Nothing is as it seems in the departure of Police Director Gladys Nano. The event is more complicated than the interior minister Çuçi tried to present, that is, as a reflection of the government for the weak work of the police, for the 47 murders of this year and the heavy black chronicle of this summer.
If it was so, Nano would have been asked to hand over the keys since the macabre event of Himara, when after the massacre of little Jonada, thousands of protesters took to the streets calling for his resignation.
A democratically minded government would have had no better opportunity to combine the conclusions it had drawn about poor police work with listening to the will of the people.
But then the opposite happened. Rama not only kept Gladis Nano at work, but she was forced to play in front of the cameras, according to the Veliaj-Balluku models, acting out actions to block the skiffs and jet skis.
There is another factor that played a role in getting rid of Nano, and this is related, above all, to the tragic-comic scenes that played out in the last two days at the high levels of the Ministry of the Interior. At the beginning of the week, with the persistence of an oil stain, the news broke that the General Director of Police had resigned following the minister's request.
Surely, at the top of the government, a scenario similar to that of a year ago was planned, when a militant like Ardi Veliu left the police leadership. He wrote a letter in which he thanked Rama for the opportunity he had given him and implored him that he was ready to help him in new tasks.
The event ended with a happy ending, the public did not see any cracks in the ranks of the renaissance, and the former police chief who had also served as an alibi for the election robbers, was settled in another job.
Gladys Nano apparently did not accept a peaceful, negotiated departure. As soon as the news of his resignation came out, he reacted by saying that such a thing was not true and that he continued to stay in office, as he had no intention of leaving. In fact, sources close to him show that he asked for help from Western diplomatic headquarters, which advised him to follow the same course of action. Only after that the government was forced to dismiss him, being forced to accept along with this act also the failure in the work of the police for a year.
Of course, this attitude doesn't make Gladys Nano a better cop. His management has been a failure, just like that of all his predecessors, or those who will follow him, who have been forced to lead the blue uniforms in the framework of a state that is both criminalized and politicized. But the fact that he refused to act like a chess piece of the renaissance, according to the Ard Veliu model: "your party puts you in, your party takes you out", reveals in a way the real reason for his exit from the stage.
The last event showed that he was not as militant as he should have been. But there are at least two reasons why Edi Rama needs one, exactly today. Firstly, as he plans to fill the huge hole he has created in the budget through crime money, tax amnesty, golden passports and the return of betting, the least he likes is a police chief whispering in the ear of his allies. westerners, who are against these initiatives.
He needs a vassal above vassals. And this for a second reason. If the dire economic situation and the price crisis force the opposition of Berisha and Meta into permanent protests this fall, the prime minister will need a militant police force to deal with them. Perhaps Gladis Nano, as his recent disobedience showed, did not provide sufficient guarantees for these. Therefore he was fired, although he refused to resign.