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Former prosecutor Eugen Beci spoke about the justice system in Albania and the political approach to it.
He stated that, like the majority, the opposition also finds common ground when it comes to justice. Beci adds that both only unite around the fence of the Special Prosecution Office and attack only when they are directly affected by it.
According to him, both parties forget the fact that the Justice Reform was voted on with full consensus, with 140 votes, and it was precisely that moment when politics had to accept its consequences.
Beci emphasized that previously the majority praised justice, while the opposition harshly criticized it, but today the roles have not fundamentally changed.
"Both sides are only getting closer to each other when they are attacked by justice ," he said.
Beci also said that justice was created to end impunity, so today's criticisms are overdue. He added that politicians who unconditionally voted for the Justice Reform no longer have the legitimacy to complain, as they themselves established rules and procedures that today, according to him, have produced a destroyed justice system.
Beci said that the political debate has focused only on the Special Prosecution Office and the Special Court, forgetting the rest of the system.
"These institutions constitute only a very small part of justice, while the real problems are the dragging of files, endless detentions, civil and administrative issues that have not been resolved for years," he said.
He added that Albania is not only the fence of SPAK and the media cameras, but also citizens who clash over property, family or civil conflicts and do not find justice.
"It is an old story in Albania, the problem of the approach of politics to justice. It seems that the majority, in moments when it does not have a good appetite for justice, attacks it. Also, the opposition does the same thing and both sides forget that the moment they agreed with 140 votes full of kisses, full of hugs, was the most important moment for them to understand that tomorrow they could not talk further.
It was the most important moment for them to understand that the next day, when a problem that they call unjust comes to their door, they cannot attack it in this way. Until recently, we saw a majority that praised justice more than it should and an opposition that cursed justice more than it should. It seems that the roles have not changed, but the opposition and the majority seem to be approaching and getting closer to each other only at the moment when they are attacked by justice.
The justice they produced was produced precisely for this reason, to end impunity. Then, if the majority boasts and says that impunity has been ended, the problems and criticisms they should have raised from the beginning. The same goes for the opposition. The moment the opposition is “attacked” by the justice system, one of its members or a leader, the opposition does the same thing. The essence here is this. If you had decided to support unconditionally, without getting tired, without criticizing and without opposing the moment you were going to vote for the Justice Reform, today it is too late to speak. Today it is too late to speak for many reasons because those were the politicians who did not think twice about establishing some rules and procedures that have not been seen in any country in the world, to establish some rules and procedures that today produced a destroyed justice system. They produced a destroyed justice system in general, because you mainly refer only to the Special Prosecution Office and the Special Court, but this is not justice, it is a 1/100 of this justice. True, the Prosecution Office and the Special Court may have put an end to what we called impunity, but the issue is the standards that the Albanian people demand, are we talking about justice and do any of these politicians mention any standards that have been affected? If you notice, both sides, both the majority and the opposition, find common ground. But, they find common ground only on the fence of the Special Prosecution Office.
Have you heard any of the members of the majority or any of the members of the opposition articulate the fact that in Albania files drag on endlessly? Have you heard any of the members of the majority or the opposition in Albania talk about dragged-out civil lawsuits, dragged-out administrative lawsuits, about people who are put in prison and held in prison, in endless detention and are not sentenced? All these articulations of these problems seem to have been forgotten by the majority and the opposition and we seem to have focused on the fence of the Special Prosecutor's Office, there next to the cameras and the chronicle journalists and we have forgotten that Albania is also somewhere else. Albania is also in a circle where they pick a fence for a conflict and do not resolve it for several years and end up in self-justification. Albania is also about a man who cannot be separated from his wife. Albania is also about a property that can never be taken in all these years. "And in all these elements, I say that for the most part, the majority and the opposition agree that justice does not work," he told "A2 CNN."
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