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Security expert Fation Softa, while analyzing the Manza incident, where two young men lost their lives after arguing over an unserved coffee, called for the state to collect weapons.
Softa said that the time has come for an amnesty, for citizens to surrender their weapons without facing criminal penalties, and according to him, why not also establish a financial reward from the state, which could encourage their surrender.
"Then from some amnesties, it's not that there was any functioning, but it's not that a few weapons were collected. Some of the weapons were collected. The rest continues. The moment you establish an amnesty, for example a one-month period or I don't know how long it is determined by decision, by law, every person who has a weapon surrenders it and there are no legal consequences. This is called an amnesty. Before and after the amnesty, the law on illegal possession of weapons applies and it is the criminal code that determines its punishment. During that period, every person who possesses a firearm, pistol, ammunition, grenades, and what have, surrenders it voluntarily during this period, there are no consequences related to the weapons they have kept. So it's called an amnesty. I think the time has come for an amnesty. There have been attempts in parliament for a new amnesty, but I don't know why these initiatives have remained at the doors of parliament. Maybe a new amnesty and I think it could be an amnesty with financial effect as well. So not only simply "Amnesty so that you are not punished, but there should also be an amnesty with a financial reward. This could encourage them even more. This could also encourage the one who keeps it, who says keep it because I can sell it. So it is better to hand this thing over than sell it on the black market. The state should take it because it is up to us to save a life from every weapon that remains," Softa said in "Puls".
Softa further stated that regarding problematic areas, weapons can be collected there through forceful state intervention.
"After this, I think there should be legal initiatives on how they can be collected by force. So we need to find legal initiatives so that we have opportunities in the most problematic areas, in areas that have information on how to find a way to collect weapons by force through house searches, car searches or through cooperation with informants, whether from the criminal world, through payments to them or facilities that can be given. But a way must be found to collect weapons, because this is a major problem," declared the security expert.
Softa further revealed that "there are still over 50% of the 97 weapons that are uncollected."
"Over 50% are in circulation. It is a large quantity. Mostly all the Kalashnikovs that are in the assassinations are weapons of 1997. Kalashnikovs are no longer produced. So many years have passed and yet in all the assassinations we do not see new weapons, but we see the Kalashnikov weapon. So there have always been two to three such weapons in the assassinations. These are the weapons that were found burned in abandoned vehicles. The weapon that was of the Kalashnikov type has been identified," said Softa.
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