From the prime minister's office, Prime Minister Edi Rama has requested that the new justice investigate the murders of 4 citizens on the Boulevard in the protest of January 21, 2011.
Also referring to the decision of the Strasbourg court, the head of the Albanian government said that it was a state crime and the new justice must clear it up. According to Rama, the prosecution treated the evidence released some time ago as a rag.
Rama : The Strasbourg Court issued a very significant, very meaningful, very clear decision regarding a state crime, which has been covered in dust for more than 1 decade.
I am here to reiterate the tremendous weight of this decision. State crimes like the one on January 21, history shows that they take a long time, but never go unsolved.
The Prosecutor's Office of Tirana has mocked with contempt the Constitution, the law, and the pain of the family members of the victims, but also everyone's desire to know the truth until the end. He has treated as a rag a new test that came out a few months ago. It is time for the new justice to react, since since this crime has taken the streets of prosecutors' offices and courts, the structure of justice and personalities has changed.
The order has come from the top, but on the other hand, the Court also puts its finger on the crime of obstruction of justice. It is clear in the decision that the executive authorities have blocked the investigation of this crime in the most brutal way.
I firmly believe that there is no force that can prevent the final disclosure of the state crime of January 21, but it can continue to be delayed. For this reason I am here, expressing these considerations, because it is important for the morality of the justice system, for the morality of the new justice institutions, that the ordeal of the victims' families does not continue, that the whole society does not hang in the balance for because of this crime and not to continue the withdrawal and not to break the deliberate and cynical delay in the face of the necessity of doing justice to the end for January 21.
In front of the state crime of January 21, all the others have their importance, but they are many times less in the opportunity to establish the new foundation of justice, which has just begun to be built. If January 21 remains in the air, even the new foundation of justice cannot hold all the extraordinary weight of the mission that justice has in a democratic country, where no one is above the law, no one can take life.