"Top Channel" returns to the press and propaganda office of the Municipality of Tirana / Grida Duma accepts

2025-03-13 21:18:00, Politikë CNA

"Top Channel" returns to the press and propaganda office of the

In the 7-hour session in the Appeal of the Criminal Court against the mayor arrested for corruption and laundering of the proceeds of crime, Erion Veliaj, prosecutors presented new evidence and facts against the mayor.

After the hearing ended, CNA learned that the new evidence and facts had to do with several environmental and telephone intercepts of Veliaj, who in communications with his brother mentions dozens of names of well-known characters, including Lori Hoxha, Grida Duma, Mero Bazen and Carlo Bollino, and how Veliaj ordered pressure to be exerted and prosecutors and judges to be attacked.

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After these facts published by CNA, Grida Duma reacted on the show Top Story.

Duma states on the show that for the interview with Veliaj on February 27, the Top Story editorial team was contacted by the Municipality's press office.

"The interview on February 27 was an exclusive interview for Top Story, which was addressed to the Top Story editorial team and not to me, in fact to the municipality's press office.
One of the most protocol-oriented cases possible because let's be honest, it doesn't always happen like this. So when an interview is requested, one can immediately speak with the author of the show, with the show's moderator.

I have no duty to actually show anyone any communication, nor do the staff have a duty, but what I have a moral need for the credibility of this institution, which is this media, is to show the public the moral standard by which all politicians are judged.
One thing is certain, we speak with all politicians, this would not have been a surprise, that we have not spoken in this specific case even with Erion Veliaj, I do not, and not with the gentleman who is his brother, whom I do not know at all, and the editorial office did not speak either, but the Municipality of Tirana spoke with the editorial office of Top Story. That Erion Veliaj x, y or zeta will come to Top Story is not a surprise.

"The communication was with the editorial office. We sent them 5 questions once in a voicemail, then we clarified them and the editorial office sent them back to the Municipality of Tirana," Duma said, among other things.

In fact, this entire statement by Grida Duma only shows one thing: that Top Channel has turned into the Municipality's press office.

Because the Municipality staff will contact him and what? How many staff can contact a television station, why did this television station react? What problem did it have, what were the benefits it received afterwards?

For what reason was this television immediately offered to Erion Veliaj? That the municipality staff contacted him and one of the main political shows in the country on one of the national televisions is handed over directly to Erion Veliaj, for what reason? Is the media a vassal of Erion Veliaj, in the service of the mayor?

Where has it been seen and heard that the Municipality's press office took it and we gave it space beyond what was said in the wiretaps that CNA will soon bring in full and without censorship.

So, all these details stated by Grida Duma herself publicly prove the fact that Top Channel has turned into Erion Veliaj's press office./ CNA