{"id":80383,"date":"2025-09-22T21:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=80383"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:03:32","slug":"deputy-minister-dismissed-for-smoking-in-a-restaurant-kociu-an-unjustifiable-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/deputy-minister-dismissed-for-smoking-in-a-restaurant-kociu-an-unjustifiable-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Dismissed for Smoking in a Restaurant, Ko\u00e7iu: An Unjustifiable Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Internal Affairs, Albana Ko\u00e7iu, has reacted following media reports about the dismissal of Deputy Minister Andi Mahila, confirming the news through a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the decision to remove him from office came after a complaint from an Albanian citizen living in New York. According to the report, Deputy Minister Mahila had smoked a cigarette inside a restaurant during a visit to the United States, causing discomfort to those present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received a complaint from one of our compatriots in New York, who, together with his family, had experienced discomfort due to the fact that the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs was smoking in a restaurant. I carried out the necessary verification and informed the Deputy Minister of his dismissal,\u201d Ko\u00e7iu wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister emphasized that such an action cannot be considered an innocent mistake, but rather a clear violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone can make an unintentional mistake, and that can be understood. But smoking inside a restaurant is not an unintentional mistake\u2014it is an unjustifiable violation of the law. Even more so for a leader of an institution such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Internal Affairs, Albana Ko\u00e7iu, has reacted following media reports about the dismissal of Deputy Minister Andi Mahila, confirming the news through a social media post. She explained that the decision to remove him from office came after a complaint from an Albanian citizen living in New York. According to the report, Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deputy Minister Dismissed for Smoking in a Restaurant, Ko\u00e7iu: An Unjustifiable Violation - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/deputy-minister-dismissed-for-smoking-in-a-restaurant-kociu-an-unjustifiable-violation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deputy Minister Dismissed for Smoking in a Restaurant, Ko\u00e7iu: An Unjustifiable Violation - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Internal Affairs, Albana Ko\u00e7iu, has reacted following media reports about the dismissal of Deputy Minister Andi Mahila, confirming the news through a social media post. 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