Police Chief summoned at Ombudsman
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The Chief of the Tirana Municipal Police, Florenc Hoxha, was heard by
the experts and commissioners of the Ombudsman about the legal basis
that the Municipality is using for stopping the Roma who collect used
cans around the streets of Tirana.
The Chief of the Police denied the accusations of having used violence against the Roma community, and explained that it is a competency of the Municipal Police to interfere where the environment is polluted.
The Ombudsman has started an administrative investigation regarding the reports made by the Roma community and the civil society, according to whom the Municipal Police has interfered with violence by even taking the cans from the houses of the Roma families.
Sources from the Tirana Municipality say that the Ombudsman, Igli Totozani, has also met the Tirana Mayor, Lulzim Basha, a meeting that might have influenced Florenc Hoxha’s visit at the Ombudsman.
In previous occasions, the Chief of the Municipal Police had refused to give explanations about this matter.
The head of the Socialist Councilors at the Municipal Council of the Albanian Capital, Aldrin Dalipi, accused the government of creating mafia-style affairs for the monopoly of the recycling waste collection.
Dalipi declared that there are more than 30.000 Roma who can survive only by collecting used cans in the streets, and their life will now become even more difficult.
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