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Footage of this elderly woman, when she tried to talk to Prime Minister Edi Rama in Vlora this Monday, went viral online.
Euronews Albania managed to get an exclusive interview with the 82-year-old from Vlora, Katina Thanasi, who persisted and managed to talk to Rama while the prime minister was in Vlora for an inspection in the context of the release of public spaces.
Katina Thanasi also tells the moments of the conversation with Rama and what she asked him for.
She says that, after being pushed around by an officer and Rama's bodyguards, she expressed her concern to him.
Katina says that Rama told her "what are you shouting about" and then she explained the problem with the canal near her apartment, which needed to be cleaned.
" I'm Katina Thanasi, I'm 82 years old. Rama came out, I was there, the police surrounded me because they didn't want to let me meet Rama. I told them I would meet him. Push those policemen, I pushed them and they pushed me. The clash with them was difficult. They told me we would arrest them. I told them: 'You can't arrest me, because I haven't done anything. I haven't stolen, I haven't done anything.' There was a female policewoman and five others. They pushed me, I pushed them. Rama was running down, I told him: 'Rama, don't run because I love you! Don't run because I love you for the sake of the boy's head,' that's what I told him. They were pushing me, Rama stood there on the side. The policemen were holding me, while I pushed them. Rama said to me: 'Why are you screaming?' I said: 'I'm screaming for these people.' I said to Rama, this mayor who is with you... I've been telling him for two and a half years about cleaning the canal and the land and he doesn't come. I'm worried about my canal and land being cleaned ," she said.
Asked by a Euronews Albania journalist in Vlora whether the problem will be solved now that she has spoken with Rama, she says that she has no confidence without seeing concrete actions, while emphasizing that if this matter is not resolved, she will continue to demand a solution.
" To be honest, for the sake of my only son, I don't have any hope that my son's problem will be solved, because these people are lying to you, motherfucker. However, in the afternoon I talked to Rama, two boys came, they said to the one who owns the land: 'Can we go into your land to clean it?' He said: 'Go in,' but they haven't come in yet, claiming that you're not allowed to go into someone else's land ," says the 82-year-old.
Katina says that she had previously raised this problem with the mayor and for almost two and a half years, no action had been taken.
" I went to the mayor, met him and he brushed my hand like this. The problem with the big canal... They throw dead dogs, mosquitoes eat them because they come from the canal. They haven't put a bin to throw the waste, the millet. I told him: 'Bring a bin because people are irresponsible. Albanians throw it in the canal, but they don't do anything about it.' I met Rama, but I haven't stopped worrying about the canal being cleaned yet. I will take my worries to the end. If they don't come here, they will have me there tomorrow. For the sake of the boy, I'll be there in the morning, at 8-9, if they don't come, " says the 82-year-old. / Euronews Albania
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