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Now the protest must also protect the beaches

2026-08-20 08:16:12Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA NGA THOMA GëLLçI

Now the protest must also protect the beaches

A new task has emerged for the protest in Tirana. In addition to demanding fair elections, democratic rules, functioning institutions, control over power, and a normal state, it must now also deal with order in Ksamil. Possibly assign two protesters to each beach, another at the entrance to nightclubs, and a reserve group for hotels.

This conclusion can be easily drawn from some of the writings of the defenders of power about the murder of the Portuguese tourist in Ksamil. If you read these analyses, the responsibility lies with the protest. The question someone asked today was: why are they not protesting about the murders, but about the "death of birds".

You have to be very shallow not to understand that the protest demanding a change in the way of governance is also a protest against the murder of the Portuguese tourist. It is not just demanding a change of some names in offices. It is demanding a state where rules are enforced, where institutions do their job, and where the government does not remember about security after the event occurs.

The protest demands a state that must know who works in the security sector, who is responsible for the customers of a bar, who gets a license, who is checked, who is suitable for a certain job and who is not. It must control businesses, bars, hotels and public spaces. It must prevent powerful people, especially those with political connections, from doing whatever they want in tourist areas.

Not long ago, a hotel in one of the main tourist areas of Vlora caught fire. Even there, protesters could not be asked to check fire extinguishers, emergency exits, alarm systems, and evacuation plans.

When a hotel is operating, someone should have inspected it. When a bar gets a license, someone should have signed it. When an activity takes place near thousands of tourists, someone should guarantee safety standards.

Otherwise, the state is reduced to an office that issues permits and appears on television after a disaster.

The government officials are left posting videos and photos of Albanian nature, beaches and counting the tourists who enter the territory of Albania. I don't know how to explain that the Government did not build the Adriatic Sea or the Ionian Sea. It did not build Ksamil, Dhërmi, Vlora, General's Beach or the mountains of Albania. They were there. We have them as a gift from God.

The merit of a government is not that Albania has a beautiful sea. It is not even a merit to post videos or advertise, even in international media, that Albania is beautiful. It is not a merit of the government that the people are hospitable and that the food of Albania is delicious.

Its merit begins when the tourist arrives at that sea or that mountain.

Are there roads? Is there water? Is there sewage? Is the garbage cleaned up? Is food checked? Is there an ambulance? Does the police work? Are hotel standards respected? Are fire precautions checked? Are there evacuation plans? Are the beaches public or are they divided according to the power of the owner of the nearest bar?

These are government jobs.

That's why it's a bit comical that after a serious murder in Ksamil we end up demanding accountability from the protest in Tirana. The protest has no weapons, police stations, security cameras, inspectors, licenses and a state budget. The protest has only political demands.

And one of these demands is precisely the creation of a state that will do all that we are asking the protesters to do today.

If you want a normal state, you also want safer beaches. You also want more controlled bars. You also want fewer people who are untouchable by the law. You also want inspectors who check and not just sign. You also want police who prevent and not just arrive after the murder has occurred. You also want institutions that do not distinguish between the ordinary citizen and the businessman with a friend in power.

The protest for democracy is not separate from the security of life. It is precisely part of the same demand.

As for the comparisons that Paris, Berlin, Barcelona or Naples are more dangerous, they may be interesting for tourists choosing their next destination. But they do not change anything from the responsibilities of the Albanian state.

If a tourist is robbed in Barcelona, ​​it no longer becomes acceptable to kill a tourist in Ksamil. If there is a crime in Berlin, the duty of the police in Saranda does not diminish. And if a hotel burns down in any other European country, this does not exempt the Albanian administration from the obligation to check the hotel in Vlora.

But from what I read on social media, it seems like the protest's task is to patrol beaches, check hotels, license bars, inspect kitchens, check fire extinguishers, and maintain order after midnight. (The cleanup has been taken over in time, because some of the activists who are protesting are also seen cleaning up trash and litter on beaches and public places.)

The government, meanwhile, can continue to promote the sea. That is the hardest job. You have to maintain the time of day with sunlight, the angle of lighting, and the position of the camera. It is not easy.


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