Mjaft: State Presents its Gangster Face in Vlora

04 April 2008

MJAFT! Movement strongly protests the arrests of protesters by the Vlora Police Department, during the protests against the planned oil terminal that Italian Petrolifera Company intends to build in the Bay organized by the Alliance for Protection of the Bay of Vlora (AMGJ).

- The Police is actually behaving as police of a gangster state that doesn�t refrain from psychological and physical violence against its citizens, says Mjaft Movement, adding that during the detention, the protesteres were kept in inhuman conditions.

Six protesters chained to each other stopped the lorries and other construction equipment from entering the construction site of the new oil terminal. In the process, they created a traffic jam and were arrested and detained by the Police.

The Alliance, which lists in its ranks a number of prominent intellectual figures, has organized almost constant protests since the announcement of construction. It aims to stop all energy projects in the area, seeing the future of the region primarily in tourism.

The detained protesters said after their release that they intend to continue the protests with more radical measures.