FLASH
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In Rama's Albania, justice functions like an absurd theater: it is not those who steal who are punished, but those who challenge. The Veliaj case is the clearest manifestation of a captured state where justice is simply an instrument of political revenge...
If there is a way to understand what is happening with Albanian justice today, there is no need to read long SPAK files or sift through court decisions. It is enough to follow a simple principle: whoever becomes an obstacle to Edi Rama is imprisoned. Whoever serves him is rewarded.
Erion Veliaj is not in prison for the incinerators. Not for the concessions, nor for the well-known affairs in the Municipality of Tirana. Because if that were the case, Edi Rama himself would have to be in prison, the man who has signed and closely supervised the entire chain of major national affairs, from sterilization to roads and ports, from EU funds to PPPs. Erion Veliaj is in prison for two much deeper and political reasons: because he no longer shared power with his boss and because he began to create an independent channel of communication with the West.
Veliaj's downfall is more than a personal vendetta. It is a public message to all those who dare to have political ambitions without the blessing of the supreme leader. He was not overthrown because of some opposition denunciation or spectacular revelation of justice. No. His case is the product of a clear political decision by Edi Rama himself: to isolate, destroy and humiliate any alternative that might one day challenge him. And he is doing this with brutal means, adorned with the decor of "new justice".
The irony is stark: Veliaj is being held in prison for some dresses ordered "online", while in this country, people who have signed billions of euros in dubious contracts are free and powerful.
In Edi Rama's court, ministers who have signed off on every financial nonsense have been promoted, not punished.
The same thing happens in the opposition camp. Remember the case of Fatmir Mediu, who, although he returned to court for Gërdec, is being tried free, without any concern, for a crime that blew up an entire village. Meanwhile, Veliaj is being held in prison for dress tags!
This is no longer justice. It is a form of humiliation and public punishment that has nothing to do with the law, but with the control of power. A medieval form of “punishment” that serves as a warning: whoever dares to step out of line will be destroyed. Because in Rama's Albania, there is no longer any room for ideas, for political competition, for institutional rivalry. There is only one law: the law of survival in the shadow of a leader who does not forgive, but strikes the moment someone starts to grow too much.
And this is the final destruction of justice. Because when justice becomes a weapon in the hands of a single man, we no longer have a republic, but a personalist regime that increasingly resembles the Erdogan model; with a democratic facade, but with autocratic content.
At the end of the day, Veliaj's imprisonment is neither justice nor a confrontation with corruption. It is the chronicle of a foretold revenge, of an old plan to destroy every cell that might proclaim itself an alternative. And this is the true tragedy of this country: that those who make political 'mistakes' are imprisoned, not those who commit economic crimes.
Because for Edi Rama, more dangerous is an ambitious person who wants to take the stage, than an accomplice who steals silently. And in this scheme, dresses are worth more than concessions and PPP./ Pamphlet
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