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SPAK has done everything to lynch Erion Veliaj, and this is a public fact. One of the weapons it has used in this lynching is the way it has controlled public opinion through the press.
There is an attempt to consider Erion Veliaj's attempt from his prison cell to influence the media as a crime, and this is accompanied by the subtext of "buying" them.
That the media in Albania has editorial positions influenced by politics is nothing new or criminal. It is now fashionable all over the world.
And that Erion Veliaj seeks help from the media that has supported him throughout his political journey is also not a crime. The same applies to the media opposing Veliaj. They are closely linked to Sali Berisha and, in their approach to justice, have positions that are many times more extreme than Veliaj's "instructions" on how the pro-him media should defend him.
This entire debate would not be worth having if SPAK, through its "envoys" in the media, had not presented the re-conviction of Erion Veliaj based on new "criminal" wiretaps, claiming that he should remain in prison. But Erion Veliaj was kept in prison by the Court of Appeal under this pressure from SPAK in the media.
The publication of these intercepts makes SPAK's claim trivial and proves that it has a formidable influence over the GJKKO, which does not even bother to consider whether it should review SPAK's new evidence.
Now let's take stock: Who did more harm – Veliaj's instructions to seek help from the press, or SPAK's instructions to publicly lynch a detainee in a cell, who has little chance of defending himself?
Erion Veliaj's attempt to influence the media did not save Erion Veliaj. On the other hand, if SPAK has evidence of criminal connections between the media and Erion Veliaj, it should investigate and open a criminal case.
But SPAK cannot criminalize the editorial positions of the press, nor their critical views towards SPAK.
The opposite is true: The manipulation of public opinion about Veliaj's wiretaps manipulated the Court of Appeals, and it considered these banal wiretaps as criminal evidence, which are emerging as arguments why Veliaj should be kept in prison, even though no charges have yet been formulated against him.
So, in the battle to manipulate the press, the winner is SPAK, not Veliaj. Of course, he has more chances than Veliaj to do this.
Most media owners are hostages of SPAK because of their connections to politics and business, and SPAK finds it easy to signal them to keep quiet. Some of them figure in wiretaps or rumors of the criminal world and do not want trouble.
He has turned some of the more "deficient" ones into spokespeople, who impose "fines" up and down in the name of SPAK, presenting themselves as his envoys.
Media sponsored by donors of financial programs that also support SPAK, such as BIRN, are of course the only media paid to defend SPAK, and should not be taken into consideration, as they simply do propaganda with lek. Even more so now that their donors have also become scarce.
So, SPAK has won the battle to manipulate public opinion about Veliaj, mainly with the media and the control of power that it has placed over them. What they mostly accuse the Veliajs of, they have actually done themselves and they have done it better than him.
The problem is that we created SPAK to establish justice, not control the media with lynching news and petty revenge against citizens, abusing wiretapping and private life.
I don't know what more you can do to an arrested person, whom you have locked in a cell with a decision disproportionate to the stage of the investigation, and then you wiretap his conversations with his wife, spread perverse rumors, take them out of context, and unleash an army of propagandists on him who are kept on the market either as SPAK envoys, or as sponsored media outlets to support him.
SPAK has done everything to lynch Erion Veliaj, and this is a public fact. One of the weapons it has used in this lynching is the way it has controlled public opinion through the press.
At this point we could give it a 10, if we had as criteria the Goebbels model of controlling public opinion through the press, or the communist propaganda model of popular trials. But we hoped to build a European justice.
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