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Politiko 2025-05-30 21:52:03

"Give me the camera to see the footage, give me the camera here! Take the Police if you want." With these words, a stranger who introduced himself as the person in charge of the works in the Artificial Lake Park of Tirana, where the ground is being prepared for the concert of 2 foreign DJs, an event organized by the rapper Noizy and the Municipality of Tirana, addressed the filming group of "Piranjas".

A week ago, on May 23, the show "Piranjat" broadcast with voice and image, with facts and testimonies, how the Lake Park of Tirana is starting to deforest. Specifically, it is about about 43,000 m2 that have been granted with a permit to the subject Rigels Rajku, for "use of public space", signed on April 30, 2025 by Mrs. Jonida Halili, Secretary General (delegated) at the Legal Directorate of Assets and Licensing, in the Municipality of Tirana. The latter is the co-organizer of the event of 2 foreign DJs, which will be attended by thousands of electronic music fans.

But why should permission be given, a total of 43,000 m2 in the Lake Park of Tirana, to cut down the plants and trees, when Tirana has 2 squares with significant spaces to hold such events?

It is now clear that rapper Noizy was an important element of the Socialist Party's campaign in the May 11 election campaign. However, he is not just a public figure engaged in politics with his art, but an artist with close ties to the chairman of the ruling Party, even donating to Albanians the song that accompanied the month-long journey of this force, until election day. While on the podium with the prime minister at the end of the campaign in Dibra, Noizy played the role of a village boy who burns his heart for the birthplace of his ancestors, while Rama took on the role of Santa Claus who fulfills his wishes without one or two, without a plan, without a project, without a consultation with local government leaders who know better than anyone where to invest.

"I also have a request. My father was born in a village there, Lubalesh. From the Shupenza Bridge it is only 2 km without paving, o man of the earth, pave me and that road to go and see my grandfather because I have him there in Lubanesh", said Noizy.

And of course, Mr. Rama could not say "no", as it was all part of a media theater with a prescripted script. After paving 2 km of road in the village of Lubalesh was not a reward for Noizy, but a scenario of electoral propaganda. The rapper's "troubles" are actually different. A few days before the end of the electoral campaign, the well-known rapper had been beaten in violation of the law and to the detriment of the environment. Work on the Lake Park began on May 15, first by eroding the soil, uprooting grass and trees, then filling the place with granite shingles to make the space flattened. This space has been completely forested if we make a simple observation on google earth in the update dated April 9, 2022, but in the update dated October 21, 2022, two months after Dua Lipa's "Sunny Hill" concert, it is noticed that the area has lost its green color. In the update dated October 7, 2023 and in April 2024, a small change is noted in the return of the area to its initial situation, while today, we are in the conditions when even those trees planted after Dua Lipa's concert with the tasks of the citizens of Tirana, have been uprooted to make way for pebble and gravel, excavators, trucks, rollers, with which the ground is being prepared for the assembly of the scaffolding, at the same time eroding the area on its side, regardless of the damage to flora and fauna.

"This should not happen, this space should be destroyed. This park had to be preserved in the best possible way. I don't see it as possible to return to its original state. I see that this paving that has been done here is for a long-term purpose, perhaps to turn this territory into an urban part and exclude it from the part of the Lake Park. Maybe someone has thought of something, some strategic investor to do something here", said environmentalist Lavdosh Ferruni.

Tickets for the concert organized by Noizy and the Municipality of Tirana reach the minimum value of $176, while the VIP area requires a full $400 per person. If we calculate an average attendance of 7000 people, and an average ticket value of $300, without counting the costs of drinks and food that will be consumed during the party that will last 10 hours, the organizers benefit a full $ 2 million. With all these expected profits, will the entity "Rigels Rajku" itself be the one that will cover the costs of the works that do not stop any day, and who will financially commit to the return of the park to its original state? The "Piranhas" were interested in this in an official letter to the Municipality of Tirana, also adding to the concern of citizens, environmentalists and some representatives of the opposition, who cast doubts that the ground is being prepared for something greater than a music concert. The official answers were delayed, so the journalist Freard Rista confronted Mrs. Freard Rista 2 times in the field. Halili, but she left without giving any explanation, and even the guards of the Municipality exercised violence against the filming group.

Since the "Piranhas" did not receive an answer to the first 2 official letters nor an answer from 2 meetings at the entrance of the Municipality with Mrs. Halili, a third letter was sent, where emphasis was placed on the firms contracted for the preparation of this event; what they are, who contracted them, the Municipality or Noizy himself; do they have active licenses at the NBC? But no answer was given. Therefore, a third meeting was held with Mrs. Halili, the signatory of the permit for the destruction of 43 thousand m2 in the Lake Park, who promised that an official answer would be given within the deadline. A truncated answer arrived at the editorial office of the show "Piranjat", where it was stated that the subject Rigels Rajku has submitted the necessary documentation for the civil and criminal responsibility that it will bear in case of damage to the Park, as well as the guarantee of the return of the territory to the initial situation, but this document was not made available to the investigative show./Piranjat.al