Dritan Goxhaj as an Anomaly of Normality

by Lutfi Dervishi

Imagine for a moment that Dritan Goxhaj were the former director of AKSHI, accused of being part of a “criminal organization.”

Or that he were the mastermind behind the incinerators that, just like legends, are endlessly talked about, but no one has ever seen.

Or that messages had been found on his phone saying things like: “X gets this tender.”

Or that some 500 thousand euros had turned up in his home chimney.

Or some 3 million euros in the trunk of a Toyota Yaris, arranged so neatly that the car would not even have needed shock absorbers.

Or that he had appeared in Sky ECC wiretaps ordering murders with the same ease as ordering a macchiato in the Bllok area.

Or that he had been declared a strategic investor and built on some “tiny little spot” in a protected area in the South.

In short, imagine if he had one or several of these “merits.” At the very least, he would be an MP or an independent television analyst.

But no.

Dritan made one fatal mistake: he read out the five points of the protest and, worse still, he read them without spelling mistakes. Now that truly could be considered a national threat.

That’s all.

A man with no accusation, no file, no investigation, no hidden wealth, no ties to gangs or cartels, no wiretaps in which he promises jobs and tenders, no concessions and no special status.

A man who once left behind comfort, work and salary and went to fight for the liberation of Kosovo has now reached the most dangerous status in the Republic: he is being targeted.

And they have targeted him from morning till night.

Because to be clean, to be without accusation, is a provocation, an insult to the system, a disturbance of the ecological balance of corruption.

As Fishta would say: “If you have a tail, they cut it off; if you do not, they attach one to you.”

They are so talented at attacks that, if given a free hand, they would not only make the priest carry the burden, but then ask him to pay the costs of raising the child as well.