FLASH
Shkruar nga Spartak Ngjela
Do you see those palaces? This is our work that we have done and continue to do in the big cities of Albania.
An international expert said to me two years ago: Lawyer, do you know that the large export in dollars and European currency that Albania has today comes from your large export of cannabis and cocaine to Italy?
And I told him I knew, but immediately I asked him my own question, saying:
As Americans, don't you know that Manhattan was built with the profits that came from cocaine trafficking in the United States and in several other countries around you?
"Yes, I know," he told me, adding: "and that's true, but essentially this is also commerce."
"Then why prolong it any further?" I said.
And the conversation ended here.
But, these same days, a trafficker who had returned from emigration was carefully looking at where to invest to build a hotel in Tirana or Durrës.
And he was looking for a place for the hotel when Interpol arrested him on Tirana's main boulevard.
They took him with an arrest warrant and asked to question him at the prosecutor's office, because the arrest warrant had been issued by the Tirana Prosecutor's Office.
The detainee called his lawyer, and he arrived at the prosecutor's office as soon as the detainee arrived.
The trafficker immediately asked the lawyer: how much and when?
This was the questioning slogan of corruption in the Tirana prosecutor's office.
One hundred thousand and now, the lawyer told him.
And the trafficker wrote the amount on the phone number, where he had to go and get the money, because the trafficker, in their language, had told his partner everything.
And the lawyer went, took the 100 thousand euros, gave it to the place where the person was waiting, in front of the prosecutor's office, and sat down at the cafe opposite.
After an hour and a half, the trafficker was released from custody and was walking down the steps of the prosecutor's office, where a black Benz sports car was waiting for him.
Dole, his friend told him, was also a cocaine trafficker.
"Yes, as soon as I left," the trafficker told him; but after a few moments he asked in a sarcastic tone:
Are you still not convinced, Miti, that today Albania is being run by cannabis and drugs?
Yes, Miti said, because this is actually the very success of our life in Albania today, but also of Albanians, because cannabis has become the impetus for our development in the last twenty years.
And in the meantime, he pointed to the palaces with his hand, with a kind of pleasure shining on his face, saying:
Do you see those palaces? This is our work that we have done and continue to do in the big cities of Albania.
"I see them," he said, "and I know that you are building these beautiful palaces in all the big cities of Albania."
Yes, this is also productive work, O Myth! and we too, with sacrifices, and with the risk of prison, but you came with the risk of murder, we are doing it.
"And you saved us all," Miti told him.
Wait a little, O Myth, wait until you see with your own eyes that the change is coming from us who call us traffickers. And we don't understand these journalists: are they turned against us by our centuries-old enemies, or are they some black people who can't understand that this rapid increase in welfare in Albania is coming from the drug trafficking that we are doing; and we are not few, you know.
"I know there are many of you," Miti told him, "and experts are saying that drug trafficking is bringing billions to Albania."
But okay, Miti, but that's why they're letting you work freely, because they know what you just told me.
This is the only path of development for us.
Let's see, Miti, will this last longer?
Ndërtojmë pallate, shpëlajmë pare. Ndërkohë BK thotë se ka hyrje aq të madhe valute sa e ka forcuar lekun. Çfarë prodhon Shqipëria që të forcohet leku kaq shumë? Patatina, kurabija, ujë me gaz. Turizëm? Analizojini numrat dhe e vërteta është ndryshe, krejt ndryshe. Shteti është një lavatriçe gjigante pastrimi. Zotëria në Bulevardin e madh pranë piramidës vetëm sa hap e mbyll derën, mbledh tarifën, fton emigrantët, të blejnë pallate, i merr përbudallenj, dhe jua shvlerëson valutën aq sa nuk shohin arsye për të udhëtuar në parajsën e drogës.