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The French decoration that Berisha wore 'with glory' around his neck, a few days later it turned out to be a medal that the French call (medaille de chocolat) or which in Albanian means 'lemonade medal, worthless'.
Chris LaCivita now, in 2025, is this version who comes and goes to Tirana as an 'American strategist and advisor to the DP'. Now he comes to deliver victory to Berisha in the May elections. Like a decoration from heaven.
With a beard, with deep-set eyes, always moody and suspicious, still without announcing how much he will be paid by the DP leader and always sour about how he will get that money.
This same foreign 'strategist' arrived in Tirana at the end of 1992, as soon as Sali Berisha had taken power.
It's the same version, with a few changes. The 'LaCivita' of 1992 was a foreign citizen, but not an American. He was French and his name was 'Nicolas Arsidi'. He too was considered a 'strategist' in public and international relations. He, the Frenchman Arsidi, like the American LaCivita, had connections to the president of the Republic. Nicolas Arsidi was an advisor to French President Giscard d'Estaing, while LaCivita was the bombshell of Donald Trump's campaign.
Another element that is equally common, but also different: Both of these 'magicians' were paid heavily by the public money of the Albanian people, both were paid for a service to the same person, Sali Berisha. But while the payment for the Frenchman Arsidi was made public ($1.2 million), LaCivita's payment is being kept secret.
While SPAK is not investigating or providing transparency today, in 1993 prosecutor Kokoshi, although connected to Berisha, imprisoned the director and deputy director of the only bank in Albania (Albanian Commercial Bank). Of course, they were found innocent, but they were caught as collateral that could lead to the imprisonment of President Berisha as well.
The issue of imprisonment was a tragedy in itself, which also took the life of the Governor of the Albanian National Bank.
But what other common elements do Arsidi-LaCivita have?
Both 'foreign magicians' would whiten President Berisha's face in exchange for a high payment. Nicolas Arsidi received one million and two hundred thousand dollars from the National Commercial Bank. It was a time when 1 dollar weighed heavily on the poverty of the people. In those days it was declared that the State Treasury had a balance of only 6 million dollars. While the Prime Minister of the Stability Government sounded the alarm that 'the country only has six days of bread'.
The sum of 1.2 million dollars was given to the Frenchman Arsidi only for an honor granted to President Berisha.
What is honor? Do you know?
A decoration for Berisha. It cost 1.2 million dollars..., several innocent prisoners and a dead Governor. Bankers Agron Saliu and Agim Tartari were imprisoned. Governor Ilir Hoti, a Berisha supporter, was sent to the same hospital in Italy after prison where several exponents of the DP 'Berisha supporter' died.
The decoration was manifested as a victory 'for the man of freedom'.
The entire state hierarchy gathered at the Dajti Hotel: the Speaker of Parliament, Arbnori; the Prime Minister, Meksi, and Berisha's main ally, Gjinushi. The decoration was delivered by Arsidi and cost 1.2 million dollars.
Arsidi came to Albania privately, and did not even appear at the French embassy (just as LaCivita did not set foot in the American embassy). Arsidi said he came from a 'courtesy club' in France, from where he had also received the 'high nobility' decoration for Berisha.
The French decoration that Berisha wore 'with glory' around his neck, a few days later it turned out to be a medal that the French call (medaille de chocolat) or which in Albanian means 'lemonade medal, worthless'.
For a 'chocolate' decoration, poor Albanians pay one million two hundred thousand dollars. For a chocolate.
Arsidi never appeared again, just as LaCivita will tomorrow. Just as neither Damir Fazliç, nor Bin Laden, nor Yasin Kadi, nor the groups Al-Haramain, Taibah International, and Revival Islamic Society...
From this moment of failure with the 'chocolate decoration', President Berisha began reprisals with prisons and backstage, in order to cover up the shame.
But then the feeling of shame escaped. Sali Berisha, with a deep inferiority complex, insults his people with 'saviors' who come from 'who knows where' and descend into the empty land.
LaCivita will also go, a few dollars and nothing.
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