The Albanian-language online information portal "Gazetatema.net" published an article yesterday (April 12) claiming to have obtained photographs of Arbër Zaimi, whom they refer to as Albin Kurti's political advisor.
In the published photographs, images of an environment with gambling machines are seen. In addition, in these photographs, a person is also seen, whom “Gazetatema.net” claims to be Abër Zaimi. In these photographs published in the article titled “Electoral tourism and casino. Here is where Albin Kurti's main political advisor spent the weekend”, it is noted that there is no clarity that proves that the person shown in the image is Arbër Zaimi.
Article published on "Gazetatema.net":
Albin Kurti's main political advisor, Arbër Zaimi, who this weekend, like most of the party, landed in Albania for the electoral campaign, seems to have chosen to spend the night more quietly after the curfew in Tirana. Being an advisor to the "Vetvendosje" candidate in Tirana, he seems to have had a tiring day and in the evening he was seen at the Regency Casino in the center of Tirana. His friend Bojken Abazi has made public the account number for financial assistance, but apparently the main mentor of his campaign does not have many problems with money, writes the newspaper TemA.
Link to the article published on "Gazetatema.net":
Apart from the published photographs, the article does not contain any additional clarification that would support the claim that the person in question, Arbër Zaimi, is in the image presented.
The same article was also distributed by several Albanian-language information portals from Kosovo:
Links to the article distributed by several Kosovar media outlets:
However, this claim made by the portal "Gazetatema.net" has been denied by Arbër Zaimi himself. In a statement to "insajderi.org", he said:
"No, there's nothing true. I haven't come here (Tirana) on any weekend, I've been here for 6 weeks, and I haven't been to any gambling place in any evening, or even during the day."
Link to Arbër Zaimi's reaction on "insajderi.org":
Analyze:
Based on the fact-checking carried out by hibrid.info, it turns out that the photographs published by “Gazetatema.net” are not a sufficient argument that meets the claim made. As can be seen, these photographs are unclear, which makes it difficult to identify the person who is part of the image. Also, the article does not provide additional data that would argue the claim that Arbër Zaimi is the person in the image presented in the photograph. For this reason, hibrid.info assesses this article as “Unverified Content”.
this assessment:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.