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The leader of 'Albania Becomes', Adriatik Lapaj, has ended up in the hospital after an incident that occurred overnight in front of the Prime Minister's Office, where he and other supporters have been protesting for several days.
From the Trauma Hospital where he is receiving treatment, Lapaj has recounted the dynamics of the event, claiming that everything started after a sudden police intervention.
According to his account, at around 12:30 midnight, around 50-60 police officers approached the place where the protesters were standing and pulled back the plastic sheeting they were using to protect themselves from the cold. This action, according to Lapaj, caused a chain reaction, knocking over several of the gas heaters that were there. One of them hit the activist in the head, causing injuries that required his transportation to the hospital.
"I was just filming what was happening to document it. The first two heaters fell, and the third one hit me," Lapaj explained to Syri TV.
Interview:
Lapaj : Good morning.
Qarri: How are you?
Lapaj : I'm fine, fine.
Qarri : Now, I would certainly like details. There has been speculation about what happened during the night.
Lapaj: Yes, after what happened during the day, we rebuilt that place to stay there like every night. And at 12:00, 12:30, who saw it, that is, about 50-60 police officers suddenly appeared, who pulled the plastic that we had covered ourselves with to protect ourselves from the cold and then they caused a chain reaction of these heaters. They are some heaters like long mushrooms. And I was simply filming what was happening to document what was happening, what I would do with 50-60 police officers.
Qarri : Of course.
Lapaj : And at that moment one of the heaters, the third heater, the first two fell, the third one hit me then and then the doctors' procedure and things.
Qarri : Where were you hit, Adriatic?
Lapaj : Yes, it hit me here on the head, even on the top part, because that part of the mushroom fell, the top part, it pushed it.
Qarri : I understand. But as we are talking at this moment, are your supporters at the Prime Minister's Office? Continued...
Lapaj : After the ambulance took me, they escorted two of those who were there back to the police, two good citizens. Those who were escorted were people with German citizenship, one with Italian citizenship, because two of them are immigrants. Okay. Meanwhile, for the rest, they stole them again, they took them all, and they took them, there is no one there until I get out here. I mean, here they are doing the procedures, they are doing the scanner, they are doing this, in other words, the hospital has behaved completely correctly. But we would have missed that too if there had been no correctness...
No, the doctors have behaved quite correctly even in Trauma. As soon as I leave, the procedures here are closed. They do their own procedures, the checks. Saying I should go into details because it looks like we're crying, has no relevance. I have entered this path because...
Qarri : No, no. Now, Adriatik, you are a public figure in a public protest where an incident occurred that resulted in your hospitalization in the Military. Of course, we need details of that nature without necessarily violating your privacy...
Lapaj : There was a stroke that caused me to be in a bad state, but things are now under control and the doctors have been good, that's the idea. I'll get out, I'll go back to where I was.
Qarri : I understand, so the protest will continue, your resistance there?
Lapaj : Yes, yes. I'll go back to where I was. They took everything, I'll take a chair, I'll go back there myself.
Qarri : I understand. Let's go back a little to 12 hours earlier, at midnight, when the protest called by you, Mr. Lapaj, took place. A comment and description of that protest, where there were also quite a few minor clashes with the police.
Lapaj : We have not violated any law of the Republic. Everything has been with permission, with notification. Because of the bad weather that has been these days and that is predicted to be again, but also because of aesthetics, because I have a lot of discomfort with that plasma to tell the truth, because at the end of the day I want what we do to be in relation to the city aesthetically correct. We set up two tents to make our legal, fair protest. On a boulevard that you know has been blocked by the one who is in power today for weeks, with...
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