Journalists cannot be the shield of the former drug trafficker

7 Gusht 2020, 12:39, English CNA

It is happening what was expected. Within 48 hours, after Ora News came under the administration of the state, because of accusations raised regarding the assets of the owner of this television, Ylli Ndroqi, it seems that the journalists are self-victimizing and becoming the shield of a former drug trafficker.

In fact, this is what has happened all these years, from the first day that Ylli Ndroqi became the owner of this television. Many media have written, reported, including us. They clashed with Ylli Ndroqi, they even went to court. He has always claimed that he is not a citizen Xhemail Pasmaçiu.
He also demanded the removal of the writings, but time showed that he was indeed
Xhemail Pasmaçiu, convicted of drug trafficking in Turkey, and arrested on behalf of Italy.
In its announcement, SPAK said that the letter-order had arrived from Italy since 2015, but as always with procedures, finding the spaces, Ylli Ndroqi escaped the justice.

It is said that at time the man who intervened was the President of the Republic, Ilir Meta. But this still remains in the context of the information leaked through the tables of journalists.
But what is happening today is more frightening than yesterday.
Ylli Ndroqi has used many of his journalists to attack media colleagues, and those who write against Ylli. So, those who have revealed the truth that Ylli Ndroqi is the drug trafficker, Xhemail Pasmaçiu.
Yes, it is Ylli Ndroqi?s subordinates, those who in fact said in confidence that Ylli should be investigated, and if the accusations were confirmed, they would distance themselves from him. They claimed that he hadn?t even changed his name, that these are fake stories, jokes, or theories made public to damage the image of a successful businessman.
And God knows who Ylli?s businesses were. But, that the assets are very large, this was shown by SPAK. However, journalists can never become shields of ex-drug trafficker Xhemail Pasmaçiu, named after Ylli Ndroqi, according to documents that show the change of name, published by CNA.al.
Journalists cannot be victimized. They are at Ora News, and they are working cheaply.
We are seeing every day, how their ?rifle? has already become a ?cannon?. A very strong ?cannon? against the Municipality of Tirana, accusing Erion Veliaj even more strongly. Today they have forgotten Edi Rama.
On the other hand, we see that they are free to write and say whatever they want. But,
they always try to attack Veliaj, but also those who tell the truth. In fact, it is time for his subordinates, though serving their payer, to remain silent or publicly acknowledge a truth, which they have always denied, that their boss is a former convicted drug trafficker in Turkey and arrested on behalf of Italy.
This is what SPAK told them, and INTERPOL also. They should acknowledge this publicly, and apologize to their colleagues and friends for the advocacy they have done to a former drug trafficker. Then, in terms of managing Ora News, and their work as journalists, they
will have the support of every media, every journalist and every colleague in Albania, to be free and to do their job.
But other journalists will never be with them, when they advocate for a former internationally confirmed drug trafficker. And journalists cannot be his shield. They cannot self-sacrifice for money and protect their owner.

If Ylli Ndroqi is a former drug trafficker, and has set up a media with her money, this is a violation of law, and there can be no media paid for by drug money. The time has come to say enough to any media that today more than in its mision, is in the service of the former trafficker owner, the business owner, the owner who wants licenses, or the owner who wants mansions, the owner who wants tenders, or of owners who impose fines.
Therefore, it would be good for our fellow journalists not to be the shield of the trafficker, but to be in their true mission. And in case that Erion Veliaj did this to Ylli Ndroqi, as it is claimed, we will be on their side to protect Ora News.
But by removing Ylli Ndroqi, or the former drug trafficker Xhemail Pasmaçi from a television. Because we can never accept that a media outlet is owned by a drug trafficker.
On the other hand it would be good that journalists, rather than a shield trafficker, begin to deal with the government and Prime Minister Rama, whom have forgotten the name, and instead we are told the jokes with ostensibly trials with Erion Veliaj, and the big troubles with the mayor of Tirana.

Before they became the shield of the drug trafficker, we would like them to make public the images of the wedding of Ylli Ndroqi?s son, where the first dance was played by the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, with the late mother of Ylli Ndroqi.
This would be enough to show us how much the disgusting public game is worth, that it is Erion Veliaj who is ?massacring? Ylli Ndroqi, while they do not say a word about Prime Minister Rama, or the real institutions that have been investigating Ylli Ndroqi for almost two years for his wealth. Without speaking further for the criminal silence of fellow journalists for all these years, and protection they gave to the former drug trafficker Xhemail Pasmaçiu./ CNA.al