FLASH
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Public crime seems to be concentrated in gangs that have political support, both from the government and from the opposition, identifying with them and behaving as violent in the name of politics...
Taulant Balla has assumed the position of Minister of the Interior, after an event that shocked public opinion, due to a tribal self-judgment against their informants in the police, of the Rraja tribe against the Maja tribe in Fushë Krujë. The incident was serious, as the aggressors were the tribe of a socialist MP and it seemed that the police were reluctant to investigate them for the problems they had in the community.
And this continues to remain the only and most serious public order problem in Albania.
Albania has a radical improvement of public security. Tirana and the main coastal cities of Albania are safe cities in terms of citizens' safety. Crime is low and homicides are nearly 50 percent less than a decade ago.
But public crime seems to be concentrated in gangs that have political support, both from the government and from the opposition, identifying with them and behaving as violent in the name of politics.
Albania has at least 6-7 criminal groups, which are considered masters of small regions in different cities in Albania, to which both parties lend candidates for deputies and give them political guarantees for their survival.
Those groups are in fact a problem not only of public order, but also of elections in Albania and then governance.
Taulant Balla is one of the politicians with the longest electoral experience in Albania, who has faced this problem in every campaign. In his last election campaign, he faced violence that resulted in the death of one of his supporters by paramilitary groups of the Democratic Party, who isolated armed security forces in the name of protecting the vote.
This is the culmination of a physical collision resulting in death between this typology of pro-SP and PD gangs.
This is also the challenge of Taulant Balla, who is at the center of accusations from Berisha's party, as a minister with strong political views and an inspiration of left-wing militants.
Sokol Olldashi was in the same position in 2005. He ran in one of the areas with high criminality, connected to politics in Shijak, and was accused by the socialists as the man who won the mandate through gangs.
But only a few months later as interior minister, he had to hand over to the police a whole bunch of his own commissioners and public supporters, and then arresting some of the political gangs that had flourished because of the political support.
No minister who does not have the political will has the power to face this problem. And for this reason, Taulant Balla has the right political load and responsibility and is the right one to face now as a minister the hell he experienced as a deputy, from those who support him and from those who wanted to kill him. It's time to prove that the state is above them and above the power.
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