They Deleted the Videos from My Phone/Rama’s Bodyguards Clash with Arjan Konomi in Vuno Village, Journalist Ends Up at Police Station: Linda Lunged at My…

An incident took place yesterday in the village of Vuno, where journalist and publicist Arjan Konomi clashed with the bodyguards and police officers accompanying Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Konomi is a resident of Vuno and frequently complains on social media about the conduct of the state police, which fines citizens for parking their vehicles.

The video was published by Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha, who said he strongly condemned the arrogance and retaliatory violence against the well-known journalist and publicist Arjan Konomi by Edi and Linda Rama.

In the video, Arjan Konomi himself recounted how the entire incident unfolded, resulting in him being taken to the police station for several hours.

According to him, the clash with Rama, his wife and their bodyguards was sparked by a dispute over parking.

Konomi said he began filming with his phone and asked police officers why the prime minister’s convoy vehicle was not also being fined.

According to his account, Prime Minister Rama then called him over and asked him to sit down, while Konomi said he explained his concerns about parking and the fines imposed on the residents of Vuno.

“I have just been released from the Himara police station’s cell, following a clash and confrontation with Prime Minister Rama here in the village of Vuno. All of Vuno woke up today to fines for their cars. This also caused a certain amount of friction with the state police and the residents of Vuno. Later, after 12:00, I went out to pick figs and, when I returned, I saw the prime minister’s family and his convoy. The entire convoy was parked in an area where parking was prohibited, and the police were standing there. I started recording a video and said to the police: Why don’t you fine the prime minister as well, just as you fined Vuno a few hours earlier? At that moment, the prime minister called me and I approached. He said to me, ‘Sit down.’ I told him: ‘What are we going to do about parking? Why don’t you create a parking area? Why should people be fined for parking? This is my concern.’ I did not use offensive language, while 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,” he said.

Konomi claimed that he then had a verbal confrontation with Linda Rama. He described her reaction as harsh and said that, after he offered her some figs, she responded with an insulting expression.

Konomi further claimed that several security personnel intervened, took his phone and escorted him in a police vehicle to the Himara Police Commissariat.

“This mussel and fish scientist, like a viper, lunged at my throat, to the point that even her son was shaken by the reaction she had.

I was left stunned and told her: ‘I’ll give you some figs.’ But she replied: ‘Do you know where you can put those figs?’

At one point I thought, thank goodness I had picked figs, which are soft; imagine if I had picked pears. As I was thinking that, about four bodyguards jumped on me, grabbed my phone and lifted me off the ground. Meanwhile, Linda was shouting on the other side, in the middle of the village. They deleted the videos from my phone and took me in a police van, with the ‘Eagles’, to the Himara Police Commissariat,” Konomi said.