Mero Baze: Ols Dado (with whom we were together in the DP), added two charges to Veliaj for revenge for one of my articles

In this history of the behavior of politics towards SPAK and the new justice system in general, two standards have been set. The standard of Sali Berisha, who curses all SPAK and GJKKO prosecutors with a house book, even releasing photos of women at a press conference, and the standard of Edi Rama, who considers SPAK and the new justice system his achievements and demands that they maintain integrity and independence, not only from him, but also from Sali Berisha.

The bitter truth is that SPAK and the new justice system, during this time that it has functioned amidst fierce debates, has proven to be more sensitive to pressure than to respect; it is more humble and silent to blackmail than to those who help it do its job; it is more silent to direct insults from Berisha, Meta or anyone else, than to criticism from Edi Rama. And not only SPAK, but the entire structure of the new justice system.

I can count at least 100 press conferences by Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta who have cursed the president of SPAK with a house book and the judges of the GJKKO in generations, and there is no statement from the KLP or KLGJ.

Edi Rama's criticisms today of SPAK and GJKKO, related to the provable facts that those institutions are using Berisha's people for political gain, immediately caused their reaction, stating that their independence should not be violated.

The problem is that the independence of SPAK and GJKKO is not only violated by the government, but also when the opposition uses them for electoral purposes.

The arrest of the mayor of Tirana, who is also the political leader of a third of the country, at the beginning of the electoral campaign, without any substantial reason for his arrest, is a direct involvement of justice in politics.

And just as it is not forbidden to protest when politics deals with justice, it is not forbidden to protest when justice deals with politics.

If you investigate it with the criteria of electoral crime, the involvement of the SPAK prosecutor and the GJKKO judge in the arrest of Veliaj for political vendettas is a pure electoral crime, even investigateable, if we had an independent judiciary.

It is an exemplary case of justice dealing with politics and not of politics dealing with justice.

But it is very good that the institutions are reacting. It is very good that the KLP and the KLGJ are reacting so that politics does not prejudice their work, but they must set a standard when they react.

It is easy to react to someone who respects you and considers you as an institution created by his politics. The problem is to react to maintain the standard of independence of justice from politics and not to preserve the filth of taking justice with politics.

And I'm bringing here a disappointing case of mine with them.

I may be the most consistent journalist as a supporter of the Justice Reform, since it was conceived in 2015. In some cases, I have even become ridiculous by defending things that are not protected by the banality of justice. I have done this because I have taken the old justice system to task; I have taken Gjin Gjoni or the gang of judges who here sentenced me to please Sali Berisha, and on the other hand released drug traffickers to fill their pockets with millions, and were justified in having sentenced an enemy of Berisha.

No matter how bad and flawed this justice is, it can't even compare to the stench that was.

But to understand how complex these people are with those who attack them and how Serbian they are with those who support them, I tried it a month ago when the accusations against Veliaj were made public and I wrote an editorial to understand who this Nesti Angoni was, who knows everything about the life of Veliaj and some businessmen, who has access to every state document and who SPAK takes very seriously, as if it were an institution.

One told me it was the Greek service, that it had connections with Olsi Dado; another told me it was Belinda Balluku, that she had a fight with Erion Veliaj; others told me it was SPAK itself, but she had fabricated an anonymous letter.

It all seemed ridiculous to me and I didn't fall into that trap, but simply wanted to know who it was.

And you know what happened?

Two journalist colleagues reported to me that Olsi Dado came out of the office, puffing and asking SPAK's press advisor, Mr. Zhilla (whom I don't know), to make a press statement about Veliaj's interrogation, and to make four charges against Veliaj from two, "since I defended this Mero Baze."

I was shocked.

It means that a journalist who has protected them for 7 years from every attack, including those of SPAK when Berisha attacked them in vain, whom I have also protected when my acquaintances, former officials, were arrested, was enough for me to ask who this anonymous whistleblower was and SPAK arbitrarily added two charges to the press release.

This is unbelievable to say, but it is a public fact. The minutes of Veliaj's interrogation are a public fact, in which he was given two charges, and the SPAK statement after my article, in which two more charges were added, is a public fact.

I don't know what made the prosecutor so angry, except that it could be any of the three scenarios I was told above about who Nesti Angoni could be. That is, either the foreign services scenario, or the scenario concocted by SPAK itself.

Now, if a senior politician is charged with two more charges just because a journalist defended him, then we have a problem here. Either we have a politically targeted justice system, or we have a ridiculous justice system that first charges, then digs for facts.

And this has made me reflect on their integrity as a whole. Not about this Olsi Dadon, because I have known him for a long time when we were together as DP militants, and I do not expect anything else from him. But about the logic of how the same prosecutors or judges behave like cats with those they publicly massacre and how they behave like tigers with those they support, petting themselves as if they were endangered.

And after that they run and report to Sali Berisha to make sure they are okay with it.

They are fine. And it's good that they have a prime minister they can complain about who doesn't let them serve Sali Berisha, because they would have died without hearing their voice.