Alfredo Affazi

Albania's most fabulous export 🎉. Aspiring journalist. Post-grad 🤓. Sassy but kind. Second daddy to Rufus 🐶 and madly in 👨‍❤️‍👨. LGBTQ+.

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@johnlucas_news Done 🤗

[Monty Reed @MontyReed9]

Many thanks to @VICE, @Narcomania, @affazi & @rudina_hajdari for supporting me on my #longread about #Albania’s epic #cocaine trafficking problem & the affect on the country’s youngest/most vulnerable. No word from @ediramaal, @ilirmetazyrtar or *even* @lulzimbasha_al yet. Sad.

[Monty Reed @MontyReed9]

Great to work w. @VICE’s legendary #drugs editor @Narcomania. Thanks to @affazi for helpin’ us to tell the true story of #Albania’s slide into #cocaine trafficking & to @rudina_hajdari for giving opposition position. Now that @lulzimbasha_al has left, @ediramaal to solve problem?

[Max Daly @Narcomania]

@Etnik16445818 @affazi @VICE have you read it?

[Max Daly @Narcomania]

VICE EXCLUSIVE: The Inside Story of Europe's First Narco-State https://t.co/zITKrECJBj via @vice

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@The_Balkanista Just to be clear, you're saying it's journalistic integrity that stops you writing for publications with millions of readers, and that made you choose Exit? 😳🤭

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

Just spoke to my cousin in #albania. He is at the #protest. Says police are being brutal with tear gas, water cannon, and batons. Lots of people hurt apparently.

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@The_Balkanista I'll send you a link sweetie. 😚

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@The_Balkanista Omg I know babe, maybe you want to cover the story after i write it for one of the sites I mentioned? PD and/or LSI corruption scandal could be a great byline for you to advance your career? 🔥😼😽

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@The_Balkanista I hear it used to be better but PD haven't even paid their staff in a few months from what I'm told. I've been promised some videos of money changing hands on the buses and allegedly near Coin, should be great for the franchise when shown on Buzzfeed/BIRN😘

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@The_Balkanista Lol sweetie, you really don't know anything about Albania if you think the rent a crowd phenomenon is new to any party. I spoke to my uncle, and he tells me he was offered 1500 Leke to protest, by some friendly guys working for Mr. B and maybe Ms. K.

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@KaceyMusgraves you are a babe, this was just fabulous 🤩😍😘

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

Maybe I'm in the minority but I loved this, loved them both, and loved the result. Superstars 😘🔥🏅#RuPaulsDragRace #DragRace #FABULOUS #Love

[RuPaul's Drag Race @RuPaulsDragRace]

What a night!
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👑 @monetxchange 🌈 @spaceykacey 🌈 @trinitythetuck 👑

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

@The_Balkanista Not *directly* involved. The PD likes a rent-a-mob as much as the LSI and the SP. Familiar faces in the crowd and rumours of paid agitators. If true, where did the money come from?

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

Omg this is so good lol 🤣. Rama hasn't suffered himself though, those suits and ties look expensive, if more than a little camp. 🤗

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

Whatever the truth, and there are a lot of rumours of paid #protesters, it is so sad to see such ugly, violent scenes in our capital, #Tirana. #albania #sad #Violence #PeacefulProtest #democracy #CorruptAndDangerous

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

My cousin tells me #protesters have told him they have been paid to #protest and #riot in #Tirana. Won't say who by. Can only be #LSI or #PD @lulzimbasha_al @monikakryemadhi

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

#Luli wants to show Europe the size of his battering ram. As a gay man I am certain that
@lulzimbasha_al
has the most flaccid offering in Albanian politics since
@pdshqiperi
had their technocracy #notoviolence #AllAlbanianFailure

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

In a major anti-govt rally today organised by Albania's opposition, protesters turned violent and tried to break into the Prime Minister's office.

More on the protest: https://t.co/TFU43Yj556

[Alfredo Affazi @affazi]

Lol @ilirmetazyrtar calling for restraint. I had no idea he knew what the word meant. Not my #president #corrupt #albania #freedom #protest