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Why does Albania have so many thugs?
2025-07-27 18:47:06 / IDE
It was a September afternoon in 1988, when I was returning home from school.
In the neighborhood yard I saw some people sitting and a policeman talking loudly.
I quickly approached him out of curiosity and noticed that a popular trial was taking place against my neighbor, Bujar, who had stolen two chickens from a private house.
Without further ado: in the end, Bujari was sentenced to 1 year in prison and exile in the village.
After serving his sentence, he never returned to the neighborhood because he was ashamed of his neighbors.
After many years, I met Bujar again with his two brothers: Ilir and Sokol.
All three were involved in politics and worked as campaign companions:
•Bujari with the DP,
•Sokoli with the SP,
•Iliri with the LSI.
We drank coffee and I listened to them with pleasure, but also with surprise.
All three were part of the police, but they also had other "part-time" jobs, not always declared.
"Kreshnik, we have divided the roles into three wings," - they told me - "so that whoever comes to power, we will be on the right side."
I broke up with them and didn't see them again for several years – until last June, Bujari appeared on several portals and in the pink chronicles.
Bujari was no longer a policeman: he had become a businessman. He had even bought a yacht and was photographed with a showbiz girl.
I read the article in one breath. Bujari had been married twice and had five children, but he seemed very much in love with this 25-year-old semi-journalist.
In fact, it wasn't Bujar's romantic story that attracted me, but his "successful" career that was written about in the newspaper.
After leaving the police, he had lived in the Netherlands for 10 years and had returned to Albania with a full pocket.
After "specializing" in the Netherlands in wholesale and retail drug distribution, he returned and worked in customs, taxes and for several years in the municipal police.
I was reminded of this story today, when I saw a video of the former police chief beating a waiter.
The fact is that chicken thieves have become officials and powerful.
In fact, these are people who probably need a popular trial like in the time of Enver Hoxha – to publicly degenerate them, just like Bujarin once did.
But anyway, this is not the only problem and this is not the solution.
It is not for nothing that Father Zef Pllumi expressed himself with pain:
“I have never understood how such a small people as the Albanians could produce so many thugs.”
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