Assassination in Rinas/Topalli: Albania is no longer a legal republic, but a territory of organized crime

2025-11-11 20:41:00, Politikë CNA

Assassination in Rinas/Topalli: Albania is no longer a legal republic, but a

Democratic Party MP, Jozefina Topalli, has reacted to the assassination attempt that shook the country today, where one person was executed and another was seriously injured near Rinas Airport.

In her post, Topalli states that the mafia assassination occurred two hours after the Minister of the Interior declared that the country is safer than ever.

She says that what happened today is the most accurate picture of a state that is collapsing, but has not yet collapsed. The MP further writes that the murder that occurred precisely in Rinas, where hundreds of citizens enter and leave the country every day, shows that crime no longer fears the law, the state, or justice.

Topalli adds that Albania is no longer a legal republic, but is a territory of organized crime.

Full post:

Today in Rinas, a mafia assassination took place. An execution in the most protected area of ??the country — where every meter is under camera, every movement is supposed to be under control.

However, the crime entered, killed, left, burned the car, and disappeared as if it were the lord of the territory.

Two hours earlier, in parliament, the Ministry of Interior declared in a triumphant tone that "Albania is safer than ever."

This frightening contrast — between propaganda and reality — is the most accurate picture of a state that is collapsing, but not yet fallen.

Albania is at a stage where crime has been integrated into the system, where power and the mafia are no longer two separate worlds, but a single organism that lives on the blood of its citizens.

Today, traffickers who were once in hiding return as "successful businessmen."

Governments that should be fighting them, invite them to concessions, tenders, lists and financing.

When crime is legalized, when corruption is institutionalized, then even murder becomes part of normality.

Assassinations in Albania do not occur for personal revenge, but for the division of markets — of money, of power, of defense.

This is the scheme of a captured republic.

Rinas is a symbol. It is the gateway to the country. And when the gateway to the country turns into a scene of assassinations, this shows that crime no longer fears the law, the state, or justice.

This assassination is not a coincidence. It is a consequence.

The aftermath of a decade where money laundering was called "economic development",

where construction without financial resources was called "GDP growth",

where silence on crime was called "political stability".

In captured countries, murders do not occur from the weakness of the state — but from the strength of the crime that rules it.

And when the government boasts of "decreasing murders," while the attacks take place in the heart of the airport, we are no longer dealing with a security failure — but with the collapse of the state as an idea.

Today, Albania is no longer a legal republic.

It is a territory of organized crime, dressed in government rhetoric and uniforms that do not protect, but cover.

And every such assassination is a reminder that crime is no longer outside the state — it is the state itself. It is a narco-state.

/CNA