Fredi Beleri’s trial has turned into a diplomatic game between Athens and Tirana since several months, after his arrest for meddling in the elections, which he later won for the municipality of Himara.
The judge of the case, Irena Gjoka, has been constantly at the center of the media attacks, as Greek sites recently wrote that Gjoka was once in Greece with irregular documents.
This attitude has been called absurd because even if she went to Greece with irregular papers, that is what thousands of Albanians did at that time, when they fled out of necessity not for fun, which does not prove that the judge is guilty because Beleri bought the votes.
Meanwhile, the portal in question writes without evidence and facts, accusing the judge of the case as a ‘tool of the Albanian government’. This is the case of how an EU member state puts pressure on Albanian justice system. Pressure that has also come through threats on the issue of the country’s EU Integration, as Greece has vetoed Albania. It has even toughened the rhetoric on this issue, trying to influence justice.
The attack on the judge came a day before the decision of the special court against the elected mayor of Himara, Fredi Beleri.
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