Socialist MP Erion Braçe is demanding the immediate amendment of two laws in the Road Code and the Criminal Code, which deal with road accidents and the abuse of power by state employees who also use service weapons for criminal acts.
The lawmaker reacted strongly today through a post on the social network Instagram, taking the trigger from the serious accident in Saranda, where two sisters died and a third girl was injured, while the suspected and already arrested perpetrator is an employee of the Ministry of Interior, who was drunk at the wheel, speeding and overtaking incorrectly.
Braçe considers it a murder and not a road accident, so he calls for the law for these cases to be changed and made stricter.
Also, as he makes the touching post about the two sisters who lost their lives in the most innocent way, he raises his voice for increasing the power of punishment by the law in these cases.
Braçe also brings to attention cases where state employees engage in illegality using the power of duty and service weapons, while demanding that the violators be held accountable for these cases, through stricter laws.
The two Dhimaku sisters, Elvisa, 22, and Rozina, 20, were both studying medicine, one at a public university and the other at a private one in Tirana. The eldest was driving a Lancia car with her sister and a female passenger. At around 8:15 p.m. on Sunday, on the Saranda-Delvina highway, an Audi hit them hard, killing the two sisters, while their female friend, 24-year-old Antonela Zhupa, is in hospital with a non-life-threatening condition. The driver was identified as 24-year-old Kevin Norra, a drunken MB employee, who was arrested.
Erion Braçe's post:
"Two very young girls were escorted to their last apartment yesterday."
I can't imagine the pain of their mother, their father, everyone who knew them and shared their short lives with them! It's terrible, there is no comfort, at all!
I've been hearing this since yesterday morning:
Accident, road accident!
Nooooo! It's not an accident!
Getting drunk, driving a car, going out on the road, speeding beyond the speed limit, overtaking the wrong way, and driving in front of another person in their lane is not an accident, nor is it an accident resulting in death!
It is a murder resulting in the death of two young girls and the injury of a third.
Our Highway Code and our Criminal Code do not recognize this notion, yet on the streets it even happens as intentional murder!
We need to change the two laws as soon as possible;
I heard yesterday that the driver was arrested, he was drunk, he was speeding, he overtook in the wrong direction;
He was arrested, what next? Will he be investigated and tried for an accident resulting in death? He's not like that!
Second, I heard just yesterday that the author is an employee of the Ministry of Interior; I don't know if this is true or not.
But a new law on responsibilities beyond the work they do for state employees should be drafted as soon as possible, now! They should definitely have public responsibilities, more than any ordinary citizen.
I often hear, he used his service weapon and killed his wife, attacked his neighbor, threatened another person at the bar, built without a permit, violated the law, and in the end, he was a state employee.
This should not happen again!
By law, every state employee must be held accountable and restricted from acts that are inherently illegal by using the power of being in a state office!”