Justice’s “spoiled” criminal

Only in Korça police department he has 60 registered thefts, mostly committed before turning 14 years old. Our Penal Code doesn’t allow the imprisonment of this age.

The teen thief has been arrested for more than 70 other crimes committed in Tirana, Gjirokastra, Vlora and other big cities, always getting away with half of the punishment, because of the laws in power.

Since he was considered manipulated or used by someone else, Stojani served only few weeks in prison, freed again on the streets of crime.

His first sentence was given for a theft in Rrogozhina, when he was only 15 years old. But he managed to get away with it after admitting the crime and receiving two consecutive penalty reliefs, one for 1/3 of the sentence, and one for half of the sentence.

On his first arrest, his crime history counted more than 100 thefts, but he was sentenced again to only four months in prison. He served his sentence from April 2008 and since most of this time had been served in the police custody cells, he was released much earlier.

From that time, the police have closely followed Stojani and waited for December 2010 that would turn him 18, in order to get rid of the person that committed every year 2% of total thefts in Albania.

The Justice system has held dozens of sessions for this single person, and all of them have ended as the next futile judicial expense. The Court pretends to have protected minor’s rights, also holding educational sessions.

But this legal mechanism and the lack of proper institutions that isolate aggressive and dangerous minors, has given to this teenager the possibility to commit one crime after another, bringing himself to the point of killing a police agent.

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