When directors "kill" their police officers

2025-01-16 16:03:00, Editorial CNA

When directors "kill" their police officers

Ervin Hoxha and Ilir Proda

In recent days, an event has taken the headlines, the arrest of MM, the son of businessman SM. Several anonymous media outlets and newspapers have abused, slandered, insulted, deceived, and are now not stopping at a case that is even more criminal, more painful, the suffering and pain of police officer Azbi Spahiu and his family, and those who know the truth of the incident.

As MM young men who perhaps make a mistake in the company of friends and comrades and overdo it with alcohol, one or two glasses too many. Or even without using alcohol at all and having an accident that is a disaster for everyone and is not wished upon anyone, go and take responsibility before the law. That's what happened with the son of the Albanian businessman.

Half the truth remains the biggest lie!
January 15, 21:29

He was stopped by the police, escorted to the police station, held for almost 48 hours under arrest until the case went to the Prosecutor's Office, legal procedures were followed and everything was done only in accordance with the law. If the businessman had entered or there had been a fight, something else would have happened, no one would have held him for so many hours, nor would they have arrested him, nor would there have been criminal proceedings, no charges, no nothing.

In fact, cases like this one of the MM happen every day in Albania, some rightly or wrongly, and are even prosecuted because there are those who are aggravated on purpose. They are aggravated by corrupt police officers, they are aggravated by corrupt police station managers, who want their piece of cake, they want the lawyer there, they want to bargain to close the papers. This happens every day, it happens under the noses of Ilir Proda and Ervin Hoxha. It happens every day.

Officer's fall from balcony, media reporting

A painful event has occurred. Police officer Azbi Spahiu is reported to have jumped from a balcony, was it an accident or was there family problems, or was he thrown out of depression or something else.

Police officer falls from the height of a building
January 15, 18:25

We will find out these things after he recovers, and we pray that God will grant him long life and health. Because many media outlets are saying that he was fired because he arrested SM's son, but how many others have he prosecuted before? What about any family problems or other circumstances that we don't know about?

So we have to wait a little longer to learn the big truth, but what is known is a detail.

Pressure on the officer from superiors

The officer spoke to the family members about the pressure from his superiors to arrest and keep the businessman's son in prison for as long as possible. Could it be that the police superiors are the ones who caused the depression towards their subordinate, Azbi Spahiu?

Did the leaders of police station number one or the traffic controllers ask their colleague Azbi Spahiu to break the law?

To keep the documents for hours and not send them to the prosecutor's office when in similar cases, as soon as the police process the documents, after the police procedure is completed, the documents are taken by the OPGJ and taken to the Prosecutor's Office.

Documents have been kept for more than 36 hours without any reason, although the law has a deadline, but procedures in the police are usually done very quickly. The proceedings are carried out, the papers are closed, the person is taken into custody, the papers go to the Prosecutor's Office, the Prosecutor's Office takes them to Court or the prosecutor decides in cases as determined by law.

But, in this case, the documents were kept by the police officer, who was raped and this should be investigated by the AMP, this should probably be investigated by the SPAK. He was raped by his superiors to keep the papers. He was asked to delay the procedures and the Minister of Interior, Ervin Hoxha, was also aware, the Director General of the State Police Directorate was also aware. A police officer, an OPGJ officer, was asked to keep the documents of a young man and delay the procedures.

Ervin Hoxha, Minister of Interior

For what reason? Fine against the businessman, personal grudge of the Director General of the Police and the Minister of the Interior against the businessman? What? Where does the truth lie?

Who is responsible?

Today we have a young man traumatized and abused by the police, keeping him in a cell and delaying the documents for a practical and completely normal procedure. He will be held accountable before the law for his mistake without any discussion, but the long hours of detention and the delay in the documents speak volumes.

We have a police officer lying in a hospital bed, abused by his superiors, depressed. Who is responsible? The businessman's son, the businessman, or the state police superiors, who treated their colleague like a soldier?

Why? Because Proda has several ranks, he may have those ranks, but he also has a phone in SPAK, the one they seized, but which is said to have been changed three or four days ago. Or Ervin Hoxha, who is still unclear as to how he entered and how he will leave the position of Minister of the Interior, will be able to hang on for a few more weeks or not.

Ilir Proda, head of the State Police

This is a very flagrant case that must be investigated to stop the fines, blackmail, and threats of superiors of the State Police and the Ministry of Interior against businessmen to bring the truth to light and to stop the public deceptions that are carried out in anonymous media, in fine booths, which are also used and misused by certain structures of the State Police. /CNA