
Martin is gone forever, but his peers are still in danger...
Martin was only 14 years old. Student at one of the most reputable 9-year schools in Tirana. For those who don't know, parents try hard to get their children to Fan Noli school. Prepared teachers, high results. "Reputable school". That's why it seems like an irony of fate what happened on Tuesday afternoon, when in the back yard, on the threshold of the iron gate, there was a fight, and a student, only 14 years old, lost his life from a knife in the heart.
What happened yesterday in the middle of Tirana is shocking beyond any other news where a person loses his life.
This is not just a teenage fight.
This is not one of those dramas that are spent neither with tears nor with condolences.
This is not a sporadic event that happened today and is unlikely to happen again.
This murder is a sky-scratcher for Albanian society. It is a chronic, forewarned murder. It is a crime that if not today would happen tomorrow and that should make us stand up before it is too late.
This murder is a reflection of the Albanian reality.
Mourning a teenager who was killed by a peer? But what else can happen in a country where every day, every day without exception, there is news of a murder. Just a few hours after Martin, another young man, only 28 years old, was killed a few kilometers away. A day ago, a man, father of children, was killed in front of his house.
Murder and crime run rampant in this country, so what else can you expect from a teenage brawl? Where can Martin's peers find the role model?
Where can Albanian teenagers find a model of life in a country where bullying is the most discussed and practiced phenomenon? In this country where the Prime Minister, the minister, the police, the judge, the teacher, the shopkeeper bully you. A place where bad behavior and psychological violence is order. A country where the threat of livelihood and then life is a way of life? Where can Albanian teenagers get the model of a good and normal life in a country where the order on the street is made by the strongest, at work by the incompetent, while at school the son of a rich man and a trafficker? Where?
Martin is gone forever! May God give strength to his parents! No one but God has the right to console them.
What about us, what should we do? We who send our children to school every day with the fear that something bad will happen. We must act, quickly and forcefully. Otherwise, very soon we will be residents without rights in a ghetto country./ Pamphlet
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