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By Arben SHYTI If parliament supports the decision to release activists sentenced to death for terrorism, or if in another way the famous exoneration of those accused of murder in Kosovo, another, organic[?] government decision would put an end to the illusion of keeping Albania on the path of democracy and reforms. If parliament supports the de- cision to release activists sen- tenced to death for terrorism, or if in another way the fa- mous exoneration of those ac- cused of murder in Kosovo, another, famous exoneration of those accused of murder in Ko- sovo, as is the famous decision of the Supreme Court in favor of the release from prison of members of Gazmend Braka- sim[?]'s gang, can turn into a signal[?] of a return to back- wardness. Although in the current conditions of law, it may also lead to a game of roles[?]. However, this atti- tude is such that it discredits the government’s thesis before foreign diplomats and inter- national structures that Alba- nians are capable of building a state. In any case, the mem- ory of foreign people close to Albania will often keep this kind of attitudes and deci- sions in mind. The true friends of Albania are those foreigners who care about the fate of this country, and not those kinds of people who, from the passion of a minute or from a fictional sen- timentalism, close their eyes to facts. For this job, NGOs and European parliaments were also invented, which often keep the anti-Albanian circles in Belgrade sleepless. Tolerance toward crime is a clear symptom of the lack of maturity of a state that does not know how to make the distinction between poli- tics and abominations[?]. And the most serious aspect of this behavior of the Albanian state toward those released and par- doned as terrorists and murder- ers is the fact that the doors of Europe have been opened to them. Organized to a large extent from the scum of criminal soci- ety, the exodus of Albanians has revealed, for better or for worse, the face of Albania. Thousands of mafiosi and traffickers cross into the territory of the Euro- pean Union with Albanian doc- uments and visas, poisoning so- cial life from the south to the north of the continent. This en- tire flood of people could never have crossed the borders of European states and become a small element[?] of organized crime, corruption and prosti- tution, if we had not faced a neglectful state. Those who are today on the side of the politi- cal class with all the wealth put at the disposal of campaigns and election companies are a large part of the bosses shaped by trafficking and crime. As long as criminals have certifi- cates and residence permits with Albanian citizenship, it is clear that this cooperation was not made without the support and help of the government. Together with the dirty trans- mission of the Albanian image, when once again in a meeting with European officials in the halls of the ministries and par- liaments of this continent, it is the freedom of Albanian crimi- nals and their concealment be- fore the law that has made pos- sible the practical increase of Europe’s opposition to Kosovars and Albanians. After all, the Albanian state has the duty to distinguish between those who leave the world out of misery, out of the conditions of an un- bearable life and out of danger to life, and that part of society that is indifferent to the laws of other states. The growing tolerance to- ward it by politics and the cor- rupt part of justice in Albania comes at the same time as a punishment for those thousands of honest Albanians who want to integrate into Europe as a hope and not as a new burden for the old societies of this con- tinent. The source of this re- peated tolerance is the narrow calculation of political interest and the measures of decisions taken in favor of a dark and ag- gressive part of our society. Therefore this perverse policy toward crime and leniency to- ward it, instead of helping Al- banians in the European states, does the opposite, making a new mystery harder against them and in favor of the para- dox[?] of how a country with democratic aspirations has re- cently managed to build an- other face within the continent. P. 4

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