The chairman of the DP Group, Gazment Bardhi, has sent a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly, Elisa Spiropal, where he wants to know who gave the order to bring the police officers into the Assembly.
In the letter, Bardhi writes that the MPs have been threatened with their lives by the police and have been violated and obstructed, while he has also requested the images of the security cameras inside the Parliament.
White's full letter:
On 17.10.2024, during the plenary session, in flagrant violation of Article 122 of the Rules of the Assembly and the law on the State Police, the Special Forces of the State Police have violated, obstructed and threatened the opposition MPs within the premises of the Assembly. Albania. The intervention of the Guard of the Republic (employees of the Security Service of the Assembly) was needed to protect the deputies from aggression within the premises of the Assembly by the employees of the State Police.
The introduction of the Special Forces of the State Police inside the premises of the Assembly, during the parliamentary activity, preventing the deputies from moving in the premises of the Assembly, threatening the lives of the opposition deputies and violating their physical integrity, is an unprecedented act. in the functioning of the Assembly of Albania. Never in the history of parliamentarization in Albania, a Speaker of the Assembly has not allowed the entry of the Special Forces of the State Police into the internal environment of the Assembly of Albania. Never in the history of parliamentarianism in Albania has it happened that the Special Forces of the State Police obstruct a member of the Assembly within his premises.
The introduction of the Special Forces of the State Police during a parliamentary activity is a serious constitutional coup against the Assembly of Albania itself and an unprecedented provocation against the opposition. For this reason, we ask that:
- Immediately inform who was the authority that gave the order for the introduction of the Special Forces of the State Police in the internal environment of the Parliament of Albania?
– Make available the security cameras of all internal and external premises of the Assembly of Albania (including but not limited to: the plenary hall, the connecting corridors of the plenary hall, the main entrance of the Assembly, the external surroundings of the courtyard of the Assembly of Albania ).
Strongly condemning the brutal, unprecedented act of aggression by the State Police against the opposition deputies in the internal premises of the Parliament of Albania, I assure you that you personally and anyone else who arbitrarily orders the Special Forces of the State Police to violate MPs of the opposition, you will be held responsible for this serious legal violation, which has the characteristics of a constitutional coup against the integrity of the Assembly of Albania.