National Guard dissolved

This reform that is taken by the Interior Minister, Saimir Tahiri, is expected to be complete within 100 days.

The Interior Minister told the National Guard leaders that he was obliged to take this decision because he is looking for professionals who depend from the rule of law, not party militants like those who acted on January 21st. Tahiri declared that the National Guard has amateurs that ruin its image and that this institution must be immediately change and have some effective and professional membership.

“The National Guard will stop existing as such and within 100 days we will complete the reform and modernization, bringing to life the Directory for Protection of Personalities and Objects of Special Importance, which will not depend anymore from the Interior Minister, but will be led by the General Chief of Police. This institution has been deformed during these years unjustly not only in its functions, but also for completing their tasks, with a politicization and unjust financial bill paid by the Albanian citizens”, Tahiri declared.

But Tahiri could not avoid the January 21st event. He declared that he will do everything possible to help the Albanian judiciary system to bring to justice those who have killed, who have ordered the killing, and those who hid the evidence.

“This goes to that bunch of people that turned January 21st to a massacre, and that turned the judiciary into a partial game. It is the will of the Albanian government and Prime Minister Rama, but also a persisting demand of the international community to bring justice for January 21st. I am determined to do everything in my legal capacity to help justice in a process that should end by bringing to justice those who killed, ordered the killings and hid the evidence. I trust that the hand of justice will not delay, although now it is staying suspended over the heads of those who killed innocent fellow Albanians”, Tahiri declared.

After January 21st, the National Guard has been accused for the murder of four protesters. But there is a conflict not only with the opposition and the other institutions, but also with the prosecution. The latter accused the National Guard of putting obstacles to the January 21st investigations, while the opposition declared that it was a political instrument of the government. Gramoz Sako is the acting director of the National Guard.

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