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2026-10-19 15:55:42Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA FILIP ÇAKULI

I went to throw out the trash, but I couldn't find any bins. I wanted to cross the street, but the traffic lights were broken. I went to do my laundry, but I found the store burned down.

At the ATM, destruction. On the street, stones torn from the boulevard. Then, the National Bank and the Supreme Court, burned down.

And I asked myself: who are these young people punishing? The Prime Minister or ourselves?

I wouldn't dare call the burning and looting of businesses, the destruction of public property and institutions a student protest. Because the prime minister doesn't have his shop burned down, he doesn't miss a traffic light, and he doesn't have to walk between rocks. He continues to govern. We continue to pay the bill.

These young people may think that by destroying Tirana, they are dealing a blow to the government. In reality, they are dealing a blow to their city, our property and our daily lives. They are burning what they will have to rebuild tomorrow with their taxes.

This does not mean that anger at the government is unjust. On the contrary! It is completely legitimate. The accumulated troubles, the arrogance of power, and the refusal to recognize and solve the problems are sufficient reasons to protest. The government cannot hide behind the vandalism of a few protesters to wash itself of its responsibilities.

But anger is not a license to destroy either. If you have a problem with the prime minister, why do you burn down a citizen's shop? If you want justice, why do you attack the court? If you want a better state, why do you destroy public property?

What about the police? They have the obligation to protect citizens, businesses and institutions, but also to guarantee the right to protest. They cannot stand idly by when stones picked up from the boulevard are thrown at their officers. But even a uniform does not give anyone the right to strike indiscriminately. Force must be necessary, proportional and controllable. Every excess must be investigated, every violation must be punished.

“In conditions of anarchy, force is a measure of justice,” wrote Plato, 2200 years ago. The brutal images of a policeman being beaten, lying on the ground, best demonstrate who these vandals, so-called students, are.

And if they are really students, woe to us for the future generation. And the images of the police going too far, brutally beating a young man, were terrifying. You don't even behave like that with an enemy who surrenders or is taken prisoner. Yes, in the meantime, those police officers have been suspended, but the protesters who assaulted the police officer continue their vandalism.

The police are not the enemy of the protestor, nor the protestor the enemy of the police. Both are citizens of this country, with rights and obligations. And no one should be used as a shield for the mistakes of the other.

You can overthrow the Prime Minister with a vote, with protest, and with citizen pressure. But when you burn the city to hit him, in the end the city burns, the citizen pays, and the power remains.

Therefore, protest as much as you want, demand accountability without tiring, do not forgive the government any arrogance. But do not turn your anger into a gift for it. Because a destroyed city is not the prime minister's loss. It is our loss.

But perhaps anger has darkened their eyes. That they should have listened to you in time, when you were peacefully demanding your rights, that, as Kennedy said,

“Whoever makes a peaceful revolution impossible makes a violent revolution inevitable.” However, I appeal to you as your fellow citizen: do not devastate the city where we live and deal with the government through all kinds of democratic means.


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