In Albania, Thousands of Protesters Against Corruption and Tear Gas Rain
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"We're here for only one reason: we don't want to build our dreams elsewhere," says Rosela Mira, in the first year of medicine in the Albanian capital. "I wish to have a future here." Like them, other students and high school students joined the protest in mid-October on the occasion of the start of the school year, seeming to give a new impetus to the movement under way for more than 130 days. While he has remained peaceful for months, violence…
There are incidents outside the Albanian Ministry of Education during a mass protest rally, with the situation chaotic on main streets and in the heart of Tirana. Protesters threw stones at the building and windows of the Ministry of Education, and then the police reacted with water cannons and tear gas. Then, defying the water and tear gas, they set fire to buckets that they were using as a barricade, while a group of hooded youths threw ston…
Two water cannons have been positioned in front of the Ministry of Education. The police have intervened using pressurized water and tear gas, in an attempt to disperse the protesters. The police forces are advancing towards the protesters, while their displacement from the Durrës Street area is observed. For their part, the protesters have thrown fireworks towards the officers, as the latter advanced.
Thousands of protesters left the street this Saturday in Tirana, the capital of Albania, for another anti-government protest. The clashes led the police to resort to water cannons to disperse the protesters, who threw stones at agents and buildings.
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