Footage of a RENEA action in Lungomare in Vlora, on the morning of August 9, was recently published by journalist Artan Hoxha.
In the video, several RENEA operatives, masked and armed, some in civilian clothes, enter the restaurant of a hotel, causing panic among tourists, where there were children and women.
In the video, it appears that some children get under the tables, while other people present leave in terror.
According to preliminary information, it is about an operation where RENEA's intervention was requested. It is an operation that was carried out on August 9 by RENEA's tactical forces.
The whole operation takes 50 seconds.
In such cases, it intervenes when there is a high-risk person, but there is no information about who was the target of the officers.
"The news that was given in the media talks about the intervention at 10 o'clock in the morning, no one was arrested and there are only tourists there, when these operations take place in the evening. When RENEA does these operations herself, she tries to avoid confrontation with civilians. There was no accurate information. Some of these effectives have been shorter. The people in the bar are women, children, family members. These operations are done when you have accurate information and not when there are tourists.
All this was done well, but what did they do it for? If you enter 2-3 hotels in the center of Tirana like this, no one will go to them. With so many citizens there for vacation, the consequences are unknown. This is an operation that was not successful", said journalist Artan Hoxha.