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For more than a decade, Mr. Xhezairaj has made his workplace, the Berat Police, a local branch of silence, selectivity, and secret services for the right "friends."
If you were looking for a figure in Berat who best embodies the concept of "statesman in the service of crime", you don't have to look far, just say the name Shkëlqim Xhezairaj.
This is the uniformed officer who does not break the law… not because he respects it, but because he has gone beyond it, into the dark area where the law is used only as a decoration to be broken.
For more than a decade, Mr. Xhezairaj has made his workplace, the Berat Police, a local branch of silence, selectivity, and secret services for the right "friends."
A deputy director who doesn't move, despite scandals that in any other country would lead to investigation, dismissal and prison. In Albania? Promotion for "public tranquility" and the ability to not see.
In a country where any police officer is fired for a spelling mistake in a report, Shkëlqim Xhezairaj, the deputy director of the Berat Police, continues to keep his rank, office and phone in the service of crime. Not only has he turned a blind eye to blatant violations of the law, but he has himself been at the epicenter of one of the most absurd scandals of recent years: the cultivation of a drug greenhouse, right under his nose or, more precisely, under his direct responsibility.
In a normal country, a deputy police director who is found responsible for cultivating a drug greenhouse would end up in jail; but in the Albania of black irony, Shkëlqim Xhezairaj, the deputy director of the Berat Police, got away with a "6-month warning", as if he had forgotten to turn on the office lights, and today he continues to cheerfully command investigations into illegal construction, drugs and organized crime, while not arresting either traffickers or thieves of public property, because apparently, he is more of their guardian than the guardian of the law.
The most recent case? Kreshnik Hajdari, another figure who looks more like a public asset embezzler than a state official, grants a building permit in violation of every law and every civic conscience. And who investigates? Our eternal Excellency, who surprisingly finds no violation, no responsibility, and closes the investigation with a "what can we do, it was just a public plot of land..."
But it doesn't stop there. In the same spirit of "protecting" the strong, Shkëlqim Xhezairaj also turns a blind eye to the illegal construction of the trafficker Gert Mara, a character with dark stories and silent files, who builds without fear because he knows who to call. And apparently, he has the right number: the number of an official who understands "the job".
In a state governed by the rule of law, it is not Shkëlqim Xhezairaj's duty to decide whether or not there is a criminal offense, this is decided by the prosecution and the court, but his duty is to refer every piece of information, every clue and every violation of the law to the prosecution; when he keeps files in a drawer, selects cases and turns a blind eye to traffickers or officials who abuse public property, he is no longer a police officer in the service of the law, but has become a filter of crime that prevents justice from acting.
Meanwhile, ordinary citizens who erect a tent or repair a roof risk administrative and criminal punishment. Because for Mr. Xhezairaj, the law is sacred, for the poor. For others, it is a thin commercial form: negotiable.
Sources within the police claim that Xhezairaj is involved in illegal influence and structured corruption. And for those who ask why there are no criminal proceedings against him, the answer is simple: he holds the key to the files. His involvement in call center fraud, in defense of schemes that extort European citizens in the name of profit, will soon be published in voice, image and documents.
The biggest irony? While citizens feel defenseless, our police have a "brilliant" figure at the head of the investigation structures who guarantees... the careful impunity of lawbreakers, all they need to do is have the right connections and the phone number of his office.
Instead of a police uniform, maybe we should give him a decoration for “loyalty to crime.” And maybe even a lifelong armchair, because Albania's double justice system always has room for an experienced matrapaz./In-front.org
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