In Albania, it is not enough to be a student to secure a place in the dormitory; you also need to have a friend. And if you don't have one, violence from the state awaits you. After the scandal recorded in the dormitories of the Faculty of Medicine, another shocking event has occurred in the Student City. A video circulating on social networks shows the moments when desperate students are pushed away by the police, after having waited until 03:00 in the morning to get a dormitory room.
Instead of facing a fair and transparent process, students are being treated as unwanted in their own country. According to reports, only 10 people have been granted rooms, while dozens of others have been evicted without any explanation. The door has been locked, and the police, instead of solving the problem, have intervened to force them out.
The government continues to boast about the facades in the Student City, while the corridors of the dormitories have turned into scenes of bureaucracy and injustice. There is no reaction from the Ministry of Education or the Municipality of Tirana to the case, while the students, who will start the academic year in a few days, cannot secure a place to stay.
This situation is annual and, despite repeated denunciations, nothing has changed. In a country that is being abandoned by its youth every day, such cases are another nail in the coffin of hope that something will change.
