Today I woke up to the news that they were demolishing the National Theater in Tirana. I saw activists who were against the cause being dragged out by an absurd number of policemen. I almost vomited. I took my camera and headed straight to the scene. It was the first time in my life that I couldn’t take the shot. I cried a lot as I looked at that woeful scene, the excavator demolishing a building that for us was a symbol of resistance and freedom of speech.
The theater was the last remaining castle uncontaminated by corruption, which in our country is a virus that is even more contagious than COVID-19.The pandemic was used shamelessly for petty interests and for the benefit of a small group of people in power.
Today will be remembered as the “Day the Dictatorship Was Installed in Albania.” Because this is the true face of dictatorship.
