Justice is in a very bad situation

“I have been waiting for a long time for this decision, and I was certain that this would be the result, from the moment I saw that charges presented at court. It starts with the fact that all persons who have fired shots that day were excluded from the trial, together with all the other people who were injured. I don’t think that they have treated the problem thoroughly, and this led to such a verdict”, declared the former Prosecutor General, Arben Rakipi.

Rakipi thinks that the Court also made a mistake in the decision, by referring to a Strasbourg Court case, for the murder of a policeman during the protests in Genova, 2001.

“The circumstances are different and you cannot compare them. However, the core of the Strasbourg decision and what should have been treated for January 21st was the fact if the law enforcing agents that their lives were in danger or not, and if they were allowed to use to firearms or not. This is the issue for this case, and there’s no other explanation outside this context”, Rakipi declared.

The former Prosecutor General declared that after this decision, every other process will be threatened in Court. Rakipi says that the judicial system has ended up to this point because of the High Council of Justice.

“I’m not surprised by this decision, at least as a citizen. Other things have happened in front of the cameras and have not been taken in consideration by courts. HCJ and their leaders have made serious efforts to achieve this, by giving decisions that have nothing in common with justice. HCJ and its first leader have contributed to degrade our justice this way”, Arben Rakipi concluded in his declaration.

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