Three years from the killing of four protesters

Prime Minister Edi Rama declared that this January 21st finds a different Albania.

“The stairs in front of the Prime Ministry do not have the iron fence that divided the people from the government. This building is not the façade of iron bars, from where guns shoot against the people. This is the place where the elected government works calmly with the people and for the people”, Rama declared.

Prime Minister Rama accused the justice system, calling it a new hell for the Albanian people.

“Many things have changed from January 21st, from that bloody injustice, but on of the things that have not changed and that is offending for Albania and her European Union path, for a country that left the communist injustice just 25 years ago, is the hell of today’s justice system. The hell where the mothers want for their sons’ blood to be paid through justice. It’s the hell where the wives and children of victims see criminals getting out of prison. There is no more time. Albania has no more patience, and they have all the right. The deep justice reform is imperative, and basing justice on the constitution and law is the ultimatum of the sovereign people. In the June 23rd of the year that we left behind, the Alliance for European Albania has the obligation to ask more about this and not disappoint the people that they voted”, Rama declared.

Together with the relatives of Aleks Nika, Ziver Veizi, Hekuran Deda and Faik Myrtaj, Rama and hundreds of other citizens honored the portraits of the victims and placed flowers.

Four bronze plates were placed on the sidewalk, commemorating the victims. Rama declared that this will be the sign for the Albanians of other generations who will cross that street and see the wounds of the past, a past that no one should ever repeat, and never forget.

This January 21st wasn’t calm for the family members or even for those who were protesting three years ago. The Court of Appeal has released Agim Llupo and the National Guard Commander, Ndrea Prendi. This decision provoked several political reactions and disappointment, even from the most important embassies in our country.

But can the relatives of the victims wait any longer from the Albanian justice? The process is now waiting for the last word from the Supreme Court.

Berisha: January 21st, attack against government

The Albanian former Prime Minister, Sali Berisha, has been the man who has been accused by the former opposition for the four people that died on January 21st.

Berisha reacted on Facebook by accusing Prime Minister Rama of being the one who started an organized and coordinated attack against the Prime Minister’s Office to take power through violence. Berisha writes that the cause of that protest was a notebook of Ilir Meta, but the real goal was Rama’s desire to take power through violence.

Berisha stood to the claims he made three years ago, saying that paid bandits attacked the Prime Minister’s office for five hours with explosives, Molotov and stopnes.

Berisha defended the position held by the National Guard and the police, saying that they protected with self denial and heroism the institutions and the constitutional order.

“The fights that were held that day had four victims and dozens of wounded police officers and citizens”, Berisha writes.

While expressing his condolences for the victims, Berisha declared that he denounces January 21st as the worst event in the history of the Albanian state in the past 80 years.

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