
Prime Minister Edi Rama has warned of harsh criminal measures against individuals who usurp public spaces within urban communities under the pretense that they are private property.
In a statement from today's meeting with Tirana municipality leaders, he stressed that placing obstacles such as beams for financial gain or blocking public roads will be considered criminal offenses.
It has also warned of legal intervention to correct documents issued in violation of these principles, focusing on the construction of palaces on land with several owners.
Edi Rama:
Regarding the occupation of a territory within the space of a community with the claim "it is my property", this will be considered a criminal offense. Whoever places a beam to take money from the people living there, with the claim that it is their property between the buildings, this is a criminal offense.
Any other type of blocking of the road and obstructing people with the idea "it's my property" is a criminal offense. We have consulted this with all the legislation, and it does not happen anywhere that someone, in the name of their own property, can do whatever they want when they are in the city and not in the forest.
We have also addressed the issue of co-ownership of the land surrounding a building. If a group of owners make an agreement with a developer for a building and that building is built on a percentage of that territory that is owned, everything else that is not included in the body of the building is no longer the property of those owners.
There is a need for legal action to repair and overturn documents that violate this principle.