Two events that show the fragility or weakness of the State Police

By Ilir Yzeiri

The Albanian State Police, in these 30 years of transition, is the structure that has been most exposed to public opinion. The great state crime committed by the democratic government by destroying the institution of the Ministry of Interior, as well as that of the Ministry of Defense, turned these two pillars of the Albanian state into a banal Hxiqamilist model and removed the core of the state's dignity. No country in the Balkans nor in Eastern Europe committed the crime committed by the democrats and the black architect, Sali Berisha. It is a story in itself and an adventure that takes a lot of time to analyze this crime, but also the other crimes that were committed on the former socialist economy.

In the name of the war against communism, the wealth of Albanians was stolen, destroyed and taken out into the streets, but not communism as an ideology, because the most ferocious Albanian communist of the transition, Sali Berisha, is still active. This meant that, for 30 or so years, we are not managing to build a reliable state police. Unfortunately, by destroying these institutions, we blew up the faith and the ideal.

The State Police and the Ministry of Defense, according to the socialist ideology, were places where you could make money and get rich. The idea of ??the guardian angel, of the one who has chosen with idealism to protect our lives, has fallen and, in its place, entered the hero of evil, the one who uses the police and his position to get rich. The great efforts of the Rama government to modernize the State Police and the Ministry of Defense are still insufficient. Albanian society has created a social structure different from that of socialism. Today, the division into rich and non-rich, middle classes and poor classes is not very clear. In Albania, as in other countries, a layer with a tendency to illegal and criminal profit has been created and is constantly being created.

If you will make a social mirror of the social layers in the Albanian cities, you will notice, among others, that the category of the young rich and their family members who control and sometimes dictate the businesses of the local governments, but also those above, together with the contingents criminals who control aspects of the life of different cities or traffic, do not always feel the fear of the law and the state. The last two events: the barbaric beating of a girl in the middle of Tirana by two female criminals who continue today all day to challenge the police and the barbaric beating to death of the young man in Pogradec and the concealment of the police or its collaboration with the criminals in first, show that the heroes of evil who fearlessly roam our cities are a contingent who do not recognize the authority and fear of the Law.

In both cases, I was impressed by this: in the first place, the attitude of the victim who was raped by the two female criminals, and in the second case, the sister of the deceased. The first, with a touching dignity, appeared before us as a woman who has chosen freedom and dignity in life and who is not afraid of violence. Her bloodied face was an appeal for protection, and she was unfazed by what happened to her. It was the only case when the victim, so bloodied, won over two aggressors who are now, in the general imagination, identified with hyenas and gangsters in cars with black windows that populate the night areas of this country. While the sister of the victim in Pogradec made a chilling confession about her brother's death, and there we found out that the anthropology of crime and fear has also involved entire cities like Pogradec in this case. After being beaten to death, he was left on the street for several minutes and no one came near him. Why? How is it possible that the people around did not help him, did not get in the middle to fight with the aggressors? And after the aggressors leave, no one comes close. Not even an ambulance. The sister said and we all heard the first statement of the Pogradec Police that the victim fell and died because he was drunk.

Do you understand how deeply the fear of street criminals and those who control power and money has penetrated in small towns like Pogradec? Do you understand in whose hands that city is today? That gang that killed the young man in Pogradec and those bandits that massacred an innocent girl in a bar in Tirana in the middle of the capital city are only the tip of the iceberg of a layer that stands between us and the state. We do not know to what extent it challenges us. But so far, the state police is at a loss. Together with him and all of us.