Erieta, accusations from beyond the grave
Erieta and Dritan Avdyli
By Rudina XHUNGA
The Erieta case seems to be taking on the proportions of the Lewinsky case in America, not so much because of what the two cases do and do not have in common, but because of the media’s influence on public opinion. At first glance, banal and familiar to our ears (the triangle: murdered woman, jealous husband, secret lover), a product of the press, it is turning into a test of the press itself—and not only of the press. If we return to the chronology of the tragic story, we will see that the apparently ordinary news of an ordinary woman’s disappearance surprisingly quickly filled all the daily newspapers, which speculated about everything, including the woman’s escape in search of freedom. People talked and gossiped, until the woman who had been exploited and maligned was found—but not with a secret lover in some beach motel; she had been murdered in the most monstrous way. Then the press played the sympathy card. The same journalists, with the same professional veracity and civic sensitivity, wrote about the arrest of Dritan, the suspected jealous husband
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