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The "January 21" massacre, how were the Prime Minister's cameras erased and will SPAK seek American help?

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The "January 21" massacre, how were the Prime Minister's cameras

The Prime Minister's Office camera server memory was sent to the US for expertise in the fall of 2011...

For the first time in almost 15 years, Sali Berisha will appear before the prosecution to provide clarification on the murders of January 21, 2011. On Friday, he was summoned to SPAK to be questioned as a person in knowledge.

SPAK received the "January 21" file after a decision by the Supreme Court, which ordered the investigation of the role of the then prime minister, the interior minister, the head of the Guard, and all other officials.

After questioning Lulzim Basha, the former head of the Guard, the former head of the police and several other officials, it is now Berisha's turn to provide clarifications. But will Berisha be held responsible for these murders? Does SPAK have evidence in hand? Undoubtedly, an audio has been submitted to the prosecutor's office, while the biggest mystery is who deleted the Prime Minister's Office cameras and can they be recovered.

Prime Minister's Office Server

In September 2011, the Prosecution Office sent the Prime Minister's Office's camera server equipment to the US for expert examination. The servers in question had been made available to the prosecution a few days after the violent events of January 21.

In his first reaction to the incident that occurred near the government building, Sali Berisha stated that he had ordered the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers to hand over the film tapes of the Prime Minister's cameras to the prosecution for the investigation of the incident. However, a few days later, the prosecution itself went to the Prime Minister's Office and for three days, after inspecting the scene, collected the necessary material evidence. Among this evidence were the discs or tapes on which the images filmed by the Prime Minister's surveillance camera system had been placed.

The January 21 investigation team analyzed the footage provided by the Prime Minister's Office, but after finding no scenes of any of the four murders, decided to investigate further. Members of the prosecution's investigation team even went further, asserting their suspicions that the images had been edited before being provided to the prosecution. With this claim, the prosecution requested the computer equipment to which the government building's surveillance camera system was connected.

Such a device was given to the prosecution a few days after the request, and again the prosecution did not find the murder scenes in the footage stored on the server.

Meanwhile, while these developments were taking place with the "January 21" file, a precedent occurred in the file opened after the videotaping of Dritan Prifti. On February 11, 2011, an American expert notified the General Prosecutor's Office that he had found a second video on Dritan Prifti's computer, which had previously been deleted from visible memory, but which had technically been regenerated.

Based on this precedent and under the suspicion that the Prime Minister's server had recordings deleted, the Tirana Prosecution Office sent the equipment to the General Prosecution Office and from there, the memory of the Prime Minister's camera server was sent to the US for expertise. One of the questions that the prosecutors asked at that time in the letters sent to the American side is whether the server has materials that were previously deleted and whether the recovery of these images is technically possible.

At that time, this recovery was never done, but today technology has advanced. So the server is in their hands and if the Americans want, they can sink Berisha, Basha and the entire chain of command.

FBI and expertise on Aleks Nika

The murder of protester Aleks Nika, who had his hands in his pockets when he was executed with a bullet to the head, remains unsolved after 13 years.

The expertise carried out at that time showed that the bullet had a top-down direction. The shell seized from Nika's body appears to be completely damaged and there is no element to identify through expertise. The bullet has undergone great deformation, completely destroying the rifling, characteristics that are left by the barrel of the gun at the moment of firing.

This shell fragment was sent to a forensics laboratory in Virginia, United States, in 2014, and again no data was obtained that would serve to clarify whose weapon fired this shell. So this piece of evidence was also sent to the US at that time.

Meanwhile, it should be said that the prosecution at that time received assistance from the FBI and many expert reports were conducted by them. Thanks to that expertise, charges were filed for the murder of 3 other protesters. The US is almost in control of clearing up this file. /Pamphlet

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