Under the fever of criminalizing and smearing the student protests, Edi Rama has made a blunder that undermines the conspiracy with dark forces that want to overthrow him from power. In an amateurish and irresponsible manner, he wrongly denounced one of the young protesters, a 20-year-old brilliant medical student, as if he were a person with a criminal record for the production and sale of narcotics.
The practice of publicly exposing people and branding them as criminals dates back to the times of dictatorship, when billboards were used to expose anyone who deviated from the party line and the morality that was then imposed on society. As a practice, this method is a product of authoritarian mindsets.
Gritting his teeth, as he showed photos of citizens on television, Rama included Joni Sinoymer in the list of people he claimed had no connection to the university, but who had come out to protest as criminals: "We continue with JS: 20 years old, but not a student, production and sale of narcotics, registered criminal record," Rama said.
But in the meantime, student Joni Sinoymeri was on the boulevard protesting with friends and professors when he saw his photo in the parade of shame that Edi Rama was showing from his office. He immediately rushed to appear in front of the cameras to refute the prime minister.
"I am a student of the Faculty of Medicine. I have no shame, there are no legends with a king that this guy is inventing. Also, since he wanted to hurt us, he called us the ANTIFA organization, neo-communists, I want to show all the grades I received with an average of 10. You can't stop us with these lies," he declared, showing his academic results.
Afterwards, the young man publicly challenged the prime minister's accusations: "These are slander, I don't know where they found this information, they told me that I have a criminal record, so that I would know too. Last Tuesday I was escorted to the police station because I went to a peaceful protest, they held me for 7 hours."
Sinoymer had the opportunity to defend himself from the prime minister's mudslinging because he was at the protest surrounded by journalists and cameras, but other people, presented as criminals, linked to Iran, ANTIFA organizations, or organized crime, did not have the same opportunity to respond to the accusations.
Bomb plot, antifa, Iran, organized crime, etc.
As he usually does these days, the prime minister spoke today about the vast international conspiracy they have hatched to remove him from power.
He went so far as to ask Albanians to distinguish criminals by their faces, when he said: "There are enough faces that, despite hiding their identity, can be read as representing a gloomy, dark and lawless world."
For days now, Rama has lost the logical line with which he speaks to the protesters. Before calling them criminals and emissaries of Iran, he asked for dialogue with them. He himself went out onto the sidewalk outside the prime minister's office and placed some chairs there.
When the students did not back down from their demand for resignation, the prime minister returned to the version of links to organized crime and enemy states.
If you take what Rama says seriously, it seems that the largest international conspiracy has been organized against him since the end of the Cold War. An unprecedented alliance has been created, bringing together the neo-communists of Antifa, the capitalists of organized crime, the foreign agents of Iran, the agents of Russia, the opposition, the teachers, the televisions, the religious extremists and some teenagers from the suburbs.
All of these, who under normal circumstances would not even sit at the same table, have finally found a common cause: the overthrow of Edi Rama from power. Neo-communists collaborating with drug traffickers, Albania's enemies with forces that want to destabilize Europe, teachers directing operations on the ground, while high school students supplying the front with stones. An operation so sophisticated that the CIA, Mossad and European services would envy it, but which fortunately was discovered and is being fiercely fought by our prime minister.
In recent days, to give the film a bit of an action atmosphere, news of a drone with explosives targeting the Prime Minister's Office also spread. Of course, exclusive news like these about explosive explosions always go to the government-affiliated media first. It seems that after the arrest of Vlora Hyseni, it is the government media that have taken control of national security.
Rama himself spoke today about the data the government has on explosives imported through customs.
At such a pace, it is not surprising to hear very quickly about the approach of Russian submarines, about an Al-Qaeda cell among the students and an Iranian satellite commanding the protesters from space. For all these accusations, the prime minister does not have to publicly present concrete evidence. This is an insignificant detail. A Photoshop intervention is enough and every protester is a potential agent of crime, as in the case of Joni Sinoymer./Lapsi.al
