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The recent summons of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha by SPAK to be questioned about the 'January 21' file has revived hope for justice regarding this event. According to analyst Aleksandër Çipa, this move does not come from political will, but is an obligation stemming from the Strasbourg Court, which has requested a full clarification of the tragic event.
In an interview for the show "Të Pashoq" on the "Pamflet" YouTube channel, Çipa describes 'January 21' as a fundamental 'case' that proves the existence of a 'regime of impunity' in Albania. According to him, this battle between the new justice and the old politics will be decisive for the future of the rule of law in Albania.
Excerpt from the interview:
- Now, we are used to connecting all developments because one cannot do without the other, politics with justice in our country. What happens in politics, what happens in SPAK, these are the two poles where the news, let's say analysis, focuses. SPAK's latest movements. For example, on Friday, a subpoena was sent to the Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha to testify about the January 21 file. How do you read this movement now, does this have any impact on what will happen?
Çipa : In our reality, the need to create new contexts for new situations is never excluded. Yes. And what is this? The return of the agenda or in other words the January 21 file to SPAK, is an obligation that in fact comes more from the will of one politician than from the order of the Strasbourg court. Yes. The truth is that January 21 is perhaps the most dramatic, most tragic event of deformation and the emergence of the image of the Albanian state as a bloody state on innocent citizens. And the failure to receive and provide justice for this tragic process, in fact, brings great deformation and the greatest deformation in the relationship between the state and citizens and even more so in a society that claims to possess and embody democracy and the rule of law. And in the conditions where this legal state is a state that has shed the blood of its innocent citizens, regardless of the political protagonism that led it to that square, this is an issue that should be addressed as such in a timely manner.
The fact that during the period when Mr. Berisha was in power, this did not happen because he could not punish himself and he created and was invested in creating a public perception that there are two sides of the coin. Both the one who brought the citizens there, and the one who shot at the innocent citizens. And this symmetry of law or justice that one or the other side claimed for January 21, was the reason why justice was held hostage and obstructed. In the conditions when Strasbourg, thanks to the insistence of a lawyer, but close to one of the victims, restored the process and is imposing it as such under the conditions of a new justice system and under the conditions of a new trial and investigation, this can actually change this approach that de facto can strike what we have said, real impunity. Because January 21 is a complete, deep case, sufficient to identify impunity as a type of regime that has determined Albanian society in the transition period.
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