OVITAL employees rape and threaten the film crew of Fiks Fare, AMA reacts

Employees of the OVITAL company raped and threatened the film crew.

AMA followed with great concern last night (22.03.2022) the case of threatening ill-treatment of the journalist and cameraman of the show “Fiks Fare” by two employees of a poultry farm in Durrës. The media team was doing the field work to investigate the problems and sensitivities of public opinion.

The two employees obstructed the work of the journalists of “Fiks fare”, exercised physical and psychological violence, as well as seized and damaged the tools of the cameraman. This is a flagrant case against freedom of speech, which undermines the activity of the media for transparency. AMA condemns such acts by anyone and demands respect for the rights of journalists for information in the service of the public good “is written in the AMA post.

Reporters Without Borders also condemned the violence and the police refusal to intervene.

“The owners of a farm broke the equipment and threatened to beat the T.op Channel journalist, Antelia Lika and the cameraman, while reporting their misuse of the bird flu that affects the farm chickens. RSF condemns violence and police refusal to intervene despite being summoned “is written on Twitter.

Balkan Insight also made the news public: The Albanian Media Authority, AMA, on Wednesday condemned the abuse and intimidation of a journalist and cameraman by Top Channel, the main television channel in Albania. Journalists were reporting on a bird flu pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of chickens on several farms in central Albania, causing egg prices to rise. Ovvital, the company where the event took place, is owned by Xhevdet Troplin, who according to the Albanian Police is suspected of being a member of an organized crime group. However, an investigation against him in 2020 yielded no results.

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