Exploitation without criteria or permission in the Tomorri National Park continues as excavators, trucks and workers go every day near the village of Mëlovë, a protected area, and extract stone slabs.
State institutions have “raised their hands”, as the work continues without interruption, although it was declared a national park and has a special status of protection. Fiks Fare program on Top Channel raised it as a problem since 2017 the massacre that was being done to this park, where a total of 12 usage permits were given, on paper on the area bordering the national park, but in reality they extract stones inside the park.
After this denunciation, the Ministry of Tourism and Environment together with the Environmental Inspectorate imposed fines on the subjects and revoked the permits from the field inspection.
But on Tuesday evening Fiks Fare showed that these revocations remained only on paper as the massacre in Tomorri National Park continues to this day.
The journalists of Fiks observed for several days how the stone slabs were taken out without criteria by the local workers, and then the loaded trucks deposited them near the national road Çorovode-Skrapar, to the companies dealing with the collection and sale of stone.
The only ones missing in this area are the police, the territorial defense inspectors, who must stop this environmental massacre.
The employees questioned by the journalists stated that they worked every day without being harassed even though they knew very well that what they were doing was illegal.
When asked by reporters if they were employees of any company, they answered that they worked individually, but this is denied by the footage where trucks are seen moving exactly where they worked.
They sell that they sold the stone slabs for 2-3 thousand lek per square meter, while below, the same companies sold the same stone slabs for 5-6 thousand lek per square meter.
The journalists of Fiks Fare show also contacted some of the companies that collected and sold the stone. In the conversation with journalists, they indicated that the stones came from the mountain of Tomorri.
“You tell me how many square meters you want, and I’ll take them down tomorrow, since the work continues upstairs”, says one of them.
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