Albanian Ambassador to Switzerland Mustafa Nano reacts to damaging the bust of our national hero “Skenderbeu” in Geneva

Bern, April 29, late hours, was damaged by national hero Gjergj Kandriot Skenderbeu, located in Geneva, by the lake, just a few meters in front of UN offices, had reported the Swiss newspaper Le Canton27.ch.

The Albanian community in Geneva has expressed its concern over the case, while saying it is not the first time Skenderbeu's bust is damaged. You're such a reaction today. And so has the Szvciène newspaper recassetten in Sqip Le clotn27. Acc from Tirana's shipbasada shipatre was released from an act that had been convicted of slander, demanded by cantonal authorities to light up the case and punish the authors of this unsavory widow.

«Last Friday night, the Geneva bust of our national hero Skenderbeu was damaged. It's not the first time such a thing happens, what makes you think that in Switzerland there are people who are worried about that bust of Albanian national symbols ecstatic to the public. The mayor of Geneva has reacted immediately, thus manifesting its sensitivity to provocations intended to stir tensions between ethnic groups and minorities in his city, and this is a good signal sent to Albanians offended by this gesture... » reportedly in the reaction of the Albanian embassy. Mustafa Nano in Bern on Sunday.

Following this announcement it is said that «police have begun investigating, and we should wait for the conclusion of these investigations, in the hope that the act in question is simply urban vandalism, however difficult to get your mind off other scenarios with the nationalist and anti-Albanian background. Leave the rest, but the act is repeated. If this is the case, then it's a shame that such events occur in Switzerland, the place of coexistence in diversity before ecstasy. It is also unfortunate that there are people who have not come to Switzerland to take advantage of its model but to display and promote prejudice, anger and animations, with which they have been protected in their country of origin. »

For end «Albania's embassy condemns the act in question not only that it has intended to hurt the national dignity of Albanians, but also that it sees it as an unfriendly act towards Switzerland, which by its model tries to convey the message of harmony, not conflict, interethnic. We urge Albanians living in Switzerland to trust the work of the Swiss authorities to whitewash and illuminate the event. The response of Albanian Ambassador Mr. Nano in Bern, quoted the Swiss newspaper in Albanian Le Canton27. ch