8 hours agoScandal, Greece blocks Albanian journalists at border
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Prime Minister Edi Rama's meeting with Albanians in Thessaloniki on Sunday appears to have restored old resentment between Athens and Tirana. Shooting groups and journalists at National Television Klan and A2 CNN, who will attend Rama's meeting with Albanians in Thessaloniki, has been held hostage for more than three hours [...]
Shooting groups and journalists at National Television Klan and A2 CNN, who will attend this meeting of Rama with Albanians in Thessaloniki, has been held hostage for more than three hours by the Greek border in the Kapshtica customs.
Television columnist Klan Elja Zoka points to claims the Greek authorities gave about this unprecedented act. Not even the footage was allowed.
“After them we should have been equipped before with a authorization from our Foreign Ministry, which was accepted by Greece's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then passed freely. But this is unprecedented as we have often traveled towards Greek territory, we have come here for work reasons, and we have never been asked for such a thing”, the journalist said.
While after the time of problems and trials the Albanians once faced at crossing the border with Greece decades ago, journalist Blendi Fevziu has also reacted to this event. He calls this incident scandalous.
The “is unacceptable, unacceptable, scandalous and absolutely primitive for an EU member state to block journalists who are doing their duty at the border. It is unacceptable that an EU country violates the right to inform, violates human rights, violates the basic right of the movement of every Albanian citizen. Such events may be there, delays in dictatorial countries, but for an EU country to ask journalists for paperwork from the Foreign Ministry, or letters of association from the Foreign Ministry, it is to violate any principle of media freedom and ask journalists to put it under the political tunnel. So once again I insist that what is happening on the Greek border is neither more nor less a primitive gesture of a state in which resentment and resentment dominate European rights and principles”, Fevziu said.
The incident has also been strongly condemned by journalists' associations, the Journalist Albany and the Association of Journalists, who called for the official Athens clarification of the event and for it not to be repeated in the future.
The event also paid attention to popular media Euractiv, including the fact that tensions between Tirana and Athens continue for months since the arrest of Himara's elected mayor, Fredie Beler for corruption and vote buying in the 2023 local elections. / TvKlan/
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