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Shkruar nga PamfletiBut while Europe raises the alarm, the Rama government is acting in the opposite direction on the ground. With the votes of the Socialist Party, the Parliament approved amendments to the Penal Code that provide for up to 3 years in prison for double parking, criminalizing the ordinary citizen and further filling the detention cells.
Prime Minister Edi Rama has chosen to share on Facebook this Friday the statement of the Director General for Human Rights and the Rule of Law at the Council of Europe, Gianluca Esposito, regarding the abuse of pre-trial detention practices in Albania.
A statement that actually constitutes an open "reprimand" from Europe, but which Rama uses as propaganda material, trying to appear as a reformer of a system that he himself has been running for more than a decade.
Esposito was clear in Tirana, saying that prison overcrowding is alarming, that detention is used excessively and unjustifiably, while Albanian courts, especially those of first instance, have turned arrest without trial into the rule, not the exception. According to him, detention should be an extreme measure, justified only when there are concrete circumstances and not criminal automatism.
The Strasbourg Court even emphasizes that the burden of proof cannot be placed on the detained citizen, but on the state, which must prove why someone should be behind bars without a final decision.
In the shared video, Rama writes that " prison arrest without trial has brought the scandalous result of a European country with more detainees than convicted people ," silently admitting the failure of the system he himself built.
But while Europe raises the alarm, the Rama government acts in the opposite direction on the ground. With the votes of the SP, 85 votes in favor and 9 against, after a marathon session, the Parliament approved changes to the Penal Code that provide for up to 3 years in prison for double parking, criminalizing the ordinary citizen and further filling the detention cells. , among other things, the decriminalization of defamation for journalists, which the majority considered an achievement for freedom of expression, while the opposition strongly opposed it as incomplete.
So, on the one hand, Rama distributes the Council of Europe's rebuke, on the other hand, he produces laws that deepen the problem. A typical contradiction of "European" governance only on Facebook, while in reality, punitive justice falls on the ordinary citizen.
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