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2026-10-15 13:33:00Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Tirana

There is a red line between protest and anarchy. In  Tirana , this line has been crossed.

Protesting against corruption, misgovernment, prices, unemployment or lack of prospects is a right. Breaking the window of a small shop, entering a kiosk to take goods, burning down someone's business or destroying traffic lights that tomorrow the citizen will pay for again, is not a protest. It is the worst way to increase hatred among Albanians.

Footage from October 14 showed groups of protesters who, while moving through Tirana, broke traffic lights, burned trash cans and vehicles, damaged signage, and entered kiosks and small shops to take products. 

The one who keeps a small shop open until dinner has not signed tenders. Has not awarded concessions, has not made laws, has not administered billions of euros of the budget.

But it is precisely him whose window is broken and whose belongings are taken. The citizen has to wake up the next morning and count the damage.

In Tirana's Pyramid, protesters broke the windows of businesses on the first floor, entered the premises, and some of them were engulfed in flames. 

In one of the videos that has circulated from the area, a business owner is seen trying to stop young people from taking materials from his premises, explaining that they are the work and sacrifice of his family.

AFP reported fires at two bank branches, while local sources reported several damaged banks and a broken ATM. 

But here too, a distinction must be made. Protesting against the financial system is one thing. Invading, destroying, and looting is another.

Because behind the counter is not "the system." It's a salaried employee. It's the security guard. It's the cleaner. It's the citizen who will find the door closed tomorrow.

If a 20-year-old enters his business and takes his goods, he is not “fighting the system.” He is robbing another Albanian.

If you break a store window, the owner tomorrow doesn't see the protester as a citizen demanding change. He sees the person who destroyed his business.

If you set fire to a pizzeria, the family that lives off it won't think about the cause of the protest. They'll think about the man who left them without an income.

And here begins the greatest danger, because hatred is being sown among Albanians. Albania has gone through enough political divisions, but what is happening could produce an even more dangerous division, citizen against citizen.

If this continues, tomorrow we will no longer discuss corruption or misgovernment. We will discuss which Albanians destroyed the property of other Albanians.

And this is the greatest gift that can be given to any power, a society that, instead of holding it accountable, begins to fight with itself.

Albania has real reasons to be angry. There is corruption to investigate, power to control, institutions to hold accountable, and social problems that will not go away by denying them.

But precisely for this reason, the protest must be smarter than the government it criticizes.

Young people who want change must understand this before it's too late, so as not to attack businesses, because they are not responsible for misgovernance.

Don't rob shops, because poverty is not fought by robbing someone who works.

Because if the protest starts against injustice and ends up doing injustice to the ordinary citizen, it has lost the very reason for which it took to the streets.

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