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The Veliaj case, a public lynching that originated in the way SPAK handled the file

2025-02-21 10:09:46Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA SKëNDER MINXHOZI
Skender Minxhozi

They fell from different paths but both found themselves at the same point: at the railings of the Special Prosecution Office. 

On Tuesday, Edi Rama and Sali Berisha were insulted and torn apart at a distance as they do every day of the political calendar. Except that both of them, using words and terms that seemed opposite and contradictory to each other, said something about SPAK that seemed to many to be a perfect synonym for the same concept. 

The first, the prime minister, essentially stated that SPAK is now left alone without the Americans and that the only guarantee for its existence is the SP and himself. On the other hand, Berisha was more direct. The doctor promises to dissolve SPAK as soon as he comes to power.

There are two seemingly different approaches, but which are essentially united by an important common element: the status quo where SPAK intercepts, investigates and imprisons anyone according to their whim and interest, must end. It is a parallel reaction that only outwardly distances itself as a positioning towards the new justice, but which unifies positions when it comes to the urgency of intervention. Rama said that now I am the guarantee (understand, if I don't want to, I will take away your guarantee), Berisha said that I am your end. They are like two drops of water in the fact that they are essentially two threats. One hidden under a chocolate shell, the other saturated in an acid solution!

This harsh and increasingly convergent stance has a major reason. As the weeks and months pass, it is becoming increasingly clear that the new justice system is revealing several defects that not only conflict with the constitutional rights of Albanians, but are creating a surreal situation where the entire justice system, and perhaps even the state, is afraid of a prosecutor's office that has significantly stronger powers than the constitutional limits that a liberal democracy allows.

In the vacuum left by the American withdrawal, which served as an immovable shield for the new justice system, it seems that there will be growing voices against the legal standard offered in the work of its main bodies. First and foremost, the Special Prosecution Office, which has created an aggressive profile in the last two years of investigating and bringing to justice several central political figures, while also revealing the defects and deformations in the way it investigates. In this new world, where a president extremely allergic to the terms “prosecutor” and “court” sits in the White House, it is not at all a coincidence that Rama reminds Dumani that he is left alone, while Berisha swears that he will dissolve SPAK, after shaking hands with Chris Lacivita.

Arrests like that of Erion Veliaj, but also the house arrest of Berisha or the ugly arrest of Ilir Meta, are preoccupying, in addition to the not always pure and correct satisfaction of a majority that demands punishment of politicians at all costs, also a currently silent group of citizens, who see with concern that this justice above the lines and beyond any control, is gradually turning into abuse and arbitrariness.

This concern is currently suppressed and compounded by the hilarity of the clappers who applaud every time the circus of justice claims a victim, without any concern that the rights of those who are investigated, tried or imprisoned are a valuable public good that actually determines how perfect, qualitative and careful democracy is in a normal country.

Putting a politician of Veliaj's profile in prison, who is not a defendant but only investigated, is something that even the most fanatical SPAK fan would be shocked by. This treatment should not be reserved for anyone who has not killed or committed a criminal offense in flagrante delicto. Investigate, try and punish him if you can, but you do not have to publicly lynch him by making the investigative file a pretense for television trials and the dirty "justice" of the social network. Erion Veliaj and his wife have already been convicted in the most concrete sense of the word. They have become the prey of a mob that wants them to rot in prison, although neither SPAK has yet taken them into custody nor has the court yet declared them guilty. This public lynching has its origins in the way SPAK has handled the file in question.

In this sense, the virtual meeting of Rama and Berisha at the SPAK railings marks not only the signal that the Atlantic shield has fallen, but also that the time has come to have a serious reflection on the work, functioning, rights and competences of the new justice. Based on what has happened in the years that have passed since that hot summer of 2016 when 140 deputies initiated a reform compact, where today we see how a prosecutor wiretaps the judge who makes a decision that he does not like, and full of other deformations that primarily damage the new justice itself and its image among Albanians.


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