Himara tragedy, investigation: Coastal municipalities problems with navigation corridors

2022-08-08 16:46:34Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Himara tragedy, investigation: Coastal municipalities problems with navigation
Arjan Tase

This is the certificate that the police officer Arjan Tase had obtained for the watercraft and that he had since 2017, and that sunk it, making his position worse for the indirect intentional murder of the little girl Jonada Avdia.

Himara tragedy, investigation: Coastal municipalities problems with navigation

The prosecution considers the 38-year-old's ability to drive watercraft as evidence proving that the policeman was aware of the danger that could come from crossing the beachgoers' zone.

The file that was shown to TCH shows that the boat in which the former police officer traveled was checked a few hours before the tragedy where Jonada died, and from this record it was found that there were no deficiencies in the documentation.

Because the entire practice has been blocked, the investigations have focused on a series of documents on the responsibility of each institution where, although 15 border and local police officers have been suspended in Himare and Dhërmi, there are suspicions that there are also local government employees in abuse of office. So far, it turns out that Arjan Tase was not traveling in an approved corridor, out of the 6 that the municipality of Himara has announced.

From the examination of the documents seized by the Vlora local police in the wake of the criminal and administrative investigation that is also being developed by the police supervision agency, other data related to the safety of beachgoers and the measures that should be taken have come to light.

This letter dated May 17, 2022, sent by the border police shows how the police ask the three municipalities of Vlore, Himarë and Saranda to approve the corridors. But it turns out that the municipality of Vlora has not yet approved them, and that in none of these municipalities are there any signs that say no to swimming area, no is allowed for swimmers.

These are the 6 corridors approved by Himara and to which the signs should have been attached. Whereas in Saranda there are 10 such that do not have the warning that the municipality should publish.

Himara tragedy, investigation: Coastal municipalities problems with navigation

While the police are showing their muscles with the claim that they have landed on the ground, it remains unclear why these boats are being physically verified when the procedure can be quite easy, to seize the maritime registers in Durrës where every vessel that enters Albania is marked as well as practice.

In the plan of measures for this summer season to guarantee the lives of vacationers, a total of 1,593 officers, most of them rank and file, and 887 border policemen were expected to be deployed on the green border and at sea, but apart from the police, actors from other institutions are missing

However, what the police did not anticipate is precisely the lack of border sea vehicles, which from the mouth of Seman to Saranda has only three border vehicles that are needed not only for patrolling but also at night to prevent other traffic



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