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Former President Bamir Topi has brought to attention the events of January 21 and the moment of his clash with Sali Berisha.
In the show "The Unexposed", Topi stopped by the meeting he held on the morning of January 23 at his apartment with Lulzim Basha, the Minister of Interior at the time.
Topi said that Basha requested a meeting and went to his home, where the concern about the Prosecution's questioning of the Guard's chain of command was discussed.
Topi said he told Basha that he would support the investigation and immediately after that, that same evening, Berisha targeted him by labeling him a "boulevard villain."
Excerpts from the conversation:
You say that Berisha sent Basha to intervene with Ina Rama? What did he ask you for and what did you say?
Bamir Topi: The book "Nocturn" where this moment and the history of January 21 are written has a 360-degree analysis, it also contains this moment of the meeting with Mr. Basha. The book was published in 2018, while the process for the guards had ended in 2016. When the Supreme Court had rejected the appeal of the Appeals Prosecutor's Office to transfer the case to the Supreme Court. At that moment, their case was closed in the sentences they had received. The book was written with a purpose that has within it an obligation to write. Why? I began to realize that different people began to tell their truths that were not my truths.
I felt obligated to write the part that has to do with my truths. Everyone is free to give their own truths about a certain situation. Based on these premises, I wrote and we are at this moment. The conversation was this, I had a phone call, it was Sunday, January 21 was Friday, on the 23rd in the morning I had a phone call from Mr. Basha and he said, I want to meet you, I said come on, you're welcome, I'm at home. I welcomed Mr. Basha and undoubtedly the situation was discussed, which was acute.
In the conversation, elements of that moment also came up, the request from the prosecution and the refusal that was made public by the former prime minister. I told him that this is a situation that you should know, it is very serious, people have been killed. Publicly but also in meetings that I have had in the office, I have encouraged and will encourage the investigation. I do not want and do not undertake to interpret, but I am telling the conversation. We parted very amicably, I had civil relations with Basha.
On the same day in the evening, in a live broadcast, the prime minister had invited the families of the guards. Undoubtedly, it was public, he also made the decorations for the occasion, then comes that expression that undoubtedly remained as a lapidary insult expression in the mouth of the former prime minister that has to do with me and the former chief prosecutor. In my statements I mentioned the events on the Boulevard. Apparently, the focus of this statement, the events on the Boulevard, made him apparently label this part of the Boulevard. You know that there was a continuous political initiative from the parliamentary group.
"Basha did not specifically ask about Ina Rama, but about the problem of the importance of questioning the chain of command. So for the institution. He has received my answer. I declared that I will support (the investigation)," Topi declared.
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