Former President Ilir Meta reacted again from his cell today. While yesterday he gave his version regarding all the accusations of SPAK, today Meta focused on the day of his arrest.
He considers his imprisonment "violent kidnapping and criminal behavior by dozens of masked and armed people".
"According to published videos and eyewitnesses, on October 21, several private cars without any police inscriptions surrounded the car in which I was driving and dozens of people with masks and heavy weapons blocked traffic on the highway, violently handcuffed the driver of the vehicle, Artemis Peca, a political functionary of the Freedom Party (without any court decision so far), while I, Ilir Meta, was violently kidnapped and dragged from the vehicle in the public, with a criminal and degrading treatment without any court decision being communicated to me and without the rights that belong to me, according to the Constitution, were read. In two statements, SPAK and BKH denied that they had carried out the execution of the decision of GJKKO, while the police admitted that they had carried out the execution. Violation of all rights, as shown by the evidence and film footage testify to an illegal and thuggish arrest."
According to the chairman of the Freedom Party, the entire legal framework has been violated since the order of the Special Prosecutor's Office for his arrest was based on a law repealed 4 years ago.
"The scandal that leads this whole illegal arrest is the very order of the three SPAK prosecutors, Dumani, Kraja and Kllapi, who have based their order for the arrest of Ilir Meta on a law repealed 4 years ago. So we are in the conditions where the Order for the execution of the decision to set the security measure "Arrest in prison" is based on an act that has not been in force for 4 years."
Consequently, he says, any action performed by police agents should be considered invalid. Based on the footage, Meta adds that it was not the BKH or State Police officers who stopped him.
"The order for the execution of the security measure against the person under investigation, Ilir Meta, was implemented by troops with masks and without distinctive badges, which are claimed to be Special Forces. This is also in clear contradiction with the provisions that define the operational goals of the Special Forces."
Citing the law, he says that every individual is innocent until proven guilty by a final court decision.
"It is clear that this whole process of political kidnapping and all the illegal actions by the Prosecution, the Police and the Court closely have only one political purpose, the illegal extreme isolation of Ilir Meta, as the President of the Freedom Party, with the aim of hindering the activity its opposition, but also the favoring of persons who have been caught in violation of the law to act freely at the expense of the mafia regime to harm the Freedom Party in exchange for extenuating circumstances for the illegal actions they have taken. The illegal and thuggish arrest of October 21 is not only the appearance, but also the criminal essence of an entire investigative process based on political setups, false witnesses and problems with justice and his former associates falling into the SPAK's net for because of their irresponsibility and frivolity, who have turned into collaborators of the regime to kill the dreams and hopes of those who supported them with idealism", concludes Meta.