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'What are you shouting about?'/ She clashed with Rama's bodyguards, the elderly woman recounts the few-second conversation with the prime minister: Why did I insist on meeting him?

Politiko 2025-07-07 16:34:06

'What are you shouting about?'/ She clashed with Rama's

Returning to the Municipality of Vlora where he held a meeting, Rama was also faced with the dissatisfaction of the citizens.

An elderly lady ran after him to meet him, but she was pushed away by Rama's entourage who initially did not allow her to meet him.

In an interview with Euronews Albania, 82-year-old Katina Thanasi from Vlora, who persisted and managed to talk to Rama while the prime minister was on an inspection as part of the release of public spaces, recounts the moments of the conversation with the prime minister and what she asked him for.

She says that, after being pushed around by an officer and Rama's bodyguards, she expressed her concern to him.

Katina says that Rama told her "what are you shouting about" and then she explained the problem with the canal near her apartment, which needed to be cleaned.

"I'm Katina Thanasi, I'm 82 years old. Rama came out, I was there, the police surrounded me because they didn't want to let me meet Rama. I told them I would meet him. Push those policemen, I pushed and they pushed me. The clash with them was difficult. They told me we would arrest them. I told them: 'You can't arrest me, because I haven't done anything. I haven't stolen, I haven't done anything.' There was a female policewoman and five others. They pushed me, I pushed them. Rama was running down, I told him: 'Rama, don't run because I love you! Don't run because I love you for the sake of the boy's head,' that's what I told him. They were pushing me, Rama stood there on the side. The policemen were holding me, while I pushed them. Rama said to me: 'Why are you screaming?' I said: 'I'm screaming for these people.' I said to Rama, this mayor who is with you... I've been telling him for two and a half years about cleaning the canal and the land and he doesn't come. I'm worried about my canal and land being cleaned,” she said.

Asked by a Euronews Albania journalist in Vlora if she has any hope that the problem will be solved now that she has spoken with Rama, she says she has no faith without seeing concrete actions, while emphasizing that if this matter does not take direction, she will continue to demand a solution.

"To be honest, for the sake of my only son, I don't have any hope that my son's problem will be solved, because these people are lying to you, motherfucker. However, in the afternoon I talked to Rama, two boys came, they said to the one who owns the land: 'Can we go into your land to clean it?' He said: 'Come in,' but they haven't come in yet, claiming that you're not allowed to go into someone else's land," says the 82-year-old.

Katina says that she had previously raised this problem with the mayor and for almost two and a half years, no action had been taken.

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