Rai 3 showed us how much gangsters pay for makeup

2024-06-03 15:55:00, Opinione Andi Bushati

Even those who don't love Edi Rama must have felt sorry for him after what they saw on Sunday night. In one interview, it was all gathered: the failed attempt to hug and seduce a journalist who had accused him of defamation, then the coffee he refused, then the laborious follow-ups of saliva when he was looking for a convincing alibi for stubborn facts, with which Giorgio Mottola faced. Undoubtedly, the appearance on Report, of RAI 3, is one of the most miserable television appearances of a prime minister whose relationship with the media is not his weakest point.

Edi Rama could not find any convincing justification for the serious accusations of Arben Ahmetaj, one of his closest people, to whom he gave high positions in the government for a decade. He appeared almost comical, with alibis for the meeting in his office, with a suspected money launderer of the Sinaloa cartel. He grimaced when the journalist asked him if Ergys Agaçi is his connection to the criminal world. He made a mistake when he tried to protect the Angel he keeps in the hall, and he ended up pardoning Artur Shehu.

Rai 3 showed us how much gangsters pay for makeup

Edi Rama with journalist Giorgio Mottola

It was deplorable to see the head of the government, who had to argue that the towers of Tirana are not being built with the money of crime, in front of the account with official figures that the investigation of Rai 3 had produced. Also, it was not at all efficient to try to hide behind Meloni, because his interlocutor slapped him in the face: if the prime minister of Italy meets with people from the Mexican cartels, I would ask her the same questions.

In this show, which has brought out many of Rama's Albanian interviewers, for an hour, we saw the x-ray of a state narco and the true face of the one who leads them. But no matter how serious the denunciations of the former deputy prime minister were, no matter how denunciations the connections of people close to him with crime, no matter how deep the roots were that penetrated to the heart of evil, they did not constitute the most interesting side of what the Report revealed. .

Edi Rama

There is a dark side that our media is paying very little attention to. It is not about the profile of a criminalized government, but about the way it wears makeup to hide its true face. From there, towards the end of the show, the former Italian Prime Minister D'Alema and the current Minister of "Made in Italy", Adolfo Urso, became his characters. What united this historical leader of the Italian post-communists with today's exponent of the right-wing government was only one thing. They have opened subsidiaries of their lobbying companies in Tirana. Why? Because perhaps there is more money that is easily earned here than on the opposite shore of the Adriatic. And this is apparently the reason why Massimo D'Alema has often been seen on his country's TV bragging about Edi Rama. The same reasons may have prompted Usrson to betray his former partner Becchetti, to connect with our head of government.

History repeats itself as in the McGonigal case. Just like Toni Blair, who "works for free", while his wife's law firm is paid by the Albanian government, the word will have reached Italy that the renaissance narco-state has become a sea of ??yogurt.

Charles McGonigal

This is in fact one of the most important conclusions of the investigation of RAI 3, the existence of an international network that deals with curating the image of a bandit gang in Tirana. We know her exploits and the vast majority of the things that were said on the show we had heard. But what many Albanians wonder is how it is possible that this kleptocracy has strong Western support. Report gave us part of the answer. It is not only found in personal places, like those of the refugee camps that Rama made for Meloni. It should be sought in turning the country into a gold mine, for the internationals who clean up its image in the west. A part of the money of our traffic and corruption is fattening former government officials and politicians who are paid to make propaganda in Europe, although the echo of their words weighted in gold, echoes in our environment.