The arrest of Meta/Hoxha: The police did their duty, they were forced to use force

2024-10-22 08:12:00, Kronika CNA

The arrest of Meta/Hoxha: The police did their duty, they were forced to use

Minister of the Interior, Ervin Hoxha

The Minister of the Interior, Ervin Hoxha, reacted after the arrest of the President of Liberty, Ilir Meta, where he said that heavy labeling was used against the Police and its officers were accused of crimes, which they did not commit.

The way in which Ilir Meta was arrested yesterday by the police was commented on and described as unprecedented by state officials, but not only.

Hoxha emphasized that there were alternative options for how Meta's arrest should have been carried out or where it should have been carried out, but rejecting the accusations against the Police, he added that the officers do not deserve the very tendentious treatment that was given to their operation.

On the other hand, Minister Hoxha explained why the way of Meta's arrest was misunderstood, where he said that if he had not opposed the execution of the decision, the dynamics of the event would not have produced anything other than his peaceful passage from the private vehicle in the police escort vehicle.

"I followed with attention and respect the opinions of a number of analysts engaged last night, regarding the arrest of citizen Ilir Meta, by the State Police.

The vocabulary has been extreme for how the order of the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office was executed against the citizen in question.

Heavy labels were used against the Police and its officers were accused of guilt, which they did not do, and the reaction to the forceful resistance of the person they had the duty to stop was taken out of the context of the event.

There are also alternative options for how it should have been carried out, where it should have been carried out, and when it should have been carried out, due to what he has represented in the decades of Albanian political life.

I do not want to make any controversy with the gentlemen and ladies engaged, on the screens of this discussion.

Last night, beyond the known positions, they also had the advantage of the spectator in making judgments, outside the dynamics and tension of the event.

But I feel it is my duty to speak on behalf of those officers who do not deserve the extremely tendentious treatment that was given to their operation.

For the implementation of the Court's decision, operatives of the Operational Mobility Force, a special force trained and specialized to follow the standard protocols according to the case, and not employees of the Order, which is a daily service force, were engaged.

They were unfortunately faced with a subject who strongly objected to submitting to the Court's decision as soon as he learned of it.

This is the genesis of the event and from here begins the reasoning according to the protocol that the State Police follows in the execution of an arrest decision.

All the taste, certainly not good, of the scene that was created is related to this fact.

If the citizen Ilir Meta had not opposed the execution of the decision, the dynamics of the event would not have produced anything other than his peaceful transition from the private vehicle to the police escort vehicle.

On the other hand, no one can say that that violent display of opposition would not have been the same anywhere else, where it could have been stopped."

Hoxha underlined that the State Police yesterday performed its duty and was forced to perform it using force, for all that I explained above, referring to the dynamics of the event, not the desire, how it would have been better if it happened or not.

"Even according to the preparatory analysis of the operation, in other circumstances, the result could have been even more problematic for the taste of those who last night treated the Police as the authors of a violent operation.

But unfortunately and surprisingly, all of them "forgot" that only her violent opposition and nothing else made the forced escorting of the citizen Ilir Meta inevitable. As a result, the disturbing scene!

Therefore, with sincere regret for the impossibility of avoiding his escort by force, I am also sorry that I cannot agree with the optics of last night's accusers of the State Police.

With their extreme vocabulary towards its effectives, no and no. Never ever.

And finally, I find it necessary to underline an absolute and completely banal truth. When the State Police, not in Albania, but everywhere in the world, receives an arrest warrant, it has not many options available, but only one: To arrest the wanted person and period. He can neither inform him, nor invite him, nor coordinate with him, the place and the time of detention. All these are not simply impossible, but are criminal offenses punishable by imprisonment.

So, the State Police yesterday performed the task and was forced to perform it using force, for all that I explained above, referring to the dynamics of the event, not the desire, how it would have been better to happen or not happen."/ CNA