2026-08-21 00:00:00 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

An unusual incident occurred this Thursday in the village of Vuno, where journalist and publicist Arjan Konomi clashed with members of the escort and police forces accompanying Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Konomi, a resident of Vunoi, has shared his version of the event on social media, claiming that everything started after a debate over the parking of the prime minister's escort vehicles.

According to Konomi, during the morning hours, fines were imposed on parked vehicles in Vuno, while later he saw the prime minister's family and his escort detained in the village.

" All of Vunoi woke up today with car fines. Later, after 12:00, I went out to pick figs and, when I returned, I saw the prime minister's family and his escort. The entire escort had parked in the no-parking zone, while the police were standing there ," Konomi recounts.

He says he started recording on his phone and addressed the police officers, asking them why the prime minister's escort was not also fined, just as, according to him, the residents of Vunoi had been fined earlier.

" I started making a video and said to the police: Why don't you also fine the prime minister, like you fined Vunoi a few hours ago?" , the journalist says.

According to his account, at that moment Edi Rama called him to come closer and discuss the situation.

" At that moment Rama called me and I approached him. He said: 'Sit down'. I said: 'How are we going to deal with the parking? This is my concern'. I did not use offensive words," Konomi says.

He claims that the situation later became tense after the intervention of the Prime Minister's wife, Linda Rama, whom he accuses of aggressive behavior towards him.

" He invited me to sit down, but there was no time, because Mrs. Linda Rama, with arrogance and hysteria, told me to leave him alone. Like a viper, she jumped on my throat, so much so that she shocked even her son with her reaction ," Konomi recounts.

Next, the journalist tells another episode with the figs he had collected.

" I stayed and said, 'I'll give you some figs.' But she came back and said, 'Do you know where to put those figs?' Thank goodness I had picked figs, which are soft; imagine if I had picked pears," he says.

Konomi claims that moments later the situation escalated and that some members of the escort took his phone.

" When I was thinking about this, four bodyguards jumped on me, snatched my phone, while Linda was screaming on the other side, in the middle of the village. They deleted the videos from my phone and escorted me in a police van, with the 'Eagles', to the Himara Police Station," Konomi declares.

According to him, he was held for several hours at the Himara Police Station.

The incident was made public after the reaction of the leader of the "Albania Becomes" movement, Adriatik Lapaj, who had previously denounced the journalist's clash with the prime minister's escort.

Lapaj has stated that he strongly condemns "the illegal behavior of the Prime Minister's companions, but also of Mr. Rama himself, who allows himself rights above the law, even the arbitrary escorting of a citizen regardless of who he is."

So far, the claims made by Arjan Konomi about the phone being taken and the videos being deleted, as well as the behavior of members of the prime minister's escort and family, have not been accompanied by an official reaction from Edi Rama, Linda Rama or the State Police.

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