Prime Minister Edi Rama announced a package of measures against violent protesters, starting from limiting state services for the families of minors who destroy other people's property, to banning access to airports, hotels and means of transportation.
Rama said the government has begun cooperation with European Union countries to restrict entry of persons involved in acts of violence. He also warned of the use of technology to identify masked protesters.
" Those who threw stones and fire on banks, with a diabolical scenario to incite panic, while at the bank counters they have nothing to take, tearing down ATMs to take money inside them. While they are at the service of everyone and should be returned an hour earlier.
We will issue a package of measures, but by rapidly investing in technology, we will begin to anonymize profiles that incite violence. We will detect those who are wearing a hood, even if they stay in a hood, even if they cover their entire face, because we will follow them foot by foot, except for the eyes of technology.
Get away from that violence an hour or so ago. The bill will come to the family, the family will pay. The family of a minor who comes and burns another's property will not receive services from the state. We will put violent people on the register, we will close many accesses to airports, hotels, trains, all means of transportation.
And we will cooperate, and we have started working with EU countries, to deny access to those countries as violent people. Violence will have no place in this country. Dialogue, exchange of ideas, democratic confrontation, sitting at the table to find new ways, which can serve us, as they served us in the 2018 protest ," Rama said.