The palace under the mud, residents demand a return: We're out.

Residents have asked to return to their homes. They say they have received no housing solutions after leaving the mud-torn apartments.

The police have not allowed them.

Residents say they are still unclear on the measures, while showing that the hills had warned of slipping about two months ago, when cracks were seen on the already collapsed road, but no measures were taken for prevention.

The city hall has asked the government to declare its emergency situation. If the municipality's request is to receive positive answers, interventions are expected to extend to a vast territory affected by the weather consequences within the city and into three administrative units. Intervention in the area exceeds any local budget possibilities.

Three large slides are active in Gjirokastra that are jeopardizing two palaces and nine historic houses in three different neighborhoods.

The situation began nine years ago where a palace collapsed taking three lives. The slides continued to threaten the following years by marking five of them, and they culminated in this beginning of the year after the intense rainfall involving the country's South.