The legs do not obey. Not even one hand. Semi-paralyzed for four years, 76-year-old Myrteza Belaj left his bed to obey a court decision that found him guilty of illegal construction.
The elderly man has been forced by justice, even though he is sick, to travel from Fushë Preza to the probation service to convince the institutions that he has not escaped and that he is not committing another crime.
Anila Hoxha: Give me a comment about this decision
Myrteza Belaj: Good, good, not bad
Anila Hoxha: ...could it be worse?
Myrteza Belaj: There are government decisions. For work, it is my own fault, because I did not have money to get the permit.
Anila Hoxha : Are you the big fish?
Myrteza Belaj: Poo! They also steal, why only we do those things?!
Anila Hoxha: How does it work?
Myrteza Belaj: We have nothing to do
Sanije Belaj: Fukaraja, long live fukarai. This whole layer comes, for 500 bricks that I have put and they remained there without a door and without cupboards. I have to come here.
Along with Myrtezain, another non-judicial sentence is also being served by his wife, who has returned to the mobile barrel of the 76-year-old.
Myrteza Belaj: I have these overalls. The woman behind me grabs me and lifts me up with a stick. Where's my stick?
Myrtezai addresses the woman: Move the rope, because the leg cannot move without a noose
Sanije Belaj : Wait
Myrteza Belaj: Here...
The case of the elderly is a concrete example of how the law in Albania is not equal for everyone. How prosecutors and judges are devoted to seeing the evidence of ordinary citizens and how they introduce the concept of mercy when it comes to impunity. How the court of ordinary jurisdiction continues and punishes corruption of 5 thousand lek and how the other court of Anti-Corruption should punish corruption./ TCH