The reaction in the political and journalistic world of Albania was caused by an armed attack on the country’s largest TV channel Top Channel, during which a sixty-year-old building security guard was killed.

Motives for the murderous attack were not made public as the perpetrators were not arrested and there were no claims of responsibility as the Tirana police launched a manhunt. The car used by the criminals was found burnt out a few kilometers from Tirana, but not the perpetrators of the attack.

Unidentified persons in a vehicle fired Kalashnikov assault rifles at the front of the building after midnight yesterday, reportedly killing a 60-year-old security guard originally from northern Albania. The latter fueled the vendetta scenarios that still thrive in northern Albania. However, as the case was not solved, the issue took on a political dimension, with TV executives characterizing the event as a “mafia terrorist attack”.

The Union of Professional Journalists of Albania emphasized that the event put pressure on the working atmosphere of journalists, and Prime Minister Edi Rama also called the attack criminal, asking the competent authorities to clarify the case and punish those responsible.

In the same vein, statements were made by official opposition leader Sali Berish, as well as by the former president of the republic, Ilir Meta, who blamed the government for the observed increase in crime in the country.

The attack was also condemned by the OSCE office in Albania, as well as Western embassies. It should be noted that the recent US State Department report on Albania focuses on pressure, threats and repression against the press and freedom of speech in Albania.

The tip of the spear was last December’s government bombing of a luxury hotel on the Adriatic coast owned by a businessman who also owns the country’s largest anti-Rama journalistic group.

Two days after the release of the US State Department report, the Albanian government, with the help of the police, confiscated two more buildings of the same company, and also imposed heavy fines on the companies and one of the Albanian TV channels. the same group.

MONKEY BEE