Surveillance as Threat: How Grenell’s Circle Turned Scrutiny Into Coercion

Following reports on R Grenell, Fitim Çeku surfaced privately, constructing a false surveillance narrative to intimidate, invert scrutiny, and shield Balkan criminal influence networks operation.

On the afternoon of Friday 26 December 2025, a message request landed on my Facebook page from a man called Fitim Çeku. It did not read like fan mail. It read like a knock on a door that was not his to knock on.

He began politely enough. “Hello Vudi!” Then he moved straight to the point. He said he could not find my email or telephone number. He wanted “an explanation” about two of my movements around the hotel where he says he was staying in Tirana on 5 December. Could I tell him if it was truly coincidence, or whether I had an agent following him.

It is a strangely intimate request for a stranger to make, the kind that assumes a shared map of reality. It also contains an embedded accusation. The accusation is not stated as an accusation, but the shape of it is clear. You were there, near me, and I want you to explain yourself.

He attached what he presented as proof.