Lawyer Sokol Mangjesi 5 days in a coma at Trauma, no improvement

2024-06-02 11:52:00, Aktualitet CNA

Lawyer Sokol Mangjesi 5 days in a coma at Trauma, no improvement

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Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha's lawyer, Sokol Mêngjesi, continues to be in a serious state of health at the Trauma Hospital. He is being kept under intensive monitoring as he is in a coma.

Meanwhile, tomorrow the doctors will try to reduce the doses of sedatives gradually and it can be seen how the patient will react. The doctors performed an operation on the head and it turned out that the lawyer had hematomas and brain problems. The next few hours are crucial for the well-known lawyer and lecturer's health.

Yesterday, the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana softened the charge against the suspects by requalifying the criminal offense from the attempted murder of public officials to 'intentional serious injury committed in cooperation and opposition and hitting the judge, committed in cooperation.

Based on this accusation, the Court of Tirana sentenced Dritan Nano to prison, suspected of being the organizer of the violence against the lawyer Sokol Mêngjesi, even though he denied having any connection.

In the meantime, his son-in-law Dorian Alia, the only one arrested from the group of perpetrators, has been given a "prison arrest" measure.

Even for the other 3 aggressors who are wanted by the police, Drivaldo Alia, Elton Kasaj and Romario Tabaku, the measure of 'prison arrest' has been set in absentia.

Alia admitted to the investigators that the violence came as a warning for the 45-year-old lawyer to withdraw from the lawsuit against Nano in order to get what he was entitled to in the property acquired by court at the Lake Towers.

Yesterday there was also a reaction from the Chamber of Advocates of Albania, where it was emphasized that violence against a lawyer is violence against justice, against the judge, the prosecutor, the bailiff and the notary.

"The Steering Committee of the Chamber, for this serious criminal event, expresses its regret for the lack of a stance or his punishment, by the body of judges and prosecutors, for what happened to our colleague", the reaction says.

The Chamber of Advocacy warned that it will escalate its position in order not to tolerate physical or psychological violence against lawyers, as well as in defense of professional dignity and the interests of life, the health of their family members./ CNA