the 23rd in Zvërnec

Now we are clearer. Protests about what happened in Zvërnec have now turned into protests against what will happen in Zvërnec. So, if the cause of public irritation was rightly the barbaric behavior towards a young protester, now the battle is not for him, but against the greatest project that has ever approached Albania from the outside; a project that unites the US and the financial world of the Middle East, which brings Albania not only a new financial leap, but also a greater shell of security from a geopolitical point of view.

So now this reaction of the police or Edi Rama about the Zvërnec incident doesn't matter much. Now all the angry people are sincere. They have it with the investment.

The most angry people are in Athens. The government, the press, the MEPs, the opposition, even Beleri are angry there. And they have two levels of anger. They complain about one thing and have another thing in mind. They complain that Zvërnec is Greek land and that the beaten man was a discriminated member of the Greek minority, while in fact no one asked him his name when they beat him, because thugs don't have that habit.

The truth is that Greece, its press, the government and the opposition that have come together against Zvërnec, don't have it with the Greek minority, that it doesn't exist in Zvërnec. They have it with the investment.

And they are right. An investment that brings the Trump family to Vlora and several billionaires from the Arab world is a new standard not only economic for Albania, but also geopolitical. Greece has also been at war with Vlora airport for two years now through environmental reports from Brussels and the activism of environmentalists. But the government has arrogantly overcome some of the obstacles that have been put in its way. Vlora airport and the Zvërnec-Sazan investment package are true, they separate Vlora from Albania, but they do not take it to the US or Qatar. They leave it there, but they make Albania's economy and its territory stronger and more inviolable.

So Greece has a right to be concerned. Any normal country that is responsible in competing with its neighbors would be concerned. Except us. We are concerned why this is happening to us and not to Greece.

The second angry ones are the Zvërnec protesters in Tirana and Vlora. I don't want to confuse them with Greece, because they are not from Greece; they are ours. They may have never been to Zvërnec and may never go, but they have a political cause ahead of them. They have understood that it is time for an anti-capitalist ideological left to rise in Albania and they are trying their best.

At the center of the protest is the Together Movement, with Arlind Qorri and Fatos Lubonja. They are the clearest, the cleanest in their grasping of others and the most aggressive. The others are their entourage. They are not from Greece. They are ours and are deeply convinced and clear that that investment must be prevented as a cause against big capital. Every neo-Marxist force in the world has this cause and we should not prejudge them.

The only thing that is wrong is when they are flattered that someone is accusing them of being agents of Greece. No, they are not agents of Greece. Greece is with them in mind and soul and by their side, but they have nothing to do with Greece. They are worse. They love Albania worse than Greece loves it, because that is their ideological cause. So don't worry about them. Let them be free to protest, vote and prove themselves in this cause they have. Don't confuse them with Greece, because you are also insulting Greece's clarity against this project.

The last ones concerned are SPAK prosecutors. They have begun investigations, according to the official announcement, into the ownership of the land and the legal stages of removing it from the protected area and returning it to a protected landscape with construction rights.

They are doing very well. As for the land, I know how the whole of Albania was transformed after the '90s into the hands of the strong, who then legitimized power after power. As for the legal acts, I don't care how they find them. If someone has violated the rules, let them face the law.

But one thing seemed very irresponsible to me in their conservative sequestration.

They have imposed a conservative seizure on the Qatari company that will invest, without even starting work and without even spending a penny. So they have blocked the accounts of several billionaires, with the excuse that they are trying to invest in Zvërnec. This, if not irresponsibility, is deliberate damage to a billion-dollar project in Albania by the most avant-garde justice institution, which claims to protect us from pickpockets who steal our economy and rob foreign billionaires from the country, who bring 4 billion euros of their own into the Albanian economy.

Neither Greece, nor Arlind Qorri, nor Fatos Lubonja of 1997 and 2026 can cause greater damage to the Albanian economy.

I hope it's not the "Greek nucleus" within SPAK that arrests anyone who goes against Beleri, because in this case, it would be even more honorable to know that we are truly going against Greece.

And the attempt to "arrest" billionaires who will invest before they even arrive is unprecedented in jurisprudence, incomprehensible in international politics, and very bold for an institution that, when it commits repressive acts, justifies itself by saying it has spoken to the US or EU embassy.

I don't know who they spoke to on May 29, but blocking someone's accounts without investing is not only not fair. At the very least, it is also an economic damage to Albania. It is really a political attack, just like anyone who is upset by the Zvërnec-Sazan investment project. And we did not vote for them to deal with development policies.


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