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Surprisingly, everyone found out that SPAK was looking for Berisha with a subpoena in hand, but only the latter is trying to convince the thousands of Albanians who watch him on television and in the media that he still knows nothing about the special prosecutors' request.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" has become so famous because its entire plot is built on an absurdity. The entire village knew that the main character Santiago Nasari was going to be killed, except for the victim himself. This ignorance keeps the reader alive from beginning to end.
Set in the events of these hours in Albania, Markez's magical realism fits perfectly with what is happening between Sali Berisha and SPAK. Fortunately, no one is trying to kill the Doctor, but simply to let him know that he must appear as a witness at the prosecutor's office. But in a behavior that has a total lack of seriousness, Berisha declares that he is burning with the desire to appear before the prosecutors on January 21, but adds that they have not notified him!
For its part, SPAK has made it clear that it has notified Berisha at several addresses at once, at the party, at his private residence and in parliament. None of the demarches have been fruitful. Surprisingly, everyone found out that Spak was looking for Berisha with a subpoena in hand, but only the latter is trying to convince the thousands of Albanians who watch him on television and in the media that he still knows nothing about the request of the special prosecutors.
What happened on January 21st resembles another old file in time, many kilometers away from Albania. A crime of a different nature, which is being attempted to be covered up. It is in fact the same absurd situation. These hours, US President Donald Trump is trying to push Republican members of Congress to avoid opening the famous Epstein file, which contains over 23 thousand emails from the suicidal Jewish billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, where Trump appears as a frequenter of environments where underage girls and prostitutes of all kinds were trafficked.
Although a large part of the American public is clear about Trump's connection with Epstein, the head of the White House, like the former Albanian prime minister in Tirana on January 21, plays the defendant, swears that he is innocent and that he has no connection to what is being rumored.
To return to Albania, fourteen years ago the state killed innocent and unarmed people at the doors of its offices. It is known who killed them, it is known how they were killed. It is too late today to establish justice for those who lost their lives and were injured by the state's bullets, but no opportunity, no matter how small, should be missed to establish it even today after 14 years.
Sali Berisha says he has been demanding investigations since the first hours after the massacre on the boulevard. He says that Edi Rama brought the protesters to the prime minister's office "as fodder", as he himself stated. At least he admits that he met the opposition protest with a cannon! Beyond the joke, if the Doctor is so sure that he did nothing wrong that day, let him go and testify about what he knows about that bloody event. Let him prove and deny that he obstructed the investigations and stopped the arrest warrants for the guards accused of murder. Let him explain why he cursed the president and the chief prosecutor with the lowest words just to scare off the investigations.
Let him then try to find an explanation for the flagrant and extremely scandalous fact of deleting all footage from the Prime Minister's servers on January 21, the night after the tragedy. Let him try to explain how he built a coup d'état theorem, which he was unable to prove even with the cream of his party's jurisprudence during two years of investigations by the special parliamentary commission that he set up with screams and urgency when the blood on the boulevard had not yet dried. Let him explain why this investigative commission is the only one in these 34 years that has not produced a final report, after two years of work to find the culprits and prove the coup d'état!
Berisha has the opportunity to remove all these dark spots from himself and to blame them on Edi Rama, if it is really as he has claimed for these 14 years in the media and press conferences. To go and prove it in the only place where these are not called justifications, political propaganda or buzzwords, but official evidence obtained by the Albanian justice. To clear his name from January 21 and to dirty that of his opponent, so to go an hour earlier and not to play with the summonses.
It's useless to hide like in the days when Lulzim Basha, to avoid the trial for Rrugë e Kombit, would inform the judges that he was sometimes in the USA, sometimes in Brussels, and sometimes in Argentina. Because "no one is rich enough to buy their past," Oscar Wilde once said.
January 21 is a death still unfinished in its rite, a tragedy unpaid with justice, a bloodbath that requires reason and author. And peace, of course. That is why even after 14 years it returns and returns to the scene, not as a diversion to cover up other events, but as a tragic milestone of the Albanian transition, the clarification of which continues to be an imperative of justice. Even of this new one, which was brought on January 21 with laziness and passivity, until they forced it to open the papers and start working.
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