
Lawyer Edmond Petraj stated that the "January 21" case will not bring anything. According to him, even though the case has been sent and is being investigated by SPAK, it is very difficult to get to the person who gave the order to shoot.
Speaking on the show "Të Pashoj" on the 'Pamflet' YouTube channel, Petraj stressed that there is a probability that criminal responsibility will again fall on the former commander of the Guard, Ndrea Prendi, who has already been convicted once for this matter. Such a scenario, according to the expert, could allow Sali Berisha to "escape" direct charges in this case.
Excerpt from the interview:
-Now, lawyer, the truth of January 21st actually has the statute of limitations at its disadvantage, doesn't it?
Petraj : No, I don't...
-Since so much time has passed...
Petraj : No, we are not at that point, because we have a court decision, Strasbourg allows the opening of a process and even more so because, contrary to what Ervin was talking about now about the murder part in qualifying circumstances and other and other things, there is a different legal relationship. The special prosecution is no longer dealing with murders, because murders are a fact. The problem is now that they are channeling it to the chain of command and who gave the order. Why did they shoot? Why didn't they stop him? And what is most serious is that how can you go to a protest with a combat weapon? For you to wear a Kalashnikov to protect a prime minister's building with, with a combat weapon and use a weapon, a combat cartridge, so this is a scandal. But since this relationship will be channeled to the part of the chain of command of the guard, I think, I have the impression, uh, the responsibility will remain again, again with Ndrea Prendi, who will go through with the part of what he is judged and convicted of. Berisha will escape from this case. He will escape...
-So it won't produce anything in short?
Petraj : Look, in my opinion, look, I do the analysis and whatnot, because I see it, you should know that at least we manage to read, we read the way Berisha acts. Berisha is actually scared. Even Ilir Meta. Ilir Meta has no kind of tag to give evidence. For what?
-Why do you think he asked for it?
Pertaj : If it doesn't legitimize it, it depends on the prosecutor's discretion. How important is his statement?
-No, no, why did he ask for it?
Petraj : Now, now it's his part, and this is Bamir Topi's part, which I'm asking myself.
-Well, if we remember the cause of the protest, it has to do with Ilir Meta.
Petraj : Look, it has to do with Ilir Meta, but it has to do with the fact that happened to him with a video published three or four days before. But in the element of the chain of command of what happened inside the prime minister's building, he is not connected, because he is a person who had resigned, had been evaded and so on. He, for that, for that criminal offense that he escaped, totally escaped it, because normally it came out as a fake video, a manipulated video, a video that does not meet the technical elements. So it was dropped and he peacefully escaped the whole situation. The problem is with the chain of command and they will throw it back at him. They will throw it back at him because if you look at the analysis of how the investigation is focused, we are only with Berisha, the commander of the guard, Basha, the general director of the police, and the logistics part that covers the guard.
-Can others be called?
Petraj : Look, you can call as many as you want. In my opinion, the opposition can also be called, Edi Rama can also be called, to prove that he is the initiator, the leader of the opposition at the time who organized the protest, Tom Doshi can be called, many, many leaders of the region at that time can be called.
-Okay, starting from the recent political animosity between Basha and Berisha, we don't know what Basha has witnessed, for example. There is a mystery here.
Petraj : Look, those are legal analyses that will come out. His statement is taken and passed...
-No, how important is it?
Petraj : It is definitely important for the system. It is definitely important. Because we are in new conditions today. And if, if there is no puzzle, oh, there is no puzzle, I can guarantee, look, Berisha threw down the gauntlet. The cameras, he said, I don't keep them, he said. The guards take them, he said. I am not the one who deals with them, I am not a camera technician, he said. You saw the fact. The second, he started avoiding going to the prosecutor's office. There was the element that I am not aware of. Within the procedure, it is in order. The moment he becomes aware, then he left. The other problem is that the chain of command, who else is there? We have the general director of the State Police, who has been arrested. He has been arrested, make no mistake, Mr. Kuliç. Who has been questioned. There are about 20 people who have been arrested, the characters of the time, have been questioned. The director of the Tirana police and others. The problem remains very simple, it has been minimized. Now, a state crime. We have four victims, we have protesters who did not have weapons. So, the confrontation was very unequal and you do not have the right to shoot at a protester without going inside the perimeter wall that the prime minister himself had. So, in such cases, you have to look at the element of resistance. Who is it?
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