Courts increase security measures

Top-Channel followed the searching process in the first hours of the day. A police officer, together with a police dog, inspected the vehicles inside the Court and those parked near the premises.  Top-Channel’s car also underwent this control.

“After the event in Vlore, we have increased our security measures. The parking of the Court of Serious Crimes now will be available only to the vehicles of judges and prosecutors. Everyone else is not allowed, may them be state officials”, declared the spokesperson for the Court of Serious Crimes, Lavdie Hysaj.

The spokesperson underlined that this court has requested to have the judges accompanied at home by special agents.

Last week was established a special team, ordered by the Chairman of the High Council of Justice, the Albanian President Bamir Topi. The team will assess the security measures of the judges in the country. The Vice Chairman of the HCJ declared that a special commission has assigned bodyguards to 15 judges, whose names will not be revealed, for security reasons.

Spahiu: Konomi’s murder, a clear message

The vice Chairman of the High Council of Justice declared for Top Channel’s program “Top Story” that the murder of Judge Skerdilajd Konomi was a clear message that the executors wanted to transmit.

He emphasized that Konomi was killed for his qualities as a judge, and he also denounced the impunity of justice members.

Spahiu emphasized that there are many crimes in Albania for which everyone knows who the author is, but no one mentions it. For this, Spahiu blames the state mechanism.

“Even if there have been personal circumstances, Konomi was killed for his qualities as a judge. I don’t remember any similar mafia crime. Even in 1997, when all prisons were open, no prisoner committed a mafia crime of such proportions against the prosecutors that had sent him behind bars. We cannot allow Albania to end up at the same conditions of Palermo of 50 years ago. The way he was executed was a clear signal. Konomi was one of the best judges and most honest. The Albanian judicial system, besides the corrupted, has also many honest and good people. And Skerdilajd was one of them”, he declared.

“The message of the murder was not for his children. Skerdilajd traveled for 20 minutes from his house to the place where he was executed, at the center of the city. The murderer had all the time for executing him even before. But this was a clear message that he wanted to transmit”, Spahiu declared.

“The main responsibility falls on the state mechanism, the justice system and law and order. It includes all legal and political elements. We cannot remain silent.  It has frequently happened that people know the name of the killer, even when he is never caught”, the HCJ Vice Chairman underlined. 

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