After the crime, the politicians
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After the crime, the politicians
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MPs, crime and justice
When they are asked, even MPs or ministers from the parties after Asdreni and Nordhimi, it is difficult, in all the explanations of the Albanian police, to define it: we are dealing with compromised politicians. These conclusions are also confirmed by the Minister of Order himself. Here is what is reflected in his statement: that two-thirds of the country are covered with unexplained murders, that crime operates wearing both uniforms and civilian clothes, that in this country the “Clean Hands” operation has still not begun to bring powerful people before justice. These claims sound forceful. But the Minister of Order himself made them with the calm of a bureaucrat, through a few lines of explanation. It is easier to say that a group of MPs are involved with criminal groups than to name them. It is easier to admit that crime has penetrated even uniformed sectors, but not to give specific names. All that remains is that these statements, presented to the public for the first time, lead to the conclusion that if crime is so widespread, and when the state does not set in motion the mechanisms to strike it, then we are dealing with something else. And it is no longer simply a police problem.
If these are only allusions, then proof is needed. If they are true, then names are needed. Albania cannot continue to live with this double state, where criminals are anonymous while political responsibility remains untouchable. This is the essence of what citizens expect: not general statements, but justice.
EDI LESI